DIY: Simple Ogham Staves Tutorial

Ogham sets are available on eBay or Etsy shops, but I think it’s more powerful to make them ourselves. Traditionally, ogham staves are made from wood, and preferably from the wood associated with the ogham letter.

If, like me, you don’t have the possibility to find all 20 types of wood to makes your ogham staves, you still can use the same type of wood for all of them (some even uses rocks but I prefer my ogham sets to be from wood). Below, I made a very simple ogham staves tutorial, and I used pictures from my first project.

1. You’ll need twenty identical staves. For my first set, I used large wood craft sticks.
2. I made myself a template to make the wood burning easier.
3. Place the template on the stick.
4. With a pencil, decide and mark where the lines will be drawn .
5. Use a wood burner (or a permanent marker) to finish the ogham symbol.
6. Repeat! Now, you have you very fist ogham set!

As you can see on the last picture, I’ve added the ogham name on the right to easily identify them. When you are new to the ogham divination system, this can be very useful to you. Some will also add some omen description on the back, or draw the leaves or the three associated with the ogham name. Use your creativity and make the set you’ll like to use!

For my second set, I used simple wood dowels. There are still the ones that I currently use, and I might add a wood finish in the future, to make them look darker or older. I hope you found this quick tutorial interesting. Please, let me know if you have any questions!

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4 thoughts on “ DIY: Simple Ogham Staves Tutorial ”

Very simple, very nice, very non-commercial. (I once met someone who used a stainless steel tea-ball as a dowsing pendulum, and it worked. ) Bless the ground you walk on, friend. Like Liked by 1 person

Thank you!! Oh yeah, pendulum can be made of anything. I like buying stuff, but I do enjoy making my own spiritual/divination tools. My most used Tarot Deck is my own made ” Tavern Edition” RWS. Like Like

That’s real Craft. I hand drew my own Rune card deck years ago, based upon a book whose author I cannot remember. It may have been Michael Howard. I think it had 27 runes (?), but it served its purpose. It’s good to avoid ‘puritanism’, which is why I respect ‘Kitchen Wicca’, and love your ice-lolly stick Ogham staves (I like your template, by the way). I used to do do rune readings by casting a handful of toothpicks and seeing what patterns suggested themselves in the mess of sticks. Often they would tell a better story than a ‘standard’ runecasting using stones. I suppose that it would work for Ogham patterns equally as well. I’ve pretty well given up on Runes. There’s too much conflicting information. And I randomly rediscovered the Ogham, which is how I found your site. Good Work. Like Liked by 1 person

I hear about Rune casting… I have lots of Rune sets, but I never connected to them. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to cast Runes and understand the message without referring to my books. I still prefer cards (Tarot, Lenormand, Kipper, Etteilla…) and Ogham. I also studied Geomancy and I Ching a lot this year, practiced it with good Ol’ Yarrow sticks, but it’s not a method I’ll revisit often. It’s meditative, and very introspective, but I don’t get the divinatory meaning that I often seek with Tarot or Ogham. Now, I’m slightly trying to learn and practice the Throwing the Bones and the Cowrie-Shell Divination. I feel attracted to Voodoo and I want to deepen my understanding of this side of the Craft. It’s a fun ride, and this is what I love about Paganism. We can explore whatever path we want to learn more about, no restriction! Thanks again for the comments, I’m happy that my website could help you in some way! If you ever have a webpage, blog or a site, let me know! I would like to see it! Blessed be! Like Like