Sabbat Box Blog — Lughnasadh
Discover the 2019 Lammas Sabbat Box • Hearth Witchery 10329
• 2019 LAMMAS SABBAT BOX • HEARTH WITCHERY • BOX BREAKDOWN •
Hail and Welcome, Sabbat Box Members and Friends!
We have arrived at the point of the year where the longest day is past us, and the slow waning of the day begins to give way to the longer nights. But summer is still very much in full swing and power and growth from the Sun is still in full effect. As we leave the summer solstice behind, we move toward the next stop on the Wheel of the Year—that halfway point between the solstice and the autumnal equinox known by many on the Path as Lammas or Lughnasadh. This festival historically is about abundance and the first harvest of crops, but in modern times we take this time to look spiritually at the return on the work put in at the beginning of the year and the harvest we hope to gain from it!
• BOX SYNOPSIS •
All of the items that we curated for you inside this box correspond with -or- may help assist you with the following forms of magick:
- Hearth magick
- Protection work
- Household spellwork
- Prosperity magick
- discovering new ways to enchant the home
While the harvest fields are an important focus in celebration of Lammas and Lughnasadh, there is also where the harvest ends up: the home and hearth. No matter where our lives take us, we all want a place to call home where we can refuel, recharge, and revitalize ourselves when our work or life stresses take from us. While hearth is generally referring to a fireplace or kitchen space, the term itself brings up images of warmth, security, and peace. It’s no coincidence the term hearth is close to heart, because what makes any structure where we reside a home is the heart and soul that we bring to it. It is where we gather with family and friends to share in our successes, lament our failures, and strengthen our connections with our fellow loved ones.
It is this idea—the hearth or soul of where we live—that we considered when curating items for this year’s Lammas Sabbat Box. We wanted to provide a collection of items and information on how we can better walk our paths when it comes to enchanting our homes and hearth!
• THE HOUSE WITCH BOOK •
ITEM 1: HOUSE WITCH BOOK.................$16.99
• WHAT: Hearth Witchery Book
• WHO MAKES IT?: Sourced via Simon and Schuster
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at The Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: A fabulous book written on the topic of hearth witchery and how to enchant the home.
BREAKDOWN
What makes a place a home? Is it the feeling of safety and security from the outside world or is there more to it? For many magickal practitioners, the home is the epicenter of their spiritual workings and the "home base” of their magickal path, so we wanted to include a more in-depth collection of information and lore surrounding the home and hearth. That’s when we found this great addition for your magickal library! Author Arin Murphy-Hiscock wrote and gathered extensive information for all things witchy in the home with this beautifully written guide on hearth and home witchcraft. Within its pages you’ll find rituals, spells, recipes and applications that you can add to your own practice and help to keep your home magically tuned, safe, and prosperous. Whether you want to know how to build different hearth fires for specific rites and occasions, to making corn dollies and other home arts and crafts, learn about herbal, color, and food ingredient correspondences, or gain a deeper understanding of the cauldron and its connection between magick and cooking, this book is a great addition to any library. At over 250 pages, this small (but packed!) book is a excellent compendium of things witchy for the home and hearth.
• BESOM PENTACLE PLAQUE •
ITEM 2: ALTAR PLAQUE..........$19.95
• WHAT: Besom Pentagram Plaque
• WHO MAKES IT?: Sourced Via Eclectic Artisans
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at the Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: A detailed plaque portraying beloved Pagan imagery.
BREAKDOWN
Since this Sabbat Box is all about the home and hearth, we thought to add a lasting addition to your altar or sacred space with this beautiful plaque. The design includes five besoms—common tools in the home to both practically and spiritually “sweep out” bad things. These besoms are arranged in a pentagram or star-shape, which are commonly used to represent the five interconnected elements of water, fire, air, earth, and spirit, but also can represent the complete person and the five aspects of nature and our place in it. This decorative display is an all-in-one way to evoke protection and security, banish negativity or evil, and signify that your home is protected by hearth and home witchcraft! Another use for the pentagram can be the placeholder for deity or higher power if the practitioner does not name or signify a specific god or goddess in their practice. This beautiful plaque is made from cold-cast resin and is hand painted. This plaque will make for a great addition to your home or altar decor. Prop this unique and charming piece up on your altar or hang it on a nearby wall with its built-in hanger. How will you incorporate your besom pentagram into your home?.
• HOME BLESSING INCENSE •
ITEM 3: LOOSE INCENSE..........$6.00
• WHAT: Home Blessing Incense
• WHO MAKES IT?: Wicked House Merchantile
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at Wicked House Merchantile and the Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: A traditional blend of purifying and cleansing herbs suitable for any spiritual working.
BREAKDOWN
One thing that makes a hearth or home a welcome place is its scent: a wonderful meal bubbling on the stove, the smoky crackle of a home fire, or even a sweet baked treat cooling on a windowsill. Since our theme is “hearth witchery,” we thought we’d provide a way to create a cozy aroma for your dwelling or to accompany a ritual or working. Home Blessing incense is a handmade blend of pine, cedar and sage that not only evokes an earthy scent, but also provides a natural blend of smoke great for protection and cleansing your homestead.
ABOUT THE VENDOR:
Wicked House Merchantile offers a huge variety of over 1,500 items such as candles, tools for your apothecary and altar, herbs and flowers, statues, incense blends, teas, spell kits, one of a kind trunks and so much more...that is just waiting to be added to your magickal space. Come and sit a spell and get lost in all that Wicked House has to offer!
Learn more about this vendor in the featured vendors section below...
• RITUAL SALT SET •
ITEM 4: RITUAL SALT SET.........$12.00
• WHAT: Witches' Hearth Salt Set
• WHO MAKES IT?: Sabbat Box w/ Custom Palo Santo from Earthen Alchemy
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at The Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: A special kit of three ritual salts.
BREAKDOWN
While the use of salt in the kitchen and hearth as a mundane spice and preservative is common, the spiritual practice of using salt is just as diverse and useful. Our Witches’ Hearth Sacred Salt Kit includes a pack of black, Himalayan pink, and white Dead Sea salts, as well as a stick of laser engraved Palo Santo wood for clearing sacred space and helping to aid to various spiritual workings. We also included a skeleton key that can be incorporated into workings as a way to open doors or offer shelter for positive energies and spirits (or to lock out negative energies).
• SELENITE CRYSTAL BOWLS •
ITEM 5: CRYTSAL BOWL.................$9.95
• WHAT: Selenite Bowls
• WHO MAKES IT?: Sourced via Kheops International
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at the Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: A beautiful crystal addition to any altar or sacred space.
BREAKDOWN
Since we included our custom made Sacred Salt Set in this box, we thought we might provide a permanent tool for your altar or sacred space that can be used as a vessel to hold it, and this selenite bowl fits that bill. Selenite, a natural soft gypsum crystal, is believed to provide energies of protection, peacefulness, and positivity as well as healing. Also, selenite is a cleansing stone and these little bowls are a great way to spiritually cleanse and charge other stones and small objects. Perfect to use on your altar to spiritually cleanse your space.
• HEARTH WITCHERY INSERT •
ITEM 6: BOOK OF SHADOWS PAGE..........$3.95
• WHAT: Hearth Lore Book of Shadows Page.
• WHO MAKES IT?: Sabbat Box
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at Sabbat Box
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: A small guide on the lore of hearth witchery and lore.
BREAKDOWN
This box’s guide is all about the hearth and its practices, rituals, and lore from around the world, as well as information about house spirits and their history among pagan and witchcraft communities. Learn about different beliefs and practices from history all around the world with this convenient, all-in-one place reference that would be a great addition to any practitioner’s grimoire or book of shadows.
