If possible, listen with earphones or headphones for the best experience.
The Merlin sharing stick is longer in size than my usual rattles, enabling it to function as a sharing or talking stick for ceremonial spaces and circles.
This piece was crafted from a strong piece of cedar wood, treated with natural oils and engraved with a silhouette of Merlin and a dragon. The rattle head is made from an emerald-dyed stag hide painted with the symbol of Awen, and filled with crystal chips. It is adorned with a peacock feather, a pheasant feather, and bone.
How a sharing sticks works:
Rattles can be used generally for opening ceremonial or spiritual space, clearing energy, and shamanic or sound-based healing. A sharing stick can be used in the same way, and serves an additional space-holding function for practitioners and those holding ceremonial circles.
The stick allows all attendees to speak uninterrupted during sharing spaces. Typically the stick is passed around the whole circle in an anti-clockwise direction, and each person gives the stick three shakes before speaking, and three shakes to mark the end of their sharing.
The rattle sound of the stick symbolically marks when each person has the full attention and presence of the group, and seals each individual’s sharing with the sacredness of shared space.
It may also be used for group practices as a communal healing tool, i.e. for hosting group shamanic journeying or energy healing for the whole group.
The Merlin sharing stick is longer in size than my usual rattles, enabling it to function as a sharing or talking stick for ceremonial spaces and circles.
This piece was crafted from a strong piece of cedar wood, treated with natural oils and engraved with a silhouette of Merlin and a dragon. The rattle head is made from an emerald-dyed stag hide painted with the symbol of Awen, and filled with crystal chips. It is adorned with a peacock feather, a pheasant feather, and bone.
How a sharing sticks works:
Rattles can be used generally for opening ceremonial or spiritual space, clearing energy, and shamanic or sound-based healing. A sharing stick can be used in the same way, and serves an additional space-holding function for practitioners and those holding ceremonial circles.
The stick allows all attendees to speak uninterrupted during sharing spaces. Typically the stick is passed around the whole circle in an anti-clockwise direction, and each person gives the stick three shakes before speaking, and three shakes to mark the end of their sharing.
The rattle sound of the stick symbolically marks when each person has the full attention and presence of the group, and seals each individual’s sharing with the sacredness of shared space.
It may also be used for group practices as a communal healing tool, i.e. for hosting group shamanic journeying or energy healing for the whole group.
If possible, listen with earphones or headphones for the best experience.