Protection, Empowerment, Witch Jars, and Cocktails!
Learn how to make witch jars and cocktails for protection and empowerment!
A witch bottle is a magical tool that has been used for centuries, and not just by witches. In early times, the bottle was designed as a way to protect yourself from malicious magick, ghosts, and demons. Back in the day, people created witch bottles to keep evil spirits from entering the home on Samhain (also known as Halloween).
Today we call them witch jars. The purpose is not only to protect yourself, but bounce back the negative energy to whomever or whatever is sending it your way. Whether it's gossip, a bully, an ex, poor health, burglary, or even just an obnoxious neighbor, you can lock down your space with a well-made witch jar.
Witch Jar Ingredients:
- A glass jar with a metal lid (recycling your own jars is fabulous!)
- Broken glass, preferably broken mirror
- Sharp, rusty objects such as razor blades, nails, bent pins, or even better, coffin nails (found on Etsy or at your local occult shop)
- Grapefruit peel
- Sea salt
- Thyme
If you're trying to make someone in particular go away, add:
- Cayenne pepper
- Black salt
- Four Thieves Vinegar
How to assemble:
- Add ingredients to your jar.
- Write your petition in the round, starting along the edges and circling into the middle. Save the middle for what is most important or the summary of the spell: PROTECTION, HEALTH, HARMONY, etc.
- Draw a pentagrams or sigil of your choosing on the back.
YOUR PEE IS POWERFUL. If you’re not a person who produces menstrual blood, your pee is even MORE powerful! Get some in this jar! (Menstrual blood is also great and will likely insure that no one ever opens your jar if found.)
Charge your witch jar with the full moon. Keep it for an entire moon cycle on your altar or under your bed, burning candles on top of it (ideally, sealing it with wax), then bury it with the next full moon.
Make several witch jars to bury at corners of your home (north, south, east, west), or to form the tips of a pentagram.
Drive coffin nails into the ground in place of witch jars or in between them.
Grapefruit can be used for healing, protection, self-esteem, confidence, and joy. Grind your remaining grapefruit peel into powder to sprinkle across doorways and windowsills for added protection and effects.
Enforce that protection with a cocktail named after the Greek Goddess of Protection, Soteria. She represents safety, salvation, deliverance, and preservation from harm.
Recipe for Soteria's Cup:
2 oz Mezcal (Prairie used Montelobos)
1 oz KLEOS Mastiha Spirit
1/2 Pink Grapefruit Juice
Pinch of Salt
Garnish: Sprig of Thyme
Add all ingredients with ice to a shaker tin and shake until well chilled. Pour into a rocks glass and garnish.
Non-Alcoholic Recipe for Soteria's Spritz:
2 oz Coconut Water
1/2 Pink Grapefruit Juice
Tonic
Pinch of Salt
Garnish: Sprig of Thyme
Add coconut water, grapefruit juice, ice, and salt to a shaker tin and shake until well chilled. Pour into a highball glass with ice. Top with tonic and garnish.
Lock down your home and empower yourself with magickal protection, one kinda gross and one super delicious!
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Until next time, don't drink like a basic witch.