• PACKING & SHIPPING •
PACKING & SHIPPING: Part of the costs of your box include the box and the packing material itself. The items listed below account for a good portion of the overall costs for the Lammas Sabbat Boxes. Each Lammas Sabbat Box is lined with paper padding and wrapping to add to the surprise of what we’ve curated for you. Shipping is also included in the total price for Sabbat Box members. The average cost to ship boxes is roughly $9.90. Also, we here at Sabbat Box wish to be as environmentally friendly that we can be and do our best to source packing supplies and material from companies that have the same beliefs we do, in that we want to make as little of an impact as possible on the environment, while also keeping the content of your boxes safe as they make their journey to you.
BOXES: Your boxes where made from high quality corrugated paper and are 100% recyclable. Please try to find another use for your box. They are 9x9x3 on the inside. You could decorate your box to hold some magickal supplies or use it again to ship something to someone or save it for another time when you may need it. If you have to get rid of it, please try to recycle it.
BROCHURES: Your brochures are printed on recyclable 16pt paper, which is sourced from sustainable forests.
TISSUE PAPER & FILLING: The tissue paper inside is made from 100% recycled paper and is recyclable. The colored filler inside each box is made from scraps of recycled colored crinkle paper and is biodegradable. The filler comes from an eco friendly, woman owned company.
STICKERS: The stickers found within your boxes where printed on vinyl with a gloss laminate.
• SABBAT BOX SAVINGS & COUPONS •
SAVINGS:
Part of our goal is to provide a number of items to our members at a value far above what individuals can purchase on their own. When you add up all of the items inside your LAMMAS Sabbat Box, as well as costs for shipping and packaging, you are saving over $25. We believe this to be another good reason to be a member. Also, each box we create helps to support Pagan run businesses and their employees. Sabbat Box looks forward to continuing to stay within our mission to work with other Pagan businesses to supply products for each box.
MIDSUMMER SABBAT BOX PRICE BREAKDOWN
• Total MSRP of items inside: $68.84
• Total Savings on this box: $18.89
• Total Shipping Savings: $9.90
• Grand Total In Savings: $28.79
Our members helped to support 6 small/Pagan run businesses with their Sabbat Box membership! We work with other Pagans and Pagan owned businesses within the community to purchase, curate and supply the items featured within our boxes. In the end, we want to help the community grow and share our business with companies that share our same values and standards.
• SABBAT BOX FEATURED VENDOR - WICKED HOUSE MERCHANTILE •
COMPANY: WICKED HOUSE MERCHANTILE
ABOUT THEM AND WHAT THEY SELL: We are a mother/daughter duo that has been running Wicked House since 2011. We are an online shop only that resides in the beautiful trees of the Pacific Northwest. We love catering to witches on a budget, We understand what that's like therefore, we offer layaway plans that are created with you and your budget in mind. We strive to be a one stop shop for all your apothecary needs and one of a kind items that are sure to add a little extra magick whether you are a beginner or experienced in your chosen path..
Wicked House Merchantile offers a huge variety of over 1,500 items such as candles, tools for your apothecary and altar, herbs and flowers, statues, incense blends, teas, spell kits, one of a kind trunks and so much more...that is just waiting to be added to your magickal space. Come and sit a spell and get lost in all that Wicked House has to offer!.
- WEBSITE: http://wickedhousemerchan.wixsite.com/wickedhouse
- INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/wicked_house_merchantile/
- FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Wicked-House-Merchantile-286563011408609/
• SABBAT BOX FEATURED VENDOR - ECLECTIC ARTISANS •
COMPANY: ECLETIC ARTISANS PAGAN MARKETPLACE
ABOUT THEM AND WHAT THEY SELL: Located in Pinellas County Florida, Eclectic Artisans is the sister company to Sabbat Box, and offers over 3,000 products from a myriad of pagan vendors and businesses. Discover a variety of unique ritual tools, spell supplies to help aid you along your spiritual journey!
- WEBSITE: https://eartisans.net
- FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/eclecticartisansofflorida/
- TWITTER: https://twitter.com/eartisans
- PINTEREST: https://www.pinterest.com/EArtisans
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Use the code above at ECLECTIC ARTISANS and receive 10% OFF your next purchase!
• TIME •
TIME: We take pride in assembling each and every Sabbat Box by hand, no matter the amount of time it takes. We don't just throw your items inside a flat rate priority mail box like some other subscription box companies out there. We want your Sabbat Box to be delivered to you as beautifully as it left us, and it takes a tremendous amount of time to complete this task.
This includes folding the boxes together, individually cutting each sheet of tissue paper by hand, weighing out the crinkle paper for each box, designing the flyers, coupons, stickers and brochures to be printed professionally by commercial printers, individually placing each item within their corresponding bags, individually assembling the boxes, individually packing the tissue paper within each box by hand and also putting together and creating product packing. This timeframe doesn't even include the efforts made to manage the Sabbat Box website, the back end billing system, social media management, customer service inquiries, accounting, marketing, purchasing, networking, and so on. This is a labor of love and we enjoy serving the community!
We believe in what it is we are doing and we sincerely hope that each and every one of you can see that the purest of intent and utmost care goes into curating each Sabbat Box.
• OFFICIAL 2019 LAMMAS SABBAT BOX UNBOXING VIDEO •
• 2019 LAMMAS UNBOXING VIDEO •
We would like to thank each and every one of our suppliers, vendors, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, our members, for making Sabbat Box possible. This wouldn't even be happening if it wasn't for our members. We hope to continue to serve the Pagan community at large and continue to provide you inspiration to celebrate The Wheel of the Year! Have a Blessed Lammas!
Blessed Be,
Llyfr & Hugh
Founders of Sabbat Box
- Aeden B
- Tags: Hearth Witchery Lammas Lammas Box Lughnasadh
Lammas 2019 Sabbat Box Theme Release • Hearth Witchery 112
• 2019 LAMMAS • SABBAT BOX THEME • HEARTH WITCHERY •
Boxes ship: 7/19 ~ We have arrived at the point of the year where the longest day is past us, and the slow waning of the day begins to give way to the longer nights. But summer is still very much in full swing and power and growth from the Sun is still in full effect. As we leave the summer solstice behind, we move toward the next stop on the Wheel of the Year—that halfway point between the solstice and the autumnal equinox known by many on the Path as Lammas or Lughnasadh. This festival historically is about abundance and the first harvest of crops, but in modern times we take this time to look spiritually at the return on the work put in at the beginning of the year and the harvest we hope to gain from it.
Lammas, or “Loaf-Mass” is a celebration of the reaping of crops and the first summer harvest. While we may not all be farmers or work literal fields, we all have our own work and sowing our intentions and patiently waiting for growth and a return on our efforts regardless of the time of year. So on the first day of August, we take the time to acknowledge our actions and choices and celebrate those that have brought us prosperity or security as well as examine those actions and choices that have not.
The other name for this sabbat, Lughnasadh (pronounced LOO-NA-SAH), has a more specific purpose, as it is believed that the first festival was held by the god Lugh as a funeral feast for his deceased mother Tailtiu and an athletic competition. This time also became a time of sacrifice as well, as it was important to offer the first crop cuttings to the gods in gratitude for the harvest itself. Here in parts of North America at this time there are literal “first fruits” such as the beginning of the blueberry harvest season.
