Kabuto

The Staff of Anti-aggression

A white staff with an intricate top, and a light blue stone set into the head, standing outside in a flowery garden.

Ok, so this staff came out amazing. I found this staff with an absolutely wonderful intricate head (technically near the base of the sapling, as they're thicker on the top when held, meaning that's actually near the bottom of the tree lol), which is going to hold a stone of Angelite inside of it when I can find the right sized piece. Angelite, a stone of soothing peacefulness, and in this case, anti-aggression.

Y'see, generally all of my staves are staves of kindness, or specifically imbued to send out kindness. This one, I wanted the same thing, but from another direction so to speak, anti-aggression. Basically the same, but rather than adding kindness, it removes aggression, I kinda wanted my staves to cover both sides.

It's also a bit of a Gandalf staff so to speak, because of the top area being designed to hold a stone inside of it. And it looks incredible, we've got little tendrils of wood near the top, opened up to allow light to get through, and see through to the Angelite once one is found. The white lines are very goodness feeling, and the silver line down the back adds to that somehow (for now). Through drying, it ended up splitting down the back there, and rather than fill it in with white, I thought it would look incredible if (after the brunt of the crack was filled with... filler, aka wood glue) it were filled in with silver (though later changed to a light blue to match the Angelite. The Staff of Anti-Aggression.

I carved the lines more or less at random like always, and yah, just kinda went with what looked and felt good. I had a lot of help here and there from various Deities, the Cree Ancestors, Jesus had an arm in there, Upulnesayay had some pull. So yah, the staff named Kabuto, a gift to me by the Cree Ancestors, WOOOOOOH, thank You friends! I'll keep on chattin' with You as I go and all that stuffs ^_^

And the Angelite has been found! A nice, flat palm stone, which with a little bit of work, should set perfectly into the head of the staff! And so the staff, paused until we reached England, is worked on again. It took several days of carving, fitting, whittling, a little bit of carbon paper, and eventually, we got the stone to sit nicely inside, filling all of the openings front the front and the back, and being a little bit deeper in from the top of the staff. Excellent :D

The crack/seam down the back of it, I eventually decided against the silver colour, and will instead try to match the colour of the Angelite as close as I can, and paint that into there instead. I tried to decide on what would be the most "calming" colour, and a mirror or silver reflection doesn't give me that, but light blue, Angelite blue, that'll do it.

We added some strips of white leather round the sides and under the stone to keep it from rattling in its spot, and built up a protrusion branch to curl overtop of the stone to keep it in place, and tucked one more tiny piece of leather between that wood and the stone. That protrusion was made out of dark pieces of the wood that were removed originally to put the stone in, glued into place. We filed down some more of that spare wood to create sawdust, and mixed that with glue to fill in any gaps and seams, and make it look nearly perfectly natural in its place, and the sawdust was used to slightly fill in a crack inside one of the eyes, since the colour matches. So with the stone set in place and surrounding branches smoothed and shaped, we thoroughly scraped clean the aged outer surface of the staff so that it matches everywhere, and the staff was complete!

Kabuto, the Staff of Anti-Aggression. Most of my magick revolves around adding peace and kindness, this goes at the same thing but from the other direction, removing anger and aggression. And now, finally complete ❤️

Finished April 27, 2025

The head of the staff, still uncarved and just roughly cut. The vinework in the staff is clearly visible.

The back of the top of the staff, with more vinework of the trunks of multiple trees growing together.

The middle of the staff, with the incredible eyes of the diamond willow wood.

The beginning of the carving, showing the first several swooping lines.

The top of the staff, showing the intricate vinework before we carve. The top is a little bit more cleanly cut.

The linework beneath the head painted in with white.

Showing more of the white linework, on a white staff. It's very Gandalf feeling, very good aligned.

A photo of the staff up in the corner of the bathtub for varnishing, with text saying Video at the top.

Kabutroid kneeling in the bathtub with headphones on, praying into the staff.

Showing the back of the staff, where unfortunately the wood had split in the drying process. No, there was nothing spiritual about it. Besides, see next photo.

We filled it, with chrome paint actually, it's very shiny. It runs straight through a large eye in the wood, so it looks like a large eye looking at you, with a silver line. Yah, this is me we're talking about, my energy. So it's the most kindest thing ever. Always be kind, don't harm others, my two tenets, so like... well, it's me, and it's pushing anti-aggression, that's this staff's thing. Yah it's got a me in there, it'll be doing the kindest thing possible. Anyways, staff of anti-aggression, awesome stuff.

Kabutroid holding a rounded, flat, light blue stone in her hand. It's nicely palm sized, and should fit well in the head of the staff to be visible through all of the openings.

The angelite stone approximately two thirds set into the head of the staff, not quite fitting yet, sitting at a slight angle still and with the top third sticking out above the head of the staff. It's being held overtop of Kabutroid's lap on top of the canvas sheet covered in wood chips and carving tools.

The head of the staff from the front, with the angelite stone set inside of it, filling all three of the front openings, deep enough to be below the top surface of the head.

The stone set inside as viewed from the back, where it is gripped by several of the thinner back branches, that look like they are growing around the stone.

A third view of the stone set inside, from the other side where the stone is placed into the head through, a thin slot with a fairly high wall beside it to keep it inside well. Kabutroid's work area and the Zebeth banner can be seen behind the staff.

The head of the staff, with an extra curved horn of wood added to curve slightly overtop of the stone to lock it into place, and a small piece of white leather is visible between the stone and the wood to keep it from rattling as you walk with it.

The side of the staff having its surface scraped clean again, removing the older, oxidized

The full photo of the staff from the front, leaning up against a brick wall with wooden fencing above, and flowers in the garden below. It's white debarked wood with white curved lines wrapping around it, with diamond-shaped brown eyes on it, and a blue stone set into the branchy head at the top.

The back of the staff, showing the light blue line filling in the crack, and the back of the head which has an even more intricate weave of branches wrapping around the stone.

A closer pic of the front of the head, looking somewhat like a face with two larger eyes open to the blue stone set inside, and one more eye below and between the other two. A carved white curve begins somewhat below the head and wraps around the staff.

The back of the head, with weaving branch lines working their way up through an intricate set of eyes in the wood, and open up to larger eyes wrapping around and overtop of the blue angelite stone inside.