I tried to compile things you’re likely to find in your kitchen, will be adding more as I go, feel free to give me suggestions (*)- those things may react with your medication or be unsafe for you if you’re pregnant, research before you use them PLEASE TELL ME IF I NEED TO ADD MORE WARNINGS Allspice*: healing, luck, cleansing, protection, money Almond: love, money, healing, wisdom Anise: luck, cleansing, love, psychic ability Apple: luck, fertility, love Basil: love, luck, abundance, prosperity, courage, protection, cleansing Bay Leaf: protection, cleansing, wisdom, strength, manifestation Cardamon: love, wisdom, comfort Carrot: fertility, health Chamomile*: cleansing, healing, calm, luck Cauliflower: protection, fertility Celery: love, calm, concentration Cinnamon*: healing, love, success, cleansing, protection, money, psychic ability Clove: protection, lust, cleansing, comfort Clover: lust, cleansing, luck, protection, success, comfort Coriander: healing, love, lust Cucumber: fertility, healing, harmony Cumin: protection, love, faithfulness Dill: dreams, balance, love, luck, protection, money Eucalyptus: protection, healing Fennel: healing, fertility, love, psychic ability, purification, divination, meditation, banishment Garlic*: protection, banishment Ginger*: healing, love, money, energy Hibiscus: love, attraction, divination, harmony, peace Jasmine: love, attraction, calm Lavender: healing, calm, love, luck, dreams, protection, peace Lemon*: cleansing, love, protection, luck Lemon Balm: love, fertility, calm, healing Lemongrass: luck, protection, cleansing, mental clarity Leek: protection, harmony Lettuce: fertility, peace, harmony, protection Lilac: love, protection, positivity, blessings Lily: purity, purification, protection, prosperity, fertility Lotus: cleansing, purification, love, luck, protection, peace, fertility, healing Marjoram: luck, happiness, love Mint*: protection, money, healing, love, travel, dreams Mustard: protection, mental ability, fertility Nettle: cleansing, protection, good health Nutmeg*: luck, money, health, love Onion: protection, healing, prosperity, banishment Orange*: love, luck, prosperity, divination Parsley: purification, protection, fertility, transformation, lust Pepper: courage, motivation, strength, banishment Pineapple: prosperity, happiness, protection Poppy Seeds: fertility, abundance, dreams, love Potato: fertility, protection, abundance Rose: love, lust, joy, purification, attraction Rosemary: cleansing, protection, luck, healing Sage*: cleansing, healing, psychic ability, protection Sandalwood: protection, wishes, healing, spirituality Strawberry: love, peace, happiness, success Thyme: cleansing, divination, healing, courage, sleep Vanilla: love, prosperity, lust, creativity, joy
A bath spell to bring out your inner beauty!
🥛🌹Rose essential oil (optional) ~ beauty/ self love - *make sure to test it on your skin first to see if it irritates your beautiful skin*
🥛🌹1/4 cup Rose petals (dried or fresh) ~ for self love + beauty
🥛🌹1 ½ - 2 cups powdered milk ~ for soft skin (if you dont have powdered milk, reg is fine, but powdered can be stored with the left over recipe!!!)
🥛🌹1/2 cup Epsom salt
🥛🌹1/4 cup rosemary ~ to be more memorable
If using powdered milk:
🥛🌹 Pour Epsom salts into a medium sized bowl Add 3 drops of rose essential oil into the Epsom salts then stir well, then add another 3 and stir well again.
🥛🌹Add other dry ingredients into the bowl and stir until fully combined.
🥛🌹Pour into jar or air tight container.
*if using regular milk, do not put it in the jar, instead, when using the bath mixture, pour directly into the bath*
🥛🌹Use in bath when desired.
🥛🌹Rosemary is associated with Aphrodite and is commonly used in ritual bath spells
🥛🌹Some of the ingredients are associated with self love, that is because in order to see true beauty, one must love one’s self!!
