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Wand Wood Correspondences
Alder: Fire and Water, passion and calm, manifesting and banishing.
Elm: Stability, strength, longevity, female empowerment.
Oak: Healing, protection, feeling of being at ease, being the best version of yourself.
Ash: Healing, both physical and magical. Luck for newborns.
Beech: Wishes, communication with deity, luck, fortune.
Cedar: Grounding, building new starts/places, protecting places, ancestors.
Elder: Good and bad luck depending on how you use it, fey energy, banishing.
Hazel: Wisdom, learning, power in knowledge, Inspiration.
Fir: Clarity, truth, divination, home.
Maple: Change, magic, learning, decision making, progression.
Sandalwood: Healing, purification, banishing of negative spirit and energy.
Willow: Divination, female energy, learning, beauty, creative arts.
Yew: Long life, rebirth, ancestor connection, cycle of life and death, protection from bad health (physical and spiritual).
Pine: Cleansing, air element, fresh beginnings, comfort in isolation.
Rowan: magical power, mysticism, removing negative magic, protection against curses and evil.
Wandlore: Magical Properties of Trees
Alder - PRESERVING - (water) oracular magic, seership, dreamwork, preservation, concealment, bridging worlds
Apple - SINGING - (air) protection, blessing, calling, sending, opening doorways to other worlds, love, inspiration, enchantment
Ash - JOURNEYING - (earth, water) calling, direction of art and craft, moving toward a goal, healing, crossing bridges to other worlds
Beech - LEARNING - (fire) solar and positive magic, the enhancement of creativity, learning, the search for information, books, languages Birch - BEGINNING - (water) purification, discipline, spells of youth and fresh starts, creativity, procreation, birth, renewal and rebirth Blackthorn and Plum - BLOCKING - (earth) protection, faerie magic, overcoming creative barriers, persistence, patience, divining of precious metals Cedar - CLEANSING - (air) enchantment, clearing negativity, dedication of sacred space, poetry, smithcraft, healing Cherry - DESIRING - (fire) protection, conflict, sex, attraction, assertiveness, aggression, love, confidence, daring, union of opposites, root chakra, healing of injuries from conflict or loss Chestnut - PRODUCING - (water) fertility, feminine powers, motherhood, the sea, protection of waters, reflection, introspection, meditation, abundance, nurturance, cleansing, relationships, especially mother and child Ebony - DOMINATING - (earth) leadership, domination, penetrating to the core of any problem, control, sexual assertion, aggression, concealing, revealing, healing dark diseases, dragon energy, seduction Elder - REGENERATING - (earth) enchantment, healing, protection, regeneration, wealth, long life, nurturing Elm - CONTAINING - (earth) healing, fertility, growth, rebirth, destiny, wisdom, metamorphosis, endurance Hawthorn - GUARDING - (air) fertility, rebirth, renewal union, wildness, human being as animal, detects magic, counter-jinxes, warding, sending
Hazel - UNDERSTANDING - (air) female autonomy, feminine power, magic of wisdom, beauty, charm, love, navigation, summoning, attraction, creativity
Holly - PENETRATING - (fire) protection, work against evil spirits, poisons, angry elementals, and lightning; averting fear, allowing courage to emerge, dream magic and eternal life, success in business or endeavor, hunting or quests Juniper - TRANSFORMING - (earth) transformation, transition, crossing to other worlds, cloaking, revealing, letting go, yin power, shadow, meditation, seduction, binding, geas, fate Lilac - IMAGINING - (air) magic of union, attraction, cultivation of creative bliss, intellectual pursuits, imagination, information, mental power, creation of harmony, travel, illusion, detection, writing
Linden - ATTRACTING - (air) creation, transmutation, illumination, love, attraction, binding, obligation, healing wounds, enhancement of beauty, peace
Maple - CHANGING - (earth, fire) control, finding, binding, transformation, creation, ambition, passion, revolution, rebirth, poetry, beauty, harvest, healing, abundance
Oak - OPENING - (fire) leadership, wise rule, personal sovereignty, authority, power, protection, sealing or opening doors, endurance, invocation of wisdom, fertility, abundance
Poplar - FEELING - (water) emotions, feelings, sensitivity, intuition, empathy, dance, instincts
Redwood - ASPRIING - (fire) striving upward, travel to higher spheres, drawing down power from heaven to earth, religious seeking, discipline, mystical union, wild animals, wisdom
Rowan - QUICKENING - (earth) unites fire and earth elements, bridges worlds, astral vision, protection, warding off evil spirits, averts storms and lightning (sudden disaster and struggle), brings peace, growth, fertility, rebirth; supports women’s autonomy, poetry, metalwork, geomancy, work with ley lines
Spruce, also Fir and Pine - TURNING - (water) battling evil, astral flight, cleansing, purification, creation, potion-making, witches brooms, transformation, shape shifting, wisdom
Walnut - ILLUMINATING - (air, fire) wind and weather magic, expansion, vortices, enhancement of the powers of breath, spells to conjure or avert lightning, hurricanes, or cyclones; teleportation, astral travel, knowledge, wisdom
Willow - WEAVING - (water) dowsing, divination, seership, rain-making, funerary rites, love, easing childbirth, fertility, healing, glamour, bewitchment, concealment, secrecy, germination, herb-magic, potion-making, melody and combination Yew - REMEMBERING - (air, earth) death, grieving, travel between worlds, ancestors, trance, seership, divination, healing, transformation, knowledge, eloquence, persuasion, mediumism, necromancy
Sources and further reading: Wandlore: The Art of Craft the Ultimate Magical Tool by Alferian Gwydion MacLir The Witch’s Wand: The Craft, Lore, and Magick of Wands & Staffs by Alferian Gwydion MacLir
Remus’ Wand
Remus Lupin’s wand was cypress, unicorn hair core, 10 1/4 inches
in the official wand wood meanings, Ollivander says, in regard to a great medieval Wandmaker, “he was always honoured to match a cypress wand, for he knew he was meeting a witch or wizard who would die a heroic death.”
