On Creating A Financial Flow Altar

Yesterday, on the full moon, I took a moment or two to refresh my financial flow altar. I first created it last year during a period of time when my finances felt stagnant and my energy around money was exceptionally sluggish. This practice of creating an altar really helped me and my financial situation, and so I’m sharing it with you today (along with pictures!).

(I’m also sharing a wee gift with you too, so make sure you read to the bottom of this post!)

Now, please do not get me wrong – I am not saying that the creation of an altar will solve all your money woes. My own beliefs surround the practice of altar creation is that it acts as a tangible point of focus that can raise your awareness of a specific issue. And remember – energy flows where attention goes!

By focusing my attention on my financial flow, I found it much easier to follow my inner guidance on how to create abundance in my business, and I became much more conscious of the specifics of monthly money management. However, I really do feel that it was the altar that helped me to make this shift.

If a financial flow altar doesn’t appeal, but a ‘get a publishing deal’ altar does, or a romance altar, a new home altar or a more general spirituality altar does, then you can take the same principles and apply them to achieve the results that you seek. Just select items that resonate with your intention to invite your dreams into reality. Go with your intuition!

This is an image taken this morning of what my financial flow altar looks like. Why financial flow? Because I have a firm belief that money is just another form of energy and as such, everyone benefits so much more when it flows than when it is stockpiled. I would much rather have a lively and ever-flowing financial spring that a stagnant pool of reserved and unused energetic resources.

Currently, on my financial flow altar, I have a big church candle which, you might be able to see, is sitting on top of a white envelope. Inside that envelope is a letter to my abundant self listing all the ways that I plan to direct my finances, including treats, luxuries, basics, charity and investments. Every time I light the candle, I am activating that list – filling it up with good juju, if you will 😉

Resting against the candle is an oracle card taken from Doreen Virtue’s Healing With the Fairies deck which is called ‘Financial Flow’ and depicts a fairy connected to the universe by strands of shimmering light. I’ve found this is a really lovely image to hold when I’m feeling a bit depleted and disconnected. We live in an abundant interconnected universe, and this card reminds me of that.

Also, when I light the candle I state my intention by speaking the following words aloud: I am open to receiving the gifts that the universe wishes to give me.

I learned through Jo Anna Rothman’s Receiving Project last year, that I can attract and manifest all the wealth I can dream of, but if I can’t truly receive, then it’s all been for nought. And so, I consciously take a moment or two every morning to increase my receptivity. I then try to carry this throughout my day, offering gratitude and recognising gifts as and when they enter my day. This has made no end of difference to my world.

Behind the candle you can see my abundance dream board. Now the way I see the difference between a vision board and a dream board is that a vision board is composed of images that you’ve consciously sought out to represent that which you wish to invite into your life. A dream board is a much more intuitive process.

When creating my abundance dream board, I held my focus quite lightly in my mind, lit some incense, played some lovely soothing music, and then started working my way through a pile of magazines, looking for images that caused my intuition to tingle. Some of the images are explicit depictions of finances – pictures of money, piles of gold, full purses etc. But many more images evoke the spirit of financial flow and what that means to me.

To be honest, even after sitting with it for a year, I still don’t know what some of the images ‘mean’ – but every one of them call to my heart, and create a feeling of abundance for me.

Once I had my pile of images, I created a collage using the back of a cereal packet. The height and the folds allowed me to create a relevant and potent backdrop of images to help me focus my intentions for financial flow, heightening my altar’s potency.

Beside the candle, I have this little arrangement. The angel was made by my daughter in pottery class, and she reminds me that I don’t have to struggle through times of financial difficulty alone. That I can pass my problems onto the angels and that they’ll support me and provide me with what I need. In front of her is a beautiful angel aura quartz (my favourite crystal!), which similarly reminds me of that angelic connection.

And they both sit on top of a little box where I keep my spare change. I’m reminded here of the fairy story of the magic porridge pot. Do you know it?

There once was a mother and daughter who lived in hard times. One day, when the cupboard was completely bare and their pockets utterly empty, the little girl left home and went out into the forest to seek sustenance. There she met an old woman offered her a gift. The good witch, for witch she was, gave the little girl a porridge pot that she said would magically produce porridge – as much porridge as she could possibly want. All she had to do was say the magic words ‘Cook, pot. Cook!’ and the pot would fill with porridge. And when the pot was full, she had to say ‘Stop, pot. Stop!’ and the flow would cease until they called upon it next mealtime.

The little girl took the pot home and both mother and daughter began to grow nourished with its seemingly endless supply of porridge. But one day, while the girl was out, the mother tried to use it by herself. ‘Cook, pot. Cook!’ And the pot began to fill. When it was near the top, she called ‘Enough, pot. Enough!’ And then, ‘Halt, pot. Halt!’ But the porridge kept coming, until porridge flowed out of the house, along the street and filled the whole village. 

The little girl came home to find porridge everywhere and instantly surmised that her mother had forgotten the magic words. ‘Stop, pot. Stop!’ And the flow stopped. But by then, all the villagers had more than enough food to last them until their collective fortunes improved.

I like to think of my little box as representative of the magic porridge pot, and that the small change will multiply into pounds!

In front of the box is a beautiful necklace that my lovely friend Julie Gibbons gave me on my 33rd birthday. It’s a soul mantra necklace made by the gorgeous Liz Lamoreux, and inside the locket, it say’s HOME.

For me, strong financial flow allows me to feel secure and safe – it assures me that there is a cosmic safety net just waiting for me should I ever need it. Having this soul mantra on my altar gives me that sense of stability and security that financial flow brings. And then, on days when I’m feeling like I need a bit of a boost in this area, I wear it around my neck, close to my heart. I feel that its presence on the altar has charged it, so it makes it doubly comforting and empowering.

And that’s my financial flow altar.

Interested in creating your own? Well, I created this wee product ages ago, and I’ve just been waiting for the right time to share it with you. It feels like this is the right time!

It’s called On Starting An Altar Practice, and it’s a short guide to creating altars as part of a full moon practice – not specific altars, like I’ve detailed here, but more generally, so that you can take the advice & tips etc. and apply them in whichever way works for you. It also contains a wee bonus of an altar tour video where I share my main altar, as well as giving you a look at how my financial flow altar used to look before its recent freshening up.

To receive this gift, just click on this link to download: Altar Practice

I would love to hear about how you increase the financial flow in your life. Do you have spiritual practices or rituals that you use to attract abundance? What does your financial flow altar look like? Do tell!!