I Had A Dream Where I Was In A Witch's Cottage And In The Kitchen She Had An Iron Rack For Wooden Spoons.

Hot Chocolate Magic ☕

with hot chocolate season on the way, there are a lot of subtle ways to work a little magic into your mug! a compiled list of easy recipes to have some magic in your day

for all recipes, melt chocolate in the microwave, and mix in heated milk.

Caramel 🍬

½ cup milk, 5 oz. chopped milk chocolate, 3 tsps caramel, ¼ cup heavy cream.  for love, kindness, domestic works

Cinnamon Spice 🍃

1 cup milk,  5 oz. chopped dark chocolate, ¼ tsp cinnamon, a pinch cayenne pepper. divination, fortune, healing, power, prosperity, protection, psychic abilities, spirituality, wealth, and wisdom.

Orange  🍊

1 cup milk,  2 oz. chopped dark chocolate, ½ tbsp sugar, ½ tbsp grated orange peel. for beauty, divination, fortune, love, purification, and wealth.

White Lavender 🌾

1 cup whole milk, ½ chopped white chocolate, ¼ tsp lavender flowers. for chastity, happiness, love, peace, protection, and purification.

Peppermint 🍬

1 cup whole milk, ½ cup chopped milk chocolate, 1 peppermint candy.  for healing, love, psychic abilities, and purification.

Pumpkin Spice 🎃 

1 cup whole milk,  1 tsp. chocolate powder, ½ tsp pumpkin spice, 1 tsp. maple syrup.  for banishment, divination, healing, prosperity, and protection

Hazelnut 🌰

1 cup whole milk, a pinch salt, 1 tsp cocoa, 2 tbsp nutella or ¼ tsp hazelnut extract.  for fertility, protection against evil, creativity, intuition, and psychic abilities

Vanilla 🌾

½ cup milk, 5 oz. chopped milk chocolate, 1 tsp vanilla extract. for happiness, love, and lust.

Peanut Butter 🌰

1 cup skim milk,  2 oz. chopped dark chocolate, ¼ cup peanut butter, add cream to taste. for wealth, love, and fortune.

Gentle Coffee Magic

General~

Coffee magic correspondences

Make your perfect magic coffee

Coffee creamer + sweetener correspondences

Coffee correspondences

Magical frappuccinos

Bewitching your coffee

Simple coffee charms

Coffee in witchcraft

Daily coffee magic

Coffee grounding

Coffee witch tip

Self love and positivity~

Self love latte spell

Mood boosting coffee

Happy day coffee spell

Coffee spell for a positive day

‘Push back’ instant espresso spell

Cozy cinnamon coffee

Energizing~

Energy magic with coffee (or tea)

Other~

Iced moon coffee

Simple morning spell

Gentle cocoa magic / Gentle tea magic

Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon Explained: Balancing Wit with Emotional Depth

The Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon combination creates a fascinating personality that combines Gemini’s wit, adaptability, and curiosity with Scorpio’s intensity, depth, and passion. Individuals with this astrological pairing have the unique ability to communicate with ease, explore complex ideas, and form deep, emotional connections. While Gemini and Scorpio energies may seem opposite, they come together in this personality to create a blend of intellectual curiosity and emotional strength. In this article, we’ll explore the traits, challenges, and compatibility of those with a Gemini Sun and Scorpio Moon.

1. Gemini Sun: The Curious and Adaptable Communicator

Traits of Gemini Sun As an air sign ruled by Mercury, Gemini is known for its quick thinking, adaptability, and love for communication. People with a Gemini Sun are curious, open-minded, and thrive on learning new things. They are versatile, enjoying various conversations, hobbies, and interests. Gemini Suns often find themselves in social situations where their wit and charm shine.

Focus on Communication A Gemini Sun individual is naturally social and loves to engage in conversations that allow them to share ideas. Their intellect is one of their most notable traits, as they have a sharp mind and an ability to understand complex concepts quickly. They may be drawn to writing, speaking, or roles that require strong communication skills.

Strengths and Challenges While Gemini Suns are witty, open, and engaging, they may sometimes struggle with commitment or emotional depth. Their adaptability can make them appear indecisive or even superficial to others. Although they enjoy talking about a range of topics, they sometimes avoid subjects that require deep emotional investment, making it challenging for them to connect at a profound level.

2. Scorpio Moon: The Intense and Emotionally Complex Core

Traits of Scorpio Moon As a water sign ruled by Mars and Pluto, Scorpio is all about depth, emotional intensity, and transformation. Those with a Scorpio Moon feel things deeply and crave relationships with emotional richness. They are highly intuitive, often sensing people’s hidden motives, and their emotions run strong. This intense inner world contrasts with the Gemini Sun’s lighter, more flexible nature.

