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I might try this someday

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Sweet Cream Buns

This recipe was given to me by a friend awhile ago, and I feel it needs a little more appreciation. They’re super easy to make and are tasty too!

I feel one thing a kitchen witch has to master is their ability to make all sorts of bread. It’s such a staple, and is so versatile. Not to mention how much of a crowd pleaser it is.

This recipe is a tasty bun, that when bitten into, oozes vanilla custard. Whenever I make these, they are gone in the first ten minutes. I tweaked this recipe from one of my good friends who enlightened me on this yummy recipe. I highly recommend you to try these for yourself!

Now in this recipe I will be showing you three fillings that I’m sure you will love!

- Vanilla Custard

- Chocolate coffee cream

- Brown sugar maple custard

Ingredients

For the Dough

½ cup all-purpose flour

½ cup bread flour

1 cup cake flour

A sprinkle of sea salt

1/3 cup sugar

1 packet of dry yeast

½ cup warm almond milk (Or any type of milk)

2 tbsp heavy cream

1 egg

3 tbsp butter

For the Vanilla Custard

5 tbsp sugar

2 ½ tbsp flour

3 egg yolks

1 cup whole milk

1 Tablespoon butter

Vanilla Bean

Vanilla Extract 

For the Chocolate Coffee Cream

6 tbsp sugar

3 tbsp flour

3 egg yolks

½ cup whole milk

1 Tablespoon butter

¼ cup expresso/ brewed coffee

Milk chocolate/ dark chocolate/ Semi-sweet chocolate (Its up to you)

For the Maple Syrup Custard

5 tbsp brown sugar

3 tbsp maple syrup

2 ½ tbsp flour

3 egg yolks

1 cup whole milk

1 Tablespoon butter

Directions

To prepare: Set your butter and eggs out 10 minutes before you start so they enough time to come to room temperature. 

Start by filling a measuring cup with your milk and heat in your microwave for about 20 seconds, or until when you stick a (clean) finger in, it is just warm. If it is too hot, it will kill your yeast mixture. Add your dry yeast in and stir. Let it sit for 10 minutes to bloom.

Next, in a kitchen aid (If you have one) attach the dough hook and mix your flour, salt and sugar together. Now crack an egg into the yeast mixture and add it to the kitchen aid bowl on low speed. Add in warmed cream. Let the dough hook do its magic on medium low speed until the dough is very smooth and elastic.

Add in your butter 1 tablespoon at a time and let it mix until completely smooth. About 4-5 minutes.

Oil a bowl with some neutral oil, or with some butter and place the kneaded dough ball into the bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and place in oven with the light on, or in a warm area.

Leave it to rise for 2 hours, or until doubled in size. 

Ok, so now poke your dough and let the gas leak out from the dough. Cut it into equal sized pieces and place cling wrap on it and let it rise for another 15 minutes or more.

In the 15 minutes, now is the time to make your custard cream. On high heat, add your milk and butter and let it come to a boil. Then turn down your heat and whisk in sugar, egg, and flour. Add in your additives (Vanilla, maple syrup. etc.) and mix on low heat until it has reached a thick pudding like consistency. About 6-12 minutes. If you are doing chocolate, here is the time to melt your chocolate in, when it is off the heat. Let it cool completely.

With a rolling pin roll out the pieces of dough and place a dollop of custard in the center. Fold them over and press/pinch the sides together. Repeat the process until all of them are like this.

Place them on a tray and wrap cling wrap over them. Let them proof for about an hour, or until they’ve doubled in size again.

Now with a nonstick pan on medium low heat, place the bun in the pan and cover with lid. Cook each side for about 5 minutes, or until it is a nice golden brown. You can also cook this in an oven. 400 F for 8-15 minutes.

Now your done! Enjoy this hot and cold, they are tasty either way. It will be a little crispy when hot and soft when cold. 

I hope you enjoy this recipe!

Tips for the Kitchen Witch

Happiness Will Come To You.

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I AM GOING TO REACH MY FITNESS GOALS IN 2020.

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If you’re reading this, good luck will befall you and you will receive some good news within a week’s time.

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I'm finally done with cleansing my home and now I'm filling it with winter blends and spices to welcome the blessings.

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a self love emoji spell

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may your inner confidence be strengthened, may all negative thoughts be put to rest

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may you be at peace with your heritage, your melanin, and your roots

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may positive energies and healing rays of light permeate your deepest wounds in the darkest of places

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may you rejoice in self love

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🦋 HAIRCARE GLAMOURS 🦋

From the Academy of Aphrodite

Taking care of your hair is an important step of beauty magick- hair that is soft and silky and glowing with vitality is a sign of a healthy body.