While the harvest fields are an important location in celebration of this sabbat, there is also where the harvest ends up: the home and hearth. No matter where our lives take us, we all want a place to call home where we can refuel, recharge, and revitalize ourselves when our work or life stresses take from us. While hearth is generally referring to a fireplace or kitchen space, the term itself brings up images of warmth, security, and peace. It’s no coincidence the term hearth is close to heart, because what makes any structure where we reside a home is the heart and soul that we bring to it. It is where we gather with family and friends to share in our successes, lament our failures, and strengthen our connections with our fellow loved ones.
It is this idea—the hearth or soul of where we live—that we considered when curating items for this year’s Lammas Sabbat Box. We wanted to provide a collection of things and information on how we can better walk our paths when it comes to our homes and hearth, and we hope that you will enjoy what we have put together. This year, as the harvest begins, make sure you remember what all that planting and harvesting is for: to make your own little piece of the world the most prosperous and happiest it can be, to make your residence the very example of hearth, home, and soul.
- Aeden B
- Tags: Hearth Witchery Lammas Lughnasadh Sabbat Box Theme
Discover the 2018 Lammas-Lughnasadh Sabbat Box • Shamanic Connection 13
• 2018 LAMMAS SABBAT BOX • SHAMANIC CONNECTION • BOX BREAKDOWN •
Hail and Welcome, Sabbat Box Members and Friends!
Lughnasadgh, the Gaelic festival and feast celebrating the first harvest is upon us! For this year's Lammas Box, we looked at the connection between the first harvest and the world of the first spiritual practitioners, Shaman. We hope that with this year's Sabbat Box for Lammas, you are able to connect with the Sabbat in a unique way, while also enjoying the fruits of your labor and the joy of abundance that this beloved Sabbat represents.
- As some of you may know, we are currently at our maximum membership capacity at Sabbat Box. We have implemented a waiting list for those interested in joining when membership positions become available. You can join the waiting list here.
- Do you or someone you know make a product that would appeal to the Pagan community? Are you looking to launch a product or get your product in front of a large audience? If so, lets talk! Sabbat Box is always looking for new vendors and suppliers that create unique items to feature inside an upcoming Sabbat Box. Sabbat Box is a great way for people to find out about you, your product or your company. Whether you are looking to advertise inside the box or wish to feature a product within a box, we would love to hear from you. Register to become a Sabbat Box Supplier/Advertiser today.
• BOX SYNOPSIS •
All of the items that we curated for you inside this box correspond with -or- may help assist you with the following forms of magick:
- Help to aid with meditation
- Purification
- Spiritual cleansing and healing
- Offerings and divination
- Helps one to incorporate different tools that come directly from the earth into your practice
For this year’s Lammas Sabbat Box, we wanted to highlight the reliance on the earth by focusing on the original, human-spirit connection method: shamanism. While the most familiar picture of shamanism for many of us refers to the indigenous peoples of North America, shamans have extisted under different titles and names in every part of the globe from the beginning of human history. These early practitioners were the medicine people, the advisors, the knowing members of their group or tribe who were revered and honored highly in those cultures, Shamanism generally refers to practicing higher states of consciousness (sometimes through mind-altering plants and substances called entheogens) as a means of connecting to the Otherworld or Divine. Shamans would enter altered states of consciousness, reaching a state referred to as ecstasy, which in this state would divine messages and help provide guidancefor their people. Dancing, singing, drumming, storytelling, and ritual reenactments of important events were just some of what ancient (and modern) shamans throughout the world have done in their practice. Shamans were also the first spiritual practitioners who incorportated ritual tools and objects from the earth into their practices.
We at Sabbat Box--who are committed to introducing and providing tools to modern-day practitioners--seek to honor these ancient practitioners with this year’s Lammas Sabbat box theme, Shamanic Connection. We have curated a collection of items that we hope will give deference to shamanic practice and how it has informed our own modern spell craft and ritual practice. At this time of year, with our focus on the gifts of the earthand our place in it, we hope that this year’s Lammas Sabbat Box might bring you a little closer to the earliest roots of Pagan practice and the Earth on which we live.
Much like the gifts of sustenance the earth provides us during harvest season, the earth alone can lend us all that we need to allow us to further strengthen our bond with it, to further nourish our spirit, and bring us closer the divine.
• SHAMAN WISDOM ORACLE CARD SET WITH GOLD BAG •
ITEM 1: ORACLE DECK.........$22.95
• WHAT: Shaman Wisdom Oracle Card Set by Leita Richesson (w/Gold Bag)
• WHO MAKES IT?: US Games
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at US Games or at The Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: This oracle deck is meant to provide a unique addition to your daily divinatory pursuits, while also acting as a standard oracle deck that can be used for standard readings.
BREAKDOWN
The Shaman Wisdom Card/Oracle deck is sure to catch the eye of many of our subscribers as it touts itself as a daily insight and medication deck inspired by Native American wisdom and shamanic practices. While the deck itself is non-specific to any one tradition or Native American tribe, we believe it serves as a launch point for those interested in earth-centered teachings and beliefs.
Each Shaman Wisdom deck has 65 cards divided into groups of different trees, moons, stones, plants, animals and directions. Cards 1–12 represent the twelve moons, or twelve astrological months of the year. The accompanying booklet gives the dates of the moon period with a short description of the cards’ intent. The next twelve cards depict the 12 animal sisters; animals such as the eagle and the buffalo that are considered spiritual helpers. There are twelve cards that relate to plants, twelve trees, ten sacred stones, and seven great directions.
Use it to familiarize yourself with the basic concepts of earth based spirituality and expand your knowledge. This deck is produced by US Games Inc, one of the largest publishers of tarot decks, oracle decks and inspirational decks, who is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year! Some of the most popular tarot decks are published by this company and they hold a variety of awards centered around divination.
• SMUDGE SET WITH RITUAL HORN BOWL, GUINEA FOWL FEATHER AND SMUDGE STICKS •
ITEM 2: SMUDGE SET.............$21.50
• WHAT: Smudging Set with Guinea Fowl Feather, Horn Bowl, and Smudge Sticks
• WHO MAKES IT?: Assembled via Eclectic Artisans
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available individually at the Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: These ritual tools are are great way to cleanse, protect, and purify a space as an honor to the practice of those who came before us.
BREAKDOWN
Smoke cleansing in some Native American practices is known as smudging, a multi-day ritual that involves fasting and certain preparations each unique to the tribes who practice it. That being said, smoke cleansing is universal to all cultures! This smoke cleansing set (smudging set) was included to assist our members with just that.
The first item of note is a bowl that is made of polished water buffalo horn. Native to Asia and China, the water buffalo horns utilized for this bowl are ethically salvaged. Use the bowl as a means of catching ashes from your herb bundle or as its own offering bowl.
Next is a Guinea Fowl feather. Related to the chicken, Guinea Fowls are native to Africa and have a unique reputation for pest control. They’re nature’s natural cleansers! Use the feather to gently direct the smoke of your smudge stick or herb cleansing bundle as another offering on your altar.
Finally, a set of 3 Lavender, Sage and Cedar smudge sticks complete your set. The combination of sage and cedar promotes protection while hints of lavender encourage relaxation. Burn this bundle to reset your space and tools or even cleanse your self! All of the herbs within this bundle are ethically sourced by a Native American Cooperative via Windrose Trading Company. Overall, this smoke cleansing kit is a wonderful way for you to connect with the earth around you during this earth-centered harvest.
