Abundance Soy Votive Candle | Cinnamon & Clove Prosperity

Abundance is a slippery word in modern spiritual practice, mostly because the marketing has worn it down. Used carelessly, "abundance" means cash; used with more thought, it means the broader felt-sense of having enough, of being held by life rather than constantly clawing at it. Abundance candles in folk magic predate the prosperity-gospel framing by centuries and have always meant the wider thing: a steady flow of what's needed, the soft luck of being in the right place at the right time, the quiet competence of a household that doesn't run out of things at the wrong moment. Money is a piece of it. Money is rarely all of it.

This is Crystal Journey's soy votive interpretation of abundance work, part of their intention-based soy line. The candle is one hundred percent plant-based soy wax in a thick glass jar, scented with the Crystal Journey abundance blend of clove, citronella, lemon balm, cinnamon, and nutmeg, all carried in essential oil. The sage green wax follows Crystal Journey's intention-color system: green for growth, abundance, money work, and the broader Earth-element correspondences that fold money and prosperity into the same energetic territory as plants and harvest.

The five oils in this blend lean toward the warm, kitchen-spice end of the abundance vocabulary rather than the floral or resinous ends. This is a deliberate choice. Cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove are all hearth-and-table spices, the smells of a kitchen at work, of food being prepared and shared, of a household running well. Lemon balm adds a bright lift for spirits during scarcity-mindset spells. Citronella grounds the working in the everyday. The whole blend reads warm, slightly sweet, and faintly green, like baked goods cooling near an open window.

Key Features

One hundred percent soy wax for a clean, slow burn. Soy wax is plant-derived (typically from soybean oil) and burns more slowly and at a cooler temperature than paraffin, which extends the burn time and tends to produce less soot. Many practitioners with paraffin sensitivities (headaches, scent intolerance, or a general preference for plant-based candles) choose soy specifically for these reasons.

Clove, citronella, lemon balm, cinnamon, and nutmeg essential oil blend. Crystal Journey's abundance blend is a kitchen-spice approach to prosperity work rather than a precious-resin one. Cinnamon is the central note, classically the prosperity spice across nearly every Western magical tradition: cinnamon water blessings, cinnamon-stick altar pieces, cinnamon-infused dressing oils, all standard hoodoo and folk-magic kit. Nutmeg adds warm depth and is traditionally carried in pockets or sachets for luck and abundance. Clove brings energetically clarifying heat and protection (abundance work without protection draws scarcity-attention as easily as opportunity). Lemon balm lifts the working out of grim hustle and into something gentler. Citronella anchors the spell in everyday-life energy rather than abstract wishing. The whole blend reads warm, sweet, and domestic, the inside of a kitchen at the start of a holiday week.

Thick glass jar votive for contained burning. Unlike Crystal Journey's standard freestanding herbal votive, this soy votive comes in a thick glass jar that contains the wax pool throughout the burn. The jar makes the candle suitable for indoor altar use without a separate holder, and easier to relight across multiple sessions without drips or wax loss. For ongoing money-drawing work especially, the contained format makes the candle safer to relight across many short sessions than a freestanding votive would be.

Product Details

• Format: scented soy votive candle in glass jar
• Dimensions: approximately 2 inch diameter by 2.5 inch height (sizes may vary slightly)
• Wax: 100% soy
• Color: sage green (Crystal Journey's intention-color correspondence for abundance work in the soy line; the herbal sister-line uses light green for the same intention)
• Aroma: clove, citronella, lemon balm, cinnamon, and nutmeg essential oil blend
• Maker: Crystal Journey Candles (soy line)
• Origin: handcrafted in Connecticut, USA
• Burn time: approximately 18 to 20 hours

Ingredients

• 100% soy wax
• Cotton wick (paper and cotton, lead-free per maker)
• Clove, citronella, lemon balm, cinnamon, and nutmeg essential oil blend
• Glass jar housing

The Spiritual Significance

Abundance work in folk and ceremonial magic covers a much wider territory than its modern marketing usually suggests. Practitioners light abundance candles for explicit money-drawing (windfall workings, raise petitions, lottery-luck spells), for steady prosperity (the gradual accrual of resources, opportunities, and security), for harvest gratitude (acknowledging what has already arrived rather than perpetually pulling for more), for household luck (keeping the pantry stocked, the bills met, the small daily abundances flowing), and for business work (attracting clients, lifting a stalled venture, blessing a new project). Crystal Journey's own marketing recommends pairing this candle with their Problem Solving candle when starting a new business: small, specific, traditional applications that signal abundance work covers more than money.

