There is something wonderfully simple about simmer pot magick. You don't need an elaborate altar, expensive tools, or a long list of hard-to-find ingredients. Sometimes all you need is a pot of water, a few herbs and spices from your kitchen, and a clear intention.

Simmer pots have become increasingly popular in recent years as a natural way to make your home smell beautiful, but they can also be used as a simple form of household magick.

By choosing ingredients according to their traditional magickal correspondences, a simmer pot can be created for prosperity, protection, love, psychic development, cleansing, healing, and many other intentions.

And if you want to take those correspondences one step further, you can also align your simmer pot with the traditional planetary energy associated with each day of the week.

So, let's make a little magick.

What Is a Magickal Simmer Pot?

A simmer pot is simply a pot of water filled with herbs, fruits, flowers, spices, or other

botanicals and allowed to gently simmer on the stove.

From a practical standpoint, the steam carries the fragrance of the ingredients throughout your home. Magickally, however, you can choose those ingredients according to the energy and intention you want to bring into your space.

Think of it almost like brewing a spell for your home.

As you add each ingredient, focus on its magickal purpose. You might speak your intention aloud, visualize the energy you want to create, or simply hold that intention in your mind while preparing your simmer pot.

You don't need dozens of ingredients, either. In magick, more isn't necessarily better. Three or four carefully chosen ingredients that support the same intention can create a beautifully focused working.

Why Make a Different Simmer Pot for Each Day?

In traditional Western magickal practice, each day of the week corresponds with one of the seven classical planets:

• Sunday: The Sun - success, confidence, vitality, happiness

• Monday: The Moon - intuition, dreams, psychic awareness, healing

• Tuesday: Mars - courage, strength, protection, action

• Wednesday: Mercury - communication, learning, business, mental clarity

• Thursday: Jupiter - abundance, prosperity, luck, expansion

• Friday: Venus - love, beauty, friendship, harmony

• Saturday: Saturn - protection, boundaries, banishing, endings

These planetary correspondences give us a wonderful framework for creating intentional magick throughout the week.

Instead of choosing ingredients simply because they smell good together, we're going to choose ingredients whose traditional magickal associations support the planetary energy of that particular day.

Before You Begin

For any of these simmer pot recipes, begin with a medium saucepan or small pot filled about halfway with water. If you have Moon Water, include that.

Add your ingredients and bring the water just to a boil. Then reduce the heat to a very gentle simmer.

As the water evaporates, add more as necessary.

While preparing your simmer pot, take a moment to decide what you want to accomplish with it. You can hold that intention silently, say it aloud, write it on a bay leaf or small piece of paper kept safely beside the stove, and/or visualize your desired energy spreading through your home along with the fragrant steam.

And remember: never leave a simmer pot unattended. Check the water regularly and turn off the stove when you're finished.

Sunday: Sunshine & Success Simmer Pot Recipe

Planet: Sun

Magickal intention: Success, confidence, vitality, happiness

You'll Need

• 1 orange, sliced

• 2 cinnamon sticks

• 1 sprig rosemary

• 1 to 3 bay leaves

Sunday belongs to the Sun, making it a wonderful day for magick associated with confidence, success, happiness, vitality, and personal power.

Orange carries strong solar associations and is traditionally connected with happiness, success, prosperity, and positive energy.

Cinnamon is commonly used in magick for success, prosperity, attraction, and raising energy.

Rosemary brings protection and purification while also carrying traditional solar associations.

Bay has a long magickal history connected with success, victory, protection, wishes, and divination.

As the pot begins to simmer, visualize golden sunlight filling your home and clearing away stagnant energy.

Not Just On Sundays! Use this recipe any time you want to fill your home with fresh energy!

Simple intention:May success, confidence, happiness, and opportunity fill this home. As I will it, so mote it be!

Monday: Moonlight Intuition Simmer Pot Recipe

Planet: Moon

Magickal intention: Intuition, psychic awareness, peace, dreamwork

You'll Need

• 1 lemon, sliced

• 1 tablespoon dried chamomile

• 1 tablespoon dried lavender

• 1 teaspoon dried jasmine flowers

Monday belongs to the Moon and is especially suited to intuitive and psychic work, dreams, emotional healing, and inward reflection.

