#hearth magic

my adhd makes it a challenge to treat my home the way it deserves, so i’m hoping by including it into my spiritual practice, i can turn cleaning into mini rituals and spells, or lean on my home based allied spirits for some guidance.

In my opinion part of it is "you need to make your own correspondences". Sure some rosemary in a stew might work for healing or purification, but do you also associate the herb that way? I think of my beautiful rosemary bushes over the years, tying and drying their branches, the beautiful scent, previous spells I have done. It feels me with a certain feeling of safety that I can then channel into my work.

When it comes to cooking, I feel like it's a lot of energy work. All spell work incorporates our energies in some way, I especially feel it with cooking. Your hands and cooking tools are vessels to transfer your energy. You transfer your energy when you knead bread, cut veggies, wash the rice, stir the soup, you get the idea. Yes you can focus on a specific mantra, but the point is you don't always have to do that. You using your energy to change ingredients into something new, something nourishing for the body, is magic in and of itself.

I also use my energy to charm my tools instead of individual meals/drinks. A special tea cup charmed with a spell to bring me relaxation doesn't need me to do a small spell or mantra every time I make a cup of tea (because I would forget to do that anyways). Instead it holds the calming energies I have already given it until I feel it needs to be charged again. A favorite soup stirring spoon is going to spread my love to every meal I make using it just because it has picked up my own energy throughout its use.

Baked Bread - kitchen magic with a hearth spell baked in.

Making Shampoo/Conditioner - turns haircare into potions and glamours

Cleansing Shower - perform basic spiritual cleansing while doing daily hygiene

Crochet hair covering - embues knot magic into what will be used as a spiritual shield

Much in the way that charms, wreaths and garlands decorate and bewitch your home, so too can the humble adornments on your person serve you in ways that go beyond the aesthetic.

You might be familiar by now with using a pendant or a ring threaded onto a chain as a pendulum for divination. But why stop there? Lockets and poison rings can be used to carry a bit of herbs, incense or oils with you, or a lock of hair to keep a person close to your heart. Brooches and hat pins can pin a taglock to your person, so that neither heart wanders. Earrings can be enchanted to lend you a better ear and improve your attention, or to carry good news to you swiftly. Glasses can be enchanted to keep your view of things clear. Necklaces can be used to keep your words sweet, sensible or powerful. You can gift a foe a cursed bracelet to bind their hands away from you: this works especially well with heavy bangles or with bracelets made of stones and metals used often in baneful magic.

Of course, these are only a few ideas and you may get as creative as your mind will allow.

Rings in particular are my favourite type of jewellery to use, and they are quite good for commanding control over your hands:

To make them gentler, treat with lavender, linden or chamomile, and wear on your pinkie or ring finger;

To make them steadier while crafting, rosemary, hazelwood or appletree bark, and wear on the middle finger;

To make them firmer and more decisive wear especially hard stones and use oak or walnut, ginger, nettle or mulberry and wear on the thumb or forefinger.

When given to or by a beloved, treat with the blossoms of any fruit tree, with daffodils and other sturdy wildflowers, and with the stalks of any grain to ensure a secure, fruitful, abundant connection.

Now, I brought up specific enchantments only for rings; but they should work for any piece of jewellery. Of course, first ensure that the piece is made of materials that can sustain the treatment. Then, you can either rub with the oils of the desired plants, burn a little bit of these plants and pass your jewellery through the smoke, boil the plants in a little water, let cool and dip your jewellery, or simply crush into a fine powder and sprinkle on the jewellery. For the latter two you can leave the jewellery there overnight or day, to charge from the sun or moon. Another very good method of activation though, particularly for jewellery symbolising a connection, is to speak affirmations and to make frequent contact, such as by stroking.

For example: I like to charge my engagement ring by kissing the stone whenever I think of or miss my fiancé as I go about my day; and in turn, this gives me a feeling of grounding and fondness. Similarly, he wears earrings I got him so he always remembers my words, and remains easy to find by attracting only my attention.

Jewellery borrowed from friends and family can strengthen your bond and keep you safe, especially on voyages. It is a good idea, before going on a long journey or when facing a big change or a trial, to exchange jewellery with loved ones in order to borrow from each other's strength.

