Sun Over the Lintel is a blessing sigil spell for the threshold of your home: a sun-mark drawn at first light, charged in the dawn’s gold, and fixed above the door to greet each crosser with favour. Every doorway is a mouth that swallows comings and goings, and what is written above it flavours all that pass beneath. This working reaches toward the old law of thresholds, that a door dressed in light lets no shadow settle, and a house so marked stands warm to friend and closed to harm.
Correspondences for This Spell
- Colours: white and gold, the shades of consecration
- Herbs: frankincense, rosemary, and rose
- Crystal: clear quartz and selenite
- Day: Sunday
- Planet: the Sun
- Element: Spirit and Air
- Moon: waxing or full, to bless and increase
For the wider table of magical matches, see the correspondences guide.
What You Will Need
- A small square of clean paper for the sigil
- A blessing or consecration oil (frankincense or rosemary in a light carrier, or simple olive oil)
- A sun-warmed crystal: sunstone or citrine to hold the solar charge, with clear quartz or selenite to consecrate the mark
- A pen or fine brush to draw your sun-sign
- Optional: a sprig of dried rosemary or a rose petal to lay beside the paper as it charges
The Best Time to Cast
Cast at dawn, when the first gold spills over the sill and the Sun makes its own return to the sky. This is the natural hour to draw a solar blessing down into wood and stone. Choose a Sunday if you can, the Sun’s own day, and time the working to a waxing or full moon so the blessing rises and increases rather than wanes. If your household needs the charm sooner, do not wait on a perfect sky; a sincere dawn will always answer.
The Working
- On a small square of paper, at first light, draw a sun-sign of your own devising — a wheel, a rayed eye, a spiral turning outward.
- Anoint each of its rays with a fingertip of oil, drawing the line from the center out toward the world.
- Set a sunstone or a piece of citrine upon the sign and let it lie in the dawn light until the paper is warm to the touch.
- Speak the blessing over the mark, naming your house and all who dwell and visit within.
- Fix the paper above the door, on the inner face of the lintel where few eyes fall.
- Touch the sign each dawn for nine mornings, waking its light with a fingertip and a quiet word.
The Incantation
Sun that climbs the eastern stair,
lay your gold upon this lair.
Every soul that crosses here,
meet with warmth and send with cheer.
Light above and light below,
bless the door where all things go.
Variations & Substitutions
- No sunstone or citrine to hand? A piece of clear quartz or selenite, laid in the same dawn light, will carry and consecrate the charge just as faithfully.
- If you cannot fix paper above the door, draw the sun-sign in blessing oil directly on the inner lintel, or trace it invisibly with an oiled fingertip each morning.
- Renters and travellers can charge a small card and tuck it above the frame, or keep it in a pocket by the door — the threshold you bless is the one you cross.
A Word on Intent
This is a charm of welcome and warding, and the Wiccan Rede holds even here: an it harm none, do what ye will. A blessing given freely blesses freely, so do not lay this mark on a home that is not yours to bless without the leave of those who dwell there. Ward against harm, not against people; turn back ill-wishing, but wish none in return. Cast to make your door warm to friend and closed to harm, and let the light you raise carry no shadow of your own.
Related Blessing Spells
Copy this working into your own Book of Shadows, adapting the sun-sign and the words until they are truly yours, and wander the rest of the Grimoire for more thresholds, hearths, and blessings to keep.