How to set up a Wiccan altar

There are as many different ways to set up an altar as there are Wiccans, but I can give some useful hints and tips for a working altar.

Some people apparently assign the left side of the altar to the Goddess and the right side to the God. As a polytheist who doesn’t subscribe to the gender binary, my reaction to that is: Nope.

Others will try to tell you that there are specific things you should have on the altar and they should be in specific places. That’s not very helpful to people who are ...