Food as Portal to The Spirits Worlds
Food is a basic foundation of our human existence—which gives us direct access to the spirit realms when working with food.
Food is both valuable and readily available. The value portion I speak of is in the way our food provides us with micro and macronutrient properties to support our survival.
The availability and necessity of food make for an integral part of our lives.
“But what does this have to do with spirituality and magic, Sierra?”
Food is important in our spirituality because food is available—it is an integral part of living and healing. According to Totelin (2015) when deciphering between food and medicine, something like garlic would fall into both categories in ancient Greek times.

“Egyptian medical papyri preserved in the museums of
Europe provides several details about the medicinal herbs
and adjuvants such as milk, honey, salt, and beer, on the
one hand, and, on the other, magical invocations, amulets,
and other curative devices. “(Subbarayappa, 2001)
These are a few examples of how food would have multiple purposes in the ancient world.
If we are speaking of honey in specific then look at how many layers of spirit can be worked with:
The honey bee
The queen bee
The worker bees
The ancestors of the bees
The honey it's self
“Folk medical systems encompass, for example, complex bodies of knowledge and belief,
specific modes of knowledge production (intuition, introspection, experimentation),”
(O’Connor, 2001)
When you are exploring lead with:
The nurturing of your intuition
Having a practice of introspection such as shadow work
Allow yourself to experiment and explore what is available to you
This is how our ancestors would have sustained, but in their environment, with their resources, and knowledge of their ecology.
There are many layers of ancestor and spirit workings to be done within your kitchen and the hearth of your home.
There are many ways to explore a kinship with the spirits through our food.
Your magic doesn’t have to be complicated.
It doesn’t have to be expensive.
It doesn’t have to be Instagram-worthy (although, it can be if that’s your kind of thing).
The ancestors would have used what was available.
Although, what was available to our ancestors may be different than what is available to us in our modern context.
I invite you to allow yourself to explore the grocery store, farmers market, or restaurant with a magical lens--a witch's eye.
What do you see when you look through that magical lens? Do you see the magic all around you?
Lead with intention, be introspective, and be mindful—
this perspective has so much magic and medicine.

REFERENCES
O’Connor, B. B., & Hufford, D. (2001). Understanding folk medicine. Healing logics, 13-35.
Subbarayappa, B. V. (2001). The roots of ancient medicine: a historical outline. JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES-BANGALORE-, 26(2), 135-143.
Totelin, L. (2015). When foods become remedies in ancient Greece: The curious case of garlic and other substances. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 167, 30-37.
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