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Blessing Bottles for 2021: How to Make and Use Them

Blessing Bottles for 2021: How to Make and Use Them

Last updated on: December 24, 2020 at 12:04 pm by Katrina Rasbold

Blessing Bottles for 2021: How to Make and Use Them 2020-12-24T12:04:23-08:00 Katrina Rasbold

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Container magic using bottles is an especially effective and thoughtful method of folk magic that crosses over many different traditions. It was common in the Appalachian Granny Magic in which I was raised and came back onto my radar when I was learning HooDoo and then later as a Brujería apprentice.

There is some minor disagreement as to the minor points of jar and bottle work. In all three circumstances with different mentors and in different cultures, I was taught that jar work is generally punitive (as in a “Witch’s jar” to curse) and bottle work is constructive (a “Witch’s bottle” to bless). My editor at Llewellyn disagreed with that teaching and people who responded to previous blog posts disagreed. This is how my mentors taught me.

The following ingredients are for a 2021 Blessing Bottle. I just restocked our store with these and people seem to enjoy them. I use whatever pretty bottle I have on hand. The bottle should seal, although the method of sealing is irrelevant. My most recent ones were cork-sealed. The ones before that had the clamp down tops. In theory, you should be able to access the ingredients to add to them as desired.

How to make the bottles

Sit with the bottle for a few minutes and ask it to receive the tokens of your blessing goals for the coming year. When the bottle feels ready, you can begin to add the items, taking time to infuse each ingredient with your own energy. Tap also into the specific energy inherent to the item and channel down Universal energy from whatever Divine Power you honor. This gives you the perfect trifecta of power: personal energy, natural energy, and divine energy. When each ingredient feels as if it is bursting with energy, you drop it into the bottle.

Once you have placed all of your items into the bottle, hold the bottle between your two hands, against your heart. Ask that the bottle fill with opportunity, love, and luck. Take in a gentle breath, hold it, and then breathe the exhalation into the bottle to capture your own breath, then close the bottle.

Suggested Ingredients

These are the ingredients I add to my 2021 Blessing Bottles. This acts as a starter for whatever the user might want to put into the bottle themselves. No doubt, you will have favorite tokens, herbs, and oils that you can add. A person can use some, none, or all of these, plus their own additions. All of the following will play well with other components:

A bay leaf for luck and prosperity
Rosemary for protection
St. John’s Wort (Hypericum) for mental and emotional stability
Lavender for peace and restorative sleep
Calendula (Marigold) for prosperity and luck
Snake skin for gentle rebirth and rites of passage
Red stones for passion and creativity
Blue stones for peace, truth, and healthy communication
Yellow stones for joy and happiness
Orange stones for health
Green stones for prosperity and healing
Pink stones for love and self-appreciation
White stones for spiritual growth
Black stones for protection from negativity
Oils to promote your goals (I use our 5 Blessings Oil, Showers of Gold Oil, and Road Opener Oil)
Charms/Amulets (I use a 4-leaf clover for luck, a heart for love, a key to open closed doors, and money bag for prosperity)
A sliver of selenite to tie it all together

Aftercare of the Bottles

You may want to add small hair cuttings from the people who live in your home or even fur cuttings for the pets to extend the blessings to everyone. Small trimming from your mortgage paperwork or rental agreement to personalizes the energy to the house. If you wish, you can feed the bottle with new stones, charms, tokens, herbs, oils, or other blessings throughout the year. Each time you feed the bottle, you should breathe into the bottle again to re-personalize it to you.

I recommend keeping the bottle in a prominent location, such as on your mantle or hearth, near your front door, on your altar, or close to whatever you perceive the heart of your home to be. The bottle draws in opportunity, blessings, protection, and prosperity throughout the coming year.

Need to contact Katrina? You can email her at [email protected]. You can find her shop at www.crossroadsoccult.com.

About Katrina M Rasbold

Katrina Rasbold is a professional witch, author, public speaker, teacher, and frustrated recluse (because she can't recluse). She and her husband, Eric, live in the forested Eden of the El Dorado National Forest in California. They own and run Crossroads Metaphysical Store in Shingle Springs, California where they make and sell their own magical products. Katrina's newest book, "Uncrossing" released through Llewellyn Worldwide in August 2021. You can find her books on amazon.com (Trust me, she's the only Rasbold on all of Amazon other than Eric). She has written more than 35 books, 10 of which were with Eric. You can read more about the author here.

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