• SHAMAN STONES (MOQUI BALL) SET WITH INFO CARD AND BAG •
ITEM 3: SHAMAN STONES.........$12.95
• WHAT: Shaman Stone Set (a.k.a. Moqui Ball Set)
• WHO MAKES IT?: Curated by Sabbat Box
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at the Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: These curious, naturally formed stone deposits hold a special meaning to many for their vibrational qualities to calm and focus the mind.
BREAKDOWN
In keeping with the earth based practices of this box, we are including a set of Moqui Marbles. These naturally-forming hematite concentrations are found throughout the Moqui Desert in Utah. Each stone is comprised of a sandstone core with a hematite shell. Hematite is known for its magical uses involving stability and concentration, and sandstone has multiple uses including concentration, community and unification, traits which also follow the way the stone is formed.
Shaman Stones/Moqui Balls are commonly used in gendered pairs and are held in each hand to promote grounding, balance, and focus during meditation or Shamanic journeying. They are believed to also help with discovering or further connecting with your spirit guides or animal totems, as well as enhance one's psychic abilities.
• HAND BLENDED PALO SANTO RITUAL CLEARING SPRAY •
ITEM 4: CLEARING SPRAY..........$4.99
• WHAT: Hand Blended Palo Santo Clearing Spray
• WHO MAKES IT?: Sun’s Eye
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available via Sun's Eye or at The Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: This convenient form of smudging and clearing provides a means to help purify and refreshen your sacred space or room.
BREAKDOWN
Palo Santo, also known as Holy Wood, is a wild tree native to Central and South American coasts. For centuries, these trees have been used for purifying and spiritual cleansing in various South American Shamanic traditions. Use this spray to cleanse any sacred spaces, a magical tool before your Lammas ritual, or as a perfume to set the scene. Palo Santo has a light baked apples or burnt sugar smell that’s sure to please! Some use it as a replacement for sage if they are particularly sensitive to it as well. This product is handcrafted by Sun’s Eye, a metaphysical perfumery offering a range of ethical, vegan and chemical-free oils, sprays, and other ritual items.
• HAND CRAFTED EGG SHAKERS/MARACAS •
ITEM 5: EGG SHAKER.........$6.95
• WHAT: Handmade Egg Shaped Maraca/Shaker
• WHO MAKES IT?: Sourced via Eclectic Artisans
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at the Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: These little egg shaped instruments make for a wonderful way to create sound and rhythm for meditation, mental focus exercises, space clearing, and shamanic journeys.
BREAKDOWN
The wooden egg shaker is an easy-to-learn instrument originating from Latin America and available in most music shops around the globe. Similar to maracas, the egg shaker can be used to add percussion to your harvest ritual or drum circle.
The traditional egg shape is representative of the womb, life, fertility, and birth, and can be used to encourage the fertility of the earth and the growth of the crops. You can also use them to represent the pace of your beating heart during shamanic journeys or astral projection, and in combination with smudging or prior to rituals as a form of spiritual cleansing through sound. Made from a wooden shell filled with seeds and decorated with plant-like patterns, this instrument adds to the earthy energy to your practices.
• SMUDGING PRAYER PARCHMENT/BOOK OF SHADOWS PAGE •
ITEM 6: SMUDGING PARCHMENT...............$1.95
• WHAT: Smudging Prayer Parchment/Book of Shadoows Page
• WHO MAKES IT?: Azure Green
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at the Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: A lovely prayer or incantation to use while clearing or cleansing a space with smoke or spray.
BREAKDOWN
While smudging is a heavily-involved multi-day smoke cleansing ritual native to some indigenous tribes, smoke cleansing is universal and commonly applied to most practices. The prayer included on this parchment is perfect to use with your smudging kit!
This 8.5 x 11” parchment scroll will also make a beautiful addition to any altar or ritual space, with wording that encourages the cleansing of the mind, body and soul. Break down each statement provided on the prayer and utilize it as part of your Lammas ritual or as a precursor to it.
• PACKING & SHIPPING •
PACKING & SHIPPING: Part of the costs of your box include the box and the packing material itself. The items listed below account for a good portion of the overall costs for the Lammas Sabbat Boxes. Each Lammas Sabbat Box is lined with paper padding and wrapping to add to the surprise of what we’ve curated for you. Shipping is also included in the total price for Sabbat Boxes. The average cost to ship boxes is roughly $9.50. Also, we here at Sabbat Box wish to be as environmentally friendly that we can be and do our best to source packing supplies and material from companies that have the same beliefs we do, in that we want to make as little of an impact as possible on the environment, while also keeping the content of your boxes safe as they make their journey to you.
BOXES: Your boxes where made from high quality corrugated paper and are 100% recyclable. Please try to find another use for your box. They are 9x9x3 on the inside. You could decorate your box to hold some magickal supplies or use it again to ship something to someone or save it for another time when you may need it. If you have to get rid of it, please try to recycle it.
BROCHURES: Your brochures are printed on recyclable 16pt paper, which is sourced from sustainable forests.
TISSUE PAPER & FILLING: The brown tissue paper is made from 100% recycled paper and is recyclable. The colored filler inside each box is made from scraps of recycled colored crinkle paper and is biodegradable. The filler comes from an eco-friendly, woman owned company.
STICKERS: The stickers found within your boxes where printed on vinyl with a gloss laminate.
• SABBAT BOX SAVINGS & COUPONS •
SAVINGS:
Part of our goal is to provide a number of items to our members at a value far above what individuals can purchase on their own. When you add up all of the items inside your Lammas Sabbat Box, as well as costs for shipping and packaging, you are saving over $34.00. We believe this to be another good reason to be a member. Also, each box we create helps to support Pagan run businesses and their employees. Sabbat Box looks forward to continuing to stay within our mission to work with other Pagan businesses to supply products for each box.
LAMMAS SABBAT BOX PRICE BREAKDOWN
• Total MSRP of items inside: $71.29
• Total Savings on this box: $25.34
• Total Shipping Savings: $9.50
• Grand Total In Savings: $34.84
Our members helped to support 6 small/Pagan run businesses with their Sabbat Box membership! We work with other Pagans and Pagan owned businesses within the community to purchase, curate and supply the items featured within our boxes. In the end, we want to help the community grow and share our business with companies that share our same values and standards.
• TIME •
TIME: We take pride in assembling each and every Sabbat Box by hand, no matter the amount of time it takes. We don't just throw your items inside a flat rate priority mail box like some other subscription box companies out there. We want your Sabbat Box to be delivered to you as beautifully as it left us, and it takes a tremendous amount of time to complete this task.
This includes folding the boxes together, individually cutting each sheet of tissue paper by hand, weighing out the crinkle paper for each box, designing the flyers, coupons, stickers and brochures to be printed professionally by commercial printers, individually placing each item within their corresponding bags, individually assembling the boxes, individually packing the tissue paper within each box by hand and also putting together and creating product packing. This timeframe doesn't even include the efforts made to manage the Sabbat Box website, the back end billing system, social media management, customer service inquiries, accounting, marketing, purchasing, networking, and so on. This is a labor of love and we enjoy serving the community!
We believe in what it is we are doing and we sincerely hope that each and every one of you can see that the purest of intent and utmost care goes into curating each Sabbat Box.
• OFFICIAL 2018 LAMMAS SABBAT BOX UNBOXING VIDEO •
Don't forget to share your unboxing videos with us for Lammas here
• OTHER RESOURCES RELATING TO YOUR BOX AND THE SABBAT •
LAMMAS INFORMATION, LORE AND MORE!
