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Lavender Luna’s Cauldron
Wicca: A Year and a Day
In Wicca before you join a coven or in your 1st degree in some traditions, most require you to do a year and a day studying to understand what it takes to learn the craft. I've been a solitary for a few years and learned little from previous book I have read. With Wicca: A Year and a Day: 366 Days of Spiritual Practice in the Craft of the Wise, I've learned so much more than I could imagine in 30 days. The book gives you daily exercises, connects you with many gods/goddesses and how to celebrate the Sabbats. A lot of people say they taken this book as a grain of salt. Or any book for that matter. This is simply my opinion on how I am doing my year and day. Don't make this book your first book. It lacks explaining the background of how Wicca became as it is today.
Some people have complained about how expensive some of the supplies are required. You don't have to buy them all. For example: instead of buying all the required herbs for incense you can use Frankincense resin and/or Myrrh resin to substitute. Both cost me a total of $3 for a half oz. Another example: instead of buying different colored candles, white is a substitute for any color. Cost me 75¢ each. Black candles are hard to find for me to buy locally. Essential Oils are the most expensive items. You don't have to go run out and buy every kind of Essential oil the book lists when you are working with a particular god or goddess. Buy 1 masculine and 1 feminine type of essential oil. I have no way of buying empty dark bottles to mix several oils together.
Some new pagans go all out and buy all their tools new or made by someone else. You can simply find a tree branch (thank the tree you harvested from) and shape it into a wand. If you like pink wooden tools or ink, you can make poke berry dye. Go to thrift stores and second hand stores to find other tools you can modify. The physical tools are used to help focus the mental intent to produce the spiritual outcome.
When I finish my year and day training, I will keep this book as a reference and use it to teach future members of my coven. Right now my coven is just my husband and I working on our traditions.
Potato Soup
Scott Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Wicca in the Kitchen-Potato Soup
Ingredients:
5 medium-sized potatoes; peeled and cubed
2 medium onions; finely chopped
2 ts. salt
2 cups water
1 Tbs. butter
1/2 cup flour
6 cups milk
5 slices bacon; chopped
Black pepper
1 Tbs. dried parsley
1. In a large sauce pan add potatoes, onions, salt, and water.
2. Cover and heat on medium, boil until potatoes are tender.
3. Drain off water and place potatoes and onions aside in a large bowl.
4. Melt butter in the same pot and stir in flour and milk on medium to high heat until the sauce starts to thicken.
5. Reduce heat to low, stir in potatoes and onions.
6. Fry chopped bacon slices in a skillet until crisp.
7. Drain on paper towel and stir into the soup, adding salt and pepper to taste.
8. Serve in individual bowls and sprinkle parsley flakes. Enjoy.
Magickal uses: Protection and healing.
Make a Ritual Wine bottle
Reuse empty wine bottles.
Need:
1 empty wine bottle with the label removed
2 square pieces of paper
glue stick
pen
1. Rub glue on the bottle 1 inch bigger than the piece of paper.
2. Place paper and smooth out to remove bubbles.
3. Write 'Ritual Wine' on your label.
4. Repeat 1 and 2 if you mix 2 or more ingredients to your wine.
5. Write the measurements of your ingredients on the back label.
How I made my Athame
A few weeks ago in one of my posts I stated that I was working on my Athame and that I would share with you how I made it. I forgot to take a photo of the first part with the new handle but the process of my scabbard or sheath is the same way. There are diagrams in Raymond Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft in Lesson 3 pages 41-45. Also those pages explains how to etch and engrave your blade. To remove the handle with rivets make a shallow cut with a Dremel or small cutting disk in a angle below the rivets and use a flat head screwdriver and pop the rivets out.
Tools I used:
Athame:
This is what my blade looked like when I found it.
Handle removed.
New handle diagram from Raymond Buckland's Complete Book of Witchcraft in Lesson 3.
New handle, handle of the blade is glued with epoxy between two pieces of wood for 24 hrs.
Handle is sanded down to a oval shape and added a second edge on blade.
Drilled a shallow hole on the end of the handle and epoxy glued a quartz crystal.Sanded the handle a little bit more.
Cut a oval hilt, wood burn vines and leaves then wood burn pentagram, my Zodiac sign, ruling planet and on the other side wood burned my Craft name in runes (it is a secret) on the handle.
Cut two rectangle pieces of wood and trace the blade on both. Before you trace the blade on your second piece of wood, flip the blade if the edge is not the same as the other side.
My husband was in such a rush to glue the wood together he forgot to let me take a photo of the pieces apart with the center cut with the grove shaped of the blade.
Sheath is almost done. It don't come out unless I twist the knife handle to me and away from me to lock it.
Sheath engraved, wood burned and both sealed with clear semi-gloss.
So long 2011, Hello 2012
2011 is gone and now its 2012 to start a new year. last year was big hectic year, hopefully there is less to worry about this year. More recipes will be posted soon. I've been studying more on Wicca for the last few months. I was finally able to get more books before Yule.Went to a antique shop and found two little bells from Seneca Rocks, WV for $8. For my birthday I got a little cauldron to burn lose incense, Fraya statue and charcoal tablets from Amazon.com for my alter and my husband decorated my birthday cake with the triple moon goddess symbol.He has also been helping me make my Athame. I'll have a new post with step by step of what we did for my Athame when its finished.
Also got a new sword from Trueswords.com called Conjuring Wizard's Spell-Proof Fantasy Sword. It reminds me of the Green Man. I just love the acorn on the end of it. My husband was talking about hanging it up on the wall in our dinning room. I was thinking in the hallway near my alter but we will see when I get a chance to hang all my photos in the hallway.
Winter Solstice Tea
This tea recipe is from the Youtube user CharmingPixieFlora.Yule is coming soon and this is a great tea to welcome the sun back to the earth. Last year my husband and I started celebrating Yule. Since it was our first year, I wasn't sure how to go about it.
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