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[talesoftheimaginary]

"Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel."

[wishfulwitchy]

The Yearly Spread

Present Position 

Positive Influences New Year

Negative Influences New Year 

Goal(s) for New Year

Yearly Lesson 

Relationships (romantic, family, and or friends)

Work/School

Health 

Spirituality

Deck’s Comment/Reading Reflection

Advice

This is a bit of a larger spread that I made for my birthday, but can be used for the new year as well! I typically like to do this on my birthday because it is a more personal way of counting years! Anyways, I really love the result I got, Honest, but what I needed to know! Looking forward to next year’s new adventures! 

[breelandwalker]

Hi Bree, do you know of any good books for herbology and folklore? I want to expand upon my knowledge of herbs and plants. Thank you in advance!

Folklore would largely depend on what region you’d want to focus on, but I do have a number of recommendations for books on plants and herbology.

Here are my usual recs for plant magic books:

GREEN WITCHCRAFT

Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs (Cunningham)

Garden Witchery (Dugan)

The Garden Witch’s Herbal (Dugan)

The Sacred Herbs of Samhain (Hopman)

The Real Witches’ Garden (West)

The Hearth Witch’s Compendium (Franklin)

The Hearth Witch’s Kitchen Herbal (Franklin)

The Green Witch Herbal (Griggs)

PRACTICAL HERBOLOGY

The Complete Guide to Herbal Medicines (Fetrow & Avila)

Rodale’s Illustrated Encyclopedia of Herbs (Carr)

Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs (Peterson Field Guides)

Edible Wild Plants (Peterson Field Guides)

Herbal Remedies (Chevallier)

The New American Herbal (Orr)

The Herbal Medicine-Maker’s Handbook (Green)

HISTORY OF PLANT MAGIC AND MEDICINE

Witchcraft Medicine: Healing Arts, Shamanic Practices, and Forbidden Plants (Rätsch, Müller-Ebeling, and Storl)

The Untold History of Healing: Plant Lore and Medicinal Magic from the Stone Age to Present (Storl)

Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants, and Trees (Lehner)

Culpeper’s Complete Herbal & English Physician (Culpeper)

It looks like a lot, I know. Options are good to have, and it's also important to have practical sources on your shelves in addition to your magical books. I also posted some pictures of my personal library a while back. They're a little out of date, but you can see the titles pretty clearly, and that might give you some more ideas. If you're looking for books on working with plant spirits, I suggest looking into sources on druidry. (I'm just getting into that myself.) Dana O'Driscoll's Wordpress blog is a wealth of information on the topic.

I hope this helps! Remember as you're building your library that it's okay to keep what serves you and pass on the books that you don't find helpful or appealing. I've been revising my own collection for years now and it's gone through significant changes during that time. 

I’m going to be talking about how to find good sources and build your witchcraft library in a future episode of Hex Positive as well. :)

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For the recipe thing, could you make a meat pie, please? Thanks for all of your hard work!

Sure thing love! Here you go!

COTTAGE CORE MEAT PIE

2 lb beef of choice (minced or chunk)

2 tbsp tomato paste

1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

1 tbsp olive oil

1 tsp ground sage

Salt and pepper

1 tsp thyme

2 garlic cloves, minced

1/3 cup flour

2 cups beef stock

1 yellow onion, chopped

1/2 pack bacon

4 tbsp cheddar cheese

1 tbsp red wine vinegar

1/2 cup chopped carrots

1/3 cup chopped celery

2 sheets puff pastry

Directions

Pour some oil into a pot of choice and cook your garlic and onion until fragrant. Now cook down the onions, celery, and carrots until the onions are soft. Cook your bacon in the same pot. Add in minced beef in a pot (if you use chunk, it will take longer to cook). Add in your tomato paste, salt, pepper, sage, and thyme. When the beef is about 3/4 way cooked, add in your stock. 

Stir in Worcestershire sauce, cheddar cheese, and flour. Reduce heat to low and simmer uncovered for 75 minutes, or until the sauce has thickened. Stir in red wine vinegar.

Preheat your oven to 350 F. Roll out your puff pastry if needed and cut out a heart shape in the center of one sheet. In a buttered baking pan of choice, add a sheet of puff pastry to it. Pour your simmered meat into the baking dish and cover with the puff pastry you cut out hearts with. Make a couple other slits and brush with egg wash.

Bake for 30 – 35 minutes or until the pastry reaches a deep golden color. Enjoy!

[theladymorganlefay]

Lavender Lemonade

Nothing beats the summer heat like a tall glass of ice cold Lavender Lemonade! Not only will you love the refreshingly delicious taste it has to offer, but you may find yourself more relaxed since the mere scent of lavender has been shown to reduce anxiety. In addition, the odor from essential oils that are released from lavender blossoms may provide migraine and insomnia relief.

