How to Set Up an Altar: The Five Things It Actually Needs
An altar is a working surface, not a display you admire from across the room. Once that lands, setting one up stops being intimidating. You need a flat...
How to Set Up a Dorm Room Altar When Candles Aren't Allowed
Why every campus bans candles, what else the contract usually forbids, how to hold fire and smoke without either, and the tray altar that survives roommates, inspections and...
How to Take Down an Altar: A Respectful Order of Operations
A method for the event nobody writes guides about: the order to dismantle an altar in, the sentence to say before you touch anything, where every kind of...
How to End a Devotional Relationship With a Deity
How practitioners close a devotional relationship that has run its course: settling any promise, saying it plainly, and what to do with the objects afterwards. It is a...
Crystal Candles vs. Deity Candles
Two kinds of candle sit on most modern altars and they are almost never explained side by side. One has stones set into the wax. The other carries...