We would like to thank each and every one of our suppliers, vendors, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, our members, for making Sabbat Box possible. This wouldn't even be happening if it wasn't for our members. We hope to continue to serve the Pagan community at large and continue to provide you inspiration to celebrate The Wheel of the Year! Have a Blessed Lammas!
Blessed Be,
Llyfr & Hugh
Founders of Sabbat Box
- Aeden B
- Tags: Lammas Lughnasadh Members Only Shamanic Connection
Lammas 2018 Sabbat Box Theme Release • Shamanic Connection 1
• 2018 LAMMAS - LUGHNASADH SABBAT BOX THEME • SHAMANIC CONNECTION •
“Shamanism has been defined as the first religion. It existed prior to the earliest civilizations, before our ancestors took the first steps down the long journey to the present. Prior to this time, the shamans were the medicine people, the power wielders, male and female. They wrought magick and spoke to the spirits of nature” — Scott Cunningham, Chapter 1: Wicca and Shamanism, from the book Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner.
Rolling storms and blazing, humid days. The sweat dripping from your temple and the distorted waves of heat rising from the scorched pavement. In the spring, the seeds were planted. Through the summer, we toiled over the crops. As the fields of corn and wheat glisten in the searing August sun, their stalks ripe with grain, they await their final goal: The first harvest of August Eve.
Also known as Lughnasadh or Lammas, this holiday is ripe with history. Lughnasadh is a Gaelic festival and feast said to have been started by the god Lugh. A celebration of the funeral of his mother Tailtiu who died clearing the Irish fields for crops, athletic games were competed in her honor. The festival would also include trial marriages of a year and a day, and massive dinners of the first harvest’s grains and berries would be enjoyed by all. Also associated with August Eve is the English and Scottish holiday of Lammas. Known as the Gule of August in medieval times, Lammas Day was a festival marking the annual wheat and corn harvest. Loaves were blessed and broken into four parts to protect harvested grain in barns while fresh stalks of wheat were gifted to landlords and friends.
Contemporary August Eve celebrations rely heavily on wheat and corn, crops pinnacle to modern civilization. Loaves of bread grace our holiday feasts while corn dolls are made from the husks of the first harvest. As a harvest holiday, we reap what we sow: Goals set in the beginning of the year are coming to realization. We take inventory of our lives and find gratitude in the path we’ve traveled, paved by our ancestors before us. In fact, the ancestral land, the earth, is a quintessential part of Lammas. Without it, we would have no agriculture, no crops and no harvest. Life as we know it would not exist. We owe everything to the earth and those who came before us.
For this year’s Lammas Sabbat Box, we wanted to highlight this reliance on the earth by focusing on the original human-spirit connection method: shamanism. While the most familiar picture of shamanism for many refers to the indigenous peoples of North America, shamans have existed under different titles and names in every part of the globe from the beginning of human history. These early practitioners were the medicine people, the advisors, the knowing members of their group or tribe who were revered and honored highly in those cultures. Shamanism at the core of its meaning generally refers to practicing higher states of consciousness as a means of connecting to the Otherworld or Divine. Shamans would enter altered states of consciousness through many trance inducing methods, reaching a state referred to as ecstasy, which would in turn help to divine messages for the shaman which further helped to provide guidance for their people. Dancing, singing, drumming, storytelling, and ritual reenactments of important events were just some of what ancient (and modern) shamans throughout the world have done in their practice, both in celebration or reverence of the earth and divine, and to also promote higher states of consciousness.
Shamans were also the first spiritual practitioners who incorporated ritual tools and objects from the earth into their practice, the drum for example (made of animal hide and wood) being one of the original, or herbs, which were dried and then burnt as offering being another. We at Sabbat Box are committed to introducing and providing inspiration to modern-day practitioners while revering and seeking to honor the traditions of those who came before us with this year’s Lammas Sabbat Box theme: Shamanic Connection.
The inspiration behind this year’s Lammas box theme was to curate a box of products that are physically “of or from the earth.” In essence, gifts provided to us that we could use and implement into our own practices…the same way a “Shaman” or any of the original “earth based spiritual practitioners” would have. We did this in a symbolic effort to tie in the connection between the “gifts” of the harvest, and to also tie in the connection of our general ancestral roots as well.
Much like the gifts of sustenance the earth provides us during harvest season, the earth alone can lend us all that we need to allow us to further strengthen our bond with it, to further nourish our spirit, and bring us closer the divine.
*NOTE: The items that are found within this year's Lammas box are not intended to teach anyone how to be a "shaman," nor are they intended to teach any specific spiritual practice that coincides with Indigenous tribes or cultures. We wish to provide items that are inspired by the original spiritual practitioners who would use these gifts of the earth and to incorporate these gifts into your own spiritual practices. At this time of year, with our focus on the gifts of the earth and our place in it, we hope that this year’s Lammas Sabbat Box might bring you a little closer to the earliest roots of spiritual practice and the Earth on which we live.
- Aeden B
- Tags: August Eve Lammas Lughnasadh Sabbat Box Theme
Discover the 2017 Lammas Sabbat Box • Kitchen Witchery 3
• 2017 LAMMAS SABBAT BOX • KITCHEN WITCHERY • BOX BREAKDOWN •
Hail and Welcome, Sabbat Box Members and Friends!
It’s hard to believe that we are full into the swing of summer, and that the first harvest is right around the corner! We at Sabbat Box have worked hard to curate a collection of items for this year’s Lammas/Lughnasadh box by focusing on a particular type of witchcraft: the magick created in the kitchen. Kitchen witchery is truly one of the oldest forms of magic ~ not only was cooking and preparing food vital for the survival for our ancestors, but oftentimes (before there was a pharmacy) health remedies and other homemade cures and fixes started at the home hearth, making the kitchen the symbol of life, family, abundance, magick and more!
We hope that you enjoy these items that we’ve hand-picked for the celebration of Lammas. We hope they give you a deeper understanding of the season and help you to connect with the power and usefulness of kitchen magick.
- As some of you may know, we are currently at our maximum membership capacity at Sabbat Box. We have implemented a waiting list for those interested in joining when membership positions become available. You can join the waiting list here.
- Do you or someone you know make a product that would appeal to the Pagan community? Are you looking to launch a product or get your product in front of a large audience? If so, lets talk! Sabbat Box is always looking for new vendors and suppliers that create unique items to feature inside an upcoming Sabbat Box. Sabbat Box is a great way for people to find out about you, your product or your company. Whether you are looking to advertise inside the box or wish to feature a product within a box, we would love to hear from you. Register to become a Sabbat Box Supplier/Advertiser today.
• BOX SYNOPSIS •
All of the items that we curated for you inside this box correspond with -or- may help assist you with the following forms of magick:
- Lammas Rituals
- Kitchen Witchery
- Kitchen/Cooking Lore
- Creating/Decorating a Magickal Kitchen ~ Decorating a Kitchen Altar
As the Wheel of the Year makes its turn, we leave behind the longest days of Litha and find ourselves looking at the coming of Lughnasadh or Lammas. It is the time of year when the first crops are ready to be harvested and the bountiful results of hard work sown start to come to fruition.
Some people may not literally consider cooking in general to be an actual “ritual” or “spell,” but when it comes to preparing meals, the truth is, cooking and baking are some of the most fundamental rituals of people as a whole, not just Pagans. The work put into the kitchen, like the seeds sown in the field, can reap a harvest of sustenance, family bonding, celebration, and joy. What is a spell, anyway, but the carrying out of a recipe? In the deliberate intention that we exercise over our stoves, we are linked to ancient practitioners who worked over their own cauldrons, preparing not only the basic human requirement of sustenance, but also offering a sacrifice of love and toil to satisfy and show appreciation to their loved ones. There has been a long-held belief that when you are feeding someone something you prepared or cooked, you are sharing with them a piece of yourself, your will and intent, making the act of cooking a special form of magick, unique to itself.