🥛🌹The best day to perform this bath spell is on a Friday, this is optional but helps with results!
🥛🌹The best lunar phase to perform this bath spell is on a New moon or full moon, again, optional but helps with spell results.
🥛🌹Put rose quartz (self love + beauty) , amethyst (self love + beauty) , and clear quartz (enhances magick + energy), on the rim of your bath tub or on the floor next to it to help give the spell a boost.
🥛🌹The rose essential oil can be substituted with any other essential oil associated with love, like lavender!
Fuck Fr*nce
Since the weather is getting frightful, I thought making some soup would be delightful. I’ll let you know how it comes out
Edit: the soup turned out great and tasted great too
The laziest bread, made by the laziest witch, for my fellow lazy witches: Ingredients: Dairy Free Ice Cream (“Cinnamon Swirl” or Vanilla flavor) Self-rising Flour
That’s really all you need to actually make the bread, and then I added some ground spices for the correspondences (all of them, except salt, include either luck, love, or both) plus it tastes better!
Allspice - prosperity, luck, healing Cinnamon - success, healing, protection, power, love, luck, strength, prosperity Nutmeg - prosperity, luck, protection, intellect, removing curses Ginger - sensuality, sexuality, confidence, prosperity, healing, protection Vanilla - happiness, love, lust Cloves - protection, love, prosperity, banishing, friendship, stopping gossip Pinch of salt - cleansing, purification, banishing, protection
I don’t have the measurements for any of them though, because again, i’m lazy as fuck. I just kind of threw them in and thought “yea that’s not too much, not too little, it’ll do.”
Instructions: Preheat oven 350°F. Let the ice cream get soft, but not liquid/melted, and mix it in with the flour. It’s going to get all clumpy, the flour won’t mix in very well, and you’re going to think “I should add some water or something” but DON’T, just keep mixing. Eventually it’ll be more like sticky dough/batter. Scoop the batter into a greased bread-pan, bake it at 350°F for 40ish minutes (or until you can poke it with a toothpick/knife and have it come out clean). Let it cool and you’re done!
Gentle Cottagecore Emoji Asks
🌿 Herb: What is a scent you find relaxing?
🌱 Seedling: What is something you want to begin learning?
🥛 Milk: What is a food you find comforting when you are sad?
🍯 Honey: What is one thing you like about yourself?
🍄 Mushroom: What is a quote you find comfort in?
☕ Tea: How do you take your tea?
🐄 Cow: What is one other tumblr blog you really appreciate?
🌳 Tree: What is one thing in your future you are looking foward towards?
🍑 Peach: What is a color that makes you smile?
🌻 Sunflower: What is one thing that brightened your day today?
🐓 Chicken: What is a comfort movie/show for you?
🧵 Thread: What is a recent creative project that you are proud of?
🐈 Cat: Do you have any pets? Are there some pets you really want?
🍅 Tomato: Have you ever gardened, and if so, what is your favorite thing to grow?
🍃 Leaf: What is a plant you find beautiful?
🐝 Bee: What is a video game that you find comforting?
🍞 Bread: Do you know how to bake bread? If so, what is something you’ve baked recently?
🐇 Bunny: What’s a song that you really like?
🌲 Pine: Do you prefer the cold, or the heat?
🧶 Yarn: Knitting or Crocheting?
🐑 Sheep: What is a comfort item you own?
🍓 Strawberry: Do you own any pink clothing?
🥞 Pancake: What is your favorite breakfast food?
⛰️ Mountains: Would you rather live in the mountains, city, beach, or the forest?
🧸 Teddy Bear: Do you ever want to raise kids someday?
🕯️ Candle: What is something you can’t go to bed without?
Kitchen Witch
Go to a homey bakery and let them go on and on about all the ways to enchant blueberry muffins.
(NYC) Go to eataly and get some good ass pastries or prosciutto and other delicious dried cuts, just basically eat around Eataly or go to Dough.
