So... to liven up my Saturday night, I finished writing my article's first draft for the Hedgewitch, another ongoing project with my friends from Vampire Rave. My profile on VR. highlights this other facet of me. The article is on kitchen magic, something I admittedly have very little knowledge on.
I finished a short e-zine length article and then went a little further and finished writing an intro to the set that I'm going to be shooting. While I can't post the intro, I can post the e-zine article. It's a little unfinished, but...
Kitchen Magic-
Perhaps one of the greatest appeals to Paganism is its wide variety of paths and disciplines to choose from. This article seeks to focus on kitchen magic and kitchen witches.
By and large, kitchen witches are practitioners of magic that are centered around the home and the kitchen. In every day life, the kitchen witch uses magic to enhance their life and the lives of those around them. This is typically accomplished through a variety of practices such as herbs, potions, cooking, and gardening. Most kitchen witches tend to be healers that are solitary practitioners. Typically, kitchen magic centers around family and the home and is therefore popular among those who practice protection spells and healing spells.
Kitchen magic centers around many of the basic components one can find in the cook's kitchen. As such, it is not uncommon to find home-grown herbs as well as roots from the garden of the practitioner. Many of these herbs serve as correspondences; items that are known to magic practitioners as the representatives of intent and will on the physical plane. An example of this would be sage, which is not only used as a spice in food, but also is associated with protection and money.
The herbs that are used in a typical kitchen spell might also wind up in food that is then consumed by both the witch and the target of his or her spell. An example of this might be a special dish that is prepared specially for another person to draw money and material wealth or security that is then served as a dinner platter to them. Because many of the ingredients of good food also are correspondences in a variety of spells, kitchen magic has a great deal of potency.
Herbs are also commonly used to create potions. The word "potion" is derived from the Latin word "potio" which means a beverage, potion, or poison. This definition implies a beverage which can be both medicinal or poisonous. The most common assumption, however, is that potions are spells in liquid form. In myths and legends, potions are commonly used for healing, transformation, and love, among many other things.
Because many of the ingredients for potions are found in the kitchen, magic potions are also a common practice of kitchen magic. From elixirs (such as Chartreuse, called the Elixir of long life) to poisons, potions have their place in both reality and fantasy.
Another activity common to kitchen magic is gardening. Most Kitchen Magic practitioners realize the power of earth-grown spell components and prefer to grow their own herbs to use in the kitchen as a matter of principle. Gardens are considered sacred in the practice of kitchen magic, as the garden is where herbs are blessed by the earth for use in the kitchen.
Kitchen Magic is directly related to another form of magic called Green Magic. Green Magic, however, focuses more on earth-based religious worship over all while Kitchen Magic utilizes the produce of the earth and may not be as focused on religious worship. For those who practice Kitchen Magic, it is common to offer prayers and blessing to the Earth Goddess in her many incarnations.
Kitchen Magic is a fascinating branch of witchcraft that is tailored towards those who have an affinity towards house and home. It is not uncommon to see the kitchen witch creating a potion of healing, cooking up a meal for the family, and then sitting down to his or her favorite craft in the late evening hours.
I finished a short e-zine length article and then went a little further and finished writing an intro to the set that I'm going to be shooting. While I can't post the intro, I can post the e-zine article. It's a little unfinished, but...
Kitchen Magic-
Perhaps one of the greatest appeals to Paganism is its wide variety of paths and disciplines to choose from. This article seeks to focus on kitchen magic and kitchen witches.
By and large, kitchen witches are practitioners of magic that are centered around the home and the kitchen. In every day life, the kitchen witch uses magic to enhance their life and the lives of those around them. This is typically accomplished through a variety of practices such as herbs, potions, cooking, and gardening. Most kitchen witches tend to be healers that are solitary practitioners. Typically, kitchen magic centers around family and the home and is therefore popular among those who practice protection spells and healing spells.
Kitchen magic centers around many of the basic components one can find in the cook's kitchen. As such, it is not uncommon to find home-grown herbs as well as roots from the garden of the practitioner. Many of these herbs serve as correspondences; items that are known to magic practitioners as the representatives of intent and will on the physical plane. An example of this would be sage, which is not only used as a spice in food, but also is associated with protection and money.
The herbs that are used in a typical kitchen spell might also wind up in food that is then consumed by both the witch and the target of his or her spell. An example of this might be a special dish that is prepared specially for another person to draw money and material wealth or security that is then served as a dinner platter to them. Because many of the ingredients of good food also are correspondences in a variety of spells, kitchen magic has a great deal of potency.
Herbs are also commonly used to create potions. The word "potion" is derived from the Latin word "potio" which means a beverage, potion, or poison. This definition implies a beverage which can be both medicinal or poisonous. The most common assumption, however, is that potions are spells in liquid form. In myths and legends, potions are commonly used for healing, transformation, and love, among many other things.
Because many of the ingredients for potions are found in the kitchen, magic potions are also a common practice of kitchen magic. From elixirs (such as Chartreuse, called the Elixir of long life) to poisons, potions have their place in both reality and fantasy.
Another activity common to kitchen magic is gardening. Most Kitchen Magic practitioners realize the power of earth-grown spell components and prefer to grow their own herbs to use in the kitchen as a matter of principle. Gardens are considered sacred in the practice of kitchen magic, as the garden is where herbs are blessed by the earth for use in the kitchen.
Kitchen Magic is directly related to another form of magic called Green Magic. Green Magic, however, focuses more on earth-based religious worship over all while Kitchen Magic utilizes the produce of the earth and may not be as focused on religious worship. For those who practice Kitchen Magic, it is common to offer prayers and blessing to the Earth Goddess in her many incarnations.
Kitchen Magic is a fascinating branch of witchcraft that is tailored towards those who have an affinity towards house and home. It is not uncommon to see the kitchen witch creating a potion of healing, cooking up a meal for the family, and then sitting down to his or her favorite craft in the late evening hours.
Cool article, you multi-faceted Moon Goddess, you.