As always, let's forget all we
thought we knew when we hear
the word "magic wand" from
fairy tales, TV programmes and
Harry Potter, for that matter and
let us start right at the beginning.
And at the beginning, there was
a very, very long time ago some
creatures that may have been a
bit like chimpanzees we see
today, who break off branches
from trees, strip off the bark and
use this first tool for many
different purposes.
This tool is like a long, strong
finger that can reach further
than you can; you can prod
things with it, you can hit things
with it, and you can wave it in
the air.
The First Magic Wand
Have you ever heard the
admonishment, "Don't point at
people directly!" (with your bare
index finger ...)
Well, there is the other part of the
story.
The built in magic wand/s that all
people possess - the pointing
index finger.
You can use that to choose - I
want that one! You can use it to
make history as you press a
button. You can send your
intention that way across space,
like a bullet would fly or an
arrow. You are standing here,
but the map you are pointing at
is OVER THERE, and where you
point, your armies will march
across real deserts, and
mountains, and real wars will
begin, with real pain, and real
dying.
In that way, the pointing of the
finger has inscribed reality and it
has changed it.
That is in essence, the work of a
magic wand.
A Magic Wand Exercise
For Beginners
When you are out and about,
practise channelling your
intention through your "inbuilt
magic wand".
Point it at objects you want
and say, "I want that one!"
Draw a symbol, such as a
heart, on the cup of a loved one
with your fingertip.
Write the name of a loved
one in the air.
Get used to "activating"
energy flow from your pointed
finger, forming an intention in
your mind, having that become
a feeling in your body, a feeling
of energy building, and then let
it rush out through your finger,
pointing that energy in the
direction of that which you wish
to change, or influence, or
activate, or imbue with your
purpose.
Do this with both hands - let
them take turns. Magicians
should be ambidextrous. It's
important.
Also, practise REVERSING THE
FLOW - drawing things into
yourself. Nourishing energy
from a pretty thing, or a
precious thing; from a person,
from food, from water, from
your environment, from a book,
from a CD - try EVERYTHING.
Now, and now that we have
learned how to use our own
inbuilt magic wand/s which no-
one can take away, and which is
probably one of the magician's
most powerful weapons, we can
move up a step in the
evolutionary ladder and start
using a tool.
How To Make Your Own
Magic Wand
Reams have been written about
this, and ceremonies as long as
your arm if it stretched all the
way round the world and back
have been concocted. When I
was young, innocent, unknowing
and naive of such things and
believed everything I read in a
book, I went on a totally mad trail
of insanity to make my first
magic wand. It was totally stupid
in hindsight; but what did I
know?
A magic wand is A STICK.
That's it.
It becomes animated by the
magician's intention, and it
becomes more powerful with
use and practise (or is that the
magician becoming more
powerful in using their stick?)
over time.
But let's never forget that a
magic wand is a stick. No matter
what it's made of, no matter
what drama went into the
production of it, it's just a stick,
and that's a good place to start.
Now then. Where do we get a
stick?
Before we start rushing off to
the nearest 24h mall or go to
Google and type into the
searchbox "Buy stick online", let's
calm down and remember our
friends and relatives, the
chimpanzees.
Where do they get their sticks
from?
Yeah! They get them for free,
from a tree!
Again, and before we now go
into some mad whirl and start
wondering about what we're
going to use the stick for, and
what the magical properties of
trees might be, and whether
there would be a special time of
day that needs to be laboriously
calculated on the moon phases
and in conjunction with various
goddesses, archangels and the
date of your birth - STOP!
Just look around in your
neighbourhood and find a tree.
Any tree will do. It's easier of
course if it's a deciduous tree
(where the leaves fall off in
autumn) and it's even easier if
you can get a hold of a branch,
but that's as much as we need
right now. All the rest of that
stuff can come in later, many
years later, if it is ever needed at
all or in the first place.
Another word of admonishment.
You are not making Gandalf the
White's lifesize staff here. You
really only need a short bit off the
end of any branch. It helps if this
should be fairly straight; but
don't come home with half the
tree. A piece the size of your
lower arm plus hand will
probably do nicely.
When we get home with our
branch, we strip off the bark and
the leaves.
