How can your wiccan alter be on a shelf in another room if it has to be in the center of a sacred circle?
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Evie22
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A sacred circle is traditionally round, but more importantly it serves as a barrier between a sacred place (inside the circle) where you are performing a ritual or other sacred act and the world (outside the circle) that is impure and full of negative or interfering energies. You can either try to project the idea of your circle through the wall by picturing it on the other side when casting your circle or possibly even spend time on both sides of the wall cleansing that part of the circle. You would need to also cleanse yourself before reentering the circle on the other side of the wall, though- at least that's what I gather from a bit of quick reading. The circle should remain pure as long as you do that and don't banish the circle yet.
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In my opinion, you should be able to keep both a ritual altar and an everyday altar. I have both, and it mostly requires moving things around from space to space, or having duplicates. Definitely make sure you have the ritual altar set up BEFORE you close the circle though. Other than that, you shouldn't have any problems.
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My daily devotional alter certainly doesn't sit in the middle of a sacred circle. You need to differentiate that used for ritual and that used for daily devotion. The rest is up to your preference and practice. The most important things are knowing WHY you do it the way you do, and keeping your devotion part of a cohesive whole.
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An altar can also be set up at one of the cardinal direction points of a circle -- typically in the north or in the east. If the back of your shelf faces one of those directions and has clear access from the front, there's no reason why you wouldn't be able to use it as a working altar (aside, of course, from the limitations of size). My own daily altar faces east, and is a small table set up against one wall of my living room. For a full ritual with many tools and materials laid out on the altar, especially if you have more than one person attending, I agree that a central altar is your best bet. When I hold full moon events at my house, with up to 13 people in attendance, I leave the daily altar on the eastern wall and set up a separate special-occasion altar in the center of my living room, to be taken down after the event is over. Hope this helps!
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