Iroquois Good Luck Spell

The Iroquois believe our souls communicate to us through our dreams. This spell is best done with like-minded friends. Gather any objects that appear in your dreams from January 1st to January 10th. It is believed that if you find the objects in your dreams, good luck will be yours for the year because you have given your soul what it desires. On the night of the January 10, share a potluck feast with your friends. Set the table with a purple cloth for intuition and with a green candle for luck. Have everyone bring the objects they have collected. Share your insights with each other.

~courtesy of Lily Gardner-Butts

Seeing Witches

The pith of the Elder branches when cut in round flat shapes and dipped in oil, lighted and then put to float in a glass of water; its light on Christmas Eve is thought to reveal all the witches and sorcerers in the neighborhood.

~Richard Folkard, 1884

Welsh Honey Cakes

Tiessennau Mel (Welsh Honey Cakes)

• 4 oz Honey
• 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• 4 oz Brown sugar
• 1 Egg
• 1/2 LB Flour
• 1/2 teaspoon Bicarbonate of soda
• 4 oz Butter
• Caster sugar
• A little milk

Sieve together flour, cinnamon and bicarbonate of soda. Cream butter and sugar. Separate the egg yolk from the white. Beat the yolk into sugar and butter, then add the honey, gradually. Stir in the flour with a little milk as required and mix all together lightly.

Whisk the egg white into a stiff froth and fold into mixture. Half fill small patty tins with the mixture; dredge the top of each with caster sugar. Bake in a hot oven (425 degrees)

It is not easy to be a Witch

It is not easy to be a Witch, a bender, a shaper, one of the Wise; nor is it safe, comfortable, "laid back", mellow, uplifting, or a guarantee of peace of mind. It requires openness, vulnerability, courage, and work. It gives no answers, only tasks to be done, and questions to consider.... It functions in those deeper ways of knowing which our culture has denied, and for which we hunger.

~Starhawk

Magic is

Magic is believing in yourself,
if you can do that,
you can make anything happen."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe