My Altar

Finally and at long last created

Kabutroid's altar, a white, low table set into a space between a wall radiator and a sewing desk, containing a smudge pan, singing bowl, stones saying peace and faith, a sweetgrass braid and sage, tarot and oracle decks, and beside are spiritual books, angels, and a kneeling towel is before it.

After a long, long, long time, since my becoming Spiritual in like... early 2016 abouts, I finally have an altar. Ever since the start, whatever spiritual items I've had have either sat on the corner of a shelf, or on a dresser, or, for the past 3 years unfortunately, packed into nylon bags to wait for me to get to England. And finally, FINALLY, I have something that I can actually call my altar, something I can kneel in front of and pray, chant, sing, smudge, use my singing bowls, speak to my Deities, look over everything for what I might need and what I might want, IT'S HERE!

Thank you little end table that I lopped down to make it kneeling height, and also giving me a smaller side-table to place stuff as well. You're not fancy, you're not big enough, but you'll do for now! I do have grand visions of a darkened wood corner table with elaborate mouldings on the shelves, a wood-mesh shelf, and a longer side-table to hold my other things not actively in use, but this... this will do for now ^_^ /

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This one built February 18, 2025

The lower table, to the left of the main altar and beneath the sewing desk, containing Kabutroid's sundance pendant, her Athena stick, a secondary singing bowl, her spoons Timothy and China to whom she gave Spirits, her homemade knitting needles, a turtle for Upulnesayay, casting bones, a mobius coil of chainmaille, and a paper from the Spirits in a ziplock bag beneath it. Beneath the shelf are a sweatlodge towel, her ribbon skirt, and two large clam shells for smudging. Her book of shadows, Witch's Bible, and a the seed pouch Celine is hanging at over the sewing desk leg.

The main altar, a white three shelf table with behind it a grey and blue cicada cloth, and a red and yellow striped kneeling towel in front of it, a dual-use for Abby's sweatlodge towel. A Bible, Quran, a crystal identifying book and others are to the left of the table, and angels, Rosaries, and a cross are to the right. On the table is a smudge pan on a glass dish, a whistle, a sweatlodge stone, a singing bowl, a glass bear, a mjolnir hammer, and two stones saying peace and faith. On the first shelf are smudge wands, a sweetgrass braid, sage, incense, and incense holders. On the bottom shelf are tarot and oracle decks, and divination sets of casting pieces and runes are in bags behind them. An altar tucked into a corner of the room.

Edit: I have found a few precursor altars in my song-a-day videos! So it looks like I did have an altar of some sort back then, though I don't recall ever calling them that, more just 'a place to put my spiritual stuff'. But the pre-precursor is a shelf in Winnipeg from back in August 25, 2018, from song-a-day 108 (YT link) (though a pre-pre-precursor is used in the scythe videos, which was filmed starting March 13, 2016). The last pseudo-altar was from song-a-day 362 (YT link) when living in The Pas, on May 2, 2019. So while 2018 was definitely just a corner-of-a-shelf type location, 2019 definitely seemed more altar-like (and pre-pre-precursor was definitely treated like an altar, if inadvertantly, having just barely stepped into Spirituality at that point). And so with this, we generally locate all of my pre-altars as well ^_^ /

The text pre pre precursor 2016 above a photo of an end-table, actually a closed sewing desk, with a wooden chest on it, a small wooden box, and a brass chime tingsha towards the corner of it. A pacman blanket, room heater, lamp, and other miscellanea can be seen around the desk.

The corner of a shelf with Kabutroid partially seen in the photo, a cropped image from a song a day video, zoomed in on the spiritual part of the shelf. It has the first divination kit in its grey bag with a notepad in front, a clamshell for smudging, a feather to fan the smoke around, her singing bowl on a orange stuffed circular stand, and the weeping buddha statue. Text above the photo says pre precursor 2018.

Precursor 2019, a screenshot from a song a day video showing a pink wall with a small white bookshelf in front of it, on top of which sits a white handkerchief, the tingsha in its orange and green knitted cozy, the grey divination kit, wooden rosary prayer beads, the rosary prayer book, and her two tingshas nested inside eachother on top of the orange circular stand for them.