About Altar Tools And How To Make Your Own
Making your own Ceremonial & Holiday Gifts
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About Altar Tools
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Some Off Site Crafts Links
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| The Altar | Amulets, Talismans & Sachets* |
| Making Your Own Broom | Make a Dream Pillow - Sandford's Net* |
| How to make your own Wand | How
to make Herbal Incense from Grandpa's General Store* |
| The Athame - Ritual Blade | Magic
Spell Candle Generator from Grandpa's General Store* |
| The Cauldron | Witch Crafts - Ancient Heritage Magazine - monthly article* |
| The Chalice | Make
Your Own Dreamcather - From Sandford's Net* |
| Ceremonial Clothing | Huge Assortment of Craft Links by Category* |
| The Paton/Altar Pentacle | Crafts From Natural Materials* |
| The Bell | Make
your own: Bessom, Worry Dolls, Mojo Bags Altar Bowl ... and more!* |
| Have a picture of YOUR altar?? We'd like to see it and share it
with other visitors to the Healing Healers website! You can submit a .jpg or .gif here. |
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The Altar
The altar can be made of any material, but wood, stone or metal are best. Your altar represents the earth and is a means of connecting your power and magic to it. The altar sits exactly in the center of the circle facing east, the direction of the rising sun. The altar should be covered with an altar cloth. The color depends on the type of spell work you are performing. A washable white or black covering can be used for most any type of spell work. |
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| The Broom (or besom) is still used in modern
practice today by sweeping the sacred area (inside or out) where
a rite may be performed. This sweeping is more than just a physical
cleansing; in fact, the bristles don't even need to touch the ground.
While sweeping, visualize the broom sweeping out the astral buildup
that occurs where humans live. To make your own broom- Try the old magical formula of an ash staff, birch twigs and a willow binding. The ash is protective, the birch purifying, and the willow is sacred to the Goddess. A tiny broom of pine needs can also be used. - Scott Cunningham Element: Water Spells: Love and psychic workings Purification and Protection How to make your own Besom - from Stega on Sanford's Net |
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ATHAME: (pronounced "a-thAM-ay"
or "ATH-a-may")
Note: Do a search at Ritual Blades* for Athame for a full list of suitable blades, starting at $4.95 and up. Top 
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| The Bell It has been believed for centuries to possess a magical and/or spiritual power. They are associated with the divine: their sound is symbolic of creative power, their shape a symbol of the female force and celestial vault. |
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| Ceremonial Cloaks, Period
Clothing The clothing, i.e.robes, capes, jewelry and other items, used in ritual work are usually dedicated to only these uses, and not used for every day wear. Wearing them helps set the mood when preparing for ritual work. You will also find that some traditions, or paths, wear ceremonial clothing that represents their ethnic backgrounds. If you're handy with needle and thread, or have a sewing machine, you can add magickal symbols to your garments. Carefully transfer a design using carbon paper onto your material, and then go over it with a washable pattern marker pencil so you can see the design better, and stitch away!
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Robe Color Associations: YELLOW: Divination. PURPLE: Divine Power, Deepen Spiritual Awareness. Magicians often use purple. BLUE: Psychic Awareness, often worn by healers. GREEN: Herbalists & Maqickal Ecologists/Naturalists. BROWN: worn by those who work with animals/totems ORANGE or RED: For Sabbats, Protective Rites or when attuning with the God in his solar aspect. BLACK: Black is the absence of color, and its protective hue
represents the night/universe. It also represents a lack of falsehood.
When a Wiccan wears a black robe, they are symbolically donning
the blackness of outer space, the ultimate source of divine energy. |
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If you own a wood burning tool, this might be a fun project: Take and enlarge a pentagram on a zerox machine to fit your smooth topped slab of wood. (Nice circular slabs can be had at good craft stores, just seal and stain them either before or after you burn in the design.) Using carbon paper, trace the pentagram onto the surface. Grab a ruler to help keep the lines straight as you trace. Now use your burn pen to etch in the design! Another possibility: There are several glass paint products out that comes in small bottles. It looks like Stained Glass when it dries. (You can see some products and what the results look like at Glass Crafters). I've bought circular glass and a cross stitch hoop to put around the glass circle when it's done to hang them in windows or lay flat on table tops. The hoop also protects fingers from the sharp edge. I then enlarged a design and taped it to the top of a work table, and carefully positioned the glass on top of it. Using the liquid "lead" I outlined the design, making sure each area that would hold color was fully traced with no outlet into the next color area, and let it fully dry for two days. I then went in with the colors and filled those in, being careful to break up any "bubbles". A toothpick or short wooden skewer is quite handy for that part! Work slow, don't rush things, and don't try to "fix" an area once it starts to set up! (If you really need to redo an area, let it fully dry and use an exacto knife to carefully trim and lift out the area. Once dry, this is basically a transparent "rubber" material). Liquid Stained glass is essentially a "paint by number" project, and I think you'll be delighted with the results! |
Grandpa's
isn't just about products! They have an extensive resource area, jammed
with articles on just about everything Pagan you can think of!
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 one of the sources used for clipart on this site! |
| My Witch Shop |
| Arcane Lore - extensive collection of period clothing |
| Medieval Body Armor |
| Enigmatic Creations - huge selection of robes |
| Hollywood Studios Costumes |
| Earth Spirit Emporium |
| Wiccan Supply Store |
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