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Lightning
Struck Wood
Lightning struck wood is a powerful curio within
Hoodoo and Native American traditions and can
give a powerful boost to any magickal work.
Lightning struck wood is one of our Curio of the
Month Club curios.
Lightning struck wood is a powerful curio within
Hoodoo and Native American traditions. It is typically hard to come by,
but I am fortunate in that we live in the High Desert and on the side of
a mountain. When the monsoons come, the lightening is abundant and you
can see it strike the trees at the top of the mountains. We have ready
access to the trees that are lightning struck, and go and harvest some
of the wood and offer it for sale here on this site.
The temperature of lightning is around 30,000 degrees C or six times as hot as
the surface of the Sun. It is believed that sap is one reason trees are common
targets for lightening because sap is a better conductor of electricity than
air. When lightning strikes a tree, the energy is discharged through the tree
turning the sap into steam, which causes the bark to split apart.
Trees that are struck by lightning are not always burned and do not always
catch on fire.
Lightning struck wood can be added to any work to increase its power. It is
particularly good for commanding spells, sex spells, and spells of destruction,
which draw on its fire energy to destroy. Fire also has a dual nature to
transform; hence its ability to be used in positive works as well.
Our lightning struck wood is from juniper, cedar, and pine trees.
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NOTE TO SELF
Never try to burn the wood
taken from a tree that has
been
struck by lightning. To do so is to invite
bad spirits
and you will regret
doing it.
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According to Navajo beliefs, it is not wise to burn lightning struck wood as a
source of wood burning fuel as it can cause illness and bad luck. Lightening
struck wood is considered the property of the Spirit of Lightning and so it is
avoided.
Hoodoo Lore
Find a white oak that has been struck by lightning and get 9 splinters. Follow
the person suspected of laying the trick and put one splinter in each of nine of
their tracks. Wish, or pray, that if this person does indeed mean to do harm the
trick will turn back on him and cause him to die.
Lightning struck wood can be added to mojo bags and gris gris, and it can also
provide a serious boost to candle magick. There are two ways I am familiar with
to use it with candles. One way is to take splinters of it and stick it into the
candle wax. The second way is to grind some of it down to a powder, and sprinkle
the tops of glass encased candles or roll candles in the powder.
Lightning struck wood can also be used to enhance sexual nature, particularly
with men when combined with 2 High John the Conqueror roots and a pair of
lodestones in a mojo bag.
Chinese Folklore:
Lightning Struck Wood and the Lingqijing
The title consists of three characters – ling means 'magic' or 'spirit'
or 'supernatural', while jing is simply 'book' or 'classic'.
Traditionally, the disks are made from wood taken from a tree that has been
struck by lightning, and prepared over a 60-day cycle in a rather involved
ritualistic process, with the characters being inscribed with a cutting tool and
then filled with red pigment. Lightning-struck wood would indeed be ideal, since
lightning is powerfully yang and wood is powerfully yin, and in Chinese
mysticism lightning-struck wood is regarded as good for expelling ghosts and
malevolent spirits (2003-2006-2011, Yijing Dao).
To consult the Lingqijing you need 12 flat wooden disks. Four are inscribed with
the Chinese character shang, meaning nothing more complicated than 'above', four
with zhong, 'middle', and four with xia, 'below', as shown in the trigraph
diagrams illustrating this article. The backs are left plain. You throw the 12
disks to the ground all at once and arrange the fallen disks into a trigraph of
three rows, according to their inscribed positions, of which there are 125
possible combinations. (The term 'trigraph' was brought into usage by Ralph D Sawyer, to avoid
confusion with the three-line figures associated with the Yijing, the
'trigrams'.)
Because we have an abundance of this rare and powerful item, we can offer
lightening struck wood at
very reasonable prices. We offer this curio for sale in two sizes.
References
http://www.biroco.com/yijing/lingqijing.htm
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2x3 inch bag of Lightening Struck Wood
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Lightening
Struck Wood
Lightening struck wood is a powerful curio within Hoodoo and Native American
traditions. It is typically hard to come by, but I am fortunate in that we live
in the High Desert and on the side of a mountain. When the monsoons come, the
lightening is abundant and you can see it strike the trees at the top of the
mountains. We have ready access to the trees that are lightening struck, and go
and harvest some of the wood and offer it for sale here on this site.
The temperature of lightening is around 30,000 degrees C or six times as hot as
the surface of the Sun. It is believed that sap is one reason trees are common
targets for lightening because sap is a better conductor of electricity than
air. When lightening strikes a tree, the energy is discharged through the tree
turning the sap into steam, which causes the bark to split apart.
Trees that are struck by lightening are not always burned and do not always
catch on fire.
Lightening struck wood can be added to any work to increase its power. It is
particularly good for commanding spells, sex spells, and spells of destruction,
which draw on its fire energy to destroy. Fire also has a dual nature to
transform; hence its ability to be used in positive works as well.
Our lightening struck wood is from juniper, cedar, and pine trees.
According to Navajo beliefs, it is not wise to burn lightening struck wood as a
source of wood burning fuel as it can cause illness and bad luck. Lightening
struck wood is considered the property of the Spirit of Lightening and so it is
avoided.
Because we have an abundance of this rare and powerful item, we can offer it at
very reasonable prices. We offer this curio for sale in two sizes.
2 x 3 inch generously stuffed bag of lightening struck wood.
$9.95
4 x 6 inch generously stuffed bag of lightening struck wood
$19.95
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