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Fairy Wine Recipe [25 Jan 2008|12:13am] [ mood | crazy ] Fairy Wine Recipe Color of the day: Indigo Incense of the day: Patchouli It is said that if a human drinks from fairy wine, he or she will see fairies. If a fairy happens to drink from the same goblet, then the person will see fairies forevermore. The following is a traditional Welsh recipe for elderberry wine—also known as fairy wine. 7 lbs. elderberries, stripped and stalked 3 gallons boiling water 6 cloves 3 lbs. loaf sugar 1 lb. seedless raisins 1/2 oz. ground ginger 1/2 oz. yeast Place the berries in a large pot, and cover with the boiling water. Let the pot rest for twenty-four hours, then mash the fruit and strain it through a jelly bag. Place the strained fruit back in the pan, and add the cloves, sugar, raisins, and ginger. Boil this mixture for one hour, skimming constantly. Let it cool, and add the yeast. Bottle and cork the mixture, and let it rest for at least three months. By: Tammy Sullivan post comment

Spell to Remember Past Life [25 Jan 2008|12:47am] [ mood | creative ] Spell to Remember a Past Life Items needed: 1 white candle 1 mirror Yourself Sit in front of the mirror, turn off the lights, and light the candle. Set the candle next to the mirror so the light from it can hit your face, but so you will not see the candle in the mirror. After this is done, look into your eyes and say: Oracle of lunar light, Send me the second sight. Stare into your eyes and do not blink. Your reflection will dissolve and another will appear. Try to look at the face, body,clothing,and surroundings. After you do this you will have emotions you can not explain. Don't worry they go away in a few minutes. post comment

Chinese Peach Wine [25 Jan 2008|12:51am] [ mood | creative ] Chinese Peach Wine Used both as an appetizer and a nightcap, Chinese peach wine also serves as a blood cleanser and relieves constipation. No more than 2 small shot glasses should be drunk per evening. It is also an excellent offering to Pagan gods and goddesses. To make your own, take five unripe peaches, one pint of rice or white wine, and 1.5 oz of refined sugar. Quarter the peaches, and put all the ingredients into a large sterilized jar. Seal the jar and store it in a cool, dry, and dark area for nine months. Afterward, strain and pour the wine into a dry sterilized bottle. The bottle may be stored in the refrigerator. For extra zing during festivals, add a dash of the wine to ice cream, trifles, and other desserts. In place of peaches, Chinese red dates or persimmons may be used. -- S. Y. Zenith Llewellyn's 2005 Spell-a-Day Almanac post comment

Coffee adaptation [25 Jan 2008|12:52am] [ mood | creative ] Coffee adaptation History/ Lore: Coffee beans were originally made into wine by African nations, not the hot beverage we know today. It was not until 1000 C.E. when Arabs considered it this alternative. The stimulating affect became popular and also gives us it's natural magickal association. ** You will need: * 8 oz. Milk. * 1/4 tsp Vanilla extract. * 1 tsp Instant Coffee dissolved in 1 tsp water. * 2 tbsp. Heavy cream * 1 tbsp. Sugar. * 1/4 tsp butterscotch flavouring. Directions: Beat the heavy cream to peaking and put it in a large glass. Seperately, blend your other ingredients until bubbly, then pour over cream. This may also be prepared warm. Magickal associations: Energy, vigor, initiative, and stamina that will help you move with the flow, rather than lag behind it. post comment

Herb Honey [25 Jan 2008|12:57am] [ mood | creative ] It's not June yet, but I couldn't resist not posting this already!!!! ♥ Herb Honey The full moon in June is called the “honeymoon” because this month is a good time to collect honey from bees. Kids – don’t try this at home! It takes a trained bee-keeper. But what you can do is make a delicious Herb Honey: Fill a small jar half full with either fresh or dried herbs. Some herbs that would be especially good are mint, rose petals, lavender, cinnamon sticks and vanilla beans. Then fill the jar almost all the way to the top with honey. Put the lid on and set it out in the sun for a few days. Then dip your finger in and taste. If you want more herb flavor, then, while the honey is still warm from the sun, strain the old herbs out and replace them with more. When your “taster” tells you it’s ready, strain the herbs out. This is really good on toast or dribbled over ice cream! post comment

