Low Spoon Ways To Celebrate Lammas/Lughnassadh

Magic Correspondences of veggies and fruits (Eng//Esp//Cat)

I’m going to use this post not only as a correspondence guide but also as a traduction guide, since english is not my native language and I need to keep record as to what is what. So I’m posting the original english correspondence and just below the names in spanish and catalan with a spanish traduction of the correspondences. 

BTW, the original correspondence list was made by @peachyymama. So all praise be to her. 

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Apples: Love, fertility, marriage, beauty, vanity, wisdom.

Manzanas / Pomes: Amor, fertilidad, matrimonio, belleza, vanidad, sabiduria.

Avocado: Lust, love, beauty (carry pit around to radiate beauty).

Aguacate / Alvocat: Deseo, amor, belleza (puedes llevar un hueso de aguacate para irradiar belleza)

Apricot: Attracts love.

Albaricoque / Albercoc: Atrae el amor.

Banana: Fertility, potency, prosperity

Plátano / Plàtan: Fertilidad, potencia, prosperidad.

Blackberry: Healing, protection, money.

Mora / Mora: Curación, protección, dinero. 

Blueberry: Peace, protection.

Arandano / Nabiu:  Paz, protección.

Broccoli: Leadership, protection, strength.

Brócoli / Broquil: Liderazgo, protección, fuerza.

Brussels Sprouts: Protection, endurance,  protection.

Coles de Bruselas / Cols de Brusseles: Protección, resiliencia, protección.

Beets: Love.

Remolacha / Remolatxa: Amor.

Cabbage: Good luck, money, fertility, lunar magic.

Repollo / Col: Buena suerte, dinero, fertilidad, magia lunar.

Carrots: Lust, fertility.

Zanahorias / Pastanagues: Deseo, fertilidad. 

Cauliflower: Protection.

Coliflor / Coliflor:  Protección. 

Celery: Mental & psychic powers, lust, fertility.

Apio / Api: Poder mental y psíquico, deseo, fertilidad.

Cherry: Love, divination, happiness.

Cereza o Guinda / Cirera: Amor, adivinación, felicidad.

Coconut: Purification, protection, chastity.

Coco / Coco: Purificación, protección, castidad.

Corn: Protection, good luck, divination.

Maíz / Blat de Moro: Protección, buena suerte, adivinación. 

Cucumber: Healthy, chastity, fertility.

Pepino / Cogombre: Salud, castidad, fertilidad.

Garlic: Healing, protection, purification, exorcism, guards against negative energy.

Ajo / All: Curación, protección, purificación, exorcismos, guarda contra las malas energias. 

Grape: Money, fertility, mental powers, garden magic.

Uvas / Raïm: Diners, fertilidad, poderes mentales, magia de jardín. 

Grapefruit: Cleansing, purification.

Pomelo / Aranja: Limpieza, purificación. 

Lemon: Cleansing, purification, removes blockages.

Limón / Llimona: Limpieza, purificación, remueve bloqueos.

Lettuce: Divination, protection, sleep, lunar magic, love spells.

Lechuga / Enciam: Adivinación, protección, sueño, magia lunar, hechizos de amor.

Lime: Protections, purification, promotes calmness.

Lima / Llima: Protección, purificación, promueve la calma. 

Mushroom: Psychic awareness.

Setas / Bolets: Conciencia psíquica.

Onion: Stability, money, lust, protection, prosperity.

Cebolla / Ceba: Estabilidad, dinero, deseo, protección, prosperidad.

Orange: Love, joy, happiness.

Naranja / Taronja: Amor, felicidad, alegría.

Peach: Fertility, love, wisdom.

Melocotón / Préssec: Fertilidad, amor, sabiduria.

Pear: Lust, love.

Pera / Pera: Deseo, amor.

Peas: Luck, money.

Guisantes / Pèsols: Suerte, dinero. 

Pepper (green): Growth, prosperity.

Pimiento verde / Pebrot verd: Crecimiento, prosperidad.

Pepper (red): Energy, strength.

Pimiento rojo / Pebrot vermell: Energia, fuerza.

Pepper (yellow): Creativity.

Pimiento amarillo / Pebrot groc: Creatividad.

Pineapple: Luck, money, chastity.

