For me, Imbolc is a great time to celebrate the warmer months coming soon and the return of the sun. Anything with solar or fiery correspondences works well for me around Imbolc, as well as anything having to do with keeping a happy home or inspiring creativity and the arts, since Brigid works with poets and artists often.
Spells and Rituals
A spell to enhance creativity**
Solitary Imbolc Ritual**
Threshold Protection Spell**
Folk Magic for a Happy Home**
The Magician Tarot Spell
Better Business Artist’s Spell
Imbolc Lush Bath
Hearth Fire Protection Spell
Brigid’s Healing Spell
Imbolc Candle Spell**
Incense
Home Purification Incense
Eighthfold Hearth Incense
Sun Incense
Sun Incense 2
Fire Incense
Imbolc Incense
Nine Woods Incense
Happier Home Incense
Herb Sachets/Jars
Home Protection Sachet
Home Protection Jar
Home Protection Sachet II
Herbs Associated with the Sun
Herbs Associated with Fire
Oils
Brigid’s Oil
La Candelaria Oil
Sabbat Oil
Sabbat Oil II
Imbolc Oil
Imbolc Oil II
Persephone Oil
Tarot Spreads
T.S. Eliot’s Poets and Writers Tarot Spread
Imbolc Stirring Within You Spread
Other
Sabbat Soap
Fire Bath
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The lovely Yemi Amu of Oko Farms giving a little how to on planting ginger ☺️
Yemi Amu is the Founder and the Farm Manager at Oko Farms Aquaponics Center in Brooklyn. She directs all of Oko Farms' programs including education, design/build projects and community related activities.
Saturn changes house roughly every 2 ½ years, and each time the focus of our life shifts. Wherever Saturn is in your chart, these are the questions he is helping you to answer.
1st House: Are you being authentically you? Are you in your power? Do you know what you want in life? Are you in the right career? Are you with the right partner(s)? Are you taking on too much responsibility? 2nd House: Have you been responsible with your finances? Have you been saving or do you have many debts? Are you improving your talents? What do you value? What do you stand for? 3rd House: Are you spending time with the friends that you like? Do you feel heard? How is your mental state – are you more than a little blue? What bad habits do you need to lose? Have you talked to your sibling(s) lately? What is it that you want to say and what do you need to say it? Learning what you want to learn? 4th House: Have you found your home? Your soul family? Is it time to relocate? Or is it time to redecorate? Have you looked at your psyche, your inner conditioning? Are you asking for help when you need it? 5th House: Are you having fun? Are you creating something? Are you showing it to others? Are you taking enough risks? Or too many? Have you found a romantic relationship that is good for your development? Are you being sexually authentic? Have you fully embraced the joy of living?
6th House: How is your health? Do you need to change your diet? Your schedule? Your physical activity? Have you been to the doctor lately? What self-care have you been putting off? Are you making enough time for your self? For others?
7th House: Is your partnership working for you? Is it time to fully commit to them? Have you found the right creative partner? Are your close relationships fulfilling you or is it time to let some of them go? Who are the kinds of people you would like to grow closer to? Have you been putting off a break up? What conversations have you been avoiding?
8th House: Are you being completely honest about who you are? How are you handling your resources? The resources of others? Where do you hold the most power? Where do you feel the weakest? Have you been completely vulnerable with your partner or do you continue to hold back? Have you faced your fears? Have you embraced the unknown? Have you let go anything that is keeping you from transforming? From growing? Did you borrow more than you could pay back? Are you looking beyond the surface of life? Of yourself? Of others?
9th House: Is it time to return to school? Have you traveled enough? Have you challenged your own beliefs? Your personal philosophies? Have you experienced other cultures? Other ways of knowing the world? Are you confronting your limits? Is it time to publish? Is it time bet on yourself? Are you ready to see how far you can go?
10th House: Are you in a career you like? Or is it just a job? Is it aligned with your soul’s mission? Have you put in the time to be where you need to be? Have you paid your dues? Is it time to aim higher? Is it time to go off on your own and start your own business? How do you want to make a name for yourself in this world?
11th House: Are your hopes and dreams realistic? Do you belong to organizations that best represent who you are? Are you working towards a goal larger than yourself? Do you find meaning in what you do? Is your social life fulfilling? What do you have left to achieve? What does achievement mean to you?