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Ingredients

1/4 cup Dried Lavender Flowers

2 cups Boiling Water

1 cup Honey

1 tray Ice Cubes

1 cup Lemon Juice

5+ cups Filtered Water

Instructions

Put the dried lavender flowers into a bowl and pour 2 cups of boiling water over it.

Add the honey and then allow it to steep for about 15-20 minutes.

Strain out the lavender flowers.

Add ice cubes to a 2-quart pitcher.

Pour the honey and lavender mixture into the pitcher.

Add the lemon juice and top it off with cold filtered water.

Stir and enjoy!

[crystalherbalist]

strawberry summer tea

- 🌿🕊🍓☀️🍵✨

hello! i’d like to start off this post by saying it was totally inspired by another post for a really yummy strawberry jam, everyone should go check it out!

so, i somehow managed to pull off another tea recipe that tastes good both iced and hot, which if you’ve been here for a while you know that i! do not! take that claim lightly! as i find it’s usually a complete and total sham!!!! but i digress, this summer tea is amazing to enjoy out in the beautiful sunshine this summer and i especially recommend it on one of those days where the sky is extra baby blue and there’s not a single cloud in sight ✨

[ what you’ll need; ]

strawberries;

happiness, friendship, love, purity, healing, growth, good luck, energy, emotional balance

thyme;

healing, communication, love, happiness, prosperity, abundance, friendship, cleansing, growth, stability, comfort

cinnamon;

energy, confidence, protection, growth, grounding, love, happiness, comfort, mental strength

honey; [optional]

healing, love, vitality, communication, motivation, energy, confidence, protection, intuition, good luck, prosperity, abundance, wish granting

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[ brew instruction ]

mash up your strawberries and honey together into a jammy paste while you get some water boiling, go ahead and throw in your cinnamon stick(s) at this point

once your water is aggressively boiling, bring it to med-low heat and sprinkle in your thyme while still at a high boil, let it bubble down then bring your heat all the way down to a gentle simmer and add in your jammy mixture, let it brew like this for maybe 3-5 minutes and enjoy hot or refrigerate and serve over ice!

[themirroredmoon]

☆ Beltane Lemonade ☆

Even though Beltane has already passed, this lemonade recipe can and should be enjoyed whenever you care for a refreshing drink.

Ingredients: ☆ Ginger (Money, Power, Success) ☆ Lemons (Friendship, Longevity, Purification) ☆ Lemon Balm (Healing, Love, Success) ☆ Rosemary (Healing, Mental Powers, Protection) ☆ Spearmint (Healing, Love, Mental Powers)

*Note: Fresh squeezed lemons for the lemonade is best but if you cannot, don’t worry. Adding the ingredients to store bought lemonade and letting them sit in the fridge for a couple of hours works all the same. Remember, it’s all about intention.

[cottagehaunt]

so today I made this syrup which is basically just concentrated rose lemonade, you mix it with water and boom you got some rose lemonade :) ROSE LEMONADE SYRUP Ingredients: 2 cup lemon juice (I did 1.5 cups lemon juice and the rest lime juice bc I ran out) 1.5 cup sugar ½ cup dried edible roses (or rose petals, I just found full dried roses at my local Asian market) rose water to taste (optional if rose flavor isn’t strong enough) Instructions: Mix ingredients together in a medium saucepan over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to a boil then reduce to a simmer for 5 minutes. Allow to cool to room temperature (takes about an hour). Strain out roses and put syrup in a container and refrigerate for future use. To make the lemonade, mix 3-5 tbsp. syrup with 8oz cold water, pour over ice, and enjoy :)

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MY FAVORITE COTTAGE CORE RECIPES

Would you guys like me to post more recipes inspired by cottagecore? Please let me know ^_^

Rose lemonade syrup

Cottagecore meat pie (Original content)

Creamy vegetable soup

Chewy oat cookies

Spiced sugar cookies

Orange Cake

Cheddar biscuits

Apple butter

Cozy Wildrice Soup

Amish White Bread

Caramel apple cider recipe

Forest Porridge

Roasted butternut squash

[crystalherbalist]

blueberry thyme summer tea

- 🍵✨🌿☀️🧊

this tea can be served hot or cold which normally i find to be false advertising and a sham, but it rly works with this tea! it’s great for just a quick pick me up drink and it gives a nice sense of security, like somehow everything’s just gonna be ok, ya know? also i highly recommend enjoying a cup of this outside in the sun if you can

[ what you’ll need; ]

• blueberries (wow)

happiness, compassion, expels insecurities/inhibitions, wish granting

• black tea

energy, strength, mental clarity, stability, grounding

• thyme

kindness, healing, prosperity, fae, love, patience, gentleness, self love

• lemon peel/zest

love, happiness, healing, energy, fae

• honey! (optional)

healing, fae, happiness, abundance, self love, prosperity

[morgans-mystics]

🍻🍀Prosperity Jar🍀🍻

What you’ll need -

📈A jar (I used a baby food jar)

👑Jewlery (I used earrings that had no pair!)

