Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Melanie Marquis, author of a number of books, including The Witch’s Bag of Tricks, the award-winning Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, Beltane, Lughnasadh, Llewellyn’s Little Book of Moon Spells, and the new Cookbook of Shadows.
With spring on the way, romance is in the air, and many people are looking for love spells to invite new possibilities or to strengthen an existing relationship. Cooking magick is a great medium for love spells of all types, offering variety and versatility. From how you stir to the dishes you use, each step in the process can be infused with magick. Check out Cookbook of Shadows: Simple Recipes for Powerful Magick if you want to master all the different techniques you can use! In the meantime, try any of these top five foods for enhancing passion, inducing lust, and attracting love into your life. As you handle each of these best ingredients for love magick, imagine the feelings of love you wish to experience and let these emotions flow into the food.
Chocolate: Chocolate has a fortifying, energizing quality that’s excellent for promoting passion and encouraging love for the self and for others. Try drizzling melted chocolate over fruit, or stir some into your coffee to get those loving feelings flowing.
Cherries: Cherries are a lucky food for lovers, believed to enhance attraction and encourage declarations of affection. Heat a handful of cherries in equal parts water and sugar to create a cherry sauce to enjoy on cakes or ice cream.
Strawberries: Associated with the Goddess Venus, strawberries are believed to magnify love, luck, beauty, and happiness. Share with a romantic partner to encourage good feelings and affection.
Cinnamon: Aligned with the Fire element, cinnamon brings a fiery energy that intensifies passion and invites excitement. Try on baked fruit or chicken dishes, or add to cookies, cobblers, and hot beverages like coffee, cocoa, or cider.
Rosemary: Aromatic, fresh, and earthy, rosemary is a great choice for romantic recipes, welcoming good feelings and happiness and opening the heart. It’s also great for encouraging peace and improving communication, helping to strengthen relationships and fortify connections.
There are lots of other foods and herbs for love magick that you can use in your cooking, including apples, peaches, plums, coconut, tomatoes, hemp, ginger, and basil. For more ideas for your cooking magick, see the recipes, techniques, and ingredient correspondences in Cookbook of Shadows. Cooking is naturally magickal, and when you add emotionally charged willpower and carefully chosen ingredients, food becomes a powerhouse of magickal potential. Mindful cooking can transform your meals as well as your life. Once you learn the basics, you can create an infinite variety of magickal meals to promote positive change, bring prosperity, boost confidence, and more. You’ll be a magickal master chef in no time!
Our thanks to Melanie for her guest post! For more from Melanie Marquis, read her article “A Magickal Cookbook for Self-Empowerment.”
