Summer is coming soon, so it’s time to prepare your natural remedies. The stuff from last year may be expired or used up. Here are some recipes to help you survive the heat. Rose Vinegar Rose vinegar is an excellent sunburn treatment. To make it, just fill a jar or bottle halfway with dried roses, and then fill it with cider vinegar. Let it steep for a week in the refrigerator or a cool dark …
Oshun is the west African Orisha/Goddess of joy, prosperity, romantic love, and the sweetness of life. Aje Shaluga is one of her husbands (or wives, depending on your tradition), and the owner of all material wealth and currency. Many if not most workings or spells for love and prosperity call upon Oshun, and if material wealth is involved, Aje Shaluga as well. When you go to a priest/ess or root worker for assistance in these …
Four Thieves Vinegar is an infusion of lavender, sage, rosemary, and thyme in cider or wine vinegar. It is widely used in the Voudou, Hoodoo, and Conjure in the African diaspora. Like the Voodoo doll, its origin is European, but it has been very well adopted. So the legend goes, four thieves during the black plague in Europe gave the recipe in exchange for their lives. They said this is how they managed to rob plague …
