Selenite athame

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Aura sweeping: draw the blade slowly from head to feet a hand’s width from the body, flicking the tip toward the floor at the end of each stroke.
• Tool cleansing: lay crystals, cards or jewellery beside the blade overnight in place of a water or salt cleanse.
• Moon rites: used to cast the circle at full and new moons, with the crescent shape raised to the sky.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Lunar invocation: held aloft during invocations of lunar powers, as a Moon-ruled tool in place of a steel blade.

A Simple Working

• Choose the night of a full moon and open a window.
• Light a white chime candle.
• Hold the selenite athame at the crown of your head.
• Sweep it slowly down the front of your body, then the back and sides, flicking the tip toward the floor each time.
• Say: ‘Clear as moonlight.’
• Set the blade on the windowsill in the moonlight until morning.

Pairs Well With

• A white chime candle: for moon and cleansing rites.
• A black obsidian scrying mirror: for divination after the space is cleared.
• A triple moon offering plate: to rest the blade on for moon work.
• Frankincense resin: for blessing smoke alongside the blade.

What You Receive

Selenite athame in three styles: 6″ with a crescent moon blade, 7 1/2″ carved with a handle, and 10″ with a crescent moon blade. Natural stone, so sizes and shapes vary slightly and natural lines and inclusions occur. Selenite dissolves in water, so keep it dry.

Origin & Lore

Selenite is a clear to white crystalline form of gypsum, soft enough to scratch with a fingernail and soluble in water. In modern crystal practice it is the stone of clearing, used to sweep and cleanse spaces, tools and the body’s energy field. Carved into an athame it becomes a non-metal blade for cleansing, moon rites and circle casting.

Selenite takes its name from Selene, the Greek moon goddess, for the soft, moonlike sheen of its fibres.

Gypsum has been used since antiquity: thin sheets of it were set as window panes in Roman times, and alabaster, its fine-grained form, was carved in Egypt and Mesopotamia. The modern use of selenite as a cleansing stone comes from twentieth-century crystal practice rather than ancient sources.