(NYC) Explore supermarkets in places like china town, ktown, (eataly is great too) and get new foods or ingredients for them to try out at home.
(NYC) Load your pockets with dollars and take them to a street fair and try every food/snack stand they want.
(NYC) If they like beer take them to good beer and have one of the guys explain the different brews. If they like mead take them to Honies.
Green Witch
Go to a botanical garden and point to the prettiest flower and say “that’s you”
Start a date by giving them a bouquet with a special message by using the Victorian language of flowers, or your own correspondences
If living together, go to a local nursery and choose flowers to plant together at your home.
(NYC) Take them to Flower power and offer to get them a gift that they please.
(NYC) Also be their buffer to killing their wallet cause that’ll happen at flower power.
(NYC) Take them to any botanical garden. During the winter the Brooklyn one is free.
(NYC) Take them florist shopping.
(NYC) Take them to the Kava bar in the lower east side to feel great after drinking nonalcoholic kava cocktails.
(NYC) Get lost in the north woods in Central Park.
Hedge Witch
(NYC) take them to the beautiful greenwood cemetery.
(NYC) Buy them some skulls or antlers at Catland.
(NYC) Go ghost hunting in some spooky ass places like the abandoned homes of Govenors island or The Dakota building, but if it gets too spooky then have a picnic on the island or by Central Park instead!
Go pumpkin, apple, strawberry, or any fruit picking, then use the fruits/vegetables in cooking/baking.
Cosmic Witch
Take them star gazing and come up with stories about planets falling in love.
Take a car out to a quiet, rural place and stargaze. Watch from a blanket on the ground or the top of the car. If you want, you can take a telescope.
I’d suggest oddities since they sell meteorite and other spacely things though it could be costly there.
(NYC) Museum of natural history has a great space section and planetarium too.
(NYC) Stargazing in NYC might be tricky but if you go up to fort Tyron you might have a beautiful view nonetheless!
Sea Witch
Go to the beach and help them look for sea shells. Help them carry all the ocean water home.
(NYC) Take the Q35 from Flatbush Ave (last 2,5 stop) to fort Tilden. It’s the best beach since it’s the cleanest and hardly no one is there. It’s serene and you’ll find tons of shells.
(NYC) You can stay on the same bus as it will take you to Jacob Riis beach. I find the water there way less clean with tons of algae BUT the seashells there are phenomenal! Like as huge as ashtrays. So if it’s cold and you want to just go seashell hunting I’d vote for Jacob riis.
(NYC) Swimming is better for fort Tilden. If it’s too cold for the beach take them to a boutique called Oddities. They sell beautiful seashells and other incredible magical things in that shop.
(NYC) You can also take them to the museum of natural history and chill in that gorgeous aquatic room with the massive whale that every child feared would drop on their heads and crush them. It’s a beautiful space.
Lunar Witch
Bathe in the full moon together
Graveyard/Death Witch
Go to a local cemetery on a nice day and talk about all the headstones that speak to you.
Getting relationship advice from other spirits. Or traveling to graveyards To do exploring.
take them to the oldest cemetery in the area and do headstone rubbings together
Go people watching at a cemetery. You look out for the living ones and they’ll keep an eye on the dead ones
Take them to your local graveyard and let them tell you about what the ghosts of those who are long gone whisper to them.
Picnic next to a graveyard or a place that has a strong connection to spirits
Crystal Witch
Going to crystal stores and giving them rose quartz, because love.
Let them tell you about their own crystal collection as you browse your local geology museum/crystal shop. Ask them questions about their properties, and maybe even the chemical makeup if they have a scientific streak.
Go to a craft fair and buy a crystal/stone piece for your loved one.
Go to a gem mine to try and find some crystals, rocks, or gems
Energy Witch
(NYC) Get them a session at the Woom center. Take them to the tarot society to pet crystals. The tarot society and Earth Arts center also has soundbaths from time to time.
