How to Cast a Spell

This article examines the specific methodology of incantation, or spell casting, while noting that the principles discussed herein are broadly applicable to other forms of magical operations. A wide range of sources, both online and in print, offer various interpretations of spell casting.

The subject matter encompasses elements that are both straightforward and intricate. Therefore, this article emphasizes clarity and conciseness, ensuring the explanation is accessible yet substantial enough to do justice to the topic.

Fundamentals of Spell Casting

Spell casting commences with a clearly defined need or desire, which may arise from personal motivation or external circumstances. However, regardless of perceived necessity or external prescription, successful spell casting fundamentally depends on the potency of one’s desire and the strength of will.

Clarifying Intention

A practitioner must identify their goal with precision—whether it involves creation, transformation, or preservation. Creation pertains to manifesting something not yet existing; transformation refers to altering the current state of affairs; destruction, as a subset of transformation, involves neutralizing unwanted influences; preservation focuses on maintaining and protecting established states, objects, or individuals.

While these categories may overlap, what remains critical is an unambiguous understanding of the desired outcome. Ambivalence undermines intent; you must be clear and you must truly want the object of your desire.

Desire and Will

Desire measures the intensity of aspiration for a particular result. Elevated levels of desire channel greater force into the process. Upon fostering and concentrating this desire, a focused application of will emerges.

Will, in this context, denotes unwavering determination and focus exclusively directed toward achieving success. It embodies certainty and inevitability, serving as the driving force behind the intended outcome.

Technical Process of Spell Casting

Here is a combined statement of the how-to, along with what some magical lore suggests is happening as you act,

1. Best practices involve clearing your aura or chakras and banishing stagnant frequencies or energetic debris from your work space ahead of spell casting. If you are casting a spell at home or in a similarly safe, controlled setting bring out the burned sage or execute a banishing right. If you are in public or need to be discreet, a good chakra clearing exercise, cleansing breaths, or banishing incantation you can enact discreetly will suffice.
2. Take a moment to see and feel your desired outcome. See how you want things to go and inhabit that scene or embody the realization of your success. Do this with clarity and conviction, then release and focus on the process.
3. Align with the power you are deploying for this magic. This could be a planetary sphere, element, spirit, idea, symbol, color, crystal, or just your own will. Focus on your power source and direct it through your body and into the work area with intention, chanting, symbol gazing, or whatever method works for you.
4. With your willpower and any other method available, raise the energy of your magic. To be clear: you have brought the power to drive the work into your space, now you add willpower and deliberately raise the level of focus and intensity to be applied. Do this by concentrating, affirming, dancing, raising kundalini, or however you wish. Think of this as raising a field of charged energy.
5. Recite the incantation, i.e. cast your spell, into this charged field. Use the words to weave your willpower further into the accumulated energy and to direct the energy as to what it will do.
6. Put all your intent, willpower, emotion, and energy into a final explosive delivery of instruction into the charged field, then hurl the programmed energy into the causal space.
7. Seal this with a final, brief image of your desired outcome as a reality.
8. Ground this image of victory through your body and into the earth.
9. Let go. Let all the gathered energy pass through you or pass out of the area towards the work at hand. Forget about the magic and move on.

I realize some of this will need unpacking, especially for the very new to the topic. I will do just that on the posts and pages of this blog, but I will let this explanation stand on its own on this page because the interpretation of the magician who reads this, via their intuition and any other process of gnosis I might be able to convey, is as valuable or more so than any instructional breakdown.