How to charge my wand of the Thaumcraft Minecraft mod?

As long as there are aura nodes nearby and you are carrying it, the wand will slowly recharge itself.

That depends on what version of Thaumcarft you have.

If you have 3.x then your wand charges slowly as long as you hang out around a node.

If you have 4.x then the mechanic is really different.

First you need to find a node. Without Goggles of Revealing this is pretty difficult. You *might* be able to see them as little specs of light scattered around the world. They are much easier to see if you look through the Thaumometer but its a bit of a pain to hold the Thaumometer up all the time. And remember to scan it if you haven't already, every scanned node yield research points.

Once you find a node bring your wand to hand and right click and hold it on the node. You should see spirals of energy coming off the node and into your wand as long as you hold the right mouse button down.

Your wand will charge until it is either completely full of the aspects in the node or the node runs out of aspects it can drain. Without applicable research you can only draw the primal aspects out of nodes, so you will probably need to find several nodes to full charge a wand.

A word of caution however; without a specific research topic, and wand caps better than iron, you can completely drain an aspect out of a node. If you do this you could damage the node, lowering its maximum cap on the aspect or permanently removing the aspect from the node.

I recommend waypointing and/or writing down the coordinates of nodes you find and what is in them. Odds are you will be visiting them quite a few times before you have the resources and research necessary to create a wand recharging station.