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Kitchin Witchin' · Seeking Witchcraft

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey everyone welcome back to Seeking Witchcraft.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm your host Ashley and today I am doing a solo episode on something that I am actually pretty stoked to talk about.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's something that now with the upcoming holiday season.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think a lot of people really like getting in touch with this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and it is something close to home, it's something warm, it's earthy, and it is kitchen magic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Also called kitchen witchery, and this is one of the most accessible and grounding ways to practice witchcraft, and it's absolutely perfect for beginner, so whether you're brewing tea, or baking bread, or just making some soup or even your
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  [SPEAKER_00]: annual holiday meal, whatever that may look like.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You'll likely have all you need to engage with this type of practice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so I'm just going to jump into it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I guess the start.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What exactly is kitchen magic?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I would say the kitchen magic is the practice of infusing your cooking or something with your meal or something you're drinking or baking or preparing with magical energy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the ingredients that you use based on different associations, it's connection to the elements, and really kitchen witchery allows for your kitchen to become a sacred space, and you can have your cooking utensils, be your ritual tools, and making your meal just becomes part of your own ritual.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is super accessible to a lot of people.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even if you are not a pro in the kitchen, I promise there are some things that are very beginner friendly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I think this is like such a fun topic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And when I first got involved in witchcraft, I personally thought that kitchen, witchcraft, kitchen witchery, being a kitchen witch, whatever you want to call it, was one of the easiest things to get started in the wide magical world of the craft.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Because I was able just to kind of figure out what I had at home and figure out the associations with that I didn't feel like okay, I shoot I have to go to some metaphysical shop and buy all these herbs I don't know anything about and I have to look all these things up and I mean I still had to do that with kitchen witchery, but I was easier because I had a whole bunch of herbs in my house already I'm Spanish.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I have a lot
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was engaging and just having a sort of magical practice with something that I was already really comfortable doing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I really like cooking.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not a professional or anything, but like there are certain things I make every year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I like to cook.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a way I like to show love and...
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It would just seem very easy for me to incorporate this into my practice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And now I also know there may be people who are listening who have never even touched a stove.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, my joke that they burn cereal and, you know, dry out bread or whatever.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I want to iterate that re-emphasize that like this is something that can be accessible for those who have access to a question, who have access to items in the kitchen and so this episode is for you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So really kitchen witchery is about working with what you already have as I mentioned.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So herbs, spices and ingredients, your own energy, whatever mixing ingredients you have.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it's pretty easy to get started.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So some of the basic, very, very basic and beginner friendly ways that I would say to practice this are things like, I don't know, you've probably heard like stirring your coffee or tea or whatever you're drinking clockwise to invite in energy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: clarity, or love, or peace, or something that you're wanting to have throughout your day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or also, alternatively, counterclockwise, so do things like banishing, like banishing, stress, banishing, and emotion, banishing negativity, whatever it is that you may be trying to get rid of or just cleanse yourself of as you then ingest this item.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can take this a step further by thinking of the magical properties of whatever it is that you are including in your beverage.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So let's say you are having some coffee, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or some tea.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And instead of just, you know, adding some creamer or some sugar and just like, you know, stirring clockwise because I want to bring in some clarity into my day, some alertness into my day, which
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The caffeine will help if you're drinking a caffeinated beverage.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You could do things like when you add in the sugar.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What are the associations with that?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you sweetening up your day?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you stirring that in a certain way?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When you add maybe some honey.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you adding it in the shape of a star?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you like drawing it out with?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever you're using to pour the honey into your drink.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The same thing with your milk.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you adding that in a counterclockwise way?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Are you banishing something?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll also try to bring something else.