-A variety of beads (your choice):
-glass
-tumbled stones
-pearl
-drilled shells
-metal
-wood
-bone
-Beading wire or thread
-Scissors
-Pliers
-Crimping beads (larger than the hole of your biggest bead)
-Measure out a length of beading wire or thread, depending on the size of your chosen beads or shells. A length of 6 inches is optimum but you can lengthen or shorten the wire or thread as needed.
-Place a crimping bead on the end of your wire or thread and gently crush it with your pliers.
-Add your beads or shells to your thread or wire in any pattern and any length. -Place a second crimping bead at the end of your finished string of beads and gently crush.
-Use to help mark the quarters in your circle instead of using other, larger implements. Beaded quarter markers are much less conspicuous and can be transported with greater ease. Alternatively, they can be carried in order to invoke the powers of the elements as needed.
Recommendations:
Earth (North): Use beads or drilled tumbled stones in greens, browns, black, wood or bone. Moss agate, amber, serpentine, malachite, and iron are recommended.
Fire (South): Use beads or stones in red, orange, gold, crimson and yellow colored metals. Garnet, carnelian, citrine, red agate are recommended.
Water (West): Use beads or stones in blue, blue-green, light green, and indigo, as well as aquamarine, amazonite, lapis lazuli, amethyst, fluorite, pearl, silver and copper.
Air (East): Use beads or stones in yellow, crimson or blue white, especially in quartz, topaz, citrine, azurite and copper.
Pictured above:
Earth: An assortment of green glass beads and a green agate tumbled stone bead (at the bottom end.)
Fire: Alternating garnet and copper beads with a 1 inch square piece of picture carnelian (at bottom.)
Water: A series of shells collected from the beaches of Maui, separated by indigo pearls.
Air: Yellow glass beads with a 1 x 0.5 inch iridescent (blue-white) glass bead at the end.
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