earthair
The time has definitely come to discuss magic circles made from 'real' stuff I'll collect together a few of my favourites...
To start with, BIG circles made of sturdy construction
I would love to have a few acres to build my own versions!
Has anyone ever constructed one in their garden? I have planted tree circles in both the gardens where I've lived, but never done a stone one.
Made several, I have one plain one in the front yard, that nowadays only really gets used for martial arts practice - 'The Circle of Death'
A large maypole one down by the river on one end of our festival site, and towards the other end a very large one ) can fit about 300 with with a circular hill and ditch outline and had 4 large built elemental altars within ; a water one like a font made from river stones and crystals, a fire one built in the shape of a volcano with volcanic rocks ( you could have a little fire inside it and the flames would come out the top), a mirror feather light air altar and a giant big flat topped rock for earth ... that was fun moving ! It took about 10 of us just to roll it over once. We had planted a ring of trees around it but most died, so only two left near the entrance.
Nowadays they are pretty much abandoned .
I have several such statues and carvings hidden around. There is a squatting ugly Pan playing Pan pipes under a tree where the car pulls up at the end of the driveway. Lately when I get home after dark, there has been a very large green rainforest tree frog sitting on top of Pan's head every night .
Made several, I have one plain one in the front yard, that nowadays only really gets used for martial arts practice - 'The Circle of Death'
A large maypole one down by the river on one end of our festival site, and towards the other end a very large one ) can fit about 300 with with a circular hill and ditch outline and had 4 large built elemental altars within ; a water one like a font made from river stones and crystals, a fire one built in the shape of a volcano with volcanic rocks ( you could have a little fire inside it and the flames would come out the top), a mirror feather light air altar and a giant big flat topped rock for earth ... that was fun moving ! It took about 10 of us just to roll it over once. We had planted a ring of trees around it but most died, so only two left near the entrance.
Nowadays they are pretty much abandoned .
I'll just add - that in my postage stamp back garden I do have 4 elemental Altars - in each corner.
3 are "display" and the last is a functional one.
Air and Fire are swapped around, just because for the way the garden works - they looked better that way round.
And it's the Air Altar (in the South ) that is the functional one.
EARTH is a collection of 3 iron balls in a rose pot. The large beachball sized one is rainbow coloured (like rainbows on oil) and the other two smaller ones are silver.
AIR is a small statue of a sleeping angel on a Maiden moon. The Altar is a re-claimed square Spanish tile with an 8-pointed star on it.
FIRE is a sleeping terracotta dragon in a small patch of rounded stones.
WATER is a collection of 3 large shells and 3 circular blue ceramic stones, on a bed of small blue glass pebbles.