12th House: What secrets do you need to tell? What wounds do you need to heal? Who do you need to let go of? What needs to end in your life? What needs to begin? Have you been resting enough? Have you spent enough time with yourself? With the quietude of nature? With your thoughts? What paths do you need to stop following so you can find your own?
↳ Emoji spell: Attracting platonic love.
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Tips for the Kitchen Witch
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Crown Royal Peach Cobbler
1. Preheat oven to 400. And melt 1/2 stick of butter into a 13 by 9 Pyrex or casserole dish
2. In a heavy saucepan, combine a 28oz can of peaches (undrained), 1/2 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of light brown sugar, 2 tsp ground cinnamon, 1/2 cup of water and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and add 3/4 cup of Crown Royal Peach whiskey to mixture and let simmer for about 10 minutes.
3. In a separate bowl combine 3/4 cup of cold water and a heaping tbsp of cornstarch to form a slurry and add to peach mixture and return to a boil.
4. In another mixing bowl, combine 1 cup of sugar, 1/2 cup of light brown sugar, 2 tsp of vanilla extract, 1 1/2 cups of self rising flour (preferably White Lily) and enough milk to make a thin batter. Whisk with a wire whisk.
5. Pour hot peaches into casserole dish with melted butter and then pour batter mixture on top.
6. Combine 2 tbsp of sugar, 2 tsp of cinnamon and 1/4 tsp of nutmeg and sprinkle on top.
7. Bake for 30 minutes until golden brown.
Kitchen Witch
Go to a homey bakery and let them go on and on about all the ways to enchant blueberry muffins.
(NYC) Go to eataly and get some good ass pastries or prosciutto and other delicious dried cuts, just basically eat around Eataly or go to Dough.
(NYC) Explore supermarkets in places like china town, ktown, (eataly is great too) and get new foods or ingredients for them to try out at home.
(NYC) Load your pockets with dollars and take them to a street fair and try every food/snack stand they want.
(NYC) If they like beer take them to good beer and have one of the guys explain the different brews. If they like mead take them to Honies.
Green Witch
Go to a botanical garden and point to the prettiest flower and say “that’s you”
Start a date by giving them a bouquet with a special message by using the Victorian language of flowers, or your own correspondences
If living together, go to a local nursery and choose flowers to plant together at your home.
(NYC) Take them to Flower power and offer to get them a gift that they please.
(NYC) Also be their buffer to killing their wallet cause that’ll happen at flower power.
(NYC) Take them to any botanical garden. During the winter the Brooklyn one is free.
(NYC) Take them florist shopping.
(NYC) Take them to the Kava bar in the lower east side to feel great after drinking nonalcoholic kava cocktails.
(NYC) Get lost in the north woods in Central Park.
Hedge Witch
(NYC) take them to the beautiful greenwood cemetery.
(NYC) Buy them some skulls or antlers at Catland.
(NYC) Go ghost hunting in some spooky ass places like the abandoned homes of Govenors island or The Dakota building, but if it gets too spooky then have a picnic on the island or by Central Park instead!
Go pumpkin, apple, strawberry, or any fruit picking, then use the fruits/vegetables in cooking/baking.
Cosmic Witch
Take them star gazing and come up with stories about planets falling in love.
Take a car out to a quiet, rural place and stargaze. Watch from a blanket on the ground or the top of the car. If you want, you can take a telescope.
I’d suggest oddities since they sell meteorite and other spacely things though it could be costly there.
(NYC) Museum of natural history has a great space section and planetarium too.
(NYC) Stargazing in NYC might be tricky but if you go up to fort Tyron you might have a beautiful view nonetheless!
Sea Witch
Go to the beach and help them look for sea shells. Help them carry all the ocean water home.
(NYC) Take the Q35 from Flatbush Ave (last 2,5 stop) to fort Tilden. It’s the best beach since it’s the cleanest and hardly no one is there. It’s serene and you’ll find tons of shells.
(NYC) You can stay on the same bus as it will take you to Jacob Riis beach. I find the water there way less clean with tons of algae BUT the seashells there are phenomenal! Like as huge as ashtrays. So if it’s cold and you want to just go seashell hunting I’d vote for Jacob riis.
