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Note: some of the spells and recipes on this page are experimental. Please read my observations before attempting anything.

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Recipe: Intention sticks

Ingredients:

  • cinnamon (the kind for burning)
  • 3-10 bay leaves
  • baker’s twine or embroidery thread
  • (optional) basil, lavender, or any other herb that corresponds with your intention

Process:

Choose a number of bay leaves that corresponds with how long your cinnamon stick is. If it’s a short stick, only use three bay leaves. If it’s a long stick, you may be able to use 9 or 10 bay leaves.

Write your intentions on the bay leaves with a sharpie. You can write the same intention on each one, or you can vary them, but it will be more powerful if you keep them all at least thematically similar. Also, you can write your intentions in words, symbols, numbers, sigils, or however feels most powerful to you.

Boil the bay leaves in a pot of water for at least five minutes. (This is a good time to do a bay leaf and cinnamon boil but don’t use the same piece of cinnamon.)

Measure a piece of baker’s twine about the width of your arm span.

Align one of your wet bay leaves with the bottom of your dry cinnamon stick. Tie the bay leaf to the cinnamon with bakers twine, and wrap the twine tightly around both.

Continue wrapping the twine around the cinnamon stick, adding more bay leaves as you go up.

When you reach the top, work your way back down. Tie the two ends of the twine together at the bottom.

Set the intention stick to dry on a rack for 7-10 days or until the bay leaves are completely dry.

Uses:

  • Hold one end of this stick over a candle and let the smoke carry your intentions into the spirit realm.
  • Leave it smoldering in a fire safe bowl or abalone shell while you meditate on your manifestations.
  • To make an offering to your spirits/deities/ancestors, write intentions like “gratitude” and “worship.” Hold this over a candle while you commune with your spirits.
  • For a love spell, use rose petals instead of bay leaves (if they’re fresh you won’t have to boil them first), and write the names and birthdays of the lovers on the rose petals.
  • For a money spell, write money sigils or the amount of money you need on the bay leaves and wrap the cinnamon in a basil leaf before adding the bay leaves.
  • For a protection spell, tie a rosemary branch to the base of the cinnamon and wrap the bay leaves around both. Use it like you would a smudge to bless and cleanse your house.
  • To manifest peace, tie a lavender branch to the base of the cinnamon and wrap the bay leaves around both. If you only have lavender leaves, wrap the bay leaves around the cinnamon stick and wrap the twine around both. When you get to the top, wrap the lavender leaves around the bay leaves and cinnamon, and wrap the twine around all three to work your way back down.

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Recipe: God is Truth vinegar

Ingredients:

  • Ouroboros vinegar (or white vinegar)
  • orange peels
  • three bay leaves

Process:

Write “truth,” “cleanse,” and “Psalm 51:6” on three bay leaves, add them to a mason jar with the orange peels, and 2/3 fill the jar with vinegar.

Heat up the mason jar in a pot of boiling water (or do a bay leaf cinnamon boil) for a few minutes, and then let it cool.

Uses:

  • cleaning/energy cleansing rituals
  • add to a new moon ritual bath
  • any spell to bless the beginning (or renewal) of a project
  • any spell in which you want to compel someone to confess the truth
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Recipe: Come to me Moon Water

Ingredients:

  • hot water
  • 3 bay leaves
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 7-10 star anise stars
  • 1 whole vanilla bean

Process:

Draw sigils/intentions on the bay leaves and add them to a mason jar with cinnamon, star anise, and vanilla beans. Add hot water. Leave on the window sill overnight on the full moon to charge.

Uses:

  • use it as an ingredient in a come to me glamour spell or homemade cosmetics <= this is the one I plan to do
  • add honey and drink it like a tea either hot or cold before a performance or social event (if you plan to drink it, don’t write on the bay leaves)
  • rinse your hands with it before a performance or social event
  • make it with alcohol instead of water and spray it on yourself before a performance or social event
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Recipe: Herbal Leo Moon Water

Because I so rarely repeat a recipe exactly the way I did it last time, I’m making the executive decision to repost the recipe every time I change it. Because it’s my grimoire and I can do that shit. Also it helps to keep track of what worked and what didn’t. So with that said, here’s my herbal moon water recipe for the Leo moon.

