This book helps you to create a home altar - a place of beauty, peace and sanctity, where the spiritual world can reach into and touch the world of the everyday. It includes altars for healing, for remembrance, for abundance, for creativity, for motivation, for harmony, and many more. It improves the energy around you and creates spiritual focus using simple items that have symbolic, magical or spiritual properties. It channels your innermost thoughts and desires, and add another dimension to your spiritual life. This book looks back through history to examine the development of the altar as a focus of worship in many different religious traditions, and offers some starting points for the creation of a personal altar in your home, garden or office. It also explores some of the many issues that might lead you into a search for spiritual guidance and suggests ways in which you can develop the altar to help in particular circumstances. Regardless of your religious or philosophical belief, creating your own altar is a way of bringing a sacred tradition into your home and your life.