love – kosi

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.

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.