Altar & Sanctuaries: Resources
Encyclopedia of Sacred Places | Norbert C Brockman
Garden of the Spirit: Create Your Own Sacred Space | Roni Jay
Holy Personal: Looking for Small Private Places of Workship | Laura Chester
Sacred Architecture | Caroline Humphrey, Pers Vitebsky
Sacred Gardens: Inspirational and Practical Ideas for Creating Peaceful and Tranquil Spaces | Martin Palmer, David Manning
Sacred Geometry: Philosophy & Practice | Robert Lawlor
Sacred Geometry:: Structures | Nigel Pennick
The Sacred Place: The Ancient Origin of Holy and Mystical Sites | Paul Devereux
Sacred Places | Philemon Sturges
Sacred Places: 101 Spiritual Sites Around the World | Brad Olsen
Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas | Robert F Thompson
First Houses: Native American Homes and Sacred Structures | Ray A Williamson
Pana O’Ahu: Sacred Stones, Sacred Land | Jan Becket
Sacred Places in NOrth America: A journey into the Medicine Wheel | Coutney Milne
A sanctuary, a shrine, an altar – each is a manmade object that offers a portal to the unknown. Throughout the world, both in ancient times and now, these structures have allowed peoples and cultures to actively engage in a dialogue between their beliefs and the mysterious natural forces that surround them. In our present-day culture, this kind of spiritual communion often is relegated to organized religion rather than individual or community.You can create a place to gather and celebrate all kinds of life passages: births, deaths, marriages, seasonal changes and other meaningful moments, both happy and sad.
Consultation and guidance for creating your OWN sacred space, however you connect to the Divine. Objects, mementos, or sacraments from your existing religious tradition… or explore and co-create an altar and spiritual rituals that support your healing goals and needs. Jacqueline creates sanctuaries based on your Natal Chart Blueprint, combining elements aligning with who you are—stones, crystals, a myriad of personal objects, gifts, and plants. This supports YOUR connection to the Divine and your sense of spirit, no matter what tradition you honor.
I’m visionary artist and can’t wrap my head around the abstract sort. It’s everywhere, and I don’t know why it’s still popular. I see people in excibits get awards for vigorous mark making and brush strokes and I’m like… what the fuck? This is “good”? And I know art is subjective but come on. Bad art is bad art. I’m getting taught that you can’t call something bad but heavens it’s just random colors on a goddamn canvas.
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Frequently asked questions
What exactly entails designing a Sanctuary?
How can I get started with Natal Blueprint?
Do you cover all Scope 1 Design, 2 Building, and 3 Maintenance?
Do you help with setting up the design and creation?
Why do people choose to partner with ZenSpace?
Is a personal birth chart required to create the sanctuary design?
How are ceremonies and rituals complement meditation practices?
Can ZenSpace assist me in developing a contemplative meditation practice?
How accurate is the Natal Chart Blueprint to determine the elements for the Sanctuary?
How can I become a partner of ZenSpace?
I am a home design professional. How can I work with ZenSpace?
What is the vibratory frequency of that inner space? You can find out. And from that discovery, you can create such a beautiful melody that the Universe will bend its ear to listen. But you must work on the instrument, the you. If you play a violin made by the Steinway, the most beautiful sound will come out. If you take a rinky-dink Yamaha-student piano and play it, you can only make it sound so good. That Steinway has been worked on. The components are the highest quality possible. The body is shaped just so. The keys are finely made. Everything has been masterfully created so that when it is played, an amazing sound comes forth. Its Pachamama, the unstruck sound, is ready to directly touch the heart.
That is exactly what spiritual practice is. You become a kind of Steinway piano so that when the Creator plays you, you make incredible music. The sound that comes out will be Divine. Why? Your baseline, inner core vibration has been given space to exist, and your body and mind are finely tuned to carry that vibration out into the Cosmos.
How to craft your own personal sanctuary, inside and out, for a harmonious place of refuge?
The Sadhana includes a wake-up routine, a recitation, yoga, chanting, prayer, and finally a conscious act of surrendering to the Divine. There is also a component of community included that is crucial; the Sadhana is more potent in the company of others and also supports the growth of spiritual community.
Every wink of an eye, there are a thousand thoughts. Only one of those thoughts becomes articulated into language, and those words become action.
Natal Blueprint is used draw the elements for the altar
Mapping the dynamics of all the planets and their influences in many aspects of your life.
Underneath all of those thoughts is a baseline energy, an unstuck sound, a silence named Anahat. In this silence we do not have to do or think anything; we can just be. It is a pure state of meditation where we open the doors to merge with the One, to be One. We enter a flow that is beyond thoughts, ideas, and actions; the flow just is, and we can just be.
Altar Objects:
The altar (base, table cloth) itself, Pentacle, Plate, paten, or disk, Ceramics, Cast metal, Coin, Rock or stone, Dish of soil, sand or salt, Flowers or herbs, Cauldron, Labyrinth, Gems (Garnet, Hematite, Jasper, Aventurine), Candle (Green, brown, or black), Deity statue (Gaia, Macha, Saturn/Chronos, Pan), Horn or bone, Acorns, Seeds, Images of trees and mountains, Gnomes, Animal art (Cattle, Tortoise, Rabbit, Deer), Oil (Patchouli, Vetivert, Evergreen), Altar tile decorated with symbol of Earth, Tarot Ace of Pentacles
#meditationcorner #meditationyogaroom #inspirationroom #relaxroom #zen-zoneathome #meditationarea #chakraroom #yogaroom #yogaspace #yogacorner #calmingspace #ritualspace #meditationnook #meditationspace #letthatshitgospace #bohemianzone #gypsyselfspace #OMspace #yinyangspace #spiritualgarden #innersanctuary #soulsanctuary #soulgarden #buddhabooth #healingsanctuary #peaceofmindzone #shrinespace #theZen-time #soulrefuge #home-altar #meditationroom OMheadquarter #yogaretreat #sacredspace #prayerspace #meditationzone #Zenden #ancesterscorner #altarritual #myshrine #homealtar #personalaltar #shrinedesign #homebasilica #wisdomconnection
#spiritualpractice open air sanctuary
#altarworkshop #homesanctuary #devotionpractices