Hodge Podge

Mix of cats, creepy shit, memes, fandom shit. Vegas resident. Grad student. Cat lady.

[sylvaetria]

Aphrodite Glamour Water 💋

This glamour spell is one of the few that I use, and I can say that it’s worked for me quite well. Be careful, though. You may attract unwanted attention.

SUPPLIES NEEDED:

a jar

water

rose petals (optional)

vanilla essential oil (optional)

red or pink candle (optional)

STEPS:

💋 Pour the water inside the jar you wish to use.

💋 Put in your ingredients that you chose to use. As you put them in, visualize how you want people to look at you. If you want to be confident, visualize yourself being confident. If you want romantic or sexual attention, visualize yourself getting that. Whatever you want, just visualize yourself attracting it.

At this point, if you wish to use a candle, now is the time to pour your intentions into it & light it. If not, that’s fine. You can also call upon deities who correspond to love at this moment.

💋Stir the liquid clockwise so that it’s moving towards you. As you do so, continue to visualize your desired outcome.

💋 After that, it’s all done. You can leave it out by the window and allow the moon the charge it up. If you chose to light a candle, let it burn down.

WAYS TO USE IT:

♡ Dab some on your face before you leave the house in the morning. ♡ Put some on your face before you put any makeup or skin products on. ♡ You can use it in love spells by replacing the water with an oil of your choosing and anointing a pink or red candle with it, preforming the spell the same way. ♡ If you wear makeup, pour a little bit in a little cap of some sort and dab your makeup brushes in it to dampen the brush before you apply any eyeshadow or powder of any kind. ♡ If you want a specific person’s attention, you can dab some on a picture of them or drop a little bit where you know they will walk. ♡ Use it as an offering for deities corresponding to love, depending on your intention.

[orriculum]

💄Seductive Words Glamour 👄

a lipstick/chapstick glamour to make your words extra convincing/persuasive

💄 gather: chapstick/lipstick of your choice (though red would work best) moon water, a basil leaf, a spring of rosemary

👄 soak the basil leaf and sprig of rosemary for an hour in the moon water. 

💄 put a drop of moon water on the lipstick

👄 if you want to make the spell for something/someone specific, add a sigil to the lipstick before you put it on.

[leodrune]

spell to dull your feelings for someone

This spell is designed to quell (but not obliterate) romantic feelings you have toward someone. If this person is taking up too much of your heart’s and mind’s energy, this spell is for you. You will need:

♦  Bay leaf (healing, protection, purification and strength)

♦  Cinnamon stick (healing, success, power)

♦  Pink fabric (self-love, calming, personal harmony, matters of love)

♦  Black pen/paint and string or ribbon

1. Cut a small square of pink fabric and lay it on your workspace.

2. Write your name on one side of the bay leaf in large letters, and your chosen’s name on the other side in smaller letters. When finished, whisper to the leaf: “May my heart loosen its grasp on (name) and promote healthy feelings.”

3. Lie the bay leaf in the center of the fabric, and pick up the cinnamon stick. Whisper to it, “may your magic heal my heart and allow health in love.”

4. Place the cinnamon on top of the bay leaf and gently fold the fabric over it into a little envelope. Hold it in your hands for a moment; visualize you and your chosen holding hands, and then let go of their hand. Feel contentment in this thought.

5. Wrap the ribbon/thread around the envelope and hide it in a drawer.

[virveli]

Found this list, and made my own version yet again. These are too fun to make, and it’s really easy to learn by this method.

EDIT: Cutted it in half to make it easier to view.

[orriculum]

Hi Kate I'm having a mental breakdown since I found out the person I thought is my friend doesn't give a shit bout me. I'm hurt bc I gave my all in this friendship n many more. I just want a spell to make that person realize their mistake n not do it with others. I don't want no apologies from that person just self realization would be enough. I know you would say to just get over it but what that person did is terribly wrong n people need to realize how wrong they are.

oh my, that is terrible. you don’t need to simply get over it, that kind of betrayal hurts and it takes time to heal. i hope you have more people who care about you to help you through this, but if not my message box is always open. 

know what you have done spell

find a picture of the two of you, and roll it up with some rosemary inside, fresh or dried, whichever is easier to procure. tie it with string, and light a black or white candle. burn the rolled picture.

wasted friendship, wasted years,know and feel these wasted tears. by broken bond and rosemaryknow, and regret what you have done to me.

