Money scented jar candle

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Bill under the jar: set a folded banknote, ideally one that has come to you as payment, under the candle and leave it there for the whole burn.
• Shop or business: burn it near the till or the desk where money is counted, and dress the jar with a money oil each morning before opening.
• Feeding the work: drop a coin into a bowl next to the candle every time you relight it, and spend none of those coins until the work is done.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Thursday start: light it first on a Thursday, the day of Jupiter, the traditional planet of wealth and increase.
• Write the sum: inscribe the exact amount you need on a bay leaf and lay it on the lid between burns.

A Simple Working

• On a Thursday, write the amount you need and what it is for on a slip of green paper.
• Fold the paper around a coin and set it under the jar.
• Rub a pinch of ground cinnamon between your palms and touch the jar with both hands.
• Light the candle and state the amount aloud as if it has already arrived.
• Let it burn while you deal with your bills or accounts, then snuff it.
• Relight it each day until it is spent, then carry the coin in your purse.

Pairs Well With

• Money oil: to dress the jar and your wallet.
• Cinnamon: a warm, fast money spice for the hands and the altar.
• A green chime candle: for a quick boost when money is urgently needed.
• Pyrite: a gold-coloured stone to keep beside the jar.

What You Receive

One scented jar candle with real gold flakes in the wax; colours vary from candle to candle. Burns approximately 3 1/2 days.

Origin & Lore

Money candles belong to the long folk tradition of burning a light beside a coin, a bill or a written sum to draw more of it home. Gold, the metal of the Sun and of kings, has stood for wealth in nearly every culture that has dug it from the ground. A money candle with gold in the wax puts the metal and the flame to work together.

Gold has been the measure of wealth for so long that a single flake of it in a candle says everything about what the flame is for.

Traditional astrology gives wealth and increase to Jupiter, the Greater Fortune, which is why Thursday is the favoured day for money work in grimoire and folk tradition alike. In American hoodoo, money candles are often burned on top of a bill or a business card and fed with money oils over several days. The gold-flaked jar candle is a modern form of that old practice.