I am someone who struggles off and on with brakes from my hobbies and interests due to mental illness and execute function struggles. this included my spirituality. I quite enjoy the mundane and everyday bits and pieces of magic and craft and wish to incorporate it more into my life I feel, as a frequent coffee drinker, that I bringing intent into my daily beloved drink. Black Coffee - Boosting, Movement, Grounding, Motivation, Clearing Blockages, Protection,

Common Creamer Flavors:

Hazelnut - Wisdom, Knowledge, Protection, Prosperity

Vanilla - Love, Happiness, Warmth

Caramel - Happiness, Attraction, Luck

Cinnamon - Manifesting, Prosperity, Abundance

Pumpkin Spice - Prosperity, Protection, Abundance

Chocolate - Romance, Friendship, Happiness

Candy Brand Flavored - Nostalgia, Friendship, Happiness, Joy

Peppermint Mocha - Cleansing, Protection, Renewal

Coffee Shop Flavors:

Lavender - Calming, Tranquility, Dreamwork, Friendship, Cleansing

Brown Sugar - Attraction, Bold, Romance, Comfort, Positivity

Apple - Abundance, Spirit Work, Wisdom, Love, Fertility

Pistachio - Prosperity, Luck, Money, Satisfaction

Other Add ins:

Sugar - Attraction, Love, Positivity

Hot Chocolate Mix - Love, Friendship, Sex, Joy

Whipped Cream - Joy, Gratitude

Almond Milk - Healing, Abundance, Clarity

Other ways to use coffee in magic:

Offerings to deities, entities, and passed loved ones

Coffee grounds in your plants and compost

Coffee grounds in body scrubs do grounding

Coffee ground divination (like tea leaf readings)

Make Coffee With Moon Water

by Keziah | 'Winter Wakening: Magically Preparing One's Hearth & Home for Winter'

As a large portion of the US is either currently or about to be experiencing severe winter weather (particularly my beloved South Eastern US, an area that is not always prepared for this kind of weather), I wanted to share a snippet my piece 'Winter Wakening: Magically Preparing One's Hearth & Home for Winter' that focuses on working magic and witchcraft into practical preparations for winter weather. May this post find all of those who could benefit from it.

PRACTICAL WINTERIZATION MEETS MAGICAL PROTECTION

I live in an older house (125 years old, to be exact), which means that I have to physically prepare the home for winter before it gets too cold or stormy to do so. I like to include magical protections in my winter house prepping. Here are a few easy ways of doing just that:

If one has to prepare pipes for winter by lining them with pipe wrap or similar pipe insulation, one can use that time to mark the pipes (with chalk or a marker) with a protective amulet or sigil crafted to protect the pipes and keep them from freezing.

If one has cracks to seal or holes and/or leaks to patch before winter, it's the perfect time to perform a cleansing beforehand and then reinforce one's wards during and after the patching and sealing has been carried out. This ensures there is no lingering, damaging energy or malevolent forces, and also now no way for them to reenter the home.

If one has a fireplace that needs inspecting or cleaning before winter, then just after inspection, cleaning, or repair is an ideal time to set wards at one's fireplace. This can be done with the hanging of amulets, the drawing of magical boundaries, and through the assistance of hearth spirits. Speaking of, if one has hearth spirits attached to their fireplace, one should always provide them a safe place to hideout in, should they have need of it, when inspections or work are being done on the fireplace. This can be done by inviting the spirit into a vessel for safekeeping.

Having one's heating ducts, vents, and/or furnace checked and cleaned presents the perfect opportunity to "gather" all of the negativity that the house has seen and the household has endured, all illness or mental strife or disharmony, and assign it to the dust and materials that are to be removed from the house. As those materials go, so, too, goes the bad stuff. Now you have a house primed for any other magical cleansing you need to get to before setting your magical protections for winter.

Winterizing windows or doorframes with insulation strips, thermal curtains, or other forms of door and window winterproofing is a great time to mark the window and doorframes with protective sigils, amulets, or symbols. One can even stitch amulets or sigils into their winter curtains.

SOURCES & FURTHER READING: Please see the original post, linked throughout this post and below, for the full list of sources, citations, and recommended further reading.