I rebuilt my altar at the Full Moon. It actually took the whole weekend before I was completely satisfied with the setup.
Behold: the magical engine of the Sunrise Temple. The main altar is on the left, which you have seen several incarnations of before now. To the immediate right of it are my jugs of mead, happily fermenting by the heater. Beside that is a shelf of candles, stones, incense, and other supplies that don’t live in the kitchen cabinets. Behind and above the shelves and mead are the maps which represent either my actual area of influence—that is, the places I have lived and where I still have friends and family—and the world I wish to influence with my political enchantments. And finally, furthest right, is my newly erected seasonal altar; that table housed my chaos altar before it was pointed out to me that an altar dedicated to Chaos Magick is … almost oxymoronic.
Having taken down the Chaos altar, the Baphomet mask now lives atop my altar with Dionysus, Hephaestus, Rhea, and Athena. ZG and SKM now share an alcove, and Sue—the spirit I work with more than any other—has one to herself. The cubes on the side have been rearranged so that my money-drawing spell—which will soon be upgraded to a Jupiter cahsbox, a la Strategic Sorcery(1)—can have it’s own space. The cube across from it is being converted into a home for all my sexual enchantments—the vast majority of which are targeted at staying child- and STI-free. Below the financial altar are the ever-evolving house wards, and below the sex are my Tarot cards, visionary mask and pipe, and my black mirror. My various planetary talismans have been relocated to the center base, with my God and Goddess figures elevated above them, along with my World Tree. The flat workbench area is largely unaltered.
The first stirrings of my Samhain altar are very simple. My death mask and sickle/knife, a picture of my dead grandmother and tokens of lost friends and loved ones. I want to add gourds and pomegranates, but first I need to take care of my fruit fly problem. Also poverty.