Cake
Well I just
had to mention cake didn’t I?
Cakes have
featured throughout history for centuries and have often been used in ritual,
for celebrations or rites of passage.
Cakes were offered to the gods or eaten at ceremonies to appease them or
encourage good harvests or even to ensure that the sun rose the next
day…personally I don’t need any excuse to eat cake…we eat cake during ritual
after the energy work to help us ground us and we eat it at our workshops for
breakfast…and elevenses…and lunch…and a snack…
A cake is
one of the simplest recipes to enchant with magical energy and carries the
energies of all the usual ingredients such as flour, eggs, butter and sugar but
can then be given a boost by adding in other flavours.
Soul cakes
were made on All Souls Day and Mexicans make special cakes for Dia de los
Muertos (Day of the Dead) and moon cakes are eaten at Chinese lunar festivals.
The ancient
Greeks left cakes at crossroads in order to appease the goddess Hecate
sometimes apparently with a single candle in so that she could find it in the
dark…forerunner for the birthday cake perhaps?
Cake also
makes people happy…
Cake Magical
Properties:
Happiness,
ritual, rites of passage, offerings, celebration, grounding
Element -
Earth
Gender – Feminine
Cookies
Cookies…are
yummy…oh did you need more information than that?
They make an
excellent baked item to use in ritual especially if there are a number of
people and a lot of cookie dough recipes can be shaped into crescent moons or
cut out with cookie cutters into shapes to represent the ritual, spell work or
sabbat that you are working with. They
make excellent scrummy snacks with which to honour the deities and also to help
ground you after energy work.
The cookie
dough basic recipe can also be added to with spices, fruits and herbs to add in
your own specific intent.
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