The One Thing Every Witch Needs to Know and Master | Intention 

In this video I hope to outline the baseline understanding of intent and how to apply it in it’s most basic form to simple spellwork - there are quite a few layers of how it works and as with anything this is going to be vastly different for every practitioner. I hope to cover some more of its complexities in some videos to follow so let me know what questions you have and I’ll try my best to answer them here or in a future video! Thank you so much and I hope you enjoy!

I remember as a child, when I would blow out the candles on my birthday cake, I would think of what my wish was, then inhale deeply and as I blew out the candles, I believed I was blowing life into the wish. I didn't start practicing my craft until well into my 30s, after both of my parents past away. When I would read about 'setting my intent' for a spell, it just seemed a natural reaction to 'blow life into it', just as I did as a child. Now that I think about it- my birthday wishes almost always came true! Though I never did find a unicorn in the forest behind my house, guess it was just too muggy for such an ethereal creature in the pine forests of Florida, lol. I love your videos and the way you explain things on such an easily understandable level. Keep up the amazing work- but remember, you and your mental and physical health must come first! ~Jenn

I like the idea of singing my intention over the craft

“the worst that can happen is nothing” needed to hear that. thank you.

A little tip for people with ADHD. I often forget what my spells are for so i like to right a little description and information about it and tie it with a string of the spell or but it under depending on what its in. Its really helpful :)

What I appreciate most from your content is the calm, unhurried, enjoyment of the moment you bring. I have been so stuck on trying to "visualize" that I've been overlooking feeling the sensations, a pressurized current kinda thing. I forget steps/stuff from rushing. You remind me to breathe and enjoy.

Sometimes it’s damming hard to just trust the process after shit hits the fan in the mundane but it is so worthwhile

Thanks for mentioning methods other than visualization! As a person with aphantasia (no mind's eye), I really appreciate it. So many people seem to assume that everyone can "just picture" whatever. It's lovely to feel included for once!

I know this doesn't have anything to do with the video, but I just wanted to say that you are a serious inspiration. You are a woman that came out as a practicing witch and as part of the LGBTQ+ community, and even after all of that you still keep pushing and show your authentic and true self and that is amazing. Have a great day, Blessed Be💜

Can I just take a moment and say how much I love your new haircut!!! I'm in love! It really suits you 😁

I love how you explain each thing you pick to share with us. Even us older long time witches need to return to the basics again to refresh. We forget pieces over time or we just need a reminder from a fresh, calm voice. Blessed be my sister!

Everytime I watch your videos I'm blown away. The quality, the story and the education is always so we'll put together. 💕

The way I express magic to my daughter is intent, preparation and hard work. When you focus with an affinity for nature and pure good thought and purpose life is magic!

Your videos are always so gentle, enlightening, and lovely. Thank you for all the beauty you share with us.

Thank you so much beautiful soul! 🥰

Thank you SO MUCH for this. I'm new to all of this at the tender age of 48! I have just come to the realization that witchcraft and all things witchy, might be for me. I stumbled into the RU-vid-Verse a few months ago and found you and absolutely love your teachings. I struggle with READING the tons and tons of books out there (reading puts me to sleep instantly and I don't retain shit) And I've seen video after video talking about adding your intent...and I get the gist but you made it make sense. So thank you! 😊

This is such a nice explanation of what intention is meant to do and feel like, however I think there are many many forms that intent can manifest itself in. My personal manifestation is a physical sensation, like shivers of cold, that run through my body and into my hands. Visualization, though often talked about, I think is the most difficult way to work with intent. Many people, even visual-minded folks like artists and the like, have a hard time visualizing an abstract concept to go along with the 'light' or whatever visual they choose as their intention. I think sometimes people are so focused on visualizing the visual portion of their intent that their actual intent gets lost. Writing or speaking is definitely the most beginner friendly, or even finding a song that fits the emotion. Anyway, for those of you who are just beginning, your preferred manifestation of intention will present itself the more comfortable you get with your craft and there's nothing saying you have to change what works for you, even if you still with the thing you first learned.

