Why Make an Altar?

Today’s Oracle

My software angels choose this oracle quote for you today:

260) The fastest way to become rich as to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to the become poor is to socialize with the rich. -- Nassim Taleb

You can use my Potent Quotes Oracle page whenever you need help.  Hold a question in your heart, and see what quote comes up for you when you scroll down.  It will be a response to your question.  Play with it.

 

Quotations act as little doorways into new worlds and new perceptions. They consist of distilled genius. 

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Why Would You Want to Make an Altar?

Why would you want to make your own alter?

First – It’s fun.

Second – You literally get to take your connection to the Sacred into your own hands without the need of an intermediary.

Third – During the process of making the altar, you may learn something about yourself and your connection to the Sacred.  You may have insights into the core of what’s happening in your life.  Your prayers will become more effectively pointed as a result.

Fourth – Building an altar focuses your intent.  It puts muscle into your prayer or into your manifestation.  Just wrestling with the design opens up your Buddha brain.  And that opens your heart and soul for insight to enter.

Another Book Giveaway

I’m giving away my well beloved Kindle book Altar Making: An Active Meditation for Healing Your Heart and for Deepening Spiritual Meaning in Your starting November 23, 2013 at 12:01 AM PST – ends midnight, PST November 27, 2013.

Take advantage of this offer and let your friends know.

Here’s how I’m using altar making this week…

I Survived My Surgery

You may know that I had hip replacement surgery on Oct. 21^st 2013.  I survived and am healing well.  Rehabilitation takes months and I’m walking without a cane now.

After major life events, I find I wonder, “What’s next?  Where is my life taking me now?”

You may recall my recent pre-surgery blog post -- Relax, You’re Going to Die.

In that blog I included these instructions:

Relax, you’re going to die.
There is no-where to go
And no-thing to do.

And from that view point ask

What’s the next right thing to do?

I survived.  I’m healing.  I can relax, I’m going to die.  So, what’s the next right thing for me?

During my preparation for the surgery, the idea of making a mobile of origami cranes came to me.  After the surgery the image stuck, so I’m creating an altar with cranes.  It will be a mobile.

Cranes

Cranes symbolize happiness, good luck, longevity, and peace.  As I live into being an  elder, these seem like good things.

You can watch this video to learn to fold them here.

Gotta go and create now.

I expect that whilst constructing the mobile, collecting the windfall cedar branches for  cross bars, folding the cranes, I’ll have a better sense of the next right thing for me.

May you be light hearted and free,

William

P.S. My newest book Drawing the Sacred: Communing with the Sacred through Drawing - An Illustrated Journey echoes all these ideas.  Go read the description and consider getting it.  It makes  a great holiday present.  At 8 x 10 inches, the trade paperback version makes a great coffee table book.  One with soul.

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Crane image courtesy of Anusorn P nachol / FreeDigitalPhotos.net