Love Potion....# 9?

Well, from yesterday's blog, we learned that the word "philter" means a potion, usually a love potion. This word appealed to me, because now I can use it to describe to people how Jonathan got me to fall in love with him. So during my research, I found some interesting things.


Here's how to make love potion tea:

LOVE POTION TEA

1 pinch of rosemary
2 teaspoons of black tea
3 pinches thyme
3 pinches nutmeg
3 fresh mint leaves
6 fresh rose petals
6 lemon leaves
3 cups pure spring water
Sugar
Honey

To make another person fall in love with you, brew this tea on a Friday during a waxing moon (moving from empty to full).

Place all ingredients in an earthenware or copper tea kettle. Boil three cups of pure spring water and add to the kettle. Sweeten with sugar and honey, if desired.

Before drinking, recite this rhyme:

BY LIGHT OF MOON WAXING

I BREW THIS TEA

TO MAKE [lover's name] DESIRE ME.

Drink some of the tea and say:

GODDESS OF LOVE

HEAR NOW MY PLEA

LET [lover's name] DESIRE ME!

SO MOTE IT BE

SO MOTE IT BE

On the following Friday, brew another pot of the love potion tea and give some to the person you want to love you. He or she will soon begin to fall in love with you.

And here's the ever popular Love Potion #9:






LOVE POTION #9
To be performed on the 9th day of the 9th month.

 9 oz. sweet red wine
 9 basil leaves
 9 red rose petals
 9 cloves 

 9 apple seeds
 9 drops vanilla extract
 9 drops strawberry juice
 9 drops apple juice
 1 ginseng root, cut into 9 equal pieces

By the light of 9 pink votive candles, put these nine ingrediants into a cauldron on the ninth hour of the ninth day of the ninth month of the year.
Stir the potion nine times with a wooden spoon, each time reciting the following:

LET THE ONE WHO DRINKS THIS WINE
SHOWER ME WITH LOVE DIVINE.
SWEET LOVE POTION NUMBER NINE
MAKE HIS/HER LOVE FOREVER MINE.

Bring the mixture to a boil and then reduce the heat and let it simmer for nine minutes.
Remove the cauldron from the heat and allow the potion to cool off.
Blow nine times upon the potion, bless it in the names of nine love-goddesses, (see below) and then strain it through a cheesecloth into a clean container.
Cover and refrigerate it untill you are ready to serve it to the man or woman from whom you desire love and affection. (Do not allow anyone other than your beloved to look at,touch, or drink the love potion.)
The nine goddesses: Inanna, Ishtar, Astarte, Hathor, Nephthys, Aphrodite, Venus, Freya, Arianrhod

Hmm, I knew I shouldn't have drank that weird drink Jonathan gave me on Halloween.


Anyway, here's some love potion humor for you:

Well, seeing as how today is 1-11-11, I need to go celebrate by doing something weird.


<3 LD