Child-proofing the altar.

Rebecca - posted on 05/13/2009

Loving all your suggestions and the creative juices are flowing. My altar is in my bedroom and up high. That's a temporary home until I can install some shelves in my home. Keep it up: all this creative inspiration is renewing my energy. I's also hepled me to truly look at what I had and work out what I bought for the altar and my "ooh... shiny" impulse buys. BB.

Rebecca - posted on 05/13/2009

Quoting Stella:

Glad to hear you're getting there! How would you feel about a wooden athame? I know strictly, it goes against tradition, but...? Or, as I do use a metal letter opener. No need for it to be sharp in the slightest, but more in keeping with traditional practice.

Wooden athame.... LOVE it! Metal letter opener works for me too.

The wand/staff and athame/sword has always been the intergahangable elemental tools- depending on tradition. the common knowledge, I suppose.

Can a a crystal be used as a wand e.g. single terminared quartz or the like? I have an affinity with them.

thanks for the input: looks lijke i have some shopping to do. :D

Rebecca - posted on 05/13/2009

Quoting Stella:

Glad to hear you're getting there! How would you feel about a wooden athame? I know strictly, it goes against tradition, but...? Or, as I do use a metal letter opener. No need for it to be sharp in the slightest, but more in keeping with traditional practice.

Wooden athame.... LOVE it! Metal letter opener works for me too.

The wand/staff and athame/sword has always been the intergahangable elemental tools- depending on tradition. the common knowledge, I suppose.

Can a a crystal be used as a wand e.g. single terminared quartz or the like? I have an affinity with them.

thanks for the input: looks lijke i have some shopping to do. :D

Tanya - posted on 05/12/2009

Maybe if you make her her own mini alter, she'll be less interested in yours. You can even get those little battery operated flicker tea lights so she'll even have candles just like mom. Let her make her own athame with clay. She has a tool of her own that will crumble before she could actually damage herself or anything else with it. Plus it would be fun parent-child time. Just a thought.

Alicia - posted on 05/03/2009

My house altar is always up and it's on a high shelf. My personal altar doesnt have a permanent home yet so i have to put it up and take it down when i'm done. i'm trying to find a cabinet or high table with drawers to turn into my altar. So yea putting it high enough so little fingers cannot reach and making sure that the altar cloth (if you have one) or anything else doesnt hang over the side would be my advice. it works for our household altar and it's been safe from our ingenious little girl who has a talent for getting into EVERYTHING.

Amy - posted on 04/29/2009

I've used a crystal in lieu of an athame. It's quartz and roughly the size of an athame, not too thick, tapered to a point and it worked really well. I believe some people refer to them as crystal lasers. I could be wrong though. You could even go so far as to have different crystals for different purposes if you wanted.

Stella - posted on 04/06/2009

Glad to hear you're getting there! How would you feel about a wooden athame? I know strictly, it goes against tradition, but...? Or, as I do use a metal letter opener. No need for it to be sharp in the slightest, but more in keeping with traditional practice.

Rebecca - posted on 03/29/2009

Good news: I found a solution. It's easily portableand kept at a high place. See the photos to have a look. Don't worry, my girls was taking a nap when I took these shots.
Stlii looking for safe alternatives for an athame. I'm using my finger right now but when it comes to the blessing of the wine, it can get messy.

Rebecca - posted on 03/26/2009

Quoting Rebecca:

I am so grateful for the responses. Loving the ideas keep 'em coming.
I had my 40 th birthday recently and I was given $20.00 from my husband. I went to a disdount store and found a decorative difffuser set. Long story short: I have a child safe altar. Currently it's living on top of my tv but it it deserves a better home. the search continues.......

Oh! I forgot. I have a beautiful and simple wooden box that I keep mu candles etc. A lovely gift from a fellow pagan and friend.

With a power drill, a screwdriver, a latch and a padlock That box should be Fort Knox.

God/dess willing.

Rebecca - posted on 03/26/2009

I am so grateful for the responses. Loving the ideas keep 'em coming.
I had my 40 th birthday recently and I was given $20.00 from my husband. I went to a disdount store and found a decorative difffuser set. Long story short: I have a child safe altar. Currently it's living on top of my tv but it it deserves a better home. the search continues.......

Samantha - posted on 03/25/2009

What I have done with my alter is made it the top of my entertainment center. This way you have to be standing to reach it and little fingers can't reach it. The top of a dresser or high self work good too. If i need to sit at my alter I simply pull over a tall bar stool.

Lin - posted on 03/24/2009

How would you feel about keeping some of the more dangerous/delicate items in storage until you use it?  All of our candles, incense, my athame, etc. are locked up in the storage area of my altar (which is basically a dvd case with doors) with a really hard to undo lock from Safety First (you have to push 2 yellow buttons in order for the lock to be undone - I've worked in daycare for a bit and its the only lock I've seen that toddlers have not been able to undo).

Hope this helps!