Inside your Lammas Box, you will find an array of items specifically curated to help create a magickal atmosphere within the kitchen, as well as items meant to be used in combination with your Lammas celebrations to help draw forth and manifest the blessings of the earth that are symbolic of the harvest season.
• CORN DOLLY STATUARY • BY SACRED SOURCE •
ITEM 1: CORN DOLLY STATUARY.........$16.95
• WHAT: Corn Dolly Statuary With Informational Parchment
• WHO MAKES IT?: Sold By Sacred Source (Artist ~ Abby Willowroot)
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at Sacred Source or Sabbat Box
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: This adorable statuary is a wonderful addition to an altar or hearth as a representation of “the spirit of the grain” to ensure a plentiful “harvest” all year long.
EXCLUSIVE VENDOR COUPON CODE: "SABBATBOX"
Use the code above at Sacred Source and receive 25% OFF your purchase!
BREAKDOWN
With almost a year in the making to be included inside our Lammas Sabbat Box, this magickal mini corn dolly statue by Sacred Source is a symbol of abundance and prosperity, and is perfect for a Lammas, Harvest, or kitchen altar.
There are many variations of the history of the corn dolly, and the significance it has held. Ancient cultures believed that the “spirit” of the land would be homeless after the crops were harvested and barren, so a corn dolly would have been crafted with the first husks of grain of the harvest season, for the land spirits to inhabit over the long dark winter. It would have been honored and cherished until the followign spring, as it represented the abundance of the previous year’s crops, and the promise of the return of spring. Once spring came, the corn dolly would have been planted into the fields for the nature spirits to re-inhabit, to provide a hopeful return of a prosperous growing season. This makes the corn dolly an old and powerful form of sympathetic magick.
Check out our blog article, The Corn Dolly - The Spirit Of The Grain for a more extensive and detailed history of the corn dolly, where it stems from, and how it was used in the past and present.
ABOUT THE CORN DOLLY ARTIST - ABBY WILLOWROOT:
Abby Willowroot is a folk artist, writer, and High Priestess, and has worked within the Pagan community since 1965. Focusing on jewelry and 3D art in wood, stone and all manner of media, she has crafted numerous pieces featured in many articles, books, and museum shows. Her life's work is a dedication to promote Goddess imagery and raise Goddess consciousness in contemporary culture. You can learn more about Abby at her website, Spiral Goddess ~ http://www.spiralgoddess.com
Sacred Source, located in Crozet, Virginia, is owned by Liana and Pete Kowalzik. Since 1978, Sacred Source has been a leading producer and supplier of ancient deity statuary, hand crafted by artisans in India.
• KITCHEN WITCH SPOONS • BY PRIMITIVE WITCHERY •
ITEM 2: KITCHEN WITCH SPOONS.........$8.50
• WHAT: Custom-Made Hand-Burned Elemental Kitchen Witch Wand
• WHO MAKES IT?: Primitive Witchery
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at Primitive Witchery or the Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: A wand is one of the fundamental tools of spellcraft and witchery; what better way to complement your kitchen witchcraft than a wand made from a wooden spoon?
EXCLUSIVE VENDOR COUPON CODE: "BabaYaga"
Use the code above at Primitive Witchery and receive 10% OFF your purchase!
BREAKDOWN
These gorgeous hand-burned elemental kitchen witch wands (spoons) were custom made for Sabbat Box by Primitive Witchery. These wonderfully rustic wooden spoons will make for the perfect witchy decorative addition to your kitchen or kitchen altar. Made of birch wood, each spoon contains a hand-burned pentacle with the elements written out around it. Along with matching spirals and adornments, a further rustic and primitive feel is added by individually sanding and waxing each spoon by hand. The maker also rubs cinnamon into the homespun wrapping on the handle to give it a warm and inviting aroma. Each spoon is also lightly stained to protect the wood. For decoration or wand use only.
Primitive Witchery, located in Arnis, Tennessee, is owned by Loren Morris, known by many as the “Pagan Martha Stewart”. Loren creates a variety of items such as witch hats, fairy jars, spoons, brooms, primitive and magickal home decor products, and also accepts commissions for paintings and more.
• A HEDGEROW COOKBOOK • BY GLENNIE KINDRED •
ITEM 3: A HEDGEROW COOKBOOK..........$8.00
• WHAT: A Hedgerow Cookbook: Wild Cooking Solutions From Mother Nature
• WHO MAKES IT?: Written By Glennie Kindred
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at Wooden Books or the Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: This small volume is packed full of kitchen magick recipes, tips, and traditions to help you on the path of kitchen witchery.
BREAKDOWN
Inside this unique seasonal cooking guide for the kitchen witch at heart, author and hedgewitch Glennie Kindred shares with us her deep knowledge of the plant kingdom. Inside you will learn how to prepare and cook magickal mouthwatering recipes from the wild growing plants, herbs, fruits, seeds, and mushrooms of the hedgerow. Broken up by season, Glennie also shares the secrets of which wild plants are edible, as well as where and when to find them (in effort to help give her readers a deeper connection to the natural world and share our ancestors’ knowledge).
Wooden Books was founded in 1999 by designer John Martineau near Hay-on-Wye. The aim was to produce a beautiful series of recycled books based on the philosophies, arts and sciences. Using the Beatrix Potter formula of text facing picture pages, and old-styles fonts, along with hand-drawn illustrations and 19th century engravings, the books were designed not to date. Small but stuffed with information. Eco friendly and educational. Big ideas in a tiny space. There are over 1,000,000 Wooden Books now in print worldwide.
• PENTACLE COOKIE STAMP SETS •
ITEM 4: PENTACLE COOKIE STAMPS..........$8.95
• WHAT: Pentacle Cookie Stamp with Recipes, Instructions & Linen Bag
• WHO MAKES IT?: Produced for and distributed by Azure Green
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: The Sabbat Box Store
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: These cute cookie stamps add a little “witchiness” to cookies, which are great for ritual or spellwork or simply for a fun decoration to your favorite baked goods.
BREAKDOWN
These cookie stamps are an easy and fun way to decorate your homemade cookies and baked goods and are a great way to bring your craft into the kitchen. Each cookie stamp set contains a 1.3” handmade stamp (made from lead-free pewter by a small Massachussetts family business), instructions on how to use it, multiple recipes that work well with cookie stamps, and a hand sewn linen bag with hemp string to keep it safe when not in use. Use your stamped cookies for “cakes and ale”, as an offering, or in combination with other spells or rituals.
EACH SET CONTAINS:
- 1 x Pewter cookie stamp
- 1 x Instruction guide w/recipes
- 1 x Linen Bag with hemp string for safe keeping
• LAMMAS INCENSE + OIL SET •
ITEM 5: SABBAT INCENSE/OIL SET.........$8.95
• WHAT: Lammas/Lugnasadh Altar Loose Incense & Anointing Oil
• WHO MAKES IT?: Lailoken's Awen
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Available at lailoken's Awen or at Sabbat Box.
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: This small kit here provides a simple way to honor the sabbat of Lammas/Lughnasadh with unique blends geared directly toward the first harvest on the Wheel of the Year.
