I’m an earthling (:
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Come to me and protect this circle oh flaming fire, lend us your energy, that brings light and spreads warmth.
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I call east and there is a storm coming together, come to us Air and protect this circle bringing me knowledge and wisdom.
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I call for water, which shall come in a huge wave in this circle protect me and help to reflect.
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The earth move and I feel it under my feet it shall flow strength and stability through it and protect this circle.
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The flame, that you gifted me was truly forceful and pretty, but now it shall be out. As I see smoke, I dismiss it from this circle.
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I felt the earth move, but now it should rest. Earth shall also be dismissed from this circle.
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The storm is over there is just a fine breeze that I dismiss from the circle.
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Waves get lower and soft as I dismiss you from the circle.
Little spell chants.
Water, cleanse me now
Remove negativity
Soothe and restore me
Element of earth
Ground me in the here and now
Find me well-centered
Air, grant me wisdom
Keep me focused, thoughtful
Complex turned simple
Fire, feed me your light
Passion and strong protection
Guide me through darkness
These are my own. You may use them, but do not repost or otherwise take credit for them. Okay to reblog.
Easy Kitchen remedies:
Dealing with Spirits:
Believe in your own Abilities:
Ginger tea is also good for a fever, but to much ginger in your tea will give you a fever. Always use fresh slices ginger instead of powdered ginger to avoid this problem.
Local honey plus lemon slices plus ginger slices all mixed in a jar with room to move and stored in your fridge make an amazing healthy allergy and cold fighting potion.
All good except five grams of valerian root is A LOT and also valerian root can actually worsen depression. Valerian root is best for people who only have anxiety, not both anxiety and depression. Lavender and/or chamomile tea before bed can help you sleep peacefully.
Reblogging again for @thesapphiredragon thank you for that, that v important ^^
edwardcollectsurns asked:
breelandwalker answered:
Tasty savory fall foods make up the bulk of my Samhain cooking, and a lot of it includes apples, potatoes, pumpkins, and wine. I’m planning two simple suppers this year, one for the living and one for the dead.
The Dead Supper is always the same - local apples, salt, and wine. The apples and salt sit on small plates with cups of wine in the center of the table. Small candles are lit at sundown and the supper lasts until the candles have burned down. During that time, spirits are welcome to visit my home and partake of the meal, provided they leave when the candles are out and do no harm to any in the staying or the going.
For the living, I’m planning a nice supper of stuffed roast chicken, apple-potato dressing, colcannon, salad, and cranberry-pumpkin cake. The chicken is rubbed with butter and a blend of garlic, onion, paprika, salt and pepper, then stuffed with cornbread stuffing and diced apples, with half an apple capping the opening. Set the bird in a roasting pan on a bed of cubed tart apples and red russet potatoes, and cooked in the oven as you’d cook any roasting fowl - 350F, 20min per pound. The apples and potatoes break down during the cooking and become a nice sweet-and-savory dressing for the chicken.
Colcannon is an Irish dressing made with mashed potatoes and cabbage, or kale or seaweed, depending on where you’re from. The version of the recipe that I use also calls for crumbled bacon. I use more red russet potatoes to make the mash, adding butter and sour cream to make it smooth. Chopped boiled green cabbage is then added at about a 2:1 ratio (2 parts potato, 1 part cabbage). Bacon is added to taste and everything is mixed together into a gorgeous mess of savory goodness. Some folks also season with chopped chives when serving.
The cranberry-pumpkin cake comes out of a box, largely because otherwise I’m hopeless at baking. It’s actually a mix for pumpkin bread, but if you add a can of pureed pumpkin to the mix, it turns into a heavy moist cake. I throw in a good cup of dried cranberries for extra sweetness and bake the whole thing in a buttered bundt pan. The finished cake is topped with a sprinkle of cinnamon and powdered sugar. You can add chopped walnuts to the cake as well, but I tend to leave them out in case of allergies.
The salad is nothing special. It’s just greens in a bowl with some dressing, because my northern ancestors would have a fit if I served a holiday meal without a vegetable. I may swap out the salad for corn, I haven’t decided yet.
Happy cooking! :)
I love this! But what do you do after the supper for the dead with their food???
The salt is disposed of, the wine is consumed, and the apples are thoroughly washed and set out at a local farm for woodland critters to eat. :)
Herbs Associated with Dream Magick:
Anise, ash, cedar, jasmine, lemon verbena, mimosa, onion, peppermint, rose, tobacco.
Herbs of love:
Adam
and Eve, apple, basil, cardamom, catnip, cherry, coltsfoot, coriander,
daffodil, daisy, damiana, devil’s bit, gardenia, gentian, geranium,
hibiscus, High John the Conqueror, hyacinth, jasmine, juniper, lady’s
mantle, lavender,lemon verbena, linden, lovage, love seed, maidenhair,
fern, mandrake, meadowsweet, moonwort, myrtle, oleander, orchid, pansy,
peach, peppermint, plumeria, poppy, raspberry,rose, rosemary, rue,
skullcap, spearmint, strawberry, thyme, tomato, trillium, tulip,
valerian, vanilla, Venus flytrap, vervain, vetivert, violet, willow,
witch grass, wormwood, yarrow.
Herbs for conjuring spirits:
Althea,
anise, balsam tree, bamboo, catnip, dandelion, elder, gardenia, mint,
pipsissewa, sandalwood, sweetgrass, thistle, tobacco, willow, wormwood.
Herbs for banishing spirits:
Agrimony,
angelica, arbutus, asafetida, avens, bean, birch, boneset, buckthorn,
clove, clover, cumin, devil’s bit, dragons blood, elder, fern, fleabane,
frankincense, fumitory, garlic, heliotrope, horehound, horseradish,
juniper, leek, lilac, mallow, mint, mistletoe, mullein, myrrh, nettle,
onion, peach, peony, pepper, pine, rosemary, rue, sage, sandalwood,
sloe, snapdragon, tamarisk, thistle, witchgrass, yarrow.
Source: Gerina Dunwich, Herbal Enchantments, Folklore and Divination
Aphrodite: simple “I love yous” at the end of phone calls
Apollo: memorizing a poem and making playlists
Ares: mindless bantering with a friend
Artemis: reminding little girls that they can do anything a boy can do
Athena: rereading a book and noticing things that you never noticed the first time
Demeter: worrying about what seems small
Dionysus: taking a moment to actually taste your drink
Hades: mourning a loss
Hephaestus: finally building that shelf
Hera: going out on anniversaries
Hermes: stealing your sister’s shirt
Hestia: making a house a home
Persephone: taking a moment to look for the beautiful in a dull situation
Poseidon: swimming on a sunny day
Zeus: driving through storms