This one’s been in the works for me for a week or so but I finally had enough peace in my busy moving schedule to sit down and make a pair - one for the front door and one for the back.
Use 9 silver [coloured] bells in place of knots or feathers so that these double as a door protection Witch Bell/s. Their peal as the door is opened wards off dark energies and brings in positive energy.
Use 3 threads:
Blue - for peace, calm, healing and protection
Yellow - for clear communication (So important in a share house)
Black- to absorb negative energy
I used embroidery thread but strips of fabric or anything you have around will do fine, as long as your bells can thread on.
Tie a loop large enough to slip on to your door handle, and then thread on your first bell. I always thread my bells onto the black thread so that they will reinforce each others ability to repel and control dark energies.
Start plaiting! Each time you cross a thread over repeat to yourself its purpose: “peace and calm, clear communication absorb the negative, peace and calm, clear communication, absorb the negative-” I find this helps my intent stay focused for such long projects.
When you’ve plaited enough space that your bells won’t touch, thread on another. Repeat this until the 9th bell. Tie this one on with a strong ending statement such as “In this Home!” Or “So mote it be!”
Trim your excess thread (unless you want straggly-chic). Plop it on your door and thank it in advance for its work. You’re done!
This is still heavily doing the rounds (well, relative to the rest of my stuff) and, wow?
I bring an update.
They seemed to work beautifully for me. And then, due to medical requirements, I moved…
New house and new housemates. My instincts told me to make new ladders but I ignored them, eep. I reused these two. One broke within a month (the loop snapped) and household peace REALLY broke. It’s been a whole lot of drama for 8 months, really. Housemates breaking lease, crazy accusations, people being unwilling to pay their bills or clean…
So… do as I say, don’t do as I do, and make new ones for each house!!
Meanwhile I’ll be doing a massive deep cleanse this beltane…
So this covers the wall in my yard and I thought to ID it today after I was pointing out to my boyfriend the edible nasturtium and he asked about this one next to it.
Edible AND potentially magical! Also apparently it can be used as a poultice to stop bleeding, and the flowers make a yellow dye. I guess I should start respecting this little weed and maybe ask its protection.
THIS ISN’T THE ONLY ARTICLE I READ. May be toxic in large quantities. Known to contain chlorine, and thought to potentially contain arsenic in red tissues.
When your friend group is multicultural, multispiritual, you live in Australia, AND it’s your friends birthday that day so you’re planning to host a Dìa de las Beltane Hallows!:
Spooky skeletons ✅
Flowers: red, orange, and yellow! ✅
Candles ✅
Gold and silver baubles ✅
Native leaves for incense ✅
A banquet of bread, goats cheese, pork, oat cakes, and various in-season salads ✅
This is a cocktail I designed for Ostara based around some gorgeous local products:
Goanna Hut Tea, a company founded by australian indigenous woman and chef Jo-Anne Wolles, Eclipse blend (I bought this from t2tea) and,
McHenry Butterfly Gin, brewed in Tasmania’s Port Arthur.
Both contain native Blue Pea Flower, which releases a deep blue colour that is a universal pH indicator so the addition of lemon juice turns it purple.
The predominant flavour is the teas lavendar creating an amazingly floral lemonade.
8 serves, ~16 standard drinks
Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
3 cups water
1 cup lemon juice (approx. 5 lemons)
McHenry Butterfly Pea Gin
½ cup Goanna Hut Eclipse Tea
2 cups tonic water
Ice
For the tea you can substitute 2.5tbs of each green tea, blue pea flowers, and lavendar. Both options provide plenty of blue so you can also use any gin of choice.
Method:
In a pot combine sugar, water, and tea.
Bring to a boil and the remove from heat, allow to sit covered for 10 minutes.
Combine lemon juice and tonic water.
Strain tea mixture through a fine mesh sieve, reserving the blue sugar syrup and throwing out the solids. Chill in fridge.
Fill glasses with ice. For each glass pour a shot of gin over the ice, then pour in the sugar syrup until the glass is half full.
Get ready to watch the amazing colour change: slowly pour the lemon mix over a spoon into the glasses to fill. The idea is to reduce mixing with the sugar syrup so a nice ombre is created.
For a mocktail, don’t add the gin.
For a lemonade, replace tonic water with water (and… ditch the gin).
Look after yourselves when drinking alcohol. Have plenty of water too! Xo
Riesling for Ostara Honey Cakes and Butterfly Gin for my own floral cocktail. The latter I will post a recipe for… soon. I’m making it tomorrow night so I’ll grab photos then :) Sorry I dont have it available before spring equinox ♀️
Riesling for Ostara Honey Cakes and Butterfly Gin for my own floral cocktail. The latter I will post a recipe for… soon. I’m making it tomorrow night so I’ll grab photos then :) Sorry I dont have it available before spring equinox ♀️
My new kitchen has a huge oven and I was excited to host the sabbat banquets of my dreams. I’d invited my closest loves weeks in advance, I had multiple meals planned…
And then life struck… all of us.
1. Even if I COULD find all the ingredients I needed for my recipes right now, I don’t think I could have morally justified a banquet at this time.
2. I am currently unemployed and my partner works in a non-ICU area of the hospital so his employment is up in the air. I couldn’t justify the cash drop.
3. Social. Distancing.
4. To top it all off, Mabon morning I got hit with one of my signature migraines. It lasted 3 days, in all.
But I did acheive a thing!
I made Buckeyes.
I actually realised halfway through that I had no skewers or toothpicks for dipping so after desperately thinking I settled on… the wooden end of an incense stick!