BREAKDOWN
Consisting of hand crafted loose herbal incense and a hand blended anointing oil, this Lughnasadh “altar” kit by Lailoken’s Awen will help you draw forth and connect with the energies of the season. Use the anointing oil to anoint your altar, candles, or your body, and burn the incense during your Lammas rituals. Use all throughout the year to attune the energies of the first harvest or when you need to reap what you have sown. Each set is ritually charged during proper timing.
INCENSE INGREDIENTS:
Frankincense, lavender, heather blossoms, apple blossoms, rose petals, cypress oil, patchouli oi
OIL INGREDIENTS:
Fractionated coconut oil, vetiver oil, patchouli oil, cypress oil, black pepper oil, cinnamon oil, sandalwood oil.
• LAMMAS KITCHEN WITCH TEA LIGHT CANDLES •
ITEM 6: KITCHEN WITCH CANDLE...............$2.75
• WHAT: Carnelian Infused Lammas Kitchen Witch Candle with Blessing/Spell
• WHO MAKES IT?: House of Good Juju
• WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Exclusive item for Sabbat Box
• WHY WOULD I WANT IT?: This candle’s unique correspondent blend of fixings (including a carnelian stone!) were tailor-made for the kitchen witchery Lammas Sabbat Box.
EXCLUSIVE VENDOR COUPON CODE: "SABBAT20"
Use the code above at House of Good Juju and receive 20% OFF your purchase!
BREAKDOWN
These hand poured tea light candles from House of Good Juju will make for a beautifully scented addition to your Lammas celebrations, as well as your kitchen altar. Made of components corresponding to the Sabbat; each soy candle is infused with amber, musk, vanilla, oak moss, and cinnamon, as well as myrtle leaf, calendula, and even real carnelian stone. Comes with a simple blessing and spell.
Kitchen Witch Tealight Candles
House of Good Juju, located in Utah, was founded by Kimmie back in 2014. House of Good Juju is a purveyor of Good JuJu and Positive Inspirations. Kimmi is an intuitive, moon oracle, dreamer, mystic healer, and herb/root worker. She hopes to bring illumination and good intent into your world through her products.
• PACKING & SHIPPING •
PACKING & SHIPPING: Part of the costs of your box include the box and the packing material itself. The items listed below account for a good portion of the overall costs for the Lammas Sabbat Boxes. Each Lammas Sabbat Box is lined with paper padding and wrapping to add to the surprise of what we’ve curated for you. Shipping is also included in the total price for Sabbat Boxes. The cost to ship boxes is roughly $9.00. Also, we here at Sabbat Box wish to be as environmentally friendly that we can be and do our best to source packing supplies and material from companies that have the same beliefs we do, in that we want to make as little of an impact as possible on the environment, while also keeping the content of your boxes safe as they make their journey to you.
BOXES: Your boxes where made from high quality corrugated paper and are 100% recyclable. Try to find another use for your box. They are 9x9x3 on the inside. You could decorate your box to hold some magical supplies or use it again to ship something to someone or save it for another time when you may need it. If you have to get rid of it, please try to recycle it.
BROCHURES: Your brochures are printed on recyclable 16pt paper, which is sourced from sustainable forests.
TISSUE PAPER & FILLING: The brown tissue paper is made from 100% recycled paper and is recyclable. The brown colored filler inside each box is made from scraps of recycled colored crinkle paper and is biodegradable. The filler comes from an eco friendly company.
STICKERS: The stickers found within your boxes where printed on vinyl with a gloss laminate.
• SABBAT BOX SAVINGS & COUPONS •
SAVINGS:
Part of our goal is to provide a number of items to our members at a value far above what individuals can purchase on their own. When you add up all of the items inside your Lammas Sabbat Box, as well as costs for shipping and packaging, you are saving over $16.00. We believe this to be another good reason to be a member. Also, each box we create helps to support Pagan run businesses and their employees. Sabbat Box looks forward to continuing to stay within our mission to work with other Pagan businesses to supply products for each box.
LAMMAS SABBAT BOX PRICE BREAKDOWN
• Total MSRP of items inside: $53.10
• Total Savings on this box: $7.15
• Total Shipping Savings: $9.00
• Grand Total In Savings: $16.15
Our members helped to support 6 small/Pagan run businesses with their Sabbat Box membership! We work with other Pagans and Pagan owned businesses within the community to purchase, curate and supply the items featured within our boxes. In the end, we want to help the community grow and share our business with companies that share our same values and standards.
• SABBAT BOX FEATURED VENDOR - SACRED SOURCE •
COMPANY: SACRED SOURCE
ABOUT THEM AND WHAT THEY SELL: Located in Crozet, VA, Sacred Source is owned and operated by Pete and Liana Kowalzik. Since 1978, Sacred Source has been offering unique God and Goddess statuary, deity statuary and altar statuary for a variety of Pagan and spiritual paths. They are especially known for their famous Spiral Goddess Statuary.
Sacred Source is one of the the longest running, family owned, sacred statue companies -- offering the widest selection of handcrafted deities available anywhere. In 1978, two friends formed a fair trade business to benefit a village of traditional handcraft artisans in Calcutta, India and to bring a selection of sacred images to the U.S. Today Sacred Source remains true to their mission of supporting their sister company while preserving their culture, protecting the environment and encouraging individual spiritual growth.
Sacred Source develops the design for their spiritual images to reflect the intentions of the artist, whether it was created 300,000 years ago or today. Their master artisans sculpt the image prototype, then mold small batches of statues by hand in durable, environmentally friendly materials. Your statue is lovingly finished for lasting beauty, then carefully packed for its long ocean voyage to America.
SABBAT BOX EXCLUSIVE 25% OFF COUPON CODE: SABBATBOX
Use the coupon code above to save 25% off your next purchase at Sacred Source
- WEBSITE: http://www.sacredsource.com
- FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/sacredsource
- CATALOG REQUEST: https://www.sacredsource.com/inforequest.asp
• SABBAT BOX FEATURED VENDOR - PRIMITIVE WITCHERY •
COMPANY: PRIMITIVE WITCHERY
ABOUT THEM AND WHAT THEY SELL: Located in Amis, Tennessee, Primitive Witchery is owned by Loren Morris. Known by many as the “Pagan Martha Stewart,” Loren creates a variety of items such as witch hats, fairy jars, spoons, brooms, primitive and magickal home decor products, and also accepts commissions for paintings and more.
From Primitive Witchery's Website:
"Deep in the heart of the magical forest the witch's home stands. What wonderful things await you inside? Magical, enchanting, and primitive items are decorating this mystical cottage.It is my goal to bring unique and beautiful things to your home to make it the magical place that your soul needs. Our homes are where we go to retreat from the world, recharge our being, and rest in its comfort. Make your surroundings as magical as you are.
I offer handmade items to add to your own individuality and personal magic. When you retreat to your home, it will be your place of recharging, relaxation, and respite."
SABBAT BOX EXCLUSIVE 10% OFF COUPON CODE: BabaYaga
Use the coupon code above to save 10% off your next purchase at Primitive Witchery
- WEBSITE: https://primwitchery.patternbyetsy.com
- INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/primitive_witchery/
- FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/primitivewitchery/
• SABBAT BOX FEATURED VENDOR - HOUSE OF GOOD JUJU •
COMPANY: HOUSE OF GOOD JUJU
ABOUT THEM AND WHAT THEY SELL: Kimmie, the owner and creatress of House of Good Juju is a purveyor of Good JuJu and Positive Inspirations. Kimmi is an intuitive, moon oracle, dreamer, mystic healer, and herb/root worker. She hopes to bring illumination and good intent into your world through her products.
