✨🌿 Green Witch’s Comfort Spell Jar 🌲
In a small jar with a cork top, layer:
Basil
Lemongrass or Lemon Balm
Rosemary
Tree Bark (I used White Oak)
Cinnamon
Fennel Seeds
Ginger Root
Mint
Pine Needles
Let it charge in the sun for an afternoon near your houseplants, in the garden, or even under a favorite tree in the woods. For an extra boost, charge it near a moss agate stone too! Later, seal it with green or white wax and recite:
You can now take your little piece of the Forest inside your spell jar with you wherever you go as a reminder of your Green Witch oath and path. It’s great to keep in your bag, purse, or travel altar! Blessed be, lovelies! 💖🌿
i have chronic sleep deprivation from insomnia and i tend to have a lot of nightmares and since my last spells have worked, i gave this my energy next
ingredients:
bay leaf - protection, physic powers, wish fullfillment
lemonbalm - divination, promote sleep, relieve stress and anxiety
mugwort - promote sleep and physic powers
nettle - grounding, banishing negativity, cleansing
snail shells - peace, protection, meditation
smokey and clear quarts - increase spell potential, awarness, subconsious, dreamwork
sigil for sleeping well
the piece of quartz i had was actually collected by me and has both clear and smokey parts in it, we have a lot of quarts next to my grandparents' cottage and there's wariety of clear, rose, smokey and milk/white quartz ✨
To the menstruating anon, try raspberry leaf, rosehips, and hops (individually) or together in herbal infusion! (Fairly sure there a little to no medical implications to these herbs) ♡
Witchy teas~ Thank you for the tips ^^
(Also, because I forgot about this earlier, be sure to double and triple check any herbs and their effects on the body / hormones / mind / what have you before ingesting!)
💰Abundance Pesto💰
Here is a recipe that is dear to my heart. I’ve been doing it for years and it has always attracted me the liitle extra that I would need in difficult times!
✨Ingredients
75g basil leaves (that’s a lot, be prepared to buy accordingly)
50g pine nuts
2 garlic cloves
50g fresh grated parmesan
100mL extra virgin olive oil
1.5 tsp salt
Pepper to taste
✨Prep time: 10 minutes
✨Equipment
A mixer robot
✨Spell Setting
Usually when I do kitchen witchcraft I like to keep it casual, but this time I feel like I should go the extra mile. Disclaimer, this is the way I do it. If there is things you want to add: prayers to you deities, meditations, crystals, anything that makes sense to you, please do! Magical practices are really personal, and I strongly encourage you to make it this spell setting your own by adapting it tou your needs!
First I burn some incense to purify the space. Then I setup some nice music that makes me feel good and entered. I love to listening to soft happy piano jazz or bossa nova. Here is a youtube channel that I like to listen when I cook. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJhjE7wbdYAae1G25m0tHAA
Before I start prepping the food, I like to setup an altar on my windowsill. I am going to bless the food and ask for abundance. To do so I light 2 or 3 tea lights, I nicely arrange all the ingredients around them. If you want to work with tarot cards you can place the cards around too, same for crystals, charms, deities representation. As for myself I like to work with The Queen of Pentacles because I strongly identify with her and she represent abundance in the home.
I like to sit in front of my window and take a few deep breath, thanking the food for all the good things it will bring to me. I’ll also take this time to visualize what I want as precisely as I can, usually I want financial abundance, but it can work for other things as well!
✨Magical intents
Basil: Protection and Money
Pine nuts: Money
Garlic: Protection
Olive Oil: Protection and Luxury. To me, olive oil represent the abundance, the luxury you want to attract in your life. So I implore you to buy extra virgin olive oil (or the best that you can afford). You will thank me for the the taste and you’ll step up your vinaigrette game!
✨Recipe
Grate the parmesan
Roast the pine nuts in a dry pan (no need to add oil). Be careful they burn quickly
Roughly cut the garlic cloves
In the robot, add the basil leaves with garlic and pine nuts. Blitz for a few seconds until chopped.
Add the parmesan and blitz again
Add the oil and blitz again
Store in the fridge in an air tight container for 2 weeks
✨Tips:
Don’t use dry basil for this recipe
You can use the sauce with pasta, but it’s also good with an omelette, or as a spread on a toast or a focaccia.
Happy witching!
If you go for a walk in the forest, remember these ten things:
If you pass by a ring of mushrooms, don’t step in the circle, but do tell the mushrooms your dreams. They love to hear stories.
If you see large, foreboding pawprints in the middle of the trail, do not follow them; the path leads only to sorrow and despair.
If you hear the lull of a flute by the bubbling of a river, you may listen, but not for long; if you linger, you can never leave.
Be sure to keep any items you bring secured in your rucksack, with a few seashells hanging from it; the crashing waves from the shells will scare off thieves.
Return home before night falls. You never know what might appear when the forest is cloaked in darkness.
If you do stay after sundown, do not look at the stars. They are temptresses in their beauty, but can bring death and destruction.
If you come across wildlife, avoid eye contact. Some creatures may steal your soul if you stare long enough.
