The Witch's Altar: The Craft, Lore & Magick of Sacred Space (The Witch's Tools Series, 7)

I like this book a lot. I would recommend to anyone curious about altars, irregardless if you have one or not. My parents are buddhist and this book helped me understand why certain practices are done regarding altars.

Everything Laura Tempest Zakroff has ever sold on Amazon has been brilliantly thought out and well-integrated into written communication to where thorough understanding can be achieved while also keeping words simple enough to follow. This is no different. I highly wish to meet her one day just to thank her personally. This book is a gem of a find, and highly recommended.

First off, The Witch’s Altar: The Craft, Lore & Magick of Sacred Space is a dream collaboration. The two main witch authors, Jason Mankey and Laura Tempest Zakroff, are two completely different types of witches. Mankey is a Gardnerian and Tempest is a Modern Traditional Witch. However, they’re two witches that I highly respect and enjoy reading, whether it’s their blog articles on Patheos Pagan or their books. What is great about this collaboration is that for how different their practices and beliefs are, they’re able to find more common ground between them than differences; and both provide great perspectives on altars, their creation, and their uses while being inclusively open to various paths and approaches. It’s interesting to see how they blend their strengths as writers together in this book. For example, Mankey goes into the history of altars and why things are done in certain ways, and Tempest breaks down the types of altars and provides deep reflective questions and meditations. Both offer wonderful rituals and spells throughout the book, with hints of the snarky humor they share sprinkled throughout.Both writers have a writing style that feels like they’re talking to you and excited to share and teach with the reader instead of coming off as trying to impress the reader. The book is full of small contributions by other magickians, pagans, and witches, that makes the perspectives and insights even broader than Mankey and Tempest themselves. The Witch’s Altar is basic enough for any beginner, seeker, or dabbler without being condescending or patronizing – and insightful and full of creative approaches for any seasoned magickal practitioner.The book is sure to give any witch of any background some new ideas, inspiration, as well as practices for their own altars. I particularly appreciated their focus on talking about daily devotional practices – which I feel are the foundation for a strong magickal practice, but often overlooked these days in books on witchcraft. They also have a fantastic troubleshooting section wherein they both provide answers to questions such as, “How do you cat-proof an altar, or protect one that isn’t cat-proof ?”, “How do I stop or prevent other people from messing with my altar?”, “If things get damaged (by accident or through malice), what should be done with the broken items and how do I make amends to the gods?”, “What’s the best way to clean up spilled wax and wine?”, “Is it possible to have too many deities on my altar?”, “I think my deities don’t like each other. What should I do?” and many more.

A good resource if you're just starting your Wiccan/Witch/Pagan journey and want some ideas on how to make a Book of Shadows (BOS) and what to put into one. It also gives a fair history and lore behind the BOS so more advanced practitioners might enjoy it for that or to get idea to give their BOS some freshening up.

I’m a new witch and this book basically covers EVERYTHING of what you need to know before, during, and after you set an altar. So far (haven’t finished it) the content is very complete, the two authors are in perfect sync with each other. Can’t wait to get the rest of the collection.

Came in damaged and it was supposed to be a gift but thankfully the gift reciever doesnt mind and i have a back up gift incase this happened

I bought the whole set, love them

I really hope to see an addition on the witches familiar.

I have really enjoyed this book, very informative and full of so much information. 100% recommended.

This is the perfect beginners guide to making an altar. It has helped me alot putting my altar together highly recommend this book

Love this author, writing is good and clear instructions as well as extra info.

Love it

i opened the package to find the book. opened the plastic protection to find the cover not attached to the book and the page bundle falling apart. im very disappointed. would not purchase from again. not sure what to do with it. pages are see through so its difficult to read as well and was delivered late.... id like my money back lol.