The Grimoire Day 15

Day 15

And another couple of things I use when I do stuff.


CT State Quarters - Because they have a big oak tree on the back (you can see the tree, or, at least you could in Ashford, where I used to live back in my college days - I think it is called the Ashford Oak, a contemporary of the Charter Oak which was the reason for the choice of picture).  Seems a little weird, since finding actual oak trees in Connecticut  is literally as easy as falling off a log (the log was probably from an oak tree), but there they are.  I try to use them for significant purchases (or Thursday night Taco Bell).  If I need to actually buy something as part of a Quest, I try to find at least one of those quarters to use as payment. 

TV Glass Shard - Not a very pointy one or terribly sharp, but it is neat glass, and you can see cool reflections and refractions with it.  This is one of my actual Tools (most of the tools I use are ad hoc, because that's how I roll).  I hate to use the term athame (partly because I have never gotten a straight answer on how to pronounce it), but that's what it gets used for.  To translate: you have a knife you can use in Neopagan traditions to metaphorically cut things - cut a metaphysical connection between two things, cut the area you are it from the rest of the surroundings so you can work undisturbed, hack through thorns and bindings if you're rolling in some otherworld, that sort of thing. 

Actually a little more one tools - Again, if it pleases you to get or make sexy, specific tools, by all means.  It's particularly good if you are starting out and you want to make sure your attention doesn't wander from the Task at Hand.  Cups, Knives, Wands, Staves, Altar-things, Crystals, etc - there are a lot of tools that I picked up from Neopagan days, but the ones I kept were the glass shard (which I found behind the building where I work on a walk one day) and my broom - that because I only have the one.  Cups I find useful, but whatever cup is handy works for me (which probably says some alarming things about me, if you look at it a certain way).  Altar decorations are pretty, but they are decorations and your cats are going to wreck or lose them on you.  Wands, to me, kind of look silly, and if you have a broom, you have a staff that has a useful thing on the end that lets you Clean All the Things.