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Recipe: God is Truth vinegar

Ingredients:

  • Ouroboros vinegar (or white vinegar)
  • orange peels
  • three bay leaves

Process:

Write “truth,” “cleanse,” and “Psalm 51:6” on three bay leaves, add them to a mason jar with the orange peels, and 2/3 fill the jar with vinegar.

Heat up the mason jar in a pot of boiling water (or do a bay leaf cinnamon boil) for a few minutes, and then let it cool.

Uses:

  • cleaning/energy cleansing rituals
  • add to a new moon ritual bath
  • any spell to bless the beginning (or renewal) of a project
  • any spell in which you want to compel someone to confess the truth
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Spell: Hex a politician or powerful person

Ingredients:

  • small jar (make sure it’s one you have no interest in ever using again)
  • black or dark red candle
  • black salt or regular salt
  • black pepper
  • cayenne pepper
  • thieves vinegar or white vinegar

Process:

Write the name of the person in the center of a small piece of paper, or draw a sigil symbolizing the person.

In a circle around the name, write “Let his days be few; and let another take his office.” [*]

Fold the paper in half twice and put it in the jar with the other ingredients. Close the jar and shake it. It will fizz. Don’t freak out.

Set a candle on top of the jar and let it burn all the way down.

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Recipe: Ouroboros Vinegar

Updated on 3/29/2021: I’ve updated this recipe after a few months of experimentation. I think I’ve come up with a pretty solid basic recipe.

This vinegar is called Ouroboros for two reasons: 1. its ingredients are all recycled (the alcohol is left over from offerings to my spiritual court and the apple cores are left over from my minister’s offerings to himself) and 2. a critical ingredient, God is Mother, creates itself.

Ingredients:

  • 6 apple cores (or two apples cut into pieces or an analogous amount of fruit scraps)
  • 2 cups of water
  • 100mL (two shots) of rum or vodka
  • 50mL of God is Mother (or 1/2 cup of raw unpasteurized apple cider vinegar)

Process:

Add all ingredients to a mason jar. There should be enough liquid to cover the fruit. Cover the mouth of the jar with cheesecloth and secure with a rubber band to keep out pests.

After two weeks, remove the cheesecloth, strain out and discard the solids, and add the liquid back to the jar. Cover again with the cheesecloth.

Check the vinegar after 4 more weeks (it may take up to 3 months to fully convert), taste the vinegar for acidity.

Strain out the mother and keep it in a jar labeled “God is Mother” before bottling the vinegar. Start using the vinegar immediately, or age the vinegar for a year or more to mellow the flavors.

Recipe adapted from this source: DIY Pantry Staple: How To Make Fruit Vinegar

Uses:

  • use in any spell or recipe that requires white vinegar or apple cider vinegar

Observation:

I’ve poured all my experiments into a half gallon mason jar. I strained out the mother before I poured it, but another thinner mother formed in the half gallon jar.

This vinegar is SHARP. The sharpness doesn’t bother me, as I mostly don’t plan to consume any of it, but I understand that the longer you leave it alone, the less sharp it becomes.

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Full Moon in Cancer

The perpetual black candle on the living room altar burned itself out shortly after I woke up, and I’ve replaced it with a blue candle for the full moon in Cancer.

Right now I’m making more candles out of leftover wax. I melt the wax by heating up the candle holder in a pot full of boiling water. I wrote “self love,” “power,” and “worship” on three bay leaves, and they are boiling in the pot. I thought about adding “money” and “protection” but as of now, I have not. Black candles are already for protection, and I’m still in deliberation with Money about what I want from her. Once I’m done, I’ll dry out the bay leaves and burn them.

