Category: Grimoire of the High Priestess

This journal is the home of the spells, recipes, records, and meditations of the High Priestess of the Temple of Adjua Luna.

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Spell and Recipe Journal

Recipe: Black Salt

I made this on the day after the new moon in Capricorn. This batch includes the bay leaves I burned yesterday.

Ingredients:

  • smudge ashes (holds the intentions of whatever herbs you’ve burned with intention, plus the added power of the element of fire)
  • salt (for protection)
  • powdered cinnamon (for protection and also abundance)

Process:

Mix all the ingredients together.

Uses:

  • Black salt sweep: sprinkle this black salt on the floor in your house and then sweep it up. Do just the room with your altar, or do the whole house. Repeat a memorized mantra or prayer while you do this. Psalm 91 works well as a home blessing, or Psalm 122:7 for a business, or Psalm 146:5-9 for a charitable business.
  • Use this in any protection, hex, or banishing spell that calls for black salt
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Chronicles and Observation Journal

Chronicles: The Beginning

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”

John 1:1 KJV

This is my first public post in this journal.

It feels a bit strange to call it the “beginning” since once I’m done typing here, I’m going to go back through my private entries and decide which ones to publicize, thereby making this not at all the beginning. And yet here we are, at the beginning, which is not the beginning, because the beginning is never the beginning.

Image from Wikipedia.org

Today is the new moon in Capricorn.

Less than an hour ago, at 12:03am (the moment of the new moon) I attempted to burn seven bay leaves at the altar in my office. I say “attempted” as though I didn’t succeed; I did burn all seven bay leaves but with great difficulty. It was frustrating, and now I have a headache. That is to say, the headache I woke up with (three hours ago, because Quarantine Schedule) has intensified. There are a few more things I want to do in honor of the new moon, but at the moment I’m slightly discouraged by the experience. I don’t believe it’s a bad omen, but I do believe it’s a sign that the next six months are going to be frustrating.

Update several hours later: – I found the source of my headache: dehydration. Meaning I’ll have to come up with a way to ritualize drinking water.

But! In the mean time, here’s what I did to honor the New Moon in Capricorn:

  • Publicized this blog. I still have yet to go back and publicize some of my previously private entries, but I’ll get to it soon.
  • Gave a proper introduction to my live prayer. Why wasn’t I doing that before? Who knows!
  • Smudged with the vanilla smudge stick. It’s actually rosemary, vanilla, and cinnamon. I had been keeping it for an occasion, and this was an occasion. It didn’t all burn up in one day, though, so I’ll burn some again tomorrow.
  • Lit two prayer candles, green and purple, at the altar in my living room. I managed to get them there about an hour before midnight (about an hour after waking up… because Quarantine Schedule). The green is for my personal gain, and the purple is for the spiritual and cultural revolution.
  • Lit the Jupiter-Saturn candle at the altar in my office. This will take a few days to burn, I’m sure. It looks like it’s burning pretty slowly. I also did some deep meditation on the trajectory of my Jupiter return year, and I’m pretty confident that I’m on the right path.
  • Burned seven bay leaves at exactly 12:03am. I don’t usually set rituals like this for the exact time of the astrological event, but this time it was convenient to do so.
  • Started on making vinegar. (I said I’d make vinegar last full moon, but I didn’t do it then; I’ve just done it now, during the 1/11 portal that was two days ago.) For some reason, this feels particularly significant, as though the time from the new moon in Capricorn to the full moon in Capricorn will be somehow defined by the fact that I’m right now making vinegar. But perhaps that’s one of those stories that’s best told in hindsight?
  • Made toner.
  • …and orange extract.
  • Black salt sweep (I did this a day late, but better late than never)

If this feels like a lot of extra stuff to honor the new moon, it definitely is. This new moon was not only the first of the calendar year, but it was also conjunct Pluto, which gives it much more weight with regards to beginnings and endings. Something significant is ending. Something significant is beginning. I am attempting to align with that energy and tap into that power.

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Spell and Recipe Journal

Recipe: Ouroboros Vinegar

Updated on 3/29/2021: I’ve updated this recipe after a few months of experimentation. I think I’ve come up with a pretty solid basic recipe.

