We are going to get downright sticky today with learning how to make a Honey Jar.

Making a Honey Jar to “Sweeten” someone to you, whether a lover (potential or existing), boss or a cantankerous person has been around for generations. This visual - really a mini altar - is a way to not only have your candle burning for your intentions constantly but is also a way to remind you of your intentions towards them.

Ingredients

OPTIONAL: Sugar (if you want) Some use white sugar if the target is Caucasian, Light Brown Sugar for Hispanic and Dark Brown Sugar for those who are of African descent.
Oil of Influence, Love Me, Boss Fix, Crown of Success, or any other anointing oil that will bring around positive results.

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How To Make A Honey Jar

First, take your glass jar and clean it well, then dry. Anoint with oil the photo, business card or even just the name of the person who you want to “be sweet” to you. Place items - a photo, business card or lock of hair in bottom of jar (maybe for the lover jar, place some rose petals first – like a “bed of roses” – so romantic – then place photo on that). On top of the business card for the boss or that mini copy of the contract folded – place a few coins – I use five – for money drawing properties. Sprinkle the oil and herbs/flowers around on top.
Cover with a few spoons of sugar (optional) of your color variety (see above) and either alternate layers of sugar/honey, sugar/honey, until you get to the top or just fill rest of jar with honey. I always taste a bit of the honey on my finger before pouring as in my tradition the Goddess Ochun (Oshun) was poisoned by honey offered her and therefore she will never again accept any offerings of her favorite substance without the devotees tasting the honey first, ensuring its’ safety.
Close the lid to the jar and tighten it. You will not open it again (unless to disassemble). Take small finger sized pink candles (picture fat birthday candles) and burn them while standing on them on top of the lid. Do this once a day until you get your desired results. Eventually the wax will cover the lid and the sides of the jar. Once you have gained your outcome, keep the jar somewhere where it is undisturbed, bringing it out to relight candles on if the lover is not attentive or the bothersome person “acts up” again.
SEE PHOTO

This particular honey jar is for blessings of peace and clarity and thus we are using a white candle
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Occasionally, I receive a note or e-mail in regards of burning a candle for money drawing or prosperity, giving me details on the successes and sometimes non deliverance of any financial gains as a result of said candle burn.

I think it is important to not rely on one candle being burned to change your financial outlook; it has to be a complete lifestyle change. While the candle will break open those streams of income coming it, it might not be with just one candle, but a series of candles. While I burn candles here on my altars for clients, it is their altars that produce the long-lasting results because they are taking the time to nurute and tend to them. Think of your financial success and prosperity as a lover - would you want to produce loving feelings to someone who neglects you or maybe downright uses you for their personal gain? Of course not, and the energies that you produce when burning your candles and working your money altars is the very close to what I just addressed.

Also, are you helping your financial and prosperity success by “spreading the love” with tithes, donations and contributions to charities and spiritual institutions that are near and dear to your heart? This lesson was the hardest one for me to learn as I like to see those numbers in the bank just as you do. But by donating a small amount of your gain blesses those around you with a residual effect of your good fortune, thereby activating a chain reaction if you will, of energies that circulates within the community, making sure all are prosperous.

Let me give you an example, like I have said before in other posts, one way I “jump start” my business again when it seems I have a few slow days, is to make a donation to a particular church that I enjoy receiving their mailings. I have other local charities as sell, such as the mission that feeds the homeless and also for breast cancer, disabled veterans and a Native American educational organization. I make out the check, usually no more than $20.00, and I pray over it, thanking the Universe for blessing me with the amount, then praying that the money I send blesses others. A few hours after I drop the envelopes into the mail, my telephone starts ringing and I get busy. I am not saying that you should send your complete paycheck, but take a token amount - five or ten dollars - the amount of a 2 value meals a week at your local burger place - and send it to someone who helps out society.

