Witches’ Tools: Creating a Personal Talisman

Talismans are empowered objects created and used to amplify a witches powers or their focus. Whether used to focus on balancing out a problem, protection from harm, drawing luck, drawing love or for another reason, a talisman is created with a specific purpose in mind.

When creating a personal talisman:

1. You need to decide what purpose you wish the talisman to serve.
2. You need to decide what form you wish the talisman to take.
3. You need to decide what medium(s) you wish to use.
4. Remember that multiple mediums may be used in creating a talisman.

Whereas some people like to use wood, others may favor metals, stones, feathers, a tiny bottle filled with a charged oil and herbs, or a spell written on a piece of parchment, with either Dragon’s Blood, Dove’s Blood, or Lampblack ink depending upon the needs for the spell, inscribed clay, etc. The medium does not matter as much as the empowering of the individual talisman, although I will say that a talisman made, which incorporates more than one natural element in its construction that have power in their own right, will make a talisman more powerful in the end than simply empowerment by the witch creating it. You may even choose to invite a specific deity or deities to bless the item with their power in addition to your own.

Let us say we want to create a talisman to bring peaceful relations in our working life. We might choose to make a charm bracelet. First, we would need to determine which metals, stones, woods, figurines; etc. would best represent this purpose. Choose any deities and representations of their power/strength we want to add.

Gathering the items would be the next logical step, then once gathered, they would need to be consecrated and charged individually, and then the bracelet would be created and aligned in a manner to please the individual witch. After building it to the witch’s satisfaction, it needs to be charged as a completed whole and consecrated to the purpose or intent for which it was created.

When the items is worn, it not only allows the witch to link to the natural power of the items in the talisman, harness the power they have imbued the talisman with but also serves as a focal point in keeping the witch on task throughout the time the talismans is worn. Often times, just the act of wearing a talisman will help a witch to remember to focus on the purpose of the talisman throughout the day while attached to them. They will often touch the item, feel it moving about, and focus on it, which helps to reinforce the magickal intent of the talisman. As they touch it, feel it moving about, they remember the focus of the magick and their focus narrows to the intent, which causes the intent to become stronger each time they refocus. The talisman helps access the law of attraction when a witch focuses on the intent, which helps to attract the very thing the intent was created to bring into fruition

In constructing a talisman, there will normally be one major piece of the talisman used as a primary focus. While you may choose a specific metal for the bracelet, target colored ribbons, or other various items, there is one piece that will hold the greatest focus. You may decide to use a medallion of wood specific to your needs. On the medallion, you can carve or burn your personal sigil, or make the focal point from clay and inscribe a rune related to the intent, use metal and stamp it with your favorite glyph to focus your power and symbolize the intent of the talisman. Buy a tiny bottle and fill it with charged spell oil that you can access and use to anoint yourself or an item, or a charged essential oil, even a tiny piece of parchment with a spell, sigil, rune, etc. You may target the intent based on a certain color of beads or ribbon used, or choosing certain gemstones based on their magickal properties. Help the magick along by closing the tiny piece of parchment with drippings from a spell candle of a certain color, which was anointed and inscribed to your purpose. The crafting of your talisman is limited only to your own imagination.

You may decide to make different talismans for different days of the week if you choose, focusing on work life one day, home life another, personal prosperity on a third, etc. These are very handy tools to use and they become stronger, more potent tools with every use, so why limit yourself to creating just one talisman? Creating them as gifts is a lovely way of letting someone know how much you care about them.

Witches’ Tools: Elemental Stones Correspondence

In the practice of magick, many witches prefer to use various types of magick to help strengthen their spell work. While elemental magick is itself is a powerful natural way to practice magick all on its own, some witches will also incorporate various portions of it into their practice of other types of spell work. Here is a small correspondence that helps to identify the types of stones associated with the elements.

Air/Mascuine	Amethyst, aquamarine, azurite, beryl, blue lace agate, chryoprase, citrine, hematite, lazurite, moldovite, opal, pearl, snow quartz, sapphire, silver, blue topaz, blue tourmaline, blue turquoise, vivianite
Earth/Feminine	Apache tear, apatite, aventurine, boji stone, calcite (orange), carnelian, diamond, flourite, granite, iron pyrite, jade, jet, malachite, morion, petrified wood, rutilated quartz, ruby, sugalite, tiger eye, tourmaline
Fire/Masculine	Amber, beryl, bloodstone, calcite (gold), carnelian, citrine, coal diamond, flint, geodes, gold, red jasper, lorimar, obsidian, peridot, pumice, smoky quartz, rhodachrosite, sunstone, yellow topaz
Water/Feminine	Alexandrite, beryl, green calcite, chalcedony, diamond, emerald, jacinth, jade, jet, kunzite, lapis lazuli, magnetite, moonstone, obsidian, onyx, opal, peridot, rose quartz, rock crystal, sardonyx, blue topaz, pink tourmaline, green turquoise, zircon