How to Take a Spiritual Cleansing Bath

You will need:

-Water, a few cups.  Traditionally, workers used rain water, river water, or another type of "natural" water.  You can use tap water, and it's OK, but I have had wonderful results using rain water or spring water too.

-Herbs or minerals or liquids to put in the water to create your spiritual bath.  You want an odd number of ingredients, as few as 3 and as many as 13.  Here are some suggestions:

For uncrossing/cleansing:  Strong black coffee, salt, lemon juice, Lemon Balm herb, ammonia, Hyssop herb, Rue herb

For good luck: Salt, Cinnamon, Sugar, High John the Conqueror root, Hoyt's Cologne, Blueing balls or liquid, Rose petals

For money drawing: Cinnamon, Sugar, Thyme herb, High John the Conqueror, Nutmeg herb, Irish Moss herb

Next, pick your ingredients for the spiritual bath.  Let's say you were going to do a money drawing bath.  Put water in a pot on the stove to boil.  You could take Cinnamon chips, some Nutmeg and Thyme and mix them together.  About 1 teaspoon of each herb is enough for a spiritual bath for one person. 

Mix the ingredients together and *pray*.  Tell the herbs what you want them to do for you.  Describe your need for money and ask that all your requests be granted in God's name, Amen.  Pray from your heart.

When the water gets to a boil, you add your herb mixture and stir, then take the pot off the heat.  I like to put my herbs in a tea ball so they aren't floating all over, but you could also add the herbs loosely and strain them out when the bath is done.

Let the mixture steep; I time it for an odd number of minutes, such as 7, 9 or 11.  When the time is up, strain out the herbs and take the herb bath to your bathroom

Run a tub of warm water and put in the stopper.  Add your herb bath to the water and pray your intention as you mix it all up.  Undress and get in the tub.

Using a bowl or pot, scoop the water up and pour it over your head to get yourself completely wet.  Now, since this is a money-drawing bath, once you're completely wet you want to start rubbing the bath water UP your body, from toes to head.  You're PULLING the energy of money towards you. 

As you do this, pray.  Traditionally, people pray the 23rd Psalm since it is considered the luckiest Psalm.  After you're done reciting the Psalm, state your petition out loud again and pray that it be granted.

Step out of the tub.  You should let yourself air-dry (don't towel yourself off).  If you have long hair, you can wrap it up in a towel.  As you air-dry, keep praying for what you want.  Scoop up a small amount of your used bathwater and set it aside.  Drain the tub.

When you're all dry, dress your body in an appropriate conjure oil depending on your condition.  In this case, try an Attraction or Money Drawing oil.  You dab some on the soles of your feet going from toes to heel (be careful not to slip on the floor!!), and all your pulse points going up your body (behind knees, over your heart, both wrists, your neck, and the top of your head).

Dress yourself in fresh clean clothes (not the ones you wore yesterday to work).  Take your used bathwater that you saved outside and throw it a)towards the East, so the Sun can increase your work or b) at a crossroads.  Walk away and don't look back.  All done!



NOTE: Some workers take all spiritual baths just before dawn.  You can do that if it feels right to you, but another way to work is "by the clock".  Let's say you're taking a ritual bath to remove a jinx or curse.  You can get everything ready and start taking the bath at 8:20AM, because the clock hands are going DOWN (and therefore removing bad conditions).  Then, as the clock hands are going UP (from 8:30 AM to 9:00 in this example)  you're drying off, praying and anointing yourself from toes to head with an appropriate oil to give you luck and success.

Conjure Item O' the Week: Cinnamon!

Happy first of the week, everyone!  Let's get spicy!

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Cinnamomum aromaticum, and other members of the "Cinnamomum" family.

WHERE CAN I GET IT?: Unless you happen to live in a rainforest of Sri Lanka, you can buy this at your local grocery store.  Some brands are better than others in terms of freshness and fragrance.  It comes in sticks or powdered.

WHAT'S IT GOOD FOR?: Cinnamon is awesome for money drawing and business luck.  Mix some with Sugar (to sweeten money to you) and sprinkle it across your front door step, or across the sidewalk leading into your business. 

Cinnamon oil is used as a base fragrance for many money/prosperity oils out there, but be very careful if using the essential oil; it can burn your skin if it's undilluted!  Mix pure essential oil of cinnamon with a carrier oil like jojoba or sweet almond oil before using for self-anointing.

If you have to speak to someone and have your words well-received, get a cinnamon stick and suck on it just before you talk to the person; your words and message will be "sweet" to their ears.

Cinnamon is also termed a "sweet hot" herb, and can be used to heat up a love or passion formula.  Ginger also works like this. 

If you want to encourage commerce or sell a home, put some cinnamon sticks in a pot of water and set it over a low heat on your stove (real estate agents swear that the smell of cinnamon-apple pie will make people more receptive to buying or renting a property).  Make sure you check the water level occaisionally so it doesn't burn the pan!

