Supermarket Magic: Creating Spells, Brews, Potions and Powders From Everyday Ingredients by Michael Furie Read Free Book Online Page A

even use
    a coffee maker to make these if you desire. All you have
    to do is hold the individual herbs (or the tea bag) in your hands and charge them as stated previously in the “preparing oils” instructions then, put them in either a pot (a cauldron is ideal) or in a coffee filter and pop it into your coffee maker. Next, pour in the necessary amount of water
    and simmer over low heat (or turn on the coffee maker)
    for about ten minutes until bubbles form at the bottom
    of the pot (or until the coffee maker is finished brewing) and steam is rising, but do not let the water boil!!! Boiling the water is only necessary or desired is the case of
    extracting the essence from tough roots and will not be
    used in the recipes presented here. To boil these potions
    would damage the essences that we are trying to extract
    and use. Anyway, after (about) ten minutes remove the
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    potion from heat (or turn off the coffeemaker), cover and
    allow to cool for about another ten to fifteen minutes.
    When cooled, strain and sweeten if desired. The potion is
    then ready to use.
    Preparing Powders
    This is the easiest task of them all. All you have to do is grind and charge each individual herb with your hands
    and then place them in a small bowl with the required
    amount of cornstarch. When all the herbs have been
    added, mix them together with your fingers then, charge
    the completed powder and bottle for use.
    Preparing Vinegars
    This is basically the same process as making a potion with two VERY IMPORTANT exceptions: 1—do not use
    your coffee maker and 2—don’t use an iron pot or caul-
    dron (it would rust)! You only need to heat up the herb/
    vinegar mixture for about five minutes then, cool, strain, bottle and charge. I warn you though; making vinegars
    is not the sweetest smelling process. You can also go the
    longer route of just bottling the chosen herbs and vinegar without heating it and allow it to sit for about a week to extract the essences of the herbs. This is a less involved process and produces a good result. It just takes longer.
    Now that we’ve covered the basics let’s move on to
    the fun stuff. Each of the following chapters will be self-contained for their given purpose; containing all of the

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    ingredients, recipes, and spells for its magical goal. Magic is such a personal and versatile process that we often develop our own individual “specialties” such as using oils, candle magic, or charm making to the exclusion of most
    other ways of working.
    My personal preference is to use candle magic as a
    first resort as it is the most natural for me and then to
    expand outward and supplement that work with other
    methods only if needed; to each their own. You may find
    that some practices are more effective for you than others due to the personal nature of this work and trial and error is the only way to discover this. Most of us however, find that we can shift from one way to another with a similar
    success rate, we just prefer one or two methods over the
    rest. No judgments or guilt should be made about this;
    instead, our individuality should be celebrated!
    Since it is very true that if your life and home are
    too cluttered, nothing else can get done very well; I have chosen to begin with the chapter on clearing.

chapter 4
clearing (and
    cleansing)
    this chapter shall focus on magically clearing both
    life and home of negativity and strife. All too often
    are we subject to the turmoil generated by the negativity
    of other people that we have little choice but to come into contact; coworkers, relatives, landlords, etc. We may not
    be able to cast them out of our lives (actually we could,
    but we might not want to, especially with relatives) but
    we can do the next best thing; cast out their negativity
    and replace it with calm, relaxing, clear energy.
    Before we get to the magical means of removing
    negativity, let’s go over the basic nature of energy (both positive and