Jasmine has strong lunar associations and has traditionally been used for psychic dreams, intuition, love, and spiritual awareness.

Chamomile encourages peace, healing, relaxation, and purification.

Lavender is associated with peace, purification, healing, and restful sleep.

Lemon brings cleansing and purification, helping create a fresh energetic space for intuitive work.

Not Just On Mondays! This can be a lovely simmer pot to prepare before meditation, divination, journaling, or dreamwork.

Simple intention: May my mind become quiet, my intuition become clear, and my inner wisdom guide me. As I will it, so mote it be!

Tuesday: Courage & Protection Simmer Pot Recipe

Planet: Mars

Magickal intention: Courage, motivation, strength, protection

You'll Need

• Several slices fresh ginger

• 2 cinnamon sticks

• 5 to 7 whole cloves

• A small handful of fresh basil

Tuesday belongs to Mars, the planet traditionally associated with courage, action, strength, passion, and protection.

Ginger is fiery and stimulating and is commonly associated with courage, strength, success, and increasing the power of magickal workings.

Cinnamon brings fiery energy, speed, success, and motivation.

Cloves have traditionally been used for protection, purification, courage, and driving away unwanted energy.

Basil is commonly associated with protection, prosperity, love, and good fortune.

Not Just On Tuesdays! This is a good simmer pot for days when you need an energetic push, especially when you've been procrastinating or need the courage to deal with something difficult.

Simple intention:May I have the courage to act, the strength to continue, and the protection to move forward confidently. As I will it, so mote it be!

Wednesday: Clear Mind & Communication Simmer Pot Recipe

Planet: Mercury

Magickal intention: Communication, focus, learning, creativity

You'll Need

• 1 lemon, sliced

• A handful of fresh mint

• 1 teaspoon lavender

• 1 teaspoon fennel seeds

Wednesday belongs to Mercury, the planet of communication, intellect, learning, writing, commerce, and travel.

Mint is strongly associated with mental stimulation, communication, prosperity, and energetic refreshment.

Fennel has traditional associations with protection, mental clarity, and strength.

Lavender can calm mental clutter and encourage peaceful communication.

Lemon cleanses and refreshes, making it particularly useful when you're trying to clear away stagnant or distracting energy.

Not Just On Wednesdays! Try this simmer pot while studying, writing, working on your business, preparing for an important conversation, or tackling a project requiring concentration.

Simple intention:May my thoughts be clear, my words be understood, and my ideas flow easily. As I will it, so mote it be!

Thursday: Prosperity & Abundance Simmer Pot Recipe

Planet: Jupiter

Magickal intention: Prosperity, luck, opportunity, expansion

You'll Need

• 1 orange, sliced

• 2 cinnamon sticks

• ½ teaspoon nutmeg

• 5 whole cloves

• Several fresh sage leaves

Thursday belongs to Jupiter, traditionally considered the great benefic and associated with prosperity, expansion, abundance, wisdom, good fortune, and opportunity.

Nutmeg has long been associated with luck, prosperity, money, and good fortune.

Cinnamon attracts prosperity, success, and abundance while adding energy to the working.

Cloves bring protection and prosperity.

Sage is traditionally connected with wisdom, purification, protection, and longevity.

Orange adds happiness, success, prosperity, and positive solar energy.

Not Just On Thursdays! This is an excellent combination of herbs for abundance magick. You can use these in other types of spells such as spell jars, spell bags, and candle magick,

particularly when you're trying to grow a business, attract new opportunities, or shift away from a scarcity mindset.

Simple intention:May abundance grow, opportunities open, and good fortune find its way to me. As I will it, so mote it be!

Friday: Love & Harmony Simmer Pot Recipe

Planet: Venus

Magickal intention: Love, friendship, beauty, harmony, self-love

You'll Need

• 1 apple, sliced

• A small handful of dried rose petals

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract or a piece of vanilla bean

• 1 tablespoon dried hibiscus

Friday belongs to Venus, making it traditionally associated with love, romance, beauty, pleasure, friendship, creativity, and harmony.

