Spell to Bless a Freshly Planted Garden

Chances are good that you’ve planted your garden in the past couple of weeks, so now that your flowers and herbs are getting ready to grow it’s the perfect time to do a bit of blessing magic.

May 29 was the date of the Ambarvalia Festival, an agricultural holiday in which tributes were made to the gods and goddesses of planting and crops to ensure a bountiful harvest.

Materials

Do this spell early in the morning, after the sun has risen.

Blend equal parts of honey, milk, and wine in the bowl.

Beginning at the North side, walk around your garden in a clockwise Direction, dipping your fingers in the mixture and sprinkling it on to the soil.

As you do, say:

Honey for the bees

Wine for the Divine

And milk for growth in this garden of mine

Pour anything left in the bowl right into the center of your garden.

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Found in Daily Spellbook for the Good Witch by Patti Wigington

Wait, don’t hate dandelions, turn them into wine!

Make sure the area has been pesticide/herbicide free for a year before you start picking.

The Voodoo Hoodoo Spell Book  (via thevoodoomama)

Lavender Wine

2-3 cups fresh Lavender Blossoms 2/3 cups Sugar 1/2 Lemon, thinly sliced 1 quart Vodka Cut the leaves and stems off of Lavender flowers and place the unwashed blossoms in a jar. Add the remaining ingredients, stir and cap. Shake the mixture daily and let cure for 2 weeks. Strain and serve over crushed ice in 1 oz. servings.

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How to make an amazing witchy drink for devotional or just a self-happiness charm. 

Then simply pour and enjoy! Cool, refreshing, sweet modern witchcraft for springtime/early summer.

Lemon Wine Brown Butter Sauce

Mulled Wine

Mulled wine is a beverage usually made with red wine along with various mulling spices and raisins. It is served hot or warm and may be alcoholic or non-alcoholic

It is a traditional drink during winter, especially around Yule and Christmas. 

Ingredients 4 cups apple cider 1 (750-ml) bottle red wine, such as Cabernet Sauvignon ¼ cup honey 2 cinnamon sticks 1 orange, zested and juiced 4 whole cloves 3 star anise 4 oranges, peeled, for garnish

How To

Combine the cider, wine, honey, cinnamon sticks, zest, juice, cloves and star anise in a large saucepan, bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Pour into mugs, add an orange peel to each and serve.

Honey-Pomegranate Mulled Wine

Something happens at midnight on Thanksgiving that makes it feel like winter. Maybe the turkey hangover raises your basal body temperature and makes outside feel colder or maybe it’s just, you know, nostalgia and shit. This year, here in Chicago, it feels extra blustery and we needed a drink to help us warm up.

Wine on its own is never a bad choice, but drinking it sweetened with honey and pomegranate juice, warmed gently and made fragrant with cinnamon and clove is quite possibly the best choice on the fucking planet.

While we wouldn’t recommend using gut-rot-boot-leg-drink-it-in-college-with-straw-two-dollars-for-a-jug-not-that-we’re-speaking-from-experience hooch, this is a great recipe for lower end red wine. Merlot is great, Cabs are delightful but we’re particularly fond of Trader Joe’s brand Old Vine Zinfandel for this recipe.  

Honey-Pomegranate Mulled Wine

Combine all of the ingredients in a large heavy pot, like a dutch oven, or your crock-pot. Stir well to dissolve the Honey. Slowly warm over low heat, without boiling. Keep it barely hot all day, topping up with more wine, juice, and honey, for guests, or down it in one go. No Judgment.

Serve in mugs or thick, heat-safe glass, with a big plate of gingersnaps.

Stovetop Incense for Samhain

Stovetop Incense, sometimes called stovetop potpourri outside of magic circles, is a mixture of ingredients with a liquid base, simmered on the stove in a pan to fill the air with a lovely aroma. This recipe is intended to be simmered all day during Samhain to invite benevolent spirits into the home. 

Ingredients: 

Add water to pan and turn burner to medium-high. Add each ingredient while thinking of loved ones who have passed. Stir the mixture clockwise, asking for peaceful spirits to come into your home for the holiday. Wait until the water simmers, then turn down heat to medium. Stir periodically throughout the day, adding more water when necessary. 

The Magick of Booze: A Correspondence Table

This is my own personal correspondence table for the use of alcohol in magick. It may not match your own usage of alcohol, but if you like anything you see, feel free to adopt it. Some of this is based in what the alcohol is made from, some on its history, and some of this is based in personal experience or associations. This is not about alcohol as an offering, but the usage of it as a spell component. The list is in no way exhaustive and does not include mixed drinks or brands. Just your basics.

Distilled Spirits

Fermented Beverages