DIY Intention Simmer Pots for the Witchy Holiday Season
DIY Intention Simmer Pots for the Witchy Holiday Season covers simmer pot spells and witchy herbal simmer pot recipes with Plants By Laurali! Looking to practice seasonal witchcraft or vibe with the lunar cycle? These slow cooker spells are the perfect way to bring your manifestation to life.
Intention simmer pots are one of my favorite green hearthcraft spells to do! These kinds of spells are fragrant, fruity, and bring your manifestation to life from the comfort of home.
Witchy simmer pots are where you release your intention through steam. You fill a slow cooker with fragrant herbs and turn up the heat! It’s a simple yet powerful spell to do.
With the simmer pot, you’re actually using the four elements. The water element is the base of the spell; herbs and fruits represent the earth element; the air element is the steam; and the fire element is the heat that warms the simmer pot.
Calling on the four corners amplifies a spell, taking it in all four directions. The number four represents home, stability, family, weddings, and celebration. It’s an important number that can be used in spells.
In a yoga witchcraft spell, you might use the number three for a mind, body, and soul connection. But, for most other spells, four seems to be the magic number.
With intention simmer pots, the possibilities are endless! It’s the optimal way to practice house witchcraft and kitchen witchcraft. A lot of witches, like myself, enjoy working out of their homes.
Simmer pots can be used in a slow cooker, which is what I typically do, but they can also be made in a boiling pot or a large cauldron heated with water. They can be used for holidays, the moon phases, and to bring new blessings and new beginnings into your home.
Be as creative as you want to be in making this craft. It’s important to set your intention beforehand and choose spell ingredients accordingly.
You can learn how to make simmer pots for manifestation by taking the time to charge the container that will hold and release your simmer pot intention into the air. Container spells use a vessel, such as a spell bottle or a teacup spell, to contain and focus energy, preventing it from slipping away.
The purpose of an intention simmer pot is to hold your spell, then release it into the ether, surrendering the outcome to the universe. I usually keep my simmer pot for no more than a day or two before getting rid of the ingredients in an eco-friendly way.
Fruit can be placed in a compost container, and herbs can be respectfully returned to the earth. If you end up using any crystals, you can take them out beforehand or, if they are tiny gemstones, offer them to the earth.
I consider making simmer pot recipes as part of being a cottagecore witch, as they are recyclable and hearth-centered. Of course, as with all spells, any type of witch can use them!
You can make a simmer pot for peace and calm, anxiety relief, and to bring positive vibes into the home! It’s something the whole family can enjoy and maybe even contribute to if you live in a witchy household.
Simmer pots make for good intentions! It’s rare to use them for any kind of baneful moon magick. The reason for this is that they are being held in a vessel and released into the home for good energies.
You never want to do anything that invites bad energy into your home, so simmer pots with an intention are better suited for positive, uplifting spells. Another reason you don’t want to use baneful herbs, like the kind found in the Goddess Hekate Herbarium, is that you might be releasing toxic or poisonous fumes into the air.
Working with a DIY simmer pot can be fun, creative, and innovative! There are so many ways to use them that bring happiness and well-being into the home.
DIY Intention Simmer Pots for the Witchy Holiday Season
DIY simmer pots are aromatic and can serve as natural air fresheners. They set the mood and tone for the holidays, seasons, lunar cycles, and planetary alignments. It all depends on what your goal is and what you’d like to use them for.
They set the ambiance when you walk into your home, creating warm, cozy vibes and a sweet-smelling fragrance. They foster a homey atmosphere and encourage self-care. It’s feel-good vibes all the way!
It’s a wonderful way to do an energy cleansing! It rids the air of disputes, negativity, and bad energies, including ghosts. It invites in the good energies!
If you’d like to use them for the witchy holiday season, you can design a simmer pot for each pagan holiday in the Wheel of the Year calendar. Let’s go through them one by one, as they each hold a different kind of energy.
