Feeling Witchy - Clove-Stabbed Lemons
I'm feeling so empowered and witchy today! I recently lost my job and I'm taking some time to recover from burnout before starting the next Big Adventure. In the meantime, I actually started putting things together to sell spells and bits as a proper Millenial Side Hustle. It's really fun to think about spell components, how to target needs, packaging, and the vending potentials. I'm currently dehydrating lemon slices stabbed with cloves for a Hex Your Boss spell I'm developing. My house smells so good and I'm so excited to share my magic with the world!
I've really struggled to keep in touch with my practice through the vagaries of the last year+, so having ample time to play and experiment has me feeling like a kid screwing around making potions at the creek again. Amazing how much of a pick-me-up a little spiteful spell work can be lol
Here's the instructions for clove-stabbed lemons, great for banishments, hexing, and vinegar spray cleanser.
Get a lemon. Hold the lemon gently in your hands (don't squish - you need to maintain internal structural integrity). Take a handful of cloves and stab the sharp bit into the lemon peel while muttering (out loud) how unfairly you've been treated/how shitty your boss is/RTO sucks/etc. More is better. Make pretty spirals or patterns or just randomly spike them in there. Stab them cloves in until your thumbs are sore or your spleen has been vented, whichever comes first. Now take a sharp chef's knife and carefully cut slices of lemon, about a third of the thickness of my thumbnail (YMMV). You want thin slices so that they dry fully. While slicing, concentrate on your breath - you're taking all that energy you built up muttering and breathing it into the lemon. Tell it what you want to happen, using your pettiest curse or hex. My favorite lately, "May all their cilantro taste like soap". Be creative and let the spite flow. Place clove-lemon slices in a single layer on your dehydrator and run it at 135*F for about 8 hours. If your slices are thicker, you'll need longer.
Eventually you'll have lovely little bits of withered spite to add to spells as appropriate. Simmer pots, offering bowls, shower steamer bags, crushing and sprinkling around the tires of your ex-manager's ugly-ass truck.... the options are limited only by the penal code and your imagination!