Money bowls show up constantly across modern witchcraft content, and there's no backlash to using one. It's a genuinely widespread, actively practised ritual today. We still think it's worth a short, honest note on where it comes from before the how-to, because that context is easy to lose once a practice spreads widely.
How to build one
- Write your specific intention on the petition paper: a real, plain-language sentence about what you want, not just a single word like "money."
- Place the petition paper in the bottom of the bowl.
- Layer in the herbs (basil, cinnamon, and bay leaf in our kit) on top of the paper.
- Add your own coins on top of the herbs. Using your own real currency, rather than symbolic play money, is the traditional detail here.
- Set the citrine or pyrite chip on top as a finishing touch.
- Light the chime candle beside (not directly on) the bowl, let it burn down, and relight it periodically. Many practitioners do this weekly, especially around the new moon.
- Refresh the herbs every few weeks, or when the scent fades, keeping the coins and petition paper in place underneath.
Where this comes from
The money bowl is a hoodoo-rooted practice. Hoodoo (also called rootwork or conjure) is a specific African American folk-magic tradition that developed in the US South, blending West and Central African spiritual practices with folk-Catholic and Protestant elements. It's not a religion itself and isn't tied to a fixed pantheon; historically it was passed down through families or paid rootworkers rather than published books. Its absorption into generic "witchy" content online is relatively recent, and a lot of that content (including, to be fair, our own kit) presents a simplified version stripped of the specific spirits, Psalms, and lineage a rootworker would actually draw on.
If this practice resonates with you and you want to go deeper than a simplified starter kit, we'd point you towards established hoodoo suppliers and practitioners rather than treating our own copy as the authority: Lucky Mojo Curio Co. and Article of the Root are two well-regarded, longstanding places to start.