This vinegar is called Ouroboros for two reasons: 1. its ingredients are all recycled (the alcohol is left over from offerings to my spiritual court and the apple cores are left over from my minister’s offerings to himself) and 2. a critical ingredient, God is Mother, creates itself.

Ingredients:

  • 6 apple cores (or two apples cut into pieces or an analogous amount of fruit scraps)
  • 2 cups of water
  • 100mL (two shots) of rum or vodka
  • 50mL of God is Mother (or 1/2 cup of raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar)

Process:

Add all ingredients to a mason jar. There should be enough liquid to cover the fruit. Cover the mouth of the jar with cheesecloth and secure with a rubber band to keep out pests.

After two weeks, remove the cheesecloth, strain out and discard the solids, and add the liquid back to the jar. Cover again with the cheesecloth.

Check the vinegar after 4 more weeks (it may take up to 3 months to fully convert), taste the vinegar for acidity.

Strain out the mother and keep it in a jar labeled “God is Mother” before bottling the vinegar. Start using the vinegar immediately, or age the vinegar for a year or more to mellow the flavors.

Recipe adapted from this source: DIY Pantry Staple: How To Make Fruit Vinegar

Uses:

  • use in any spell or recipe that requires white vinegar or apple cider vinegar

Observation:

I’ve poured all my experiments into a half gallon mason jar. I strained out the mother before I poured it, but another thinner mother formed in the half gallon jar.

This vinegar is SHARP. The sharpness doesn’t bother me, as I mostly don’t plan to consume any of it, but I understand that the longer you leave it alone, the less sharp it becomes.

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Spell and Recipe Journal

Recipe: Glamour magick toner

Ingredients:

Process:

I’ve strained the Herbal Moon Water I made on the last full moon into a pot with a hundred dollar bill, two tea bags, a cinnamon stick, and seven bay leaves. I reserved and added the “abundance/protection” bay leaf from the Herbal Moon Water jar into the pot, along with the “pleasure” and three “I will be gifted money” bay leaves from my recent candle making. That made five bay leaves, so I added two more, one which says “love” on one side and “pleasure” on the other, and one which says “worship” on one side and “power” on the other.

I’ve set them to boil, and now they are simmering. I went and did other things (including journaling) while they simmered.

I’ve poured out 100mL of the mixture from the pot into a measuring cup and added 2 tbsp of Glamour Magick Vinegar and 1 tbsp of glycerin. I thought about adding essential oils but decided against. I’ve poured the now-complete mixture into a 250mL wide mouth mason jar full of non woven sponges (cotton balls would work, but non woven sponges are what I have). This is now ready to use immediately.

I’ve set the hundred dollar bill to dry so that I can return it to my altar, where it was. The bay leaves are also drying. If they are dry by Wednesday I’ll do a bay leaf burning ceremony for the new moon.

Uses:

  • Clean your face with this toner daily while repeating a glamour magic affirmation. Here are my three favorites:
    • “I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully made”
    • “I am loved/I am worthy/I am desired”
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Spell and Recipe Journal

Recipe: Orange Extract

This was made two days before the new moon in Capricorn. I already had some orange extract, but it tasted to pulpy, so I started over. The old orange extract became part of the starter for vinegar.

Ingredients:

  • 1 orange (I would use two or three if I had them but I don’t)
  • vodka

Process:

Zest the orange and put the shavings in a 250mL mason jar. Cover with vodka. Leave at least until the full moon.

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Chronicles and Observation Journal

Chronicles: Radio drop

I just sent a radio drop to a local radio station in which I identified myself as the “high priestess of the one woman cult of Adjua Luna.” I didn’t explain what that meant, and somehow I imagine I won’t be asked, at least not soon. Actually, I probably will be asked. I’m getting my shit together slowly.

This feels new moon related. I don’t know if I’m ready to journal that yet. But the point is that my cult is now “out there.”

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Spell and Recipe Journal

Recipe: Cleaning baking soda

Ingredients:

  • 7 tbsp baking soda
  • 1 tbsp salt
  • 7 drops sage oil
  • 3 drops lemongrass oil
  • 3 drops tea tree oil
  • mason jar
  • parchment paper
  • sigil

Process:

Add all ingredients to mason jar. Cover jar with parchment paper. Set sigil on top of parchment paper. Screw on lid over parchment paper and sigil. Shake jar and then leave on shelf for at least one moon cycle.

