How I like my Altar Space!


Small table set up for an altar space. has a triple moon goddess cloth, black, gold embroidery. Black statue of a cat goddess, bastet, and a gold statue of a lion headed, human body goddess standing, with a sun on her head. Then a crystal grid of quartz, tigers eye, green calcite in the middle, in a circular star pattern. With other blue and orange crystals. Screams spring colors.
Personal Altar
First and foremost your altar space is something that you set up for yourself and no body else! There is no wrong way involved with setting up your altar. You can have flowers or crystals or nothing of the sort on it. It is all up to you. But for this blog post, I am going to discuss what I like to do to set up my altar for my practice!

For my spiritual and magickal practice, I follow the Ancient Egyptian pantheon, like Sekhmet, Bastet, Anubis, Horus, Isis, and so on. I tend to tailor my practice towards the energies of those particular gods and goddesses. The first Goddess that has ever really called to me was Sekhmet out of this pantheon and, eventually, she became my Matron Goddess. This is the one that is at the head of all your practice. She is the one I like to talk and honor the most.

When I set up my altar, I do it with the intention that I wish to convey into the practice. So if I am doing something that brings healing, I will collect items that signify healing, and what type of healing that I want. So whatever tools I decide to use, herbs, crystals, candles, tarot or all of the above, will be what can help me focus the intention that I want out of my altar space. Most of these choices will be personal tools that will help me in my practice.

Maybe I want to set it up to where I can meditate and be calm. I will grab some incense, flowers, and some crystals for calming my anxiety and just sit there, close my eyes, and meditate. That is what my altar is for then. I do like to change it up at least once a week. But, I am a bad witch, so sometimes it can be once a month! Either way I look at it, my altar is set up for me to have a space to where I can just be me and do what I want to advance myself and my practice.

The questions I like to ask myself for when I do get a chance to set up my altar is; what is its purpose? What tools can I use that will help me focus my intention? What is it that I want out of this practice?

Mantle is a deep brown cedar has an urn that looks like a rounded canopic jar from ancient egypt, has the cat headed goddess bastet as the lid, with hieroglyphics around the jar. A handmade pink flower next to the jar, a large pink sea salt crystal behind and at the end of the mantle piece. And a rose quartz behind and on the left side, when you look at picture. Has an orange tabby cat statue on the upper part of the mantle. And a note card next to it with a poem on it.
Altar on Mantle
If I don't even remotely have a clue to any of those questions, I like to use tarot or oracle cards to figure it out. They can give me a clue as to what I actually need out of my practice. What type of end goal I need out of it, by showing me how to advance my Craft. Sometimes, I will use the tarot to meditate, to get more information out of the cards. To better understand what it is that I need. It is also a great way to get to know your cards! Get a real feel for them. Maybe that is what your altar needs to be! An altar to help you expand you inner knowledge of tarot. Boost your intuitive senses. The possibilities are endless, on how you want to create an altar space that is for you. (Upcoming post for Tarot and Meditation!)

You can even have more then one altar space for yourself. You can have a communal altar space for the household. To honor the house spirits itself. I even have an altar space for the archetype pathway exercises I am doing through 3am Tarot. Go check out that pathway, it is a fantastic way to get to know the tarot so much better! (Upcoming post for that too! LOL) I have 3 altars going now. To honor all of what is important to me and my husband.
This is on a small table stand, white, has a crystal grid of moonstone, sunstone, red calcite, obsidian, malachite crystals surrounding an egyptian ankh with the emperor tarot card in the middle on the ankh. This emperor is from a cat tarot deck, so there is an orange tabby on a throne in the picture of the card.
Archetype Altar

Right now for my personal altar, I have it set up as abundance. I have my statues of the goddesses Bastet and Sekhmet on my altar with a crystal grid in front of them. My altar plate is the triple goddess symbol, as I bring in spring abundance, new life! That is the goal of my altar this time around. I love using crystals in all my practices. I even have a crystal grid around my house for protection. And I always use my goddesses that are my matrons. I have them there to honor because they have help me personally in finding my own path to follow. I will even invoke them when I need a little help with a spell and I always return the favor and say a thank you everyday as I pass them for just being there when I need it. My gods watch out for me.

That is how I set my altar up. Remember to do you! Use tools that are personal to you and your own practice. It will mean more and it will honor who you are and what you are becoming. You are the bomb sauce!

Below are some videos of other witches and their altar spaces that they have shared with the world. Maybe their ways are better for you! Either way, whatever you decide it will be YOUR altar, not someone else!

Jessi Huntensburg


Kittens, Weights, & Tarot


Scarlet Ravenswood


Witch of Wonderlust, Olivia

3am Tarot Unlocking Archetypes pathway Exercise: https://www.3amtarot.com/unlocking-archetypes

Posted by: Sean Eblin, the War Witch
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