HOW TO SET UP YOUR HOME ALTAR

HOW TO SET UP YOUR HOME ALTAR

Overview: This is a concise and comprehensive basic guide for anyone who wants to set up an altar in their home, whether you are living in a single room or efficiency apartment, one bedroom apartment, multiple room apartment, townhouse or house.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

• Basic Steps to Creating an Altar in Your Home
• Step 1: Find a Location for Your Altar
• Step 2: Cleanse the Space for Your Altar
• Items Needed
• Step 3: Choose Essential Items for Your Altar
• Suggested items
• Step 4: Bless Your Altar
• Additional items for Ancestral Altars
• Step 5: Bless Yourself
• THE FOUR ELEMENTS: EARTH, AIR, FIRE, WATER: Generalized Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island Altar