Travel Altar
Portability • Discretion • Essentials

{ 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:
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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 the size you buy).
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Discretion: sometimes we don't want our witchy supplies to be seen by certain people.
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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 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
- tiger's eye
- selenite
- black tourmaline
- amethyst
- clear quartz double terminated point
{ What Else Could You Include? }
- An altar cloth - this not only is useful in ritual or meditation, but it also keeps everything secure inside the travel altar.
- Amulets & charms - e.g. a pentagram
- Deities
- Items to represent the elements
- More candles
- A mini journal
- Anything you want!
{ Want to know more? }
Here are some links for some blogs to visit.
- 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 products mentioned.
- Wooden Travel Altars
- Large Drawstring Bags
- Altar Tiles
- Altar Cloths
- Crystals
- Pendulums
- Palo Santo
- Fine Salt
- Charcoal discs
- Cauldrons
- Herbs & Botanicals
- Resins
- Mini journals