Ingredients:

  • mason jar
  • water
  • rosemary (dried)
  • chamomile
  • 3 bay leaves
  • sigil
  • coins

Process:

I taped my sigil to the bottom of the jar, facing inward. I wrote intentions on both sides of each bay leaf and added it to the jar, with the rosemary, chamomile, and coins.

I filled up the jar with water, capped it, and left it in an east facing window over the full moon in Leo.

Uses:

  • add to glamour magic potions (<= this is the one I’m going to do)
  • dilute castile soap
  • add a spoonful to the water in a diffuser
  • bless/cleanse your witchy tools
  • use as a floor wash to bless your house
  • pour over your head as a spiritual bath

This is a full moon in Leo, so it’s particularly good for glamour magic, but it will also hold some of the influence of the sun/Saturn/Jupiter conjunction in Aquarius and the Uranus/Mars/Lilith conjunction in Taurus. Keep this in mind when deciding how to use your moon water.

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Spell: Hex a politician or powerful person

Ingredients:

  • small jar (make sure it’s one you have no interest in ever using again)
  • black or dark red candle
  • black salt or regular salt
  • black pepper
  • cayenne pepper
  • thieves vinegar or white vinegar

Process:

Write the name of the person in the center of a small piece of paper, or draw a sigil symbolizing the person.

In a circle around the name, write “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” [*]

Fold the paper in half twice and put it in the jar with the other ingredients. Close the jar and shake it. It will fizz. Don’t freak out.

Set a candle on top of the jar and let it burn all the way down.

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Recipe: Smudge sticks

Ingredients:

  • herbs/plants (scroll down for suggestions)
  • baker’s twine

Process:

Cut the branches of the plant material you are using into 6-8 inch lengths.

Measure a piece of baker’s twine the width of your arm span.

Bundle the branches together (to your desired thickness).

With the tips of the branches pointing down, begin wrapping the cord tightly around the base of your bundle.

Then, wrap the cord around the bundle (while firmly pressing the plant material together) working your way to the tip of the branches.

When you reach the tip, begin working your way back down toward the base.

Tie the two ends of the cord together at the base.

Set the smudge stick to dry in a basket or on a drying rack for 7-10 days (or as long as necessary).

Uses:

Burn a smudge the same way and for the same reason you’d use incense, as a daily energy clearing ritual, or for more specific purposes:

  • sage – cleanse and purify, banish negative energy
  • rosemary – protect the home, cleanse and purify, elevate vibration
  • cinnamon – protect the home, comfort/warmth
  • basil – attract love, money, abundance
  • lavender – promote calm, serenity, friendly energy
  • fennel – protection
  • dragon’s blood – increases the power of whatever you put it with
  • thyme – invite positive spirits, sweetness
  • rose petals – attract love
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Spell: Wealth and abundance

Ingredients:

  • fresh basil
  • 3 bay leaves
  • cinnamon stick
  • money
  • hot water
  • jar

Process:

Add some amount of money, both bills and coins, to a jar. Make the amount of money add up to something numerologically significant, like your birthday (e.g. $6.09 if your birthday is June 9), or an angel number like $2.22.

Write your intentions (can be “money” or “wealth” or “abundance” or some such) on each of the bay leaves and add them to the jar. You can also use this sigil:

https://www.tumblr.com/poiesismoon/175359089106/wltcher-i-am-being-gifted-money-a-sigil

Add the basil and cinnamon and then fill up the jar with hot water and cover it. Leave it until it cools down, or let it sit overnight.

Strain the liquid into a different jar. Pour it over your head slowly while you’re taking a shower. While you’re pouring, repeat your favorite money mantra. If you don’t know any, you can use this one from the Psalms:

Wealth and riches shall be in her house: and her righteousness endureth for ever.

– Psalm 112:13

…or you can use this one, also from the Psalms:

The queen shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy salvation how greatly shall she rejoice!

