Your Intentions
Part IV of Deity & Spirit Work.
Before diving head first into spirit work, it’s important to identify why you want to do this kind of work in the first place. Doing it because everyone else is doing it, or because it seems like it’s expected of you, is not a good enough reason. Dig down. Explore why you feel this need.
What does deity and spirit work mean to you?
Why do you want to engage in deity or spirit work?
What do you hope to learn from working with a deity or spirit?
How will this experience help you in your spiritual journey?
Everyone groans when you bring up journaling - it can be a bit of a pain to sit down and write things out. There’s a reason why this is done - it’s massively useful. Journaling can help us see patterns, symbols and signs that we weren’t aware of in the moment. It helps us gauge just how much we’ve progressed within our spiritual journey. If you’re the type who wants to help othes, looking back at older journal entries and reading the struggles you had personally when starting out is a great way to get a feel for what others might need help with.
I suggest journaling every day. It’s probably not posisble (there are some days when I don’t), but at least make an effort, espeically when you feel like something has clicked into place, or there was a symbol or sign sent from deity or spirit, or whenever you do a formal ritual, spell, manfiestation, or offering.
More importantly, we have to go into deity and spirit work with the right mindset. When we perform spells or manfiestations, we start with passion and intention. If you don’t have passion and intention, then why bother putting out the effort? Chances are you’ll lose interest halfway through. You need that passion to be there, that curiosity, that urge to experience. If you can’t identify why this is important to you, or you can’t give a good reason why you want to do it in the first place, maybe now isn’t the time.
After you feel confident this is the path for you here and now, it’s time to create an intentional statement. The goal is to create a statement of intention with as few words as possible, but to as specific as you can. You start by writing down every key word that comes to you about why you’re doing this and what you want to achieve. Give yourself time to do this - don’t rush it. Maybe you wan to experience divine love. Perhaps you want to learn a specific skill. Maybe you feel you’re being called to do this, though you don’t necessarily know why (or evne if a deity is behind it). Write it down.
Look over your list of key words and phrases. Can you identify any themes? Use a colored marker, pen, crayon, highlighter - whatever you have on hand - and color code similar words and phrases that fit into groups.
Evaluate your themes or groups. Choose one that seems to describe your intention more than any others - the one that “feels right” to you. Transform that theme into your intention using a keyword or two from that group. Keep it simple, short, succinct.
I like to take that intention and write it on a separate piece of paper or cardstock. Then I take the time to decorate it with symbols and colors that I feel best sutis that itntention. This is placed on my altar space, and I look at it every single day. If you can’t have a permanent altar, or you’re in the broom closet, place it somewhere you’ll see it everyday - in a sock drawer, on a dresser, tucked into the corner of your vanity mirror, use it as a bookmark, take a picture and use it as your phone’s background. That’s the true magick of intention - stating consciously what you want, seeing it, remidning yourself of it, and putting it out into the universe that you want to achieve it. All of our work with deity and spirit builds on this one simple practice.
We are creative beings. We manifest unconsciously evrey minute of our lives. The goal of magick is to learn how to consciously manifest what we want. This starts with a solid intention.
Stay tuned for the next intallation: Establishing a Connection
