Spell Jars for a Magical Life
Spell Jars for a Magical Life covers handmade protection spell jars, witch's bottles for prosperity, and spell jar witchcraft with The Green Hearth Witch! Spell jars can be used for everything from baneful magic to lunar witchcraft.
Spell jars, also known as “witch’s bottles,” can be found as far back as ancient civilizations. They tend to be a favorite amongst modern-age witches, as they can be used for a variety of different spells.
A witch bottle is a vessel that holds the spell. The spell bottle can be left open or closed. It can be sealed shut with wax, or the lid can be bound with an extract or essential oil to seal it in. There are a variety of ways that a spell jar can be used.
A spell jar is considered a container spell because it holds something inside, which means it can be used for sealing, protection, and carrying. What’s great about a spell jar is that it can be kept in your purse, buried in the garden, or carried as a necklace to enchant nature-inspired accessories!
You can make a sour jar spell to place a curse or a hex on an enemy or situation by filling it with rusty nails, pins, needles, cayenne pepper, urine, and other nasty ingredients that meld together to create a nasty curse on someone. This is baneful magic and is best used during the baneful moon of the lunar cycle.
Another spell jar idea is to make a DIY Goddess Hekate mushroom key that opens the door to what you want in your life. This kind of spell jar is used to unlock wisdom, knowledge, and information. Sometimes the truth is hidden behind closed doors.
If you’d like to sweeten someone’s disposition toward you, you can make a sugar spell jar or honey jar spell with a petition inside. Before placing the petition inside, fold it toward you to attract what you want into your life.
There are so many things you can do with a spell jar! They can be bought relatively cheaply or recycled from jars and bottles you have lying around your home. For a long time, when I didn’t have much money, I used to repurpose old medicine bottles into spell bottles.
Most of all, spell jars are versatile and can be used in a variety of ways! They are easy to assemble and help you focus your intention by placing it directly in the jar. It can be used as a wishing jar, a charm bottle, a curse jar, or to collect moon water.
Whatever you dream of, you can place it in a spell jar! A witch bottle can help you create the magical life you always wanted.
Spell Jars for a Magical Life
Most people go into witchcraft to create some kind of change in their lives. It helps you gain a sense of control over outcomes. If you want to create spell jars for a magical life, you’ll want to look within and think deeply about what you wish for in life.
It’s also important to note that spells create results in different ways. You might create a spell jar for a new car, only to end up with a relative giving you their old car. The important thing is that the spell worked, just not in the way you thought it would!
To build a spell jar, you’ll first want to sit down and think about your intention. Grab a pen and paper and write down your ideas to see which one stands out for you. Then, depending on the use of your jar spell, you’ll want to write a petition.
Unless it’s an emergency situation, you’ll want to consider the best time to create your spell jar by using lunar magic as your guide. The moon can amplify or negate your intentions depending on where it is in the moon cycle.
For the new moon cycle, you’ll want to choose an intention based on bringing something new into your life! This can be new blessings, new beginnings, and new projects and ventures. The new moon is the optimal time to manifest something!
For the waxing moon cycle, you’ll want to choose the intention of something that can be increased or added to your life! Do you need more money, or do you thrive on more compliments? The waxing crescent moon can help you bring it to life!
For the full moon cycle, you’ll want to choose a “big” intention or find something you’d like to release from your life! The full moon holds a huge amount of energy that can be contained in a container spell, like a spell jar. If you want to release energy during this moon phase, you’ll want to take a previously created spell jar and pour it out, or return it to the earth.
For the waning moon cycle, you’ll want to choose an intention that can be used for banishing, healing, cursing, and protection. This is also a great time to create a weight-loss spell jar, since the baneful moon will rid you of the weight you’ve gained. The waning moon helps you get “rid” of negative energies and unwanted things!
For the dark moon cycle, you’ll want to choose an intention best suited for resting and recharging. This is the optimal period for a dream magic spell jar or a shadow work spell jar. The dark moon is perfect for rebirth, renewal, and rejuvenation!
Additionally, you can use planetary magic and witchy pagan holidays to create your intention jars with potency! Invite saints, deities, fairies, and mermaids to power your spell jars and bring them to life.
Magical Spell Jar Ingredients
Once you’ve set your intention, you can start assembling your magical spell jar ingredients. Fill your jar with herbs, tiny gemstones, rice, sugar, salt, honey, and personal items to accompany your petition. Be sure to place your intention into each item as you place them in the spell jar!
