Cooking For The Spirits I – A Small Banquet For Shango

Today and tomorrow we are working on making three big offerings for Shango, Oya and Eleggua for one of our most loved patrons. That means cooking, cooking and more cooking, so much that we couldn’t fit it in just one day. While other paths require very little amounts of food (or none) when making offerings, [...]

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Spinning Weekend

On Saturday night, we made a small Blot (offering) to the Norse deities – Moroccan tea, rum, honey, milk, cheese, olives, pate, seed bread, an orange spiced with cinnamon and honey, a tobacco pipe, and of course our own kyphi incense. After meditation and prayer, we like to do some special activity devoted to the [...]

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Offerings, And A Very Sweet Recipe For Valentine’s Day

The altar, overflowing with offerings. The Carnival starts this week so we will be making some special offerings in the next days to connect with its amazing energy. Since tomorrow is Valentine’s day, I thought it would be nice to share an extra sweet recipe – Herbal Sugar. This recipe can be made with white [...]

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Update, And Offering Pics

I would like to let all our readers know that we have been having a lot of problems with the site that hosts our downloadable products, so we have deactivated the digital items from the shop temporarily until we find a new hosting service. We will let you know as soon as it is fixed, [...]

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Full Moon Magick

The garden altar, filled with offerings – fruit, herbs, incense, beer, candles. Behind the Tara goddess, two bottles of Moon Water, charging with the light of the moon during the three nights of the cycle. These bottles are placed in a dark room during the day, and placed back in the altar when the sun [...]

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Nothing Goes To Waste

Every time we post about offerings, we get asked what do we do with all the food we offer. If you have been reading this blog for a while, you already know we hate waste in all its forms and thus recycle, reuse and recycle really madly. When we offer food, either us or our [...]

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Rune Consecration Ritual – Pictures

Yesterday we consecrated Fernando’s new runes. The images of the ritual itself are private and we won’t show them, but here are quite a few pics of the altars and offerings we made to inspire you :). Odin’s altar, with the runes in front of him, resting over vintage furs that were a gift from [...]

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Today’s Offering (And Free Recipe)

Last night we made rice pudding for the Spirits, to be served as today’s offering. There are a gazillion different recipes for rice pudding; this is how we make it in the islands. Canarian Rice Pudding – Boil a cup of rice as you do usually, without any other spices. Set aside. – On another [...]

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Holy Week Images II

Wednesday Started the recipe book my aunt gave me making a Tudor scroll on the first page. The handwriting is hers. The first recipe we added was Beer Bread – a new recipe for us, but it’s going to become an everyday thing I’m afraid! We added shredded cheese and ham and of course a [...]

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Today’s Recipe: Spicy Peach Jam

(this recipe is mine – share with credit!) Ingredients: – About a pound of peaches, peeled and cut into small chunks; – a cup of sugar; – a teacup of water; – a teaspoon of powdered cinnamon; – 1/2 teaspoon of powdered ginger; – 1/2 teaspoon of powdered cardamom (three pods); – 6 leaves of [...]

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