[thecultoflexithewulf]

How to make a Servitor.

Servitors are artificial spirits that are made by the practitioner, and are used to complete tasks, or goals set by the petitioner to help him or her in their life, or magical practice. Before you jump right into creating a servitor there are things you must plan out beforehand. It’s a lot like building a blueprint. You don’t just start making the house before you have a blueprint. Here are the things you’re going to need to think about  before building your very own servitor:

1) Purpose

Everything needs a purpose, and it’s your job to pick your purpose for your servitor. A purpose can be anything. You could want your servitor to protect you, or your family. You could want your servitor to help you pass a test. You could have your servitor torture people in their dreams… You know whatever you want. It is important to give your servitor a purpose, because it is dangerous to make a servitor without a purpose. If your servitor does not have a purpose it may go rogue, and we may have a situation like that Jewish story of  "The Golem of Prague", who goes on a murderous rampage. Once you have your purpose feel free to move on to the next step.

2)Spiritual appearance

Now you must create an appearance for your servitor that it will take on the astral, and etheric planes of existence. It is important to keep in mind when making your servitor’s spiritual appearance that the spiritual appearance should reflect the task that they were assigned to complete. If the servitor is for better communication with your peers, then it’s spiritual appearance shouldn’t be a Azathoth looking creature, but maybe perhaps some type of human or anthropomorphic entity. Besides that the you can create any type of spiritual appearance you would like. Male, female, tall, short it’s up to you. You can even say “f*** it, and I’m making this one a shapeshifter”. So have some fun, and do whatever you would like. You also might want to draw a picture, or get some representation of their form once you decide upon it for later steps in the servitor creation process.

3)Personality

This one’s pretty self-explanatory, and again you can pretty much pick whatever you would like. All we’re going to do is think of some personality traits that you would like your servitor to have, like charming, intelligent, funny, friendly, loyal, etc…  So this one is pretty easy, and now that I think about it I have no idea what happens if you don’t give them a personality. I guess they turn into Kristen Stewart, or something. Anyway pick out your personality traits that you like, and move on to the next step.

4)Feeding

You like to eat, so do servitors. Feeding a servitor is a lot like charging a Sigil. and you can use all the same methods in order to feed a servitor in the same way you use to charge a sigil. You can also set up some methods of feeding for the servitor that the servitor can do on their own behalf. You could tell your servitor to feed on something like sunlight, or crystals that you have lying around. Not setting up feeding methods, or not feeding your servitor will result in it going rogue, or it finding its own food sources which may not always be more preferable.

5)Lifespan

There are some people that say the servitors lifespan should not be very long, but in my experience this has not been a problem. In my experience servitors only act up once they do not have a purpose anymore, or if acting up is programmed into their nature, or if they are not being fed. Life span is very based on purpose. If you want your servitor to help you pass a test, then its lifespan should only be until after the test then it will return back to the energy of source. If you wanted your servitor to protect your property then you would need a lifespan that you can end at any time. So then you would need a phrase, or ritual to end its life when the time comes. This phrase, or ritual would not have to be elaborate. It’s never happened to me before, but being on a system like that one could in theory make the servitor want to have self preservation. You would be the only thing that could kill it. So if they took you out then they could go on living. I don’t know if it happens, or not, but that’s just a theory. A Servitor Theory! Thanks for watching…. <– (Tell me if you get that joke.) I always tell my servitor if they try to harm me or anyone I care about they will be terminated immediately. That’s a good enough safety net I guess let’s move on to the next step.

6)The Housing

Now we need housing to ground the servitor to the physical plane. Housing can be things like a rock, a staff, a doll, something you made out of clay, etc… Servitors by nature do not need housing, but it is better to have a physical representation of them for control, and feeding purposes. Housing can be anything, but I would stay away from certain metals because energy does not flow as good through them as it does other materials. It is also better to have a housing made, or created by you, and your hands. Once you find what housing you would like to use you are ready to go onto the next step.

