My First Tool Consecration Ritual
This little ritual is only about 32 years old now. It is what I wrote to consecrate the very first set of tools I ever used in the Craft. Most of these tools, by the way, I still have and still use in Circle. Reading the ritual, however, is a lot of fun. From then to now - what a long road it's been!
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 your athame (or your projective hand) and say:
I consecrate you, O Athame 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 Goddess and her Consort, I consecrate you.
Send projective energy into the tool, cleansing it of all negativity and past associations. Now pick it up and sprinkle with salt, pass it 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 need 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.