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In terms of the food that nourishes us
Food will always be a part of life; we may detest or embrace this fact. One thing is sure: food can be magickal and is inherently magickal. As long as humans have cared for nourishing their bodies, there has been energy in the foods we eat. Homemade goods can taste better than processed foods because of the better presence of this energy. Energy is transferred quite honestly from the source of its origin, as in the food chain and trophic levels, yes? All foodstuffs have inherent energy, and the closer to the source (sunlight, as what plants use for food), the more energy there will be to be activated and brought. There’s a reason a grandparent’s cookies always taste the best.
Example: My favorite food recipe to make has always been French toast. With just a few simple ingredients that can be absolutely “upgraded” or made better and given magickal intent, there’s a childhood favorite just waiting to be eaten again. My favorite recipe comes from Café Delight (I like to use Texas toast, but any thick bread will do if you try this recipe! The thinner bread tends to fall apart in the mixture). But why would you want to imbue magick in the mundane recipes? You would want to because it can become an easy spell. You’ll always have to eat food to nourish your body; you might as well add a bit of magick! Looking up the ingredients to the recipe, or finding a recipe that could match your intent, and that there is an easy way to spell cast without finding a jar or sachet or place to put the spell remains at all besides eating it right away and cleaning the dishes. 🙂
Let’s look at French toast a bit closer now. It’s a relatively low-cost and more accessible recipe that almost everyone knows of. Yet, when we look at it through the magickal lens … the magickal properties and associations of the ingredients in French Toast (based on the recipe from Café Delight):
- Eggs:
- Fertility, protection, beauty.
- The planet Earth.
- Ground Cinnamon:
- Money, success, vitality, love, and purification.
- Aids in a spell’s power, an amplifier.
- The planet Jupiter
- Bread:
- Grounding, safety, nourishing, divinity.
- Earth.
- Milk:
- Nurturing, family, mother love, birth, spirituality, comfort, fertility, prosperity, protection, success.
- The Moon.
- Caster Sugar:
- attraction, love, romance, cleansing, to sweeten something (to sweeten one’s day, etc.)
- It also amplifies the power of a spell.
- Venus
- Vanilla Extract:
- Comfort, love, beauty, mood, soothing, calming, clarity, trust, to sweeten something (to sweeten one’s day, etc.).
- Venus.
I won’t go into making the French toast, but imagine putting all your ingredients to work to give you a magickal meal! Wouldn’t it be such a good ‘sweeten the day’ spell to give to others for comfort and to strengthen the relationship? How can magickal correspondences help you in your meals? Perhaps you can plan a meal around an event you might know might cause anxiety and do properties that could alleviate such, or you can prepare the end of the week to have more comforting and cheerful meals if you can spend more time with your loved ones. Looking into correspondences will help you with this, and basing a meal around a single main ingredient could help find supporting ingredients. Definitely look into correspondences, and I’ll list a few books here that I like and trust to help with this:
Books I personally use for correspondences and more
The Kitchen Witch By Skye Alexander
Green Witchcraft by Paige Vanderbeck
I can do a more in-depth review of these books someday, along with other books I love to use in my craft, but these are all books I own and use in my craft almost daily; they almost all contain more than just correspondences; the information they give along the correspondences are helpful for anyone interested in witchcraft. The Kitchen Witch book is centered on kitchen witchery, but any closet or witch centered doing witchcraft while in their living space can find many uses inside. This book also gives spells, rituals and other advice for the kitchen-based witch, or any witch at all. It gives correspondences to foods/plants not covered in other books that are still common ingredients in witchcraft.
The Green Witchcraft book is centered on green witchcraft, but witches from all paths use herbs and other plant matter in their craft, especially in spells. It’s not just for green witches. This book helps use plants in your craft, as does the Green Witch’s Garden. The Green Witch’s Garden also helps with both correspondences, connecting to nature and all the information on creating a witchy garden. Although I would only recommend the Green Witch’s Garden if you plan on gardening or like to garden, as it is heavier on gardening in witchcraft information than just correspondences; though, the correspondence information is good, and covers many other plants not typically seen in correspondence books, like house plants.
If you want a book all in one on just correspondences, then the Witch’s Book of Correspondences will be your best bet. It will include many categories of correspondences besides plants, so it will be extremely useful for your craft.