7)Naming

This one is super simple all you have to do is pick a name for your servitor. Literally can be anything Meaningful, or otherwise. All you have to choose a name, and then you can move on to the next step.

8)Making a Sigil

Now you should make a sigil out of the name of your servitor, or out of the purpose of your servitor. You will use this sigil as a true representation of your servitor. If you do not know how to make a sigil you can always Google it, or you should be able to find it by searching back through my posts.

Once you have your sigil you can draw it, or carve it into your housing for your servitor. This would be recommended, but if you do not want to mark the sigil on the housing you can always put the sigil on a piece of paper, and put it underneath your housing during the “Bringing the servitor to life” step.

9) Bringing the servitor to life

Now we just bring together all the materials that we have gathered thus far into a ritual. First thing you’ll want to do is cleanse the area. This can be done through any cleansing method such as the Lesser banishing ritual, smudging, or clap cleansing. Next you’re going to want to cast a circle or use some other form of protection technique. Then you’re going to want to start charging your housing, and your sigil through any form of charging method. Now you’re going to want to enter a Gnostic state of consciousness where you can strongly in vision the energy that you are manipulating. Close your eyes, and in your mind’s eye begin to mold the energy into the spiritual appearance of your servitor. Strongly visualize every little detail of your servitor’s being. Then breathe life into your servitor by just intending for the energy to be alive and to be conscious. Once you have molded your energy into the spiritual appearance of your servitor, then in your head, or out loud call to the servitor. Tell the servitor it’s name, it’s purpose, it’s personality, it’s feeding methods, and it’s lifespan. More focus, and intention you use to create the servitor more put together the servitor will be. Now your servitor is done, and it is alive. Undo your circle, and before you send out your servitor for the task you want them to complete I usually wait one day, and feed my servitor a couple times. I find when I first create a servitor it is incredibly weak so I gave it one day to become a little bit stronger before it starts its task.

[worldtoosmallforme]

what to put in a grimoire

Stuff that is relevant to you. Don’t waste time and effort filling out pages of astrology if you aren’t interested in astrology. If you are never going to use the page for that information, don’t waste the page on it. Don’t be worried about what other witches have in their book. This is your book, not everyone’s. And if you are planning on creating some fantastic book that you’ll pass down to your future witch children, know that the your first one probably isn’t going to be the one you’ll want to pass down anyway. Likely information you once thought was important you’ll later find doesn’t matter to you at all. Let your first book be the one you can mess up and explore in. You need room to learn and grow, not worry about every little detail of what you might be missing.

With that said, here is a list of ideas for what you might want to put in your grimoire. This is a collection of ideas taken from all over. Remember to fearlessly scratch things that you aren’t honestly interested in:

-A book blessing/protection to protect it from wandering eyes

-Your personal pages: a page about you and your goals for the craft, the day you decided to be a witch, your natal chart/zodiac info for you and/or your so/birth tarot cards or birth playing card, your craft name or personal sigil if you have one, any psychic abilities you have

-A page for your personal correspondences: your signature herbs/rocks/scent/sound/animal, your craft name/sigil

-A page for your familiar/s if you have any: their given/secret name, their sigil, info about when you met them and when they left/died, what they helped you with, what they like, how they can be contacted

-A portrait of your shadow self: a reflection exercise to help identify/confront a representation of all your worst attributes and fears/ what you hate about yourself/ what really eats away at you about yourself

-A list of your current witch tools, where you got them, whats special about them, how they were consecrated (if they were), etc

-An ancestor page: this could be your family tree, pictures of your deceased, locations of graves, etc

-Info about the plants/animals/rocks in your area

-The wheel of the year, if that’s applicable to you

-Esbat/Sabbat information if that’s applicable (personally I only observe the full moon)

-The monthly moon names if you observe the changing of the moon: you can google and see which ones speak to you, or since they’re outdated you can make up your own (for instance I have a Coyote moon because the coyotes howl outside my house, rather than a Wolf moon)

-Any rites/rituals/songs/poems/pictures/quotes/spells/recipes/etc that are important to you and/or your practice.

