Spells are focused intentions combined with symbolic actions to create change in your life or the world around you.
Whether you want to attract love, manifest money, protect yourself from harm, or heal a broken heart, spells give you practical tools to direct energy toward your desires and make them real.
Today, I’m sharing everything you need to know about spells – what they are, how they work, the different types, essential ingredients, and casting techniques.
By the end of this guide, you’ll understand spell mechanics and know exactly how to cast effective magic for any situation you face.
What Are Spells?
Spells are rituals that combine intention, words, and physical actions to direct energy toward a specific goal.
Every spell has three core components: clear intention about what you want to happen, symbolic actions that represent your desire, and focused energy raised through emotion, visualization, or physical methods.
The word “spell” comes from Old English meaning “story” or “saying.” Originally, spells were spoken words of power – prayers, chants, or incantations.
Today, spells include candles, herbs, crystals, written petitions, and other tools that give physical form to invisible intentions.
How Spells Work
Spells work by focusing your mental and emotional energy into a concentrated beam directed at your desire.
When you perform a spell, you’re declaring your intention to the universe, raising power through ritual action, and sending that power out to reshape reality according to your will.
Everything in existence is made of energy vibrating at different frequencies.
Spells work by shifting energy from one state to another – from thought into physical manifestation, from stuck into flowing, from absent into present.
The ritual actions you perform act as bridges that carry energy from the invisible realm into visible reality.
Types of Spells
These are the types of spells for beginners to try at home or anywhere you feel comfortable
Love Spells
Love spells attract romantic partners, increase passion, heal heartbreak, or bring back lost lovers.
Common methods include honey jars that sweeten feelings, candle magic to ignite passion, mirror spells to create obsession, and petition papers describing your ideal relationship.
The most effective love spells use personal concerns like hair or photos to create direct links to specific people. General attraction spells work well for drawing compatible partners without targeting anyone specific.
Money Spells
Money spells attract wealth, create financial opportunities, and open pathways for abundance. Popular techniques include green candle magic, cinnamon for fast cash, bay leaves inscribed with dollar amounts, and prosperity jars filled with coins and herbs.
Money spells work best when combined with practical action. Magic opens doors, but you must walk through them. Cast before job interviews, when starting businesses, or during financial difficulties.
Protection Spells
Protection spells create energetic barriers that block negativity, harmful magic, evil intentions, and dangerous situations. Common methods include salt circles, mirror boxes that reflect attacks, black candles that absorb negativity, and protective amulets worn on the body.
Protection can be preventative shields you maintain constantly or reactive defenses cast when under attack. Strong protection uses iron, salt, obsidian, and rue.
Healing Spells
Healing spells restore health, ease pain, speed recovery, and bring emotional or spiritual healing.
Techniques include blue candles for health, crystal grids with healing stones, herbal baths with medicinal plants, and energy work directing healing light into affected areas.
Healing spells work alongside medical treatment, not as replacement. They support the body’s natural healing abilities and address energetic or emotional roots of physical illness.
Banishing Spells
Banishing spells remove unwanted people, situations, habits, or energies from your life.
Methods include burning rituals, freezer spells that freeze someone out, return to sender spells, and cleansing rituals with salt and sage.
Perform banishing spells during the waning moon when lunar energy naturally decreases and removes. They’re more forceful than simple releasing work because they actively push things away.
Binding Spells
Binding spells restrict someone’s ability to harm you or others. Techniques include tying knots while speaking the person’s name, wrapping photos in black thread, and petition papers specifying what actions you’re binding them from.
Use binding spells against people causing genuine harm – abusers, stalkers, bullies. They don’t harm the target but simply stop them from harming others.
Curse Breaking Spells
Curse breaking spells remove magical attacks, hexes, evil eye, or bad luck sent your way. Methods include uncrossing baths with hyssop and salt, egg cleansings, mirror work that reflects curses back, and burning black candles to destroy harmful magic.
Signs you need curse breaking: sudden terrible luck, unexplained illness doctors can’t diagnose, nightmares about specific people, and feeling energetically attacked.
Luck Spells
Luck spells attract good fortune, increase chances of success, and create favorable circumstances. Methods include four-leaf clover charms, green aventurine crystals, horseshoes hung above doors, and lucky number rituals.
Cast luck spells before important events like job interviews, court dates, or any situation where chance plays a role.
