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    The Supermarket Sorceress: Spells, Charms, and Enchantments Using Everyday Ingredients to Make Your Wishes Come True
    The Supermarket Sorceress: Spells, Charms, and Enchantments Using Everyday Ingredients to Make Your Wishes Come True
    The Supermarket Sorceress: Spells, Charms, and Enchantments Using Everyday Ingredients to Make Your Wishes Come True
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    The Supermarket Sorceress: Spells, Charms, and Enchantments Using Everyday Ingredients to Make Your Wishes Come True

    By Lexa Rosean

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    Do you have a problem that needs fixing? A wish that needs granting? A desire for love, a need for protection, or maybe just great parking? Look no further than the local grocery store! Experienced psychic, witch, and high priestess Lexa Roséan offers spells for every occasion in this amusing, magically effective, and easy-to-follow guide. Formulating spells based on history and legend, Lexa tailors tried-and-true Ancient Magick to the modern reader, substituting hard-to-find wild ingredients with their supermarket counterparts, resulting in spells that are simple and inexpensive. By following some simple rules--performing spells at a certain time of month, using fresh ingredients, with a specific intent--Lexa makes it possible for even the most inexperienced spell caster to successfully perform magick and get results.

    The Supermarket Sorceress is the first in a series of four books offering spells and enchantments using simple grocery-store ingredients. Originally published in 1996, this updated version includes new and revised spells and an introduction looking back 20 years and reflecting on the circumstances that inspired the original publication and launched the "Supermarket Sorceress" identity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCosimo Books
    Release dateOct 20, 2015
    ISBN9781616409630
    The Supermarket Sorceress: Spells, Charms, and Enchantments Using Everyday Ingredients to Make Your Wishes Come True
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    Lexa Rosean

    Lexa Roséan is the author of The Supermarket Sorceress, The Supermarket Sorceress's Sexy Hexes, The Supermarket Sorceress's Enchanted Evenings, Easy Enchantments, PowerSpells, Zodiac Spells, and TarotPower. A high priestess of Wicca, she is currently astrology advisor for CosmoGirl and Seventeen magazines, and will be featured in two upcoming documentaries about Wicca -- Out of the Broom Closet and Potion. A professional psychic and astrologer, she lives in New York City. Visit Lexa on the Web at www.LexaRosean.com.

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      This book is pretty much useless for anyone with any serious interest in magic, given the lack of any kind of citations, and very uneven attempts to explain the rituals. With spells on the order of 'drink a cup of peppermint tea before bed' and nearly all the spells focused on love life, appearance and money, it's aimed not so much at a sorceress as at the protagonist of a chicklit novel.

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    The Supermarket Sorceress - Lexa Rosean

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    20-Year Reflection

    In 1995, it was my honor to be a guest on The Joan Rivers Show. Joan was doing a Valentine's Day special and exploring love in its many aspects. She asked me to demonstrate some love spells. I came equipped with Venus incense, Love powder, and essential oils to dress an assortment of red figure candles in various gender combinations to call forth love. All the items I worked with were very traditional ingredients that would be difficult to obtain outside of an obscure occult store. Ms. Rivers and I had a wonderfully wicked time working all these love spells, and my impression of her was that along with the irreverence of her on-camera persona, she had a great reverence for all things spiritual. What, you may ask, does this have to do with The Supermarket Sorceress? Well, it's how it all began…

    In the weeks that followed the show, I received so many calls from people all around the country asking for my help with love spells. None of them lived in New York. I offered to send them catalogues to be able to purchase the candles, essential oils, and incense I had used on the Rivers show. Remember, this was back in the '90s, and there was no real Internet or online ordering. One woman seemed pretty desperate to keep her husband from cheating and leaving her, and several others wanted help with matters of the heart. As I have written many times before, magic is not a quick fix for all that ails. Witchcraft is often turned to as a last resort, but it is much more effective when used early on to help with the formation of projects and desires or for preventative reasons (to keep anything from going wrong). Nonetheless, all these people on the phone were in a big hurry to do a spell.

    There is something to the idea of utilizing the energy of our emotions in the moment that they flower, and based on this theory, I helped all the callers to devise effective spells using ingredients they had on hand in their kitchens. Some of these substitutions were no brainers—for example, I had used cinnamon oil on Joan's show. It's a fast-acting hot and spicy oil that brings success in communication and love. It is not a common household product, but most everyone has a jar of ground cinnamon spice in the cupboard. These experiences with the callers were so thought provoking and challenging that they inspired me to further my research.

    Kitchen Witchery or Kitchen Magic is a long-standing tradition. We must remember that some of the most ancient spells using obscure sounding ingredients were not obscure items to the ancients. They were the ingredients they had on hand. In ancient Greece, the hearth was the place of gathering, the source of warmth, and area for food preparation and preparation of offerings to the gods. Hestia, goddess of the hearth, was always the first goddess to be given libation or offering. I originally wanted to title this book The Magick of the Hearth, but The Supermarket Sorceress was decided upon by the editor/publisher, and I do think it reflects the modern (post-modern) way of foraging. (We can include farmer's markets, delis, health food stores, specialty shops, and even online shops.) The main message here is that a property, energy, a magic, if you will, is to be found in all things. The key to working spells successfully is not to find the most obscure item out there, but rather to find an item close to home. The closer to the home (the hearth), the more the energy will be likely to resonate with your own will and intent.