Desire for Loyalty and Depth in Relationships Scorpio Moons seek loyalty, stability, and intense connections in relationships. They don’t open up easily, but once they trust someone, they form a strong, enduring bond. In relationships, they prioritize emotional security and are willing to work through difficulties to achieve it.

Strengths and Challenges With their emotional insight and loyalty, Scorpio Moons can be intensely devoted. However, their strong desire for trust and emotional safety can also lead to possessiveness or jealousy. The Scorpio Moon’s powerful need for connection and loyalty can sometimes conflict with the Gemini Sun’s desire for freedom and exploration, creating inner tension.

3. Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon Personality Dynamics

Blend of Wit and Depth A Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon personality combines the Gemini Sun’s intellectual curiosity with the Scorpio Moon’s emotional depth. These individuals have a unique approach to life that balances light-hearted exploration with an understanding of the more serious aspects of human emotions. This makes them excellent conversationalists who can easily shift between playful banter and deep discussions.

Adaptable Yet Intense This astrological pairing results in a personality that is both adaptable and intense. Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon individuals are not only flexible in their thinking but are also deeply committed when it comes to people or causes that matter to them. They can approach life with a balanced perspective, knowing when to be carefree and when to focus on serious matters.

Inner Conflicts One of the main challenges for a Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon is balancing their need for independence with their desire for emotional depth. They may find it difficult to commit fully in relationships because part of them craves freedom while another part seeks intimacy. This internal struggle can create complex relationship dynamics, where they may alternate between being distant and deeply attached.

4. Relationship Compatibility for Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon

Ideal Partners The ideal partners for a Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon are those who appreciate both intellectual engagement and emotional depth. Signs like Cancer and Pisces may resonate with their emotional intensity, while Sagittarius and Aquarius can keep up with their intellectual curiosity. The best match for them would be someone who can respect their independence while also valuing emotional closeness.

Challenges in Relationships One challenge in relationships for Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon individuals is balancing their need for freedom with their desire for a loyal, trustworthy partner. Scorpio’s tendency toward possessiveness may sometimes clash with Gemini’s desire to explore and socialize. Issues with trust or jealousy could arise if their partner doesn’t understand or respect this need for space and emotional connection.

Keys to Relationship Success For a successful relationship, Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon individuals benefit from open, honest communication. They thrive in partnerships that allow them to express themselves freely without judgment. Their ideal partner will be someone who understands the complexity of their personality and values both their intellectual and emotional sides, creating a harmonious balance.

5. Career and Interests for Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon

Intellectual and Investigative Fields With a love for knowledge and a natural sense of curiosity, Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon individuals excel in careers that allow them to explore ideas in depth. Fields like psychology, journalism, research, or media align well with their need for both intellectual stimulation and emotional exploration. Their Scorpio Moon drives them to understand what lies beneath the surface, making investigative or analytical roles a perfect fit.

Passion-Driven Hobbies Their hobbies often reflect their dual need for mental engagement and emotional expression. They may be drawn to reading, creative writing, or activities that allow them to explore ideas. They may also enjoy pursuing topics related to psychology, philosophy, or art, where they can dive deeply into subjects that intrigue them.

Balancing Work and Emotion Finding a career that aligns with both their curious mind and emotional intensity is important for those with a Gemini Sun and Scorpio Moon. This pairing thrives in environments that provide both intellectual challenge and a sense of purpose. They excel in roles that allow them to explore new ideas, develop expertise, and work through complex emotions, leading to both professional and personal fulfillment.

Conclusion

The Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon personality is a unique blend of wit, curiosity, and emotional depth. These individuals can move effortlessly from light-hearted conversations to profound, meaningful discussions, making them both engaging and introspective. With strengths like adaptability, empathy, and resilience, they bring a balanced perspective to relationships and career paths alike. For those with a Gemini Sun Scorpio Moon, embracing both their intellectual and emotional sides allows them to lead a fulfilling, multifaceted life that celebrates the best of both worlds.

🧘🏿‍♀️🧚🏿‍♀️ for the ask game! 🫶

Do I look up to a spiritual leader/guru? Kinda, Mama J that owns my favorite witchy shop. The only thing with this question, is that I do find her more credible then some others I have been around, but I still question and do my own research on whatever topic we happen to discuss. Because, just because it works for her, may not for me.

Have I had a supernatural experience? Plenty, the college cafeteria that I worked at for 7 years, was pretty active. Pots would fly off shelves, not fall, fly. The clock would float off it's nail, like someone was trying to take it down to change the time, and then drop on the floor. Lights would turn off unexpectedly, not because of power issues or tripping the breaker. And of course, when I would be alone for my weekend breaks, I could hear some of our heavy ceramic plates rattle as if someone was grabbing a stack. And our dishwasher would start itself, even though you had to push something through to hit a switch to activate.