This leaves us (!) with a lovely
pale stick that is perfectly sterile,
perfectly clean and quite
beautiful in its own right.
By all means, stroke it and admire
it. Then put it somewhere to dry
for a day or so. Don't put it near
a radiator or a source of dry heat
because your stick might crack;
once the bark is off, wood
becomes extremely HUNGRY for
oil and moisture. More of this
later.
Shaping Your Magic Wand
Surprisingly, there should be very
little whittling or shaping
involved with your stick. A small
piece of finest sandpaper may be
employed once it is dry to
smooth out any joints that are
sticking out and to make your
stick really, really smooth and
delightful to the touch. Sanding
the ends a little will make a very
neat little wand, and one that you
are already becoming involved
with, and accustomed to.
Personally I would recommend to
play some nice music whilst you
work on your wand, something
dreamy and relaxing, something
friendly. This little stick is going
to become a very useful tool in
due course, and as it is a
MAGICAL ITEM, intention and state
in the magician who is making it
is everything. As you smooth and
love your unfolding magic wand,
you might let some ideas come
to you as to what its name is
going to be, and what its spirit
might be like - what colour, what
shape, and what is it that this
entity is doing to help you
channel energy in both
directions powerfully and
EFFECTIVELY when the time
comes?
As you are shaping a magic
wand from a branch off a tree,
so you are shaping the invisible
realms from "just a stick" to a
magical object or artefact. That's
the most important part of the
process of making your wand.
Anointing Your Magic Wand
Once your stick is nice and
smooth and becoming radiant in
energetic terms and shaped to
your desires, you will notice how
HUNGRY the wood has become
for oil, or moisture.
This is the perfect time to anoint
the wand and have whatever you
are using at this time travel right
into its very structure. This will
set the intention for the use and
purposes of the wand; it cannot
be undone because when the
wood is fresh and pure it
absorbs things like it will never
again after that time.
Anointing a wand can be as
complicated or as easy as you
want to make it.
Personally, I use Essential Oils for
all such purposes. These so called
oils are immensely complex and
vastly radiant on the energetic
levels (for some oils, one MILLION
flowers are condensed to get a
small jug full!) and so very easy to
handle and acquire, that no
modern day magician can find an
excuse to do some amazing
things with them.
For some nice ideas and to help
pick an oil (and potentially a
name for your magic wand) see
this list of metaphysical names
for aromatherapy essential oils.
If you are already used to
working with Essential Oils, no
doubt something will come to
you that you want to use in
anointing the wand. Further, you
can make the anointing process
last for as long as you like,
choosing a different oil each day
for a week, or even a fortnight,
and building up a complex
matrix tapestry for your
purposes in the process.
If you are a total beginner, work
with something you are familiar
with and that makes sense to
you. Lavender Oil, for example, is
wonderful for all healing and
cleansing activities, even though
it is "common and cheap" it is
very powerful and would make a
fine first anointing oil. If you
want to do a lot of mystical
things, go for Frankincense. For
love, get Rose. It's a very simple,
common sense thing that does
not need to be complicated - and
if all else fails, go to your local
supermarket and get some
Sunflower Oil. Yes, that's right,
the cooking stuff. It's made from
the essence of a thousand
sunflowers and is rich, radiant,
golden and lends a golden glow
of prosperity and growth to
everything you anoint with it.
Get your oil/s ready. Get your
wand. Think about the good
magic you want to do with it.
Talk to it like you would to a new
cat or dog that you have taken
into your home. Tell it what you
are hoping for from the
relationship and enjoy giving the
wand a really sensuous massage
with the oil. Feel it in your hands
and fingertips, enjoy the scents,
all the sensations, and have a
wonderful time doing this.
The more love you can build up
between you and your wand, the
more powerfully it will work for
you.
Decorating Your Magic Wand
Decorating is a strange term in
magic - really, there is no such
thing in and of itself as
"decoration". Magic works by
aligning form and function to an
intention; if form and function
are well aligned, you are always
going to have a beautiful object,
but that is a side effect of the
overall structure.
In other words: EVERYTHING
you put on your magic wand has
to have a purpose;
it has to serve the intention in
the creation of the wand;
and if it doesn't - leave it out!
