Although you can purchase supplies and ritual items online, there are many things you can find in your own kitchen...
Although you can purchase supplies and ritual items online, there are many things you can find in your own kitchen that will work just as well. I love getting new things, but it’s not always possible. If you’re trying to save a few bucks, or keep your use of the Craft on the down-low, here’s a list that may help:
Blank Book
If you have a pretty, blank book laying around, consider creating your own Book of Shadows or grimoire. It’s rewarding, and something you can pass on to your children or younger coven members.
Broom
This classic magickal tool lurks in a dark corner somewhere in nearly every household in the world. Use your broom to ritually “sweep” your sacred circle. If you have a spare, you can decorate the handle with carvings or wrap it in ribbon and dedicate it to your practice.
Candles
Choose one with a color or scent that corresponds to your purpose and incorporate it into a spell or ritual.
Cast Iron Pot
Can be used in place of a ritual cauldron. Sometimes, it’s even better than the kind you find for witchcraft, because kitchen cauldrons are food safe. Definitely a must-have for any kitchen witch. Boil aromatic herb blends to bless the house with a particular energy (lavender for calming, rosemary for protection, sage to stop arguments, etc).
Fabric Scraps
So many possibilities! Use a large piece as an altar cloth or (if you have the skills) make a ritual robe out of it. Smaller scraps can be made into spell sachets or mojo bags.
Glass Bottles & Jars
While many herbs (and even oils) come in plastic bottles and bags, plastic makes a very low-quality storage option. Use leftover jars from peanut butter, jelly, preserves, sauces — even baby food — to store your ritual herbs and oils.
Glitter
This super common craft supply adds a magickal touch to any spell. Check out this Sun Spell to Banish Depression for a beautiful example.
Pen/Paper
Try this traditional banishing spell: write down something you want out of your life, like a person, thing, habit or even the place you live. Burn it outside and visualize releasing it into the sky.
Knife
Any kitchen knife can be used as a ritual knife. You don’t need anything fancy. Use it to “cut” a passage in your sacred circle, harvest herbs and carve ritual candles.
Mirror
Use a mirror to reflect moonlight while making moon water. Place mirrors on the altar during beauty rituals or leave one on your permanent altar to remind yourself to look within for your personal power.
Pennies or Dollar Bills
Use these as an offering to support a spell. Donate them to a leave a penny/take a penny or toss them in a fountain.
Pins and Needles
I know it’s part of some traditions to use voodoo dolls or poppets to cause harm; however, you can use the same principle for healing poppets, but instead of focusing on harmful thoughts, think of them as acupuncture pins to sooth pain and correct imbalances.
Potted Plants
Place them on the altar or in the northern corner of your sacred circle to symbolize the Element of Earth.
Sea Shells
Got a little collection of sea shells from your last trip to the beach? Bust those babies out. Use them on the altar or in the western corner of your sacred circle to symbolize the Element of Water or try incorporating them into sea witchcraft.
Soap
You know that fancy stuff you got for your birthday or at the office Christmas party that smells too good to use? “Spend” it on a luxurious ritual bath for the full moon.
Vases
You know that cluster of vases from old bouquets and floral arrangements that you don’t know what to do with? Put one on the altar and keep something fresh all the time, preferably something you collected on your magickal nature walks. Keeping this up helps connect your indoor altar (and you!) to the natural world around you.
Wind Chimes
Hang them around your outdoor sacred space to welcome spirits, dispel negative energy and symbolize the Element of Air.
Wine Glass
Of course, it’s great to have a beautiful pewter chalice to pass around for cakes and ale, but any wine glass will do. Use it on the altar to float candles in water, fill it with ritual wine, or put spring water in it to symbolize the Element of Water in your ritual space.
Kudos: Moody Moons
Be magickal, y’all!