Piña / Pinya: Suerte, dinero, castidad.

Plum: Healing, peace, love.

Ciruela / Pruna: Curación, paz, amor.

Pomegranate: Divination, wishes, wealth, fertility.

Granada / Magrana: Adivinación, deseos, riqueza, fertilidad

Potato: Healing, money, luck.

Patata / Patata: Curación, dinero, suerte.

Pumpkin: Healing, Prosperity.

Calabaza / Carbassa: Curación, prosperidad.

Radish: Protection, lust.

Rábano / Rave: Protección, deseo.

Raspberry: Love, protection, happiness, stamina.

Frambuesa / Gerd: Amor, protección, felicidad, estamina. 

Spinach: Prosperity.

Espinacas / Espinacs: Prosperidad.

Strawberry: Success, good fortune, love, luck, romance.

Fresas / Maduixes: Éxitos, buena fortuna, amor, suerte, romance.

Sweet Potato: Grounding, love, lust.

Batata o Boniato / Moniato: Anclarse a la tierra, amor, deseo.

Tangerine: Protection.

Mandarina / Mandarina: Protección.

Tomato: Healing, love, prosperity, protection.

Tomate / Tomàquet: Curación, amor, prosperidad, protección.

Watermelon: Healing.

Sandía / Sindria: Curación.

I love this artwork, it belongs to @paperwitchco 🎃

Baking a brioche on a stormy afternoon. A slow living approach.

We had a stormy day last week. The weather was gloomy and it was really windy. I decided to bake a Brioche. Bread making is such a great activity to slow down, and brioche are such a decadent treat. 

Making brioche was really hard for me the first couple of times, and I wish I watched videos on how to make it. 

 Brioche makes wonderful food for any celebrations of the pagan year! You can adapt the recipe to your need and add the flavours and herbs. They are perfect for you feasts are they are the embodiment of the little luxuries, the little extra we enjoy on a celebration day! At the end, I give you some ideas to adapt the recipe to each of the sabbats!

Prep time: 40 min

Rest time: 1h30

Proving time in the fridge: a whole night

Cooking time: 25 to 30 min

Material needed:

A standing mixer with a hook or a hand mixer with hooks. If you don’t have any of those, you can mix by hand but it is going to get really messy and it is much longer.

Ingredients

2tsp dry yeast

4tbsp milk

1tbsp suger

250g plain flour

30g sugar

125g butter at room temperature

3+1 eggs at room temperature

1tbsp Cointreau or Rhum

Recipe

Activate the yeast by mixing 2 tsp of dry yeast with 4tbsp of luke warm milk and a tbsp of sugar. Mix well and let it rest for at least 15min. The yeast is activated when there is a fluffy foam on the top of the milk.

In a bowl, mix flour, sugar, salt and butter together until crumbly.

In a small bowl beat 3 eggs with a tbsp of Cointreau or Rhum.

Add the beaten eggs and the yeast to the crumbly dough.

Start mixing with the robot for at least 5 min. The dough is ready when it is smooth, silky and sticky (don’t worry about that)

First proving:

Cover the bowl with cling film and let the dough rest in a warm place. Near a radiator is really good or in the oven at minimal heat (no more than 30°C / 86°F). Let it rise for about 1h30 or when the volume has doubled. If there is a wind draft, the dough will never rise.

Second proving:

Once the first rising is done, punch the dough to remove the gaz accumulated. At this point the dough is really sticky and that’s normal, don’t be tempted to add more flour. Cover the bowl again and let it rest a full night in the fridge. The dough will rise a bit again.

The day after:

Pre heat the oven at 180°C/350°F

Sprinkle flour on your worktop and start rolling the dough in a large cylinder. Cut it in 3 equal parts.

Roll each part in a long sausage, then braid them together.

Beat one egg and spread it on the braided brioche with a brush. It will make the crust gold and shiny

Bake 25 to 30min at 180°C/350°F

A few important tips:

This dough has a lot of butter that make is very sticky. That’s why the nigh in the fridge is very important. It makes the dough hard enough to be manipulated. Try to work quickly so the dough stays cold.

If you don’t have room temperature butter, shred the butter with a cheese grater it will do just fine.

No alcohol? No problem! Try to perfume the brioche with vanilla or orange zest!

