For Wiccans and Pagans: What ritual tools are most sacred to you?

Answer 1

My drinking horn, and a small carving of Freyr. I made both myself.

Answer 2

The one I use the most are probably my Tarot deck (the Crowley/Harris Thoth deck) and my crystal ball. I got this really cool crystal ball at the Sirius Rising festival a few years ago -- reconstituted quartz, which I consecrated under a full moon in the labyrinth at Brushwood, and keep wrapped in purple silk. Scrying has come to be central to my ritual practice, so I get a lot of use out of this and my other scrying devices. I also have a few wands and several pantacles, all of which I made myself.

I believe very strongly in the sacredness of the tool. When you, the magician or witch, makes the tool yourself, you put your intent into the tool. When you consecrate it, you move it out of the mundane world into the sacred. After that, it should be treated special, kept in a special place, not used for any other purpose. Yes, the Magick comes from you, but also from the Gods. The tools act as focal points, repositories, and their energy builds and becomes more specific over time and use.

Answer 3

I have many tools I have collected over the last 40 years or so. However, I don't think of any of them as being sacred. They are just tools. I know they have absorbed a lot of my personal power and many of them will only answer to me but that doesn't make them sacred. That makes them personal tools.

A Witch's/Wiccan's/ Pagan's tools are not much different from the tools used by any craftsman. The way you hold them, the way you know each tool's weight, the manner in which you are confident they will perform, the limit of each tool's capibilities are all things that make the tools yours and yours alone. But that doesn't make them sacred. It only makes them very good tools.

For me it is not the wand nor the staff that is sacred, but the tree each was fashioned from. It's not copper nor the silver nor the gold tools that are sacred. Along with the metals themselves, it's the loving labor and talent it took to create the tools that I think of as being sacred.

I know some Pagans think of their tools as being sacred but I cannot wrap my mind around the idea. It is, however, OK to believe they are if it fits with your personal spirituality.

El Bee,
Priest of Yarrow

Answer 4

I love all my ritual tools as if they where my children. The one that is most sacred to me would have to be the amulet that we all wear when you become a member of the council.

Answer 5

My athame, without a doubt. It is the most personal ritual tool I own, and the one that I use to concentrate and direct energy in circle.

Answer 6

The oath ring of my Kindred. Anything sworn while touching that is binding and considered very dishonorable or weak if not carried through with.

I hand carved it from a tree that fell next to my house over Thanksgiving - cedar. I chipped and carved by hand and then wood burned the futhark (runes) and our Kindred bind rune on it, along with oak leaves and acorns - which is our Kindred symbol.

Answer 7

Me.
Heathens don't really have a lot of "tools" and the ones I use are everyday things, like my offering bowl. It's a simple green ceramic bowl that I also keep my wights apples in. I'm practical, what can I say?

Answer 8

My athame is certainly my most used, most useful, and most personal tool. I don't think I would describe it as sacred, however. Tools are just tools.

Answer 9

No tools, just my own mind, I do not need material things for my beliefs.

Anything I need is always around me, I believe in the planet and the earth is all around us so i am always in my church so to speak.

Answer 10

for me, the tools have no power. they are merely props to help me focus my intent. i rarely consecrate tools, because the power comes from my mind and the universe, not the tool.