Peanut Butter and Jelly
For many people, being an effective practitioner of magic includes the ability to think outside the box. By being a creative and imaginative thinker, you can find magical uses for non-magical items. In 2008, About Pagan/Wiccan featured a weekly series in which readers were challenged to find ways of using regular household items as magical tools. For eighteen weeks, our readers came up with unconventional ways to turn regular items around the house into components in magical workings.
Let's take a look at some of the mundane items that we offered, and some of the clever and creative ideas our readers had.
Blinda: My husbands suggestion is to use them in a money spell because certain fruits are money attractors or in a spell to bring food into the house. I think they would be great to use in a relationship spell. Peanut butter as the male and jelly as the female (almost as a great rite representation). They are still two separate and whole (beings) items but together they make something great that works together well.
Chrissy: I would use a PB&J sandwich for a spell involving children. I always think of kids & my own childhood when I see a peanut butter sandwich. It might be a way to let a younger child participate in magic, letting them make the sandwich (if you don’t mind the mess).
Ryan: I like to use PB&J in place of bread when i have cakes and ale. It helps to remind me that magic should always be fun, and it keeps away the formal vibes.
Mrs.
B: PB&J could really make a great longer ritual with kids. Staining kid’s hands and feet with blueberries is a traditional and powerful protection ritual. Learning about where your food comes from is an important lesson for kids as well. You could, in season, take the kids out to a pick-your-own place, let them pick blueberries (staining their fingers up!) and make a batch of blueberry jelly. While mixing it up for the freezer or canning, add your intentions for this jelly to be full of protective influences. Then, each time you would like a little protection power for your kids (first day of school, first date, walking to the corner store with friends for the first time) you can just feed or pack them a blueberry jelly and peanut butter sandwich!
Melanie: I was going to say use in place of cakes and ale, but since it has already been stated, what about using it as an offering to the fae, gods/goddesses or the spirits? I’m sure they would like it just as much as we do! Even a harvest ritual would work, because all the food used in PBJs is usually collected around autumn!
Rasheedah: I would use PB&J in an abundance ritual. Using a cookie cutter in the shape of a person,make as many peanut butter forms as needed for each family member.Place forms in a circle(Wheel of Fortune). Let each person choose their favorite fruit jam or preserves and dollop onto shapes. Create your own ritual words letting each person name what abundance they would like to receive and have “stick” to them like the abundant fruits of Gaia are sticking to the PB. Oh, it would probably be cool to initial each PB person.
Solar Raven: Use for attracting change and abundance into your life that will be sweet and stick. Finding true love, good jobs, succeeding in school anything you want to be long lasting and positive.
Vandreyer: A PB&J could be used to help attract appropriate, wholesome, and enjoyable influences into a child’s life. It could also be used to attract the more childlike qualities back into an adult’s life.
Toni: This is something I have done with my mother and grandmother and now my children who are grown and will hopefully pass it on their children. We make peanut butter and jelly biscuits bake them in the oven in long loafs like bread then slice them and put an icing over them ever so thin. This is made to bring abundance and kept on the table during the holiday season to ensure there is always food on your table and so it will be there all the year through.
Isolde: I think a great use for pb&j is to help people stick together. as in a family, get everyone together for a lunch (a picnic would be ideal) and as u make the sandwiches fill them with the intent that all the sweet and salty “nuts” in your family stick together and blend in harmony!
Let's take a look at some of the mundane items that we offered, and some of the clever and creative ideas our readers had.
Peanut Butter and Jelly
Blinda: My husbands suggestion is to use them in a money spell because certain fruits are money attractors or in a spell to bring food into the house. I think they would be great to use in a relationship spell. Peanut butter as the male and jelly as the female (almost as a great rite representation). They are still two separate and whole (beings) items but together they make something great that works together well.
Chrissy: I would use a PB&J sandwich for a spell involving children. I always think of kids & my own childhood when I see a peanut butter sandwich. It might be a way to let a younger child participate in magic, letting them make the sandwich (if you don’t mind the mess).
Ryan: I like to use PB&J in place of bread when i have cakes and ale. It helps to remind me that magic should always be fun, and it keeps away the formal vibes.
Mrs.
B: PB&J could really make a great longer ritual with kids. Staining kid’s hands and feet with blueberries is a traditional and powerful protection ritual. Learning about where your food comes from is an important lesson for kids as well. You could, in season, take the kids out to a pick-your-own place, let them pick blueberries (staining their fingers up!) and make a batch of blueberry jelly. While mixing it up for the freezer or canning, add your intentions for this jelly to be full of protective influences. Then, each time you would like a little protection power for your kids (first day of school, first date, walking to the corner store with friends for the first time) you can just feed or pack them a blueberry jelly and peanut butter sandwich!
Melanie: I was going to say use in place of cakes and ale, but since it has already been stated, what about using it as an offering to the fae, gods/goddesses or the spirits? I’m sure they would like it just as much as we do! Even a harvest ritual would work, because all the food used in PBJs is usually collected around autumn!
Rasheedah: I would use PB&J in an abundance ritual. Using a cookie cutter in the shape of a person,make as many peanut butter forms as needed for each family member.Place forms in a circle(Wheel of Fortune). Let each person choose their favorite fruit jam or preserves and dollop onto shapes. Create your own ritual words letting each person name what abundance they would like to receive and have “stick” to them like the abundant fruits of Gaia are sticking to the PB. Oh, it would probably be cool to initial each PB person.
Solar Raven: Use for attracting change and abundance into your life that will be sweet and stick. Finding true love, good jobs, succeeding in school anything you want to be long lasting and positive.
Vandreyer: A PB&J could be used to help attract appropriate, wholesome, and enjoyable influences into a child’s life. It could also be used to attract the more childlike qualities back into an adult’s life.
Toni: This is something I have done with my mother and grandmother and now my children who are grown and will hopefully pass it on their children. We make peanut butter and jelly biscuits bake them in the oven in long loafs like bread then slice them and put an icing over them ever so thin. This is made to bring abundance and kept on the table during the holiday season to ensure there is always food on your table and so it will be there all the year through.
Isolde: I think a great use for pb&j is to help people stick together. as in a family, get everyone together for a lunch (a picnic would be ideal) and as u make the sandwiches fill them with the intent that all the sweet and salty “nuts” in your family stick together and blend in harmony!