Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch

It is a chosen path filled with self-discovery, learning, and growth

it harm none, do what thou will.’ This means that as long as you do no harm to anyone or anything, including yourself, you may do anything that your heart desires and has the willpower to accomplish.

A good little exercise to do each day is to visualise your three selves in harmony. This will have a positive effect on how you feel. Spend a couple of minutes each day to bring the lower self to the middle self, the middle self to the higher self and the higher self to the lower self so that they all harmonise together.

we raise and direct energy when we work a spell, for instance a candle spell. We would take the energy from the Earth, channel it through our body and out through our hands and into a candle, this will charge the candle with energy. We add our intent and any other ‘ingredients’ such as herbs and oils. Once the candle is burning it releases the energy we filled it with, that energy then goes on its merry way to fulfil the intent that it was meant for.

The energy can then be directed. This can be done by sending it to the person you are healing, sending it out to the universe to be used where necessary, or when in ritual it is usually shaped into a cone of power

Energy can be raised in many ways, it can be drawn up from the Earth, it can be taken from the universe, and it can be raised by drumming, singing, chanting or dancing.

Part of being a witch is to be connected to the Earth, her plants and her creatures; to be aware of the energies around us so that we can connect and interact with them

The energy created by our bodies and by the spirit within our bodies is generally referred to as the aura. The energy that flows around and through our bodies is usually referred to as chi.

generally you are also the conduit, you summon the energy, you gather it, you add to it and you direct it.

Working with energy is really a combination. You can draw energy up from the Earth or from an item such as a crystal and you channel it through yourself, but you also add a bit of energy from your inner self as you do so