The Honey Altar

What are you working on?

Choose one to see what will open there.

Workings

A working is a piece of practice you can actually carry out: what it is for, when to do it, what it takes, what you do, and what happens to what is left over. The Honey Altar is being written that way — plainly, from a practice kept for years, rather than assembled out of somebody else’s table of correspondences.

Nothing here promises a result. It teaches a method and expects you to work it.

Purpose
What the working is for, said plainly, with no promise attached to it.
Timing
The day, the moon and the hour it wants — and what to do when you cannot wait for them.
Materials
What it takes, what can stand in, and what cannot be substituted.
Method
The steps in order, at the pace they are actually done.
Disposal
Where the remains go once it is finished. This part is not optional.

Shop

Nothing is for sale yet. When something is, it will be digital, made here, and it will teach a method rather than promise a result.

Apothecary

Oils, herbs, candles and tools — what each one is for, what it pairs with, and what to reach for when you do not have it. This is the reference half of the altar: the part you come back to rather than read once.

Oils
Dressing, anointing, and carrying a thing with you.
Herbs and roots
What each one does, and what stands in when you cannot get it.
Candles
Colour, shape, and what the way it burns is telling you.
Tools
The vessels, the cloth, the blade, and how they are kept.
Timing
Planetary days, and the hours inside them.

About

The Honey Altar is the spiritual expression of Luscious Honey: ritual, candlework, oils and intention.

It is a practice that is kept and written down. The altar is where that practice is set out. The site is being built in the open, and only what is finished gets published.