Think carefully about what you
put on your wand. A thousand
symbols, bits and bobs of this,
that and the other, dragons and
dolphins and butterflies and all of
that leads to confusion, not more
magic. More is definitely not
better in all magic workings, and
that's worth remembering as a
principle.
In this example, I just wrapped
some silver and copper wire
around the wand to strengthen
it, give it a more specific transfer
matrix and I added a small crystal
to the front, and one to the back.
But strictly, this isn't necessary
and I have only included this as
an example of a simple
"decoration" which serves a
purpose and is very easy to do.
Here are some other ideas as
what you can do with a plain
wand:
Paint or varnish the wand
(you can add magical ingredients
to the paint or varnish but test
what you have made first on a
spare piece of wood)
Wrap it in wire, silk, string in
patterns;
Carve or engrave it with
symbols;
Add crystals or metals to it;
Draw or write on the wand.
If you have too many ideas
crowding in of what to put on
your wand, you might consider
making more than one, even a
whole series of them. These
types of wands are extremely
easy to make and what you do
then is to ask, which wand
should I make first?
So if you were thinking for
example in terms of dolphins and
dragons, you might want to
make a dolphin wand and
another for dragon type work.
Sort out in your head what you
want to do with the wand before
you start and if in doubt, leave it
out!
As before, once you know what
you want to do and you have
your materials assembled, allow
yourself to enter into a
meditative state and do the work
lovingly and with your best
intentions. Keep your mind
focussed on what you are doing
absolutely and don't drift off into
composing a shopping list or
wondering what's on TV. All
those sort of things create a
disturbance which will take away
from the eventual power of your
magic wand.
Dedicating The Magic Wand
When it is all done and all glues
and varnishes have dried
satisfactorily, there is one more
step before you get to use your
magic wand for real, and that is
to dedicate it.
This should be a concentrated
and meditative ceremony, as in
all the steps of making the magic
wand.
You want to give it a lot of
thought and make notes whilst
your wand dries and settles
down on what you will say out
aloud during the ceremony, who
you want to involve by the way
of deities, angels, ancestors and
spirits; what you want the wand
to do for you; its name, as we've
discussed earlier.
Take some time to create a nice
speech that is precise, powerful
and covers the basics. Your
speech should be rhythmical,
heartfelt and sincere and raise
enough energy to catalyse the
sleeping wand into existence.
Don't worry too much about this.
People get all wound up about
these sort of speeches in a
ritualistic setting, and they think
you have to look them up in
some big book from way back,
but that's just not true.
Something honest and real that
comes from your heart and that
you believe is a thousand times
more powerful than some old
thing from the dark ages - this is
about you and your magic, and
your very own magic wand.
You will make more wands as
you go along, and it's a learning
curve. You don't have to get it
totally correct first time out. Your
wand will work, even if you
don't, and with experience, it just
gets better and better.
So relax, make a cup of tea and
think about the dedication. Have
a notepad handy and write
down ideas. When you're ready,
assemble them to make your
speech.
Here is a simple example.
State your name and purpose:
I, Starfields, stand before the
powers that be to dedicate this
wand I made with my own
hands.
Get help:
I ask that my guardians come to
me now, to aid in this endeavour.
Name the wand:
I name this wand "Little Matrix".
State the purpose:
May it aid me in inscribing my
will upon the tapestry of reality,
for progress, for evolution, and
for healing.
Gather energy and make the
dedication:
I, Starfields, now activate this
wand. May it serve me well.
Thank the help:
I thank the powers that be and
my guardians for their aid this
night.
Close:
My will is done.
Using Your Magic Wand
Directly after the dedication, the
best part starts. Now, you are
ready to get used to using the
wand. Take some time to just
hold it, play with it, touch it, feel
it. Hold it in one hand, the other,
in both hands.
Try some experimental
movements, using the "point"
and the "broadside" respectively:
If you can't think of what to do
with a magic wand, chances are,
you probably don't need one yet.
I recommend you practice with
your "inbuilt magic wand" for a
while longer.
For a simple example of using a
wand for energy magic, see this:
http://magic-spells-and-
potions.com/3_simple_spells_888.htm#A_Simple_Wand_Spell

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