Located in Utah, House of Good Juju offers positive mystiques for you and your home! Offering everything to cleanse, bless, protect, and bring abundance to your space! Custom orders are both encouraged and welcomed.
All items are crafted with Positive Intent. Always conjured with white light and crafted when the moon is right! Shop talismans, JuJu bags, crystal candles, aura mists, home blessing and protection kits, abundance bags, and offerings to inspire positive change.
This shop thrives upon good juju and a "harm no one" attitude. All items are made with inspiration from the Gods, Goddesses, Spirit Guides, and Ancestors with gratitude. Items are crafted in the appropriate moon cycle and day of the week depending on intent. Special attention to all the details required to make each item Spiritually potent and Energetically charged. Everything is infused with Magick, Blessings, Love, Light, and Good JuJu!
SABBAT BOX EXCLUSIVE 20% OFF COUPON CODE: Sabbat20
Use the coupon code above to save 20% off your next purchase at House of Good Juju
- WEBSITE: https://www.houseofgoodjuju.com
- TWITTER: https://twitter.com/HouseofGoodJuJu
- INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/houseofgoodjuju/
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FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/goodjujushop/
• SABBAT BOX FEATURED VENDOR - LAILOKEN'S AWEN •
COMPANY: LAILOKEN'S AWEN
ABOUT THEM AND WHAT THEY SELL: Located in Thunder Bay, Canada, Lailoken's Awen was founded by Shawn Hebert. Shawn has been a practicing Druid and Wiccan for over 25 years, and is also a practitioner of the Golden Dawn system of magic. In his professional life he is a clinical aromatherapist and herbalist. His introduction to the use of essential oils and herbs came with his first tentative steps on his Pagan path.
He learned of their energetic properties and associations, and how to incorporate them into ritual and spell work. Nine years ago he began his education in aromatherapy and herbalism, and has studied extensively over the years not only their therapeutic properties, but also their energetic properties. As well as compounding blends based on their energetic properties, Lailoken takes the creation process one step further and utilizes the energies of the universe around us by creating each product on the appropriate day, during the appropriate hour, and even during the proper phase of the Moon and time of the year. This allows him to create the most potent, energetic products he can offer to you.
- WEBSITE: http://www.lailokensawen.com
- TWITTER PAGE: https://www.twitter.com/LailokensAwen
- INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/lailokens_awen/
- FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/LailokensAwen
• TIME •
TIME:
We take pride in assembling each and every Sabbat Box by hand, no matter the amount of time it takes. We don't just throw your items inside a flat rate priority mail box like some other subscription box companies out there. We want your Sabbat Box to be delivered to you as beautifully as it left us, and it takes a tremendous amount of time to complete this task.
This includes folding the boxes together, individually cutting each sheet of tissue paper by hand, weighing out the crinkle paper for each box, designing the flyers, coupons, stickers and brochures to be printed professionally by commercial printers, individually placing each item within their corresponding bags, individually assembling the boxes, individually packing the tissue paper within each box by hand and also putting together and creating product packing. This timeframe doesn't even include the efforts made to manage the Sabbat Box website, the back end billing system, social media management, customer service inquiries, accounting, marketing, purchasing, networking, and so on. This is a labor of love and we enjoy serving the community!
We believe in what it is we are doing and we sincerely hope that each and every one of you can see that the purest of intent and utmost care goes into curating each Sabbat Box.
• OFFICIAL 2017 LAMMAS SABBAT BOX UNBOXING VIDEO •
Don't forget to share your unboxing videos with us for Lammas here
• OTHER RESOURCES RELATING TO YOUR BOX •
LAMMAS INFORMATION, LORE AND MORE!
- Kitchen and Green Witchery From Sarah Ann Lawless: Blog Article
- Ideas for celebrating Lammas: Article
- Creating a Kitchen Altar: Blog Article
We would like to thank each and every one of our suppliers, vendors, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, our members, for making Sabbat Box possible. This wouldn't even be happening if it wasn't for our members. We hope to continue to serve the Pagan community at large and continue to provide you inspiration to celebrate The Wheel of the Year! Have a Blessed Lammas!
Blessed Be,
Llyfr & Hugh
Founders of Sabbat Box
- Aeden B
- Tags: Kitchen Witchery Lammas Lammas Box Lughnasadh Members Only
Lammas/Lughnasadh 2017 Sabbat Box Theme Release • Kitchen Witchery 2
• KITCHEN WITCHERY •
“Food is magic…” -- Scott Cunningham, Wicca in the Kitchen
As the Wheel of the Year makes its turn, we leave behind the longest days of Litha and find ourselves looking at the coming of Lughnasadh, or Lammas. It is the time of year when the first crops of the harvest are ready to be harvested and the bountiful results of hard work sown literally come to fruition.
Lammas, also called Lughnasadh--celebrated usually on August 1st in the Northern Hemisphere (and February 1st in the Southern)--is the first of the three harvest festivals of the year, followed by Mabon and Samhain. It is one of the four cross-quarter Sabbats, standing between the fullness of summer solstice and the coming autumnal equinox. Historically the festival of Lammas is marked in the British growing season by of the beginning of the wheat harvest; the day itself stands a celebration for the ready crops that would help ancient people survive the cold, dark winter. In the Celtic tradition, this was also the time to honor and revere Lugh, the Celtic Sun King and God of Light. It is also the first mindful reflection that the light has already begun to wane and shorter days lie ahead. One of the most common traditions around Lammas is the baking of bread, which honors the gods with their fruits and feeds loved ones.
Since Lammas is all about the grains and first fruits of harvest, we are reminded of the most used form of spell craft: cooking and preparation of food. While many people don’t consider, for example, making dinner a spell, but the truth is cooking and baking are some of the fundamental daily rituals of Pagans. The work put into the kitchen, like the seeds sown in the field, can reap a harvest of sustenance, family bonding, celebration, and joy. What is a spell, anyway, but the carrying out of a recipe? In the deliberate intention we exercise over our stove, we are linked to ancient practitioners who worked over their own cauldrons, preparing not only the basic human requirement of sustenance, but also offering a sacrifice of love and toil to satisfy and appreciate their loved ones. There has been a long-held belief that feeding someone what you prepare instills your intent and will into them.
It brings to mind a story my grandmother told me about when she first met my grandfather. Being the young German girl who was smitten with the young American soldier, she knew the way to get his attention: she would bake a apfeltorte—or “apple cake”—for him. He loved it, and, in turn, eventually fell in love with her. The spell had been cast!
She performed all the components of what we as Pagans would identify as spell work: she had in mind her intent (she wanted my grandfather to notice her) powered by her will (she worked hard to make the best apple cake she’d ever made), which led to her will and intent manifested (her cake made my grandfather realize how much my grandmother cared for him, which led to love and marriage). All the elements of magickal working in its most basic, mundane terms.
This Sabbat Box we wanted to offer some items that will help the work we do as Pagans in the kitchen. From the earliest times, our kitchen or hearth has often been the center of what we consider “home.” We want to provide some things that can help you connect to that part of your magickal practice and maybe even bring love and togetherness to your hearth. In the modern age we may have mostly replaced cauldrons with Crock Pots, and wands with spoons, but whether you may simmer some arcane herbs on the stove for a protection spell, or make chocolate chip cookies for your coworkers to celebrate a birthday, the work we do in our kitchens can bring love and peace and light to our lives. And whatever form that may take. We can create smiles and laughter and joy from what we prepare in our kitchens...and if that isn’t magic, what is?
- Llyfr Glas
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