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Altar Raising or Awakening the Altar

“Awakening the altar – whether you are doing it as part of a working, or just to spend time with the Ancestors – is a visceral experience. Practicing it regularly not only gets you good at doing the exercise, but also, repeating visceral techniques will trigger things in you, bring about changes in you… these experiences move the cauldrons within. It becomes an act of devotion, and also an act of spiritual growth.” – Peter Paddon

Ophis Artes Altar Raising

 

Altar raising, or awakening the altar, is the act of bringing an altar to life and raising this specific area into the space … Read the rest

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Tapping the Bone

“Ancestors, loves, come one, come all.
My blood, my bone, immortal home.
Behind me, before me, in red river stream,
Enfold me in your world of dream.
Make known to me the secret Other,
Reveal to me, my Mothers and Fathers!
My life in honor to you all,
Hear me, hear me, hear my call!
Knock once, knock twice, once more makes three,
My allies welcome, I Will it be!”
– A.M.

 

Tapping the Bone

What is Tapping the Bone?

I first heard the term “Tapping the Bone” as a dedicant of a Traditional Craft coven I had joined. I was utterly … Read the rest