Beauty Spells
Beauty spells enhance physical appearance, increase confidence in how you look, and make others see you as attractive. Techniques include mirror magic with affirmations, rose water for radiant skin, honey and milk baths, and glamour spells cast over makeup or clothing.
Beauty spells work through both magic and increased confidence. When you believe you’re beautiful, you carry yourself differently and others respond to that energy.
Fertility Spells
Fertility spells help conception, support healthy pregnancy, and remove blocks to fertility. Methods include moonstone crystals, pomegranate symbolism, green candles, and planting seeds while visualizing pregnancy.
Fertility spells work alongside medical treatments and address both physical and energetic blocks to conception.
Career and Success Spells
Career spells attract job opportunities, bring promotions, increase professional skills, and create success. Techniques include burning orange candles for success, cinnamon for fast movement, bay leaves inscribed with job titles, and dressing oils before interviews.
Cast career spells when job hunting, before important meetings, when seeking raises, or when starting new ventures.
Friendship Spells
Friendship spells attract good friends, heal friendship conflicts, or strengthen existing friendships. Methods include yellow candles for friendship, lemon balm for reconciliation, and petition papers describing ideal friend qualities.
Cast friendship spells when feeling lonely, after moving to new places, or when friend groups have fractured.
Witchcraft Spells
Witchcraft spells encompass traditional folk magic practices passed down through generations.
These include creating spell jars with specific ingredient combinations, crafting poppets (dolls) to represent people, making witch bottles for protection, and working with familiar spirits or deities.
Traditional witchcraft spells often use items found in nature – bones, feathers, stones, dirt from specific locations – and emphasize moon phases, seasonal festivals, and ancestral wisdom.
Kitchen witchcraft uses cooking and food preparation as spellwork, while green witchcraft focuses on plant and herbal magic.
Essential Spell Ingredients
Here are some of the essential ingredients beginners can use in their spellwork.
Candles
Candles are the most common spell ingredient. Different colors carry different energies: red for passion, pink for love, green for money, white for purification, black for banishing, blue for healing, yellow for success, purple for spiritual power.
Carve names or symbols into candles, anoint them with oils, and roll them in herbs before lighting. The candle burns continuously releasing your intention.
Herbs and Plants
Herbs carry natural magical properties. Rose attracts love, lavender brings peace, basil creates loyalty, cinnamon speeds manifestation, rosemary offers protection, sage cleanses, bay leaves manifest wishes, mint attracts money.
Use herbs in spell jars, burn as incense, add to ritual baths, or sew into charm bags.
Crystals and Stones
Rose quartz attracts love, citrine brings abundance, black tourmaline protects, amethyst enhances intuition, clear quartz amplifies everything, obsidian absorbs negativity, carnelian boosts confidence, moonstone connects to lunar energy.
Place crystals on altars, carry in pockets, create crystal grids, or add to spell jars.
Oils and Anointing
Magical oils dress candles, anoint the body, and add fragrance to spellwork. Love oil contains rose and jasmine, money oil uses cinnamon and patchouli, protection oil blends frankincense and myrrh.
Anoint candles from middle to top then middle to bottom for attraction spells, or top to bottom for banishing.
Personal Concerns
Personal concerns are items directly connected to a person – hair, nail clippings, blood, saliva, handwriting, worn clothing, or photos. These create the strongest magical links.
Using personal concerns makes spells work faster and target more accurately than name-only spells.
Written Petitions
Petition papers are your desires written clearly on paper. Use present tense, include sensory details, and describe exactly what you want. Sign your name, date it, and add “this or something better.”
Write petitions in red ink for passion, green for money, pink for love, or black for banishing.
How to Cast a Spell
Learn how to cast a successful spell even if you are still a beginner. Just focus on the instructions.
Clarify Your Intention
Get crystal clear on exactly what you want. Instead of “I want love,” specify “I want a committed relationship with someone who shares my values and wants marriage within two years.”
Write your intention down. Speak it aloud. Make sure it feels true and exciting.
Gather Your Materials
Collect everything you need before beginning – candles, herbs, crystals, paper, pen, photos, and any other ingredients. Having to stop mid-ritual breaks your focus and weakens energy.
Cleanse your materials by passing through sage smoke, rinsing under water, or visualizing white light purifying them.
