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.
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
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
Forgotten: leave memories behind
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
Lust: Libido and sex drive
Motivation: determination
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
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:
Types of Water (spring, rain, ocean, etc)
Planets and Cosmic Bodies
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:
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)
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!