Rose is perhaps one of the best-known magickal ingredients for love, beauty, romance, and emotional healing.

Apple has ancient associations with love, beauty, fertility, and abundance and is strongly connected with Venus.

Vanilla is commonly used for love, attraction, sensuality, and happiness.

Hibiscus is associated with love, passion, attraction, and divination.

And remember that Venus magick isn't only about romantic love.

Not Just On Fridays! Use this simmer pot to encourage greater harmony in your home, strengthen friendships, nurture your relationships, or simply devote some attention to loving and caring for yourself.

Simple intention:May love be welcomed here, harmony surround me, and beauty be found in the life I already have. As I will it, so mote it be!

Saturday: Cleanse & Protect Simmer Pot Recipe

Planet: Saturn

Magickal intention: Cleansing, protection, boundaries, releasing

You'll Need

• Several sprigs rosemary

• Several sage leaves

• Several sprigs thyme

• Peel from 1 lemon

• 7 black peppercorns

Saturday belongs to Saturn, the planet associated with boundaries, discipline, restriction, endings, protection, and banishing.

That makes Saturday an excellent time for cleaning both your physical and energetic space.

Rosemary is one of the most useful protective and cleansing herbs in witchcraft.

Sage is traditionally used for purification, protection, wisdom, and clearing unwanted influences.

Thyme is associated with purification, courage, healing, and protection.

Lemon cleanses and refreshes stagnant energy.

Black pepper is frequently used magickally for protection, banishing, and breaking up unwanted energy.

As the pot simmers, imagine anything heavy, stagnant, or unwanted being cleared from your home.

Not Just On Saturdays! You might even pair this simmer pot with your regular housecleaning.

Simple intention:May all that does not serve this home be released. May this space remain peaceful, protected, and strong. As I will it, so mote it be!

Want to Learn More About Magickal Correspondences?

One of the things I love about witchcraft is that even a very simple practice can lead you into a much deeper study.

Why rosemary for protection? Why roses for Venus? Why does the Moon rule Monday? Once you begin exploring the history and symbolism behind magickal correspondences, you start developing a much better understanding of how magick is actually constructed.

If you're new to witchcraft, I've created my Beginner Witch Encyclopedia as a free and growing collection of practical guides to help you build that foundation.

You'll find beginner-friendly information about herbs, crystals, tarot, moon magick, spellcraft, psychic development, and other aspects of modern witchcraft, along with resources to help you continue exploring your own practice.

Visit the Beginner Witch Encyclopedia to continue learning.

A Few Final Simmer Pot Recipe Tips

You don't have to follow these recipes exactly.

In fact, learning to substitute ingredients based on their magickal correspondences is an important part of developing your own practice.

If you don't have jasmine on Monday, for example, you don't need to abandon the entire working. Look at what you do have and ask yourself what ingredients share the qualities you're trying to encourage.

You can also adjust your simmer pot according to your specific intention. A Friday Venus simmer pot intended for romantic love might look slightly different from one created for friendship or self-love.

Most importantly, don't become so focused on having the "perfect" ingredients that you forget the purpose behind the practice.

Magick isn't about following a recipe perfectly.

It's about understanding what you're doing, choosing your tools intentionally, and learning how to create a practice that has meaning for you.

Ready to Take Your Practice Deeper?

If you're beginning your journey into witchcraft, it can sometimes feel like there is an overwhelming amount to learn. Herbs, correspondences, spellcraft, divination, energy work, psychic development, moon magick... where do you even begin?

You don't have to learn everything at once.

If you'd like personal guidance as you develop your practice, I offer private one-on-one mentorship sessions designed around your experience, interests, and spiritual path.

Together, we can explore the areas you're most interested in, answer the questions that come up along the way, and help you build a personal practice that feels authentic to you.

Book a private mentorship session with me and let's see where your path takes you.