New Mown Hay oil (Espiritu blend)

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Anoint the keys to a new home or office.
• Dress a green candle to bless a new project on the first day of work.

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Add to a floor wash for a new shop, mopping from the door inward to draw customers.
• Anoint business cards or a first sale receipt for luck in the new venture.
• Dress a petition for leaving behind a bad habit.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Anoint a Jupiter or Earth talisman for the success of a new enterprise.

A Simple Working

• Take a green chime candle and your first business card, sign or receipt.
• Anoint the card with New Mown Hay oil.
• Dress the candle from base to wick.
• Set the card under the candle and light it on the new moon.
• Name your new venture and what you hope it grows into.
• Keep the card in your till, wallet or desk drawer.

Pairs Well With

• A green candle, for new growth.
• Five-finger grass, for business and handling money.
• Pyrite, for business luck.
• Basil, a traditional business-drawing herb in hoodoo.
• Better Business oil, for the trade that follows the opening.

What You Receive

New Mown Hay oil, Espiritu blend, available in 2 dram and 16 oz bottles.

Origin & Lore

New Mown Hay oil is a long-standing formula in the hoodoo tradition, named for the scent of cut hay drying in the field. It is worked to begin again: a new business, a new job, a new home, or a new way of living after old habits are put down.

Farmers watched the sky for hay-making weather, knowing that a single good dry spell could set up the whole year.

The oil’s name and scent come from Victorian perfumery, where “New Mown Hay” was a well-loved fragrance, and the spiritual-supply houses of the early twentieth century adopted it as an oil for fresh starts. It sits in hoodoo alongside other new-beginning formulas such as Road Opener and Crown of Success.