For instance, the prayer that I pray over the check I send to the soup kitchen mission goes something like this, “Thank you for blessing me with this money so that I can feed my family and keep them warm; so much so that my cupboards are full. May everyone have full cupboards and if only each and every person in my town would send in just five or ten dollars, there would be no more hunger in our community.” I always have enough to eat and I am igniting hope that others in this city would hear my prayer - somewhere.

Another idea is to incorporate the philosophy of Feng Shui by cleaning out your closets, garage, cabinets and desks. The theory is that when you get rid of items that are broken, too old, too worn out (like clothing), unused, not necessary and unwanted to charities or to the dump. The ideas here is that the “void” of that space that was taken up by the clutter will activate movement to bring new items into your space - things are can be used. Deep cleaning is also a mood elevator - once finished - as I would think that the actual cleaning would not be a fun time - and once you are done, you can shower, relax with a cool drink and fell good about your accomplishments.

A good rule of thought is to think that prosperity for you is prosperity for all. You never know when your neighbor may need something you sell or a service you provide. Congratulate them on their good fortune and do not cast an jealous eye or have an envious thought towards them. Bless them that they live long and prosperous, because by their hard work, they have gained and you can also gain by their example. Work hard, spend thoughtfully and give to the less fortunate - along with doing your green candle burnings for constant streams of money and prosperity - and you will always be blessed.

In many cultures, it is considered tradition to use a photograph with a candle. Just like a name paper, which is a piece of parchment paper in the old tyme methods, or the more conventional white paper, to inscribe the full name and birth date (if known) on a paper and place it under a candle for various conditions. Photographs are used in a similar fashion to keep in touch with an individual.

More importantly, the color of candle that is used with a photograph is detrimental to the candle burning outcome. Using a white candle, for example, anointed with healing, blessing or any positive producing condition oil, can be used for someone who is suffering, whether physically, emotionally or spiritually. White candles are also used in ancestors’ altars, where a photograph of the deceased loved one is set with a whitle candle, photograph, glass of cool water and in some cases, tobacco, coffee, a shot glass of brandy or other spirits and an occasional sweet to appease their loved ones. The thought behind this tradition is to offer the things that they enjoyed while on the Earth to appease them and thus ensure their continued protection from the Heavens above.

It is important that no image of a living person should be placed on an ancestor altar or that offerings be made to a photograph that contains the images of one living person and one who has passed in the same photograph. To do so would hasten the loving person to join the one that has passed in the afterlife.

When working candles for love, whether immediate gratification with another person, or long-lasting, romantic love, using the appropriate candle color for each is crucial. If you want a lover, but not necessarily a time-consuming relationship, then red candles are to used with the photo pf the intended lover. If it is a full blown relationship that you want, then use pink candles, which imparts the “heat” of desire from the red, but softness it with the purity and wholesomeness of the white candle.

When working candles for success, the color is gold or a golden yellow color (not lemon or light yellow). Gold candles impart the “riches” of gold (wealth) or a golden crown, usually given to a king or ruler in ancient times. You may use this color of candle, along with some “Crowning Glory” or “Crown of Success” condition oil, when seeking a promotion for for a child or grandchild to succeed on tests or in school.

If an increase in financial gain or prosperity is desired, then using green candles along with symbols of wealth, along with your photograph is to be used. Enhance your money drawing success by using “Money Drawing”, “Wealthy Way” or “Prosperity” condition oils in your candle. A small area of your bedroom is the perfect place to build a money altar. Surround the candle with images of what you perceive as wealth, such as a photo of a car you would like, a large mansion for a home, bags of money, a bank, stacks of play money, etc., in order to build up these images in your psyche as your green candle burns with your photograph.

Using anointing oils, sometimes called blessed or condition oils, are an important part of candles burn for a reason. You may find these in your local botanica or religious supply house, or online at certain spiritual supply stores like Lucky 13 Clover Spiritual Supply To increase the desired outcome, using incense while burning your candle, or related bath crystals and sachet powders, increase the effectiveness of the candle.