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
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
Rowan - Protection, divination Service
Tree - Protection, or as an all-purpose wand
Spindle Tree - Spinning and weaving magic, creating magic, Goddess magic
Willow - Bardic magic, healing, Goddess magic, feminine magic, rebirth, purification
Yew - Initiation, funeral rites
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