(NYC) Avoid Times Square at all costs especially if they are super empathetic.
(NYC) Design a candle together at Enchantments.
Storm Witch
If you live in the Midwest and don’t have a very strong sense of self preservation (like most of the locals), take them on a tornado chase with you and make out after you survive.
Just play in the rain with them.
invite them over when it’s raining to sit inside and listen to the pitter patter on the windows while you watch movies. Have rainboots and a coat ready if don’t want to watch a movie or want to do something fun afterwards.
Drag them into the rain and dance!
Desert Witch
Road trip to your nearest friendly neighborhood mesas/weird rock formations. Bonus if you listen to them talk about the area’s folklore
Divination Witch
Swap readings take them some where they can try new decks.
Space Witch
Go to the observatory.
Stare at the constellations
Enjoy a picnic under the stars
Fire Witch
Take them to a huge bonfire (possibly around Beltane) where you can talk and dance and everything, then take some ashes when you’re done for different rituals!
(NYC) Sometimes flower power has an herbal smokes class you guys could sign up for. The people that work there would be happy to help you pick out herbs for your own herbal smoking blend! You can also go there to pick out ingredients for loose incense!
(NYC) Namaste on 14th also has an amazing selection of incense. You can buy them a cute and quirky candle at flying tiger or pick materials for candle making together at Michaels. In the summertime go to Roosevelt island and have a bonfire in one of the fire pit/grills.
Necromantic Witch
Take them to a graveyard.
Earth Witch
Start by leaving them a hand written letter to meet you somewhere. Have that somewhere be a beautiful hidden spot in the forest or anywhere that has to do with nature. Pack her favorite foods and bring her favorite book and take her on a forest picnic. Read to her (or have her read to you) as you just sit and enjoy each other’s company and Mother Earth around you.
Music Witch
Take them to a concert or a musical. Watch them get a little more into the rhythms than everyone else.
Go find some music and perform with them
Get a bunch of their favorite music albums (DVD’s) and listen to them together with or with out food
Try to watch a street performance or walk around downtown
Ice/Snow Witch
Ice skating! Or start a snow ball fight with them
Try making synthetic snow and play with it
Play with them on a snowy day, then enjoy some hot coco or hot cider with cookies
Building a snow man or playing in the snow on a snowy day
Try going to a cold place or a snowboard/ski resort to enjoy the snow and exercise
Bath Witch
(NYC) Take them to king spa or sauna castle (Korean bath and sauna houses) and try out every majestic sauna and bath together.
(NYC) Take them to a shop like Lush or the Face Shop to try new things. Have a spa day at home with them.
Make a diy bath bomb or soap
Take bath with a bath bomb
Go to a sauna, onsen, or hot spring
Make a diy sauna with a humidifier in your bathroom or closet while you wear towels.
So ever since I was little and started growing my own plants, I had an elementary school teacher who taught me this method that would pretty much guarantee that the seeds I planted would sprout. Since I’m trying to grow some more difficult plants and herbs this year just sticking them in the dirt wouldn’t get them to sprout for me, so I’ve been using this method for even the easier plants to grow and it works great!
First, cut out a little square of paper towel (bleached or unbleached works) and make sure it will fit into a small plastic snack bag (I reuse these!)
Wet the paper towel so it’s slightly damp and arrange the seeds as far apart as you want them to be. Label as you see fit. Place the damp paper towel with the seeds in the plastic bag in a sunny spot.
Once the seeds sprout, very carefully place them in a seed pot with appropriate soil! And you’re done! That’s it! The roots will grow through the paper towel and the towel will break down over time :)
I hope this method works for you if you have trouble getting plants to grow! Happy growing! ✨🌱
This is a classic dish, some of you may better know as Labskovs but there's heaps of variations of it! It's a winter favorite for me and always cook tons of it; it's better shared and honestly is one of those recipes that's always better the next day! 🤎 It can be easily adjusted to whatever leftovers you have around(meat, veggies, portions, etc.). For my own practice, I often take the act of making it and make that an offering to Hel and when the stew is done it's an offer to Loki's family, landvættir, and make it a community meal. Do what you please with it and I do hope you enjoy my take on the recipe, please share any photos if you make it!