Create Sacred Space
Clear clutter and create an area dedicated to magical work. Cast circles by walking clockwise while visualizing protective light forming a boundary. Light incense or play meditation music to shift the atmosphere.
Turn off phones and ensure you won’t be interrupted. Privacy matters because other people’s skeptical energy can interfere.
Raise Energy
Raise energy through dancing, drumming, breath work, chanting, singing, or strong emotion. Physical movement is easiest for beginners.
Feel energy building inside your body like pressure or heat. Your body tingles, your heart races, and you feel almost too full of power.
Focus and Direct
At the peak of raised energy, direct all that power toward your intention. Visualize your desire as already real with sensory detail – see it, feel it, hear it, smell it, taste it.
Speak your intention aloud with conviction. Light your candle, tie your knot, seal your jar, or complete whatever physical action your spell requires.
Ground and Close
After releasing energy, ground yourself back to normal consciousness. Eat something, drink water, touch the earth, or sit quietly and breathe.
Close your sacred space by thanking spiritual forces, blowing out candles if they’re not meant to burn completely, and declaring the spell complete.
Moon Phases for Spellwork
New Moon
New moon is for new beginnings, fresh starts, and planting seeds. Cast spells for new love, new jobs, new opportunities during the three days surrounding the new moon.
Spells cast during new moon take the full lunar cycle to manifest as they grow along with the waxing moon.
Waxing Moon
Waxing moon is ideal for attraction spells, growth magic, increasing anything, and building toward goals. Cast money spells, love spells, success spells during this phase.
Each day the moon grows, your spell grows stronger. Momentum builds toward the full moon.
Full Moon
Full moon is peak lunar power. This phase amplifies all magic, brings things to completion, and works magic requiring maximum power.
Full moon energy lasts three days – the day before, day of, and day after – giving you a three-day window.
Waning Moon
Waning moon is perfect for banishing, releasing, decreasing, and removing. Cast spells to end relationships, break bad habits, banish negativity during this phase.
As the moon decreases, so does whatever you’re working to remove.
Timing Your Spells
Days of the Week
Monday (Moon) favors intuition and emotion. Tuesday (Mars) supports passion and conflict magic. Wednesday (Mercury) helps communication. Thursday (Jupiter) brings abundance. Friday (Venus) is perfect for love. Saturday (Saturn) works for binding and banishing. Sunday (Sun) boosts success and power.
Cast spells on the day that matches your intention for added planetary support.
Personal Timing
Your personal energy matters more than cosmic timing. If you’re exhausted, sick, or emotionally drained, wait until you feel strong and focused.
Trust your intuition about timing. Your inner knowing trumps general rules.
Making Spells More Powerful
Use Multiple Methods
Layer different spell types toward the same goal. Cast a candle spell, create a honey jar, perform mirror magic, and write petition papers all targeting the same desire.
Multiple simultaneous spells ensure that if one method encounters resistance, others continue working.
Repeat and Maintain
One-time spellcasting rarely creates lasting change. Light candles weekly, shake honey jars daily, speak chants every morning. Repetition builds momentum and keeps energy flowing.
Think of spells like exercise. Consistent practice over months creates dramatic change.
Combine Physical Action
Cast a job spell then actively apply for positions. Perform love magic then go places where you might meet people. Spells open doors but you must walk through them.
The universe responds to initiative. Physical action gives magic concrete pathways to work through.
Common Spell Mistakes
Lack of Belief
Doubt kills spells. If you cast while thinking “this probably won’t work,” you program failure into your magic.
Build belief by starting with small, simple spells that show quick results.
Unclear Intention
Vague spells create vague results. The more detailed your intention, the more precisely magic can deliver it.
Include timelines, specific qualities, and measurable outcomes.
Obsessive Checking
Desperately watching for results blocks manifestation. After casting, release attachment and trust that magic is working behind the scenes.
Results manifest most easily when you’re relaxed and open rather than desperately grasping.
Wrong Timing
Casting attraction spells during waning moon or banishing spells during waxing moon significantly weakens them.
Wait for appropriate timing to give your magic the support of cosmic forces.
Final Thoughts
Spells are practical tools for creating change through focused intention, symbolic action, and energy work. Start with simple spells using basic ingredients to build confidence.
As your skills grow, experiment with more complex workings, layered approaches, and advanced timing. The most powerful ingredient in any spell is you – your belief, intention, and energy focused toward what you desire.