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so, for example, trying to bring a clarity, but then trying to banish negativity, so these opposing forces, you can also just kind of look into just other things that you may add to your tea, some people, add actual cinnamon sticks instead of just the cinnamon powder, like I mentioned earlier, some people might even throw in a star niece in there, which has its own properties, if you associate the star as a pentagram, you're throwing into your drink.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It might have an intense taste, but that's a different story.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: household staples, which I'll get into at a moment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I kind of touched upon this when adding the honey to your beverage, but drawing sigils into your food is probably one of the biggest things that I like to do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then this may have a little bit of some background or like some work that you need to do before you actually add the sigil, you need to create the sigil.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now for those who don't know what a sigil is, I do have an episode on that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was one of my very first episodes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it was,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: season two episode six called sigild and hiding your witchcraft practice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A sigild in a very quick way of explaining that is essentially some sort of symbol or figure that you create that is supposed to match up with a phrase of some sort that has a magical working behind it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So for example, if you were to say or you wanted to engage in some sort of spellwork that had a phrase,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And that's important when you do schedules you want to have it say what you want, but you need to have it in, like, as if it is currently happening.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is kind of off topic for the rest of the episode, but essentially like, yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So you'll have a schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The words will say, I am employed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's a couple different ways to make a schedule.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can either take all the repeating letters out, only keep the vowels.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You could take all the repeating letters out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: take also the vowels out and just have whatever's left, and then if you have a couple letters, you can kind of like frink and styling those letters together into a symbol that looks kind of cool.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can also match it up to an alphabet that you put numbers on and kind of trace the letters that are left to
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the alphabet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a whole bunch of ways to do a sigil.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, a podcast is not the easiest way to explain what this is because it's really a visual thing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So if you're interested in that, I would say check out the episode that I did back in March 2020.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe I'll do an updated episode on this, which I swore I did one sooner than 2020, but anyhow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Once you understand what a sigil is, you can draw these figures into your food.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can press it into
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  [SPEAKER_00]: the crust of a pie that you're making on the bottom where no one's going to see it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You could take your serving stupune and you can draw it in as you are mixing your soup in your pot.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is actually something I do a lot, but I will say that you can also do this without sigils.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You could do this with just different symbols, like a pentagram, you can put a
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  [SPEAKER_00]: planetary sigil or simple, you could even just put an invoking pentagram, banishing pentagram, just a regular pentagram pentacle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of different things you could put.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can even write out literally the letter of like the letters of a phrase or a spell that you want to happen into your bowl.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So if you're mixing soup again.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to say, I am employed or whatever you can literally go, I AM with your spoon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry you can't see me but I'm acting it out in person right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So there's a lot of different things that you could do when tracing this visual with.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: whatever you're cooking with into like a dough or with your spoon or with a fork or knife or whatever it is, if you already have some food that's prepared or let's say you're not a big cook and you like to purchase your food, you could also trace it in the air above your food and press that energy down into what you are going to be consuming.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is something that I have done as well.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Another option for people who are not cooks could be, let's say you're just a peanut butter and jelly type of person.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's all you can make is that type of sandwich.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you could trace out the jelly onto your peanut butter and jelly into a sigil or a simple or a certain way, or if you have the peanut butter, you could take like a knife or a kabob stick or whatever it is that you have and you could trace a sigil or symbol into the peanut butter itself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it doesn't have to be that you have to be a cook to be able to engage in the sort of practice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: just know how to make a PB&J and be good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, a lot of different things you could do with that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Another thing when it comes to Kiddo which free that you could do to get started is when you were doing really mundane things like chopping up your vegetables, peeling your carrots or your potatoes or really just working with your food to create whatever meal that you want.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Think about enchanting those things that you are working with with whatever energy that you wanna bring to the meal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go back to soup because I'm sorry, and it's soup season, and I am just getting over a cold, so I've had a lot of soup the last two weeks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you are making some soup, for example, you can cut up your celery, cut up your onion, and think about like the healing and the love, and the...
