Categories of Magick

The immensity of Witchcraft and magick;
it does touch on universal qualities
of life and living,
bounded only by heeding the Laws.

Some modes of magick,
there-being more Common and profound,
shall not be at the loss
of that which is Subtle or obscure.

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Performing magick is a great undertaking, as it can affect many aspects of life and the surrounding world. As long as the Athiccan Rede is followed, the possibilities of magick are boundless. 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.

No one type of magick is more powerful than any other. The effectiveness of magick is driven by the focus of the witch but is ultimately administered and managed by Nature.

Purpose of Magick

The first category of magick pertains to the purpose of the working, that being beneficial or baneful. Sometimes referred to as light or dark magick, they encompass opposite objectives.

Beneficial magick
Helpful, empowering, encouraging

Magick that is favorable to a person, situation, or place, in accordance with their permission, is considered to be beneficial magick. This is the primary focus of Athiccan practices. Both constructive and destructive magick can be used to achieve the intended outcome.

Baneful magick
Harmful, restrictive, interfering

Baneful spells are malicious or intrusive and intended to cause harm, such as curses, hexes, or any magick that interferes with a person's free will. In accordance with the Athiccan Rede, these workings are expressly forbidden.

Intent of Magick

While this list of intents 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 but can really be anything within Nature.

Banishment
To remove or prohibit harmful energies from a specific place or environment (compare to Exorcism)

Binding
To diminish the strength, influence, or effects of an unwanted energy, or its ability to inflict harm

Blessing
To grant favor or endow with enlightenment

Calming
To instill or encourage quietness within

Centering
To enter a state of being grounded, focused, and aware

Charging
To empower with desired energies for a specific purpose (usually after a Cleansing or Purification)

Chastity
To inspire restraint, whether sexual or in other ways

Clarity
To coherently and truthfully see, hear, feel, and sense

Cleansing
To render neutral by removing unwanted energies from within (compare to Purification)

Compassion
To help relieve another's difficulties or suffering (compare to Sympathy)

Confidence
To encourage the feeling of assurance in abilities or the certainty of truth

Consecration
To declare for a specific purpose; to denote as having a distinct purpose or meaning (often includes a Cleansing or Purification)

Courage
To inspire action in the face of fear, challenge, or resentment

Curse-breaking
To eliminate or diminish a hex or ill-will

Dream
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
To separate and expel an unwanted entity or presence from a person or place (compare to Banishment)

Familiar magick
To perform magick with the cooperation of a spiritual or psychic familiar

Fertility
To increase the chances and success of reproduction

Fidelity
To encourage allegiance or loyalty

Finding
To discover or reveal, such as the location of an object

Friendship
To inspire friendly acts or promote a friendly relationship

Gratitude
To show appreciation for gifts or achievements

Grounding
(See Centering)

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 to one's well-being (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

Job
(See Employment)

Life event
To recognize and celebrate life's milestones, such as births, birthdays, marriages, new homes, new jobs, deaths

Longevity
To advance the length of existence

Love
To inspire or nurture deep affections

Luck
To expand receptiveness to items or actions of chance

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

Nightmare
(See Dream)

Passion
To enhance intense desire and nurture enthusiasm

Peace
To remove conflict and advance mutual tranquility, well-being, and respect

Petition
To ask for something needed or necessary (compare to Wish)

Pleasant dream
(See Dream)

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 ability
To enhance the ability to receive or project psychic energy

Purification
To render neutral by using beneficial energies to negate unwanted energies (compare to Cleansing)

Rainy weather
(See Weather)

Sex
To increase the enjoyment or likelihood of sexual relations

Sexual potency
(See Fertility)

Sleep
To enhance or improve the quality of rest and relaxation (compare to Dream)

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 understand another's feelings or thoughts, especially during times of difficulty (compare to Compassion)

Travel
To promote safe, uninterrupted, and pleasant voyages

Wealth
(See Money or Prosperity)

Weather
To encourage weather that is beneficial or enjoyable

Wish
To ask for something wanted or desired, or to increase the likelihood of receiving it (compare to Petition)

Wisdom
To encourage wise actions; to encourage development of principles based on experience and awareness