Bayberry oil (Espiritu blend)

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Anoint a green candle and burn it right down on New Year’s Eve or the winter solstice for a prosperous year.
• Dress coins on your altar at the new moon.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Anoint a money petition and burn a green candle on it.
• Add a drop to a money mojo with bayberry root bark and a lodestone.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Dress a Jupiter talisman for abundance on a Thursday.

A Simple Working

• On New Year’s Eve or the winter solstice, take a green or bayberry candle.
• Dress it with bayberry oil from base to wick.
• Set a few coins and a bowl of food from your kitchen around it.
• Light it and recite the bayberry rhyme.
• Let the candle burn all the way down to the socket, as the rhyme instructs.
• Keep the coins in your wallet or kitchen through the year.

Pairs Well With

• Bayberry candles, the traditional New Year’s charm.
• A green candle, for money.
• Pine, for prosperity in winter rituals.
• Coins, for the money altar.
• Cinnamon, for quick luck.

What You Receive

Bayberry oil, Espiritu blend, available in 2 dram, 1 oz and 16 oz bottles.

Origin & Lore

This oil is a blend named for bayberry, Myrica (Morella) cerifera, the wax myrtle of the American East Coast, whose berries carry a fragrant wax. Colonial households boiled the berries to make candles, and bayberry became a symbol of prosperity and good luck in the new year.

“A bayberry candle burned to the socket brings food to the larder and gold to the pocket”, or so the old New England rhyme goes.

Bayberry candles were made in colonial New England by boiling the berries and skimming off the green wax, a laborious process that made them precious. Burning one down on Christmas or New Year’s Eve became a custom for luck, and the rhyme about food in the larder and gold in the pocket is still printed on bayberry candles today.