A while ago, I blogged about a study we are doing at COFF, which is on potions. One of the first things we talked about was the different alcoholic ingredients that a lot of brews have in them. I decided to share my findings with you, and perhaps you can use them in your BOS if you wish.
We are coming close to the First Harvest Earth Festival, a time to bring in the grain. This is a time of year when country fairs were held and still are…a time to share and show off the best that you have grown. For the First Harvest, it is all about the grain and the symbols that go with it.
When we are set upon cleaning, we rarely think of creating a potion to clean with. But in reality, that is what all cleaning products can be. The fact is that they are either a liquid themselves or a concentrate that you add to water. The fact that this country has so many cleaning products to choose from is mindboggling, and what’s worse is that most of those products are toxic. Thankfully, we do have some nontoxic options, as well. Even still, if you are able and willing making your own, that allows you the opportunity to create exactly what you need for every situation — not only to clean on a weekly basis, but you can also change things up to alter and/or enhance the energy for different seasons or festivals or even for a special spell you have been working.
Altars are a very personal thing, being everything from very formal to unrecognizable as an altar. Regardless of what they look like, they are the powerhouse of our magicks. This is where we hold our rituals, and everything we do at them holds a little residual energy from our workings. No matter what our altar looks like, it is a place we can go to reconnect to our magickal selves.
We are finally in that part of the year where we can go play in our gardens. For most of us, our gardens have been completely planted. Others in the farther northern regions still have some time. No matter what stage of planting we are in, it’s never too late to add some magickal energy to our gardens to help them grow.
WitchCrafting is a unique word. The word “craft,” in fact, conjures up all sorts of fun, creative ways to add some magick to your life — if, of course, you are a practicing witch. In reality, when anyone makes anything, there is always a little piece of themselves in their work, whether they are aware of it or not.
I recently had the pleasure of attending a terrarium-making class. In this class, not only did you learn how to make a terrarium, but also what the different layers are for and what makes it a bio-active, jar-contained environment.
There is something to be said about using colors you find in the natural world to beautify your life. Normally, that’s done by bringing flowers
Since the time before the Christian church, people have been using eggs to honor spring. In the old Pagan traditions, the egg was a symbol of the sun and used on the spring equinox to honor its return.
The lowly knot is, in reality, taken for granted. We knot our shoes, a garbage bag, a paper bundle for recycling, and even a package. We are using a knot just for utilitarian purposes, not realizing how much more a knot can actually do.