Simmer Pots for the Witchy Pagan Holidays
For the Winter solstice, you might like to use pine needles, a citrine gemstone (to represent the warming sun), cranberries, apples, and orange slices with a minty peppermint herb! Yule Holiday ushers in the new year and happy things to come. Build a spell around that energy!
For the Imbolc holiday, you might like to use a cinnamon stick, whole cloves, star anise, and rosemary to create a scent that evokes nostalgia and warm memories. For fruit, you can add blackberries, as they represent the season at hand.
For the Spring equinox, you might like to use gardenia, wisteria, basil, and a green aventurine crystal with a vanilla bean. For fruit, you can use strawberries to create a strawberry shortcake aroma that’s absolutely dreamy for the holiday.
For the Beltane holiday, you might like to use rose petals, jasmine, honey, and peaches, along with carnelian, garnet, and rose quartz crystals. You can even use cocoa chocolate powder for an indulgent scent.
For the Summer solstice, you might like to use craspedia flowers, lemon slices, thyme herb, a cinnamon stick, and vanilla extract. These ingredients represent the warmth of the sun and the solar plexus.
For Lammas, you might like to use sunflowers, calendula, patchouli, and sunstone. For fruit, use citrus, especially lemon and orange slices.
For the Autumn Equinox, you might like to use maple leaves (for aesthetic), apple slices, cinnamon sticks, and bay leaves. You can also use a tiger’s eye crystal for both luck and balance.
For the Samhain holiday, you might like to use mini pumpkins, cinnamon sticks, whole allspice, and apple cider. Black tourmaline and black obsidian work perfectly for a Halloween simmer pot spell.
Secret Ingredients for Holiday Simmer Pot Spells
Moon Water - Use water from either a new moon, waxing moon, or full moon for your holiday simmer pot. It’s important to use an intention simmer pot for new beginnings, blessings, and growth.
Essential Oils - Use essential oils made from your favorite herbs and citrus fruits to create an intoxicating aroma that matches your intention.
Acorns, Leaves, and Branches - Use acorns, leaves, and branches to represent the energy of the spell you’re trying to create. It can be used for aesthetic and sympathetic magic.
Tea Magick - You can add tea magick to your simmer pot by adding a cup of herbal tea to your blend.
Apple Cider or Apple Juice - You can add apple cider or apple juice to create a stronger scent to your simmer pot witchcraft.
Florida Water - You can use DIY Florida water in your simmer pot to create clean, citrusy notes.
Healing Gemstones - You can add tiny gemstones or large crystals to your simmer pot to match the energy of your intention.
Tarot and Oracle Cards - You can add tarot cards and oracle cards to place around or near your simmer pot to complete the spell.
Infuse Simmer Pots With House Spirits
If you have a good relationship with the spirit of your house or your house spirits, you can also ask them to power and boost your spell! This is definitely their wheelhouse.
House spirits love bringing good energy into the home! They leave an open invitation for other benevolent spirits to come through.
When you’re working with a house spirit, they appreciate it when humans do kind acts for the home, whether it's cleaning, decorating, or adding plant spirits. Creating a simmer pot with an intention is the perfect opportunity to connect with the spirits of your house!
While the simmer pot is steaming, releasing sweet aromas into the air, pray to the house spirits about the intention you’d like to manifest. If you’d like to create new house blessings, ask the house spirits to assist you in creating a simmer pot that works best for that.
They can help you come up with fresh ideas and creations designed to warm the heart. Simmer pots are simply one of many of their hidden talents and abilities.
They can amplify a spell and breathe new life into it! You can usually feel their presence as you are working on the simmer pot. Be sure to put your intention into each ingredient as you add it.
Most of all, be sure to give thanks to your house spirits! Leave them out a baked good, honey, tea, or anything else you think they might enjoy. You’ll know they’ve consumed it, when it begins to look colorless and lifeless.
