Witchy asked:
If not, what would you like to have?
We live in a city and have a 25' square area in our yard that we'd like to landscape into a meditation/worship area. We have some ideas of what we'd like but I'd like more ideas.
Would you include a water feature, stones, specific plants that have meaning to you, perhaps a fragrant area, or elemental garden? What are your ideas?
Please share your dream (if you have one).
18 responses so far ↓
1 knucklehead // Jul 16, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Brain Wave
just draw a pentagram and stand in the middle and go huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
2 oompa loompa // Jul 17, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Brain Wave
That sounds pretty cool. Being a Spiritual Satanist I just have a room with my alter and I try to keep it always clean. I never thought of a yard.
3 blue chaos // Jul 20, 2009 at 5:19 am
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Mine is still in the works. I honestly can’t tell you what all I want, it just comes to me. I need to get some good pics.
4 Deirdre H // Jul 20, 2009 at 10:20 am
Brain Wave
My friend / teacher has a beautiful yard that is designed specifically for ritual. She also has a large altar room and I’d love something like that some day.
with 25′ square, you have room for an out-door altar area. You could also do a small spiral with small plants (even potted if you wish to move them) for Samhain.
One feature that my friend has is a receptacle (basically a pipe straight down in the ground, which gets covered when not used) into which she can insert the may pole. It makes Beltane much easier than trying to drive a pole.
Those metal out-door fire pits are nice for ritual as well.
I use a spot that is in the woods near where I live.
5 Serena // Jul 23, 2009 at 7:28 am
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No, I live in an apartment building.
My ideal would be to have a house that had a forest on the property or behind it…
6 Witchyone // Jul 26, 2009 at 5:15 am
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My dream area would be that the surrounding fences are either very high, or filled in with tall trees/hedges for privacy. Lots of logs and tree stumps to sit decorations and pot plants on. In the centre a circular paved area, with one of those shade sails or umbrellas overhanging for when it’s raining (but you can still see the night sky). Rustic old copper or cast iron pots with various ingredients. A huge cauldron with curled up brass legs. A small man made pond or stream crossing over a few metres near the circle, filled with lillies, rocks and fish or frogs. To one side of the yard, another paved area, with a heavy set mosquito netting hanging over, the paving strewn with luscious cushions and a thick rug, so that when the meditation or magic working is finished, you can go to sleep comfortably under the stars.
I just dreamt that all up. I know it will never happen, but the image i have of it is so beautiful.
7 Rev. C.R.Kleinman // Jul 27, 2009 at 1:39 pm
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I follow the Druidic path, and as such Druidry is a hearth-centered faith. Every home we’ve ever had meant a specific altar centered on the hearth that was cleansed and re-dedicated as the Great Wheel turned. I now have some Wiccan friends that are also honoring the hearth of their homes with an altar that to those who do not know “how to look” just looks like seasonal decorations; for those that honor the Ancients, it is a Holy Center of Home.
Anyone can access a fire bowl and build a sacred hearth/circle outside as well. To those who are not familiar with our traditions, it just appears to be nice place to sit and share time with friends and family (well, yes, the Godden ARE family….) Hope this helps…..(oh yes…planting fragrant herbs in a circular planting around the outside makes the ritual observances nice, too!)
8 Heathen Princess // Jul 30, 2009 at 10:46 pm
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Um there is a corner of my yard that offering go. I used to have a tree, but my last dog killed it.*sigh
My fireplace is my harrow. I do a lot there both in and out of the faith. It’s my favorite part of my house. (I have a really nice white stone mantle:) )
Honestly, if you don’t know what you’re looking at though, you have no idea what it is. Any heathen would see it instantly. No one else can, not even most other pagans.
9 tim the bad, shp, cbtldr // Aug 1, 2009 at 5:34 pm
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i had my sewer relaid, so i currently have a rut in the yard where the dirt resettled, but when i have it regraded, i’m going to have them put in a flat circular area that i’m going to dress up as a kind of medicine wheel. i’ve toyed with the idea of putting the elements in their quarters, but that may be too elaborate for my maintenance skills. also, the park across the street practically throbs from magical energy, and i can feed off of it from my front windows, or walk out into a spacious lawn or secluded grove to commune with the gods. so the yard doesn’t get used much.
