* Burn
sage or rosemary.
* Get
a good book on magical herbs, such as Cunningham's. Go through the book and
become familiar with herbs for specific purposes. Put the ones that go best
together into your dishes. For example, spices such as ginger, garlic and chili
are good protective ingredients and taste good together in a curry.
* Stir
clockwise. Scrub counter-clockwise if you feel the need.
* A
pot of basil growing in the kitchen promotes love. Bundles of rosemary are good
for protection. A dish of sesame seeds draws money.
* You
can use a solution of salt water to trace protective runes onto the doors,
walls and cabinets in your kitchen. Only you will know they are there!
* If
you have a kitchen deity but don't have room for an altar, simply find a
picture and hang it up in your kitchen. You can make offerings as you see fit.
*
Light a candle as you cook. Light pink for love, green for prosperity or
healing, blue or purple for psychic awareness, etc.
*Enter
the kitchen with love in your heart. Try not to prepare foods when you are in a
foul mood, as this energy might transfer to the food. That might sound silly to
some, but I always try to think of good things when I am cooking. Maybe I've
read Like Water for Chocolate too many times!
*Listen
to music that calms you, energizes, you, or fills you with love and warmth as
you cook. Listen to some loud rock if you're making a dish for protection and
really use the sound and energy to work up some protection! Listen to soft,
soothing music if you are making a recipe for love. Listen to a meditation
track or trance music if you are making something to promote psychic awareness.
*Enjoy
yourself. The kitchen is a place to play and to create. You are taking the gifts
of the gods and combining them to create new tastes and sometimes to create
magic. Have fun! Fill your work with love and people will be able to taste the
care you've put into the food. Things
taste better when prepared with love.
Copyright 2010, Witchin' in the Kitchen