-A page to keep a list of all your active spells/wards/enchanted items

-Deity: history/picture/correspondence of any deity you are interested in, for secret witches you can have an altar for them inside your book, entries of your relationship/experience with them, family tree of the pantheon if applicable. Even if you worship an entire pantheon, you don’t need to have a page for everyone in the pantheon. And even if you are a secular witch, you can still make a deity page if you so decide.

-Divination info for the practices you’re interested in: history, correspondence cheat sheet, any spreads you think are important, record your readings, a pendulum board in your book if you’ll use it

-Sigils: how to create/charge, sigils you’ve found helpful

-Astrology: natal chart, zodiac info, calendar for planetary retrograde/moon phases/celestial events (meteor showers, etc)

-Cleansing, Protection, and Banishing methods

-Meditation, Centering, Grounding and Shielding methods/techniques/symbols/pictures

-Dreamwork: a dictionary of your personal recurring dream symbols, a collection of your dreams written/drawn

-Spiritwork: any spirits you are or have been in contact with and basic information

-Correspondences (remember to think about what your correspondence is and not what some list on tumblr tells you): herbs, rocks and crystals, animals,metals, moon phases, planets, planetary retrograde, colors, directions, your witch tools (this is mostly kitchen tools for me)

An index in the back for organization

[circeknox]

Witches Guide for 2018! ✨📅

Stay Positive - Stay Powerful 

Happy New Year my lovelies!

  ✨📅 Sabbats  📅 ✨

The 8 Sabbats

Solstice, Equinox, and Sabbats.

Sabbat Altar and Celebration Ideas for the Solitary Witch

Holidays - Spring 2017 to Spring 2018

Laurel’s Easy Sabbat Planning Guide

cheap, easy ways to decorate your altar for the sabbats

Moons and Holidays 2018

Seasonal Herbs for Pagan Sabbats

Yule  & The Winter Solstice 101

Yule Resource Masterpost

🕯️Ways to Celebrate Imbolc 💐

Celebrating Imbolc! 🌿 💐

✨🌿Imbolc Tarot Spread for Goal Setting🌿🕯

Imbolc Practices

💖🥚Ostara Tips!🥚💖

Setting Up Your Altar: Ostara

CELEBRATE BELTANE

Beltane Correspondences

🌞 Ideas for Litha 🌞

Litha Practices

Celebrate Lammas

Lammas Masterpost

🥐Ways to Celebrate Mabon🍂

✨ Mabon Altar Tips ✨

Sabbat: Samhain

Samhain

✨📅 Astronomy / Astrology  📅 ✨

Moon Phases Chart 2018

2018 MAGICAL ASTRONOMY MASTERPOST FOR WITCHES

2018 Retrogrades

Full & New Moons for 2018

Blue Moon’s in 2018

🌑 New Moon Ritual 🌑

Simple Full Moon Ritual!

🌟planetary sign meanings

Celestial Bodies/Zodiacs Crash Course

Full Moons in a Year - By Hemispheres 🌜

🌛🌕full moons of the year🌕🌜

Lunar Phase Correspondences

✨📅 Witch Tips / Challenges / Spells  📅 ✨

2018 witch tip

A 2018 Witch Challenge

28 Day Witchy Challenge

New Year, New Year…

Beginner Witch Tips

100 Tips for the Secret Witch!

Witchcraft Challenge!

50 Simple Charms

20 Days of Back to School Magic Challenge

Witchy Reminder 💖

✨📅 Reference 📅 ✨

When Writing Spells

Myths, Creatures, and Folklore 

Beginner Witchery

Witch Bullet Journal Collection Ideas

Beginner masterlist 

Methods to Bond with Deities 

57 ways to use candle magick

witch self care masterpost!✌️🌿 

Marisol’s Magickal PDF Library Master Post(holy sh!t this is awesome)

10 Terms Every New Witch Should Know

Correspondences for Trees

🌟27 Ways to Develop Your Psychic Abilities🌟 

Long List of Ways to Spiritually Protect Yourself

Color Magick

Correspondence Masterpost

When to Cast a Spell - By Time of Day 

When to Cast a Spell - By Weekdays 

orriculum’s witchcraft masterpost ✨ 

✨ beginner polytheist tips✨ 

Book Recommendations for Witches, Spellcasters, and the Curious

Tarot Masterpost! 🃏✨ 

I will be updating this whenever I find anything new!