Here's an easy money-drawing mojo: take 3 cinnamon sticks, a pinch of whole Cloves, a pinch of Thyme, a dime, and a whole Nutmeg.  Dress each item with a money drawing oil if you like (may I recommend Mary Bee Conjure's Money and Prosperity Oil?) and pray over the items that you will have money and prosperity drawn to you.  Sew the items up in a red or green flannel mojo bag and carry it on your person, where no one can see it.  

Quick Ways to Draw Money to Your Home

It's Monday, the start of another work week.  "Bleh!", you think, as you drag yourself out of bed.  "I wish money would just come to me instead of me having to go out and work for it!"

Well, life isn't exactly like that, but there's plenty of simple things you can do to draw money to your home. 

1. While you're waiting for your coffee to finish brewing, take a cup of water and add just a dash of household ammonia OR lemon juice OR vinegar.  Mix that up, grab an old dishcloth and wipe down your front door inside and out.  Wipe from the top of the door to the bottom.  This cleans away any bad luck from your front door, which is where you (and your paycheck!) walks in. 

2.  When the door is dry, grab yourself a Money-Drawing oil.  Lucky Mojo and Dr. E Products make great money drawing oils.  If you don't have one, no worries; get a little bit of plain olive oil and pray the 23rd Psalm over it.  This is the most powerful Psalm in the Bible and it really brings luck and money to you.  Once you've prayed over the oil (or have your Money Drawing oil handy), dab a drop of the oil at the four corners of the door and then in the middle.  That's 5 little dabs; think a 5 on a side of a dice.  Pray that money will be drawn to your home.  Do this on the inside and the outside of the door.

3.  Mix together some white sugar and ground cinnamon.  Sprinkle it across your doorstep and down your front walk, praying out loud (or under your breath) that money will be SWEET and DRAWN to you.

There you go!  Now that you've dressed your door for success and money drawing, time for coffee and to get ready for a prosperous day!

Dollar Store Conjure: Rootwork on the cheap

Whether you're working on being a Supreme Occult Master or are the average Josephine setting lights for herself now and again, one thing's for certain: you need supplies.  Hoodoo and rootwork come from the African-American Protestant Southern community.  These folks did not have great online retailers, Wal-Mart or even greenhouses to get plants and herbs.  Herbs, roots and flowers were gathered from the wild.  Supplies for spellwork were based on things you could get from around the home or on the farm: salt, red flannel, iron filings, nails, string, and so forth.  Hoodoo workers made their own supplies, oils, and powders for themselves and their clients.  Conjure shops didn't really start popping up in large cities until the turn of the 20th century.

There are so many great conjure shops online today where you can order complete baths, powders, oils, and incense.  Lucky Mojo Curio Company is one example.  However, you can work some great authentic magic with things you find in the dollar store.  If you're a beginning conjure worker or just want to do some work or magic for yourself, take a trip to a dollar store with these tips in mind!

Candles - Get some tea lights for small petitions or altar lights, tapers (often stores will have different colors and you can use those colors for whatever you're working), and some stores (especially those in towns or cities with a high Hispanic population) will have saint candles and 7 day vigils.  Experiment to see if the burn quality is OK on the 7-day vigil; it is a dollar store, after all, and I've found that some brands of candle aren't poured very well and will give a weird burn.

Powders - Get cheap baby powder, cornstarch and arrowroot powder.  All can be used to make sachet powders OR you can add your expensive conjure shop sachet to plain baby powder and use it as a daily dusting powder on your  body.

Ammonia/Floor Washes - Booyah!  You can't beat a dollar for a big bottle of spiritual cleansing fluid!  Get some plain ammonia, which clears away crossed conditions.  Check out the store for some pine-based floor wash (like Pine-Sol) to see if it has real pine oil in it.  If it does, it's a great spiritual cleanser in your home; pine breaks away crossed or jinxed conditions.  Just pray over the bottle when you open it!

Herbs - I know, I know, you're not going to find High John the Conqueror root or Sandalwood chips in a dollar store (but if you do, tell me because I'd love to know where you shop :) ).  But look in the food or cooking aisle and you can find some cheap herbs to add to your conjure cupboard.  Check the expiration dates to make sure they're fresh.  Look for Cinnamon sticks, jars of Honey, Thyme, Basil, etc. etc.

Automotive and House Supply Aisle - "Hey Mary, why are we in this aisle?" Because there's all kinds of cool stuff for conjure in here: twine for tying up packets and binding work, padlocks with keys, cheap knives, scissors, needles and thread, jars and boxes, mirrors (for reversing work), and so on.  Let your imagination run away for a little bit.  Get some aluminum pans to keep vigil candles in while they burn so they don't tip over and start a fire.

Toys - Need a doll baby and you don't want to sew?  Look for a plastic dolly or action figure.  Use paper money or toy bank to decorate your money altar (do not use toy money IN your money work; only use real money when working to attract money, but it's OK to decorate the altar space with fake money). 

Those are just a few ways to work magic while saving money.  What are your ideas?  Let me know in comments!