Inanna Altar
Oct. 26th, 2008 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
qosI now have an altar for Inanna in my bedroom -- across the room and facing my Ereshkigal altar.
It's not finished yet, but it has some nice elements: a blue candle in a crystal holder, a new goddess statue, a lapis necklace and an Inanna figure necklace, and a strand of large lapis beads my ex-husband gave me back while we were married. I've been talking about re-stringing them as something else, but they felt surprisingly good in my hand last night, so I may need to sit with them for a while and reconsider.
There's also a metal plaque which says Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go, which I think could easily be Inanna's motto. She's practically the poster child for going too far.
I still need an altar cloth, which is supposed to be deep blue with silver threads or sparkly bits. There also needs to be at least one overtly sexy element.
With Inanna's permission, this is also going to be my "aspirations altar", the place where I put foci for things I want to do and achieve: my spiritual direction practice most prominently. It's not that I don't have Ereshkigal's support for growing my practice, but the underworld energies -- at least as I have been experiencing them for the past year and a half -- are ones of inward focus and going deep rather than taking what I gain from those times out into the world. That's a major reason why I've received permission to work with Inanna again.
This is the first time in a very long time that I've used an altar to help me focus on something I want to achieve. For most of my adult life I haven't been very proactive. I've had a very yin attitude toward my future, trusting that the gods would put me where I need to be. One of the biggest differences in this phase of my life is shifting gears to take more responsibility for my future.
It's not finished yet, but it has some nice elements: a blue candle in a crystal holder, a new goddess statue, a lapis necklace and an Inanna figure necklace, and a strand of large lapis beads my ex-husband gave me back while we were married. I've been talking about re-stringing them as something else, but they felt surprisingly good in my hand last night, so I may need to sit with them for a while and reconsider.
There's also a metal plaque which says Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go, which I think could easily be Inanna's motto. She's practically the poster child for going too far.
I still need an altar cloth, which is supposed to be deep blue with silver threads or sparkly bits. There also needs to be at least one overtly sexy element.
With Inanna's permission, this is also going to be my "aspirations altar", the place where I put foci for things I want to do and achieve: my spiritual direction practice most prominently. It's not that I don't have Ereshkigal's support for growing my practice, but the underworld energies -- at least as I have been experiencing them for the past year and a half -- are ones of inward focus and going deep rather than taking what I gain from those times out into the world. That's a major reason why I've received permission to work with Inanna again.
This is the first time in a very long time that I've used an altar to help me focus on something I want to achieve. For most of my adult life I haven't been very proactive. I've had a very yin attitude toward my future, trusting that the gods would put me where I need to be. One of the biggest differences in this phase of my life is shifting gears to take more responsibility for my future.
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Date: 2008-10-27 02:10 am (UTC)Nice! Thanks for that quote. I've been doing a bit of this myself lately, and it's scary, but this is a good way to look at it.
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Date: 2008-10-27 10:46 pm (UTC)I am loving hearing your tales of transition and practice. Keep it up, and YOU GO GIRL!
*smiling and waving from California*
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Date: 2008-10-29 02:32 am (UTC)Thanks for the tip!
No Ross in my immediate neighborhood, but one near the old place. I may check it out when I pick up Wolfling this weekend.