Winter Sunday Hazelnut Bread [25 Jan 2008|01:00am] [ mood | creative ] Winter Sunday Hazelnut Bread Today (23 Oct) is the Norse feast to celebrate the beginning of winter. One of the feasting foods is nuts. Hazelnuts are a prominent food during the month of October. They are used for charms and divination. To make hazelnut bread: 1 cup + 1 tbsp lukewarm water 3 tsp yeast 1.5 tbsp butter 1 tbsp sugar 1 tsp salt .5 cup toasted chopped hazelnuts 1 cup whole wheat flour 1.5 cups white flour cornmeal Dissolve the yeast in the warm water. Add the butter, sugar, and salt. Mix until smooth. Add hazelnuts and both flours. Knead the mixture for ten minutes, then let the dough rest for fifteen minutes. Form the dough into a round loaf, and place it on a cookie sheet dusted with cornmeal. Let it rise until it is doubled in size. With a sharp knife cut a cross on top in honor of the four elements. Bake the bread in a 400 degree oven until it is nicely browned, about 20 - 25 minutes. String nine hazelnuts on a red cord and hang it in your home for luck and money. -- Lily Gardner-Butts Llewellyn's 2005 Spell-a-Day Almanac post comment

Sharbatee Gulab [25 Jan 2008|01:04am] [ mood | crazy ] Sharbatee Gulab This drink is from India, and June is an excellent time to make it since the roses will be in bloom. Serves six to 8. 5 large fragrant roses in full bloom 2 quarts cold water 1 1/2 cups sugar 1/4 cup lemon juice 3 cups crushed pineapple - fresh or canned finely crushed ice extra rose petals Choose only roses not sprayed with pesticides. Wash the roses and shake off the excess water. Carefully take off the petals and put them in a large bowl. Pour the cold water over them and let stand in a dark, but not refrigerated place for about 4 hours. Strain out the petals, saving the water. Dissolve the sugar in the lemon juice and add this to the rose water. Stir in the pineapple. When ready to serve, pour over crushed ice and top with a rose petal in each glass. post comment

A Blessing For Food [25 Jan 2008|01:19am] [ mood | chipper ] A Blessing For Food by Geoffrey Cohen Thank you food for sacrificing yourself for me. For your death provides me with life. Your energy becomes my energy, and I become you. So I pray to you to share with me what gifts you can, and I thank you and honor you. Blessed Be!. Copyright, Geoffrey Cohen 1996 post comment

Invocation to the Mother [25 Jan 2008|01:24am] [ mood | content ] Invocation to the Mother Mother Goddess, jewel of night, lady moon, arise tonight. Protect me in this sacred rite, perform to honor your glorious light. Your silvery light graces the land shining fair on sea and sand, light amonst the heavens grand, is ever changing in your hand. Fair be the light on forest and fields fair be the light upon the hills, fair be the light that over me spills for fair are the deeds thy light reveals. Blessed maiden, mother, crone, I honor your earth I walk upon. Ever mindful of ones before me gone I know I never walk alone. Mother of guidance, bringer of light, protect me in this sacred rite, I call thee now attend to me this is my will so mote it be. post comment

A Charm to Bind an Enemy [25 Jan 2008|06:04pm] [ mood | content ] A Charm to Bind an Enemy Gather from the corners of your chambers every cobweb, and place them, all of a tangle, upon a black cloth. Procure than a fly, recently dead, and set it down upon the mass of webs. These words should than be written down on paper: North South East West Spider's web shall bind him best. East West North South Hold his limbs and stop his mouth Seal his eyes and choke his breath Wrap him with ropes of death. Fold the paper four times and wrap it up, along with the dead fly and the webs, in the black cloth, forming a small bag. This should than be bound with a long cord and hung from a hook, do not disturb it. Let hang until covered with dust. Than it may be taken down and buried in the earth, to work its influence in perpetual secrecy. Source: Crones book of charms. post comment

Spell for a garden blessing [25 Jan 2008|06:06pm] [ mood | content ] Spell for a garden blessing When you plant your garden this spring, in the light of the morning sun, when the first rays touch your garden, have a chalice of water or wine ready and some bread. Raise the water in the chalice to the first ray of the sun and say: "Tender shoots, sleeping seeds, Gentle divas, Watch over this garden, Make it fertile and make it green Make it bloom" Take a small sip and then pour the rest over the garden. Next, take the bread and in the new light of the dawn, say the same words, eating a bit and scattering the crumbs for the animals and try to mix some into the soil. post comment

