We don’t
have eggnog much in the UK and I wish we did because it is yummy…basically it is an
alcoholic custard…
Eggs
From teeny
tiny quails eggs up to huge ostrich eggs they come in all sorts of shapes, the
delicate outer casing containing the yolk and the white. Boiled, scrambled, fried, poached or sunny
side up…how do you like yours?
An egg is a
complete neat package of life and is very symbolic of fertility, new life, new
beginnings and creation itself. Within
they also symbolise long life and immortality.
Eggs were
considered sacred in many cultures for centuries and a hardboiled egg was seen
as magic in the Middle Ages.
Very
symbolic at Ostara the egg more often in its chocolate form has become a part
of spring celebrations as a representation of new life and new beginnings.
In legend
faeries would consume eggs of mythical birds such as the phoenix.
Throughout
history people have eaten eggs for lots of different reasons, some to absorb
the magical properties by eating them, others to ensure fertility.
In the
Slavonic and Germanic lands people also smeared eggs onto their hoes to ensure
fertility for the soil.
In Iran
brides and grooms exchange eggs for fertility.
In 17th
century France, a bride would break an egg when she entered her new home for
the first time.
Eggs were
often used for divination. This stemmed
from the belief that eggs symbolised life and particularly life in the
future. One method involved painting the
eggs, boiling them and reading the patterns in their cracks. Another method involved tossing the eggs and
divining the future, a system of divination known as oomancy. Egg white can also be used, by dripping it
into a bowl of water and reading the shapes that it makes.
In Egypt
eggs were hung in the temples to bring fertility, for birth and renewal.
The Hindu
description of the beginning of the world saw it as a cosmic egg.
The yolk in
the centre of the egg has also been used to represent the Sun.
I have put
the gender as both masculine and feminine, in Chinese culture the egg as a
flavour is seen as yang which is masculine but I see the egg as very feminine
because of it being literally a baby chick.
The egg is a
complete set of elements in one handy pack:
The shell represents Earth, the inner membrane represents Air, the yolk
is Fire and the white is Water.
Eggs Magical
Properties:
Fertility,
creation, life, new beginnings, divination
Element –
Water, Earth, Air, Fire
Gender –
Masculine/Feminine
Milk
Milk…comes
from cows, sheep, goats and yaks…possibly some other animals but not ones that
I can purchase in my local shop (although to be fair they don’t sell yak milk
either).
It used to
be that the milkman delivered bottles of milk to your doorstep and you got full
fat and nothing else, now you can get milk in all sorts of guises from full fat
deliciousness to completely skimmed which looks and tastes like water. When I lived on a farm we used to go to the
dairy and scoop out a jug of still warm milk from the tank where the cows had
just been milked, it was thick and luscious and delicious and although now that
would be totally against all sorts of health and safety stupidity rules.
Milk is
produced by the mother to feed the infant so it carries with it beautiful
nurturing energies, heap loads of feminine power and amazing goddess energy
too. It is also ruled by the Moon so you
get her energy in there as well.
Brilliant
for using as offerings and libations during ritual and when you are out and
want to leave an offering on the ground or for a tree spirit, the faeries are
partial to a drop of milk too especially if you add in a drop of honey.
Pour a
libation of milk into the sea to honour the goddess Isis. Milk is also sacred to Hathor and Zeus.
I believe
milk also carries with it the magical properties of the animal that it came
from.
Milk Magical
Properties:
Feminine
power, goddess energy, moon magic, nurturing, offerings, love, spirituality,
Faeries
Ruling
planet – Moon
Element –
Water
Gender –
Feminine
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