Categories of Spells

Magick and witchcraft are immense practices, touching on the universal qualities of life and living. It is nearly limitless in its content so long as the Athiccan Rede is heeded. While it’s possible to focus on the broad categories of love, health, and prosperity, there are also more subtle subdivisions like passion, mental well-being, or productivity.

While this list of categories is not exhaustive, it is meant to inspire the possibilities of what magick can be used to achieve. The subject of any class of magick is often a person or a place.

• Banishment
  To drive out unwanted energies
• Beauty
  To promote healthy self-perception or inspire the willingness to display or project it
• Binding
  To place limits on the strength, influence, or abilities of an unwanted energy
• Blessing
  To grant favor or endow with enlightenment
• Calm
  To instill or encourage quietness within
• Charging
  To empower with desired energies for a specific purpose (usually after Cleansing or Purification)
• Chastity
  To inspire sexual restraint
• Clarity
  To coherently and truthfully see, hear, feel, and sense
• Cleansing
  To render neutral by removing unwanted energies (compare to Purification)
• Consecration
  To cleanse and charge (see Cleansing and Charging)
• Courage
  To inspire action in the face of fear, challenge, or resentment
• Curse-breaking
  To eliminate or diminish a hex or ill-will
• Dreams
  To foster pleasant and meaningful dreams, and diminish nightmares; to enhance the recollection of dreams
• Emotional balance
  To encourage emotional health by promoting beneficial feelings and minimizing destructive ones
• Employment
  To enhance the enjoyment of a current job or increase the chances of getting a new job
• Exorcism
  (See Banishment)
• Familiar magick
  To perform magick with the cooperation of a familiar spirit
• Fertility
  To promote sexual reproduction
• Fidelity
  To encourage allegiance or loyalty
• Finding
  To discover or reveal, such as a location of an object
• Friendship
  To inspire friendly acts or promote a friendly relationship
• Gratitude
  To show appreciation for gifts or achievements
• Happiness
  To seek a state of joy or satisfaction
• Harmony
  To foster mutual agreement or understanding
• Healing
  To remove ailments, repair damage, and speed recovery (compare to Health)
• Health
  To prevent the infliction of ailments or damage (compare to Healing)
• Hex-breaking
  (See Curse-breaking)
• Inspiration
  To improve creativity; to increase motivation to take action
• Intellect
  To improve the ability to reason or understand
• Jobs
  (See Employment)
• Longevity
  To advance the length of existence
• Love
  To inspire or nurture deep affections
• Luck
  To expand receptiveness to items or actions of chance
• Magickal energy
  To enhance the power or effectiveness of magick
• Meditation
  To perform magick via receptive means (e.g., focused contemplation, deep mental or psychic states)
• Memory
  To enhance the ability to save and recall information
• Mental balance
  To encourage mental health by promoting beneficial thoughts and minimizing destructive ones
• Money
  To develop the ability to generate income; to nurture the worthiness or enhance the likelihood of receiving funds
• Nightmares
  (See Dreams)
• Passion
  To enhance intense desire and nurture enthusiasm
• Peace
  To remove conflict and advance mutual tranquility, well-being, and respect
• Petitioning
  (See Wishes)
• Pleasant dreams
  (See Dreams)
• Prosperity
  To promote the ability to be prosperous; to nurture the worthiness or enhance the likelihood of being prosperous
• Protection
  To create a barrier against or repel the encroachment of unwanted energies
• Psychic abilities
  To enhance the ability to receive or project psychic energy
• Purification
  To render neutral by instilling energies that negate what is already present (if a Cleansing is not possible or practical)
• Rainy weather
  (See Weather)
• Ritual
  To perform magick via projective means (e.g., spoken words, movement, offerings)
• Sex
  To increase the enjoyment or likelihood of sexual relationships
• Sexual potency
  (See Fertility)
• Sleep
  To enhance or improve the quality of rest and relaxation
• Spirituality
  To nurture the development, benefit, and enjoyment of a spiritual state of mind or practice
• Strength
  To improve the ability to generate and project power
• Success
  To improve the ability and likelihood of accomplishing a goal
• Sunny weather
  (See Weather)
• Sympathy
  To nurture feelings of understanding during times of difficulty
• Travel
  To promote safe, uninterrupted, and enjoyable voyages
• Visions
  (See Psychic abilities)
• Weather
  To encourage weather that is beneficial or enjoyable
• Wishes
  To ask for something of value or benefit, or to increase the likelihood of receiving it
• Wisdom
  To encourage wise actions; to encourage development of principles based on experience and awareness