I'm a beginner, plz help!

You really never need a wand. A wand is a tool to help you direct energy in a magical working. You can accomplish the same thing using your finger or just your mind. But having a tool like a wand can help you focus more clearly and is a useful tool. Think of it this way...you can move a pile of sand from one place to another by using your hands, but it's a lot easier if you use a shovel and a wheel barrow.

When it comes to the question of wands and other tools, I do think DJ Conway actually puts it fairly well. Or at least in a way that I agree with anyways. The way she puts it is that the tools, and the physical acts of using them, is a way to get the left-brain onto the same page as the right brain.

This is in reference to the idea that the different hemispheres process and use information differently; the left brain being associated with linear thought, associative logic, math, shape, and space. While the right brain is more often associated with abstract thought, symbolic association, creative imagery, language, and such.

The working of magic is cognitively almost entirely a right-brain activity, at least by these understandings. And so with it being so heavily into the abstract the left-brain thought processes tend to get in the way, being unable to reconcile the abstract with the concrete through association alone. It needs something that is likewise concrete to do, to give a sense of direct action or manipulation. So it is, in essence, a way to give the left-brain thought processes something to connect with and associate action to results.

okay, thanks guys!

Awesome, thank you guys!! I also have another question. So my mom used to be a Wiccan (or Pagan, I can't remember), but I'm not sure if she would be comfortable with me telling her about me. On this website. Learning the real stuff. At my age.

what do I do?

Just tell her you wanted to follow in her footsteps and you found this website that can show you real magic spells and I don't think she would be mad at you after that

Welcome to Spells of Magic! You will love it here. Just read the rules because it is very strict here. Try out the public chatter, you can meet a lot of good friends there.

You can not grow physical wings on your body. You can imagine it. I have some of my own. *Not in the physical world.* I feel the constantly although sometimes I do not feel it.

Glad to hear your first spells worked. What type of spells were they? Luck, protection spells? That is what I started off with.

um, it was kind of like some weather spells, I ended up making a downpour! and the second one I can't really remember.

okay, can i just say something? i literally just took an adventure on this site to try and find my account's username, so i could try and remember what my password is, so when i finally found this, i re-read the comments, and i am realizing how new i was to the real magic. but now I've found books, and done some reading. though, even with all the reading, i do still feel a little bit new to some topics within the whole concept of magic.

also, i found this video on YouTube, and i was wondering what other people would think of it. i am now reading the Emerald Tablets because of this video, mainly because i think this theory seems pretty logical. but i just wanted to know what others thought, so, yeah...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swe3EOKCbFI

I take that person's content with more than a little grain of salt. There is so much false logic involved it makes one's head spin. Be very careful with every source.