Seeing Auras [25 Jan 2008|09:19pm] [ mood | content ] Seeing Auras First of all, what exactly is an aura? It's an electromagnetic field that surrounds all living things. They can be seen as well as felt, or sensed. Auras can reveal a persons emotional well being as well as physical state. There's no one method to seeing auras, the method given below is my personal way. First there's the background. Some sources say that when reading an aura it's best to have a very dark black or red background, other's say to a white one. I've tried both and found that for me darker is much easier. Next, the aura is generally strongest around a person's head, but it you don't have another person to try this with, your own had will work fine. Pick a point just beyond your hand and let your eye unfocused (it's very similar to the way you view a 'magic eye' picture for those of you who know what that is). Eventually a thin white band will come into view. This is the first layer of the aura. Once you're able to view the white band, fix your gaze a little ways beyond it. Eventually a color(s) band will come into view. Note, this stage is much harder to see, after a ton of practice I still can't see it every time. Each color has a meaning which is posted below. RED: Energy, strength, courage BRICK RED: Anger DEEP RED:Sensuality CRIMSON: Loyalty PINK: Cheerfulness ,optimism ROSE: Self love ORANGE:Joy, vitality, balance of mental & physical YELLOW: Wisdom, creativity, spiritual GRAYISH YELLOW: Fear GREEN: Ingenuity, compassion ,growth PALE GREEN: Healing power GRAYISH GREEN: Pessimism, envy BLUE: Spiritual, idealistic, imaginative, intellectual GRAYISH BLUE: Melancholy ICE BLUE: Intellectual PURPLE: Spiritual power ORCHID: Idealism WHITE: Highly spiritual(rarely seen) BLACK: Depression, death(rarely seen) BROWN: Earthy DULL BROWN: Low energy GRAY: Fear, boredom, repressed anger GOLD: Pure knowing & intuition SILVER:Similar to gold, very developed psychically post comment

Carrots, eggs and coffee. [25 Jan 2008|10:27pm] [ mood | content ] ( Carrots, eggs and coffee...  ) post comment

ROSE QUARTZ BEAUTY SPELL: [25 Jan 2008|11:42pm] [ mood | calm ] ROSE QUARTZ BEAUTY SPELL: Rose quartz 6 rose petals Bottle of witch hazel Look at your face and all it flaws. Visualize your face changing into the face you want. Rub the stone lightly over the problem areas and chant: Stone of beauty, stone of love Erase imperfection as I rub. Bring to me the face I see. As I will so mote it be! Open the bottle of witch hazel and insert the stone. Take the rose petals in your dominant hand and say: Venus, One of beauty rare. I offer you these petals fair. Bless them with your loveliness, and bring the beauty I request Rub the petals over any line, wrinkles etc then drop them in the witch hazel. Cap the bottle tightly and give it six shakes each day for a week. At the end of the week, use it every day as a toner after face washing. As you apply it say: Imperfections, go away. Beauty of Venus, come forth this day. post comment

Salt Water Purification [25 Jan 2008|11:44pm] [ mood | content ] Salt Water Purification Fill the cup or if you have one, your ritual chalice, with water. Using your athame, stir in three mounds of salt and stir counter clockwise. While doing so, say: "Salt and water, Inner and outer, Soul and body, Be cleansed! Cast out all that is harmful! Take in all that is good and healing! By the power of the Mother of all life, And her lover the Horned God, So must it be!" Hold the chalice close to your heart and feed power into the water. When you can feel it glow, it is ready. If you are working with a group, pass it around and have everybody feed energy into the chalice. post comment

LOVE SACHET [25 Jan 2008|11:45pm] [ mood | content ] LOVE SACHET Items needed: Leather or pink silk pouch Pink candle 4 white candles Cauldron Catnip or jasmine Paper & pen Cast the circle, and then consecrate it with salt & water. Call the Goddess and God (optional), and the four elements. Place the 4 candles around the circle, make sure they're in the right spots for each of the directions (north, south, etc...) Place the pink candle in front of you, behind the cauldron. Light the white candles calling out their elements, and then light the pink candle. Write down on a piece of paper what qualities you want ( cute, funny, etc...) Burn the catnip/jasmine then paper. Say 3 times: "I burn this candle to bring me a lover" " I burn this paper to bring me a lover. I burn this catnip/jasmine to bring me a lover. Power this sachet with love." When everything is burnt down to ashes, put them in the sachet/pouch. Wear around your neck all the time, and kiss pouch 3 times each day. post comment

[25 Jan 2008|11:47pm] [ mood | content ] (  Fruit, Nut and Vegetable Correspondences ) post comment

THE TRADITIONAL WITCH [25 Jan 2008|11:59pm] [ mood | cheerful ] THE TRADITIONAL WITCH GUIDELINES TO A MAGICKAL LIFE These guidelines are from my own Book of Shadows. They incorporate ideas from Wicca as well as other traditions, but I do not think of them in terms of those traditions. For me, they are a mirror to which I can hold my actions, the reflection of which will tell me if I am being true to my path. They are not written in stone, and they sometimes change when I discover something new about life on Earth. It's a beginning. ~*~ It is not sufficient to say you are a "witch" or to practice magick. You must also live as a witch. Do not look for excuses for why you cannot follow the path. Accept responsibility for your failures as well as your successes. ( More...  ) post comment

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