Sabbaths celebrations ideas:

Mabon - 20th-22nd September - Add some sliced apples to the dough before the first proving time

Samhain - 31st October - Add a tsp of pumpkin spices to the flour.

Yule - 20th-22nd December - Add orange zest and orange juice to the mix instead of the Cointreau

Imbolc - 1st February - Don’t change the recipe it is perfect for this celebration day!

Ostara - 20th-22nd March - CHOCOLATE! Add chocolate chips to the batter before mixing everything together

Beltane - 1st May - Use 30g of honey instead of sugar

Litha - 20th-22nd June - Again, you can use honey and also add oranges. Maybe brush a bit of orange marmalade when it is straight out of the oven

Lughnasadh - 31st July - Add Strawberries / Raspberries / Blueberries to the mix before the first proving time

📅 Weekly Rituals 📅

Monday

🔮 Correspondences: travels, dreams, psychic powers, peace, mystery, healing, home, fertility, emotions, family, divination

✨ Ritual: brew green tea and put all your positive intentions for this week in the tea by stirring it clockwise for good luck. 

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Tuesday

🔮 Correspondences: bravery, business, courage, strength, war, partnership, passion, protection, sexual intentions, work, victory

✨ Ritual: connect with the strength and bravery of nature by going on a walk outside, a hike, or at least opening your windows wide open and letting the fresh, cold air of the morning in your home. 

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Wednesday

🔮 Correspondences: art, astrology, communication, focus, creativity, education, excitement, inspiration, wise

✨ Ritual: take a ritual bath or cleansing shower, and repeat the following mantra “I cleanse myself so I may feel light, creative, peaceful and at ease”. 

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Thursday

🔮 Correspondences: abundance, money, luck, growth, personal development, prosperity, health, expansion, altruism

✨ Ritual: on a bay leaf, write a keyword or sigil representing a wish or dream of yours, focus on it with all your intention, then burn the leaf with a white candle to make it happen. 

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Friday

🔮 Correspondences: affection, friendship, love, romance, beauty, social interactions, harmony, birth, reconciliation

✨ Ritual: after working or studying, bring harmony to your desk by thoroughly decluttering any unnecessary item, cleaning up the dust and magically cleansing it with sage or Palo Santo. 

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Saturday

🔮 Correspondences: banishment, spiritual communication, justice, curse, death, cleansing, purification, time, end, debts, home

✨ Ritual: to get rid of a curse or negative energy, fix a black candle in a bowl by letting some wax melt at the bottom of the candle. Then fill up half the bowl with water. Turn on the candle, then focus all your intentions on banishing the curse. When the candle has reached the water, the negativity will be gone. 

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Sunday

🔮 Correspondences: ambitions, goals, career, growth, beginning, masculinity, health, spirituality, success, prosperity

✨ Ritual: read your tarot by drawing 3 cards (Past, Present, Future) to learn from last week’s mistakes, understand your current mental state and prepare for next week. 

Just a few of the books my mother brought up with her this weekend. I haven’t gone through the majority of these yet, but I’d love to hear all of y’all s thoughts!

Fresh Apple Autumn Cake with Honey-Cinnamon Glaze

It’s fall y’all, and while for some that means pumpkin spice season, but for me it means apple season! This cake is great for a Mabon or Samhain feast, and isn’t too complicated to make. Let’s get to it!

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How Magic Works

These are just some of many different theories about how spells work. For anybody who really enjoys “magical theory” like I do or is looking for validation that there’s something to all these weird spells! None of these serve to discredit magic, but rather add a deeper level of understanding to it. The success of a spell could be credited to more than one of these, or something else entirely!

Law of Attraction. Basically, the idea that you attract what you focus on. A popular example is focusing on the color red, and seeing how much red is around you that you didn’t notice before. This is most effective for spells involving personal matters and success, by formally opening your eyes to details and opportunities you may have missed otherwise. 

The Placebo Effect. It’s a proven fact that our bodies can heal ourselves merely by belief that what we’re doing helps! This can extend beyond health spells to things like confidence, performance ability, and other things that aim at personal improvement. The placebo effect may be all that spell needs to be successful ( and it wouldn’t have happened without the spell!)

