Milk

Kitchen ingredient1 tradition

overview

Milk is the first food, and was poured as an offering to household spirits, the fair folk, and goddesses across Europe and India. Cleopatra is said to have bathed in it for beauty.

Uses

Offerings to spirits and the fair folk
Nurturing
Beauty baths
Fertility

ritual

Working with it

Leave a small dish of milk outside on a full moon as an offering to the land spirits, or add milk and honey to a beauty bath.

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Planet: ☽︎ Moon
Role: Offering: given to spirits and ancestors
Element: Water
Works for: Nurturing Fertility Beauty Emotional Healing
Forms: liquid
How to use: Ritual bathAltar or offeringBrew (drinkable tea)

Receptive

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Where the traditions place it

Moon — Common practice