Potions
Welcome to potions 101! Here you’ll learn the basics of what a potion is and how they can help you continue to move forward with your intentions. A potion is a liquid with healing, magical, or poisonous properties. They are made mindfully and may have specific rituals done while creating them. While brewing it’s important that you’re clear of your intentions of your potions. Maybe even chant during. In this article you’ll learn the types of potions there are as well as the steps to making them.
Types of Potions
Potion- mixed brew of ingredients that can be drunk easily.
Infusion- usually a tea. The ingredients are steeped in liquid. This potion can also be drunk directly.
Ointment- topical ointment. Intended for external use rather than internal.
Tools needed for brewing a potion:
Vessel for the ritual. Something for brewing stuff as a cast iron cauldron.
Wooden utensils to help you harness the earth element.
Ceremonial knife (optional. This is when following Wiccan rituals.)
Mortar and pestle for crushing/grinding ingredients.
You can charge your water and ingredients with crystals, the sun, and even the moon. The ingredients put in the potions depend on the intention of it. But some of them are herbs, fruits, and syrups while using a base.
Potion Bases
Water: cleanse and healing
Syrup (honey, agave, molasses, etc.): happiness and joy
Alcohol: longevity
Vinegar: change and transformation
Milk: love and nurture
Example: Intuition & Psychic Visions
A lovely cup of nourishment, this potion is a perfect pre-meditative or intuitive practice component. This potion can also be used to access the sleep and dream realm, where we journey each night to reconnect to our visioning power. Find that vibration in the waking realm with this delicious, drinkable potion. Lavender relaxes and opens the third eye, helping us to find the voice of our clairvoyance. Nutmeg allows us to realize our psychic abilities. Black pepper stimulates and invokes the properties of Lavender and Nutmeg, and energizes their spiritual connections. Milk brings these elements together and reflects the motherly essence of the moon.
Ingredients
6 oz. of milk/mylk of choice
2 oz. of Lavender tea
1 pinch of Nutmeg
1 pinch of Black pepper
1 pinch of Lavender flowers, dried or fresh
Directions
Make the Lavender tea. It’s easier to make a larger quantity, then measure out 2 oz for this potion, or to make a big batch of the potion! 2 tbsp of dried Lavender should be good for 8 oz of tea. Cover and let steep for at least 10 minutes, then strain and compost the flowers.
Heat the milk of your choice! We recommend Oat, but any will do.
Combine the tea and milk. Stir well, thinking or speaking aloud your intentions.
Sprinkle the Black pepper, Nutmeg, and Lavender flowers on top. Sip. Enjoy!
Drink nightly or on a Monday—the day ruled by the Moon, which connects us to our intuition, emotions, and the collective unconscious.
Opportunity & Abundance
This potion is not for the timid! It’s a hearty, potent brew that embodies all the richness, abundance, and opportunity you want to call forth. To receive abundance, one must first think and act abundantly. If you do not wish to use eggs, you may replace them with a spoonful of flaxseed. If you do not wish to imbibe wine, you may replace it with beet juice. Alternatively, you can make the potion rather than drink it, place it on your altar during ritual or offer it to your favorite tree or your garden. The eggs yolks symbolize a lush and golden bounty, while the wine symbolizes cheer, good spirits, and a generous harvest. Ginger brings in prosperity as well as being a magical catalyst for good luck.
Check out some of our other articles!
Types of Witches: https://constellations555.wixsite.com/crystalconstellation/post/different-types-of-witches
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