Wood & Crystals for Wands
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I wanted to make this as organized as I could for you and of course for others. I hope you don’t mind!
Please keep in mind that this list is made up of information from my own research and studies as well as personal opinion. You can use any wood or crystals for your own wand. Please don’t feel like you have to stick to my list!
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Traditional Woods & Their Properties:
Oak: Protection, Fertility, Strength, Endurance, & Male Energy
Alder: Alder represents the elements Earth, Water and fire. Magical Strengths: Weather magic, controlling the elements, protecting the dead.
Birch: Perfect wood for yin energy. Magical Strengths: intuition, creativity, love, healing, protection
Rowan: The Tree of Life. Magical Strengths: Healing, extra power, protection, enhanced psychic powers.
Hazel: The Tree of Wisdom and Wishes. Hazel has always been a popular choice among witches for wand making. Magical Strengths: Wisdom, Truth, enlightenment, wishes
Yew: The Tree of Death. A tree sacred to the druids. Magical Strengths: Inner strength, see into other worlds, immortality, change
Willow: The Tree of the Moon Goddess. The berries on this tree are quite tasty, but the rest of the tree is poisonous. Magical Strengths: Healing, Protection, summoning spirits
Holly: The holy tree. Tree of the Sun God. Magical Strengths: luck, strength, protection, luck
Manzanita: The element of fire. Magical Strengths: Seduction, enticing, nurturing, force against enemies, guiding light, protection
Almond: Almond was once thought to be the ideal wood for wands and staffs. Magical Strengths: Wisdom, Prosperity, Healing and true love magic
Sequoia (Redwood): The king of trees. Wisdom, strength, protection, creativity, enlightenment.
Wand Crystals & Their Properties:
Angelite (also called Anhydrite): Angelite is a stone of heightened awareness, with special focus on peace and brotherhood. It gives protection in the environment around your body.
Amethyst: Amethyst enhances spiritual awareness and spiritual wisdom, promoting a higher state of consciousness. Amethyst clears and repairs holes in the aura and draws in Divine energy, as well as aligning and fostering cooperation between the energy bodies.
Tourmaline: Tourmaline is very grounding and helpful in releasing stress and tension. They can bring inspiration from higher realms into the chakras for processing within the body. All Tourmaline is thought to balance yin and yang energies, as well as the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
Pyrite: Pyrite is a very protective stone, shielding the user from negative energy of all kinds. Pyrite blocks energy leaks and mends auric tears.
Hematite: Hematite helps to absorb negative energy and calms in times of stress or worry. Hematite is a very protective stone and is great to carry to help you stay grounded in many situations. Hematite is also good for working with the Root Chakra, helping to transform negative energies into a more positive vibration.
Jet: Jet is an excellent stone for use in magic rituals to draw and channel the elements of the earth’s energies in a desired direction.
Clear Quartz: Clear Quartz is known as the stone of power and amplifies any energy or intention. Clear Quartz protects against negativity, attunes to your higher self, and relieves pain.
Obsidian: Obsidian draws hidden imbalances to the surface and releases them. The blackness of this stone enhances the ability to reach your inner self. It is one of the earliest known stones to be used for scrying (seeing into the future). Plus it is also extremely good for protection.
Smokey Quartz: Smokey Quartz is a grounding stone that transmutes negative energies and facilitates your ability to get things done in the practical world.
Labradorite: Labradorite is a power stone, allowing you to see through illusions and determine the actual form of your dreams and goals.
Agate: Agates carry a quiet energy that works on the subtle bodies, and are great for achieving stability and balance in many aspects of one’s life. Although they work very slowly and deliberately, this gentle nature of Agate helps them to have a lasting impact.
Aragonaite: Blue Aragonite is a stone that calms emotions and heightens communication, perception, and psychic ability. Brown Aragonite is a grounding stone. It is often used to center and ground physical energies and is very useful during stressful times
Kyanite: Kyanite transmits and amplifies high-frequency energies, making it a great stone for meditation. Kyanite brings a calming, tranquilizing energy to the body. Kyanite clears and calms you in preparation for meditation, and assists in receiving intuitive and psychic thoughts, as well as dream recall.
