What ingredients should you use then if you want to cast a spell, or make a potent wish?

Well first of all you don't really need eye of newt, nor wing of bat, but in fact many of the items in your cupboards or available on a supermarket shelf will do very well indeed. The key to choosing your ingredients depends on the intent of the spell or wish, if you have found a spell in a book you want to cast, then stick to the ingredients listed in that where possible. The most common things used in spellcasting though are:

herbs
incense or resin
candles
an item to represent your wish (eg a gold coin for money, love letter for romance)
crystals
essential oils
ribbon
runes
items to represent the four elements and associated directions; earth (north), air (east), fire (south), water (west).

To pull all the ingredients together think about the properties of each and the colour association. Some simple combinations would be:

for heightened spirituality choose a purple candle, an amethyst and/or clear quartz, purple or white ribbon, some echinacea and lavender oil.

to cleanse your personal space choose a clear quartz crystal and some thyme

to encourage wealth and prosperity, use the rune fehu (carve your own on some wood, or paint it on a pebble), use a citrine crystal, some money, gold candles and some gold ribbon.

So you see choosing ingredients depends on their properties and your intent. Make sure you research well before pulling everything together, spells can be powerful things and don't forget the rules of threefold, positivity, no harm and belief.

It is also important to take care about the ritual you enter when casting a spell, the phase of the moon as well as the words you use. Take a look at the sections on ritual and the moon for more detail on these areas

 

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