🍀Dried Basil

🍀Dried Mint

💛Gold or Silver Glitter

💲Coins (Gold coins, pennies etc.)

💚A Green or Gold Candle

Optional: Four leaf clovers or anything else ’lucky’! 🍀. I added a citrine crystal since it’s known as the merchants stone.

Put everything in your spell jar, envisioning what you want as you do so. A chest of gold coins, money falling, beautiful jewelry, or maybe just your dream house. Anything that makes you think of the intent of money, luck and prosperity!

Once everythings in the jar, place your candle on top and light it (Or if it’s in a jar or tin, just pour the wax over the lid to seal it) As you see the wax drip down on to the jar say -

“Let my fortune grow. Let my luck flow.Bring me prosperity. Make it so.”

Recite this as many times as you wish while envisioning your future prospers. I wrote mine down and placed it inside the jar.

Either let the candle melt all the way down over the jar OR blow it out once the top is sealed (If you dripped the wax instead then just blow it out when covered)

Keep in a safe place or keep it near you whenever you need some luck, money or prosperity in your life.

💛💸🍀GOOD LUCK!🏆📈💚

[lavenderbroomsticks-blog]

Hullo everyone! 🌙 

Here is an illustrated set of instructions I made on how to make a Positivity Spell Jar for my illustration class this past quarter. 

What you’ll need:

A Jar

Lighter

Salt- for protection

Glitter-for fun

Candle- light and let melt around edges of jar to Cast Spell

Rosemary- for mental strength

Lavender- to keep calm

Citrine- for abundance

Rose Quartz- for love

Blue Thread- for harmony

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As you set each item into the jar focus on what they represent to you. Your magick and energy melding with each, coming from inside you and around you. Close off the jar and wrap the thread round the top of the jar. Light the candle, visualizing the flame as the energy casting the spell.  

This can be modified to make absolutely any type of spell jar. Use different ingredients and colors to symbolize different things.

Enjoy!

-Harpy✨

*Please do not delete caption or take credit for illustrations* 

[crystalherbalist]

prosperity and good luck spell jar

-✨🍀🕯

ground nutmeg

grounding, luck, stability, prosperity, good fortune, happiness

ground cinnamon

abundance, prosperity, luck, happiness, protection, strength

cinnamon stick (cut/break down to size if you need to)

see above- with stronger abundance and protection properties

dried thyme

happiness, luck, prosperity, communication, compassion, softens obstacles

fresh dandelion petals (picked by you; make sure to get the fuzz)

prosperity, abundance, luck, happiness, success, confidence

a clover (picked by you)

luck, growth, prosperity, abundance, happiness, kindness

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[gardenfoxywitch]

🌿🍊Litha Orange Honey Cake🍊🌿

Hello my greenies! Happy Litha! I hope you’re all enjoying the summer sun and nature. Even during quarantine, if you’re able to take a walk in nature without contact with others, I highly recommend doing so. If you’re unable to go outside, I recommend taking the time to bake and maybe listen to some nature sounds on youtube. Those have helped me during these times. I wish you all the best with this yummy cake! I hope you all like this recipe:)

Ingredients

2 cups all purpose flour

½ cup softened unsalted butter

2 eggs

1 ½ tsp. baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

¼ cup granulated sugar

½ cup milk

½ tsp salt

¼ cup brown sugar

2 tbsp fresh orange juice

2/3 cup honey

1 tbsp vanilla extract

around a tbsp of orange zest

Optional Glaze

½ cup honey

¼ cup brown sugar

some lemon juice

juice of 4th of orange

couple pats of ground cinnamon

dash of vanilla

½ cup (maybe.. I never measure this out)sliced almonds

Mix until syrup state.

Directions

Preheat Oven for 350°F and coat pan with non-stick or other alternative. I honestly don’t know what size my pan is…so I’d say eyeball it and see how much you can fit? Lol

In medium bowl, mix dry ingredients (including the orange zest). Set that to the side while you mix the other ingredients in a larger bowl.  

