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Acts of Devotion: Worshiping at the Altar

The altar is in your home, ontop the piano, the mantle, your bedside table. Its the dashboard of your car, the rim of your bathtub, and the window ledge.

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The altar is the prayer card you carry in your wallet depicting a beloved Saint, your cat drenched in the morning sun, your two year old's toes.

 

The altar is the top of your dorm room fridge and your bookcases. It is the fresh earth-newly turned up and ready for planting. The kitchen is your altar to nourishment and every bowl of soup and glass of water can be prepared and consumed as a form of devotion, a holy offering.

 

The body is your altar, your body. Ornamented, covered or revealed, painted, left bare-crouched in suffering, tense in its fragility, and arched in ecstasy-all of it holy.

 

You don't have to go looking for acts of devotion or create special rituals to bring them into your life-altars are everywhere and taking a deep breath can be prayer drenched worship.

 

So tell me friends...where are your altars, what do they look like, and how are you devoted?

 

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Image: Vegetables from the garden-yet another altar. Bri Saussy 2013 all rights reserved

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Howdy! I am full time intuitive counselor & root magic ritualist living in San Antonio, Texas with my amazing family. My website, Milagro Roots is a popular destination, featuring my latest writings on spirituality, ritual, magic, nature, and divination. I run a small in-house spiritual boutique where I craft ritual oils, cleansing baths, sachet powders, charms, amulets, charm bags, and botanical talismans for clients around the world using many herbs, roots, and zoological finds that I cultivate and grow myself. My writing has been featured on the Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers (where I am one of the founding members), Elephant Journal, Roots of She, Kind Over Matter, Witches and Pagans, and Plant Healer Magazine. I sometimes refer to my work as high-end hedgewitchery–because I work with many established professionals and artists who wish to use intuitive arts like Tarot and ritual earth-based magic to improve their lives. Everyday I wake up and feel so incredibly blessed to be doing the work that I know I was meant to do-whether its working in the garden, cuddling with my son and beloved husband, or talking to the most fantastic clients ever–every moment is saturated with love & devotion to my calling and those who make my work possible.

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