Hallo all!
So, I was thinking about this after writing my last piece on the cleansing and blessing rituals I enjoy for Samhain.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Witch’s Jar, let me tell you about it. It’s a curse where you take odious things, such as urine, feces, rusty nails, broken glass, and noxious substances, a photo of your target, a baneful wish for them, and place them all in a jar. Before sealing the lid, you speak your ill wishes for them into the jar, then seal it up – not just by placing the lid on it, but buy wrapping it in plastic, duct tape, or whatever else you have handy, and bury it in your yard. Essentially, you are “planting” your curse in this way.
BUT! All methods that can be used for ill can be used for good. So, how would you go about making a GOOD witches jar?
Instead of putting all things odious into the jar, you would put those things that are beautiful. Flowers and herbs (dried, so they don’t mold or decay, silk, paper, or otherwise), essential oils, aromatherapy oils and other spell oils, again, a photograph. Perfumes, writing down well wishes (on bay leaves, for extra oompth), some sage, and lavandar. Glitter, keys, and crystals. Then you would seal it up in whatever way you like – I would do the jar and then wrap a ribbon around the top and perhaps paint something on the lid. You could, like the traditional witch’s jar, place it in the ground in your garden to grow throughout the year. But I would put this somewhere prominent in the house (if appropriate) where I could enjoy, remember, and re-energize it throughout the year or years. Would be a fun Halloween/Samhain tradition!
If you try it out, let me know – I’ll share a picture of mine when I’m done making it!
Talk soon!