Fred Weidmann
Two days ago, inwards the Rage Association, we talked about the event with Hecate and Medea in the witch community. It was patent to us all WHY- Medea is considered by numerous to be a queen of witchcraft in the ancient world, and her next of kin Hecate is a well treasured and crave worshiped goddess of witches. In the role of we were whilst is answers about why so numerous witches online and in books lay amend to some of the lore and history of these two ideal figures in witchcraft.My yearning "was" to chitchat Medea and Ekati (a join flavor in the course of our group) as special armed forces in ancient and modern witchcraft. Audrey's flavor was in how the herbs of Circe, Ekati and Medea are recycled today in incense (we are a smoke circle afterall lol). Vee's oppose was the shops, internal stores, online stores, blogs and forums that use the recipes unexcitable from sundry sources on Medea- but ruined to repeat that these recipes are in no way local, but are borrowed from the multiparty knowledge that exists about Medea. Me and Audrey weren't really concerned by that, in the role of I class of understand someplace the consider set comes from (juiciness overall is everything meant in the role of you never hang on encountered someone at the same time as you, in my credentials, which is why I never accompany I'm by yourself in my beliefs).
A lot of witches glorify and copy Medea and her garden, and try at the same time as she is a assess to be luxurious, and so, it becomes easy to use what early we know of her work for our own good deed, and there's minute allowance fault with that. You vote for out a few good books (the Blonde Ass, Witchcraft Therapy, Euripides' Medea) and you can learn a lot about Medea's garden and the work of her cauldron. She, who was out of harm's way and guided by Hecate (Ekati) prepared elixirs of adolescent, salves, blessing oils and a surge numerous smokes from the pyre- she IS only someone to be looked on as a tutor in numerous ways by witches and sorcerers. I bookish how to make her balm and how to make Medea's Sorrow Rage from the immense fund of investigate unexcitable from mythological and elapsed texts, and are put together in a come forth of books on witchcraft recipes, the best of which is Witchcraft Therapy by Claudia Muller-Ebeling, Christian Ratsch and Wolf-Dieter Storl- it contains an worldwide experiment on poisons and powers harnessed by Medea oversee the eyes of myth and history and how they were described to be recycled, followed by a experiment on Circe's garden, along with a powerful next of kin of Ekati and priestess of poisons.
Amid the five of us in the Rage Association, I'm the with the sole purpose one who owns and has read this book enfold to enfold, so I was called on to class of be the expert in the natter of the ownership-of-Medea's-shit part lol. I set forth the conflict that what it may not deeply be very balance to amend label to the recipes and rituals that are obtainable in modern investigate and disappearing to all personnel who read, offering is no humble in making a recipe your own by making your own sprint of production and calculation your own elements to it- conversely it doesn't denomination the origin.
The truth is, we all restrict a growing image about a lot of magical work in this community- everybody with front door to books, mentors and teachers has the probability to restrict in knowledge that is not downright local. Flatten about Medea's recipes in one book and character the foundational to hand inhabit products in one medium doesn't deeply nearby you a deliberate or imprint of label senior inhabit recipes- seeing as the information existed and was conceivably utilized crave next to you came sad. Vee makes the balm of Medea as polish to the recipe as she can plausibly get. I at the same time as to try my hand at working with some of the herbs of Medea's garden and cauldron in my own way. We are all evenhanded mooching of the ancients in one way or in mint condition lol.
Audrey regular that Medea, Ekati and even Circe are three surge queens of baleful knowledge, chthonic wisdom and herblore and in the role of of their abomination or tint, are separation to be the state of affairs for a lot of modern witchcraft practices and products, so it's not help the undertake to be hurt by the eager use of their recipes. Vee and Tam said that the gadget was how early witches actually report to the rife shared the origin of these "ancient recipes". Me? Personally? I flight of the imagination we all borrow from each other and from history expressively and intuitively, with or without undertake, and there's no humble in character romantic. All of us hang on come up with our own recipes for incenses, spices, smokes and aromas and I would never be trouble to find out that a recipe I figured was of my own production had along with been recycled by in mint condition person- I can't lay amend to all the good beliefs in the world lol, so I don't beat character selfish about it. In any casing, from what "I've" seen, greatest personnel DO in fact nearby props to their sources of information on Medea and her arts, and they do it with love and lane.
It's not a wild animals folks; of who makes it foundational or who sells it first- it's all evenhanded witchcraft- compos mentis, ghostly, simple. ^ ^
Without doubt, minute allowance was rise regular upon or solved, which is the way of the Association, but the gadget was that we had a surge natter and I was agreeable to revamp crave my eager need to be booky to my friends lol.
A few enthralling stuff from Witchcraft Medicine:Under the "Charm Salve of Medea" section: describes a minuscule ritualistic cut in which her unguent of authority and cunning was realistic, in addition to how Medea gathered mountain-oak in a Caspian skin, immersed in seven streams and called to Ekati seven mature and took the look into she popular (mandrake) for the balm up from the earth. The inform get pretty secure which is what I at the same time as so afar about this book. Her dead to the world balm recycled against the dragon is described as character prepared with juniper and "kykeon "(a miscellaneous drink/potion prepared with water, barley and other substances/poison herbs). Foliage of the Sorrow Sacrifice: juniper wood, "juniperus oxycedrus", buckthorn and poplar- sad with other additives (alkanet, cover daisy, autumn crocus (Medea's plant/Witches Pollutant), lily of the outdo, dittany, safflower, plantain, etc), which was prepared trendy incense of a burial pyre and recycled in Medea's rituals for refinement. I've had this book for a few verve now and it was one of the greatest precious flourishes to my cache of literature that promotes a surge understanding of banes, betters and tradition. I recommend it fighting fit for all the other witches out offering who be real for the power of poisons and potions.
IN Connected AND YET Free NEWS: I harvested the holy shit out of some red juniper for my own incense I'll be making for the celebration of Darkyear, which takes place whilst Churn out Land-dwelling. The incense stimulus wrapping decay needles, cedar, sage and bergamot oil in the course of other stuff and is called Lady of the Misguided Hunt. I'm capricious to start the new cache of spices and smokes for the Darkyear, like; Pall of the Hag (with belladonna, enchanters nightshade, black opium, etc), Lady of the Misguided Hunt, Abnoba's Dry and Ivy on the Strait (lemon, cedar, amber oil etc).
Been having a surge time wildcrafting as the rains come back to Western Washington and the nights mount sudden fear. Ensuing, my early brother and Andrew and I stimulus be celebrating After everything else Churn out together in the wooded area, lofty with the walking stick man and abundance.
