What is a Kitchen Witch?
The modern kitchen has, in many homes, become a boring place where food is prepared and eaten as quickly as possible. This removes the sacredness from meals; treating food with care and awareness brings far greater nourishment.
This introduction provides the basic points to get started in kitchen witchery, and focuses on creating a magical kitchen space.
How to Make a Magical Kitchen
- Decorate or refurnish the kitchen to suit your tastes. Go country-style or shabby chic. Accessorize or repaint surfaces to your liking.
- Keep the kitchen tidy. Bring the sacred into your cleaning by using natural products, singing a goddess song as you work, or adding herbs to your cleaning water, such as angelica for purification, or rosemary for clearing negativity.
- Arrange cupboards, dressers and worktops so that they are both practical and pleasing to the eye.
- Get to know your gadgets and utensils properly and appreciate what they do. Make them uniquely yours – paint or carve significant symbols onto the handles, or anoint them with essential oils, bringing an extra drop of magic to your cooking.
- Create a kitchen witch’s Book of Shadows, with special recipes for eating, cleaning, beauty and kitchen spells.
How to Choose a Kitchen Goddess
Placing a goddess figure in the home is an ancient and powerful act. Research goddesses of hearth, home and harvest, and select a favourite. Or, if you already work with an appropriate goddess, choose her to be your domestic goddess.
Once chosen, select imagery to represent her in the kitchen. This could be a statue made from natural material, a plaque, or a painting. You could also make a likeness yourself, by sculpting with salt dough or clay, creating a figure from twigs or fabric, or painting your own picture.
How to Make a Kitchen Altar
Another key feature of the kitchen witch’s domain is the kitchen altar. This could be a small table, a shelf, or space on top of the oven, depending on the size and type of kitchen.
- Choose a place that is easy to see, but that is safe from knocks and bumps.
- If relevant, paint it a favourite natural shade.
- Place a likeness of your chosen goddess on the altar.
- Place a meaningful object on the altar to represent your true self. Place an ornament or charm representing your work, a miniature cauldron or broomstick to represent your witchery, or something you have crafted yourself.
- Decorate with items such as candles, natural objects like stones, crystals or acorns, and special wooden utensils, such as an organically shaped spoon. Incense burners will create a magical ambience, while seasonal festivities can be marked with appropriate additions. Finally, leave food at the feet of your goddess; this emulates the rituals of past ancestors. Use food unlikely to spoil, such as dried seeds, nuts or corn.
Make Kitchen Spells with Magical Ingredients
Having created a magical working space, the kitchen is now ready for some kitchen witchery! Fresh ingredients gathered from a kitchen witch’s garden enhance cooking and provide the perfect basis for natural spell working.
Herbs, fruit, vegetables and flowers can all be used to make nourishing meals and spells for abundance, harmony, protection and much more. Kitchen magic is made all the more powerful if it is brewed in a sacred place, so take the time to make your kitchen truly special, and you will soon be able to cook like a goddess!
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