On making the food you didn’t create magickal
Back to the topic at hand, even if you don’t make the meal yourself (say, you go out to eat but still want to imbue the item with positive energies), you can tell a blessing over your meal and thank (aloud or in your head) those that helped contribute to your meal; from the gardeners who helped cultivate the fruits or vegetables to the people involved all the way, even the chef and waitstaff who helped bring this meal together and bring it to you. To say a blessing of gratitude, you don’t need to do anything fancy; say, with focus on your words, from the heart, something to the tune of: “I thank all who have touched and helped carry this meal to where it is now. I thank the spirits of the Earth for giving me this meal; I am grateful for the bounty of this Earth. I bless this food so that it blesses me with the nourishment it provides and the positivity of good health.” It’s always better if you make a statement from your own heart in your own words so that they mean more. It’s okay if you fumble a bit at first on what to say; it’s a learning process. And it’s okay if the food is majorly processed and isn’t close to the source; say a gratitude prayer and ask the Gods or Earth to bless it (or whichever higher being you may believe in; or, you can bless it with your energy, too, with visualization) if you want to have a similar effect.
One other blessing that I like a lot comes from this website.
Blessed be the Earth for giving birth to this food
Blessed be the Sun for nourishing it
Blessed be the Wind for carrying its seed
Blessed be the Rain for quenching its thirst.Blessed be the hands that helped to grow this food,
To bring it to our tables
To nourish our minds, bodies, and spirits.Blessed be our friends, our families, and our loved ones.
beliefnet.com
Blessed Be.
On enchanting the food with intent
Everything mundane can be magickal, you see. You whisper your will to each ingredient, holding it up to your third eye and closing the rest, telling the ingredients what each of their job is to do. They won’t do much if they’re not told because they need to be ‘activated.’ So, for the milk, you merely press your forehead against it and then say to the milk, “Your job is to bring comfort, okay? I speak it aloud so it may be/mote it be.” When stirring the ingredients together, you can even stir clockwise to bring good energies into the foodstuffs so that even more magick is imbued. If you want to decrease something, like negative energies, you would stir anti-clockwise. Remember to focus on your intent because if you get distracted, it may not be fruitful. If you are prone to distraction, I recommend meditation to help practice and strengthen being able to bring your attention back to the moments at hand.
Everything mundane is magickal
Magick is all around you, and every day of a witch is magickal; regardless of what may occur, any activity can be imbued with magick. Humans have been pouring their energy into what they make for as long as things have been made; how could this not be magickal? Where it comes from, who comes into contact with the item… it has all this energy you can then bend to your intent. You pour your heart and soul into what you make to comfort others, strengthen your family ties, soothe hunger, and please the palate… and the results speak for themselves. The music hits differently when the song lyrics mean something to the artist. Same thing here.
As a cottage witch, I like to imbue just about anything I physically throw together with magick to help me through the day. Whether that’s my cup of coffee or my toast with jam (fruit has magickal properties, too, of course!), everything can be used to further your spiritual and physical journey on this earth. I love to sweeten my coffee with vanilla and sugar, and as I stir clockwise, I imagine white and pink light pouring into the coffee from my energy. It’s enchanting the cup of joe that gets me through each day, and is the enchantment I do most often.
Conclusion
As you can see, anything and everything can be imbued with magick in the kitchen and throughout wherever items are made from scratch, or from items originating from the earth and her creatures, such as other handicrafts and art. Embrace adding the magick to the mundane in every facet of life, and your life will only become more like a dream.
What’s your favorite recipe to make, and how could you imbue magick into it? How has your energy affected what you have made before? Do you notice the energetic differences between homemade food and the more processed store bought? Some food for thought 😉 Blessed be, and merry met on your way; I hope you have the most wonderous of days.
Love, Daisy Mae ❤
Bibliography & Further Reading
On the science of energy transference: https://www.khanacademy.org/science/ap-biology/ecology-ap/energy-flow-through-ecosystems/a/food-chains-food-webs
The website with the meal blessing: https://www.learnreligions.com/pagan-meal-blessings-4077032
More blessing and meal prayers: https://www.learnreligions.com/pagan-meal-blessings-4077032
Books & other sources for correspondences that I used:
- Green Witchcraft: A Practical Guide to Discovering the Magic of Plants, Herbs, Crystals and Beyond by Paige Vanderbeck.
- The Kitchen Witch: Your Complete Guide to Creating a Magical Kitchen with Natural Ingredients, Sacred Rituals, and Spellwork by Skye Alexander.
- https://honeymallow.com/magickal-correspondences-of-different-kinds-of-bread/
Dreamy Witch in a Cottage 