Travel Altar

by Head Crone December 25, 2020

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 the 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 tarot deck
bay leaves
loose sage
palo santo
a pendulum
various jars of herbs and resins

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.

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