Food Magic

Food Magic

Another subtopic within plant magic.

Food magic is an especially delightful kind of witchcraft (one of my favorites).

Have you ever tasted fresh or candied ginger?
Can you imagine its sharp flavor tingling on your tongue,
burning gently yet also warming when steeped in a cup of tea at the height of winter?
And what about mango? With its juicy juice dripping in the peak of summer,
when the earth fills with sweet fruit trees and the body longs for cooling, sweet fruits.
Imagine what you could make from beautiful red strawberries, or perhaps from rosemary, with potent garlic or with cornmeal and rice scattered abundantly across the kitchen table, perfectly symbolizing the abundance we can bring into our lives.
Kitchen magic is one of the most sensual kinds of witchcraft I know.
It is a magic woven into our very lives, and it teaches us to delight in the body and to reach ecstasy through the connection to our own body.
Food magic is a gateway to the physical mysteries as well as a gateway to the energetic mysteries –
it bridges the pleasure found in eating with the pleasure and power experienced during a ritual. In a certain sense, food magic is a tantric process taking place between us and the world.
But how can we use food magic to achieve inner or outer goals?
Let us look at a classic approach.

1. To create food magic, we begin by choosing the raw ingredients we will work with
   and by choosing the intention for which we perform the magic.
   For example, let us choose “emotional healing” as our intention, and as our base ingredient let us choose warming red rooibos tea.
2. We take the raw ingredients and bless them with the energy of our intention
   (for example: “I bless the tea before me with the energy of self-love and healing,”
   while we imagine a white, pure energy being absorbed into the liquid).
3. We prepare the recipe with full focus on our intention.
   Remember that focus is what creates the magic; full focus on our intention will make the magic work.
4. Finally, we eat the dish with full attention, imagining the energy we have created flowing down through our body.
   We imagine the energy we sent into the food being absorbed into our body in order to create change.
5. We give thanks to the gods, the goddesses, or ourselves for the change we have brought into our lives.

From “The Witch and the Moon Dance – A Practical Guide to the World of Magic / Elizabeth Zohar

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