I just have to say that I absolutely love you…your videos, your knowledge, your kindness, your overall being, and ability to inspire so many with all that you offer. You’re a beautiful soul.

This is the best explanation of intention I have seen. Thank you!

Honestly your videos are beautiful put together and so helpful so thank you 🥰

These days I have so many projects going on at once that my kitchen witchcraft is often exclusively intention-based, as I all too frequently forget to add any specific ingredients into my cooking for witchy purposes.

I’m a visual person so I always imagine my intent as a clump of earth and as it build in my heart it sprouts and green lush vines work their way from my core and down my arms and reaches out and wraps around my target and then flourishes into a beautiful wonderful other worldly flower and then releases from me and continues to exist on whatever I was focusing my intent on.

Loved the video, Annie. I actually just explained to my kids (who desperately wanted their first wands) that without intent, it's just a fancy stick.

Whenever I'm doing work to help focus my intent I create music playlist to listen to while I work and it's my favorite method alongside visualization.

Intentional energy is so important 💕 would love to see a video about how to better cultivate that energy

Thank you so much! I've struggled a lot with visualizing and I find telling far easier. This is one of the first times I've heard someone else mention it and it's extremely validating.

Great explanation! I often "feel" my intentions, not much visualizing, so I often struggle to explain it to others

the way I set intention is by kinda showing the spell what I want it to do; so instead of visualizing energy I visualize the outcome I would like to get. like I made a spell for good luck on my exams so I visualized taking it, what my professors could say, and what the mark could be in as much details as possible. it might be the wrong way of doing it but it worked for me so far

You have came so far. You are a blessing to all. Your journey will be a great one. Love from this old witch...

Something that's helped me so much is realizing I don't need to think the intention, I can just feel it. Lots of people have said things about how to word your intent making sure it sounds like it's already in the works. This confused me and got me hung up on simple spells. Instead I don't visualize my intent, I feel it. I let the energy I want to fulfill take over my body and infuse my ingredients. Works so much better for me :)

Following. And I must say, you are the prettiest witch I have ever seen.

Thank you for this video! There is a lot of good advice and insight here. I really like your thoughts on talking out your intention while doing a spell. I do it a lot also, and find it a tremendous aid' I started doing Qi Gong as a way of learning to raise and move energy throughout my body. The simple movements combined with breathing and visualizing the energy moving has helped me to learn so much how energy works and how to relax and allow yourself to "sense" the flow of it. But my biggest revelation came when i realized one day that the energy was moving because I had "intended" it to move! I remember reading somewhere that emotion is simply energy in motion: E-motion! Most of the time it is not our intention that is moving our energy , but simply our emotions. And since we are not always in control of our emotions, the energy moves and manifests in a lot of unwanted ways. But with intention, we direct our energy and our emotions toward a chosen result. . . . et voila! . . . - magick! However, I have also begun to understand that most of us don't really have a clear picture of what our intention really is. We think we want one thing when we really want something completely different. And so it becomes very necessary to establish a clear picture of our intentions and why we want what we do. It amazes me how the simple acts of engaging in magick leads us naturally into self-inspection and self-understanding!

Thank you so much for including non-visualizing options. My wife has aphantasia and finding mediation and intention resources that don't fully rely on visualization is difficult.

There are countless books on this subject, and you just explained it brilliantly in 10 minutes. Extremely helpful and inspiring. Thank you, and peace be with you friend.

Thank you SO MUCH for this explanation. I'm still quite new to contemporary witchcraft and noticed the phrase "set your intention" used so often I lost sense of it's dictionary definition, let alone understanding its meaning in a magickal context. I feel confident about its meaning now and how to incorporate it into my practice. Much appreciated!

