Hot Choclety Milk Spell
For comfort and calmness.
Ingredients:
Your favourite hot chocolate
Your favourite mug
Milk/Milk substitute
Peppermint
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Vanilla
Blankets, pillows, anything comforting
Soft music
Intent
Directions:
Build yourself a warm nest of blankets, pillows, and the like.
Turn on music that calms you.
Prepare the hot chocolate like you normally would.
Add in the other ingredients and your own calming intent, stirring clockwise and putting soothing energy into it.
As you’re stirring, repeat these words: “Calm the waves, soothe the fear, let all be comforting here” until you feel it’s ready.
When you’re done, nestle yourself into the blankets, listen to the music, and just breathe.
I showed this to my sister and her reaction was: “Ohmygod. Meme Witches”
Day 20: Nest
Sometimes, a favorite activity can become spellwork, which is what I am associating this with - is that it’s something that provides such strong appeal that it becomes more magical with time. And a little enchantment.
This is, in fact, a true tumblr meme
Hot Choclety Milk, an intentional misspelling of “Hot Chocolate Milk,” refers to an MS Paint cartoon illustration of a spider offering a mug
And it’s a spider.
I know that this is using nest here for pillows and blankets, right? Because after all this spell wouldn’t be on this day (It could’ve been on the milk day no?), if it didn’t include that word in the spell somewhere. But we could have leaned into the spider-ishness of this spell a bit to me, it might have been interesting. After all spiders are very much part of the home making process (at least for me, because I have an agreement so… ), so to me it makes sense to add them into that level of comfort and coziness.
I also think this is particularly useful for working with spellwork that might be a little less risky to do anything else. And yes, you could argue that the hot choco is currently a potion, I’ll accept that. But the entire spell includes other elements besides the hot choco. That’s just one of the many elements of this particular spellwork.
One little bit here - let me come to camera 3
Listen. Listen, listen. I know… I see it, you want me to provide some deep knowledge about clockwise stirring. I see it, I see that you do. Let me just say that… I stir my beverages like a hand mixer and a wile e coyote where in I could be doing side to side, diagonals, and other tricks with my spoon. Clockwise is just a method.
There’s some folks who say clockwise is how to draw down something into something else. Like a funnel. This is partial because people are still using some Wiccan based explanation of the direction of doing things / understanding / patterning for how they do their rituals (deosil / sunwise). I say Wiccan based because this does, if my research is accurate -squint-, appear in some of the Gardnerian BoS / Alexanderian BoS.
I do not have such things in my spellwork repertoire and I am sure there will be people who are offended that I pointed out that there’s a lot of spellwork patterned with these directionals because of the popularity of Wiccan spell casting templates.
So frankly, stir how you want to stir. Is what I’m saying. There’s nothing (imo) super magical about a direction you stir in unless you make it so.
I feel this would be very good for nightmares or after a particularly stressful day. There’s pieces here that could even be used to feel like reconstruction after a particularly bad news or a particularly bad confrontation that you could use to soothe and heal. Finding peace after such things is very important - and I say this as someone who frequently dwells in their pain rather than someone who drinks the hot choclety milk as part of a soothing ritual or any other soothing ritual. I can see the benefits of such a thing bringing more of that I am here, I am not in trouble, and basically putting your self literally back into the scale it should be in rather than feeling lost and upset.
So all in all, I enjoy this spell. I personally would pick a flavor and stay with it. As I said, cinnamon and peppermint are opposites on the spicy scale for me. So like if I was picking one, I’d pick that one that I needed the most.
And yes, you can have hot choco in the summer, and I will fight you on that. xD
