The Making of a Talisman

It is highly recommended that you create a Talisman with great care and intent. To create your Talisman, go out into nature. Have in your mind your intention and ask Spirit to help you. Take a walk and start to collect sticks, grass, flowers, leaves, and other objects that you can put together into a Talisman. You may wish to create a Y-shaped talisman; one side representing release and the other side representing the love and healing that will be brought in. Make sure that everything on your Talisman is burnable. We will dance these and throw them into our sacred fire. The sacred smoke will carry your intention out into the universe.

As you construct your Talisman, bring your total intention and concentration into the fact that the Talisman object is not what is important; the power and the intention that you put into it is. Do this in silence, in a place where you will not be disturbed and where you can concentrate. Do not share with family or friends what you are intending. Many of us have the habit of breaking the power of the moment by talking about it. You want the power to build inside of this Talisman until you are ready to burn it. When not praying with it keep it covered, preferably in red cloth. You may wish to keep the Talisman with you for a few days, even sleep with it by your bedside. I suggest that you meditate with it, forming a strong energy of intention until you feel that the Talisman “becomes your intention." Watch for magic, the Talisman can actually start looking different as it shape-shifts into your intentions.