✨disclaimer // none of these belong to me! all credit goes to the creators! never listen to just one source, do you own research! ✨

[bijoubratt]

Beginner Witch Tips

Read. Before you even think about practicing magick, you need to study. It sounds tedious, I know, but witchcraft is not a trivial undertaking. 

Start a grimoire/Book of Shadows/Journal. You’ll need a safe place to keep all of the information you’ve gathered safe, and a grimoire (as I call mine), is essentially a notebook for that exact purpose. It doesn’t have to be fancy (though you’re welcome to make it as ostentatious as you like), – it can be a bullet journal if that’s easy for you. Within your grimoire, you should keep all gathered information, spells, failures, successes, records of work you’ve done, etc,. Anything that pertains to your craft.

Don’t put pressure on yourself to pick a path. You might see a lot of witches who class themselves as one thing or another, e.g., storm witches, kitchen witches, elemental witches, spirit/divination witches; green witches; cosmic witches, and so on.That is cool and their prerogative, but you will also see witches known as eclectic. Eclectic Witches, are simply witches who choose to practise many different types of magick and forge their own path, instead of following only one, or following a pre-established path. Basically, there is no need at all, whatsoever, to label yourself. With many of us, our paths found us in time. 

Research paths, secular witchcraft and religious witchcraft.Witchcraft alone, is a practice. However, some paths are indeed religious, such as Wicca. Make sure you know the difference before you begin actively practicing and before you decide on your path, if you do choose to do so.

Carry a little notebook on your person.You can’t always carry your grimoire with you, so I personally like to carry a tiny little notebook with me, for those moments when inspiration takes me, or if something captures my imagination or attention. You can add it to your grimoire/BoS later.

Oh, and one more thing: don’t ever stop learning and reading and recording. Witchcraft is a path of continuous learning.

Things to Research:

Crystals/gemstones/minerals

Herb and crystal correspondences, e.g., such as color and planetary.

Sabbats (also known as “Witches Sabbaths”) and esbats.

The basic tools of witchcraft.

Altars (if you’re so inclined).

Lunar phases.

Divination, e.g., tarot, runes, pendulums. 

Witchcraft and deities (if you’re so inclined).

Traditional witchcraft practises, such as circle casting.

SAFETY! What is safe to use/burn/touch/ingest. There are lots of poisonous and potentially fatal plants and ingredients out there.

Easy/budget magick/witchcraft.

The history of witchcraft, including lore, myths and tales.

The importance and use of the elements in magick

Research cultural witchcraft. Make sure that your practice does not steal from closed cultures. 

Easy Practices for New Witches:

Grounding – grounding is the act of centering your energy and focusing it within yourself. You can ground yourself by being out in nature and using visualising techniques that tie your energies firmly into the ground (very traditional method), or by finding a quiet place that you are content in and meditating.

Meditation.

Visualisation/visualising.

Sigil crafting/creation.

Dream interpretation.

Charging jewellery/crystals/objects/sigils.

Using glamours in makeup/cosmetics/everyday wear.

[diannaravenwood]

Banish The Bullshitter Spell

what you need:

Black candle

Powder of dragon’s blood, sage, black salt, cayenne, myrrh

Charcoal tablet + fireproof dish

Paper cutout of person giving you bullshit with name on it

Carving tool

Banishing oil

what to do:

Light your charcoal tablet prior to spell

Carve candle with person’s name, may also include sigils/runes of your choosing

Anoint candle with banishing oil top to middle, and bottom to middle

Sprinkle powder on dressed candle and affirm:  I banish you, (name), from my life and the lives of my loved ones, in all directions of time. You no longer cause us any harm.

