 Wands are traditionally made of wood— practitioners usually prune a branch from an oak, hazel, or other tree, or may even buy wood from a hardware store, and then carve it and add decorations to personalize it, though one can also purchase ready-made wands.In Wicca, the wand usually represents the element air, or sometimes fire (following the wiccan author Raymond Buckland, who got his element associations from the Golden Dawn), although contemporary wand-makers also create wands for the elements of earth and water.The suit of wands is one of the four suits in the 1909 Rider-Waite-Smith occult tarot deck, and other, later tarot decks that are based upon that deck.