Day 15: Do you use any items or tools that aren’t normally found in households, and what are they?

This post is part of a 31 Days of Secular Witchcraft series in which I answer questions about my own personal views about magic and witchcraft.  I urge you to answer the same questions, found here, on your own blog.

Not really.  I have a deck of tarot cards that I use for divination and sometimes as a visual image during meditation or spellwork.  I have an altar cloth with moons, stars, and cats on it.  I have an abalone shell that I sometimes put holy water in during meditation, house blessing, or ritual.  I have a statue of Shiva that I bought from a street vendor in New York City as a teen, but I don't do anything with it other than dust it on occasion. 

My holy water is mostly distilled water, mixed with a drop of seawater I keep in the fridge, a drop of chamomile tea, and a splash of alcohol to keep germs from growing.  I empower it under the light of the full moon and touch my silver spiral ring to it.  I keep it in a glass kombucha bottle on which I mod-podged pretty nature pictures.  I also keep some flowing in a desktop fountain on my dresser/altar/shrine.

I have a candle that is holy to Brighid, but it is a normal looking candle from The Afternoon.  I have a small "Autumn Blessings" sconce from the Goodwill that is holy to me, but it is just a Halloween decoration to others.

I am thinking of getting myself a real, honest-to-goodness cauldron, but for now, I'd have to say that my witchy materials are pretty mundane.