Sprinkle some powder on charcoal and hold the candle above the smoke, affirm the above again

Light the candle

Sprinkle more powder on charcoal and hold the paper cutout above the smoke, then light cutout on fire and affirm the above one more time

Let the candle burn down

[depressed-dudewitch]

We’ll see who smites who 👊✨⚡

[leodrune]

the ultimate self love ritual

this is a powerful ritual that focuses on everything that goes into self-love and self-acceptance; overcoming guilt, ridding yourself of harmful habits and thoughts, seeing your own beauty, having confidence and courage, and harnessing your inner magick. best done on a full or waxing moon.

❀  three candles: one white, one pink, one red

❀  yarrow (rekindling love, confidence, psychic opening)

❀  cloves (courage and self confidence)

❀  lavender (inner peace, tranquility, self love)

❀  a pen

❀  a bowl made of glass, wood or clay

❀  a mirror on a stand, or one that can lean on furniture

before you begin your ritual, take some time for self-care that makes you feel good about yourself, your face and your body. put on some music you like, gently brush your hair, do your makeup (or gently wash your face and moisturize it, if you don’t wear makeup), wear comfortable clean clothes you feel cute and/or cozy in. if you want, anoint yourself with a fragrance or essential oil that makes you feel desirable, intoxicating, or alluring.

rest comfortably on the floor (with a pillow underneath you). ensure the mirror is in front of you and that you can see yourself in it. arrange the three candles so that the white and red candles are to either side of the mirror, and the pink candle is right in front, between you and your reflection. 

light the white candle, whispering, “may you cleanse my mind and heart of self-negativity and sorrow.” light the red candle, whispering, “may your flame spark newfound self-passion.” light the pink candle, whispering, “may you inspire tender self-admiration and respect.”

look at yourself in the mirror. take a moment to really inspect your face and pinpoint the things you like about it; its smoothness, its hues, its shapes. after a moment of this, cup your hands together and hold them above the flames of the candles in the order you lit them, letting your hands grow warm. gently run your warmed hands over your forehead, cheeks, nose, chin, and slowly gliding them down your neck.

re-warm your hands with each candle, and gently press them on the places on your body you tend to dislike. show yourself care and love with hands warmed by magick. 

place the bowl in front of you, close to the pink candle. take the yarrow in your hands, whispering “may you grant me the power to love myself,” and place it in the bowl. take the cloves, whispering “may you bring me confidence and courage to overcome my harmful thoughts”, setting them in the bowl. 

finally, take the bay leaf and pen and write out a wish that addresses something specific regarding self-love that you want to manifest; for example, “body acceptance”, “seeing inner beauty on the outside”, “emotional healing”, or some such thing. place it in the bowl.

let a little wax from each candle drip onto the herbs in your bowl, and leave the mirror and bowl where they are for three days and three nights. each morning and evening during this time, look into the mirror for a moment and think a kind thought about yourself. on the third night, dispose of the herbs and put the mirror away.

[districtofthehare]

My Body My Choice: A Group Ritual for Abortion Rights

Our basic human right to bodily autonomy is under attack by a patriarchal government whose goals have nothing to do with protecting children and everything to do with controlling women.  I saw this sigil shared in a chaos magick facebook group, and I think we should take it one step further. 

I am proposing an organized, synchronized gnosis session on June 22, 2019 at 8:00pm EST in which we all charge and cast this sigil simultaneously. This is not a substitute for civic engagement, protest, and (above all) VOTING FOR EXPLICITLY PRO-CHOICE CANDIDATES, but is meant to empower participants and provide additional momentum to our activism.  Gnosis is a state of altered consciousness in which we are able to program our intent into our subconscious in a way which allows it to be propagated into the universe and affect change. It is commonly achieved through meditation, ritual chanting, dancing, or orgasm. Any of these will work, though I think the latter would be particularly poetic. The goal is to hold the image of the sigil in your mind at the point of gnosis and visualize it being released into the universe. However you reach gnosis is up to you, just make sure you visualize the sigil.  Regardless of your magical path, we can all work together to manifest a country which protect the rights of all citizens. Please join me!

[thesigilist]

Chaos Magick Reading List (Current).

