{"id":66,"date":"2011-11-20T11:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/20\/my-ever-evolving-altar-or-attack-of-the-killer-zodiac"},"modified":"2011-11-20T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-20T17:42:00","slug":"my-ever-evolving-altar-or-attack-of-the-killer-zodiac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/20\/my-ever-evolving-altar-or-attack-of-the-killer-zodiac\/","title":{"rendered":"My Ever-Evolving Altar\u2013or\u2013Attack of the Killer Zodiac"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I actually never got a picture of the last incarnation of my altar.\u00a0 This is what it looked like before I took down my separate Samhain altar-which was taking up too much of the very little space I had available-and incorporated the two.<\/p>\n

Now my altar looks like this:<\/p>\n

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Note the conspicuous absence of my zodiac poster, which has served as my wheel of the year.\u00a0 This morning, while I was moving the two-liter of mead which will serve as my holy water, the zodiac poster pitched off and crashed right in the middle of the lowest table.\u00a0 Somehow, it did this without nocking the quartz and amethyst off the top.\u00a0 The poster did knock off the horned god mask and cross \u2026 yet, somehow, neither suffered any real damage.\u00a0 The mask has a slight chip on the bottom; the cross is untouched.\u00a0 Even the geode right in front of the cross was undamaged.<\/p>\n

There were a lot of delicate things on the surface where the poster landed were largely untouched: an impossibly delicate perfume bottle that has somehow survived on my altar for the last fifteen years miraculously survived this experience, though the stopper was flung halfway across the table.<\/p>\n

Only three things, in fact, were broken: the candle holders for my Earth and Water candles, and the plastic poster frame itself, which looks like someone punched it in the very center.<\/p>\n

There are a few different ways for me to read this somewhat surreal experience: <\/p>\n

1) I knocked the poster over without realizing I\u2019d even touched it, and through miraculous intervention nothing of real value was lost.<\/p>\n

2) Someone on my altar needs more attention.\u00a0 Candidates include (from left to right, top to bottom) the Horned God Mask, the Death Mask, Dionysos, Hephaistos, Kouros, Cyclades, Rhea, and Sue.<\/p>\n

3) Someone not yet on my altar needs more attention.\u00a0 Candidates include (in no particular order) Iris, Apollo, and Mercury, to say nothing of the multitudinous gods and spirits who may not have introduced themselves to me by name.<\/p>\n

4) The altar itself is feeling unloved, and wants a hardcore cleaning.<\/p>\n

5) None of the above.\u00a0 Something that never even crossed my mind.<\/p>\n

For the moment, I intend to simultaneously act on possibilities 1 and 4.\u00a0 Until someone informs me otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I actually never got a picture of the last incarnation of my altar.\u00a0 This is what it looked like before I took down my separate Samhain altar-which was taking up too much of the very little space I had available-and incorporated the two. Now my altar looks like this: Note the conspicuous absence of my … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-witchcraft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-14","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}