5lbs of potatoes - russet is preferred, anything that's flowery
2lbs of chuck steak
4 1/2 cups of water
1 large onion or 1 1/2 medium sized ones
1lbs of baby bellas sliced(I often change this out with whatever we have leftover, sometimes carrots, leeks, or cabbage)
6 bay leaves
5 thyme sprigs or 3/4 tsp of dried thyme
whole garlic clove
4tbsp of butter
2tbsp of pepper
1tbsp of coarse salt
a dutch oven or large sauce pan
To garnish:
6tbsp of chopped chives
Sauerkraut or pickled beets
loaf of bread on the side - we tend to favor potato or rye
Heat 2tbsp of the butter in your pan at medium heat. While the pan is warming cut the steak into one inch cubes.
Add the steak to the butter and and brown slightly. Then immediately add the water and gradually bring the water to a boil. [Skim all the froth off the service].
Add the onions, mushrooms, whatever vegetables you chose, bay, thyme, cloves, pepper + salt into the pot. Let it simmer for an hour.[Do not let it boil!]
While the stew is simmering, cut(and peel if you want) your potatoes into 1inch cubes. Add them to the pot and let it simmer for another hour or until the meat falls apart easily and is tender.
Drain off the excess water and add the remaining butter to the pot. Stir clockwise until mixed and mashed, but keep the potatoes a little lumpy.
Serve with your garnishes and enjoy! Let it cool before storing in the fridge.
baby bellas - longevity, intuition, safety, good health + healing(this is a correspondence i use based on the actual healing effect of mushrooms)
bay leaf - purification, clairvoyance + divination, prosperity + strength(the last two I tend to use w/the intention of the whole household or families I'm sharing with)
cabbage(sauerkraut) - ancestral magic + old wisdom(cabbage is supposedly one the oldest vegetables known to man), protection, moon oriented magic
garlic - courage + strength, healing, spell breaking + shielding
pepper - banishing negativity + cleansing(I like to use intent for the hearth because the whole home is smelling like stew in the end), protection
salt - security + protection, healing, purifying
thyme - good fortune + health, courage, happiness, healing
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Activated Charcoal- cleansing, purification, grief, health (banishing serious illness)
Allspice- determination, money, luck, healing
Almond- fertility, Goddess energy, beauty, self-love, prosperity, addiction, abundance
Anise- protection, warding against evil, preventing nightmares, psychic ability, happiness
Basil- money, beauty, protection, love, warding
Bay Leaf- money, motivation, protection, psychic powers, wish fulfillment, success, purification
Black Pepper- banishing, protection, exorcism, healing (from a serious illness/banishing said illness)
Brewer’s Yeast- motherhood, femininity, warding against illness
Cashew- money, creativity
Cardamom- lust/libido, love, fidelity
Cayenne Pepper- catalyst, lust/ libido, confidence
Celery- fertility, psychic powers, healing (especially of the bladder, kidneys, and urinary tract), weight loss
Chamomile- sleep, stress relief, love, beauty, friendship, meditation, luck, libido (mostly women)
Chia Seed- protection, health
Chili Powder- protection, hex breaking, love, fidelity
Chives- protection, weight loss
Chlorella- purification, cleansing, health
Cilantro- money, protection, peace
Cinnamon- catalyst, spirituality, beauty, love, lust, romance, healing, strength, protection, psychic ability
Clove- catalyst, beauty, love, protection (especially for children)
Cocoa Powder- beauty, health, love, self-love, grounding, romance, sex, powder, enhances hot herbs
Coconut- strength, love, beauty, protection
Coffee- grounding, protection, spirituality, energy (if caffeinated), dispelling negativity
Coriander- love, health, protection, easing pain of a broken heart,
Cumin- energy, protection, exorcism, protection from theft, love, fidelity, masculine energy
