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Hazel comes from the tree of wisdom and justice and is linked with the magick of
the Sun. The wand should be cut from a tree that has not yet borne fruit.
Rowan is a protective wood and so is good for defensive and banishing magick.
Willow is the tree of intuition and is said to be endowed with the blessing of the
Moon.
You can also use a long, clear quartz crystal, pointed at one end and rounded at
the other, as a wand. In its crystalline form, especially, the wand is used for
directing healing energies from the circle to wherever they are needed.
The wand is used for directing energies and for making circles of power in the air
- hence the image of the faerie godmother waving her wand - deosil for energies to
attract energies and widdershins for banishing. It can be used to draw pentagrams
in the air at the four quarters and it can also be used for drawing an invisible
circle when you are working on carpet or another fabric that cannot be physically
marked.
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In some traditions, the wand is a tool of Air and so this and the athame, or the
sword, are fairly interchangeable. However, the wand seems more effective for
casting and uncasting circles, invoking quarters and closing power. It is also
particularly good for directing energies in rites of love, healing, fertility,
prosperity and abundance.
Symbols Of Magick
Although you can carry out rituals using absolutely anything, you may like to
create a special set of symbols for a variety of rituals. These you can keep in a
separate box within your main store of magick artefacts so they do not get
scattered or broken.
You may include a thimble to symbolise domestic affairs, a tiny padlock for
security at home, a wooden toy boat for travel, a silver locket for fidelity, a key
charm for a house, tiny painted wooden eggs for fertility in any venture - just to
suggest a few. You can also use small fabric dolls to represent people, for example
in a love spell.
Tarot cards also provide excellent symbols for magick: the Emperor for power, the
Empress for fertility, the Ten of Pentacles for prosperity, the Lovers for romance,
the World or the Eight of Wands for travel, Temperance for harmony, Justice for
matters of law, etc. Even if you do not use Tarot cards for divination, a
brilliantly illustrated pack, such as the Rider Waite or the Morgan Greer, will by
their pictures suggest all kinds of images for your work. My book Tarot Talks to
the Woman Within (Quantum, 2000) contains many examples of Tarot spells and in
spite of its title, the book is very male-friendly. The Tarot is also very
portable.
You may also find a supply of white clay useful for creating impromptu symbols and
if the clay is soft you can empower it with written words or symbols. I am not
suggesting you create waxen images of the kind you see in B-movies, and I certainly
don't want you to collect nail clippings or hair in an attempt to harm anyone in
any way; this is merely a representation of a person or desired object. It may be
possible to find a natural source of clay.
A beach near my home provides me with an abundant supply. You can also buy the
natural, untreated potters' material. After using the clay in a ritual, you can
return it to the soil. Clay is especially good in binding spells or banishing
spells when the actions to be bound or the destructive habit are to be re-absorbed
by the Earth. It is also excellent in group rituals as a number of people can mould
into it their collective energies.
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The Substances Of Magick
The substances of magick for formal rituals are the same as those used in informal
magick. I have already described their magical associations in informal spells and
in ritual magick the correspondences in colour and fragrance are exactly the same.
Each is set in its own quarter of the circle and used to charge the focus of the
ritual with power. They can also be used for empowering and cleansing your ritual
tools.
If you make your own candles or incense for your rituals, you can endow energies by
chanting the purpose for which they are being made. Some practitioners prepare
their ritual substances the day or the evening before the ceremony, at the right
planetary or angelic hour for its purpose. But you do not need to do this - the
days of apprentices and long hours devoted to a single ritual are gone and even the
most complex ceremony need take no more than an hour, many much less.
Salt
Salt rituals are among the oldest forms of magick and salt can form the focus of
magick for health and prosperity ceremonies as well as for psychic protection. The
kind used is most usually sea salt and represents the Earth element. It should be
kept covered and separate from domestic salt and it must be empowered before use.
The salt should be placed on the altar to the left of your Earth ritual tools, in a
small ceramic dish with a silver spoon. Use new salt for each ritual and tip any
remaining into flowing water, watching it carrying away your wishes to fruition.
A very simple crescent moon ritual for attracting money involves piling magically
charged salt in a central cone, surrounding this with coins and filling them all
with power. Then take the empowered coins and leave them in an open jar in the
moonlight until the full moon. On the day after the full moon, spend them on giving
happiness to others.
After the ritual, dissolve the salt in sacred water and tip it into a flowing
source of water to get the money energies moving.
In a formal ritual for the same purpose, focus the energies by casting a formal
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