You previously said that you believe even doing simple things in spellwork, like leaving something in a dish of salt, need to be worked over. How would you work over simple things like that? Burning a candle? Just infusing it with some energy?
Even more simple than infusing it with energy, maybe.
This isn't like, set in stone. But I generally believe that the first step of all Witchcraft is permission.
As in, you speak from a place of authority as a Witch, and give permission that reality may become abnormal.
Witchcraft is abnormal, in my opinion. I think it's perfectly nice that people build paradigms based on the idea that magic is altogether completely natural and there is no difference between the magic and normal, but I like the sinister stuff.
So IMO the first, most basic, essential "working over" is to take something (the dish of salt) and, give it permission to become abnormal and begin to effect reality abnormally.
This is the hinge upon which Witchcraft pivots: the Witch going in and taking normal things, and realigning the tracks of fate beneath them, compelling things to start happening which never would have happened if not for that specific intervention.
A dish of salt does not normally just make a space clear of emotions. If it did so, that would not be normal. It would be abnormal. Paranormal, even.
So how do you get salt to stop being normal, and start being a paranormal substance that does abnormal things?
Charging with energy is a later step. You charge with energy to fulfill an intent already set.
The first step is to give reality - the reality of the salt, of the emotions in the room - permission to be a fucked up little guy. It's easy as pie. And it mostly comes down to magical headspace: you seeing reality as something quite permeable, and easy to change, and almost illusory, springing from the web of fate that underpins it; but you can change that fate. Reality likes us. It mimics us to show that it wants to be friends. Put yourself in a state where the world is mutable, and around you the world complies.
So step one is magical headspace.
Step two is telling the salt what to do. "Listen here, you fucked up glorious little guy. Before you were dead, only crystals harvested and mined, sold on a grocery shelf where you've been reduced to nothing but flavor. They chew on your bones and forget to worship your soul. But here, in my house, you are a god. Rise from your grave in this new form, to this new purpose: purify from this room the unwanted, the harmful, and the malignant. By my word and my will, this new fate has been granted to you."
No energy work. No visualization. Just tell it like it is.
Or you could be more corporate about it. "This salt purifies negative energy from the room." It's just setting intent, if you want to be crude.
It's hard for me to do corporate magic. With all apologies to the people who do prefer the very simplified present-tense intentions.
Reality mimics us. If something is stirring inside of you, then something is stirring inside of the salt. No visualizing energy roots required.
A simple sentence may not be enough, or a paragraph. Sometimes it takes a while to find the right words. Maybe the salt isn't really a god. Maybe it's a gnome, a saltwork machine, the dead crest of a long-forgotten ocean wave that preserved a billion amoeba in crystalline purity, ready now to purify your room.
Over time, intuition and experience will both grow and combine to advise exactly what to say.
After all, you're telling it like it is - not making it up.
Go to the place where magic is real and you're doing it.
Assign new fates through words.
These are the simplest steps to working over something.
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