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Portability • Discretion •  Essentials

Visit our curated collection of beautiful wooden Travel Altars in the store. Every witch needs a travel altar for those days away from home. 

WHAT IS A TRAVEL ALTAR? 

Every witch needs a travel altar! A travel altar allows you to create a sacred space wherever you go. 

A small wooden box makes an ideal travel altar - they are small and lightweight, perfect for tucking into your bag. If you want even more lightweight, choose a large drawstring bag. Other ideas include tins, lunch boxes, and tool boxes. 

You can go as large or as compact as you like! You can have multiple travel altars. Personally I have 2 travel altar boxes and a travel pouch. 

Travel altars are perfect for:

• Storage: of a few small essentials - e.g. jars of herbs, resins and powders, a candle, mini tarot deck, some palo santo and some crystals (depending on thr size you buy). 
• Discretion: sometimes we don't want our witchy supplies to be seen by certain people.
• Portability: even if you don't travel very far or very often, it's great to have a portable box of essentials, and a lot of people use a travel altar as a portable outside altar. Take your magic outside! 

If discretion and privacy is a concern, you could use a faux book box. This is a box disguised as a book - perfect for hiding your altar inside. 

WHAT'S IN MY TRAVEL ALTAR? 

I do change the jars around depending on if I am planning on doing any spells or rituals while away.

I usually carry in my travel altar:

• a mini cauldron which I use for charcoal, as well as anything else that needs a fireproof container
• a few charcoal discs
• a tealight candle
• a mini lighter
• a mini Rider-Waite tarot deck
• bay leaves
• loose sage
• palo santo
• a pendulum
• various jars of herbs and resins
• frankincense
• lavender
• an incense blend
• basil
• black salt
• salt
• cinnamon
• sage
• various crystals
• smokey quartz seer stone
• tigers eye
• selenite
• black tourmaline
• amethyst
• clear quartz double terminated point

WANT TO KNOW MORE? 

• How to use resins and charcoal discs 
• How to make an even smaller travel altar 
• How to make an elements altar 
• How to make a travel pouch
• How to make black salt 
• Herbal Lore: Sage 

WANT TO GO SHOPPING? 

Here are some links for some of the ingredients and equipment mentioned. 

• Wooden Travel Altars 

• Large Drawstring Bags 

• Altar Tiles & Altar Cloths 

• Crystals 

• Tealight candles 

• Pendulums

• Palo Santo 

• Fine Salt 

• Charcoal discs

• Cauldrons 

• Herbs & Botanicals 

• Resins 

• Mini journals

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