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  [SPEAKER_00]: energy and the strength that you're putting into those things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I really feel like if you make food with love, I really think that you could taste it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're getting some food that's not really made with love or make it in generically, sometimes taste that too.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So those are some things I would do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just really when you are in the kitchen, if you were trying to enchant a whole meal, for example, with whatever energy you're working with, I would go into your meal with that in mind.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: turn it into a ritual, get into that ritual mindset, play some specific music, burn some incense if you want.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Preferably not right next to the food, but like whatever you need to do to really get you in the zone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And as you're chopping, just think of these energies as you're basting and broiling, whatever it is, keep that ritual energy flowing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So here is another one, you could bless your food.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, that's pretty self-explanatory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can bless it with gratitude.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can put an intention into it before you eat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is a great way to enchant the food you're eating.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then this one is controversial.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I will just say it because it is also very accessible for people, but you can make it moonwater.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So for those who don't know moon water is it's water that you put up side under the full moon or you could Obviously use any phase of the moon depending on what properties you're gonna get and the moon Make sure the moon raised are going through your water and then before the sun comes out when the moon is Just about to go out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can take that water and use it in your cooking Obviously want to make sure it's fresh and clean if you're putting it outside or on a window So you can do the same with the sun honestly you can make sun water.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's controversial a lot of people
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Say that they think move water is not like a real thing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Honestly, I don't really mind I don't I don't have a real a real opinion Water of people making or not.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know I've made it especially when I was first starting out in my journey That was something that I felt was very easy for me to do to really feel connected to the craft and and really have just like these stepping stones and to my confidence as to what I was doing And I used to want wound water in my actual so
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have any opinion on it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's accessible and I think it's great and easy for people to use.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of people who do have negative connotations or opinions about it because they might think it's like whatever.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I will say that some of the best tea that I have ever had has been Sun tea, which is tea that is made by putting a bunch of tea bags into a picture and sitting it out into the hot sun and letting it infuse with the sun.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know a lot of that has to do with the heat, but I'm just saying it is some of the best he ever had, and I feel special when I drink it, so that's what I'm going to say about that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, so I'm going to take a short break, and I'll be right back in just a second.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, and welcome back.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ultimately, Kitchen Magic is all about looking into the magical properties of things that you already have, or it can easily get, and just like
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  [SPEAKER_00]: seeing how you confuse all these things together to get the outcome that you'd like in a spell or really just enhance your food in a magical way that makes you feel good and makes you feel like you have an outcome that you can get from it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So that said, let's talk about some pretty basic magical correspondences for some herbs that you probably have in your pantry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the most basic ones are going to be salt, could be used for a purification or protection
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  [SPEAKER_00]: clarity or healing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I will say that Rose Mary in my opinion is not a substitute for any ingredient in a spell.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of people online will say oh well if you don't have X, Y and so you can use Rosemary.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that is true and let me tell you why.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One, first of all, why Rosemary?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like what is Rosemary good to be special?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's a great herb, but like, come on.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Second, the way I look at it is like this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this was something I believe in guests of mine, so I don't know podcasts a couple years ago.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to say it might have been TJ, but maybe not.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, the reason why I don't think that Rosemary can be used in place of anything in a spell is because when you're doing a spell, you are using certain items that have certain correspondences to them and you're bringing them together.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is, of course, if you're using a spell that requires ingredients other than just yourself and energy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let's say you're making an incense blend or something or you're doing your spell and you're using the certain ingredients for it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On the other hand, let's compare this to cooking because we're talking about kitchen witchery.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you were to be making chili and you ran out of chili powder or cumin,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to use Rosemary just because everybody says you could use an in place.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Like, it doesn't work that way.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to need to get something that's similar tasting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe a little bit of cayenne pepper.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's a little different, but kind of similar.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to need something that's similar to what you're actually using it for.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now Rosemary can be used in place of what's a maybe a very similar herb.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So maybe something like Juniper, if you are looking for protection from
