Altars Made Easy: A Complete Guide to Creating Your Own Sacred Space

by Peg Streep

Book Overview

In this handbook on altars, Peg Streep shows readers how to use specific materials, colours, symbols, imagery, scents, crystals, music, and more to create their own personal altars. Streep covers the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062514903
• ISBN13: 9780062514905
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic

This book was great! It is filled with very useful ideas on making your own sacred space. I have never seen a book filled with so much information on multi cultural items, colors, stones/gems, flowers, animals and more items, with their meanings, that you may use on you own alter. This book is a must have for anyone looking to make their own alter or sacred space, or someone who is just looking to educate themselves on the meanings of a lot of items used on alters. The only drawback was there wasn't enough drawings. The ones used were great but I would have loved to seen more. I just couldn't get enough. This is a book you will truly enjoy over and over again!

Beautiful and helpful

I just loved this book. It's filled with useful and interesting information about altar-building from MANY different cultural perspectives. I found the fine art quality of the gorgeous pencil drawings of real-life altars to be breathtaking. I wish they were available as postcards, with helpful altar-building tips on the back.

offers a multifaith definition of symbolism

I enjoyed this book. It offers a dictionary type layout for ease of reference. Encompasses the uses of objects from many faiths point of view. The novice as well as the experienced should benefit from the accessiblitiy of information. It leaves the user with the confidence to build an altar with much meaning that the uninitiated would not see as such.

Overflowing with practical, inexpensive ideas.

Overflowing with practical ideas for creating your own sacred space, simply, inexpensively, and personally. Useful for those well skilled in creating sacred space, as well as beginners. I found the book insightful as well as practical.