(NYC) Swimming is better for fort Tilden. If it’s too cold for the beach take them to a boutique called Oddities. They sell beautiful seashells and other incredible magical things in that shop.
(NYC) You can also take them to the museum of natural history and chill in that gorgeous aquatic room with the massive whale that every child feared would drop on their heads and crush them. It’s a beautiful space.
Lunar Witch
Bathe in the full moon together
Graveyard/Death Witch
Go to a local cemetery on a nice day and talk about all the headstones that speak to you.
Getting relationship advice from other spirits. Or traveling to graveyards To do exploring.
take them to the oldest cemetery in the area and do headstone rubbings together
Go people watching at a cemetery. You look out for the living ones and they’ll keep an eye on the dead ones
Take them to your local graveyard and let them tell you about what the ghosts of those who are long gone whisper to them.
Picnic next to a graveyard or a place that has a strong connection to spirits
Crystal Witch
Going to crystal stores and giving them rose quartz, because love.
Let them tell you about their own crystal collection as you browse your local geology museum/crystal shop. Ask them questions about their properties, and maybe even the chemical makeup if they have a scientific streak.
Go to a craft fair and buy a crystal/stone piece for your loved one.
Go to a gem mine to try and find some crystals, rocks, or gems
Energy Witch
(NYC) Get them a session at the Woom center. Take them to the tarot society to pet crystals. The tarot society and Earth Arts center also has soundbaths from time to time.
(NYC) Avoid Times Square at all costs especially if they are super empathetic.
(NYC) Design a candle together at Enchantments.
Storm Witch
If you live in the Midwest and don’t have a very strong sense of self preservation (like most of the locals), take them on a tornado chase with you and make out after you survive.
Just play in the rain with them.
invite them over when it’s raining to sit inside and listen to the pitter patter on the windows while you watch movies. Have rainboots and a coat ready if don’t want to watch a movie or want to do something fun afterwards.
Drag them into the rain and dance!
Desert Witch
Road trip to your nearest friendly neighborhood mesas/weird rock formations. Bonus if you listen to them talk about the area’s folklore
Divination Witch
Swap readings take them some where they can try new decks.
Space Witch
Go to the observatory.
Stare at the constellations
Enjoy a picnic under the stars
Fire Witch
Take them to a huge bonfire (possibly around Beltane) where you can talk and dance and everything, then take some ashes when you’re done for different rituals!
(NYC) Sometimes flower power has an herbal smokes class you guys could sign up for. The people that work there would be happy to help you pick out herbs for your own herbal smoking blend! You can also go there to pick out ingredients for loose incense!
(NYC) Namaste on 14th also has an amazing selection of incense. You can buy them a cute and quirky candle at flying tiger or pick materials for candle making together at Michaels. In the summertime go to Roosevelt island and have a bonfire in one of the fire pit/grills.
Necromantic Witch
Take them to a graveyard.
Earth Witch
Start by leaving them a hand written letter to meet you somewhere. Have that somewhere be a beautiful hidden spot in the forest or anywhere that has to do with nature. Pack her favorite foods and bring her favorite book and take her on a forest picnic. Read to her (or have her read to you) as you just sit and enjoy each other’s company and Mother Earth around you.
Music Witch
Take them to a concert or a musical. Watch them get a little more into the rhythms than everyone else.
Go find some music and perform with them
Get a bunch of their favorite music albums (DVD’s) and listen to them together with or with out food
Try to watch a street performance or walk around downtown
Ice/Snow Witch
Ice skating! Or start a snow ball fight with them
Try making synthetic snow and play with it
Play with them on a snowy day, then enjoy some hot coco or hot cider with cookies
Building a snow man or playing in the snow on a snowy day
Try going to a cold place or a snowboard/ski resort to enjoy the snow and exercise
Bath Witch
(NYC) Take them to king spa or sauna castle (Korean bath and sauna houses) and try out every majestic sauna and bath together.
(NYC) Take them to a shop like Lush or the Face Shop to try new things. Have a spa day at home with them.
Make a diy bath bomb or soap
Take bath with a bath bomb
Go to a sauna, onsen, or hot spring
Make a diy sauna with a humidifier in your bathroom or closet while you wear towels.
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