When we work on our hair, there are 3 main things we pay attention to -

🦋 washing and rinses 🦋 scalp massage 🦋 brushing

✨Homemade Shampoo and Rinses are a great way to add intent into your hair routine. Wash hair as usual and rinse with infused water- bonus if it’s storm, rain or moon water.

✨If you’re struggling with damaged hair or dry scalp, an enchanted hot oil treatment can work wonders! The recipe above invokes Athena for wisdom and a clear head.

✨ After your hair is washed, burning incense next to your damp hair and letting the smoke permeate it will leave it smelling sweet. Use an incense that corresponds with the glamour you want to cast.

✨ Spraying your favorite perfume onto your hairbrush before washing is another way to subtly perfume your hair.

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♥ perfume oil asks. ♥

acai berry: what is something you’ve always wanted to try but have been too scared to?

aloe botanic: are you always up to date on the latest fashion trends? do you switch up your look often?

bay rum: if you drink, do you have self control with it?

cilantro: describe the perfect dinner.

earth: what is your strongest personality quality?

egyptian musk: how do you respond to people flirting with you? do you enjoy it?

forest rain: how long do you think you could survive in the wilderness?

french vanilla: what does love feel like to you?

fresh cut grass: when the weather is warm, what activities do you do outside?

ginger lily: do you think you have maternal instincts? if someone needs to be taken care of, do you take up the task?

honeydew: describe an ideal day out with a friend.

ivy: what are three albums that really define you or have shaped you as a person?

lavender: do take therapeutic baths after a long day? if so, what do you put in them?

lemon verbana: do you believe in “forgive and forget”?

passion flower: when you have a crush on someone, how do you show it?

patchouli: if you could only keep five possessions, what would they be?

pine needles: how do you break bad news to someone?

plum blossom: how do you dance to your favorite song?

rain: is it easy for you to bounce back after being sad? do you hang on to your sadness?

sage: if you could give someone one piece of life advice, what would it be?

sea mist: how would your friends describe you?

white ginger: if money wasn’t a concern, how would you decorate your room?

emoji spell to effortlessly maintain your ideal body and weight

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So...no one's going to mention the angel in the bottom right corner of the first picture looking mad petty?

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They would play the craft before a full moon, not that I'm complaining.

“2020 smells like healing, transformation, blessings and success.”

— Alejandra

Emoji spell for extreme good luck for the next two months

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❤️💖 spell to bring romance into your life and influence your crush to like you back 💖❤️

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“love will come to me,

it will be us, you and me,

i mote it so to be”

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Transit Saturn Questions

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?

How I Germinate Difficult Seeds

So ever since I was little and started growing my own plants, I had an elementary school teacher who taught me this method that would pretty much guarantee that the seeds I planted would sprout. Since I’m trying to grow some more difficult plants and herbs this year just sticking them in the dirt wouldn’t get them to sprout for me, so I’ve been using this method for even the easier plants to grow and it works great!

First, cut out a little square of paper towel (bleached or unbleached works) and make sure it will fit into a small plastic snack bag (I reuse these!)

Wet the paper towel so it’s slightly damp and arrange the seeds as far apart as you want them to be. Label as you see fit. Place the damp paper towel with the seeds in the plastic bag in a sunny spot.

Once the seeds sprout, very carefully place them in a seed pot with appropriate soil! And you’re done! That’s it! The roots will grow through the paper towel and the towel will break down over time :)

I hope this method works for you if you have trouble getting plants to grow! Happy growing! ✨🌱

🍳Taste Correspondences☕

As a kitchen witch, flavor is a very important component in my practice. Certain spells aimed towards particular needs dictate what something should taste like; we know what foods we associate with what need, here I just list what tastes are therefore associated with those particular needs.

There are eight kinds of tastes: sweet, salty, sour, bitter, savory, menthol (ingredients that cause a cooling sensation, such as mint), spicy (ingredients that cause a hot sensation, such as pepper) and dry (ingredients that cause a dry sensation in the mouth, such as certain wines). 

Anxiety Relief: Sweet, Menthol, Bitter

Banishing: Salty, Bitter, Spicy

Beauty: Sweet, Dry

Calming: Menthol

Cleansing: Sour, Bitter, Menthol, Spicy, Salty

Creativity: Sweet, Savory, Spicy, Dry

Depression: Sweet, Menthol, Dry

Energy: Salty, Savory

Happiness: Sweet, Savory, Spicy

Healing: Sweet, Sour, Spicy, Dry

Love: Sweet, Spicy

Luck: Menthol, Savory, Spicy

Memory: Sour, Bitter, Menthol

Motivation: Savory

Pain Relief: Menthol, Spicy

Protection: Salty, Spicy

Sleep: Bitter, Menthol

Success: Sweet, Savory

Gardens of the Witches

Already starting to plan this years garden so I thought I should do a post on Witch Gardens

Moonlight Garden

A garden that blooms in the moonlight, a great place to perform night time rituals, meditations, or to just take a midnight stroll. A garden that is full of magick even after the sun sets. 

