Hi Jacqueline,

I have read your suggestion about money petition papers. What if it is not for money but someting else? What do you do with petition papers that are secret wishes for things like good health or for better times ahead?

Mary

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Mary,

Let me tell you what I do with petition papers. As you know, I receive prayer requests from all over and place them free on my All Saints Altar, under the candles I am burning for others, so that they can “piggy back” on the candle intentions and have a little “oomph” for the Angels and Saints to hear.

On Sundays, when I clean the Altar and reset things and such, I take those prayer requests and petitions, including the petitions that were attached to candles I have burned for clients, and I burn them on a charcoal that has frankincense and myrrh or other Holy Resins and Herbs on it, and let them burn, allowing the smoke to drift to Heaven. It is reminiscent of Old Testament times when burnt offerings were placed on fires in the Temple.

You might want to do the same for your petitions. Get a aluminum pie pan and light some incense charcoal that you can get at a spiritual supply shop or Catholic store. Frankincense and Myrrh granules can be found there as well. Light charcoal, drop some incense grains on he coal, then place petition on top of it. Make sure you area is fire safe. You can add prayers or a meditation time during your burn, if you wish.

Thank you for a good question!

J.

This is the snippet of question that  I received from Amie regarding a petition paper for a honey jar spell that she was reading about on Free Candle Spells.

Amie wrote:

If it for love, do I write the persons name and superimpose with my name??? How many times and in what way?

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Amie,

Here was how I was taught by cat yronwode, who has a Hoodoo Course that I took many years ago. First, get a clean white piece of paper and a marker. Then write your intended’s name on it nine times, one right under the other (see photo). The one you want to love needs to have their name written first, then yours. For this example, I am using the names Olive Oyl and Popeye, with Popeye being the one who is creating the honey jar.

Then you will write your name on top of your intended’s name nine times, one name written under another, like in the second photo. For the photo, you will see not only Popeye’s name written across Olive Oyl’s nine times but also the last step of encircling it with a proclamation or spell intent. In this last step, which you will find the hardest to do, you MUST not lift your pen until you have joined the first and last letter together (very hard to do). If you err and lift your pen by accident, you must begin whole petition paper writing over again. In this example, I wrote “Marry me and live with me in a long lasting loving relationship” or something along those lines. Again, the most important part is that you write and spin your paper in a circular motion while writing and without lifting your pen. Once you have joined your first letter and last letter together with the pen stroke, lift pen and cross the “t’s” and dot the “i’s”.

Now you can continue with your honey jar spell for love, placing in the center of the petition paper used tissues from intimate relations, a hair from his or her head, nail clippings, two matched Lodestones, cinnamon, rose petals and other items reputed to bring about love.

Ms. Jacqueline,

What do I do with the petition paper that I have under my green candles for money? I don’t see where you are supposed to burn it up, so I didn’t do that. I have it on the plate where I burned my candle but now I don’t know what to do with it. Can you tell me what is best for my petition paper?

Thank you,

Shawna

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Shawna,

If you do not plan to burn any more green candles for that particular money petition, then here is what you can do.

You can create a Money Attraction Charm – Take a bit of the wax (if possible) and with a small Lodestone and some Magnetic Sand, wrap all of this up in the petition paper, tying a green string around it until it looks like a ball of thread a cat would play with. Tie it off or tie a know in it and burn another green candle, allowing the wax to drip over the ball to seal it. You can now hang it over your doorway on the inside of the front door or place it in a pot, covering it with a live green plant and dirt, and keeping it by your front door.

If you can’t keep plants outside your door, move the plant into your home but keeping it near the front door on the inside. Another way is to bury it at the foot of the porch (where you walk up) or at the bottom of the stairs (if you live in an upper apartment).

Using hot wax to seal a green money mojo bag

You can also drop it into a green flannel mojo bag and tie it off, sealing the string with a bit if hot wax from a burning green candle, and keep it in your purse. Take it out every Friday and anoint it with Money Drawing Oil or whiskey, let dry, and replace in zippered pocket of your purse. For men, carry it in your pants pocket with your coin change.