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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree, with flexible parts, on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it, and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. “
– Carl Sagan

One of the classic images of a spell caster or magic worker is seeing a Witch with a hefty book in front of her or a wizard unfurling a scroll.

Why do you suppose that is?

The entire point of magical work is to pull something from the ether, from the intangible realm of spirit and imagination, and give it form on the physical plane of existence.

At its core, this is what writing is and does.

You have a thought, and idea, a concept for something and it has no tangible, physical form. There is nothing to represent this in a physically manifested way.

Until you write it down. Now, that idea that formerly only lived as a thought has a physical essence. It has been pulled down from the ethereal and made manifest in the physical.

You have done magic.

But it can be taken even further.

Suppose that you purposely enchant your writing. You bless the ink and paper towards your purpose. You give it a goal of bringing health or prosperity or protection. You infuse your writing with that intention, pulling it first from the ether into the physical, and then working with it to craft a charm or enchantment 鈥� like tucking the folded paper into a poppet. Or you bury it at a crossroads so that it takes your desires through to the Underworld or across to another plane of existence beyond the boundaries here. Or you burn it so that the flame (which is the element of passion and energy) empowers it to further enhance your goal.

This is Inkcraft.

I have a black quill pen and selection of enchanted inks for writing particular spells, but I rarely choose to use them.

I鈥檓 a practical Witch. My regular method is a set of colored gel pens consecrated for magical use that are kept in a special container and only used for spiritual or magical things. I like to use different colors to correspond with different goals and purposes, so my collection of colored pens suits me.

I鈥檓 reminded of my first magical pen. It was one that had four buttons that let me select which color of ink I wanted to use. The options were black, blue, red, and green. I don鈥檛 know if these are still made but they were common in the 1990s, and as a beginner in the Craft, with limited funds and a need to still keep things private, this pen was perfect for writing out spells!

It also helped me to narrow down my needs for what aligned with my four choices of ink. Black was for boundaries, protection, secrets. Red was for energy, motion, quick action. Blue was for peace, dreams, intuition. And green was for health, wealth, and earth magic. In the years since, my color palatte has expanded and I鈥檝e found preferences for other colors. I now use orange or gold more often than green for anything money or prosperity related, for example. But I remember my first magical ink pen with fondness.

Highlighter pens are also useful to impart more focus and power. You can write an enchantment for love with red ink, and highlight words or lines with pink highlighter for this purpose. Inspiration and possibilities are infinite.

If you choose to use Inkcraft and don鈥檛 have access to a variety of colored pens, that鈥檚 fine. Choosing any pen you want and simply cleansing it of prior mundane energies and consecrating it for magical use will transform it into a magical tool. If you do this, you should keep it separate and only use it for this purpose. The more focused intention you apply to it, the more its power and usefulness grows.