General Question..

What do you see as the difference between Power tools and Power objects??


I have found objects, stones, bits of wood over years that just have something about them that comes out of them,, and too me they are power objects, and can have a use or be an aid magically.

But does that make them a tool, if you work without tools but put objects on an altar are they becoming tools by association??

I have collected magical tools as antiques, and now consider them to be objects as I don't use them as tools, but some of them could have an ornamental value in ritual to aid my workings.

The way I see it is anything you utilise in magical use, no matter what it is, becomes a tool.

Tools are male, Objects are female.

That's a joke, people. Don't go taking it serious!

A Martian joke?

Yes, for people who eat Mars bars.

Surely it's about the objects ajenda. why it picked you? why it made you pick it up? Where you put it? what you find yourself doing with it? what level of communication the object wants or has? What it is doing for you/your space etc etc

I don't get that an object has an agenda. If you pick up an object it's because something in you is attracted to it. I did use to go with ideas like crystals wanting you to have them for a purpose, but now I can't see the use of thinking like that, because whatever purpose I think the crystal has, is in effect the same as the purpose I have for it.

If I save the wishbone from a chicken, for example, it's because I have cultural associations with wishbones that give it purpose for me. I hardly think the dead chicken has any say in the matter. Likewise the dragonfly cases, the cast-offs that I pick up. Does the dragonfly know or care?

I would say the difference is whether one creates or looks for some object specifically for some 'task', or whether one just collects things that catch their eye.

If I find something unusual that interests me, I may pop it into my gris-gris or just put it on a shelf to enjoy it's beauty or interest. It is not a requirement of that which I fancy that it fit into some kind of 'magical' paradigm.

Marto