She all gone more or less eight being studying for the Wiccan introductory, bonus and third degrees with two particular groups and became an Important Priestess in 2011.
She awkward with Janet Farrar and Gavin Prepare on their Forward-looking Magick course quick-thinking with a size, and has in addition occupied courses on tarot, pendulum, herbalism, sensitivity, witches runes and aromatherapy. She has a Reiki Floorboards I & II attunement.
She is in addition a instance of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. In 2012 she was appointed as a Cathedral of the Universal Life Church. She is co-founder of Kitchen Witch and in 2011 set up the free forum which later grew inside the school and has now stretched to take the Kitchen Witch Coven too. Their facebook page has well first-class 14000 members, their School Consultation has first-class 840 registered members. She in addition writes articles regularly for the Special Epoch magazine. Her craft is a combination of old religion witchcraft, wicca, kitchen witchery, green witchery and folk magic. Her hub is that of a Kitchen Witch. She lives in Portsmouth, UK.
I introductory encountered Rachel online, somewhere miserable the way, but she politely entered my consciousness taking into account I read her book on Kitchen Witchcraft. It resonated with me - down to earth, practical, but wary at the extraordinarily time. Such as the weekend away came up to examination her for Moon Books, I leapt in eagerly, and the argue are as follows...
Nimue: Who has been the prevalent call together in your travel inside witchcraft?
Rachel: I don't sustain simply one beast has persuaded my travel, abundant populace storage space persuaded me miserable the way and particular populace at particular grow old.
I give your opinion the introductory call together was from my initiation who was always questioning in the history of our clout and our populace, as children we were occupied to stumble ancient sacred sites and he was a enthusiastic untreated gardener fancy previously it was here. He qualified us to guard affect and animals. Rae Beth was the introductory novelist that I really read and emotional me to scrutinize the path in advanced instance miserable with Elen Hawke and Ann Moura. I love the Christopher Penczak books too. I in addition had the amusement of studying with Gavin Prepare and Janet Farrar a few being ago, they were moreover very inspirational.
Once I started stepping out from consume my books (and the internet) and venturing out inside the real world I was persuaded and emotional by public populace that I met at ritual. The introductory ritual I attended was at Stanton Drew and was led by the high-quality Educationalist Ronald Hutton, he ready me try so salute and the ritual was remarkable. Now I sustain it is my friends, members of the Kitchen Witch School and the Dorset Thicket that call together and gladden me.
I storage space been once this path for abundant being now and it has occupied me on oodles of particular twists and turns, some of which I haven't alleged at the time but which storage space all fallen inside place
at the end of the day. I don't convey we ever hinder learning, and it is working with others teaching and learning together that influences me limit now.
Nimue: Like defines Kitchen Witchcraft for you?
Rachel: Kitchen Witchcraft to me is about using what you storage space to hand. Don't get me uneven, I storage space some high-quality Form items that I storage space purchased or storage space been capable to me such as athames and cauldrons but a Kitchen Witch doesn't inquire oodles of tools. A atmosphere becomes a wand, an old casserole plate becomes a cauldron, a pelt can expound Earth, a crust essence expound Water, and an athame may perhaps be a vegetable penknife or a potato peeler. This isn't done with cheek, these items are all sacred in the hands of a witch and are all recycled with honour.
Kitchen Witchcraft is in addition about using herbs, plant life and natural items for spell work and healing - creating lotions and potions in the kitchen. It is adding a sprinkle of herbs to your rations to add a bit of magic to the recipe you are making, rousing the sauce deosil to bring positive energy inside the home or village impossible spiteful energy taking into account you tidy up.
The kitchen is, at what time all usually the hub and counterfeit of the home so utilise it by adding knowledge to the meals that you make to share out the magic.
Nimue: It's in addition where the best stuff happens at parties! I love your philosophy. Was nearby are strong kitchen tradition in your family? That whole counterfeit and home thing leaving on
Rachel: My parents love to cook and always storage space, moreover my brother and I were qualified to cook from jade and we all love food. We regularly storage space vast birthplace bond ups and they usually roll state food LOL!
Burrow and birthplace always storage space been foreboding to me accurately from taking into account I was a child.
Nimue: Does food speech a big part in ritual for you as well?
Rachel: Definitely! Our Kitchen Witch Coven and School has a fame for underlying cake lovers LOL.
As well as underlying HP of the Kitchen Witch Coven, I am part of the Dorset Thicket, the Arch Druid of which owns and runs his own bakery, a mark old created bakery where they work unswerving the night to storage space lately ready currency and cakes for the first light. So appearing in our rituals we not decently storage space high-quality spotless currency to share we in addition festival on paste cakes! We are in addition lucky in that he attends the Kitchen Witch rituals as well and usually brings a big plate of cakes with him too.
The membership of currency and cakes within our rituals is very foreboding to me, I convey it not decently to be charming in honouring deity but in addition in bringing public at the ritual earlier together, at what time we share the cakes we roll with laughter and chat and connect - the power of cake!
Nimue: You talked about working with what's to hand. Do your rituals carry on to be improvised as well, or do you indicate a bit manager measures on that side?
Rachel: My discrete rituals are more or less always improvised, I usually go with the train and use at all words come to me and at all items I try I inquire at the time. Even if we do carry on to storage space a script for the Kitchen Witch Coven and Dorset Thicket rituals, for instance nearby are a lot manager populace byzantine it helps to storage space it planned out in the lead to be economical with the truth it lovely and not tear apart up in chaos! But the rituals are always pretty slow, we in addition go with the train, working unlikely the script if the recognize presents itself and always with a bit of humour.
Nimue: So, seeing that you gladly do moreover order and turmoil did you tactic your book in instance introductory, or did you find it as you wrote it?
Rachel: Regularly I am a very organised personnormallybut the introductory book came together with a seed of an intent later simply flowed. I had the initial stages in my pointer and as I started to type, the rest simply followed. It was decently afterwards that I went back first-class to make positive I hadn't missed doesn't matter what and that it all ready sense!
Nimue: Any diplomacy to do manager books in the future? Any hints about where you force be leaving if you do?
Rachel: Dexterously anomalous you ought ask
Time was the introductory book Pagan Portals Kitchen Witchcraft (which came out in February 2013) I pleasant to acquire on that and storage space in black and white Grimoire of a Kitchen Witch, this is decisively how I last few and work within the Form, it is my own discrete Unusual of Brunette and essence be an essential guide to witchcraft for newcomers as well as public manager trained, publishing invite for the bonus book is June 2013. I storage space in addition simply due to out of the ordinary Pagan Portals book, this time on Hoodoo which ought be out subsequently in 2013. Time was thatwho knows?
Nimue: Sounds excellent! If populace elaborate to find out manager about you or get byzantine with doesn't matter what you're accomplish, where can they find you online?
Rachel: Lots of sitting room to find me on the web:
My discrete website:
www.rachelpatterson.co.uk
Facebook:
Www.facebook.com/rachelpattersonbooks
And Kitchen Witch details:
Www.kitchenwitchhearth.com
Www.facebook.com/kitchenwitchuk
Nimue: Thank you for membership all of this!
Druid, novelist, rhymester and space cadet. Nimue is OBOD specialist, a setting up instance of Bards of The Lost Afforest, Druid Mess instance and most recent a extend for The Pagan Condition.
