I am rather new to the witch community on tumblr but I have been interested in witchcraft for years. I have come upon a reoccurring thing, many of my friends I wish to magically aid through teas and herbal brews, do not like the taste of tea. I have found that mixing herbal blends or herbs representing what you wish to occur into soups and broths work just as well! In fact if you choose the right soup you can get sometimes better results I have found. Soup mimics tea by being easily drank and can be served warm and hot, which I find very comforting.
First it is important to choose a soup or broth that goes well taste wise with the herbs you wish to use. You want it to taste pleasant for yourself or the one you are providing it to. Though, try to find a soup or stock or broth that corresponds with what you wish to achieve with the herbs to further strengthen and increase the outcome you wish.
A short list of correspondences:
Chicken Broth/Stock: Uncrossing, new growth, fertility, sacrifice, New beginnings, rebirth
Turkey Broth/Stock: Close connections to Earth, generosity, inspiration, bounty, blessings
Beef Broth/Stock: New beginnings, femininity/female power, fertility, strength, balance
Pork Broth/Stock or Bacon: Intelligence, good luck, prosperity, curiousity, discovering new things
Fish Broth/Stock: Close connections to Water, health, improving oneself, the unconcious mind, awareness, fertility, good luck, wishes, change
Shellfish/Clam/Mussel Broth/Stock/Soup/Chowder: Protection, stopping lies/gossip/rumors, removal or treatment of stubbornness, honesty, truth, close connections to both Water and Earth, living a natural life
Shrimp Broth/Stock: love, abundance, fertility, trying new things, moving forward
Cheese base/Milk base soup/Chowder: Beauty, femininity, love, self-love, purification, rebirth
Tomato Soup: Protection, prosperity, love, uncrossing, femininity, romance and passion, negation of negativity and evil
Pumpkin Soup: Healing, prosperity, love, protection, granting wishes
Squash Soup: Psychic awareness, spiritual enlightenment
Corn Chowder: connections to the sun, luck, prosperity, abundance
Onion Soup: protection, keep evil away, healing, banishing, stability, exorcism, money, lust, and ends bad habits
Pea Soup: Kindness, connections with Air
Mushroom Soup: psychic enhancement, connections to Earth, longevity, strength, immortality
Curry/Curry Soups: banishing, healing, prosperity, protection from negativity
Soups with Noodles: Longevity, uncrossing
Soups with Rice: prosperity, blessing, money and wealth, security, good fortune to come
Soups with Barley: Love, Healing, Protection Hopefully this will be helpful for any witches who are not very big fans of the taste of teas or for anyone else for that matter. I would love to hear or see any other suggestions for tea replacements or other soups that could be used. This came straight out of my Grimoire and I hope to add more of it to this site soon. Blessed be everyone!
They certainly are!
Foods:
Oatmeal, pinch o salt, milk, brown sugar, cinnamon, allspice
Diced potato, finely cut beef, salt paprika, basil, lemon zest, scrambled egg
Tilapia & Shrimp - salt, cilantro, lemon, paprika, chilli powder, basil
Steamed white rice, salt, brown sugar, cinnamon, allspice, milk
Green tea with lemongrass, lemon, & mint
I usually use sea salt, but whatever
Jar: Basil, Bay, Carrot, Egg shell, Lemon slices, pennies, sealed with green & yellow wax, I used Chinese lucky coins tied to a ribbon to tie around the jar.
Altar: Gold cloth, 2 green taper candles, 1 yellow chime candle, a crap load of foreign currency, pennies, serpentine, carnelian, jasper (yellow or greenish colors), dragon’s blood scent, fehu rune and/or the Sun card from shadowscapes, and some of the wands cards depending on context
Galdr: chanting “fe fe hu” for about half an hour, sometimes I mix in, depending on context fehu with uruz or ansuz and so on, and/or ansuz (the z sounds can conflate between uruz and ansuz, and the u sound can conflate hu all three, imo)
Listen to your favourite song about the subject, use lyrics like a chant. Dress up during song. Wear jewelry or clothes like a body altar (gold and green colors, brown and copper are pretty good, coins and currency signs, etc) to invite prosperity to you.
Enchanting a coin, a favourite coin, and wearing it (in your shoe, in your pocket, on a necklace, in your wallet is preferred tbh - you can even shake it to help “activate” it)
Theories on how magick works Theurgy and Thaumaturgy
Magic Vs. Magick
Types Of Witches
List Of Magick Tools
Magickal Tools
List Of Different Theistic Doctrines
List Of Acronyms For Magickal Concepts
Derogatory terms that I have ran into in the magickal community
The Crazy Stage
Things to remember
Belief
Understanding substituting, and reworking in spells, and rituals.