Visualization is everything for me. I have always seen my energy and magick in color. So I do visualize beautiful swirls of color coming up from the earth into my body working it's way to my hands and fingertips. Even which colors I see have meaning in how they correlate to my intention. By the time I am well into the spells ingredients and workings, I can sense and visualize that strong color energy in my hands and fingers. I see it moving even while placing it into spell ingredients. For example the bay leaf (I work with that a great deal) I just touch my finger to the leaf and I can see that color moving through the veins of the leaf. When I see and feel that item filled with the energy I've manifested, I move onto the next item. It's an extraordinary sensation - emotionally, visually, all of it. If for some reason the energy doesn't feel like it's moving in me or I just cannot see the colors, I do set it aside for a bit and maybe meditate or just calm myself because that is my sign that I haven't worked on bringing the intention up and out. I love this part of my craft. It makes me feel strong, present, and genuinely in tune with the energy in and around me. Lovely video m'dear and describing or teaching how to find and effectively work with your intention is not easy :) you did really well with it.

My girlfriend introduced me to your channel and really loves your videos. She's taught me some really cool stuff. I'm really happy to see so many women embrace this craft to better shape their lives and foster positive mental health. Appreciate you.

Firstly, I love that colour of top on you, it looks really good! Secondly, this is a tricky subject to explain, like you said, it can be so unique to each individual practitioner! But you explained this so well!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Your voice and presence is so comforting and majestic. Thanks for your wisdom. 🖤

You are so magical……your energy is like a forest dew in the early morning or late at night…..you have wisdom and ability to communicate with plants and animals❤️

I love the way you talk and express yourself through hands movements and facial expression. You seem so wise, so kind, so calm. You're so beautiful, under so many different perspectives. Btw, intention in Buddhism is said to be what actually creates the result of an action. Is the first component of karma. So it makes total sense that the main, root ingredient of magic is intention.

I think that using intention in any aspect of your life makes the outcome better! and focus is really hard for some people. mindfulness, focus and intention trifecta! thanks for sharing xoxo

I feel like most places (and people) tells me that visualisation is the same as intent and there is no other way to use intent than visualisation, that the other methods are just bonuses you can spice up with, besides visualisation. It makes it really inaccessible when you think visualisation is something you have to do no matter what. But as you explain, that is not true.

Intent is so important I really would enjoy hearing more on the subject especially focus my mind get so busy my focus quite often gets interrupted . I really love the soothing calmness of your videos I could listen to you all day 🥰thank you for another brilliant video 🙏

Watching this channel is a blessing to my life - thank you!

Yay i needed this video since ive been truing to manifest good results for my exams coming up! You are the sweetest and i love you videos ❤️ hope you are doing amazing 🌙

Iv ran across this video right after doing my first “protection ritual” I don’t consider myself a witch. Just a very spiritual person using all the spiritual tools that feel good for me. I was just making a point to feel my intention. Iv always felt and said that intention is the most important. Iv found myself and others feeling inferior because they don’t have the flashy things…but I truly believe with a few tools and LOTS of heart and soul..it’ll be done. I enjoyed this video very much. Thank you for sharing your point because it helps me feel more secure.

I feel like im decent at intent. As a singer, each vocal take i record has to have a delivery that has all of my heart, mind, and soul behind it. Thank you so much for this video 😮 it is inspiring and informative 😊

Idk if anybody has said this yet, but your videos really relax me. The nice cinematography, the soft voice, and the kind nature of each and every one of your videos, and I learn a lot about the positives of witchcraft from watching your content. I hope you keep on uploading. Sometimes I play your videos in the background of me doing normal life stuff because your stuff really does make the atmosphere feel peaceful. Thanks!

You are amazing! 💯❤️‍🔥✨ The only thing I would add is how important controlling your own emotions behind your intentions IS… especially if the spell work is for yourself or others close to you. ❤️ Blessed be.

I find your voice vert calm and relaxing

Thank you so much for presenting witchcraft for what it truly is. There is so much truth in what you speak. 😊 Thank you for sharing your heart.

As an aphantasic I really appreciate you sharing other methods that visualisation. Beautiful video, wonderfully expressed.

Perfect clarification! Finally, the basics made simple!❤️❤️❤️

Your intros are always so beautiful!💕

This women voice is so soothing to my soul ...and she's just amazingly beautiful...really enjoy your videos thanks for tips

I’m not really a beginner but I love learning abt others

Thank you for this! I love looking at the background of your home. All the plants and flowers .so clean and peaceful and green witch! Thanks for all you do.

