Place a golden apple on Aphrodite’s alter to commemorate Paris’ gift to her for her beauty.
Call on the elements when adding ginger root to a love charm.
When performing a water spell for cleansing or when purifying space, use a magic broom made of ash for protection, birch for cleansing, or willow, which is blessed by the Goddess.
If your faith has been shaken, dine on a dish containing mustard seed and hope will prevail.
For courage in tough times, use edelweiss as a altar decoration in your spell work.
Offer a pomegranate to Persephone as part of a seasonal invocation to honor the consummate goddess of rebirth.
To secure the blessing of Venus, display her sacred fruit, the quince, on her altar.
Medieval foods were often salty; cook with flavoring herbs when recreating historical menus for ceremonial meals.
In lieu of hazel or apple boughs, make a wand from peach twigs as the ancient Chinese wizards were known to do.
Bake a summer-scented cake reminiscent of Elizabethan time for a summer ritual, decorate it with lavender florets.
To enhance fecundity, fill your altar chalice with ritual wine and toast to the goddess of fertility.
For a twilight ritual bath, prepare a sacred sachet of rose petals, dried mint and a pinch of crushed cloves.
Vervain was venerated by the Druids almost as much a mistletoe; when gathered under the Dog Star with appropriate rites, it would be used for ceremonial magic and healing.
The dye made from saffron flowers was regarded as holy; it created the gold/orange coloring for medieval monks robes.
The silver fir is the quintessential evergreen of the Celtic Ogham, adorn your ritual altar with it’s cones.
Since white flowers are ruled by the energy of the Moon, conduct a gratitude rite in a bed of tube roses by the light of the Moon.
Create a Fall Equinox adornment with dried wheat, lavender, and poppy seed moss.
Since oranges were served only to the nobility in medieval times, offer oranges to be shared by all in attendance at a ritual gathering.
As an offering to your familiar, cultivate cat grass on a well lit windowsill, it helps control fur balls.
Use dragon’s blood as a ritual ink.
In keeping with Celtic tradition, adorn your Yule altar with three acorns to augment ritual work.