Never pass under a gnarled, curling tree, for you may enter a world that looks like your own, but is different still.
If you find a jar of honey or jam resting upon a boulder, ignore it. There are those who would tempt you with sweet nothings; don’t accept their gifts.
Mark a trail from your starting point with plain yarn. If you cut the trees, they’ll come for you. If you tie a ribbon on branches, they’ll capture you.
Be wary of the forest and all of its inhabitants. It is beautiful and wondrous, but can be frightful and merciless.
Souls cakes are small round cakes which is traditionally made for Halloween. Originally the poor would knock on doors of wealthier families begging for leftover soul cakes, in turn for a prayer. And thus the trick or treating tradition began! A great offering for the dead, and your family at that matter.
3 ½ cup flour
½ cup white sugar
½ cup brown sugar
1 cup cold butter
A pinch of salt
Splash of vanilla
1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
1 tbsp cinnamon
2 tsp all-spice
A pinch of ground cloves
1 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
Dried cranberries/currents/raisins
Candied Orange Peel
A spoon full of honey
3 tbsp almond milk
¼ cup chopped hazelnuts
For a simple frosting:
3 tbsp softened butter
3 tbsp cream
1 tsp vanila extract
Red or orange food dye
¼ cup powdered sugar
¼ cup almond milk/alternative milk
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl combine flour, spices, salt, and baking powder. In a smaller ball, rehydrate your dried fruit with apple cider vinegar (sounds weird, but trust me it soften the tart bite of dried fruit).
Cut cold butter into the flour mixture until it becomes evenly crumbly. Mix in sugar and eggs. Once completely combined, add your almond milk, dried fruit and candied orange peel. Add in hazelnuts and honey.
Kneed dough until it becomes solid, if you think it’s too liquidy, add in more flour. If it’s too dry, add in more almond milk.
Once you’ve got your dough, plastic wrap it, and put it in the freezer for 15 minutes. Kneed the dough out, roll it, and cut them into circles. I personally use a biscuit cutter, and that works fine ~ Although you can use a knife or a cookie cutter as well!
Place them on baking sheets and with the flat end of a knife, make crosses that come to look like plus signs. Not too deep to cut the cookie in half, but not to shallow or else it will fade away while baking.
Place them in the oven for 25 minutes, or until done. While baking, combine your frosting ingredients and beat with a fork. Shovel into piping bag with a thin tip.
Once the cookies are out of the oven, let them cool to room temperature before frosting. Now with your festive orange or red or even black frosting, pipe along the cross to define it. You could also skip the frosting all together if your not a frosting person - but I suggest it since these cakes are not overly sweet.
\ Garnish to your liking and serve for a tasty Samhain! \
~ Blessed be, Angel….
Small things you can do for Yule 🌲✨
Decorate your Altar with Pine cones, Holly leaves and Pine leaves 🌲
Wear winter colours of dark greens, Black, Grey and Maroon.
Grown indoor plants during the winter🌱
Cleanse your space with Musky incense and candles and be fresh for the colder months ahead ✨
Use various nuts in cooking for any correspondenses in your kitchen Witchcraft
Cook veg stews (or meat) with herbs to keep you warm ✨
Put birdhouses in your garden to keep the birds warm and feed them seed 🐦
Do some winter inspired make up looks and outfits with your glamour spells ❄️✨
Comforting Tea Spell
If a friend shows up at your doorstep in tears or distraught and is looking for comfort, brew her a witchy cup of tea by imbuing it with your intentions: visualize your friend being warmed and soothed by your cup of tea as she drinks it. As a witch, your intent carries great power through your actions. You perform everyday actions with intent and become more attuned to yourself and the way things work in the world around you. By learning to channel your desires through the spellwork you do, you will manifest happiness, joy, and abundance in your life. 🍵
Lemon Balm
Mint
Chamomile flowers
Lavender
Rosemary
Any additional add-ins you wish to brew into your tea based on your intentions, such as cinnamon for luck, ginger for strength, or sugar for sweetness
Steep the tea blend in a tea pot or in a loved mug. As it’s steeping, stir the contents with a spoon clockwise and imbue your intent into the tea. Visualize your friend being warmed and soothed by the tea, or imagine her delight when she tastes the tea.
Add any additional spices, herbs, or sugar you’d like to add to the tea now. Consider their magical associations. Add a pinch of cinnamon for luck, or a pinch of ginger for strength, a pinch of thyme for courage, or a pinch of rosemary or salt for protection. Add sugar for sweetness if desired, for both taste and sweetness in mood.
Stir the tea, three times clockwise, one final time and recite: “With tea and spell, and help from above, all is well, light and love.” Then tap your spoon on the mug or teapot three times to seal the spell.
Serve the tea lovingly to your friend or loved one.
- i found this charming little recipe this morning and basically fell in love and want to surprise my partner with a cute lil romantic dinner when they come home from work today! I was thinking a ‘fancy’ garlic bread to go with it for sure :) but I need some veggie side ideas or something! maybe soup? anyone know how to make a good minestrone? im kinda stumped ;(