Also called joy spell, sunshine spell, spell for happiness
A modern Sunday morning ritual of sunlight, a yellow candle and naming small joys, built on the old association of the sun with Sunday and on folk customs that call good fortune into the home.
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Take care: Do not take St John's wort by mouth without asking a doctor, as it interacts with many medicines including birth control and antidepressants. Keep candles away from curtains. If low mood lasts more than two weeks, see a doctor or counselor; in the US you can call or text 988 any time.
At Setsubun in early February, families throw roasted soybeans and call out that demons should leave and good fortune should come in. Then each person eats one bean for each year of their age for luck in the coming year.
Uses: roasted soybeans
Walking deiseal, sunwise or clockwise, around a well, a house or a person was thought to bring luck and well-being, while turning against the sun was unlucky. The step above borrows this habit.
The golden flowers of St John's wort, which bloom near the summer solstice, were hung over doors and pictures to drive away dark spirits and bring the sun's blessing into the house.
Uses: St John's wort flowers
The link between happiness and the sun is old. In the planetary week inherited from Hellenistic astrology, Sunday belongs to the Sun, and later European magic books gave the Sun rule over health, success and joy. Highland Scots and Irish walked sunwise, deiseal, around wells and houses for luck, and midsummer customs gathered golden herbs like St John's wort to bring sunlight indoors.
Other cultures call good fortune in directly. At Japanese Setsubun, families still throw beans to drive out demons and invite fortune inside. The happiness spell as people search for it today is a modern creation that combines these threads with simple practices of gratitude. Paying attention to small good things is also a habit counselors often recommend, and it costs nothing but a few minutes each week.
Written charms on red or yellow paper, or on peach wood, pasted at the door or carried, to keep harmful spirits out of a home in Chinese tradition.
A gentle modern ritual that pairs a rose-petal bath with spoken affirmations at a mirror, so the love you would offer someone else is turned toward yourself first. It is a recent practice built from older flower-bath customs and 1980s affirmation work, and it is honest about being new.
A short calming ritual with a blue candle, slow breathing and handing your worries to something outside yourself, drawing on folk customs like Guatemalan worry dolls. It is a comfort practice, not treatment for anxiety.
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