Remus died a heroic death
idk if Rowling did this on purpose or not but damn that hurts
Different Types of Wood for Wands
Alder - Support, foundation, magical beginnings, fire and water magic
Apple - An apple wand is used for love magic, for rituals designed to establish contact with the Otherworld, for initiation, and for fertility rituals
Ash - The ash is a great conductor of magical force, traditionally used for witches’ broomsticks, druids’ wands, and cunning men’s staffs; the use of the ash wand connects the magician to all three realms, and when using an ash wand he or she acts within all three
Aspen - The aspen is used to invoke magical shields, for protection, and for healing
Bay - The bay tree is associated with the sun god and his powers of protection, healing, and divination; a bay wand may be used in all these rituals
Beech - The beech tree is associated with written knowledge; use a beech wand for spells and rituals concerning such knowledge, and in the consecration of written talismans
Birch - The birch is a tree of fertility, but is also a powerful magical force in rituals of purification and the banishment of negativity
Blackthorn - A blackthorn wand can be used for great good or great ill; it is a powerful magical protection, but also an instrument of cursing, used anciently to invoke the Wild Hunt to carry off the soul of an enemy
Bramble - Healing
Buckthorn - Healing Cypress-Rites for the dead, crossing the gates of the underworld
Elder - Rites of the crone goddess, rites of Samhain and winter, fairy contact, healing, and summoning spirits
Elm - Rites of the Goddess, feminine magic
Hawthorn - Protection, invoking a psychic shield, fairy contact, the rite of Beltane, and Goddess magic
Hazel - A good general-purpose wand, some say this is the most efficacious of all wands; a hazel wand is sometimes called the wishing rod
Holly - Rites of male magic, warrior magic, protection from negative forces Ivy-Binding magic, protection from psychic attack Juniper-For warding off the evil eye, exorcism
Linden - Feminine power and rites of the Goddess
Maple - Handfastings, rituals of celebration
Mistletoe - Rites of healing, luck, and good fortune
Oak - Rites of protection, general-purpose magic, Midsummer, divination, fairy contact, Otherworld magic
Pine - Gaining knowledge, fire magic, illumination
Poplar - Divination
Rowan - Protection, divination Service
Tree - Protection, or as an all-purpose wand
Spindle Tree - Spinning and weaving magic, creating magic, Goddess magic
Whitebeam - Earth magic
Willow - Bardic magic, healing, Goddess magic, feminine magic, rebirth, purification
Yew - Initiation, funeral rites
*Credit to original author - If anyone knows who it is please let me know
Someone please come gawk at Hererra we’re lonely
My 4 Wands :)
~Hermione Granger
~Harry Potter
~Professor Dumbledore
~Ron Weasley
& A 9 3/4 necklace
When I go to Orlando next year ..I’m planning to but Sirius Black , Snape & one more but I haven’t decided yet xD
We will ALWAYS remember you Alan Rickman <3 (Professor Snape)
We raise our wands in your memory !!
A Witch’s Wand
In witchcraft, a wand is used for directing energy in rituals and spells. It represents energy, power, and fertility, and is used as both air and fire element. Each wand can be as unique as the witch that wields it.
🌟 To Build:
Unlike brooms, wands require very little work put into their production, unless you want to. Some traditions call for a witch to find their wand in a fallen branch and forbid against breaking one off the tree. Carving is optional, as is the choice to embed it with crystals, wrap it with wire, tie with ribbon, carve sigils, etc.
A few possibilities for wands based on wood magic correspondences:
ALDER— Weather magic, necromancy, courage and passion
ALMOND— Wisdom, prosperity, love magic, healing
BIRCH— Intuition, creativity, love, healing, protection
ELDER— Healing, protection, banishment
HAZEL— Truth, divination
HOLLY— Purity, sun magic, strength, protection, luck
OAK— Protection, fertility, strength
REDWOOD— “King of trees”, strength, protection, creativity, enlightenment
ROWAN— Defense, creation, travel
WILLOW— Healing, protection, spirit work
YEW— Strength, change
🌟 Note:
However, please note, a wand does not need to be made out of wood. A wand can be found in many things and anything that is dear to you. A spoon, a pencil, a wrench, a plastic toy wand. If you can find magic within the instrument, it is a wand.
