A few simple recipes for the summer solstice!
You can just follow the directions below or work with each ingredient carefully with magic intention to really boost the energies.
Give Me Money! Sun Tea
Ingredients
Sun tea for promoting financial wealth and abundance.
- Mint ice cubes (optional, freeze whole mint leaves into ice)
- 1 part Mint
- 1 part Chamomile
- ½ part Basil
Place your herbs in a jar and then steep in the sun. Add sweetener if desired and strain when you are ready to enjoy! Garnish with lemon.
Magic Psychic Sun Tea
Steep some dandelion and lemongrass for some psychic energy!
Ingredients:
- 1 part Lemongrass
- 1 part Dandelion flowers
- Pineapple juice
Follow the same basic steps for making a sun tea with lemongrass and dandelion flowers. Chill the tea and then add ½ part pineapple juice and garnish with pineapple.
Yummy Sunny Smoothie
- Approx 5 lemon balm tea ice cubes ( if you can’t find this, sub basil)*
- 1.5 cups frozen Strawberry
- 2 cups watermelon
- 1 frozen banana (more banana =thicker smoothie)
- Sweetener, if desired, I personally used 3 small packs of stevia in the raw
*Lemon balm notes:If you have a super fancy blender that will totally blend the lemon balm then you can add a few leaves in with everything else. You could also make lemon balm tea and freeze them into ice cubes for your smoothie.
Add all ingredients to blender and sweeten to taste. Enjoy! You could probably make some yummy popsicles if you mix the smoothie with some coconut milk yogurt.
Red Fire Litha Sun Tea
- Hibiscus flowers (check international markets to buy local)
- Cherry juice
- Orange slices
- Make sun tea with hibiscus. You will know its ready when you have a beautiful deep red color! You could just drink the hibiscus plain, or follow the next steps.
- Chill the hibiscus tea
- Add cherry juice! Use a 2:1 ratio of hibiscus tea to cherry juice, or 2 parts hibiscus to 1 part cherry. You don’t have to follow this ratio exactly!
- Garnish with orange slices
Safety considerations: The herbs in this post (basil, lemonbalm, lemongrass,dandelion, and chamomile are all pretty safe food-grade herbs when used in small, reasonable amounts. Hibiscus is generally safe as well, but avoid it if you are on HRT or pregnant, or with high or low blood pressure. As always consult with your doctor before consuming any herbal medicines.