    Blessed Be. Good luck and good magic!

    –Lexa Roséan

    April 2015

    Introduction

    Welcome to the world of supermarket sorcery. The goal of this book is to create a magical bridge between the ancient and modern worlds; to reveal the powerful secrets still hidden in seemingly everyday products. Magic is a form of prayer, a way to petition the gods. Witches believe that the gods' divine spark is present in everything on the planet. Their energies are always at work and those energies can be harnessed for good or evil.

    For instance, every food product is ruled by a planet or astrological sign, just as is every person. Some foods have historical or magical connections with specific deities. It is this information that can guide us in how to utilize each food's magical properties. These attributes are as real as the nutritional values that foods contain. For example, no one questions the fact that leeks are a source of iron; in the same way, the ancient soldiers of Wales never questioned the fact that leeks would bring them success in battle. All of these spells are based on legend, lore, historical, and astrological information about products. Some products are suggested as modern equivalents for ancient and hard-to-obtain items.

    In my fourteen years of experience as a psychic, witch, and high priestess, I have counseled people from many walks of life. One thing many of them had in common was an awe of the powers of witchcraft. They felt an attraction and a fear at the same time, or felt they were breaking some taboo or experimenting with the powers of evil. This is a misconception about witchcraft created primarily by the fathers of the Medieval Inquisition and perpetuated by Hollywood. According to Charlie Murphy, a pagan folklorist, nine million European women died during the 500 year reign of the Inquisition. Terror was employed to force public acceptance of the church, and the Goddess along with her priestesses were systematically demonized.

    It is interesting to note that Shakespeare's source for the witches in Macbeth was Holinshed's Chronicles, in which the entities who spoke to Macbeth were described as the three Fates, or beautiful fairies or nymphs. Shakespeare changed them into ugly old hags. Somehow the positive image of the Divine Feminine has been lost and replaced by the image of an old, long-nosed witch with a pointed hat and warts on her chin. The modern movement of Wicca, a reconstructionalist matriarchal religion, is desperately fighting to change that image. Modern witches are now being seen as healers and beautiful people made in the image of the God and Goddess.

    Spells and magic are gifts of knowledge passed down from generation to generation by shamans who understood the ways of the Earth and how to utilize the herbs and foods that grew upon it. This brings me to another misconception about magic and spells: Many people are interested in doing spells to attract health, love, money, and success into their lives, but they think the ingredients for these spells are too difficult to obtain.

    "Double, double, toil and trouble;

    Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

    Eye of newt and toe of frog,

    Wool of bat and tongue of dog."

    Oh, that Shakespeare!

    In defense of the witches of old, many of these scarier terms are simply nicknames for herbs and plants. There is some discrepancy over whether eye of newt is truly the eye of a salamander or simply a type of marsh berry. Tongue of dog is most definitely the common term for wild vanilla leaf. It is also known as deer's tongue, because deer are constantly munching on this particular grass. But you will not have to go out in a meadow to pick fresh herbs; you can simply stroll down aisle five in your supermarket. In this day and age, if a spell called for tongue of dog you would pick up a vanilla bean or vanilla extract. The ingredients for all the recipes in this spell book can be obtained easily in your local supermarket.

    A word about intent: The witches creed is Do what thou wilt and ye harm none, similar to the Judeo-Christian Golden Rule, Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Magic should not be used to manipulate others against their will. This is considered black magic. It is best to keep the focus on ourselves and our own needs. For instance, we can do a love spell to try and force someone into liking us (these spells usually backfire), or we can do a love spell with the intent of drawing love into our lives and trust the gods to lead us toward the person who will realize our desires.

    As experience has taught me not to bludgeon people over the head to do the right thing, I have included some spells of a manipulative nature (see the Obstacles and Enemies and Fidelity and Infidelity sections). In such cases I have also included the spells that counteract them or spells of a more positive nature. For example, in the enemy section, you can do a spell to freeze your enemy or you can choose the spell to let go of unpleasant feelings. The choice is yours. Let your conscience be your guide. Witchcraft is not a religion of rules and sins, rewards and punishments. It is a spiritual path involving the pursuit of the divine connection within. In The Charge of the Goddess, an anonymous litany from the witches' Book of Shadows, the Goddess says: Learn this mystery ... if what thou seekest thou findeth not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee. For behold ... I have been with thee from the beginning, and I am that which is to be attained at the end of desire.

    The real power lies within you. All spells in this book are simply tools and symbols to aid in your own empowerment. Remember, magic is best done with reverence, humility, and a healthy sense of humor! Good luck and good magic.

    —Lexa Roséan

    April 1995

    Acknowledgments

    Thanks to Alexander Dake, Katherine Mason, and Cosimo Books for breathing new life into this work. And always, thanks to my readers and your continued support.

    Moon Phases

    There are three basic phases of the moon: new, full, and dark. They correspond to the three aspects of the Goddess: maiden, mother, and crone. When the moon is moving from new to full we refer to it as waxing because the light is waxing, or growing fuller. It is traditional to work magic for

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