Quick Specs
- Brand: Espiritu
- Type: Ritual fragrance oil
- Size/Quantity: 2 dram
- Best for: Wish and luck workings, charm bag feeding, candle magic, general intention-setting
Where the Mojo Wishing Name Comes From
Mojo Wishing takes its name from the mojo hand of African American conjure and from the wishing oils sold through hoodoo supply houses. A mojo, also called a mojo hand, is a small cloth bag, typically red flannel, filled with roots, herbs, minerals, and small symbolic objects assembled for a specific intention. In practice the assembled bag functions as a living spell, something that is brought to life through breath and intention and then fed regularly with oil to keep it working.
Wishing oils serve a multi-purpose function: they are flexible enough to support any positive intention rather than targeting one specific outcome. This makes a wishing oil a useful all-purpose tool for practitioners who want a single oil that can dress candles across a range of goals, from luck in games of chance to drawing opportunities, from attracting a needed relationship to opening financial doors. Its scent profile is generally warm and inviting rather than aggressive or sharp.
How Practitioners Work with Mojo Wishing Oil
The most common use is dressing a candle, typically gold, green, or orange, chosen for the color’s correspondence to the type of wish being made. Gold corresponds to success and money, green to financial growth, and orange to opportunity and attraction. The oil is applied moving from the candle’s base upward toward the wick, symbolizing drawing something toward the practitioner rather than pushing it away. A written petition, with the wish stated clearly in the present tense, is often placed beneath the candle. Browse my candle collection for ritual candles compatible with this type of wishing work.
Charm bags are the other major application. A wishing charm bag might contain items like a lodestone to attract, a lucky hand root for general good fortune, a piece of pyrite for prosperity, and herbs corresponding to the wish type. Once the bag is assembled and brought to life, it is fed weekly with wishing oil to maintain its potency. Some practitioners carry the bag on their person, others keep it on an altar or beneath their mattress. The 2-dram Espiritu bottle is well-sized for this kind of ongoing, weekly feeding practice.
What This Oil Is and What It Is Not
Espiritu Mojo Wishing oil is a ritual fragrance oil. For more aroma oils, browse my oils and diffusers collection.
How to Use Espiritu Mojo Wishing Oil
Three approaches to working with Espiritu Mojo Wishing oil in wishing and manifestation work.
- Charge the Oil with Your Wish
Hold the bottle and visualize your specific wish with as much detail and emotional clarity as you can. A clearly articulated wish is more effective than a vague one. State it aloud in present tense: not ‘I want’ but ‘I am receiving’ the outcome.
- Dress a Candle or Charm Bag
Apply a few drops to a gold, green, or orange candle to draw your wish toward you, moving from the base upward. You can also dress a small red flannel charm bag, breathe into it to bring it to life, and tie it closed to carry or place on your altar.
- Anoint Hands or a Lucky Charm
Rub a small amount of Mojo Wishing oil onto your palms before a situation where you need luck or a positive outcome. You may also anoint a lucky charm, coin, or talisman to carry with you, reinforcing the wish energy throughout the day as you move.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock Espiritu Mojo Wishing oil because a versatile all-purpose wishing oil is one of the first things a new practitioner should have, and one of the last things a seasoned practitioner stops using. Wish work is best grounded in practical, deliberate intention-setting rather than vague magical thinking, and that is worth explaining clearly. Most listing copy for wishing oils stops at “for luck and wishes.” That doesn’t tell you how to actually work with it. I try to do better. Find this alongside all of my Espiritu ritual oils in one place.
Frequently Asked Questions
It is a ritual fragrance oil for ceremonial and spellwork use.
A charm bag is a small cloth bag, traditionally red flannel, stuffed with herbs, roots, and charms for a specific intention. Wishing oil is used to feed the bag weekly, keeping the intention active and alive.
Mojo Wishing oil is a general-purpose wish and luck oil, versatile across many intentions: financial improvement, love attraction, opportunity opening, good luck before games of chance, or any situation where a favorable positive turn is sought.
Many practitioners feed a charm bag once a week by adding a few drops of the oil used to build it. This keeps the bag working. Some practitioners feed it daily during active workings, then shift to weekly maintenance.
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