Do you have a cauldron? Do you know any uses for it as a tool of magic? I really can’t find any resources for it, surprisingly.

ofwoodandbone:

mahigxn:

ofwoodandbone:

leaping-hare-witchery:

updownandthrough:

leaping-hare-witchery:

ofwoodandbone:

I don’t. 
What would be the most obvious use for it? I’d say brewing. 
Since it’s not much my thing, another witch might be able to help you out. 

@leaping-hare-witchery, care to assist? 

Yesss!

Mai definitely brewing. Brewing is always my first go-to. Why have a cauldron and spend the money on it if you can’t use it for what the tool was made for in the first place?

But, there are a great deal of uses for a cauldron. If you’re a practitioner who views tools as gendered, the whole fire in the womb of creation things can be REALLY powerful. I find that cauldrons and fire tend to just work well together. Granted if you burn something on your cauldron you won’t want to use it for food after that.

You can also use it as the central point in a working. Let’s say you wanted to “birth” a poppet. You could fill the cauldron with water, sink the poppet into it, then after some working, treading, dancing, or other act, you can literally birth the poppet from the waters of creation. Cauldrons can also be really good for group focus. Gemma Gary writes in “Traditional Witchcraft: A Cornish Book of Ways” that a group could well employ a cauldron in workings such as knot magic. Each group member will tie a knot into the cord, then it goes into the cauldron. After that, the coven or group will circumambulate while intoning their spell of influence. For me, that’s a little too ceremonial, so I would fill the cauldron with water, toss in the cord, and start an ecstatic rite where wall of stirring the cauldron together while circling and giving their power to the work. Then the cord is taken up and placed somewhere to work its magic.

You can also use them to in more maleficent workings such as stork conjuring. Into a cauldron boil some water. Toss in some henbane, and some fern. Begin intoning the spell and focus all your will on conjuring forth a grand tempest. Stir the cauldron to stir up the skies. Take your broom and dip it into the cauldron while stirring, then swiftly take up the broom and scatter the water on the ground. If you don’t feel like using your broom, you can simply burn the henbane and fern in the cauldron, whole dancing about the ring and calling up the storm you seek.

A cauldron is a RIDICULOUSLY versatile tool, and you can do so very much with it. Have fun and be safe.

Why … Why did I read this is James Charles’ voice? 

I am James Charles, hear me speak!

“Hark, coven sisters! Today we’re reviewing the MAC flying ointment ‘Manic Mandrake’!” 

“Hi shishstars! Today we’re gonna learn to sister summon a storm!! First grab your henbane, this is my absolute fave! So keep watching and we’ll send the inquisition ships fLYING, oof, wig”

I’m going to cry. This is beautiful.