To Create a Spell

## Info on Spellwork

Spells created by yourself are more likely to work better, since you chose the ingredients, meaning they are more personalized to you. This doesn't mean you can't look at other people's spells to give you ideas, but it's more effective to personalize the spell. This includes making your own sigils, choosing which herbs and crystals call out to you, or even add something personal to you, such as a piece of jewelry or a heirloom.

## The Most Basic Spell

A mantra, or a chanted intention. The only ingredient you need for a spell is your voice. Not even your physical voice, it can even just be your thoughts. Herbs, crystals, candles, ect. are there to amplify, charge, and enhance your spell.

## Components

There are many types of spells, jar spells, sachet spells, candle spells, ect. Those are the main ones, but literally anything can be a spell, a song, a food, a bath, anything. So the first step to creating a spell is deciding how you want to make it. Like I said above, you can just think a spell or say it aloud, but most witches like adding extra ingredients to amplify it. (Below are some tips on how to make an intention and what you should say.) Herbs, crystals, candles, things found in nature, and anything else you want to add to the spell can be added to charge the spell with your intention, help boost the spell, describe your intention clearly, ect. Most herbs and crystals have correspondences that people have found, such as lavender for calmness or pepper for a little kick, use those correspondences to your advantage. BUT REMEMBER, choose the ingredients you feel drawn too! A spell is stronger if it is connected more towards you.

## Tips for your Intention

Don't talk in the past or future tense. (Ex: I had \_\_\_\_ and I want it back, or, I wish I had \_\_\_\_.) Instead, use the present tense and say it as if you already have the thing. (Ex: I have an abundance of money.) If you talk in the past tense or the future tense, you are just repeating you not having it.

## Different Types of Spells

There are many ways to do spells, but I will list here some of the major/most common ones made when using multiple ingredients.

### Jar Spells

Jar spells are basically all your ingredients thrown into a jar or sealed container. Jar spells are probably the most common form of complex spells.

### Candle Spells

Probably the second most used spell form. Candle spells usually include dressing a candle with herbs and oil, as well as carving your intention into it before burning.

### Sachets

Basically a Jar spell but with everything thrown in a small bag instead of a jar.

### Charming Jewelry

Another common but less complex form of spellwork. Simply charging jewelry or clothes with your intention.

### Food Spells

Adding edible ingredients to your cooking or baking is a simple spell lots of Kitchen Witches use.

### Drink Spells

Food spells but with drinks instead of food basically.

### Cleansing Spells

There are many forms of cleansing spells, but the one I am focusing on here is incense and crystal cleansing of spaces that might attract negative energy. A cleansing spell used to cleanse an office or room usually includes something along the lines of smoke of sound cleansing. On top of this, some people like to have crystals in said room for a while as well to absorb or banish remaining negative energy.

### Binding Spells

Binding spells usually include a visual of binding two or more things together, whether that symbolizes you tying something to yourself so you don't lose it, or binding away someones ability to spread rumors, that's up to you.

### Money Bowl

A common money spell many witches use. A money bowl usually includes a bowl of sugar or salt filled with money and abundance attracting crystals and herbs, as well as some coins or bills.

### Incantation

An incantation is a more dramatic intention. Most incantations are repeated many times, sometimes with some sort of rhyme or rhythm to them.

### Knot Magic

Also called cord magic by some. Knot magic usually includes some sort of rope, such as twine or ribbon. When knot magic is done, many witches tie nine knots in the rope, each corresponding with some part of their intention, but it doesn't always have to be nine. Sometimes witches add bones, twigs, herb bundles, crystals, or other items into the knots to add an extra kick to the spell. Knot magic is sometimes a form of Binding Spells.

### Ritual Baths

Crystals, moon water, herbs, and other ingredients added to a normal bath used to "stew" a person in intention. Usually used for calming, self love, or glamour magic purposes.

### Simple Spells

There is no real name for these, but they basically just entail putting your intention into a crystal or something and keeping it near you. These are one step above just saying or thinking your intention.

## Note from the Kar

If you want to make a song spell or a baking spell or some other random cool spell that isn't just throwing a bunch of stuff in something, saying you intention and calling it good, then ask on the community posts and I or someone else can help you form one. I love strange ideas! :) -Kar