Empowering Crystals

I have just started really giving crystal magic thought and would like to share what I am learning with you. Within the next week I will post a brief guide to crystal correspondences along with an accompanying free printable BOS page. Last week I posed how to cleanse crystals since I have found many people don't know how or that they should. Today, however, I would like to address empowering or charging crystals with you magical intentions.

This is actually very easy and simple. You can empower crystals with your magical intent, whether that be to draw things to you--money, love, or luck--or keep things away. To do this, pick a crystal to match your magical intent, cleanse it, then charge it by chanting the following:

"This crystal I hold with intentions clear,
To contain the magic within it sphere.
Make it last and hold it long.
Enhance the magic, make it strong."

Envision your intentions infusing into the crystal and coming to pass while you chant. When you are finished, use it for whatever you needed it for or just carry it with you. Told you it was easy.

You can use this same technique to charge just about any magical object you use by simply changing the word "crystal" to that of the object you are using. However, I use a different chant for potions simply because I like chanting "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble," but you can use this for potions as well and even when you are cooking.

Do you use crystals in your magical workings? How?