This recipe is to bring to mind the forest and can be used as a substitute for a forest.
Ingredients –
1 cup Dirt or craft
sand
1 pine
cone/bunch of needles and/or an acorn
1 tsp river water
or purified water
1 inch of moss (wild-crafted, or craft supplies)
a smooth
stone, preferably from a forest
1 jar
twine (for
aesthetics)
1 candle and/or incense that reminds you of the forest
Step 1 – Prepare your ingredients and create your space for magic, however your normally do it. Then light your incense and a candle. Play soothing forest sounds, maybe add some rain (check out Rainy Mood).
Step 2 – Think of being in the forest, and add your dirt/sand by hand into your jar. Feel the earth in your hands. Smell the dirt. Next add a few drops of your water and smell the way the dirt changes scents (just enough to get it damp, not to make mud).
Step 3 – Add your stone, and then place your moss on the stone. think of the boulders and trees you see with moss growing on them in the forest. Add a pine cone or needles, smell the sap, and see the trees. Add an acorn and think of the way life grows in the forest.
Step 4 – Pass the jar through the incense or over the candle 3 times. Chant or envision the jar turning into your forest. This jar is a safe place for a forest to grow. Place the lid on the jar and wrap the twine around the top three times, sealing the forest inside of the jar.
Now you have a mini forest in a jar! Use as a mediation method or to bring the energy of the forest to spells or altars. Open the lid and breath in the scent of the forest to calm down. If anything sprouts, such as the pine cones or acorn, or the moss grows, you can return them to the forest the next time you visit, or plant outside/in a pot.
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