Another great daily ritual for kitchen witches is to charge your meals and beverages with sacred, magical symbols. This is as simple as drawing a symbol over the meal or drink in the air. OR using condiments, oils, herbs, etc. to draw symbols and sigils directly onto food. Many baking witches even enjoy sneaking magical sigils at the bottom of pie crusts!
We have to eat every day, Which means many of us cook every day. So make your cooking process magical by choosing ingredients based on your intuition and based on their magical and medicinal properties. When you have more time, get inspired and try cooking something NEW and exciting. Maybe something your ancestors once made or something that utilizes ingredients you’ve never used before.
Baking is a science in and of itself. It is truly an art form and sometimes takes kitchen witches longer to master than cooking. Case in point, It takes extra effort and thought. Start small with baking, like making banana bread from scratch. Then work your way up to making homemade bread wreaths, lattice pies, and elaborately decorated layered cakes. Always add your own touch to it with your fav...
One of my key practices is spirit work…specifically developing connections with gods and goddesses. And if you happen to be in the kitchen for most of your witch-crafting, why not incorporate kitchen gods and hearth goddesses into your daily routines? Set up a small altar or space for a deity that watches over the hearth i.e. Hestia, Vesta, Bes, Frigg or Loki. Include them in your kitchen workings...
Warts: bananna peel, dandelion, garlic, lemon, thyme. Weakness: ginseng. Weight Loss: ephedra. Whooping Cough: mouse ear, thyme. Worms: balmony, pumpkin seed, tansy, thyme, wormwood. Wounds: aloe vera, calendula, comfrey, ginseng, Irish moss, lavender, rosemary, witch hazel. Wrinkles: lemon.
Varicose Veins: marigold, mint. Vitamins: burdock, strawberry, violet.
Uterus: basil, bee balm, birch, blackberry, black cohosh, black haw, chaste tree berry, cramp bark, ginger, pennyroyal, raspberry leaves, shepherd’s purse.
Teeth: cloves, garlic. Throat: bee balm, blackberry, blackcurrant leaves, horehound, lemon, rose, sage, thyme. Tonics: agrimony, aven’s herb, balmony, black pepper, buckbean, bugloss, cleavers, dandelion, ginseng, rosemary, violet, yarrow. Toothache: cloves, mint.
Rheumatism: birch, bladderwrack, ground ivy, marigold, mint, rosemary, thyme.
Scours: purslane Sedative: anise, black cohosh, celery, chamomile, chicory, lavender, lemon verbena, prickly lettuce, sage, skullcap, valerian, violet Skin: buckbean, chicory, Irish moss, lemon, marigold, mint, red clover, rosemary, sage, slippery elm, witch hazel Spleen: bee balm Sprains: marigold, parsley, rosemary Stiffness: ginger Stimulant: angelica, ginseng, rosemary Stomach: fennel, goldenr...
Pain Reliever: capsaicin, ginger, ginseng, valerian, willow, yarrow. Parasites: garlic. Piles: lesser celandine, pilewort, witch hazel. PMS: chaste tree berry, valerian. Prolonged Life: ginseng. Prostate: saw palmetto.
Nervousness: valerian. Nettle Rash: nettles. Nosebleed: lemon, nettle.