Consecrating your tools.
Some Witches call this "empowerment."


There are three basic reasons for this process:


1. It removes any negative residue that has attached itself to the item or place.

2. It melds your positive energy with that of the Universe to bring divinity.

3. It instills this energy into the object or place for positive purposes.




How To Consecrate Your Tools



*Light the candles. Set the incense smoking. Cast the Circle of Stones.
Place the tool on the pentacle, or a plate of salt. Touch it with the
point of the magic knife and say:

            I consecrate you, O knife of steel (or wand of wood,etc.) to cleanse
            and purify you to serve me within the Circle of Stones. In the
            names of the Mother Goddess and Father God, you are consecrated.


*Send projective energy into the tool, cleansing it of all negativity
and past associations. Now pick it up and sprinkle with salt, pass
through the incense smoke, through the candle flame and sprinkle
with water, calling upon the Spirits of the Stones to consecrate it.
Then hold the tool to the sky, saying:

            I charge you by the Old Ones: By the omnipotent Goddess and
            God: By the virtues of the Sun, Moon and Stars: By the powers of
            the Earth, Air, Fire and Water, that I shall obtain all that I desire
            through you. Charge this by your power, Old Ones!


*The tool should immediately be put to use to strengthen and bind
the consecration. For example, the athame can be used to consecrate
another tool; a wand to invoke the Goddess; the pentacle to act as a
resting place for a tool during its consecration.