Wand Woods
Be sure to consider the magickal properties of the wood when crafting or choosing a wand. 🪄
Alder: Weather magick, necromancy, courage and passion
Almond: Wisdom, prosperity, love magick, healing
Ash: Protection, healing, prosperity
Birch: Intuition, creativity, love, healing, and protection
Cherry: Love, healing, new beginnings, chaos
Driftwood: Protection, energy, moon magick
Elder: Healing, protection, and banishment
Hazel: Truth, divination, wisdom, luck
Holly: Purity, sun magick, strength, protection, luck
Hawthorn: Protection, magick sacred to Fae and Dragons, baneful magick
Locust: Protection, baneful magick, power
Magnolia: Femininity, glamour magick, love, healing, relationship magick
Oak: Protection, fertility, strength, healing, luck
Pine: Healing, fertility, protection, exorcism, money
Poplar: The Crone, astral projection, divination, rebirth
Redwood: "King of Trees", strength, protection, creativity, enlightenment
Rowan: Defense, creation, travel, healing, divination
Willow: Healing, protection, spirit work
Yew: Strength, change, death, protection, immortality
Unconventional Wand Types
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What is lesser known about wands is that they can be made of, well, anything! If you want to know more about the magickal practicality of wands, check out my previous post here.
Crystal
While most would immediately think to go for a wooden wand, a highly flexible and volatile witch may choose a crystal wand for its rather intense and astute power. These wands are good for more experienced witches who need to enchant items quite often. Also good for the witch who channels their energy strongly; these not for the mild-tempered or the ill-willed, though, these wands will bite back if you're not careful! These wands are specialty items that tend to work best in an environment that reflects their natural energies. Clear quartz is your safe bet for general-purpose use. Plus, you can cleanse them like any other crystal!
Metal
These wands have a quite distinct sharp, fiery energy with a flair for banishing and warding. If you want some serious spiritual protection, go for a metal wand, especially if you are known to have a quite forthcoming and steadfast personality. Particularly, iron, brass and copper are your best bets for such practices. However, due to the nature of these wands, it may be hard to truly connect to it, so be prepared to spend time, meditate with this tool and cleanse it often with smoke.
Antler
Antler-made wands are born of nature and thrive with witches who serve it. Best for ritual and divination practices and works best in an outdoor setting. Antler wands share the properties of the animal of which it came: the Sacred Stag. This wand is best used for spells regarding courage, attainment, guidance and change. However, these wands can attune to you quite strongly and will strive to impress you, so be prepared to use it often. Once this wand clicks with you, you'll never want to use another ever again. Cleanse in nature, either in running water or with sand/clay dust from the earth.
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Tarot Aces
ꕥThe Tarot Aces are the raw energy or essence of the suit they represent. As yet unformed, they are the potential of the element at its purest.
✫Everything begins with a thought or an idea (suit of Swords and the element Air).
✫Wands/Fire breathes life into it, they give it energy.
✫Cups/Water provides sentience and aesthetics.
✫Pentacles/Earth completes the formation by providing solidity to the original idea.
In a Tarot reading, the Aces can be seen as a gift, as a positive influence in life.
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1. Ace of Wands = the creative energy * new project or creative endeavor * passionate union * new start * drive and ambition * you have a potential that is not yet manifested into the physical * raw energy for starting a new project * you can even be moving somewhere brand new * you may meet someone and feel definite chemistry * brings new job opportunities * attraction and the magnetism that brings two people together
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2. Ace of Cups = love in its purest sense * connection to the divine source * intuition * feelings and emotions * mind, body, and spirit in union * burst of new emotions that may be overflowing * intense emotional feeling such as the love for a new baby, romantic love, or the love you feel when you give a gift from the heart * crying over spilled milk or being upset by every little wrong in your life * strong possibility of a new love * the feelings of love, not the action that we take when we feel love
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3. Ace of Swords = creative idea; * the sword of truth * gaining clarity * a brilliant idea * justice * mental strength * manifestation of free will because you have a choice whether to use the swords for peace or for war * great time to start writing that book you’ve always wanted to write * start making plans for your future * a proposal is in the air - a business proposal or a marriage proposal
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4. Ace of Pentacles = beginning stages of something tangible * prosperity, growth * material abundance * improving finances or wealth * the potential to have money, to be in a physically appealing love affair, or to have very good health * conception and the start of pregnancy * good news of any kind coming your way such as an inheritance or a bonus check at work * possibility of a grounded romance
Tarot card designs, part 2. Feel free to let me know if you think I’ve completely messed any up. Major Arcana is coming soon.
These are now available to buy!!! https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/iconographic-tarot
My tiktok of late has been all the live actor Death Eaters at Universal studios...I think my phone found out I like Dark AU Harry Potter fics a bit too much *sigh* either way amazing work those people are doing there. Wish so bad I could go but alas I can at least fan art lol