Magical intent
Commerce
Magical intent1 tradition
Commerce is money in motion: sales, trade, negotiation, and the busy flow of customers. Mercury, god of merchants, rules the marketplace.
Uses
- Increasing sales
- Successful negotiations
- Business communication
- Getting paid on time
- Day
- Wednesday
- Moon phase
- Waxing moon
- Colors
- Yellow, orange, green
- Herbs and scents
- Basil, cinnamon, fennel
- Stones
- Citrine, agate, aventurine
Working with it
On a Wednesday, place a coin in each corner of your shop, desk, or cash drawer and one in the center under a yellow or green candle. Light it while saying what business you want to come in. Collect the coins and spend them on the business.
What to work with for Commerce
Herbs
❦ Allspice❦ Basil❦ Cinnamon❦ Cinquefoil❦ Clove❦ Clover❦ Dill❦ Fenugreek❦ Honeysuckle⚠❦ Mint❦ Nutmeg⚠❦ Patchouli❦ Pomegranate❦ Star Anise
Stones
Oils and resins
Kitchen
Candle colors
⚠ marks plants that are poisonous to eat. Use them only in ways that don't involve eating or drinking, and work with the deadly ones (belladonna, mandrake, wolfsbane, yew, henbane) symbolically only.
14 herbs7 stones5 oils and resins2 candle colors
Where the traditions place it
- Mercury — Common practice