Plants to add in your moonlight garden:

Moonflower: (Ipomoea alba) A nocturnal relative of the morning glory. Has fragrant flowers that open at dusk and close by dawn.    

Evening Primrose: (Oenothera biennis) Has beautiful, scented flowers that bloom only at dusk. 

Night Flox: (Zaluzianskya capensis) A sweetly fragranced flower that only unfurls its pinwheeled shaped flowers after dusk. 

Four O’Clock: (Mirabilis jalapa) Its scented flowers bloom at around 4:00pm (hence its name) and do not close up until morning. 

Queen of the Night: (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) A species of cactus whose flowers only open at night. Attracts moths and bats!!!

Night Blooming Jessamine: (Cestrum nocturnum) Strong, sweet scented star shaped flowers that only bloom at night. Attracts moths and bats!!! All parts are toxic, do not ingest!

Angel’s Trumpet: (Brugmansia) Produces a strong scent on warm summer evenings. All parts are toxic, do not ingest!

Evening Stock: (Matthiola longipetala) Produces lots of small blossoms that produce a perfume described as a mix of vanilla, rose, spice, and cloves only after the sun sets.

Ever-Flowering Gladiolus: (Gladiolus tristis) Release a strong almond fragrance after dusk.  

Lilac: (Syringa vulgaris) Although has a perfume during the day, it is said to be a lot stronger after dark. 

Flowering Tobacco: (Nicotiana) Open in the late afternoon and have a fragrance that smells of jasmine. All parts are toxic if ingested!

Summer Snapdragon: (Angelonia angustifolia) Preferably in white, to reflect the moonlight. Has a scent apple-scented foliage. 

Silvermound: (Artemisia schmidtiana) Has thick foliage that will shimmer under the moonlight.

Jack Frost: (Brunnera macrophylla) Hdeart shaped leaves of silver and green, perfect to add more highlights of silver to your moon lit garden. 

Any plant that blooms after dark or has white, lavender, pale pink, pale yellow on it is a perfect addition to your moonlight garden. 

Things to add:

Stepping stones that have the phases of the moon.

Fairy lights

A place to sit

Candles

A small fountain to sing along with the insects and birds of the night

String charms and bells on tree branches for a soft jingling every time a gentle breeze passes. 

Herb Garden

For witches who need a more practical garden for uses of healing, tea crafting, drying, and growing plants used in their practices.

Plants to add to your herb garden:

Anise: Helps to ward of the evil eye, find happiness, and stimulates psychic abilities. 

Basil: Use for anything pertaining with love, exorcism, wealth, sympathy, and protection. Dispels confusion, fears & weakness. Drives off hostile spirits.

Bergamont: Corresponds with money and prosperity. Provides with protection from evil and illness, improves memory, stops interference, and promotes restful sleep.

Borage: Corresponds with courage and psychic powers. 

Cat Nip: Is sacred to the Goddess Bast. Brings forth beauty, happiness, good luck, and good spirits.

Chamomile: Corresponds with love, healing, and sleep. Is known to reduce stress.

Chervil: Brings a sense of the higher self, placing you in touch with your divine, immortal spirit.

Coriander: Corresponds with love, health, immortality, and protection.

Dill: Corresponds with money, protection, luck and lust. 

Lemon Balm: Corresponds with love, success, healing, and psychic/spiritual development. 

Marjoram: Used to cleanse, purify, and to dispel negative energy.  

Mint: Promotes energy, communication and vitality.

Oregano: Corresponds with joy, strength, vitality, and added energy 

Parsley: Calms and protects the home.

Rosemary: Protects, cleanses, purifies, and aids memory. 

Sage: Used for self purification and dealing with grief and loss.

Thyme: Attracts loyalty, affection, and the good opinion of others.

Things to add:

A place to dry herbs

A place to compost any herb scraps

Rocks

A place to leave offerings before you harvest

Bee Garden

Make yourself a sanctuary to watch bees frolic and thrive

Plants to add to your bee garden:

Bee balm

Lavender

Crocus

Snow Drop

Wildflowers/Any native species

Catmint

Borage

Anise hyssop

Heliotrope

Sunflower

Oregano

Yarrow

Coneflower

Black eyed susan

Asters

Goldenrod

Foxglove

Marigold

Pansies

Sweet peas

Nasturtiums

Things to add:

Bee houses

Bee waterers/bee baths

Bee feeders

A place for offerings to the bees

Some other ideas for your garden:

Hummingbird garden

Medicinal garden

A garden whose plants and decorations represent/correspond with your practice.

