Hi i am new to wicca, i am starting to set up my altar and reading all i can about the subject.

What do you need on your altar all the time and what do you need for magic?

If you have any advice please let me know.

Mollyee

Hi Molly, I've been a Wiccan for a few years (8 years give or take a month lol), so I hope I can be of help : )

right, to begin with, an altar.

for practicing magick, technically, an altar is not at all necessary, however, for the beginner, an altar is a focal point for you so you can concentrate on your working more : )

As for permanant tools, what you'll see most frequently on a Wiccan altar are a Pentacle in the centre (this can be anything from a circle of paper with a pentagram on it to a big copper disc with a pentagram and an assortmant of other symbols) this is used to consecrate and bless items placed on it, also representing the element of earth

a wand and or athame (black handled, blunt, double edged knife), to direct energy and cast circle, and to represent Air (the wand) and Fire (athame) though sometimes these associations are swapped depending on the individual

Small containers (mine are egg cups hehe) for consecrated water and salt, to consecrate items placed on the pentacle

A chalice is often on there if there's room to represent the element of water and for communion

Illuminator candles are usually there to represent the Goddess and the God, but aren't entirely necessary, though they do serve a practical purpose if you don't have the lights on lol!

Depending on where you have your altar (eg if it's in the centre of an intended circle, or along the perimeter at a quater point and if you have quater candles at the elemental quaters around your circle depends if you have an appropriate elemental candle on your altar or not

If there's room incense can be put on there as well, but if it's nearby that's fine

so

the short version of my ramble is that the most common items on a Wiccan altar are an Athame, a Wand, a Pentacle, Vessel of Water, Vessel of Salt, a Chalice, Illuminator Candles and if appropriate a Quater candle.

and, finally, as if I wasn't going on long enough, a really simple simple altar can consist of a cloth with representations of the 4 elements like a feather, a shell, a candle and a crystal

sorry that was really long winded, and it probably didn't need to be, just wanted to make sure the info was there, though I'm sure you already knew most of it already : )

I hope I've been of some help to you, and if there's anything else you want to know and think I can help then just start a post with my name as the subject : )

Bright Blessings!

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-Howler

My nearest library has quite a few books on paganism, even if they are a bit...well...I dunno, they could be better

I just tend to go into a book shop and read while I'm there lol! My local waterstones actually has a study table right near the MBS section!

BB

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-Howler

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Bright Blessings!

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-Howler

P.S our book of shadows has over 2500 pages filled as the book is also passed down lol its really cool seeing my great great great grandmas spells. some of them are really good. especially her house protection spell.