Cyber Cauldron

The kitchen is an important place for every witch it is the heart of every home. Not only that a good witch will often spend much of his or her free time experimenting with food and potions.

A witch’s kitchen will never make the cover of home and gardens but that being said a witch’s kitchen is a friendly space somewhere something is always going on. You will often find herbs hanging, home baked bread or biscuits and a kettle that is always on the boil.

But in this modern age with modern kitchens and fast-pasted life kitchen witchery is a dieing art to some extent. People don’t have the time to experiment most recipes come from books; most potions have been handed down. Now it not a bad idea to use other people recipes whether that is for a meal, potion, spells or medicine when you start out but if you rely on others information you’ll never gain any new knowledge.

The fun part about kitchen witchery is the experimentation “the science behind the witchcraft” why does this work this way and not that?

Throughout the history of man it is our experimentation that has cause us to develop and advance. As witches we are metaphysical scientists we work with elements and energies some of witch science can explain other it just learning about and some that science will never truly understand. If we want to advance in our magickal skills we must learn to experiment rather that repeat those experiments that have already proved to work.

Like scientist the kitchen witch will have some knowledge’s of their ingredince they know that if you X to Y the you get A as a witch you should look new ideas and develop your own.

A kitchen witch will take a basic recipe add a twist of this and a dash of that and create something new out of this experimentation something will develop for example a witch takes a basic biscuit mix and adds some extra fibre and fennel seeds and makes a nice biscuit and give some to a friend whose a little blotted and they work wonders and the friend ask for recipe a cure for friends blotted belly comes from adding that personal touch.

I know it a very basic example but kitchen witchery does not have to be complicated and it level of experimentation will depend on your confidence in trying new things. Of course a witch can get it wrong but you can learn just enough from getting it wrong.

For a witch the kitchen is not only a place when magick is preformed but also a meeting place for social chitchat a place for pets to sleep or eat a place filled with machinery and electromagnetic fields so where ideally magick should not be preformed. So why does or at least do you treat a kitchen as a magickal place? For myself I see the kitchen more as a temple a constant place of the gods. The kitchen and related area has so many gods and goddess you can dedicate your kitchen. Here is a list.

Goddesses Associated with Hearth and Home

Brighid (Celtic)
Chantico (Aztec)
Dugnai (Slavic)
Hestia (Greek)
Vesta (Roman)

Goddesses Associated with Grain and Harvest

Ashnan (Babylonian)
Ceres (Roman)
Chicomecoatz (Aztec)
Corn Mother
Demeter (Greek)
Pirua (Peruvian)

Goddesses Associated with Fire

Agnayi (Hindu)
Brighid (Celtic)
Ida (Hindu)
Kamui-Fuchi (Japanese)
Li (Chinese)
Pele (Hawaiian)
Sekhmet (Egyptian)
Saule (Slavic)

Goddesses Associated with Kitchens, Cooking, Food & Domesticity

Annapurna (Hindu)
Baba Yaga (Slavic)
Brighid (Celtic)
Cerridwen (Celtic)
Fornax (Roman)
Freya (Norse)
Frigg (Norse)
Hehsui-no-kami (Japanese)
Huixtocihuatl (Aztec goddess of salt)
Ivenopae (Indonesian goddess of rice)
Mama Occlo (Inca)
Okitsu-hime (Japanese)
Pomona (Roman goddess of orchards and fruit)

Other related Goddess

Athena (Greek goddess of weaving)
Gaia (Mother Earth)
Lakshmi (Hindu goddess of plenty)
Nehallennia (Norse goddess of abundance)
Ops (Roman goddess of earth)
Sarasvati (Hindu goddess of creativity)
Vasudhara (Hindu goddess of abundance)

Kitchen Gods

Agni (hindu)
Bes (Egyptian god of household protection)
Hyang kehen (Indonesian god of hearth fire)
Oki-Tsu-Hiko-no-Kami (Japanese child of the Harvest God)
Oki-Tsi-Hime-no-Kami (Japanese child of the Harvest God)
Tsao Wang (Japanese god of hearth and kitchen)
Sanpo Kojin (Japanese god of hearth and kitchen)
Zao Jun (Chinese kitchen god)

To create your temple you need to show honour to the God(s) and or Goddess(s) unlike a circle you don’t call the deity in to being you create the space to honour them place offerings on a fixed altar pay respects to the goddess and or god for the chores you do, request their assistance in the chores. Every thing that you do to the home is done to clear the flow to the temple.

The kitchen will become the true heart of the home and the deities it will be come the fountain of inspiration and magicks. Things that you should have in your kitchen-

Small altar, a simple one, could just be a shelf.
Pictures and statues that invoke the image of you deity
Herbs and flowers sacred to the deity
Small offering bowl
Broom

Choose colours to honour the deity this can include plates walls etc.

Each time you enter the kitchen you should acknowledge the deity each time you work in the kitchen or clean the house invoke the deity and ask them for assistance and inspiration.

If you are new to kitchen witchery it make take some time for things to settle in to routine but once you do you will have a powerful magickal working area that will allow free flowing magick and inspiration as well as a healing area where you can replenish your energies in divine work.

Cyber Cauldron Shop Pagan and New Age shop -Kitchen Witchery Supplies