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The Brew:

Instructions for a basic brew.
Gather, grind, and mix herbs(no need for the first 2.) For brews that you will be drinking use a seperate culinary mortar and pestal than which you would use for all your heavy grinding. Empwer the herbs with your magickal goal. Heat 2 cups boiling water. Place one handful of mixed impowered herbs in a tea pot, cauldron, or some other non-metalic steam tight lid. Let the herbs brew for about 13 minutes. Strain through cheese cloth or a strainer, and use as directed. Brews should be used quickly as possible. If necessary, they can be stored in the refrigerator for three or four days. After this time return them to the earth and create a new brew.

Sleep Tea:

This tea helps calm and relax you enough to sleep. It's lightly sweet, so you may no need to add honey, but if you want to, go ahead.

Ingredients:
-4 clusters (or tbsp)of hops
-1 tsp of lavender, rosemary, thyme, mugwort, and sage
-1 tbsp chamomile and winter green
-1 pinch of valerian root (becareful not to get a good whiff of it!)

Take the teaspoon of the mixture and poor 1 cup of hot water. Wait 3 minutes and then strain. Drink it after it cools abit. This mixture should make about 8 or 9 cups. Store the unused portion in a tightly sealed container for later use.

A Headache or Insomnia Tea:

Put a pinch of Willow bark, Chamomile, Wild Clover, and a Catnip in a coffee filter in your coffee maker, (or a teaball in a mug) with enough water for one serving. Brew. (For insomnia, don't include Willoe bark in the mixture.) Within about 15 minutes to half and hour of drinking the mixture, you should feel quite tired and less sore. Be sure to have a comfortable place to sleep.

Dream Tea:

-2 part Rose Petals
-1 part Mugwort
-1 part Peppermint
-1 part Jasmine Flowers
-1/2 part cinnamon

Mix, add one teaspoon to a cup, pour boiling water over this and let steep covered, for a few minutes. Drink before going to bed to produce or enhance psychic dreams.

Psychic Tea:

3 parts Rose petals
2 parts Yarrow
1 part Cinnamon
Brew, strain and drink a cup before or during divination and psychic work to enhance your psychic awareness.

Purification Brew:

1 part Lemon Verbena
1 part Dried Lemon Peel
1 part Camomile

Brew, drink for purification prior to ritual. If desired, add a splash of lemon juice, a tsp. of honey and sugar.

Moon Brew:

Set a silver container filled with water out on the night of the Full Moon just as it rises (at sunset). Allow the water to soak up Lunar rays all night. Just before dawn, rise and retreive the water. Place in an earthen jug and cork tightly (never expose to the rays of the sun). Add to the bath for love. Anoint money to increase wealth, put on the brow to create psychic awareness. Place in the bath to attune with the spiritual planes or prior to Lunar rituals.

Sun Water:

Set a glass or crystal container of pure water outside just at dawn, in a place where the sun rays will shine on it all day. At sunset, bottle and cork the water. Keep in a very sunny place. Add to baths for energy, sprinkle around the home to remove evil, anoint yourself to purify and so on.

These next recipies are from Ocean Harmony.

Aphrodisia: A passion drink

1 pinch Rosemary
2 pinches Thyme
2 tsp. Black Tea
1 pinch Coriander
3 fresh Mint leaves (or 1/2 tsp. dried)
5 fresh Rosebud petals (or 1 tsp. dried)
5 fresh Lemon tree Leaves (or 1 tsp. dried lemon peel)
3 pinches Nutmeg
3 pieces Orange peel
Place all ingredients into a teapot. Boil three cups or so of water & add to the pot. Sweeten with honey, if desired. Serve hot.

Aphrodisia #2

3 parts Rose petals
1 part each: Clove, Nutmeg, Lavender, Ginger
Make in the usual way, perferably in an earthen pot. Add this mixture to tea, or serve alone to increase the passions.

Clairvoyance Brew

3 parts Rose petals
1 part each: Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Bay, Mugwort
Place in a teapot, fill with boinling water, let steep, covered, for a few minutes. Remove cover, sniff steam, but don't burn your nose. for a few moments, visualize the mystical scent opening your psychic awareness, then lie down and prophesize. If you wish, drink a bit of the brew as well and let the steam continue to rise as yu strech your psychic awareness.

Cauldren of Cerridwen Brew

1 part each: Bay, tobacco, Damiana, Mormon Tea and Broom(non-toxic)
-or-
Equal parts each: acorns, barley, honey, ivy, Hellebore, Bay (caution)-DO NOT DRINK!!!!
Boil the water in a cauldron over an open fire. Place all the ingredients in the cauldron. Sit before it and entrance yourslf by watching the flames. Smell its mystical scent and retrieve it's wisdom.

Exorcism Brew
(caution)

3 parts rosemary
1 part bay
1 pinch cayenne
Mix, add one tsp mixture to a cup, pour boiling water over the herbs and let steep for 9 minutes, covered. Drink a few teaspoons a day, or add to the bath.

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