Ale is an alcoholic beverage.

• magick correspondences and uses
• ritual uses
• Goddesses and deities
• Chinese herbology
• cautions and contraindications

nutritional information:

    See also Chinese herbalism below for Chinese gender and Chinese flavor.

magickal correspondences and uses:

    Western element: fire

    Magickal uses: purification

ritual uses:

    Ritual uses: Ale was used for purification.

    January 6: Twelfth Night: European holy day. Day to clean up the debris from the Yule Feast.
    Wassailing: Pre-Christian Germanic tradition was to wassail, which comes from the Anglo-Saxon phrase waes hael, which meant “to be whole” or “to be healthy”. The Anglo-Saxons would toast each other’s health and share drink from a large wooden bowl. The wassail drink was called “lamb’s wool”. The traditional mixture was made by adding spices to hot ale, beer, or mead. In more recent times it has been made from hot apple cider. The traditional spices included: nutmeg, ginger, and cinnamon (especially nutmeg), sweetened with sugar, honey, or sugar-coated crab apples (especially honey). The mixture was served hot and often topped with toasted bread.

wedding reading

    Wedding reading from ancient Egypt:

“Let My Love Love Me Best ”,
from the Turin Papyrus, in the Ramesside period circa 1100 BCE, Egypt.

Let my love love me best and I shall ordain
Her hands full of lotus blossoms and flowers
Full of buds and perfumes, strong ale
And beer of every brewable kind
Then she’ll give me, her love, a day to remember
Make me drink down this day to its last shadow

deities associated with ale:

• Aset (Kemetic/ancient Egyptian Goddess)
• Hathor (Kemetic/ancient Egyptian Goddess)
• Het Heret (Kemetic/ancient Egyptian Goddess)
• Isis (Kemetic/ancient Egyptian Goddess)
• Kremana (Slavia)
• Shoney (Scotland)
• Tenemit (Kemetic/ancient Egyptian Goddess)

    Ale was used in offerings to several ancient deities.

Chinese herbalism:

    Chinese gender: strongly yin (cool)

cautions and contraindications:

    Cautions and contraindications: You want to reduce or eliminate alcohol from your diet. Alcohol is harmful to the liver.

See also: alcohol.

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