Come To Me red jar candle

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Name under the jar: write the person’s name three times on paper, cross it with your own name three times, and set it under the candle.
• Dressing: anoint the top of the wax with Come To Me oil before the first lighting and add a drop each day.
• Hair or personal concern: a strand of the person’s hair or a scrap of their handwriting folded into the petition strengthens the link.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Friday start: light it first on a Friday, the day of Venus, and let it burn across the week.
• Moon timing: start it as the moon is waxing so the attraction grows with the light.

A Simple Working

• On a Friday, write the name of the person you want, or the kind of lover you are calling, on a square of paper.
• Write your own name across it, then fold it toward you.
• Set it under the jar with a pinch of dried rose petals.
• Dress the top of the wax with a drop of rose oil.
• Light the candle and say: “Come to me, as this flame comes to light.”
• Let it burn through the week, keeping it in a safe place where it can run continuously or be relit each day.

Pairs Well With

• Come To Me oil: to dress the wax and your own skin.
• Rose petals: to sprinkle under the jar or add to a bath.
• A lodestone pair: kept side by side to hold two people together.
• Red chime candles: for short boosts on nights when you see them.

What You Receive

One red seven-day jar candle for Come To Me work.

Origin & Lore

Come To Me belongs to the family of drawing formulas in American hoodoo and the botanica tradition, where it is also called Ven a Mi. It is worked to attract a new lover or pull an existing one nearer. The red of this candle is the colour of passion and of the heart, and the seven-day jar gives a full week of steady work.

Come To Me is one of the oldest named love formulas in hoodoo, and it says exactly what it wants in three plain words.

Come To Me oils and powders appear in mid-20th-century hoodoo curio catalogues and were sold by the same names in Spanish as Ven a Mi in Latin American botanicas. Seven-day glass candles grew out of the Catholic votive lights of Latin America and the American South, and by the late 20th century were made in every colour and for every purpose.