Too soft for this world, too wild for another.

Stardust in my veins, moss on my feet.

Whispers of wings in a world too loud.🧚🏻‍♀️✨

As somebody with ADHD as well, how do you balance a secular witchcraft practice and deity worship? Also, ty for showing me that I can separate the two!!

Good question! UPG and secular witchy things ahoy.

The way I see it, my witchcraft and my pagan practices are pretty much two separate things. When I'm venerating my deities or making offerings, that is Bree the Pagan doing the thing. While there may be special occasions where magical ritual as part of that, like around Samhain, it's not the focus.

When I'm creating or casting a spell, 99% of the time I'm not asking for divine aid, I don't require it, I don't think about it. I'm relying on my own resources and tools to make things happen. And while there may be some special occasions where I invoke my patrons for aid, usually for protection, that's not the focus.

So I'm a witch who also happens to be a polytheist pagan, rather than a polytheist pagan witch, if that makes sense. When I talk about my witchcraft, I talk about magic and technique and theory and such, but not my deities. When I talk about my paganism, I talk about my deities and veneration and my experiences with them, but not my witchcraft.

Surprisingly, my ADHD doesn't really affect my ability to compartmentalize in this way. I rather feel like it makes it easier to say The Witchcraft Is Over Here and The Paganism Is Over Here. Separating the two also helps eliminate a source of anxiety for me. Relying on the input of others to help me accomplish my goals has, historically speaking, been fraught with disappointment. So if I'm just relying on myself, it's easier to fully invest my energy and determination into the working, without the distraction of worrying whether the additional aid will come through or if I'm doing something "wrong" with regard to the inclusion of a deity or annoying them by asking for help.

So yes, it is perfectly possible to separate the two things. You can be a witch without being a pagan or a pagan without being a witch. Or you can be both without putting chocolate in your peanut butter, as it were.

Hope this helps!

50 KITCHEN WITCH TIPS TO MAKE YOU FEEL MORE WITCHY

(And other useful things I've learned over the years)

Hi! This is a list of dos, don'ts, tips, tricks, and other fun things that I've learned over the years. I always love finding more effective and efficient ways of doing things so if you have any cool things you'd like to add, leave them in the comments or reblog. I'd love to read it.

Anyways... On with the list ^_^

Light candles around your kitchen space (just make sure nothing flammable is near you)

Annotate your cookbooks with the correspondence of the ingredients.

Mediating is really good to calm the mind before cooking.

Cut oranges and lemons thinly, dry them, and hang them with twine around your kitchen

Need a cleansing tip? Open all your windows near your kitchen. Let some fresh air in.

Cutting sigils into apples, pie crusts, and carved potatoes.

Save lemon and orange rinds, freeze them, and then use them to clean the garbage disposal.

Make infused oils and honey: Things like garlic honey, lavender honey, herb oil, sun oil, moon oil, dandelion oil, and other different edible oils are very fun and useful to make.

Hid sigils in pages of your cookbooks and kitchen witch journals.

Add some plants! Snake plants and spider plants don't need too much light, and growing your own herbs in your kitchen is awesome too. Basil, lavender, thyme, aloe vera, rosemary, etc. are good fits. You could also add some plants that require more sunlight on the kitchen window sill. Like cacti and succulents.

Bring crystals into your kitchen space such as rose quartz, clear quartz, amethyst, or whatever you want the space's intentions to be.

I keep a small money tree on the sill, along with cacti for luck and protection.

Make a simmer Pot! Mostly because it makes the whole house smell good, easy, and fun.

Stir clockwise for best results!

Learning how to pickle things is actually pretty witchy. Plus, anyone could do it as it requires absolutely no kitchen experience. You could pickle any vegetable, even if you don't like pickles. I originally learned this after having to take shelter from a natural disaster. A person brought a bunch of stuff and taught us how to pickle things with different spices and herbs. Very fun!

Decorate your kitchen with your favorite stuff. Crystals, decor, heat mits, that cool mushroom cake stand you've been eyeing at the World Market for the past 2 weeks, cool looking curtains, sun catchers. Why stop there? Paint the walls, hang shelves full of marked-up cookbooks that are a little too well-loved and thumbed through.

Wanna be the person that has the amazing-smelling house every time people come over? Syrups take some time to simmer down, it's actually a pretty good time to leave it on the stove to simmer. Since syrups have a lot of aromatic ingredients, it acts as a really good-smelling simmer pot.

Hang up herbs to dry with twine from cabinets that are rarely used.

Invest in that new set of plates and cups.

Homemade jams, butter, sauces, and syrups are your best friend.