Thank you! This was very helpful! Yes, it is definitely easier to infuse intent with the use of magical herbs/tools

I absolutely love your channel I’ve been practicing for a few years now and definitely agree intent is everything

You described it soo well!! I like the breakdown you gave of different ways to infuse intent and how you pointed out intent and craft need eachother to make a spell work. All your videos are so lovely! 😄💚🌿

Nicely put sister 🧙 Blessed be 🌜🌝🌛✨🪴🌬🔥💦

I am so grateful to have discovered your channel! You bring a moment of peace, calm and soothing energy with each video. Thank you for your generosity in sharing your knowledge and beautiful spirit with us. Blessings!💐

Thank you for sharing. I consider myself spiritually agnostic, but always felt connected to witchcraft yet afraid I would fail at it. But the way you explained this subject was very lovely and helpful. Thank you again!

I always look forward to your videos, 🥰 you’ve become such a familiar face at this point. And the advice you give is a lot of help for someone like me who is finding their way through all of this by themself. I realized how much homework goes into practicing the craft. But the work helps keep me busy on my own while I patiently await future content 💚 Even if I wasn’t on this path, I’d still come to your channel for the amazing aesthetic 🪴🤍 good job!

I am so happy that I was referred to your channel by a friend. I mentioned to her that I was feeling kind of overwhelmed by all the things I thought I needed to learn right away and do perfectly. Regarding plants I've been intuitive with them as long as I can remember and they love me and thrive. I love how you explain things so calmly and slowly and my brain went to, don't worry, be happy. Thankyou. You help me to feel comfortable in my new journey at almost 65. Never to old to learn.

i just wanted to say thank you, i am new, very new to all of this, but i love it so much, i was confused and like you said in your introduction video had far more questions than answers, i just found your page and it to be completely honest is the most amazing and helpful tool i have had on my journey so far. I still have so so much to learn before it even starts to make since but i just wanted to say thank you for everything you do and the videos you make.

Watching your videos is so incredibly calming

Thank you. I have wondered and second guessed myself for years. Appreciate the suggestions and direction.

This video is so inspiring! The music, the visuals, and of course, the message. I usually multitask while listening to RU-vid videos, but this one really drew me in and I found myself really focused on what you were saying and able to imagine the ways in which I'd like to be more clear in my intentions. I've been going through some big life transitions and scrambling for answers and essentially not trusting myself. It's been all fear and stress. This video let me step out of it and start to dream up what I really want again. Thank you!

Thank you so much. You have such a calming way about you. Watching what you do, alone, is a learning experience x

I’ve been diving into your videos and I have to say I am so comforted! My practice is mainly a solitaire one with slightly ties to a local coven. I’ve been practicing since a young kid but dancing in and out with it and I’m not sure if it’s because of burnout or just doing to much too soon, almost as if I need to know everything right now. This isn’t the case I need to slow down and enjoy the ride. Thank you for these videos!

Great video! I see in my own craft that simple small spells work best for me, as I can really put the right energy/intention into it, just a visualization already does wonders. So indeed, without fancy tools you can already accomplish a lot :)

I feel a sense of freedom, embracing this without enduring that jugement of Christians ✝️ that raised me. You have helped me more with looking at witchcraft as a lovely thing. I am very happy! Thank you, Green Witch! For a long time, I saw it as a bad thing. Like a time I was 5 and went to a Halloween fest and I met a pretend witch. She took me into a dark room and stuck my hand in a couldran of nasty feeling things. I was disturbed when I pulled out a black heart! Hahahaha! But of course now i know it was all pretend, but, your channel is wonderful! I am writing my own book 📖 of shadows and am learning a lot despite being new to this. I'm treating this as seriously As a college course am am fascinated 😮 so thanks 😊

Your videos are lovely, and I am so grateful to you for sharing your experience, understanding and knowledge. I hear you!

The mug on your desk is so so adorable!

