QUOTE(gavriel @ Sep 5 2005, 03:37 AM)
Dont forget Stangs. These are staves with a forked top. They can be used like a staff but they serve the addes purpose of being used as an actual altar by themselves. You plant them in the ground and hang ritual things on the forks and use this as the center point of your circle. i have one with an antler on top as the fork, great for when you have to hike a long way and you want to travel light.
I make all my tools, my first one was a Stang, because it is such a good all around tool. It is your athame, wand and alter, all in one convenient tool.
For casting I made an athame, and for working spells and for meditation I use a wand. My sunsign is Cancer so I am ruled by the moon more than most. I made my wand out of a Willow branch from the first home my wife and I had together, I then carved the tip so it could hold this triangular moonstone I had. The wand has 3 moonstones attached with silver wire and pine sap, to the willow wood. All these materials are moon materials so this wand has much signifagance for me.
Having a Stang for nature and a Wand for home is the way to go IMO.