~Wand Materials~
OakThe tree of Zeus/Jupiter, Hercules, Thor, and various other male gods. It stands for the flash of lightning, in addition to its other aspects: Endurance, triumph, strength, power, dominion, prosperity, sacrifice, guardian, liberator. Oak is a very male wood.
BirchThis wood has lunar influences, and is used in various cleansing rituals as well as driving out spirits of the old year. It basically stands for birth, healing, lunar workings, and protection.
HazelKnown as the 'tree of wisdom' and used for detecting guilt in murder and theft cases through the 17th century. It was also used in locating water and buried treasure. Its aspects include wisdom, intelligence, inspiration, and wrath.
AlderAlso known as the 'tree of fire' for its role in battling on the front lines in the legendary 'battle of the trees. It's thought to be the wood of witches, and is thought to be a token of resurrection. Its aspects include controlling the four winds, banishing and controlling elementals, and resurrection. It's also thought to be good for making magical dyes.
Ivy and VineBoth symbols of resurrection. Ivy was sacred to Osiris and Dionysus. Vine's aspects are faerie work, joy, exhilaration, wrath, and rebirth. Ivy's aspects are fidelity, constancy, love, and intoxication.
YewSacred to Hecate in both Greece and Italy, and thought to be associated with death. Not much is known about its aspects other than its use for destruction and death.
RowanAlso known as the 'tree of life'. It too is associated with witches, and is sometimes called 'Mountain Ash' or 'Quickbeam'. In addition to being used by druids to summon spirits into battle, it was also used for healing and protection against various magics such as lightning.
AshSacred to Poseidon and Woden, and called the 'father of trees'. Guardian spirits reside inside it and help absorb sickness. It's also associated with water and sea power. Aspects include seapower, karmic laws, magical potency, healing, and protection from drowning.
PineA symbol of life and immortality, and thought to represent a spiral of flame. It is considered to be a symbol of fire and thought to be soothing to be near.
WillowSacred to the dark aspects of the triple moon goddess (Hecate, Circe, Hera, and Persephone). Associated with water and giving dew and moisture, as well as the moon's female aspect. It is called the 'tree of enchantment', and its aspects are moon magic, psychic energy, healing, inspiration, and fertility.
ElderHas white flowers, and is thought to be an aspect of the 'White Goddess'. Its bark and flowers are therapeutic, and it is known as the 'crucifixion tree'. Its aspects are witchcraft, banishment, magical art, and waters of life.
HawthornAlso known as 'Whitethorn' or 'May Witch' and seen as unlucky. Its name was translated from the Irish 'Brehon Laws', meaning 'harm'. Because of its association with the month of May, May was thought to be a bad month for marriage. The crown of thorns is thought to be made of Hawthorn, and its aspects are purification, enforced chastity, male potency, and cleansing.
HollyMeans 'holy' and has several uses such as making dye and use as an aphrodisiac. Its aspects are holiness, consecration, material gain, physical revenge, and beauty.
White PoplarThe tree of the Autumn Equinox and old age. Heracles supposedly bound his head in triumph after killing the evil giant Cacus. Its aspects are hope, rebirth, and divinations.
AlmondDescribed as 'sweet and natural', and used for self-protection. Its aspects are fruitfulness and virginity.
AppleAssociated with fertility, opening the doorways into Faerie, spells to do with horses or travel, illumination, enhancing any skill, love, harmony, and beauty, harvest, and magick of divine, and shamanic madness or visionary experience.
CoconutAssociated with women and fertility. Its shell represents the womb, and its milk fertility. It is supposed to bring protection from negative psychic forces.
FigAndrogynous. The fruits suggest the feminine force, the leaves the masculine. It stands for balance.
MistletoeA healer with male and female qualities. It was sacred to Freyja, and as a result the Norse did not fight near mistletoe. This brought on the custom of hanging mistletoe to promote peace. Today it's a symbol of love and purity. Aspects are love, fertility, and sexual potency.
PalmThought to be durable and strong because it never changes its leaves. It is thought to help in rejuvenation, and its aspects are resurrection, and the cycle and matrix of life.
PeachThis wood is a symbol of marriage and is associated with happiness, amongst other things.
MapleA very male wood; associated with spells of sending and communication, binding, transmutations, creation, revolution, rebirth, healing, beauty, art, and abundance.
ElmConnected to elves and faeries, and associated with the following: healing, fertility, gardening, rebirth, destiny, wisdom, passage from one life (or phase of life) to another, metamorphosis, endurance.
PlumAssociated with setting and dissolving boundaries in addition to enhancing skill, overcoming barriers, keep people or disturbance at bay, evoke toughness and persistence, patience, protection, and healing, especially of the blood.
LilacSymbolizes growth and intellectual and spiritual prosperity. It's associated with union, attraction, enhancement of sexual pleasure, intellectual pursuits, imagination, information, mental concentration, travel, illusion, detection, and divination.
CedarSymbolizes the light in the darkness, and associated with the following: preservation of sacred places, forests, and groves, dedication of sacred space for worship and magick, bringing of light out of darkness, star magick of all kinds, and summoning of helpful spirits.
RedwoodAssociated with drawing down power from Heaven to Earth, spells of religious seeking and discipline, spells of mystical union with nature and wild animals, hunting magick, the martial arts as spiritual discipline, and spells for innovation and sudden revelation.
HickoryAssociated with abundance, wholeness, power, presence, command, discipline, acquisition, giving of gifts, and the finding of direction.
CherryAssociated with invocations and blessings of sacred fires, spells of finding, hunting, conflict, war, competition, sex, passion, communion with animals, unification of groups or tribes, and the amplification of magical will.
BeechOnce used to make writing tablets for runes. Associated with spells of information, especially seeking old wisdom; invocation of ancient guardians or Ancestors; research into old writings and the runes; magick of the Summer Solstice, culmination of desires; magick of victory.
AlderUsed in protection against others' emotions, especially bloodlust or 'warlike anger'. It's associated with protection against drowning and death; death curses and shielding against them; shielding against all ill-omens and destructive emotions; cultivation of the vision of inner and outer worlds; bridging of the above and below; preparation for conflict; shielding against unwanted intrusions from beyond.
EbonySaid to be a popular wood for wands, but 'not for the faint of heart'. It is thought to be useful for dark moon magic and banishing, dissolving, disapparating or casting off evil or outworn influences.
Phoenix Feather – Very Magical.
Dragon Heartstring – Hexes are a specialty of this core.
Unicorn Tail/Hair – Best for the pure of heart.
Leprechaun Hair – Somewhat temperamental to Non-Irish.
Demiguise Hair – Only the best for Transfiguration.
Hippogriff Talon – Excellent for Charm Work.
Runespoor Fang – Best for those who deal with Dark Magic.
Hair from the Mane of a Kelpie – Superb for all spells.
Chimaera Scale – Very rare, yet very powerful.
Ashwinder Ash – Casts the best protection charms.
Veela Hair
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