Sift the dry ingredients into the bowl with the other ingredients in batches. So, sift a little in and mix then repeat that until all the dry ingredients are mixed in.

Pour the mixture into the pan and cook for about 28 to 35 minutes. Check with a long toothpick:3 After you take out you can pour over an optional syrup that I think is amazing!

There’s no particular chant I do for this recipe, I mostly just pray for the sun and for the health of those I care for. I like to visualize the sun and its heat and color wrapping me in an embrace and that same warmth infusing the cake.

I hope you call have a lovely Litha and special time with those you love a care for.

- Kenzie

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Celebrating Litha in the Kitchen - Kitchen Witchcraft Recipes for Litha / Summer Solstice

Kitchen witchcraft recipes for Litha

Summer solstice is upon up and I don’t know for you but I am celebrating mainly inside. This year I am feeling really inspired in the Kitchen. I have published a great recipe that I created for this sabbat. Since lots of us are still staying inside for Litha, I made a selection of recipes you could try to add a bit of Kitchen Witchcraft to your celebrations! All those bloggers and you tubers are amazing and I highly recommend that you visit their pages, you might discover some gems!

Lemon, Lavender, and Thyme Madeleines. A Midsummer treat! https://witchy-kitchen-craft.tumblr.com/post/621382849796489216/lemon-lavender-and-thyme-madeleines-a-midsummer

Litha Sun Cakes :: The Witches Corner https://youtu.be/p0GRlNXtmkI

Super Moist Honey Lemon Pound Cake Recipe | Homemade Food by Amanda https://youtu.be/6ovBEkFQuyg

Beautiful Floral Shortbread Cookies || Floral Shortbreads for Litha || Litha Recipe https://youtu.be/yifxdT8Ony0

Magick Chamomile Sweet Rolls || Anti-Anxiety Spell https://youtu.be/Ct7-wcS-Nm0

Magick Litha Lemon Cake 🍋 Summer Solstice Kitchen Witchery 🍋 Litha Recipe https://youtu.be/IDvcLrRcLJ4

Litha Celebrating The Summer Solstice 🌞 Everyday Summer Solstice Rituals & Magick https://youtu.be/WLlWSL7fQxE

LITHA RECIPE | Magickal Midsummer Lemon & Elder Tart | Summer Solstice cake https://youtu.be/2DDgXLZla7w

My Witch’s Year | Summer Solstice & Midsummer | Honeycake & Fae Offering https://youtu.be/JOxDkE0DmpU

Honey Lemon Upside-Down Cake

Solstice Cookies: https://deerhoofandrabbitsfoot.tumblr.com/post/175022965984/solstice-cookies-appropriate-for-both-the-summer

Summer solstice honey cakes ☀️🌻https://childofthecrowmoon.tumblr.com/post/621445997214777344/summer-solstice-honey-cakes

Kitchen Witchcraft Correspondances for Litha

Don’t want to follow a precise recipe but still want to celebrate in the kitchen? Don’t worries I got you! We are at the peak of Summer, think fresh fruits and vegetables, lemonades, fruit cakes. Try to choose something that grows in abundance in your region and that is in season.

Food

Fresh fruits

Fresh vegetables

Lemons

Honey

Lemonades

Ice creams

Ales and Meads

Butternut Squash

Sweet Potatoes

Carrots

Herbs:

Chamomile

Rose

Honeysyckle,

Oak

Lavender

Yarrow,

Elder

Thyme

Ginger

Basil

Rosemary

Mint

Here we are! I hope this will keep you inspire for the new season! We are already half of the year. It has been weird and difficult so far but now is the time to celebrate all the hard work we have done and set up new goals and intention for the other half of the year.

Blessed be!

Have a wonderful Litha!

[herbwicc]

Lemon Syrup

Lemons- happiness, vitality, friendship, rejuvenation, clarity, cleansing, healing, protection, solar energy.

Sugar- sweetness in life, happiness, attraction.

You'll need enough lemons to make 1/2 cup of squeezed lemon juice. For me, that was 3 lemons.

Before juicing them, separate the zest (the bright yellow part of the peel, not the white pith underneath, which will make your syrup bitter).

Then juice the lemons, and add to a pot with 3/4 to 1 cup of white sugar.

Let it boil, and once it does, reduce the boil to a simmer for 10 minutes. If you think the syrup is not thick enough, add more sugar.

Add the zest and turn off the heat entirely. Once it has cooled, strain it to remove all the zest and any pulp. Don't leave the zest in the syrup, even if it looks aesthetically appealing, because it'll turn bitter.

Keep it covered and chilled and it can keep up to a year. You can add it to teas, cocktails, use it for lemonade, drizzle it on pastries, etc.