Uses:

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Recipe: Herbal Moon Water

Ingredients:

  • hot water
  • mason jar
  • rosemary (dried)
  • chamomile
  • lavender leaves
  • bay leaf
  • sigil

Process:

I added a handful of dried lavender leaves (the dead ones I picked off my plant), chamomile, and rosemary to a mason jar.

I wrote “abundance” (for Jupiter) on one side of the bay leaf and “protection” (for Saturn) on the other side and added that to the jar as well.

I filled the jar up with boiling water.

I covered the jar with wax paper, put a sigil over the wax paper, and then screwed on the lid.

I’ve left the jar in an east-facing window (because that’s what was available) over the full moon in Cancer. In a few days I’ll move it away from the window and put it on a shelf with all my other mason jars full of potions.

Uses:

  • Add to glamour potions
  • dilute castille soap
  • drink as a tea while reciting an incantation
  • add a spoonful to a vaporizer
  • sprinkle over witchy tools while reciting an incantation to bless said tools
  • pour over your head as a spiritual bath
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Astrology Journal Meditation Journal

Full Moon in Cancer

The perpetual black candle on the living room altar burned itself out shortly after I woke up, and I’ve replaced it with a blue candle for the full moon in Cancer.

Right now I’m making more candles out of leftover wax. I melt the wax by heating up the candle holder in a pot full of boiling water. I wrote “self love,” “power,” and “worship” on three bay leaves, and they are boiling in the pot. I thought about adding “money” and “protection” but as of now, I have not. Black candles are already for protection, and I’m still in deliberation with Money about what I want from her. Once I’m done, I’ll dry out the bay leaves and burn them.

So far I’ve made:

  • five black prayer candles for the living room altar. It’s a multi-step process to make these prayer candles, but today I’ve finished five.
  • a Jupiter-Saturn candle which is black on the bottom and blue on top. I meant to make such a candle for the Great Conjunction, but that’s already past, so I’ll maybe burn it on New Year’s or some similar occasion.
  • three tea candle/votive sized black candles because I had some still left over. Not sure what I’ll do with these, but I’m sure I’ll find a use for them. Also, I didn’t really have enough wax for them, so they’re a little lacking. But that might be exactly what I need later.
  • three love/self-love candles which are pink on the bottom and white vanilla on top. I had intended only to make one, but I had a looooot of wax. I’ll give one to Matt. I don’t know what I’ll do with the third one.

As I’m doing this, I’m thinking about this full moon, which will be at 10:28pm tomorrow (well…today, actually… I need to be less confusing with my naming days, but I’m actually up late, not up early). Astrologers are saying this is the first full moon in Cancer that’s free of negative aspects in Capricorn in about three years, but Pluto is still in Capricorn. It’s not a direct conjunction to this full moon, but it will be within 3 degrees conjunct on my lunar return, which will be on the 31st. I don’t think it will be a negative aspect though. I think it will be important. It might hurt, but it will be long term transformative.

Chani Nicholas’ advice to me in her 2021 horoscope email is “What you are used to sacrificing won’t actually help you get to where you need to go now.” [*] For me, that’s my home, personal comfort, and other Cancer moon things. This is the full moon of remembering what not to sacrifice. I’ve noticed that doing something for the house stresses me out less than doing something for the outside world. In fact, I’ve noticed that I can calm down my anxiety about outside-world-work by stopping and switching to candle making or some other such activity. Sometimes I think I should ignore other work altogether, but that feeling never lasts terribly long.

I’ve decided that I need to find a way to integrate Psalm 139 into my daily life, more than just reading it on facebook live. I read Psalm 91 twice per day; once on live and once in front of my living room altar when I do my offerings. I should similarly have Psalm 139 be a twice daily phenomenon. For one, it would familiarize me with the text enough that I won’t stumble through it anymore. For two, it’s an incredibly powerful and important text, which is why I’m reading it on live. If it’s important enough for live, it’s important enough for another daily reading as well.

Also, this full moon I’m attempting to make herbal moon water and apple scrap vinegar. The former because why the fuck not, and the latter… well for the same reason. But also, I use vinegar in a lot of things. If I’m able to make it out of apple scraps, 1. I’ll save a bit of money buying vinegar and 2. everything made with a witch’s hands increases the magical potency.

