Easy Money Homemade Incense

As you may have noticed from your reading, I treasure cinnamon incense. It brings a positive energy to your space with its appealingly sweet and spicy scent. It also brings prosperity and calm. What could be better? This may become one of your favorites, as well as it is truly easy to make.

Gather together:

• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon of water
• Small bowl
• Baking sheet
• Small glass votive container

Spoon the powdered cinnamon into the middle of your bowl and mix in the water well. When the consistency is close to that of damp sand, you are good. Using your hands, knead the mixture into your desired shape which could be a cone, pyramid, ball, or even a heart. Place this onto your baking sheet and bake at 325 degrees for 15 minutes. Pull it out of the oven and let it cool. Once your incense creation is at room temperature, place it in the glass votive for when you want to use it. These DIY incenses take a few seconds to light but their captivating scents are so worth it.

Wand Crafting: DIY Manifestation Tool

Gather together: 

• A found piece of wood
• sandpaper
• copper wire (12 inches in length)
• a large pebble-sized crystal

If you find the perfect piece of wood, sand it to smoothness so it feels good in your hand, which is very important. If your found wood branch is too long, use your chosen magical knife to cut it down to 12 inches or your preferred length. Wrap copper wire around the top and affix the crystal of your preference to the end. Your wand should look beautiful to your eye so embellish it with ornaments you love such as beads, sequins, seashells, tiny crystals, or whatever pleases your eye and adds to the power of this sacred implement.

Your Personal Pot of Gold

Cauldron magic is less about the eye of a newt than it is about purification by water and pungently perfumed herbs. For a money-attraction brew, fill a big pot with fresh water and place it on your altar during the waxing moon. Place an offering bowl nearby filled with a tablespoon of honey mixed into a cup of milk. Toss a dry palmful of chamomile, woodruff, moss, and vervain into the cauldron.

Head uplifted, utter:

I call upon you, Gods and Goddesses of old,

To fill my purse with gold.

In return, I offer you honey’s gold and mother’s milk.

With harm to none and blessings to thee,

I honor you for bringing me health and prosperity.

Place the bowl outside as your offering and leave it overnight. Whatever the ancients have left behind, pour it into the ground and bow in gratitude for the generosity of the Gods towards you.

Here's a sweet bit of alchemy available to all, handed down from medieval times. Wise women of old taught their children to watch for falling leaves. To catch one in midair is the best kind of luck, direct from Mother Earth herself. Carry it with you for a season and you will be kept safe from harm and receive unseen rewards. If you are especially blessed and catch more than one falling leaf, share it with the one closest to you. You will be bound by both love and fortune.

Employment Incantation

Here is one way I got a great job on my first day in San Francisco, despite the fact that I wasn’t really qualified, and I looked like an absolute hayseed after driving cross-country for four straight days from Appalachia.

Light a gold candle, although red will also do. Repeat this incantation eight times while holding a vision of yourself at the desired job:

I see the perfect job for me;

I see a place of plenty. Upon my heart's desire,

I am set; My new boss will never regret.

This job will come to me NOW.

Harm to none I VOW. 

So mote it be.

Change-Your-Luck Rite

Perhaps you have been overwhelmed recently by a series of unfortunate events – problems with work, finances, etc.–seemingly beyond your control. Do away with these burdens as quickly as possible. This spell requires paper, a black candle, a flat rock with a hollow in the center to set the candle into, a black ink pen, and a “cancellation” stamp, readily available at any stationary store. Anoint your candle with a drop of peppermint oil. Dress your altar with a peony blossom, the luckiest of the flower family. The consummate time to release bad luck is immediately after the full moon. Write what you wish to be freed from on a piece of parchment or stationary; this is your “release request.” Write this same request onto the candle as well. Ideally, this is scratched into the candle with the thorn of a rose you have grown yourself. Light the candle near an open window so the negative energy will leave your home. While the candle burns, intone:

Waxing moon, moist wise Cybele, from me this burden please dispel. Upon this night so clear and bright I release __ to the moon tonight.

Burn the candle for thirteen minutes. Take your stamp and mark the paper “canceled.” Put the candle out, fold the paper away from you, and place it under the candle stone. Repeat this process for thirteen nights. On the last night, which should be the beginning of the new moon phase, burn the paper and bury the candle, paper ashes, and rock far from your home. Give thanks to the moon for assisting you, and let go of the bad luck. 

Financial Flow: Feng Shui Money Fountain

Ask any feng shui master and they will tell you that water fountains are excellent feng shui and can enhance your prosperity quotient.

Gather together:

• A large green bowl or tall vase
• Enough water to fill the container
• Wooden wand
• Small river rocks, at least 8 

For those of us who can’t pull off a fountain in our home or garden, this works just as well to get the money flowing. Stand in your home’s front door area and identify the far left corner. This is the prosperity area and, therefore, the perfect place for this ritual. Place the smooth river rocks in the bottom of the container and carefully pour the water in, avoiding any spilling. Take up your wand and speak aloud:

 

    In the name of goddess, I dedicate this space.