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  [SPEAKER_00]: what the Rosemary is for or be leaf or even time or pine, things like that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, I don't think that Rosemary itself is a replacement for just anything in a spell.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is my opinion.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is my practice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If people work in other ways, that's totally valid, totally fine, but just mind you sense on it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Anyways, some other ones that people probably have in their pantry would be things like cinnamon, whether you have the sticks or the powder, this could be used.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or for love, passion, prosperity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you are going to be using cinnamon and some sort of working that does not involve cooking with it, well, let's say you want to include it in some sort of spell work that you're doing that has nothing to do with something edible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Cinnamon will spark if you have it on fire.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So be careful, do not set cinnamon on fire.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We know we don't want anybody burning their homes down,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Basil, a lot of people have dried basil in their pantry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This could be used for abundance or protection or peace, honey, of course, can be used for sweetness, attraction, love, garlic, amuse or protection and banishing negativity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to say it was a basil who came out a lot a long time ago and said that he'd used garlic in an instance of his.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think he used the garlic skins.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm pretty sure he said it was like toxic to breathe in or something and he had a reaction to it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, um,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Just be careful.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you don't burn garlic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that would smell great anyway, but maybe that's because I don't know you banish things And maybe I need to be banished with the smell of burning garlic This must be joking.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I love garlic, but funny things like that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Another thing that I really like using as spell work is
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  [SPEAKER_00]: ground coffee, especially caffeinated coffee.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I have both decaf and regular in my home, but I really like using coffee in spells to speed up the outcome of things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So if I'm doing a freezer spell, I may use something like salt to purify.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I might add some lemon to kind of,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and have a secondary purification element of the insult.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then I might add some honey to sweeten things up and then I will add a shit ton of coffee to speed up the outcome that I am wanting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This may sound counter intuitive.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: if I'm doing a freezer spell, trying to slow things down, putting somebody in my freezer and then adding coffee.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And all these other things, however, it's worth great for me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So just a little bit of insight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, these are just some really basic things that you most likely have in your pantry.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm about to give a real odd one, like I said, I'm Spanish.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you have a dobo in your pantry, that can be used for a lot of things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A dobo, depending on the brand that you have, I'm low to goya here in my home, but a dobo has garlic on you and black pepper.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it could have citrus, sometimes it has turmeric or paprika.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It could have a whole lot of things.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It could do things like magically speaking.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You could be using a protection field as shielding energetically.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Purification, you could use it for confidence, for a blessing, for warmth, for prosperity, for stability.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So like all together, Adobe can be used as like a protective cleansing, energizing home blessing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Seasoning that can boost your personal power and move your energy forward and man I mean, I don't know about you, but that sounds like something I might be blowing into my door on the first day of the year in 2026 I really think that was solidify just my heritage, but also
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It has all of these different things it could be used for.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you look at the ingredients separately, that are all combined.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, typically, if you're going to be using a lot of different ingredients for kitchen which you're eating.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes you want to just kind of focus on whatever you're using, so maybe...
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  [SPEAKER_00]: in a different situation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't use all of these at one time, but I drove those great.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And so, just put them that out there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is one option for you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, that is my other hot take of the day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I kind of mentioned this earlier about setting the mood.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, the kitchen itself can be a pretty sacred space.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I mentioned getting it to the virtual mindset, burning in sense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You could play some music.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can light a candle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can also have some sort of thing that you're chanting or intoning when you are engaging in this sort of practice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can place a protective charm by your food, by your stove.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You really don't need any fancy tools with kitchen witchery.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's really just about like what you have and what you could do with it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now that said there are a couple other things that I would keep in mind with kitchen witchery is that
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the cool things about it is that you can align your spellwork or what your kitchen wich in.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: With the seasons or the moon freight phases, so now in winter, as most of us know, things like soups, stews, and teas, and baked goods, offer comfort, and protection.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These are great to make, I mean, who doesn't love
• 18:52
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I stew when it's cold outside if you a little bit of place like it's cold in the winter like I do later on next year in the spring We might work with more florally types of ingredients for growth renewal We might work with a lot of greenery where things like edible lavender lots of things like that summer Of course we can use a lot of fresh fruits to bring in joint abundance or using things like citrus for energy and then autumn is great for things like root vegetables I mean
• 19:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Pumpkins too warming spices.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of different things you could do to align with the seasons, with the sabots, with the moon phases.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The moon phases can guide your cooking too.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you could cook certain things for intentions, for charging energy during maybe the full moon, maybe for the waiting moon, you were releasing something, waxing when you're trying to grow something and you could look at the herbs that you have in your kitchen or the ingredients that you
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and say, okay, which of these really aligns with something?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So for example, I want to have some love be brought into my life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So what would be a good moon phase to make some sort of like self-love tea?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So that could be something like the waxing moon.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You're trying to grow some self-love.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or the new moon you're trying to have an intention of
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  [SPEAKER_00]: growing this love.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can add a lot of honey to your tea.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can add some rose petals to your tea.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: See what you have in your kitchen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know not everybody eats rose petals, but honestly I went to New Orleans over the year.
