{"id":141,"date":"2007-12-03T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T22:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blogx\/2007\/12\/03\/your-altar-can-be-your-road-map\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T22:11:06","slug":"your-altar-can-be-your-road-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"“Your Altar” Can Be Your Road Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you first start to read “Your Altar” by Sandra Kynes, you may feel a bit overwhelmed. <\/span>If you’re like me, when you think of setting up an altar, particularly a home altar, you imagine a wonderful jumble of icons, mementos, crystals, and aromas. <\/span>Set up solely to please the eye, with no deeper thought than that. <\/span>Then you open up “Your Altar” and you find yourself going, what?! <\/span>You want me to follow set ups?! <\/span>Some so involved that I may want to chart them out?! <\/span>Whatcha talkin’ about Sandra?
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<\/span>Then as you continue to read, you realize what’s going on. <\/span>Sandra Kynes is providing us with a guide to exploring our relationship with our altar. <\/span>She offers various game plans from approaching one-part altars (you know, altars with one thing) up to nine-part altars (you can guess the difference right?). <\/span>I know, this still sounds complex and overwhelming, but once you settle in and surrender yourself to the book all becomes well.
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<\/span>“Your Altar” isn’t just a book about altars, although obviously it could have been. <\/span>This is a book about symbolism, history, meditation, archetypes, and how all of that can be used to create your personal altar. <\/span>Each altar set up is its own chapter, rich with details, charts, and diagrams all designed to help you determine what is right for you. <\/span>Honestly, the book is so authoritative on matters of symbolism that I will probably add it to my stock of reference books that I go to when writing articles about symbols for The Magical Buffet magazine! <\/span>This book isn’t a rulebook; it’s a guidebook. <\/span>A map to your altar, if you will. <\/span>
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<\/span>Before you start learning about different altar set ups Kynes talks about meditation. <\/span>It’s a wonderful little introduction to the concept of meditation for someone new to the idea, and a nice reminder of how it should be approached for those familiar with the practice.
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<\/span>The first Appendix to the book gives a very brief overview of the history of altars. <\/span>Obviously, I found this to be tremendously interesting and could’ve read a whole book just about this. <\/span>Perhaps that will be Kynes next book. <\/span>She follows that Appendix with a second one about preparing crystals and gemstones for use. <\/span>A very helpful section that serves to remind us that you cannot just slap a quartz point down and call it a day. <\/span>
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<\/span>“Your Altar” although at first may seem constrictive in the end can be a map to personal spiritual freedom.
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When you first start to read “Your Altar” by Sandra Kynes, you may feel a bit overwhelmed. If you’re like me, when you think of setting up an altar, particularly a home altar, you imagine a wonderful jumble of icons, mementos, crystals, and aromas. Set up solely to please the eye, with no deeper thought … Continue reading “Your Altar” Can Be Your Road Map<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,24,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}