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Eastern red cedar root staff held over Kansas ground, the root head set with green aventurine and quartz

Ritual tools from Kansas wood and stone I set by hand.

I make the tools by hand and I write about what the world is turning into. Everything I write is free. What I make is for sale.

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The polished end grain of an eastern red cedar cane knob held in a fist, rings and heartwood showing

Wands, staves, walking canes and pendants out of eastern red cedar, osage orange and black walnut I cut and season myself, set with stone. Forge work is coming up behind the wood.

What I make · The shop on Etsy

Cover of The Way of Manifest Growth

Three books, free in full on this site with the PDFs beside them. A practice book, an answer to Ecclesiastes written verse for verse, and a primer on making and choosing ritual tools. If you want to pay for what you could take for nothing, the Etsy editions are how.

The Way of Manifest Growth · The Book of Joyous Exaltation · A Primer on Magickal Tools

Close view of polished eastern red cedar burl end grain, dark heartwood against pale sapwood

More than a hundred and forty questions about living through a world that keeps rewriting itself, and my answer to each one. Work, money, machines, faith, death. Every number sourced and dated. Click a question and get a straight answer.

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Oscar Alexander Prospero, called Sticks, in a wide hat and plaid, outdoors in Kansas, wearing two handmade pendants

I am Oscar Alexander Prospero. Most people call me Sticks. I make ritual tools by hand in Kansas, out of wood I cut and season myself, and I am widening from wandmaking into the trades that feed each other: woodworking, forge work, jewelrycrafting, and lapidary, which I am still growing into. I write long things on consciousness, political economy, and what the machines actually are. My practice is chaos magic, omnist animism, and technomancy, run as operative systems rather than beliefs I defend.

Everything I write is free. What costs money is what comes out of my hands or my voice. Leaving Kansas for Portland, Oregon is an aspiration. Once I do move, I will be traveling between both places, and more.

Where things stand, September 2026. The shop is halfway between one trade and four, the move to Oregon is still an aspiration, and nothing new went up for over a month. I am starting again now, at the point where nothing is finished. The whole account is in the first post on the rebuilt site.

The long version · What I am working on right now


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AI Attribution Note. Produced with AI assistance (Claude, Anthropic). Direct input: the photographs, the trades, the publishing model and every fact about the work are mine. Directed: I asked for a front page that says who I am in one breath, shows the work, and sends people to the three places that matter. AI-generated: the layout and the connective wording, assembled from the About, Directory and Status pages. No percentage split is given for this page. It was assembled from material that existed before this site began carrying attribution notes on 26 August 2026, and an accurate split cannot be reconstructed after the fact.