Practical Sigil Magic By: Frater U.:D.: Creating Magickal Entities By: David Michael Cunningham Chaotopia! By: Dave Lee Prometheus Rising By: Robert Anton Wilson The Infernal Texts By: Stephen Sennitt The Pseudonomicon By: Phil Hine Condensed Chaos By: Phil Hine Prime Chaos By: Phil Hine Visual Magick By: Jan Fries Psybermagick By: Peter J. Carroll Liber Kaos By: Peter J. Carroll Liber Null & Psychonaut By: Peter J. Carroll

[psilocyberotica-deactivated2020]

Abstracting Magickal Intent

In my previous post, A Beginners Guide to Magick, I talked about how magick works from a psychological model, and the basics steps to doing any magical operation. This time around, I’m going to make a brief tutorial getting into the basics of abstracting your magickal intent, step 3 in my guide. I will cover the basic steps to creating a mantra, sigil, or other form of abstracted intent for all your spell casting needs.

The Basics:

In the last guide, I talked about how important it is to obscure your intent from the conscious mind, so let’s get into the details of some of the ways you can do this. I will be discussing three ways to go this: creating a sigil, creating a mantra, and creating a full ritual.

The first step: Write out a statement of intent

First, we want to take that intent or desire, and write it out in full. There’s a few nuances to this. We really want to communicate to the subconscious that the desire exists in the present. Therefore, if our spell is for getting a job, you wouldn’t write: “I want to get this job,” rather, you would write something like “I have this job” We want to convince out subconscious mind that this desire is real and manifest. In the previous example, if you wrote that you wanted the job, you would just cast a spell to make you *want* the job. That’s no good. One other nuance, is try try to avoid using negatives in the statement of intent. The subconscious can be kind of weird about those, and it might end up giving you the opposite of what you want. Let’s use an example statement to show how we go about the next steps. Say we want to lucid dream? For this example, let’s make a statement of intent for that.

Alright, now we have that. Lets start with the sigil method.

The Sigil Method

In this method, we take our statement, and turn it into a cryptic pictogram or symbol. It won’t obviously signify the intent to our conscious mind, but our subconscious will know what’s up.

First, we take all the consonants from our statement of intent, and cross out any that repeat. You should get something like this:

Now, after we have this, we take those remaining letters and connect them together into some sort of symbol, like this:

Now, we take this symbol, and draw it out a few times until we like how it ends up, simplify it, and make it look a little big “magickal.” this is the most fun part:

And there you have it! The sigil’s complete! You you can go ahead and cast it!

The Mantra Method

This one’s even easier than the sigil method. First, let’s go back to that statement of intent with all the repeating consonants taken out:

Now, a super simple easy way to create a mantra is to just add some sort of vowel in between each of these consonants, for example:

HAVALAC DOROMAS FOQUANATIY

Another method, is to go back to your original statement of intent, and just simplify it down into a mantra. For example, with: I HAVE LUCID DREAMS FREQUENTLY, we can simplify this down to something like: HAVEL CIDRAM FREQ NETEL

Now for an added bonus, you can totally use both methods, and chant the mantra whilst charging the sigil!

Creating a full Ritual

Now, with the previous methods under our belt, we can move on to creating a full ritual. This would normally be for a larger, more intense spell, and would likely incorporate both of the previous methods. Rituals can be pretty free form and creative, so I’ll only cover briefly some of the things to keep in mind.

1. Plan the day.

This can be based on a magical correspondence relating to your intent, or simply a day you have the best time to do the ritual.

2. Plan what you will include.

We have to think about everything that we want to put into the ritual. Will we be using incense, candles? Sigils, mantras? Which way are we going to try and use to get into gnosis? How can we design the ritual to make that form of gnosis easiest to attain? This is where we flesh out the ritual, and figure out exactly what we want to incorporate and how to go about doing it.

3. Design the ritual.

Here we take everything we’ve planned to incorporate, and actually put it all together in the way we like best.

4. Perform the ritual.

Now we go ahead and do it. This is normally the most fun part, or at least, it should be.

And that’s that! That covers at least the biggest common methods of abstracting intent. Now give it a go yourself, try it out and find what works best for you!

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