Let’s pretend it’s 2015 for the ask meme; 7 and 18?
7. What does your ideal altar look like?
OH, a pinteresty kind of question! Finally, I can indulge.
The altar and its permanent furnishings: as monochromatic as possible. Black table, dark wood or stone. Minimalist in terms of brick-a-brac, but not unadorned. If I could carve or money were no object and i could hire a competent artisan to do it for me, it would be dripping with reliefs of baroque grotesquery - floral motifs, danse macabres. Beasts and kings and clowns and skulls. I would probably like a bit of votive statuary that isn't a repurposed halloween decoration for a change. This can be simple, though. A black skull is enough, flanked by candelabras. And of course because this is an ideal altar, there would never be a time it is not utterly bedecked with flowers. Big aromatic roses, night blooming jasmine, poppies, marigolds, tuberose. Sprigs of white monkshood, and of black belladona with its glinting wet berries.
But that's me being restrained and assuming an ideal altar has to be at all "realistic" or "ethical" or "not made entirely of jewel encrusted human bones".
18. What are your thoughts on godspousing?
Complicated. I don't personally use the term at all, both because of the connotations it's acquired but also it feels ...inadequate. Too tight a box for so vast a thing as a deep, lasting bond with a god. Even if a very large facet of the relationship in question is unquestionably romantic, I still think word "spouse" just doesn't resonate for me in this context. I feel like it implies a relationship where both parties rest on equal footing, and to me this...can't be that. Even if you're in love, and even if it is reciprocated in some capacity - you will always be a finite, fleeting thing and They will always be what They are.