10 Kima_Rose // Aug 1, 2009 at 8:20 pm
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Jasmine, Dittany, Rose, Dill weed… The basic things I use most often would be grown around the area. There would be a blank area with a large naturally flat stone or old tree that would serve as the alter. There is no real need for other things like fabrics or a polished table. Just the things around you are all you would need.
11 elbeekanob // Aug 2, 2009 at 11:59 am
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My house has been our covenstead for the last 18 years. We try to do ritual outside if at all possible. Our circle has a lot of energy focused in it from all the workings that have been performed there. You can feel it.
12 I love BU // Aug 2, 2009 at 6:57 pm
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Currently I do not due to lack of space.
In our last place I had a beautiful Fey Garden which was planted with fresh Organic Herbs and flowers and all sorts.
Not only did I meditate there but friends and children loved it as it was such a mystical place.
Now I resort to indoors mainly, Yet If I need grounding or to earth out I head off to one of our friends places. They have a wonderful Zen Garden full of Bonsai and awesome landscape. I can not wait to have my own yard space again.
You don’t realise how much you miss it until it is gone.
BB
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13 ZinaRae // Aug 4, 2009 at 6:07 am
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Any one of these would be AWESOME!
As long as I had a waterfall and Roses I’d be happy!
Blessings
14 Ard-Drui // Aug 6, 2009 at 2:48 am
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Greetings!
Yes. You can actually see it on google. We mark the Solstice and Equinox within a rather large Nemeton.
Concentric rings for the big Rituals, a small pond with rock steps leading down to the Water for the smaller groups.
A Tree in the East to mark the Dawn,Fire feature in the South, Waterfall in the West, Stone in the North. Always provide for the Wildlife.
Winds are always good to invite to play, they show up at the darndest times!
Have fun, and give it a healthy dose of Feng Shui-
/!\
15 Tahuti // Aug 7, 2009 at 12:59 am
Brain Wave
I meditate inside, because my dogs own my backyard currently.
16 Timothy A // Aug 10, 2009 at 12:18 am
Brain Wave
Yes, I have an outdoor “altar” to burn sacrifices.
17 Ithina // Aug 10, 2009 at 3:44 pm
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I wish I had an area in my backyard. It is full of jagged rocks and thorny, blood-lusting plants. I do have a small garden sectioned off, but it does not make a good place to linger for very long.
There is a wash behind my house, without water in it because I live in the desert. I built a “permanent” circle with some of the larger stones I found along the wash. I hid it from all the houses by placing it in the middle of the wash so the trees would cover it. I have a feeling with some of the rain we have gotten that it is not there, or at least in need of repairing. I haven’t been able to use it yet for various reasons.
I have thought about making an outside altar once I move out of my house, but I don’t think it would be anything unique. It probably wouldn’t even look like an altar. A fire pit, a bird bath, and a tree with a lot of grass would be good enough for me.
EDIT: hmm… I may also strategically place my herb garden near it, idk.
18 kaplah // Aug 11, 2009 at 3:19 am
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We moved into our house last year and I dived right in on the gardening thing. We had alot of mess we had to clean up, so didn’t get alot done last year. We built a small altar in the corner of the back yard for offerings. We also have a fire pit about 10 feet from the altar.
On nice days over the winter (we haven’t had one of those in several weeks, but I was out there with a shovel in December!) I have been digging out an area in the front yard for my spiral garden so I can start putting in plants as soon as it thaws.
I also want a garden gnome (I love garden gnomes!)
On my birthday, which also happens to be Midsummer, I am going to have a big party and have all my friends make me stepping stones (I’ll have a table set up with all the materials) to go in the path in the spiral garden. We’re getting married in August, I want to get married on the spiral path.
I will also be building a grotto to Aphrodite next summer, but it’ll be a simpler task, with less shovelling! I’ll be making a stump-stand for Her statue to rest on and get some shelter from the weather, and there will be a small bowl for offerings and I’m going to plant some native roses. I want it done before the wedding so that I can do the proper sacrifices to Her beforehand (don’t worry, no animals.)
My daughter also would like to build a grotto to Artemis, but we haven’t got the particulars worked out on that one yet. We will!
I do plan to keep record of my gardening adventures as they unfold on my blog at if that will be of any interest to you.
Of course, I’m spoiled. My house is 1 acre, mostly wooded. Problem is finding plants that love shade. But I still managed to overtax my budget doing so!!
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