Reasons that a magick spell, or ritual would fail
Spiritual Verification? UPG To Lore!
How to undo a spell
Things you can use instead of candles in witchcraft, and other forms of magick.
Simple methods in order to help you opening your third eye
Energetic Blockages
Energetic Burnout
Energetic Overflow
How to get started on your magickal journey!
Chi Energy
Visualization
Exercise ideas for strengthening your visualization skills
Centering
Centering 2
Grounding
Grounding 2
Power Hand
Power Hand, and Receptive hand
Affirmations
Magickal Names
Magickal Names 2
Altered States Of Consciousness
Book of Shadows (BOS)
Pentagram, Pentacle, And Goat Of Mendes
Invoking, And Banishing The Pentagram
Casting And Undoing A Circle
Bubble Of White Light Protection
Warding In Witchcraft
Ways to cleanse a room
Shielding
Raising the cone of power
Liminality
Taglocks, And Magickal Links
Tarot Reading For Beginners
Connecting To The Elements
Spiritual Senses: The Clairs
Making A Magickal Wand, Or Staff
How exactly do you use a sigil?
Creating your own tarot spreads, and oracle cards spreads
Learning to write your own spells, and/or rituals
Symptoms Of Being Cursed, and Diagnostics methods
The 3 steps to get rid of a curse.
Meditation
Focal Meditation
Void Meditation
Problems, And Solutions For People Who Can’t Meditate
Planes Of Existence
The subtle bodies of the soul
The 10 Dimensions
Types of Personal Spirit Guides
How To Find Your Spirit Guides, And Guardian Angels
Spirit Guides
The Higher Self
The Laws Of Magick
The Seven Hermetic Principles of the Kybalion
The Law Of Attraction
Almond crescent moon cookies recipe
1 cup unsalted Butter - Softened
¼ cup Sugar
2 cup Flour
1 cup Ground Almonds
1 tsp Vanilla
Confectioners Sugar
Preheat oven to 300 degrees
Mix all ingredients
Chill for 4 hours
Cut out in crescent shape
Place on ungreased cookie sheet
Bake for 35 minutes
While hot, roll in confectioners sugar
Grimoire ideas
About you:
How you got started in the craft
Your spiritual journey
Things you connect to (animals, elements, plants, ect)
Types of magic you do
Your natal chart
Your deities (if you have any)
Correspondences:
Remember, you don't need to write down correspondences you will never need! So instead, write about...
Crystals you have/want
Plants you can grow yourself/already have around you. Check your spice cabinet
And list things to use those for! So that would be herb bundles to burn, salves, recipes, and so on.
Other things you can use in magic that you already have
This would be things like sea shells, snail shells, grass, dirt, candles. Get creative!
Other witchcraft stuff:
Your sigils
Planets
The sun/moon +moon phases
Zodiac signs
The elements
Symbolism (animals, shapes, and whatever else you wish to add)
Spells:
What makes a spell that works!!! This should help with making your own spells
What NOT to do
Different types of spells
Spells you will actually use
Divination:
A section on tarot cards and their meanings
How to use a pendulum
Meanings of oracle cards
Rune meanings and how to cast them
Lesser known forms of divination!!!
Mental health:
Grounding and centering
Burn out care and being energy efficient
A list of what motivates you to do your craft
Small spells for self care
Astral work:
Your astral space (a map, a description, drawings of important locations)
Your astral body, if it's any different than your physical one
A list of spirits and important information about them
Protection, sheilding, banishing, and safety
Manners when interacting with spirits and what NOT to do
Methods of projection/travel that work for you
Post-astral grounding methods
General spirit work:
How to interact with spirits and how NOT to interact with spirits
Protection, banishing, shielding, and other safety things
How to give offerings (there's more than one way!)
Methods of communicating with spirits
Signs of spirits
Ways spirits can send signs and messages (animals, dreams, and so on)
A list of different kinds of spirits you work with/have encountered
A section for research, especially if you're doing deity work.
