Honey Pots

The honey pot is an old bit of conjure used to "sweeten" someone to you. The precise nature of this sweetening can often be focused through the use of specific dressing oils.

Requirements

To make a honeypot, you'll need the following:

• A small jar, with a flat lid
• A candle, usually prepared as a Client Candle
• The dressing oil you use in preparing the candle. This should be of a sort appropriate to the kind of sweetening you're after: a love oil for those you want to notice you romantically, a command oil for those that you want to get your way out of, a peace oil for those who're tired of quarreling with, etc.
• An amount of honey that will fill the jar
• A small square of parchment and a pen
• Any herbs, minerals or other curios appropriate to the work at hand.

The Name Paper

At the center of the honeypot is the Name Paper. This is a small piece of parchment with the name of the person you are looking to sweeten to you.

• Taking up the pen, write the name of the person on it in a single line without lifting your pen.
• Turn the paper 90º and write their name again (again, in a single line without lifting your pen), so that this one crosses the first one, making an X.
• Turn the paper 90º and write your own name OVER their first one, in a single line without lifting your pen.
• Turn the paper again, and write your own name over their name again.
• You should now have an X made up of two separate names.
• Anoint the four corners of the parchment with dabs of dressing oil on your fingers, and then dab a dot in the middle of the X (so that the dabs of oil form the quincunx, a pattern like the five pips on the five-face of a six-sided die).
• Now fold the paper once, folding towards you, and then fold it a second time, again towards you.
• Place this paper down into the jar.

Instead of a parchment, you can instead use official paperwork or other forms of paper identification, such as a document from the business or organization the person represents, or a business card. This is useful for honeypotting judges, for instance. :)

• Instead of writing their name as above, just write your name over the name of the business or organization, or the individual's name on the paper.
• Write your name again, forming an X, and then anoint that.
• You may have to fold more than twice for such a document, but remember to always fold it towards yourself.

Other Curios

Now that the name paper is in the jar, it's time to add any other curios that will help the work. Just drop them, one by one, into the jar.

It can be useful to call out the name of the person in question, and tell them what you want from them. "Maggie, let there be peace between us," you might say as you add lavender, for instance.

The Honey

Now, fill the jar with honey. Pay close attention to it as you do so, and it might be helpful to even call out the name of the person and give the ultimate goal of this trick: "Maggie Wilson, you old bat, enough is enough. Let there be peace between us. You'll leave me and mine alone, and mind your own business from now on!"

Then, drop five drops of your dressing oil in it, and three drops of the oils you prefer for power, like High John, Master oil, Luck oils, or what-have-you.

(As an aside, I often suggest keeping aside a little of the same batch of honey at this point, and to eat a little of it to "sweeten your words" when going to encounter this person. That's not traditional hoodoo, though, that I know of - just something of my own. :) )

Let It Sit

Now, let the jar sit. Put it away in a dark, consecrated place and let the mojo work. Give it at least three days before actively using it in any way. (If you have multiple jars working, you may want to label them!)

Let It Burn

When you know that an encounter with this person is imminent, and you need to shift the mojo from a more passive sweetening over time to an active power of influence, take out the jar and put it in the place where you do your candle work.

Then, set the candle in a stand atop the jar lid, and burn it the way you would a normal Client Candle. This will "cook" the mojo that's been steeping in the jar, and get it to moving, the way heat will make honey flow more readily and quickly.

This is best done when you know you've got an important encounter or meeting with the person you've honeypotted - a trial, for instance, a social engagement, date or other meeting.