The Amber Sign for Prospering Hands is a blessing sigil spell – a mark drawn and consecrated at the turn of the night to draw increase onto your labour, a trade, or a venture newly begun. At the pivot of the night, when one day has died and the next has not yet drawn breath, a mark made then belongs to neither and answers to both. In this advanced working you distil two clasped hands into a single sign, wake it with amber, and seal it with oil and smoke so the hands that do the work are met with fortune. To bless the work is to bless the worker.
Correspondences for This Spell
- Colours: white and gold, the hues of consecration and blessing.
- Herbs and incense: frankincense, rosemary and rose; amber or benzoin resin also suits this sigil’s smoke.
- Crystal: clear quartz and selenite for blessing, with amber or citrine at the sigil’s heart for prosperity.
- Day: Sunday, day of success and honest reward.
- Planet: the Sun, ruler of vitality, gold, and thriving fortune.
- Element: Spirit and Air, for consecration and the carrying of intent.
- Moon: the waxing or full moon, to bless and to increase.
For the fuller table of powers behind each of these, see the correspondences guide.
What You Will Need
- A single candle, white or gold, to witness the blessing.
- A piece of amber or citrine – the amber sign itself – and a little clear quartz or selenite to cleanse the space first.
- Incense: a coil of amber or benzoin, or frankincense resin on charcoal.
- A blessing oil (an olive base charged with frankincense or rose) to anoint the paper.
- Clean, unmarked paper and a pen for drawing the two hands into their sigil.
The Best Time to Cast
Cast at midnight, the threshold hour this sigil is named for, when the mark you make belongs to neither the day that has ended nor the one not yet begun, and so settles cleanly on the work to come. Choose a Sunday if you can, when the Sun lends its warmth of success, and let the moon be waxing or full so its ripening light pulls the same way – toward increase.
The Working
- At midnight, light a single candle and a coil of amber or benzoin incense, and let the room settle into smoke and shadow.
- On clean paper, draw two hands clasped, then let their lines run together into a single sigil that no longer looks like hands at all.
- Set a piece of amber or citrine at the sigil’s centre and breathe your intention into the stone until it clouds with your warmth.
- Anoint the four edges of the paper with oil, naming at each the increase you would call: steady custom, fair coin, willing help, honest luck.
- Pass the whole sheet three times through the incense smoke, speaking the verse into each pass.
- Fold the sigil around a pinch of the spent ash and keep it where the work is done, unopened, until the venture takes root.
The Incantation
Midnight between the one day and the next,
two hands drawn down to a single sign;
bless me the labour, the loom, and the text,
bless me the trade and the fruit of the line.
Amber to hold it and smoke to send,
candle to witness and oil to seal;
grant to these hands, from beginning to end,
the increase that answers an honest zeal.
Variations & Substitutions
- No amber or citrine to hand? A well-worn coin, a tiger’s eye, or a green aventurine will carry the same prospering charge at the sigil’s centre.
- If amber or benzoin incense is hard to find, frankincense resin or a stick of sandalwood both consecrate the smoke just as well.
- Any blessing oil serves; in a pinch, plain olive oil charged with your own intent will anoint the four edges faithfully.
A Word on Intent
This is a blessing, and blessings answer to the Wiccan Rede: an it harm none, do what ye will. Ask increase for your own hands and honest work – never to compel custom from a named person or to draw fortune away from another. Bless the labour, and let the world return it fairly; a blessing sought cleanly, over what is yours to bless, is one the world keeps gladly.
Related Blessing Spells
Leave the folded sign undisturbed – a blessing set upon work must be let alone to work. Find more workings like this in the Grimoire, and keep your own castings in your Book of Shadows.