In hoodoo and rootwork, abundance candles share altar space with cinnamon sticks, nutmeg, bay laurel, basil, mint, citrine, pyrite, dressed Money Drawing oils, and (most traditionally) honey jars and sweet jars. In Wiccan and folk-Pagan practice, abundance is associated with Jupiter (the planet of expansion), with Thursdays as Jupiter's day, with the waxing moon (drawing in rather than releasing), and with the planetary sphere of Chesed in Hermetic Qabalah. Solar Plexus chakra (Manipura) practice treats abundance as an aspect of personal-power and manifestation work, the willful drawing-in of what life is asking the practitioner to receive. The candle does not deliver wealth on its own; it focuses your own work of being someone resources can find and stay with.

How To Use

1. Place the candle on a stable, heatproof surface, away from drafts and flammable materials. The thick glass jar contains the wax pool but becomes warm during burning.
2. Cleanse the candle in your usual way before first lighting: pass it through smoke from a smudge stick or palo santo, leave it in moonlight overnight (especially waxing or full moon for drawing-in work), or sprinkle a light pass of salt around the jar. For pointed money-drawing work, some practitioners anoint the top of the wax with a single drop of a money-aligned oil (cinnamon, basil, or a hoodoo Money Drawing blend), working it gently outward toward the edges (drawing-in motion).
3. Sit somewhere comfortable, ideally with a written list of what you are actually asking for nearby. Specificity helps abundance work; vague "more money" requests tend to manifest as small confusing pittances. Breathe slowly, three or four breaths in, and let yourself look directly at the list.
4. Light the wick and set your intention. Crystal Journey's printed abundance affirmation reads, "May an abundance of goodness flow freely into my life. Allow me to be receptive to the treasures that present themselves, enriching my life's journey." Speak the affirmation aloud or set your own quieter intention: "I am safe to receive," "What is mine finds me easily," "I have enough, and more is welcome," or whatever the working calls for.
5. Sit with the flame for as long as the practice asks. Many practitioners use this candle as a Thursday-morning ritual following Jupiter timing, lighting it during the start of the workday. Others light it during journaling about money and resources, during business-strategy sessions, during longer prosperity workings spread across many days, or as a household maintenance ritual at the start of each month. When you are finished, snuff the flame (don't blow it out, traditionally), and let the jar cool fully before moving.

Pairs Well With

• Abundance Reiki-Charged Pillar Candle: the same abundance working in Crystal Journey's pillar format, traditional paraffin pillar Reiki-charged for sustained prosperity and money-drawing practice across many sessions. Where this soy votive is for short single-session rituals or daily maintenance, the pillar carries longer workings: multi-week business-launch rituals, sustained career transitions, or the long-haul prosperity work that asks for a candle to be lit and snuffed across many days.
• Abundance Herbal Votive Candle: the same abundance working in Crystal Journey's other votive format, traditional paraffin votive in light green, freestanding without glass, with the included paper card carrying Crystal Journey's abundance affirmation. Choose between the two votives based on wax preference, format (contained jar vs. freestanding), and whether you want the printed affirmation card.
• Motivation Soy Votive Candle: a sibling in the Crystal Journey soy votive line, dedicated to drive and forward momentum. Abundance work without motivation work tends to produce vague waiting; motivation work without abundance work tends to produce burnout. Pair them when starting a new business, launching a project that is meant to generate income, or moving into a phase that asks both for steady drive and for resources to find you. Both share the plant-based soy wax and glass-jar format for sensory consistency in ritual.
• Power Soy Votive Candle: a sibling in the soy line dedicated to confidence and personal authority work. Practitioners often pair power and abundance for negotiations: salary negotiations, contract negotiations, asking-for-the-raise rituals, or any working where the practitioner's own embodied authority is the variable that determines whether the abundance flows. Light power for the conversation; light abundance for what comes after.
• Protection Soy Votive Candle: a sibling in the soy line dedicated to warding and energetic boundary work. Abundance work draws attention from the field around the practitioner, not all of it welcome. Practitioners across folk-magic traditions consider warding alongside abundance work standard practice, both to protect the practitioner from envy or sabotage and to keep the abundance from being drawn off by old scarcity patterns or unwelcome attachments.
• Throat Chakra Soy Votive Candle: a sibling in the soy line, dedicated to Vishuddha throat-chakra communication work. Abundance work that has to be asked for aloud (negotiations, pitches, raise requests, asking for help) needs the throat chakra's clarity. Both share the plant-based soy wax and glass-jar format for sensory consistency in ritual.

History & Occult Background

Abundance candles, prosperity workings, and money-drawing rituals are some of the oldest items in the witch's cabinet. Hoodoo and rootwork hold a particularly rich abundance-magic lineage, drawing on the African-diasporic plant traditions that produced Money Drawing oil, Fast Luck oil, Crown of Success workings, and the family of honey-jar and sweet-jar spells used across centuries to draw resources and opportunities. European folk magic burns abundance candles on Thursdays (Jupiter's day, traditionally for expansion, increase, and good fortune) and during the waxing moon for drawing-in work. Ceremonial magic assigns abundance work to Chesed on the Hermetic Qabalah Tree of Life, the sphere of mercy, generosity, and benevolent expansion, balanced by Geburah's necessary limits on the opposite pillar.

