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Creating Prayer Sticks
by Tau Malachi Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 12:14 pm

Creating Prayer Sticks

To create a prayer stick to go out and gather a stick (or sticks) in a sacred manner with the
intention of creating a prayer stick (or sticks) – then once you have your stick, you smudge it or
purify it in one way or another, and then you can decorate it with sacred intention (whatever is
used to decorate it ought to be gathered in a sacred manner and purified too.)

You can decorate it with colored string or wool yarn, or some colored cloth, or you may tie onto it
any combinations of powers or medicines, like feathers, fur, bone, teeth, shells, stones, sacred
herbs, and such; sometimes prayer scrolls will be bound to them – really your creative inspiration is
the only limit to what may be done.

Now, before you begin to make a prayer stick you smudge or purify yourself and you center
yourself, and you pray that the Divine Mother and Holy Spirit empowers and guides you as you
make the prayer stick, whether a prayer for yourself or someone else; then, you make it with
prayer and meditation, holding the conscious intention of the prayer in mind, imbuing it, as it
were, with the full energy of your prayer – with full kavvanah and devekut engage in your creative
expression.

When it is made, hold it, and speak the prayer intended, and pray for all who have the same need,
that the need for which you are praying might be fulfilled for one and all alike. Envision the energy
of the prayer as light going into the prayer stick, and perhaps use a corresponding chant of Ha-
Shem, The Name.

Take your prayer stick to a secluded place in nature, make and offering in that place and invoke
the Powers, and prayer your prayer – then, as a talisman of your prayer, stick your prayer stick in
the ground and leave it their, abiding in faith as you leave, without any shadow of doubt, that your
prayer-invocation will be fulfilled.

Alternatively, prayer sticks can be placed in your garden, or in potted plants on your balcony, or
potted plants near windows – they can also be put in a vase on your shrine or altar within your
home. Ideally at some point, though, we will take them out into nature where the Sacred Winds
may carry our prayers and the Powers act upon them through acting upon our prayer stick, our
sacred talisman.

Prayer sticks are powerful physical talismans of our prayers and invocations and many wonders can
and do transpire when we make and use them; we make them when we feel more energy needs to
be set into a prayer.

*The art of making prayer sticks can be refined by using woods that correspond to the prayer
intended; likewise, prayer sticks can also be further charged and empowered by use of the Sacred
Circle when inspired. A prayer stick is imbued with the energy of one single prayer alone, never
more than one.

May all our prayers be answered according to the will of Ha-Shem; amen.

Blessings & shalom!

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