Author: A Solitary Pagan
Ingredients for a Kitchen Witch: Catnip – Happiness
What is life without a little extra happiness? I mean have you seen what it does for cats? Hang Catnip in your home, at your desk, or in your car to attract good spirits. Use catnip in spell work focused on creating happiness in your life.
Ingredients for a Kitchen Witch: Lavender – Peace
We all need a little more peace in our lives and Lavender is the herb for the job. Wear lavender essential oil on your clothing, place bunches in your home (dried or fresh), and smolder as an incense to maintain peace in the home.
Ingredients for a Kitchen Witch: Lemon – Friendship
Lemon is great for forging new and maintaining established friendships. At your next meal or dinner party rub a little lemon essential oil on each chair where your family or guests will sit. Also, place lemon in you center piece to help strengthen established relationships and develop new ones.
Ingredients for a Kitchen Witch: Rosemary – Purification
A tasty protector! Place rosemary in baths, teas, mix it in with Peach, smolder it as an incense… Rosemary is a very versatile ingredient you can use in recipes all the way up to making your own simmer scents to fragrance your home.
Ingredients for a Kitchen Witch: Orange – Divination
Eat an orange as you perform Divinations to help speed the clues and answers you seek. Often the practice of using Orange in divination exercises requires a yes or no question to be asked. Once you are finished eating your orange count the seeds. An odd number of seeds gives you a yes answer, an even number means no.
Ingredients for a Kitchen Witch: Tea – Courage
We all need a little courage now and then. As Witches, we are often looked down upon as we are miss-represented and feared by those who are ill-educated. This is only one example of why you could need a little extra courage on any given day. Sip some tea on mornings when you feel you need a little boost to get you through the day.
Ingredients for a Kitchen Witch: Basil – Protection
Basil – ProtectionWhile Basil is known to serve many purposes Ione use for basil is protection. Place it sauces, use as a garnish or in homemade salad dressing. You can even place a bunch on your altar or in a flower arrangement.
Kitchen Witch: The Ritual of Eating 1.1
The Ritual of Eating is a simple practice. We put food into our mouths, then chew and swallow it. Because of food’s importance, it has been linked with politics, social structures, legal systems, health maintenance, magic and, oh yes, religion. Our lives still contain vestiges of these earlier practices. Prayer (or “saying grace”) before meals is perhaps the most common. It is popular not on...
Kitchen Witch: The Ritual of Eating 1.2
When the harvest had been spared, our ancestors thanked their deities with offerings of food. This may have been buried, flung into the air, or tossed into afire. The portion earmarked for the deities wasn’t consumed by humans. Even today, with tremendous botanical knowledge and global weather reporting, farmers in most parts of the world are still at the mercy of natural forces. The increased kno...
Kitchen Witch: The Ritual of Eating 1.3
Our ancestors worshipped food, seeing it as a gift from the hands of their deities. Food magicians don’t worship food, though we respect it as a life-sustaining substance containing the energies of the earth. Food is a manifestation of divine energies that’s vital to our survival. Approaching food from this frame of mind makes it easier for us to utilize it as a tool of self-transformation.
Kitchen Witch: The Ritual of Eating 1.4
About prayer: if you don’t subscribe to any particular religion, and haven’t been in the habit of praying before meals, there’s no reason for you to begin to do so. Prior to eating, simply attune with the food (all of the food, not just that which you’re eating for magical purposes). You can easily do this by placing your hands on either side of your portion of the food before beginning to eat. Se...
Kitchen Witch: Vegetarianism 1.1
Many witches are strict vegetarians. They shun meat, poultry, and fish; some even avoid eggs and milk products. They often believe that spiritual advancement and magical ability can only be obtained with such a diet. There are many kinds of vegetarians. Those who follow a macrobiotic diet eat little more than grains. The more common type commonly called “vegans,” add fruits, vegetables, and nuts t...