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Today in the United States is Thanksgiving Day. This is a day for feasting, families, and gratitude. As such, it’s an excellent time to do a little kitchen magick to bolster your connections and relationships. Whether you are creating your own feast or contributing a dish, you can do a little spell during its creation. As you are preparing the food, you can stir it clockwise, or if making dough, you can speak the following words while kneading it: Let this food nourish,May our ...
The holidays are almost upon us, stretching from Samhain through Twelfth Night. Before you start all that holiday cooking, it’s time to clean the kitchen! Light some jar candles and put on some music. Invoke Hestia, Rosmerta, and the Kitchen God. Use your favorite green cleaners and floor washes, or a mixture of vinegar and baking soda (don’t lean over it; it bubbles), and get to work. Sing at the top of your lungs as you scrub your heart out. Clean the oven, wash the stove and ...
While we don’t wish harm on an yone, sometimes we just need to get a bad egg out of our lives. As Kitchen Witches, we like to use things that are readily available in our house for magick, like our garbage disposal. If there’s a person or habit you want out of your life, write their name on a piece of paper and mix it with something you’re going to send down the garbage disposal. As you mix the name and the (most likely) old, moldy food, say: I wish you no harm, ...
One of the staples in my kitchen is a blend of herbs usually called “Italian seasoning.” It’s a great addition not only to Italian dishes but also to soups, sauces, and stews of all kinds, but it can also have magical benefits. I prefer to make and empower my own mixture. You can mix the ingredients listed below in a bowl and then empower the combined herbs. Each of the herbs is attuned to love, protection, and healing magic, so they can be charged with the general intention ...
