s it OK to buy a spirit house but not have the installation ritual?
In Thai tradition, setting up a spirit house requires the direction, location and pillar height to be in a special accordance with the land coordinates, the land owner’s birthday and body height. In addition if there is not a ritual to invoke the energy inside the statue that is placed inside a spirit house, Thai people understand that there is no energy there. In this case the spirit house is just a decoration or artistic piece of special meaning to you. We do not see anything wrong with that. In the end it is the heart-mind that is the most powerful tool of connection.