Honeysuckle oil

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Money drawing: honeysuckle is used in money and drawing formulas; dress a green candle with the oil to pull in prosperity.
• Sweetening: a drop on a petition or in a honey jar is used to make someone kinder and more generous toward you.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Love: anoint a pink candle on a Friday for a love that holds fast, like the vine.
• Luck: rub a drop between the palms before a game or a gamble.
• Intuition: touch a drop to the brow before tarot or scrying.

A Simple Working

• On a Thursday, write what you need on a slip of paper.
• Add three drops of honeysuckle oil and fold it toward you.
• Push it into a small jar of honey and close the lid.
• Dress a green chime candle with the oil and set it on the lid.
• Light it and say, “As the vine clings, so prosperity clings to me.”
• Repeat with a new candle each Thursday until the need is met.

Pairs Well With

• Honey: for honey-jar sweetening work.
• A green chime candle: for money drawing.
• Cinnamon: to speed luck and money.
• Rose petals: for honeysuckle love blends.

What You Receive

Honeysuckle oil, a scented anointing oil, available in 2 dram and 1 oz.

Origin & Lore

Honeysuckle (Lonicera) is a twining vine of Europe, Asia and North America, its tubular flowers full of nectar that children suck from the base. In Britain it was known as woodbine and grew through hedges and over cottage doorways.

Titania wraps herself around Bottom “as doth the woodbine the sweet honeysuckle gently entwist”, and the vine has stood for clinging love ever since.

In parts of Britain honeysuckle was grown around doorways in the belief that it kept witches out and luck in. Shakespeare’s line in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Act 4) is one of the best-known references to the plant in English.