Full Description
Create your own magical path with the hearth at the center of your household life and spiritual practice. Offering a bounty of reliable spells and rituals, Anna Franklin explores hearth witchery from its foundation in domestic lore to its modern practice. She presents building blocks like cleansing, warding, and consecration alongside tips for achieving balance and living in harmony with nature. With the garden as a sacred space and the kitchen as a magical workshop, you will develop your herb cunning and formulate your own spells for courage, luck, and more. Learn how to forge meaningful relationships with the Hearth Goddess, your house spirit, and other domestic deities. Featuring a variety of correspondences, this book will lead you to a richer life with deep connections to the sacred.
Contents
Contents
List of Recipes xiii
Introduction 1
Part One: Hearth and Home 3
Chapter 1: The Hearth...5
Chapter 2: The House Spirit...13
Chapter 3: The Witch's Kitchen and Home...21
Chapter 4: Magical Cleansing and Banishing...33
Chapter 5: Warding...41
Part Two: Herb Cunning 53
Chapter 6: Beginning to Work with Herbs...55
Chapter 7: The Hearth Witch's Garden...65
Chapter 8: Herbs in Magic...69
Part Three: Working with the Gods 83
Chapter 9: Personal Practice...85
Chapter 10: Consecration...89
Chapter 11: Creating Sacred Space...95
Chapter 12: Ritual...103
Part Four: Natural Cycles 115
Chapter 13: The Cycle of the Year...117
Chapter 14: The Eight Sabbats...121
Chapter 15: Cycles of the Moon...155
Part Five: Operative Witchcraft 173
Chapter 16: Spells...177
Chapter 17: Spell Formulations...203
Chapter 18: Talismans and Amulets...213
Conclusion 217
Appendix 1: Elemental Correspondences 219
Appendix 2: Planetary Correspondences 223
Appendix 3: Metal Correspondences 231
Appendix 4: Colour Correspondences 233
Appendix 5: Gemstone Correspondences 237
Appendix 6: Magical Herb Substitutions 245
Appendix 7: Magical Ingredients for Food 255
Appendix 8: Herbs for Home Warding 259
Appendix 9: Fumigation Herbs 265
Bibliography 267