So far I’ve made:

  • five black prayer candles for the living room altar. It’s a multi-step process to make these prayer candles, but today I’ve finished five.
  • a Jupiter-Saturn candle which is black on the bottom and blue on top. I meant to make such a candle for the Great Conjunction, but that’s already past, so I’ll maybe burn it on New Year’s or some similar occasion.
  • three tea candle/votive sized black candles because I had some still left over. Not sure what I’ll do with these, but I’m sure I’ll find a use for them. Also, I didn’t really have enough wax for them, so they’re a little lacking. But that might be exactly what I need later.
  • three love/self-love candles which are pink on the bottom and white vanilla on top. I had intended only to make one, but I had a looooot of wax. I’ll give one to Matt. I don’t know what I’ll do with the third one.

As I’m doing this, I’m thinking about this full moon, which will be at 10:28pm tomorrow (well…today, actually… I need to be less confusing with my naming days, but I’m actually up late, not up early). Astrologers are saying this is the first full moon in Cancer that’s free of negative aspects in Capricorn in about three years, but Pluto is still in Capricorn. It’s not a direct conjunction to this full moon, but it will be within 3 degrees conjunct on my lunar return, which will be on the 31st. I don’t think it will be a negative aspect though. I think it will be important. It might hurt, but it will be long term transformative.

Chani Nicholas’ advice to me in her 2021 horoscope email is “What you are used to sacrificing won’t actually help you get to where you need to go now.” [*] For me, that’s my home, personal comfort, and other Cancer moon things. This is the full moon of remembering what not to sacrifice. I’ve noticed that doing something for the house stresses me out less than doing something for the outside world. In fact, I’ve noticed that I can calm down my anxiety about outside-world-work by stopping and switching to candle making or some other such activity. Sometimes I think I should ignore other work altogether, but that feeling never lasts terribly long.

I’ve decided that I need to find a way to integrate Psalm 139 into my daily life, more than just reading it on facebook live. I read Psalm 91 twice per day; once on live and once in front of my living room altar when I do my offerings. I should similarly have Psalm 139 be a twice daily phenomenon. For one, it would familiarize me with the text enough that I won’t stumble through it anymore. For two, it’s an incredibly powerful and important text, which is why I’m reading it on live. If it’s important enough for live, it’s important enough for another daily reading as well.

Also, this full moon I’m attempting to make herbal moon water and apple scrap vinegar. The former because why the fuck not, and the latter… well for the same reason. But also, I use vinegar in a lot of things. If I’m able to make it out of apple scraps, 1. I’ll save a bit of money buying vinegar and 2. everything made with a witch’s hands increases the magical potency.

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Recipe: God is Love Vinegar

Ingredients:

  • apple cider vinegar
  • orange peel
  • cinnamon
  • rosemary
  • parchment paper
  • sigil
  • jar

Process:

Put orange peel, cinnamon, and rosemary into a jar, and then fill up the jar with apple cider vinegar. Cover the top of the jar with parchment paper. This is important, as it will prevent the vinegar from corroding the lid of the jar. Set (or draw) a sigil on the parchment paper before putting on the lid. Put the jar away for at least one moon cycle.

Uses:

  • Add hot water and honey for a health tonic
  • Add to cosmetic mixes for glamour magic
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Recipe: Thieves Vinegar

This is a personal, spirit-led variation on the traditional Thieves Vinegar, made on the new moon (and solar eclipse) in Sagittarius. By the full moon (in Cancer) it should be ready to use.

Ingredients:

  • white vinegar
  • orange peel from 1 orange
  • rosemary (fresh, leftover from smudge making)
  • basil (some leftover from smudge making, some dried)
  • sage (left over from smudge making)
  • 7 bay leaves
  • worship sigil

Process:

Put orange peel, rosemary, basil, sage, and bay leaves into a jar. Fill the jar up with vinegar.

I’m considering adding cinnamon, but for now I will not.

In fact, as I’m typing this, it occurs to me that I can add my sigil to absorb some of the more chaotic energy. I covered the mouth of the jar with parchment paper before putting the lid on, and I can slip a sigil between the parchment paper and the lid.

Uses:

  • cleaning
  • any banishing spell that requires vinegar