By Making A Simple Love Altar

​You Can Make An Enormous Difference &

"Altar" The World In A Beautiful & Profound Way

​Bringing

Heaven

To

​Earth

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Bringing Love, Joy, and Healing
To You, Other Beings,Situations,
​and The Entire World

Healing For A Forest Fire

Altars are structures that hold and broadcast energy. They can be built by anyone and it does not take long. They can be simple and create a flow of love and healing that moves the world. 

This picture shows an altar I built at the end of August of 2020 to bring loving and healing energies to a forest fire in the Sangre de Cristo 

mountains in Santa Fe County of New Mexico and to all forest fires in the world. I was inspired to do this when sitting on a hill across from the valley from where the NM fire was intensely burning. I knew that firefighters were up in the forest and that the terrain was steep there. Smoke was floating all around the area. Residents who lived closer to the fire greatly were concerned that the fire might come close to their homes. Of course, the trees and plants and wildlife were enormously impacted and the streams were, too. The smoke was effecting thousands of people living in the region.

As I sat on the hill, I felt a great love for all the people, Beings, and the land involved, I and wanted to do something. I didn't like the idea of feeling powerless, so I grew very quiet inside and listened. The Sun warmed my back and the gentle breeze caressed my face. The idea of making an altar then popped up in my mind, as if Nature herself inspired it. Through my many years of diverse spiritual practices, I have constructed countless altars for the purpose of creating sacred ceremony. I have loved making them as they transport me into expanded dimensions of consciousness. I have delighted in inviting Creator (God-Goddess, Oneness, Creator) and communing with such a vast Presence, I also invite Angels, the Six Directions (West, North, East, South, Above, Below), the Spirits, the Sky Beings, and the Nature Beings (the Winds, Waters, Lands, Trees, Plants, Animals, etc), to assist me. It is like inviting an extraordinary community of Beings, all of whom radiate and give love and energy beyond belief!
So when the idea of making an altar outside on the hilltop came to heart and mind, I was ecstatic. First, I found a spot, which simply was right in front of where I was sitting. My body had guided me there before I even knew I was going to make an altar! 

I then collected wild stone people, which are rocks that reside in nature and have not been used for domestic purposes around homes or buildings. I also do not use gravel or rocks used to make stone paths or gardens, as they have been used for specific purposes and their energy therefore would not be aligned with an altar being created for other purposes. Before collecting them, I asked the wild stone people who would like to be part of the altar to help bring love and healing to the fire and all involved with the fire. Beautiful stones "lit up" on the landscape. I gathered them with gratitude. They either were black, white, yellow-gold, and reddish colored. The black would be used in connection with the West, white with the west, yellow-gold with the east, and reddish stones with the South.

On the spot of the land I swept clear for the small altar,  I placed each stone down on the ground with love.  I worked on the circle first, going clockwise because clockwise builds energy and form. I put the different colored rock people more so in the direction associated with them. I put the first stone down in the direction of West this time.

By the way, creating an altar really is a feeling process. I feel my way along as I hold each stone. The stones have a way of radiating their unique consciousness to let us know how to build a powerfully effective altar. It's really a community activity, and the rocks and I, along with the Divine and the Nature and Sky Beings, are all working together with one intent. It is quite a sweet and nourishing experience to be part of making an altar that has a wonderful kind purpose behind it.

After making and adjusting the circle, I added the lines or rays that extend from its center. They all ran toward each of the cardinal directions, and again, the stone people were aligned according to the colors I associated with the directions. You may have different colors that you experience with the different directions, and, of course, that is just fine. While there are guidelines when it comes to making  love altar, there is no dogma as to how it “should” be done. It is about listening deeply and follow our own heart’s nudging.

As I built the altar with the stone people, I held the intent for it in my heart. All the energies coming to be part of the altar were kind, loving, sensitive, strong, committed, and joyful. The energy grew and grew as I went along. The size of the altar did not matter. This one was about a foot and half by a foot and a half. It was the love and focus poured into by the builder and all those assisting that made the difference. There was a strong sense of wonderful self empowerment and community empowerment during the process. It was amazing! I felt so content as I spent precious time with the wild stone people and the elements of nature and inspiration from countless Beings!

My consciousness naturally shifted as I laid down the rocks. I shifted into a quiet trance-like state. All that I sensed from nature deepened - the sounds of the birds, the color of the sky, and the warmth of the air, the smell of the dirt. I simultaneously became more and more attuned to the subtle energies of the energetic and spiritual realms. The fire on the other side of the valley talked as well. It was like receiving many messages from Beings all over the universe who wanted to be part of building the altar! It’s best not to minimize the power of this process.

In the stillness, I also sensed people's energies in the region, without taking them on. You do not want to resonate with people's fears and angers and anything else going in them. That is theirs to be and work with, and this is to be respected, as it is their journey. I sent them support to help them find their inner strength and guidance.

Then, a powerful thing happened when I sensed the fires burning at other places in the country. The prayers and healing energies that I and the community of Beings were putting into this small altar on the hill began to include prayers and healing energies for all the places the fires were burning on the globe. Love was being sent to all people and all Beings effected by the flames and smoke. Love was sent to the Fires themselves as they are powerful forces of nature to be honored. They have their profound purposes and their activities are often far beyond what we understand. They often light up in order to show us humans what we need to see, what we have been hiding from, such as negative thinking or coldheartedness or hoarding of any kind. 
We may associate great pain with fire, and this is understandable. We want to send love to those challenged or aching with pain and difficulty of any kind.  Love is what heals all that it touches.

After the altar was done, I sat softly with it. I felt such a sweet peace permeate my every cell. I held my hands over it and allowed life energy to course through me into the simple creation. It was holding an enormous gift for the planet. It was channeling life energy from the Earth and Beyond into our world, to the fire across the valley and to the fires all over the country and world.

Each day after the altar building, I would visit it and sit with it. I'd look over the valley and feel the universe. I felt part of creation, part of humanity, part of the cosmos, and part of an oceanic river of life, love, and consciousness that was surging to help all those the altar intended to help. It was breathtaking, It was heartwarming! You may be reluctant to affirm this, but the simple little altars we each build make a galaxy of difference! They become altars of the heart and their pulses on the land are treasured by the Earth. They are also fed by the Earth. She pays attention.

You might be wondering how we might know just how an altar will be effective. Well, we don’t really know the full impact of an altar. Once it purposefully is set into motion, it keeps channeling, attracting, and broadcasting wholesome and helpful energies We, of course, can ask an altar what it has been up to, and we can turn to our intuitive sense things to listen patiently to its growing response. It is most auspicious, however, as I was writing this article, a sign from nature confirmed the altar’s potency. Two healthy beautiful deer elegantly showed up in the yard! One was an enormous fourteen point buck, the other a gentle doe with big eyes. They were a mating pair and their presence was magnificent. For me, this was a synchronistic message informing me that the love altar successfully brought together the masculine with the feminine - the yang with the yin, the linear with the non-linear, the here-and-now with the Beyond. The altar became their union which birthed a love and energy generator to help all Beings impacted by the fire.

When it comes to building an altar, the key is to follow your heart. Let your heart reveal the obvious and subtle truths to you. Let it help you slow down and be fully attentive in all aspects of your True Self. Let it whisper to you. Let it remind you how to nourish yourself every step of the way.It may be a process to listen to depths of your heart, and that’s just fine. Oh my, it is so worth the journey. Not only will you be filled to the brim such that you spill over with love, but you and your altar will bring in the love from angels and Beings throughout the universe and Beyond!
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