yep, modern foolishness
to make a wand, go find a budded tree branch that has recently come off a tree - neither should it be on the tree nor should it be dead or rotten - keep looking til you find it - it may take some time - choose the type of tree sacred to your pantheon - the proper one should call to you
once you find it, bury it in a small box of herbs sacred to your path (do your own research and fresh gathering - if they do not grow here, or now, wait and do the research on what does grow here that is like it) for some sacred number of days, and lay it in direct moonlight for some sacred number of nights depending on your path (again, see how long it should be according to your pantheon's affiliation with particular numbers) - the base number is usually 7, so if you are clueless start with 7 days and 7 nights, usually around the full moon - charging and recharging the wand works best with a pantheon mini-altar set up around the wand to support the vibrations induced are in accordance with your pantheon- these items too will get charged with the moon energy
i get a smile remembering the nights of steeping my first wand in moonlight, the window opened just high enough to let in the light in directly - the smell of the herbs that bedded the wand as is absorbed the phase-shifted energy of the sun that was coming off the moon- the night sounds
remember that no wand will make fireworks, or make you an instant witch, and that all magical work is subtle - the wand is just a tank of moon-juice, and your 5 senses are pretty much useless in seeing it perform its task
the more work you personally do in making and powering your wand, the more it it respond to you
bought stuff is useless imo since you spend forever cleansing and realigning it to you, but ymmv
-es
attached is a story about such a wand
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