#altar tools
Tools:
Athame, Wand, Book of Shadows, Candle/incense holders, Playing or Tarot Cards, Cauldron, Small Jars. Ribbons, Bones (don’t kill anything and make sure it’s ok to pick them up though), Chalice, Boline, Altar Cloths, and Bessom.
The Elements:
Air:Feathers, Smoke, Wand, Symbols, Candles, A Hand Fan, Bells, Pictures, of the Sky, Streamers, Spoons, and Art of Birds, Angels, and Faeries.
Fire:Lighters, Matches, Candles, Incense, Cauldron, Athame, Symbols, and Fire Opal.
Water:A Chalice, A Bowl of Water (it can be sun water, seawater, rainwater, etc), Seashells, A Mirror, Mermaid or Fish Statues, Symbols, and Blue Candles.
Earth:Salt, Crystals, Herbs, Flowers, Dirt, Wood, Green Candles, Bones, Leaves, and Pictures of Trees and Nature in General.
Gods and Goddesses:
Have colors/animals/flowers/herbs that they’re connected to on your altar, leave them offerings, have a picture or a statue of them, have 2 sides of your altar (one for the god and one for the goddess), have prayer beads, and a god and goddess candle.
Advice:
Do what works for you, if you can’t have a huge altar with a lot of tools, thats fine. You make an altar out of an Altoids tin or a shoebox.
You can make altars for sabots, the fae, your deities, or the elements. You can also decorate your altar for the seasons or the sabots too.
If you don’t believe in any gods or goddesses, you don’t have to believe in them or put representations of them on your altar to be a witch. Personally, I’m secular and I don’t work with any deities/spirits.
Take my advice with a pinch of salt. You don’t have to follow exactly what I say, these are just ideas. This is your practice and you can do whatever you want to. Don’t be pressured to do something just because someone told you to, this is your practice; not theirs.
Thank you for reading this and have a magickal day! ❤❤❤
Just about every religion incorporates sacred objects into its observance and practice. Whether it’s special vestments worn by religious officiants, statues of deities honored at shrines, candles, amulets, chalices or other symbolic items, people have been creating and utilizing physical artifacts—or “tools”—in order to create and maintain spiritual energy and focus in their ritual practices.
Athame: Used for directing energy and casting rituals
Wand: Used to direct energy and casting circles
Chalice: Used to hold ceremonial drink
Boline: Used for rituals and harvesting/cutting herbs
Incense: Used to cleanse
Censer: Used to burn incense pods
Scourge: Was used to whip witches as initiation into covens but now is used in some ritual poses by the Priestess and Priest when they do the “Osiris” pose with their arms crossed in front of their chests holding the athame and the scourge.
Cingulum: Used like a belt, can symbolize ranking via color, but is mainly used to measure the circle for casting
Besom: Used to sweep negative energies
Cauldron: Used to burns herbs and incense, can be used to make spells
Jewelry: Used upon intention, ex. pentacles on necklaces for protection and ring magick.
Spear: Used as a ritual tool for Odin
Stang: Used for directing energy and assistance on spiritual path
Bell: To stop and start a ritual
Offering Dish: Used to offer our offering to our deities
Hat: Symbolizes the witch herself and her knowledge, fedora like hats are used more often to give off the same look
Crystals: Can be used for healing and magick, each crystal has a different property
Oils: Used for spells and baths
Resin: (Pine) used to wake the circle
Mortar and Pestle: Used to grind up herbs
Rune Sticks: Used by oracles, usually thrown and read
White Stick: Grants invisibility and protection
Silver Spoon: Used to dig up dirt
Scrying Mirror/Bowl: Used to receive visions and messages
Gazing Ball: Used to scry as well
Hollow Glass Orbs: Used to ward off the home of witches spells, evil spirits, and ill fortune
Pendulum: Used for divination
Witches Spoon: Special spoon used for tea
The Garter: Used by high priestess to symbolize the head of the coven and her level
Skull: Used for protection and used to call the ancestor of which the skull belonged to (can be replaced with a handful of soil)
Talismans: Used to symbolize what we want to push towards, also protection
EDIT:@twilightmagick said this and i completely forgot to add it in at the bottom YOU DONT NEED TOOLS AS A WITCH you are the magick, tools only serve to help you out and please don’t buy new tools they can be expensive go to your local thrift or you can make your own tools if you so please but yeah thank you to the person that pointed this out
New In Stock at Portland Button Works and the PBW Witch Shop and PBW Zine Distro January 13, 2021
Back in stock!
New Stuff in the Portland Button Works Shop and some restocks:
- Is it an athame? Because it just looks like a book arts bone folder to me that just happens to have a pentacle on it. Great for folding zines or other book arts projects Neat! $5
- Small Brass Bell$1
- Cast Iron 3.5" Mortar and Pestle$16
- Especially Now by Jonas Cannon a small book of even smaller and very lovely micro stories $5
- Lavender and Rosemary Incense$2.50
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