What a beautiful, loving and thoughtful channel! Thank you!

I'm so glad I found this channel! I've been binge watching all day! Your voice is so soothing btw

Thank you for this. I am one of the people who can not visualize and with so much being about visualization and I have always feared truly starting because I couldn't do what seemed like the most important part. This makes me feel so much better. Again Thank you so much.

Literally taking down notes!! I’m a newb and find your videos to be such a gift and an inspiration.

I wanted to thank you. I've recently found your channel and watched several of you witchcraft 101 videos and I realized I was hyper focusing on very small parts of the craft without really trying to integrate it into my life. So once again thank you.

Thank you so much for this explanation. I’m very new and wondered about intention and how to get it right. Here I’ve been doing it right all along. 😊

You are so eloquent and articulate I love watching your videos! Blessed be

I'm LOVINGGGGG your new haircut😍 you seriously pull it off sooooooo well

Your voice is so calming. I’ve been watching your videos all night. 💕

You're explanation in your sweet calm voice is perfect! ❤ Intent is so important!

This was a great video! You are so right…we see a lot of “intent” the word and the necessity of it when spell working..but not a lot of explanation and instruction on what intent means and looks like. Thanks for this 💗I love the idea of singing over a spell…I’ve not ever done that but it intrigues me. 😊~Krislynner

You were an inspiration to me to finally make a video about starting my journey. I’m really glad the universe directed me to your channel and I have it for resources and just the beauty in your videos. Thanks again and this video is lovely as all others. 💎

Thank you so much. I'm just beginning and was afraid to do a spell because I might do it wrong and it backfires or hurt something, someone or myself. I'm collecting things I can have for an alter but it doesn't feel magical. I didn't know how to make the magic work. I felt something's missing. Now I know but still little nervous about it. I have to do everything in secret because at my age, 69, I'm having to live with my very strict christian parents. They know I love nature and allow me to bring things inside my room that I found outside. I bring my crystals out to cleanse in the full moon but the next day I have to hide them. I feel sorry for them and hug them and tell them I'm sorry and I love them. I know nothing else. I want to be a Green Witch and a Forest Witch. And a Healing Witch like my great grandmother. Thank you for explaining this.

Yes. Thank you so much for this valuable information. I resonate with what you are talking about, and I have learned so much from you. blessed be.

I really enjoy the calmness and tone of your voice. Due to this magickal calmness, we have the ability to learn so much. Life is about the calmness and tranquility that is needed for our spell work. Im ever so grateful I found your channel.

It's so lovely that you show the world that there are so many ways to create a practice... and how there are many more ways to work than what the mainstream shows. I think it's so very helpful to those who are curious but cannot connect to the style of a more "gothic" practice.. so to speak. Naturally, each to their own... and that's really the best gift you give to the community... making daily practice personal. Thank you for giving us an intimate peak into your work. You are such a beautiful soul... inside and out~

Just started watching your channel today and i love your videos. Thank you for all the knowledge.

I adore your calmness

Loved this video darling, very helpful to reconcile some of my thoughts 🌻 thankyou! ☺️

Very well said, I'm in my 60's and this gift of the craft has been handed down to me from generations to generations in my family, you have described the Master of intention perfectly, your videos are a blessings with the teachings of the real craft. Thank you.

your video showed up randomly in my feed, I clicked on it and found myself drawn in. Definatly going to subscribe. I've been a wiccan since 2007 and i'm still learning and molding my craft and the way I practice. This has been very informative and I thank you.

Excellent video. Thank you for so eloquently explaining the power of intention. Looking forward to more of your videos.

Your videos always inspire me to practice my craft more. I really appreciate the hard work you put into these videos. Thanks for everything you do 😊

Such a beautiful video, thank you. I also make sure that my intention is “for the highest good” and not just for personal gain alone. For example if I want to earn enough money to go on a retreat the intention is about increasing my ability to learn (and then share with others). I think when are intentions come from a place of serving the greater good they are amplified a thousand fold. Thank you for your beautiful videos and teachings ❤️🙏