Author: A Solitary Pagan

Kitchen Witch Daily Rituals: 11. Charge Your Meals With Symbols

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!

Kitchen Witch Daily Rituals: 12. COOK Like a Kitchen Witch

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. 

Kitchen Witch Daily Rituals: 13. Bake Magical

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...

Kitchen Witch Daily Rituals: 14. Work with Kitchen and Hearth Deities

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...

Herbs Listed by Medical Symptom W

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.

Herbs Listed by Medical Symptom V

Varicose Veins: marigold, mint. Vitamins: burdock, strawberry, violet.

Herbs Listed by Medical Symptom U

Uterus: basil, bee balm, birch, blackberry, black cohosh, black haw, chaste tree berry, cramp bark, ginger, pennyroyal, raspberry leaves, shepherd’s purse.

Herbs Listed by Medical Symptom T

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.

Herbs Listed by Medical Symptom R

Rheumatism: birch, bladderwrack, ground ivy, marigold, mint, rosemary, thyme.

Herbs Listed by Medical Symptom S

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...

Herbs Listed by Medical Symptom P

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.

Herbs Listed by Medical Symptom N

Nervousness: valerian. Nettle Rash: nettles. Nosebleed: lemon, nettle.