Crochet or knit your own dish rags, pot holders, etc.

Don't pour extremely hot things into a glass that's not Pyrex, it will break, and you will be very sad about it.

Don't cook anything while extremely upset or emotional (For safety reasons)

Make recipes you want to make, not just because you'll like the effect. Make it because you think it's tasty.

Chinese Five Spice works in place of herbs for protection and luck spells a lot of the time! It's cheaper to buy 1 spice than 4 different spices that total up to 15 dollars when you could just spend 3-4 dollars.

Take a shower before cooking (I don't know how to explain this one other than it makes you feel better)

Don't use microfiber/plastic material clothes on hot burners, it will fuse to the burner and melt. It is VERY hard to get off.

I don't know if I need to put this one but I did see someone do it so nonstick pan = wooden utensils and plastic utensils, metal pan = metal utensils. Do not use a metal spoon in a nonstick pan, please. It can make you very sick.

Keep your pets away from hot oil, open ovens, and hot pans.

You can proof bread dough in the fridge overnight if you don't have the time to bake, or want to eat fresh bread right in the morning.

Need a quick witchy meal for dinner in 12 minutes? Use premade tomato pasta sauce and doctor it up with thyme, rosemary, and garlic, for protection and distilling stagnant energies. Serve with pasta of your liking.

You can substitute Butter for Crisco/shortening, buttermilk for 1 cup of milk + 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar or lemon juice, and heavy cream for 1 cup of half and half plus 2 tbsp of butter.

Use leftover animal bones to make bone broth

Teach yourself the art of bread scoring (It's fun, and you can show it off to your loved ones!)

Collect and hoard your own and others' family recipes.

Sometimes the food doesn't have to be a spell, sometimes it just makes you feel good and you don't know why.

Listen to your favorite music in the kitchen, it makes the monotonous things like chopping veggies move faster.

Invest in a vegetable chopper if you don't like chopping vegetables.

Find a really good hot cocoa recipe and make it once a week. Master it. Just for your own happiness because hot cocoa is really good. You could also be the friend/family member that makes the best hot cocoa ever.

Focaccia Bread Lasts a very long time, and it's very easy to make!

Keep a first aid kit near where the oven is, in case of burns, cuts, or serious injuries where time is everything.

Quick Bread and no-rise loaves are simple for beginners, tasty, and take little time. They also feel very witchy to make.

Study a bit of Herbalism! It's fun and really helps better understand the herbs you're putting into your food.

While something is boiling, put your wooden spoon over the pot to minimize the chance of something boiling over.

Try a bit of coffee magick, it's simple to get into, and gives you a boost of energy to take on the day!

If you're over 21, wine-making is a very interesting way to celebrate the sabbats. Just with that, make sure you KNOW what you're doing. With anything fermented, there's always a risk if you don't store things correctly. Apple wines, strawberry wines, dandelion wines, etc. all very cool to experiment with. If you're not over 21, vinegar is a similar way to experiment.

Hang up some witchy things, sigils, photos, cool magnets, and other things that give you joy on your fridge. (Sometimes if you are lucky they have some fun magnets at five below)

If you live in the US, for some reason, there are a lot of books in the book section dedicated to witchcraft and spirituality. At least where I live. And they are all under 5 dollars!

Teas are the cheapest and easiest things you can practice being a kitchen witch.

Kitchen Witch Cheat Sheet

It can be so confusing remembering all the different properties of food. Flat out over whelming to be honest. So instead of having a long sheet with every food you cook with and 10 properties it could have, start with this. It'll be a rule of thumb to help remember some basics.

Elements

If a food is spicy or has a lot of energy/Passion, it likely has the element Fire. Black Tea, Chocolate, and Jalapenos are examples.

If a food is very light or fragrant, it likely had the element Air. Onions, Herbs, and whipped cream are examples.

If a food is juicy, runny, or comes from the ocean/lake, it likely has the element Water. Apples, Milk, and Fish are examples.

If a food doesn't fit into any of the previous categories, chances are it has the Element Earth since all food comes from the earth.

Properties

Any food that has been a backbone staple will have Prosperity properties. Rice, Wheat, Oats, Cabbage, Quinoa; anything that has allowed a people to prosper.

Foods that have spent a lot of time directly in the ground will have strong Grounding properties. Beets, Potatoes, Carrots, and other root vegetables. Additionally, foods that have been through a grounding process also tend to have good Grounding properties. Coffee and Ground Meat for example.

Spicy spices are good for banishing and protection. Black pepper, Cayenne, Chili Flakes, Gochujang ect. If you hate spicy food, stick with Salt and maybe Garlic/Onion powder.

There will be some exceptions and overlap. This is just to help if you're starting.