Butterfly Garden

Faerie Garden 

The options are endless! I hope this gives you some ideas for this years garden.

Happy planting!

==Moonlight Academy==

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How I Dry Herbs and Flowers

I was asked recently how to I like to dry my flowers, and my explanation just got longer and longer, so I decided to make it a post. These are my personal methods, but they’re certainly not unique to me!

Hanging

Hanging is one of my favorite methods, especially for full-bodied flowers that won’t press well, like roses or baby’s breath. Hanging works with nearly everything I’ve done it with! Example: roses, lavender, basil.

It’s super easy! Take your flowers or stems of leafy herbs and cut them so they’re about the same length. I usually do about a foot, but if you have at least 8-ish inches, it should be good! When cutting from a larger plant, cut diagonally to protect the original plant. If drying flowers, strip off any excess leaves. 

Then get some twine or rubber bands and bundle them together, like max 7 per bundle, less if you want to play it safe, but it really depends on what you’re drying. Wrap the twine / rubber band once or twice around the end of the bundle that doesn’t have the flowers on it, then once or twice around each individual stem. 

Hang upside-down in a cool, dry place with decent air circulation. If you care about keeping the colors, hang them in a place away from sunlight, which will bleach out the colors. Check back once every week or so until dry, usually 2-3 weeks.

Pressing

Pressing is better for flat flowers or individual petals. This is a little too tedious for herbs. If using full flowers, cut as much of the stem off as possible unless it’s really thin. If drying individual petals, just pluck them off the flower. 

You’ll need a large book or two flat surfaces and something very heavy. Place a few layers of paper towel (preferably without pattern) on one flat surface (or one side of an open book), lay out your flowers / petals in a single later on the paper towel, making sure they don’t overlap, and cover with more paper towel. Then place the other flat surface on top (or close the book). Put some heavy stuff on top. This takes about 2-3 weeks as well. Be careful when opening to check on them as the petals might move around. 

Oven

This is best for herbs that you need soon. You can also do with flower petals, though I don’t like doing it with full-body flowers because they can become flat on whatever side is pressed against the oven tray. 

Preheat your oven to it’s lowest temperature, usually 250 degrees F. Get an oven tray and cover with a sheet of parchment paper. Strip your herbs (sage, rosemary, thyme, basil) from the stems and lay them out in one layer. Place in the oven for about 30-40 minutes then take them out and give them a stir / flip. Bake for another 30 minutes, or until dry. Leave the oven door cracked open while drying to release moisture. 

What to do with your new dry stuff?

I like to use hung flowers for decorations… like wall hangings. You can also make potpourri, or burn them as an offering. There’s tons of other decorative uses! With flattened ones, I love gluing them into my notebook with a very, very thin layer of Mod Podge applied on the paper and on top of the petals / flowers. I’ve always wanted to put some in snail mail, but I never send mail. You could also frame them! Oven dried herbs are great for spells, cooking, etc. 

Make sure to store your dry herbs in an airtight container. 

I might have to do this someday

There’s magic within everyone and everything!

Dealing with a Toxic Parent

So, I rarely talk about myself because of embarrassment but here it goes...I'm 25, soon to be 26 this week and my mother constantly tells me that she'll have me committed to a mental health institution because I don't have a job and her criticism is making my depression, self worth and self esteem worse. I help out in the house as much as I can but it feels like it's not good enough for her. Before getting sick with an autoimmune disease called acne inversa, I tried going to the military but she told me that I couldn't go because I didn't pass the practice test... thinking about it now, she has halted everything that I wanted to do in life and talking to her about it is impossible because it becomes all about her and how I'm not ambitious enough for anything. I'm just tired of pleasing and trying for her to accept me fully.

I seriously need this in my life

I finally created the perfect rosewater…I can’t wait to use this in a bath and skincare routine. (I also added honey for an extra for softer skin.)

I felt disrespected from the crossfire. I think there were a lot of causalities from this...shame on you both.

Dear management, I need this to STAHP!! This one shot war with cokowrites is detrimental to my health!! Im skressed!! 🤧🤧🤧 and yall evwn dared throwing jackson in the mix this is not ok!!! -A constantly attacked mutual

Now see, this was @cokowritesfics fault lol 

she started it!!

I felt extremely thirsty after that...

Kris Wu reading “Music” from Selected Poems of Percy Shelley