A free guide from Lola Pickett
The Living Altar
How to create a space for intention, support, and spiritual practice. It's yours to keep, whatever deck you use, or none at all.
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A place where your attention gathers
An altar doesn't need to be grand. It can be a candle and a stone on a windowsill, a corner of your desk, a tray you carry from room to room. It asks for no religion and no particular belief. It's simply a place where your intentions have somewhere to land, and your practice has somewhere to return.
The Living Altar walks you through making one that is fully yours. It's part guide, part journal: each chapter closes with questions to sit with and room to write. Print it, keep it near your altar, and let it fill up with your own notes.
"Your attention is the only offering it truly requires."
Inside the guide
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Honoring where you stand
Begin with the land beneath you and the lineage behind you.
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Choosing your space
A windowsill, a shelf, a tray you can carry. Where your altar lives, and why.
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The elements as your map
Air, Fire, Water, and Earth around the edges, Æther at the center.
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Setting your intention
Lola's recipe for an intention that holds steady through the waves.
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Opening and closing
How to call in support, hold your boundaries, and come back to your body.
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Inviting a messenger
A simple practice for placing a Wild Messenger at the heart of your altar.
About Lola
Lola Pickett is the author of Wild Messengers® Alchemical Tarot, a deck of 78 animal messengers who move through the same five elements you'll find in this guide. The first edition funded on Kickstarter in under a day and has been on collectors' want lists ever since. Meet the deck.