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Spell and Recipe Journal

Recipe: God is Love Vinegar

Ingredients:

  • apple cider vinegar
  • orange peel
  • cinnamon
  • rosemary
  • parchment paper
  • sigil
  • jar

Process:

Put orange peel, cinnamon, and rosemary into a jar, and then fill up the jar with apple cider vinegar. Cover the top of the jar with parchment paper. This is important, as it will prevent the vinegar from corroding the lid of the jar. Set (or draw) a sigil on the parchment paper before putting on the lid. Put the jar away for at least one moon cycle.

Uses:

  • Add hot water and honey for a health tonic
  • Add to cosmetic mixes for glamour magic
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Astrology Journal Spell and Recipe Journal

Recipe: Clove oil

I made this clove oil on the December solstice which was also the Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. I used cloves left over from the last time I made clove oil.

Ingredients:

  • Cloves (about a handful)
  • Almond oil
  • parchment paper
  • mason jar
  • sigil

Process:

Pour a handful of cloves into the mason jar. (I used the cloves leftover from the last time I made clove oil. They are still good.) Fill the jar up the rest of the way with almond oil. Cover the top of the jar with parchment paper. Use enough so that the paper covers the sides of the jar and stops light from shining through. Set (or draw) a sigil on top of the parchment paper, and then screw the lid on over it. Put the jar away for at least two moon cycles.

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Recipe: Holy Oil

I made this holy oil on the December Solstice which was also the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.

Ingredients:

  • 150mL clove oil
  • 1 gram of THC concentrate (LA Chocolat Shatter, 81%)
  • 750mg CBD (10 droppers, 0.75mL per dropper, 100mg per mL)
  • rosemary oil
  • patchouli oil
  • frankincense oil
  • bay leaf

Process:

The clove oil has been soaking for maybe two months in a 200mL mason jar. I don’t remember when I set them to soak, and I didn’t write it down, but I’m sure it’s been two months or more.

I’ve scooped the cloves out of the oil with a fork and now it’s only 150mL of oil. (I put the oil soaked cloves into another jar to make more clove oil. [Edit 4/20/21: this was a bad idea. Next time I make clove oil I’ll use new cloves rather than used ones.]) I’ve crumbled the THC shatter into the mason jar and I’ve set that into a teacup of boiling water to gently heat the oil and melt the shatter. I’m occasionally taking it out and shaking it to speed it along, as well as occasionally replacing the water when it cools down.

I discovered that I can kill two birds with one stone by putting a bay leaf into the teacup.

Melting the shatter takes hours. It’s wise to do something else at the same time. I’m also making candles and researching the difference between witchcraft and mysticism as I do this. [Edit 4/20/21: in retrospect, the next time I do this, I’ll leave the shatter in the clove oil overnight.]

I’ve added 10 droppers of CBD. The droppers claim to be 1mL but they don’t fill all the way; I can only fill them up to about 0.75mL. I’ve added ten drops each of rosemary, patchouli, and frankincense oils, and then, because my oil pump is 200mL, I’ve topped it off with un-infused almond oil.

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Uses:

  • Soak sigils in holy oil before burning them to increase their power and ensure a clean burn
  • Anoint hands and/or candles before doing candle magic
  • Use as a massage oil for sex magic
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Spell and Recipe Journal

Recipe: Thieves Vinegar

This is a personal, spirit-led variation on the traditional Thieves Vinegar, made on the new moon (and solar eclipse) in Sagittarius. By the full moon (in Cancer) it should be ready to use.

Ingredients:

  • white vinegar
  • orange peel from 1 orange
  • rosemary (fresh, leftover from smudge making)
  • basil (some leftover from smudge making, some dried)
  • sage (left over from smudge making)
  • 7 bay leaves
  • worship sigil

Process:

Put orange peel, rosemary, basil, sage, and bay leaves into a jar. Fill the jar up with vinegar.

I’m considering adding cinnamon, but for now I will not.

In fact, as I’m typing this, it occurs to me that I can add my sigil to absorb some of the more chaotic energy. I covered the mouth of the jar with parchment paper before putting the lid on, and I can slip a sigil between the parchment paper and the lid.

Uses:

  • cleaning
  • any banishing spell that requires vinegar