Kitchen Witchery and Frugality
Purify a Room, Increases intensity of Love Affair, Psychic, Money, and Healing
Look who's landed in your kitchen
Bringing fortune to your home
It's me the lucky kitchen witch
Your special little gnome
I'll end burnt pots
I'll keep meals hot
I'll do such magic chores
For I'm your lucky kitchen witch
Keep me safe by your kitchen door.
~Author Unknown
Scott Cunningham, The Magical Household
Herbal properties are the same whether they are in herb form, or as oils or incense.
Agrimony: Protection, banishes negative energy, sleep(air)
Allspice: Prosperity, courage, energy, strength (fire)
Almond: Money, wisdom (air)
Angelica: Protection, exorcism, health, meditation, divination (fire)
Anise: Protection, psychic awareness, repels evil spirits (air)
Basil:Mend quarrels, sympathy, happiness (fire)
Benzoin resin: Prosperity, astral projection, purification (air)
Betony: Protects against nightmares and despair (fire)
Borage: Psychic abilities, financial gain
Broom: Used to bless weddings (air)
Carnation: Feminine energy, healing, strength (water)
Cedar:Home purification, good fortune, luck (fire)
Chamomile:Love, meditation, peace (water)
Cinnamon: Energy, creativity, financial matters (fire)
Clove:Banishing, love (fire)
Copal resin:Purification, cleansing (fire)
Damiana: Love, lust (fire)
Dill:Money, luck, protection (fire)
Fennel: Protection, healing (fire)
Frankincense resin: Exorcism, purification, spirituality (fire)
Galangal: Psychic abilities, luck, money (fire)
Gardenia: Love, peace, healing (water)
Ginger: Success, courage, strength (fire)
Hazel: Divination, psychic abilities, dreams (air)
Holly: Protection, luck (fire)
Honeysuckle: Healing, love, creativity (earth)
Horehound: Protection, exorcism, mental clarity (air)
Hyssop: Purification, repel negativity (fire)
Jasmine: Dreams, sexuality (water)
Lavender: Love, sleep, dreams, meditation, protection (air)
Lemongrass: Psychic abilities (air)
Lilac: Protection, divination (water)
Marigold: Legal matters, dreams, divination (fire)
Meadowsweet: Love, peace (air)
Mint: Healing, prosperity, creativity (air)
Mistletoe: Protection, fertility, exorcism (fire)
Mugwort: Psychic abilities, divination, protection (earth)
Myrrh resin: Purification, healing, spirituality (water)
Orris Root: Love (water)
Patchouli: Money, lust, fertility (earth)
Pine: Prosperity,fertility, healing (air)
Rose Love, healing, friendship (water)
Rosemary: Cleansing, purification, exorcism (fire)
Rue: Banishing, protection (fire)
Sage: Purification, repels negativity, wisdom (air)
Sandalwood: Spirituality, exorcism, healing (water)
Thyme: Sleep, protection, courage (water)
Valerian: Love, sleep, protection (water)
Vanilla: Lust, love, courage (water)
Vervain: Love, prosperity, sleep, healing, creativity (earth)
Wormwood: Scrying, divination, exorcism (fire)
Yarrow: Love, psychic abilitites, banishing (water)
Focus your intent into the meal as you prepare it. Then before serving, place power hand over the food and say the following (or something similar):
As above so below
as below so above
Bless this meal
with peace and love
Blessed Be
So I am starting a little project of making a little Kitchen Witch.
I saw her in the Clearance cart at our pharmacy; a cute Witch holding a pumpkin. She was covering a plastic container with candies inside. I had a creative thought of taking the "already made part" of her and attaching it to a cloth body and legs that I could create and hand sew and finding a small broom for her to ride upon.
**I do come up with some Good, Creative and somewhat Eclectic Ideas once in a Blue Moon! LOL
Then I will hang her from my Kitchen ceiling for good luck and bless her, so she might in return bless my little kitchen with Magick as well.
I will post the finished project as soon as I get her done! Wish me luck!
Blessed Be,
~Luna-Star Xylia
Aloe Vera -- soothes burns and helps heal a cut. You can just break off a stalk and apply the gel to the injured place. Remember to give thanks to the plant for it's gift. The magickal power of the plant help protects the kitchen from those mishaps. Also it is said that to rub some of the gel onto the tools and doors will safeguard them.
Garlic -- a braid hanging in the kitchen helps absorb any negativity. Be sure not to cook with these bulbs.
Onion -- An onion on the window sill is a good magickal protection item.
Sweet Flag Root and Alfalfa -- Both are good for guarding against poverty.
Scott Cunningham, The Magic Kitchen"
Links:
http://www.cityfarmer.org/chickenhut.html
http://www.folksonline.com/folks/hh/tours/frugal.htm
http://www.allthingsfrugal.com/
http://www2.latech.edu/~sld/frugalstuff.html
http://www.creativehomemaking.com/frugal.shtml
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/caretaker/