• 20:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry, this is all topic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I went to New Orleans earlier this year and I went to a restaurant that had a
• 20:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: freeze, dried rose petal, as part of a dessert.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, it was one of the best things I've ever eaten.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't even realize it was rose.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We had to look back at the menu to figure out what it was.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it was incredible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, that's it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're going to be eating rose, make sure it's safe to eat and not having pesticides on it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But anyway.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of different things you could do.
• 20:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: I know there's a lot of different books and I was guilty of buying a lot of these books when I was first coming into my practice of different kitchen witchcraft recipes for the seasons.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I like them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They're good as a guide.
• 20:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: I have not used them in a number of years at this point because if I'm going to be engaging in kitchen witchcraft,
• 21:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna pick a pun, a little bit more seasoned, like white, that's supposed to look like now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But, they're great.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of different ones out there.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to give a specific book because honestly, there's probably like hundreds of different options out there of cooking for the seasons in turning like entune with the sabbits, but these are good to kind of figure out if you're really new on this and you want to have just like a guide to look at.
• 21:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I would recommend just going on Amazon and looking into some of those books.
• 21:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: What I think I'll do is I will link just a couple of books online based on what I have on myself and I'll put that in the episode description, but these are just some book ideas to get you started.
• 21:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not necessarily endorsing one book or another, but if you need some help kind of narrowing some down, I'll put some in that episode description if you want to check this out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That said, you can just start small.
• 21:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to overhaul your entire kitchen for kitchen witchcraft, even making a cup of tea with intention can be a magical act.
• 21:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: This is something that you could do very secretly, very privately, if you live in a shared space or you're not very open.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or if you don't want others to really know what you're doing, nobody's gonna question you if you're storing your tea a certain way.
• 22:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: It'd be kind of fun.
• 22:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: I've mentioned this with the books, like there's a lot of books you couldn't use that use guides to have recipes and stuff, but making your own kitchen grimoire,
• 22:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: like it would be kind of cool.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And if anybody ever found it, you could just say, oh, it's a cookbook.
• 22:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's kind of fun.
• 22:23
  [SPEAKER_00]: You can take an inventory of what you may have in your pantry and write down the magical correspondence as a properties of each.
• 22:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Also different meals that you have been able to associate different spells with.
• 22:33
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then going back, you can jot down like what happened the outcomes of these spelled meals.
• 22:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of cool things you could do with this.
• 22:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you are going to do this, I would make sure you
• 22:44
  [SPEAKER_00]: clean your kitchen first, not just spiritually, not just energetically, but I mean, physically, you know, clean counters are great for your health and also could help wife away stagnant energy and you can even turn that into a ritual too.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If you're dusting away in the corners or wiping down your counters, sing a little on chantment and imagine any negativity or stagnant energy just being slept away.
• 23:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of different tips out there for
• 23:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: kitchen witchery.
• 23:09
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I would just say like you know, kitchen witch magic just reminds us that the everyday can be sacred like what we do in our lives.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We can make a magical.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You don't need to wait for a full moon or a ritual circle.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You could just show up and do your little spell and then chant what you were eating.
• 23:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just
• 23:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a really sustainable and easy way to get involved with witchcraft without having to make a big production into it.
• 23:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: So that's a little bit about kitchen magic and kitchen witchery.
• 23:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you guys enjoyed this solo episode.
• 23:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: It was actually kind of fun to do this.
• 23:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: I have not had a solo episode in quite some time, so this was actually quite fun.
• 23:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: even though I am a little sick doing this, but any who it was really great to have this episode if anybody's listening and this is your first time listening to me welcome.
• 23:57
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• 24:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to connect socially, I do have a personal Instagram
• 24:14
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• 24:20
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you guys so much for listening.
• 24:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you enjoyed and enjoy your kitchen with you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bye.