Tag: Hearth

Calendar of the Sun For January 15th

Calendar of the Sun
15 Wolfmonath

Hestia’s Day

Color: Red
Element: Fire
Altar: Today’s ritual should be done in the kitchen and not the altar room. The hearth and the stove are the altar today, and a flame should be burning, and bread and milk and salt set out on the table. No other altar is required. After the ritual, all shall feast.
Offerings: Do kitchen work, or preserving of food, or cleaning.
Daily Meal: Any wholesome, extremely correct food.

Hestia Invocation

Flame of the Hearth
Keeper of the Inner Circle
Faceless One
Eldest of the Olympians
Lady of the Pantry
Whose open hands dispense hospitality
Chimney and cooking fire
Lady of routine and dailiness
To miss your quiet strength
In the rush of our sudden lives
Would be as great a disservice
As forgetting the air we breathe.
You who are the comforting hearth where we began
And the inner warmth that we will come home to,
Make this place a home for all of us.
Make this hearth a home of the every day,
The ordinary morning and noon,
The expected evening and the consoling night.
Teach us to take our time, Lady.
Teach us of the holiness of step after step
Chore after chore, moving in small circles
Around the hearth of our own beings.

Chant:
Circle round the hearthfire
Join our hands as one
Remember the Virgin Flame burns
Ageless as the Wheel turns
The place for which the heart yearns
Since this tribe has begun.

Four Elements Consecration Charm

Four Elements Consecration Charm

 
 
 
Use this charm to consecrate your natural magick workspace.
 
Set up your altar and repeat the following charm three times:
 
Earth, air, fire, and water, now combine through time and space. By the elements four I consecrate my working place.
Bless all magick I perform, empower the spells that I cast,
Create peace, harmony and contentment that will surely last.
 
Close this charm with:

By all the powers of land and sea. As I will this, then so shall it be.

“Cottage Witchery”
Natural Magick for Hearth and Home
Ellen Dugan

Five Elements Charm

Five Elements Charm

 
 
If you prefer, try this Feng Shui-style elemental charm for consecrating and blessing your natural magickal workspace.
 
Repeat three times; the closing line is already worked into this charm.
 
“For some, there are five elements of magickal power,
Come metal, wood, fire, water and earth, in this hour.
Positive energy will flow, and darkness does now flee.
Bless this Witch’s home, with the power of positive chi.”
 
“Cottage Witchery”

Natural Magick for Hearth and Home
Ellen Dugan

Houseplant Charm

Houseplant Charm

 
 
Hold your hand above the plant. Imagine a bright green and vibrant light swirling around it and then into the plant. Visualize the plant growing and blooming (if applicable). Repeat the charm three times:
 
The magick of nature is in everything,
Lavish growth and good health to this plant I now bring.
This green magick spell intends no harm or trouble,
It only brings pleasure and joy on the double.
 
Close the charm with:
 
For the good of all with harm to none,
By green leaf and stem, this spell is done!
 
 
“Cottage Witchery”

Natural Magick for Hearth and Home
Ellen Dugan

Daily OM for December 11th – Women’s Work

Women’s Work
Tending the Hearth

 

 

The importance of tending the hearth that nurtures all who bask in its warmth is a beautiful thing.

In the recent past, the term women’s work has come to have a derogatory connotation. Women’s work encompasses all the domestic chores that have historically been associated only with women—cooking, cleaning, and raising children. Whenever a person is limited to only certain kinds of work in a society, there is a need to break free from that work in order to inhabit a place of choice. However, when we choose to do women’s work because we enjoy it, there is nothing degrading about it. There is an honor to it, and when done alone or in a group this work can be truly meaningful and fulfilling because the home is the foundation of security for all who live in it. The importance of tending the hearth that nurtures all who bask in its warmth cannot be overstated.

In addition to being essential to the functioning of the world, women’s work offers creative fulfillment, intimate interaction, and personal satisfaction. The more we become aware of the significance of this realm of labor, the more fulfilling it will be to those who do the work and those who benefit from it. A well-set table and a delicious, healthy meal can heal us on multiple levels. Clean, crisp sheets on a bed allow us to enter a deep slumber, inspiring a sense of safety and trust. Our mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health all rest upon the smooth functioning of our homes.

The gift of women’s work, which still often comes from the hands of women, now also comes from fathers, husbands, and hired help. Whatever the source, our sincere gratitude upon receiving these treasures reminds us of the profound value of what is traditionally known as women’s work. The more we acknowledge the tremendous importance of this work, the more we are able to do it with a sense of pride, never feeling for a moment that our efforts are less significant or meaningful than those working outside the home—on the contrary, it is this work that makes all other work possible.

A Hearth Goddess Charm

A Hearth Goddess Charm 

To invoke the benevolence of the hearth Goddesses and invite these deities into your home, try this candle charm. Even if you don’t have a fireplace, you can still re-create a miniature hearth. Find a safe, flat surface to set up on and make your own magickal hearth area. Feel free to work this charm at any time throughout the year: at sunrise, the full moon, a new crscent moon,or at one of the major Sabbats. When you light this candle and say these words, you are calling in the Goddesses to protect and watch over you. Basically you are welcoming these ladies into your life. See what sort of stability, warmth, and enchantment they bring to your days.
 
Gather these supplies:
 
One red pillar candle
A candleholder or small plate
Nine white, small, smooth stones
A pinch of salt
A lighter or matches
 
Arrange the nine white stones around a red pillar candle and its holder. Dust the stones with a pinch of salt to consecrate them. Take a moment to visualize your miniature hearth. See it glowing with warmth, magick and hospitality. Light the candle and repeat the following charm three times:
 
Goddesses of the home and the sacred hearth flame.
Brigid, Hestia and Vesta, I call your names.
A candle for fire, a ring of stones becomes your hearth,
Bless us with warmth and security from this Witch’s art.
 
Close the spell:
 
By all the powers of the earth and fire.
This spell is sealed by my will and desire.
 
Allow the candle to burn for a few hours. When you are finished, snuff out the candle and relight it whenever you feel the need to reconnect to the Goddesses of the heart and home.