Regardless of whether you and your family celebrate Ostara, Easter, or dye eggs as a secular springtime activity, here are some ideas for dyeing eggs this year

Get PAAS kits from the dollar store.

Easy, foolproof, only $1 but there is a limited choice of colors in a kit. Odds are I’ll still buy a kit as a “backup measure” but I really want to spread my wings a little bit creatively this year.

Use water vinegar and food coloring.
1 cup boiling water
1 TBSP white vinegar
20 (or more) drops food coloring.

Add colors 1 drop at a time until you reach shade you desire.

Since I have boxes of both traditional food coloring and neon food coloring this one is a definate!! If nothing else I want to make some really vivid red eggs – not pink, not almost red, screaming red.

Use natural ingredients you probably have laying about the house.
1 cup of “dye”
2-3 tsp of white vinegar

Dye suggestions:
purple grape juice, your favorite vibrant hued herbal tea (steeped longer than you might ordinarily for drinking), red wine, black tea, green tea.

This is a maybe. Most of the sources I’ve read indicate a much longer soaking time that we are used to, up to overnight!!! But I may try it with a few eggs just to see how they come out.

Eggs as Magic

Use a white crayon to draw runes, symbols, words on your eggs before dyeing them.

Match the color(s) you dye your egg to its purpose.

Example of Layering:
- draw symbol on white egg – dip egg in yellow
- dry egg and draw symbol on now yellow egg – dip egg in red
- dry egg and draw symbol on now orange egg – dip egg in blue
- egg will be a muddy marbled tone, depending on luck, the whim of the Gods and other natural forces your egg will either look very cool or really awful, I get more of the former than the latter

Treat your “magical eggs” with a sense of reverence. Dry them lovingly. Eat them with true intent.

Egg magic is perfectly matched for any purpose associated with fertility, growth, new beginnings, and anything you want to see yourself “birth” in the coming months. However, it can work for any purpose. Feed yourself “self-love”, feed yourself “wisdom”, feed yourself “inspiration”.

Take it a step further. Break your goal/dream/wish down into a series of steps and eat one egg a day.

2 day spell: God and Goddess
3 day spell: Maiden, Mother, Crone
4 day spell: Earth, Aire, Fire, Water

For the next two please keep in mind that eggs are only considered safe to eat for 7 days after they are hard-boiled.

7 day spell: chakra opening
7 day spell: North, South, East, West, Above (connection to Divine and the world of spirit), Below (connection to the mundane world), Within (your innermost truth)

Wondering what to do with all those eggs you dyed? Again, pemember that they are only good for 1 week after you hardboil them.

Enjoy!

Mama Kelly

Written by Mama KellyTags:dyeing eggs, magic, Ostara, spells, spring, springtime

I was thinking about the pound cake recipe I posted yesterday and how it could, with the proper intent, be transformed into a thing of magic.

According to Scott Cunningham in his book Cunningham’s Encyclopedia of Wicca in the Kitchen, formally titled “The Magic in Food”, any cake or sweetened bread would be considered sacred to Venus and therefore suitable for any magic associated with love, friendship, peace, or happiness.  For our purposes today, lets say that this pound cake is to be made as part of a love spell.

Cooking with magical intent requires a certain amount of focus, beyond that normally used when cooking.  Some suggestions:

• light a white, pink or red candle
• sing or simply speak aloud over the food as you add each ingredient; you can simply say the word love over and over, you can sing your favorite love song or favorite Witchy chant
• stir only deosil (clockwise)
• just before you spoon the batter into the pan, make your final ”stir” a pentacle
• just before you place the pan into the oven raise it to the Gods and utter your request aloud, i.e. “May Susan find a good man who will make her happy.” or “May I find love again” or “May Sam and I find our way back to each other.”.  However you word your request follow with the words

“An’ it harm none, for the good of all, so mote it be”

To further enhance this cake toward the purpose of love:

• mark a heart in the top of each cup of sugar and flour before adding it to the mix
• replace the nutmeg with clove, or simply increase the cinnamon
• add 1 tsp of rose water
• add a handful of chocolate chips to the batter
• top cake slices with strawberries, chocolate drizzle, and maybe even a few pine nuts

Remember that for best results, the cake will be eaten with the same amount of focus that went into its preperation. 

Blessings

Mama Kelly

Note:

Ethical love spells are not directed toward a specific person.  In general you could give this to a friend, or eat it yourself, with the purpose of attracting love into your life.  However, in an already committed relationship serving a cake full of love energies is a perfectly acceptable way to reawaken that “loving feeling.”  However, it is never to be done in a way that manipulates someone.

Written by Mama KellyTags:love spell, spells