The five oils Crystal Journey selected for this blend are drawn from the kitchen-spice end of the prosperity tradition rather than the precious-resin end. Cinnamon is the workhorse prosperity spice across most Western traditions: cinnamon water sprinkled across thresholds, cinnamon sticks tucked into wallets and registers, cinnamon-dressed candles burned for raise petitions and business luck. Nutmeg is the traditional gambler's spice, carried for luck in all its forms. Clove brings the protective heat that abundance work needs to keep what's drawn in. Lemon balm lifts the spell out of anxious grasping. Citronella anchors it in the everyday rather than abstract wishing. The blend is structured for sustained, household-scale prosperity work rather than dramatic windfall hits.

Crystal Journey Candles is a Connecticut family company that has long made intention-dedicated candles, drawing on a synthesis of folk-magic, aromatherapy, and Reiki traditions. The Herbal Magic line and the Soy line both use the same intention vocabulary; they differ in wax, scent, and format. The abundance blend has remained essentially unchanged across the company's history. The wax color in the soy line (sage green) and the herbal line (light green) are very close, both signaling growth and Earth-element prosperity work in Western color-correspondence systems.

The candle is not magic that gives you wealth without work; it is a tool that focuses your own prosperity practice. Pair it with the slow daily practices of being specific about what you want, asking directly for what you need, treating the resources you already have with care, and noticing the small abundances you are already inside, and the working takes hold over time.

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between this Abundance Soy Votive and the Abundance Reiki-Charged Pillar?

Both are Crystal Journey abundance candles with the same scent blend and intention. The soy votive is the smaller plant-based format in a glass jar, around 18 to 20 hours of burn, ideal for short single-session rituals or daily maintenance. The Reiki-charged pillar is a larger paraffin pillar candle additionally infused with Reiki energy, with a much longer burn time, ideal for sustained workings spread across many sessions: multi-week business launches, sustained career transitions, or longer-haul prosperity work.

Why is the soy version sage green while the herbal sister-version is light green?

Both are in the green family, the traditional Western color correspondence for abundance, growth, and Earth-element prosperity work. The soy line goes a slightly muted, sage-toned green; the herbal line goes a brighter light green. The two are functionally interchangeable from a color-correspondence perspective; the choice comes down to wax preference and aesthetic.

Is this candle for money specifically, or broader abundance?

Either, depending on the intention you set. Crystal Journey's marketing keeps the candle's framing wide ("abundance" rather than "money"), and the affirmation it ships with talks about "treasures" rather than dollars. Most practitioners use this candle for the broader prosperity territory: stable household resources, opportunities arriving when needed, the soft luck of being in the right place. For pointed money-drawing work, many practitioners pair this candle with a more directly money-focused tool (a Money Drawing oil, a green spell candle dressed with cinnamon, or Crystal Journey's separately-named Money candle in their Herbal Magic line).

Are the oils essential oils or fragrance oils?

Crystal Journey markets the soy line as essential oil blends rather than synthetic fragrance, and the company describes the abundance blend as the listed essential oils carried in soy wax. Some scented-candle makers use a mix of essential oils and aroma compounds for stability; if pure-essential-oil candles are a strict ritual requirement, ask the maker directly before purchasing.

When should I light an abundance candle?

Common moments: Thursday mornings (Jupiter's day in folk traditions); during the waxing moon, especially the few days before full, for drawing-in work; at the start of a new business venture or career chapter; during salary or contract negotiations (light it before the conversation, snuff afterward); during journaling about money and resources; as a monthly household ritual at the start of each month; or any time you need to remember that you are someone resources can find and stay with.

Can I use this candle for windfall workings, like winning the lottery?

Practitioners do, with mixed and unpredictable results. The candle's strongest applications tend to be steady-state prosperity work rather than windfall work: the gradual accrual of resources rather than a single big hit. Windfall workings traditionally pair this candle with more pointed tools like Fast Luck oil or a hoodoo Lottery candle, and even then, most practitioners report the work pays off through unexpected raises, gifts, or opportunities rather than through actual lottery wins.

Can I burn this candle through the night while I sleep?

No. As with any open flame, never leave a burning candle unattended, and snuff it out before sleep. The thick glass jar contains the wax pool well, but the glass itself becomes hot. Most abundance-candle practices use the candle during a focused ritual window (a few minutes to an hour) and extinguish it when the session ends.