Grounding, if it helps you afterwards
A log of interaction with spirits. This can be like a divination journal but with spirits, if that's what you do.
relatively simple, cheap, and super fulfilling summertime stir fry meal with a really easy side and a tea potion! ofc feel free to modify the recipe to what you have/like especially cause of quarantine, similar ingredients and good intention setting will do the trick~
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[ stir fry noodles & veggie ]
1 pk ramen
comfort, grounding
1/4 red & 1/4 green bell pepper
prosperity, communication, happiness, healing, protection, clears brain fog
2 tsp chili paste
energy, confidence, happiness, success, protection
2 tsp soy sauce
grounding, protection, stability, luck, communication, understanding, love
1 tbs teryaki sauce
prosperity, happiness, peace
red chili flake
energy, protection, strength, banish negative energies
garlic powder
healing, protection, strength, confidence, communication
fresh ginger
healing, energy, strength, happiness, prosperity, protection, mental clarity
[ steps ]
- prepare 2 cups hot water & the ramen seasoning packet and put aside
- slice/dice up & begin to sauté your peppers on med heat with some of the ramen liquid, garlic powder, red chili flake, salt & pepper
- begin to boil your ramen in plain water (witch tip; you can add a bay leaf if you want!) cook for 2 min then strain and add back into your cooking vessel
- add in sauces, ginger & chili paste + fully cooked peppers & toss together evenly over low heat
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[ fried rice ]
1/2 cup white rice
wealth, good health, happiness, healing, protection, wisdom, kindness, purity
1 cup water
sun water; healing, energy, renewal, confidence, strength, happiness
2-3 tsp soy sauce
grounding, protection, stability, luck, communication, understanding, love
1 egg (scrambled)
luck, happiness, success
1/4 c peas
healing, prosperity
1/2 med carrot (diced)
abundance, joy, kindness
[ steps ]
- cook rice then add in soy sauce with your veg & scrambled egg, season with salt, pepper and garlic powder :)
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[ summertime dinner tea ]
1 mug of water
sun water; healing, energy, renewal, confidence, strength, happiness
1 1/2 tsp black tea
grounding, healing, protection, strength, renewal
2-3 slices of fresh ginger
healing, energy, strength, happiness, prosperity, protection, mental clarity
1-2 tsp honey
healing, luck, prosperity, love, abundance, communication, happiness, wealth
[ steps ]
- steep ginger for about 3-4 minutes in boiling water then reduce to a quiet simmer; steep black tea for 4-5 minutes then stir in honey
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more recipes coming soon; feel free to leave asks or comments with suggestions for recipes you’d like to see!
🌱🍵 Green Garden Goddess Dip 🍵🌱
for Midsummer - Litha
1/2 cup green onion, thinly sliced
1 T. garlic, minced
1 T. olive oil
8 oz. spinach, triple washed, patted dry, and de-stemmed
1 avocado, peeled, pitted, and diced
1 cup loose parsley, washed well
1/4 cup chives, sliced
1 T. freshly chopped dill
1 T. lime juice
1/4 t. salt
1/4 t. hot sauce, of choice
1 - 8 oz. container plain vegan soy yogurt
In a non-stick skillet, saute the green onion and garlic in the olive oil for 2 minutes to soften. Add the spinach and continue to saute until the spinach just wilts. Remove the skillet from the heat and set aside to cool completely. Transfer the spinach mixture to a food processor. Add the remaining ingredients, except the vegan yogurt, and process for 2-3 minutes or until smooth. Add the vegan yogurt and process well to combine. Taste and add additional salt, hot sauce, or lime juice, to taste. Transfer the mixture to a glass bowl, cover, and chill for 30 minutes to allow the flavors to blend. Serve as an appetizer with raw vegetables, bread slices, crackers, or chips, or use as a condiment on sandwiches, cooked vegetables, or grains. Yield: 2 Cups
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Night 🥰
This little bit of a spell occurred to me when I was making breakfast this morning.
My grandmother taught me a little poem for counting crows for divination when I was younger. It goes like this:
1 for sadness 2 for mirth, 3 for marriage 4 for birth 5 for laughing 6 for crying 7 for sickness 8 for dying 9 for silver 10 for gold 11 is a secret that shall never be told
So here’s what you do. What do you need to manifest in your life? Select that number of eggs. I used 5 today. As you crack each egg into your pan or bowl, visualize what you are manifesting coming into your life. Today I used five eggs, and visualized the laughter of my children as we had a happy and positive day. Say out loud or in your head each step as you crack the eggs. One for sadness, two for mirth… etc. When you reach your number, Stir your eggs to charge your spell. Then add: salt for grounding, black pepper for protection from other magic. Visualize the strength of your spell being tightly wound to you as you do this. Cook your eggs and enjoy a good breakfast. As you eat, visualize what you have manifested entering your being.
That’s it! Some easy kitchen magic for you all today :)