Direct cause/effect. Something about the spell and the way it was cast directly affects the outcome. Example: a sigil designed for protection, when looked at, serves as a constant visual reminder that you are protected, subconsciously strengthening your wards.

Science/chemistry. This is most true for kitchen witchery and herbalism. Chamomile, lavender, and other herbs aren’t corresponded with calmness and sleep for nothing… they’re made up of chemicals that have been scientifically proven to calm the nerves and aid in sleep!

Quantum physics. There’s a phrase called “Quantum Woo,” where people use quantum physics (often incorrectly) to explain any type of magical thinking or practice. While the ultimate theory behind quantum physics was recently disproven, the discoveries made through research still hold true. Basically, we know particles behave differently when observed, and our energies can effect this. We just don’t know why that is. This is the baseline behind a lot of energy work.

Divine string pulling. Ask and ye shall receive. This is where we depart from the physical to the spiritual side of magic. Many people do magic by appealing to divine forces, Mother Earth, God(s), the Universe, whatever you want to call it. This could be with an offering, a ceremony, or even just bedside prayer. The divine force hears the request, and grants it by affecting change and “pulling strings” to cause the desired outcome.

Spiritual string pulling. Very similar to the previous point, but with entities that are not worshipped or seen as divine. Many believe that spirits can still affect change “behind the scenes.” A spirit worker may make a deal with a spirit for luck or protection, or someone may ask their ancestors for good fortune and health.

Personal string pulling. Instead of asking an outside entity, this is the idea that we, as the practitioner, pull the strings. This is most seen through the “cone of energy” method of casting, where we raise a lot of concentrated energy and intent in a space, then release it all at once to do its thing. You also see it with sympathetic magic, where by doing something to a poppet, we actively affect that change on the target. No middle man included.

[to any deity in particular]: Hi. I’ve brought shitty alcohol, two electric candles, a chocolate bar, my many issues, and an undying love for you. Can you help me un-fuck myself?

[deity]: sighs deeply

ANGEL’S SWEET HOT CAKES

Now this is a recipe I promised myself I would make my kids when and if I had them. I actually have a folder on my phone labeled “Recipes to make my future children”. You know those hot recipes that your parents used to make for you when you were little before they got consumed by their work.

I never really had that growing up, so I always made a promise to myself if I were to have kids….I would wake up early just to make them a big breakfast, and make sure they knew they were loved.

Anyways! Here is a recipe for some delicious hot cakes! Great with butter and maple syrup. To Serve hot.

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

4 tbsp melted butter

1 cup buttermilk

2 large eggs

1/3 cup sugar

A dash of vanilla extract

1 tsp baking powder

1/8 tsp baking soda

Butter and syrup to serve

Directions:

In a medium sized bowl, mix together your dry ingredients. Pour in your melted butter, buttermilk, and vanilla. Mix clockwise with a wooden spoon to promote good luck. Once everything is thoroughly mixed, beat your eggs and add them into the mix. You’ll want to mix the batter until it is smooth. This should take around 3 minutes or a quick play of La Vie En Rose by Edith Piaf. 

If it is too thick for your liking, add some more milk to thin it out, and if it is too thin for your liking add in more flour.

Scoop about 1/3 cup of mixture (That’s about 3 oz) and pour into a hot pan, coated with melted butter or oil. Cook your pancakes on medium heat for about 1-2 minutes on each side or until done.

Serve fresh and hot, drizzled with maple syrup or honey, and with dripping butter melting from the top.

Enjoy, and remember…

“La vie est une fleur dont l’amour est le miel.” -Victor Hugo

~ Life is a flower, and love is it’s honey

Can you tell I’m studying french again? I’m trying to be more fluent, so if I made a mistake feel free to correct me!

So earlier I made a post about doing a video tutorial on creating your own sculpture of your diety well.... I'm going to being doing it and making it friendly to those in our community who aren't out in the open about their practice. It's going to take a little bit for some of the supplies to come in but it's happening.

Really excited about this.

I'm going to be doing a goddess for the video.

Reblog and let me know who your most interested in seeing created. I'll do sketches of the top 3 and then vote again on which one of those will be the final choice.

Bridgit

Danu

Morrighan

Artemis

Persephone

Athena

Hestia

Hekate

Ishtar