Be as creative as you want to be when assembling your spell jar! If it’s a sour jar, you’ll want to make it as ugly and nasty as possible. For any other kind of witch bottle, you might like to make it as aesthetically pleasing as possible!
Every witch bottle should include a personal taglock! This can be a strand of hair, blood, saliva, handwriting, or anything else that’s personal to you. If it’s a curse, a name, or a picture will suffice.
To create a charm bottle, it’s important to include the natural elements that coincide with your intention. There are seven elements that you can work with, including the Chinese elements. I recommend choosing at least two.
The earth element includes rocks, twigs, crystals, sand, and plant life. Typically, herbs are one of the main ingredients in spell jars, making the earth element a critical component. If you choose one or two elements, the earth element will most likely be one of them.
The water element includes water or items that are commonly found in water. This often includes seaweed, seashells, sea glass, crab claws, dried starfish, marimo moss balls, and pebbles. You can use freshwater, saltwater, and brackish water, as well as items derived from them.
The air element includes feathers, smoke, air plants, and dead insects like butterflies, dragonflies, and bees. One thing I like to do is blow air into my spell jar as a taglock. You can also catch wind in a bottle or make clouds, as they do in science projects.
The fire element includes hot spices, goldstone dragons, matches, ashes, pieces of charcoal, and volcanic rock, and red gemstones such as red agate, sunstone, and carnelian. This element can be used in spells for urgent and speedy matters. Performing candle magick by sealing the spell with candle wax brings more of fire witchcraft into play.
The spirit element represents the spell itself, as well as the spirit helpers you may call on to power your spell! This could be anyone from the goddesses to unicorns. Practicing witchcraft automatically connects you to the spirit element.
The wood element, which is one of the Chinese elements, includes sticks, tree bark, wood shavings, roots, and paper. Additionally, tree agate would be a good representation of tree spirits and druid magick.
The metal element includes metal jewelry, coins, fool’s gold, copper wiring, and small metal charms. Metal can be used in a spell jar as a conductor of energy in a spell, amplifying its magic. I recommend working with Saint Bridget for any spells using metal witchcraft, since she’s the goddess of metalsmithing.
Witch’s Bottles for Prosperity
One of the most popular spell jars is the money magick spell jar! These kinds of spell jars can be used to attract money into your life, as well as material things.
If luxury, opulence, and creature comforts sound good to you, then a prosperity jar is the way to go! I recommend amplifying your money spell at least once a month by leaving it under the full moon. This will keep the spell going!
For prosperity spell jars, you can add coins, cash, checks, fool’s gold, prosperity crystals, rice, and money magick herbs. Some herbs you can use include basil, bay leaves, dill weed, and the cinnamon plant profile. Cinnamon speeds the spell up and manifests your desires quickly!
Prosperity gemstones include moss agate, citrine, tiger’s eye, and green aventurine. You can amplify a spell jar with both money plants and crystals that suit your needs. Additionally, you can add dirt from a reputable bank for your money spell jar to attract wealth.
Handmade Protection Spell Jars
Protection spell jars can be used as wards to protect your home, family, and property. We live in a world full of thieves, rapists, and murderers, and it’s important to do everything you can to safeguard yourself and the people and pets you love and care about.
This kind of magic is known as defense magick! Defense magick wards off negative energies, safeguards the home, and puts a protective barrier around one’s property.
For protection spells, you’ll want to use protective herbs, crystals, and personal items. To amplify a witch bottle for protection, you might like to bury it inside a plant ward. A plant ward is often a bladed plant, like aloe vera or a cactus, that is enchanted with protection to scare off intruders and predators.
A DIY botanical energy shield includes protective herbs like sea salt, black pepper, black cohosh, garlic, and onion powder. You could even dry a blade of aloe vera or add hawthorn thorns to the jar for protection.
Protective crystals you might use include black obsidian, black tourmaline, snowflake obsidian, and smoky quartz. For a larger jar, you can use bigger stones, and for small spell jars, you can use tiny gemstones.
Protection spell jars are here to protect us, one and all, with a bit of magic. It is our birthright to remain safe and loved. These kinds of spells offer the comfort and stability we all long for.
You can use spell jars for a magical life! Close your eyes, think of your intention, and choose the ingredients that are most meaningful to you. Be sure to cleanse your spell jar with smoke or water magic first, leaving nothing to surprise.
