Kitchen Witch Recipe: Illness Protection Tea

Kitchen Witch Recipe: Illness Protection Tea

This is a tea that I like during the fall and winter months because of the warmth, but it's also a helpful little potion for wellness.

Ingredients

Ginger tea for healing

Cinnamon sticks for cleansing

Lemon slices for purification

Cloves for protection

Honey for comfort and warmth

Instructions

Simply brew your tea. While it's steeping, add in the cinnamon, lemon and cloves (I didn't include quantities because the flavor profile comes down to preference). Before drinking, add a little honey and stir either clockwise to invite healing energies in or counterclockwise to banish illness.

As you stir, you may want to call upon any deities associated with healing. I usually invoke Apollo for this. If you don't work with deities, simply channeling your intention and working with the healing energies is also a good option.

Kitchen Witch Recipe: Balsamic Roasted Sweet Onions

The mundane: This fairly simple side dish takes the humble onion and really helps it shine. The sweet onion balances nicely with the tang of balsamic vinegar. There's a nice depth of flavor. Plus it's fairly simple to make (always a bonus in my house) and something different.

The witchy: This side dish is brimming with protection and banishment magic potential in the form of the onions, vinegar, and even the parsley garnish at the end, as well as your classic salt and pepper duo. This is an excellent side dish to make to utilize Saturday's protective energies and to enhance banishment workings.

Makes 6 servings, so adjust as needed

Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter

1 tablespoon olive oil

6 small sweet onions

1/3 cup balsamic vinegar

2 tablespoons dry white wine

1 tablespoon sugar

Salt and pepper to taste

2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley to garnish

Directions

Preheat your oven to 425 degrees Fahrenheit

Peel the onions and cut them into halves

In a baking dish large enough to fit the onions, combine the butter and oil. Once combined, whisk in your balsamic vinegar, white whine, sugar, and salt and pepper.

Add the onions to the dish, placing them in a single layer, making sure the cut side is facing down.

Cover loosely with foil and bake about 20 minutes.

Remove from oven. Turn each onion over and brush them with the pan juices. Make sure they are well coated!

Put them back in the oven, uncovered, and bake another 20-25 minutes until onions are tender and have browned.

Serve warm or at room temperature. Garnish with parsley, and enjoy!

To add a little extra magic to it, feel free to make a ritual of it. Light a black candle as you focus your intentions during prep and cook time. Call upon any deities you might want to work with. Say a chant for protection or banishing. These little things can really add a little extra razzle dazzle to something that feel otherwise mundane to some.

How to set a curse upon anyone

It's no secret that I'm a baneful witch. I don't hide from the fact that I don't fear consequences for my spells and neither do the people I set forth my wrath had tried to retaliate. I'm not here to judge anyone for wanting to set forth harm unto those that wronged them, I am merely here to teach you how to do it properly.

So here it goes:

Like any good spell there are components to making an effective curse. First, it's the intention. No good spell is complete without the intention in mind. All spells, remember, start off with the mind. So imagine the curse' affliction on the target. Imagine the curse making your tormentors suffer all the pain they've put on you.

Visualize their pain, fear, and suffering and relish in it. If you can't relish it then that's when you cut it out because this act is not for you. Putting curses on people is not for the faint of heart. If you can't find peace in their pain then focus on healing yourself instead. It's the only thing you can do at that point.

Second, a good spell needs a power source. This can be through the gods you worship, your soul, the energy in the atmosphere or objects and herbs you have around your house. You can pray to gods and goddesses of wrathful demeanor to carry out the curse for you. Or you can feel then bend the energy in the atmosphere then visualize it hitting or stabbing your target. Or you can burn or charge the object or herb of your liking and let the curse manifest.

And lastly, emotions. Or lack there of. This one will entirely depend on your own disposition to your emotions. Raw anger, resentment, deep sadness, or a pit of darkness deep in your stomach are all valid emotions that will tether your curse in reality.

If you do the curse right then you should see results in the near future.

That's it. Keep your head high, you'll get your revenge soon enough.

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Cursing By The Moon

Dark/New Moon: Ruined beginnings, job/financial loss, bad health, depression, hopelessness, despair, fear

Waxing Crescent: Destruction, ruined plans, weakness, illness, ruin, sorrow

Waxing Gibbous: Bad luck, arguments, tension, chaos, accidents, injuries

Full Moon: Spiritual warfare, psychic attack, hauntings and possessions, nightmares, legal issues, loss of motivation/will power

Waning Gibbous: Addiction, ending relationships, stress, panic, emotional breakdowns

Waning Crescent: Mistakes, humiliation, bad choices, betrayal, butt of the joke, loneliness

Just 7 low-key basics for any beginning witch:

1) learn how to dress and light a candle without burning your house down. A little oil goes a long way. A lot of oil goes right into a bad situation.

2) learn how to light and position incense so you don’t set off the fire alarms. Fans are an amazing friend. They circulate the smell of the incense to your whole living space, but also diffuses the smoke.

3) do not store your planchette on your ouija board (it’s like leaving your house unlocked).

4) make sure you research oils before you diffuse them if you have animals. I.e citrus straight oils or citrus oil in oil blends make dogs sick and lily oil can kill cats.

And by the gods don’t diffuse banishing oil because you’ll end up with a pepper spray situation.

5) you don’t absolutely need a holder. You just need to soften the bottom of a candle enough (yes with fire) and it will stick to a surface. A flame resistant surface (see rule one about accidentally burning down things).

6) don’t poison the earth with a ring of salt on the grass. Ashes from incense or powdered egg shells works the same. And add nutrients to the soil.

Salt inside, not outside.

And 7) if you live in an apartment or house that will not be friendly to any burning, make your favorite herbs into infusions. You can use them on their own, or mix different ones easily, for any desirable effect. Unlike burning the herbs, smoke detectors shouldn’t go off unless you spray right at them. (Watch for mold in the bottle).

I’m being a touch humerus but I also mean every bit of it.