    Peace and prosperity flows throughout this place.

    Everyone here will enjoy abundance and grace.

    With harm to none. So mote it be.

Take your wand and gently stir the surface of the water so it swirls and circles.

Repeat the spell, then bow and say thank you to abundance energies.

Take the vessel of water and pour it into the roots of the nearest tree, ideally right outside your home or one of your larger potted plants. This will keep the flow of abundance in your personal space.

Frogs of Fortune

In Japan, the frog presages good fortune. You can keep a little figure of a frog on your desk or wherever you pay bills and manage your personal finances. Your little froggy friend will be a guardian of your income and money.

A Spell for Abundant Possibility

I don’t know about Thursday’s child being “full of woe.” I am a Thursday’s child and I simply can’t relate. Thursday, originally named after the powerful Norse god Thor, is also classically associated with Jupiter, who stands for joviality, expansion, and all things abundant. Here’s a Jupiterian spell that will bring excellent opportunities your way.

On a waxing moon Thursday, light one green and one purple candle. Take a sage smudging bundle and put it inside a seashell or fireproof dish. Now, place a concave-shaped rock beside a vase filled with your favorite yellow flowers; dandelions are an excellent choice. Stand in front of your candlelit altar with arms outspread while saying aloud:

    As above, so below,

    The wisdom of the Mother shall freely flow.

    To perfect possibility, I surrender.

    So mote it be.

Luck By the Cup

When you are crafting money magic, it is good to get in the manifesting mindset with some prosperity tea.

Gather together:

    2 cups fresh water

    Teapot    

    Green mug

    Strainer

    1 tablespoon dried rose hips

    1 tablespoon dried chamomile

    1 teaspoon orange peel

    1 cinnamon stick

Steep the rose hips, chamomile, and orange peel in the freshly boiled water for 4 minutes. Strain and pour a cup of tea and stir widdershins, or counterclockwise, in the mug for a moment. As you drink, visualize the abundance coming into your life.

Prompt Prosperity: Money Magic Secrets for True Abundance

For centuries, witches have known that luck is neither random nor mysterious. Thanks to the wise women in my family who share their “trade secrets” openly, I learned very early in life that my fate was mine to guide, and that I could manifest my will through the tools of magic. When in a pinch, I have used witchcraft to replenish the coffers. I have also used prosperity spells to find a good home I could afford to rent, attract job opportunities, and help others. People have always marveled at what they perceive as my “good luck,” or suggested that I have a fleet of guardian angels behind my every move, but natural-born good luck has nothing to do with it.

 

Cash in a Flash: Crystal Currency

Another charm for solvency is to take seven tiny turquoise stones in the palm of your hand and speak this wish-spell aloud:

    Luck be quick,

    luck be kind,

    and, by lucky seven,

    good luck will be mine.

    Blessed be.

Place the seven small stones in your wallet or purse; more cash is on the way.

Garden of Prosperity: A Ritual to Plant New Beginnings in Your Life

Nature is the ultimate creator. At a nearby gardening store or hardware store, get an assortment of seed packets to plant newness into your life. If your thumb is not the greenest, try a wildflower mix or poppies, which are extremely hardy and will grow quickly and spread, beautifying any area. They reseed themselves, which is a lovely bonus.

On a new moon morning, draw a square in your yard with a “found in nature” wand, a fallen branch. Apartment dwellers can use a planter on a deck or a big pot for this ritual. Each corner of the square needs a candle and a special stone. I get my stones at new age bookstores, which often have the shiny tumbled versions for as little as one dollar. Mark the corners as follows:

• Green candle and peridot or jade for creativity, prosperity, and growth
• Orange candle and jasper or onyx for clear thinking and highest consciousness
• Blue candle and turquoise or celestine for serenity, kindness, and a happy heart
• White candle and quartz or limestone for purification and safety

Repeat this chant as you light each candle:

    Greatest Selene, I turn to you to help me renew,

    under this new moon and in this old earth.

    Blessings to you; blessings to me.

    Blessed be.

Put the seeds under the soil with your fingers and tamp them down gently with your wand, the branch, which you should also stick in the ground at this time. Water your new moon garden and affirmative change will begin in your life that very day.

For Wealth and Abundance: Giving Gratitude to Lord Jove

You should not be surprised to find another Thursday prosperity spell, as this is the perfect day for invoking wealth and success! On any Thursday, or optimally, one occurring on a new moon, light your altar candle at midnight and burn frankincense and myrrh incense. Make an offering of a golden fruit such as apples or peaches to Jupiter, and anoint your third eye with a corresponding essential oil, such as myrrh, frankincense, apple, or peach.

Pray aloud:

    This offering I make as my blessing to all.

    Greatest of gods, Lord Jove of the sky.

    From you, all heavenly gifts do fall.

    Most generous of all, you never deny.

    To you, I am grateful, and so mote it be!

Put the candle in a safe, fireproof place such as a fireplace and let it burn all night. You will dream of your loved ones, including yourself, receiving a bounty of material and spiritual wealth.