Intent and Spell Writing

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What is Intent in witchcraft?

Simply put intent is what result you wish to get from your spell or ritual. It is the energy you will be using to get results. Intent is extremely important for any spell. What do you wish to happen when you cast it? Do you wish to improve your studying or do you wish to banish something negative from your life? That is intent. It is the end goal. 

Examples of Intent:

• Banishment: keeping away negativity and negative energies
• Beauty: for looking, expressing and feeling lovely and attractive
• Binding: prevent harm, avoid danger, stop someone from performing a particular act; restriction
• Business/Career: for success in one’s career, job hunting
• Calming: relieve stress
• Catalyst: stimulating a spell
• Charge: store energy into something
• Chasity: celibacy, innocence
• Confidence: courage, self assurance and empowerment
• Creativity: expression, imagination and improving artistic skills
• Communication: improving communications and understandings with friends, family, spouses, etc; communicating with other forces
• Cleanse: removing unclean energies and presences from self, objects or areas
• Curse: bring negative energy into something or into someone’s life
• Desire: gaining what one has strong feelings of want for or seeking to be wanted by others
• Divination: clairvoyance, gaining insight
• Discourage: prevent something from occurring
• Dreams: bring dreams, relates to the dream realm
• Emotional: spells focused on certain emotions
• Encouragement: supporting and influencing something to happen
• Exorcism: expelling evil spirits
• Fertility: for conception
• Fidelity: loyalty and faithfulness
• Friendship: bonding and connections
• Fortune: good luck
• Forgotten: leave memories behind
• Frugality: saving money
• Glamour: illusions and perception
• Generosity: kindness and good will
• Happiness: joy and merriment
• Healing: recovery and repair
• Inspiration: gaining ideas and drive
• Invisibility: going unnoticed, stealth
• Judgment: improving decision making and choices
• Longevity: increasing length/duration of things
• Love: Romance
• Lust: Libido and sex drive
• Memory: remembrance
• Motivation: determination
• Patience: tolerance
• Peace: tranquility
• Prosperity: well-being
• Protection: guarding, safety and warding
• Psychic: improving any psychic ability or connection
• Purification: purifying an object or space
• Guidance: spiritual, mental, supernatural guidance, advice and bonds
• Severing: cutting ties from others
• Spirituality: for belief
• Strength: brawn, endurance; physical, emotional, mental and spiritual
• Truth: honesty with self and others
• Wealth: increasing money and physical possessions
• Wisdom: decisions, intelligence, learning
• Wish: gaining things and desires

I have my intent now what?

Well you have just taken your first step to spell writing. Now that you have your intent, your goal, you can can start researching. What relates and corresponds to your intent and what ingredients do you have available? Some things you could research:

• Gemstones
• Herbs and flowers
• Types of Water (spring, rain, ocean, etc)
• Colors
• Candles
• Oils
• Incense
• Animal Symbolism
• Time of Day
• Planets and Cosmic Bodies
• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Metals
• Emotional, Psychic and Physical Energies
• Classic Witches Tools (besom, wands, etc)
• Divination Tools (pendulums, tarot cards, scrying mirrors, etc)
• Mythology and Mythical Creatures

Once you have researched and found the ingredients and objects you wish to use, even if you decide to only use your own energy and voice that is fine. You don’t absolutely need to use anything specific. It is your spell and your intent, choose what you feel will work best for you.

How are you going to use these things you have researched and obtained? This will require more research on your part, witchcraft requires a lot of research. Some ideas:

• Bath mix/salts
• Tea and infusions (if ingredients are safe to ingest)
• Gem Elixir (research to ensure your gemstone(s) is safe to use in water or safe methods to make it without submerging the gemstone)
• Jar or Bottle Spell
• Sigil Spell
• Burning
• Shredding/Cutting
• Burying
• Spoken
• Painted/drawn
• Crafted or Molded

The possibilities are truly endless. All I can say you have just taken your first steps for writing a spell! Once you have decided your intent and the process you wish to use, it is time to begin trials. Everything takes practice. It may not work at first but that is alright. Take notes and observe results. Just be safe with what you are doing. Happy Spell Writing!