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Your temple should have indicators of the four

cardinal directions—East, South, West, and North.

Determine which walls or corners of your room most

nearly align to those directions, and then decorate them

accordingly. Some people get very imaginative with

this process, even hanging different colored banners

of paper or cloth marked with appropriate sigils (see

above). Others put up pictures that remind them of

each of these Elemental directions, such as scenes of

clouds (E), a fire or erupting volcano (S), the ocean

(W), and mountains (N). And I have created a series

of Elemental wall plaques to be used for this purpose.

Your temple should also have a space where you

can lay out a Magick Circle. Traditionally, these were

marked on the floor with a piece of chalk, then cleaned

up afterwards with a damp cloth or sponge. If you

have made your cingulum as I instructed in the last

Class, you will have an easy way to measure and draw

such a circle, by anchoring the first knot at the center,

and holding the chalk at one of the other knots as you

draw it around like a compass. You can also make a

big circle of string.

Abby Willowroot has put together a beautiful on-

line Goddess Temple and Green Man Grove that

you might want to visit. It may be found at:

http://www.spiralgoddess.com.

Lesson 4: Your Magickal

Museum

Like T.H. White’s Merlin, Wizards of old were famed

for their “Cabinets of Curiosities.” Such collections

became the foundations of the world’s great natural

history museums. There are many natural (and un-

natural) objects you can collect. Find a place in your

room, like a table, desk, windowsill, or the top of a

dresser, and make a special place for these magickal

treasures you discover. Buying things is okay, but it’s

cooler to find treasures that others forget to notice.

For serious collecting, however, you might want

to organize and display your collection. Small objects,

no bigger than chicken eggs, can be organized in egg

cartons. These work well for collections of rocks,

minerals, and crystals, and may even be suitable for

seashells if you stick with smaller ones. Larger ob-

jects will require larger display modules. You can usu-

ally find pigeonhole boxes of various sizes at stores

that specialize in shelving and organizing materials.

These can be of wood, plastic, or cardboard. Some-

times boxes from the grocery store that have held

bottles will contain dividers, and these can be cut and

adapted to make excellent collection organizers. A

really nice collection also makes a great exhibit for

school projects and science fairs. Whatever you are

collecting, you should make a nice little identifica-

tion card for each item. Then your life becomes one

great scavenger hunt, as you search for items for your

collection everywhere you go!

Collections

Seashells: These were one of the first things I col-

lected as a boy, and I ended up displaying them on a

large Masonite wallboard, running wires through the

holes in the board to hold the shells in place.

Leaves, Seeds, and Flowers: A great way to

get to know your local Ents (as I mentioned in 2.IV:

“Back to Nature”) is to make a collection of dried

leaves and seeds from all the trees you can find in

your neighborhood. Or collect and press wildflow-

ers, and see how many you can find! Pressed leaves

and flowers don’t take up much space, as they can be

kept in a photo album. Don’t forget to label them.

Rocks and Crystals: In collecting rocks, miner-

als and gems, you might keep in mind their magickal

NORTH (Green) EAST (Yellow)

SOUTH (Red) WEST (Blue)

 

 

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