Thou hast given her her heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of her lips. Selah.

For thou preventest her with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on her head.

She asked life of thee, and thou gavest it her, even length of days for ever and ever.

Her glory is great in thy salvation: honour and majesty hast thou laid upon her.

For thou hast made her most blessed for ever: thou hast made her exceeding glad with thy countenance.

For the queen trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of the most High she shall not be moved.

– Psalm 21:1-7

There are many.

This spell can be done in conjunction with any glamour magick spell to amplify its results.

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Recipe: Recycled wax candles

Ingredients:

  • leftover candle wax in a glass container
  • candle holder
  • prewaxed wicks w clips

Process:

Gather all the wax you want to melt into a small glass jar or container.

Fold up a wash cloth or a few sheets of paper towel and line the bottom of the pot before filling it up with water. Make sure the water level in the pot is at least an inch lower than the height of the jar. (This is a good opportunity to also do a bay leaf boil.)

Set the jar of wax in the pot, but don’t get any water into the jar. Set the water to boil, and once the water is boiling, turn the flame down to the lowest setting.

While the wax is melting, use a bit of melted wax to affix the clip end of the wick to the bottom of the candle holder. Wrap the top of the wick around a wooden dowel to stop it from falling in.

…or use a contraption like this one, made out of craft sticks and a little tiny clothes pin:

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When the wax is melted, use pot holders to remove the jar from the pot and pour the wax into the candle holder.

If the candle is deep, it will almost certainly develop a hole near the wick when it cools. Plan for this. Wait for the hole to develop and pour in more wax. This is why when I make tall candles, I make them four or five at a time rather than one at a time.

Observation:

When you’re collecting your spare wax, do your best to keep them separated by color, unless the color of the finished product doesn’t matter to you. But don’t freak out if you don’t or can’t. A mishmash-colored candle can still be infused with intention by some other means, like for example, by bay leaf boil.

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Spell: Bay leaf and cinnamon boil

I usually do this spell while I’m melting leftover wax to make new candles, but it can be done at any time for any reason.

Ingredients:

  • water
  • 2-4 bay leaves
  • cinnamon stick

Process:

Write your intentions or draw your sigils onto the bay leaves. Add this, the cinnamon, and the $100 bill to a pot of water. If you need your intentions to manifest very quickly, also add ginger or black pepper. You may also add any other herbs that correspond with your intentions.

Set it to boil, and once it’s boiling, lower the flame. Let the mixture boil in an uncovered pot for at least fifteen minutes. Add more water when the pot starts to get low. Occasionally stir clockwise while chanting your intentions.

Either discard the water when you’re done, or keep it for some other purpose. (I wouldn’t drink it, but if you intend to drink it, don’t write anything on the bay leaves. Because you’d be drinking sharpie ink. Don’t do that.)

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Recipe: Bone broth

Ingredients:

  • vegetable scraps, chicken scraps and bones
  • 4tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 small ginger root, chopped into smallish pieces (about a handful)

Process:

Pile as many vegetable scraps, meat scraps, and bones as will fit in your crock pot.

Fill the pot with water, add the vinegar, and let it sit for an hour in the cold pot.

While you’re chopping the ginger, speak your intentions for the broth. Say “you will be delicious and nourishing,” or “you will make me feel good about myself” or some similar intention.

Add the intentioned ginger, and then run the crock pot for twelve hours on the lowest cook setting. (If your crock pot has a “warm” setting, don’t use that. That’s not a cook setting.)

Strain the bones and vegetables out of the broth when it’s done. If you are using chicken bones, you can probably make another pot or two of broth with the same bones. If you’re using beef or pork, you can probably make another three or four pots with the same bones.

Uses:

Use this as a base for sauce, rice, pasta, or soup

Perform this glamour magick spell daily:

Pour hot bone broth into a coffee mug, and add a spoonful of God is Love Vinegar. Stir the broth and vinegar with a spoon while chanting:

Love, love, love for my body
Love, love, love for myself
love, love, love I'm ingesting
love, love, love for my health

Drink it when it’s cool enough.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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