Dandelion- communicating with the dead, health, weight loss, wish fulfillment, divination, luck
Dill- money, prosperity, luck, lust, protection (especially the home)
Dulse- lust, harmony, sea magick
Fennel- health (especially digestion), protection, money, banishing, strength, vitality, libido
Fenugreek- health (women’s issues), friendship, happiness, calming, feminine energy, libido, money
Flax Seed- fertility, health, protection (especially from sickness), divination, money
Garlic- health, banishing, protection, purification, warding, willpower,
Ginger- catalyst, energy, adventure, health, confidence, lust/libido, prosperity, success, protection
Hemp- fertility, intuition, motivation, peace, harmony, stress relief
Hibiscus- health, love, beauty, heart
Holy Basil- opens heart to love, stress relief, healing, balance, grounding
Jalapeno- energy, catalyst, money, abundance
Kelp- health, money, weight loss, sea magick
Lavender- stress relief, sleep, anti-anxiety, meditation, love, depression, peace, harmony
Lemon- health, beauty, love, lust, cleansing, purification, sun magick, removing negativity,
Lemon grass- psychic cleansing, opening the Third Eye, focus, mental clarity
Licorice- love, lust, fidelity, communicating with the dead, health (digestive system)
Lime- purification, protection, harmony, calmness, tranquility, strengthening love
Maca- fertility, vitality, energy, balance, love
Maple- love, friendship, luck, happiness, wealth
Marjoram- beauty, luck, wealth, grief, cleansing, purification, warding, strengthening love, protection
Mint, Pepper- health, protection, ward off migraines, wealth, bringing about change, love, abundance
Mint, Spear- health, protection, happiness, wealth, communicating with spirits
Miso- health, prosperity, communicating with the dead, friendship
Mustard- courage, faith, endurance, success, luck, happiness
Nettle- grouding, health (especially allergies), banishing negativity, cleansing
Nori- health, harmony
Nutmeg- beauty, prosperity, money, luck, hex breaking, mental acuity
Nutritional Yeast- health, happiness, love, addiction
Oat- fertility, health, earth magick, sacred to Brighid
Onion- protection, health, banishing, warding, bad habits, prosperity
Orange- energy, emotional healing, beauty, health, love, friendship
Oregano- health, beauty, joy, energy, strength
Paprika- catalyst, energy, hexing (I don’t hex, but you do you)
Paprika, smoked- power, see Paprika
Parsley- money, luck, success, health, weight loss
Pecan- employment and career, success, security,
Red Pepper- catalyst, love, lust, confidence
Rice- rain, fertility, money, protection
Rose- beauty, love, honoring the dead, friendship, happiness, healing
Rosemary- mental clarity, focus, memory, health, love, lust, purification
Saffron- happiness, mental health, love, lust, psychic ability, addiction, weight loss
Sage- cleansing, purification, grief, wisdom, spirituality, mental clarity, protection, grounding
Salt- cleansing, purification, grounding, protection, banishing, earth magick
Sesame Seed- money, lust, passion
Soy- spirituality, psychic ability, fertility, intuition, grounding
Spirulina- health, wealth, energy
Sugar- beauty, sweeten attitudes, love, sex, drawing spells
Tamarind- love, health, happiness, family, protection (from illness)
Tea, black- energy, strength, courage, confidence
Tea, green- energy, health, weight loss, beauty, confidence
Tea, white- beauty, harmony, peace, health, tranquility
Thyme- money, protection, luck, grief, honoring the dead, grounding, glamours, confidence, loyalty
Turmeric- health (especially dealing with serious illness), happiness,
Vanilla- beauty, love, friendship, passion
Vinegar- protection, warding, weight loss, hexing, banishing illness
Walnut- connection with the divine, spirituality, mental strength, divination
Watercress- health, sex, lunar magick