A Witch’s Guide to Love Spells

When it comes to magic, there’s perhaps no spell more popular than the love spell. People cast love spells for very different reasons. Some want to attract someone new. Others want more connection or passion in their existing relationship. And, a very large number want an ex to come back.

And, everyone wants a love spell that works immediately, whether it’s done with paper and pen, candle magic, or hair and other personal effects. But, love spells, like all rituals, move at their own pace.

In this guide, you’ll learn the primary types of love spells, when to cast them, and which herbs, candles, oils, and other tools are commonly used in love magic. I’ve also included some practical love spells for getting your ex back, attraction, connection, and more.

I’ve also included some spells from my conversation with Judy Ann Nock, the international bestselling author of The Modern Witchcraft Guide to Magickal Herbs and The Modern Witchcraft Book of Crystal Magic.

What Is a Love Spell?

Let’s start with the basics. A love spell is a magical working intended to attract, strengthen, restore, influence, or transform romantic and affectionate relationships. Love spells can also be used on the self to improve that relationship so you treat yourself with more kindness and compassion.

Love spells might include drawing a new romantic partner into your life, encouraging reconciliation after a breakup, increasing connection between two people, reopening communication, reigniting chemistry, or strengthening your own confidence and capacity to receive love.

Love magic has also historically included much more coercive work intended to bind, compel, or attract specific people. There’s evidence of this dating at least as far back as Ancient Greece.

Modern witches vary considerably in what they’re comfortable practicing and where their ethics lie. Whatever type of love spell you’re casting, you’ll want to start by getting really clear about your intention. “I want love” is great and can work if you just lean back and trust the universe.

But, you also might want something specific like “I want my ex and me to get back together” or “I want more passion in my current relationship.” Knowing exactly what you want will let you prepare the proper tools and ritual for it.

Types of Love Spells

Love magic covers several different kinds of workings. Some overlap, but they don’t all do the same thing.

• Attraction Spells: Used to draw romantic opportunities, potential partners, attention, passion, or chemistry. They can be directed toward someone you already know or just the concept in general.
• Reconciliation Spells: Intended to repair a damaged relationship or bring two people back together after conflict or separation.
• Come Back to Me Spells: Used specifically to draw a former lover or partner back toward you. These are related to reconciliation magic, but the initial goal is return rather than repairing whatever caused the breakup.
• Marriage Spells: Used to strengthen long-term partnership, encourage commitment, support marriage, protect an existing union, or work toward milestones such as engagement.
• Passion Spells: Used to increase attraction, chemistry, desire, confidence, or physical connection between partners.
• Fidelity Spells: Intended to instill faithfulness, loyalty, and exclusivity within a romantic relationship.
• Communication Spells: Used to reopen conversation, encourage honesty, or create an opportunity for two people to speak again.
• Sweetening Spells: Intended to make a person or situation warmer, kinder, more affectionate, or more favorable. Honey jars are one well-known example from Hoodoo and conjure.
• Binding Spells: Used to create or reinforce attachment between people. These are different from attraction spells because the magical intention is to hold rather than draw.
• Self-Love Spells: Directed toward your relationship with yourself, including confidence, self-worth, pleasure, and personal magnetism.

Love Spell Ingredients and Magical Tools

Ok, let’s get into how to actually cast a love spell. Every type of spell is different and calls for different witchcraft tools such as herbs, candles, or symbolic objects like twine or poppets.

Love spells didn’t used to be cute little spells where you burned a pink candle and hoped your beloved would start courting you with late night texts. They were intense. The Greek Magical Papyri contains many attraction spells with rites intended to make a target sleepless, distressed, or overwhelmed by desire until they came to the practitioner.

Ingredients could include herbs and incense, but also animal blood, fat, bones, or other materials that would get someone immediately banned by putting on social media. I found my stomach lurch when reading through some of them, so feel free to do so, but that’s your warning.

That doesn’t mean a spell needs to literally call for the eye of something to have power. The underlying magical mechanics are the same: put enough focus and intention and desire into something to move the energetic furniture, and you’ll move it, whether you’re using your Will or more palatable modern spell ingredients.

Candles

In modern witchcraft colored candles are very popular for love spells. Witches usually use pink, red, or green candles for love magic, but they do different jobs.

In modern times, pink candles are associated with Venus the goddess of love, and commonly used for affection, romance, tenderness, emotional intimacy, and loving relationships.

Red candles are associated with Mars, the god of war (and Venus’s consort), and bring a hotter energy. They are best suited to spells for passion, confidence, attraction, and desire.

Green candles are also associated with Venus and are useful when the intention involves growth, abundance, fertility, or a relationship you want to become stable and long-lasting.

Herbs for Love Magic

Plants and herbs have been used in attraction, marriage, fertility, and love spells across cultures for thousands of years. Their meanings vary by tradition and period, and many of these plants have other magical uses as well, but several recur in modern love magic.

• Rose: Romance, beauty, affection, sensuality, and attraction
• Lavender: Peace, healing, harmony, and gentle affection
• Basil: Love, devotion, partnership, and household harmony
• Cinnamon: Passion, heat, attraction, and speed
• Catnip: Attraction, flirtation, affection, playfulness, and drawing romantic attention.
• Marjoram: Marriage, commitment, partnership, and marital happiness; historically associated with bridal traditions and Aphrodite/Venus
• Damiana: Desire, sensuality, and sexual energy
• Mint: Stimulation, freshness, happiness, and renewed romantic energy
• Vanilla: Sensuality, affection, sweetness, and comfort
• Rosemary: Devotion, remembrance, fidelity, and lasting attachment
• Cloves: Passion, attraction, warmth, and strengthening romantic energy (cloves also show up in protection and banishing spells)
• Myrrh: Desire, sensuality, attraction, and sacred offering
• Myrtle: Love, marriage, fertility, and sensuality, with especially strong associations with Aphrodite and Venus
• Apple: Courtship, attraction, desire, and choosing a lover
• Fennel: Attraction, vitality, and relationship work

Honey and Sugar

Sweet ingredients are used in love magic through a simple sympathetic idea: sweeten the person, relationship, conversation, or situation you want to become warmer and more favorable. They are most useful when the goal is to soften tension, encourage affection, improve communication, or make an existing connection more harmonious. Honey, sugar, syrup, and molasses can all be used for this kind of work.

One popular approach is the honey jar. That specific sweetening-jar style of working is associated with African American Hoodoo, conjure, and rootwork. In those traditions, a petition or personal concern may be placed in honey, sugar, syrup, or another sweetener and then worked over time, often with candles, to encourage affection, kindness, cooperation, reconciliation, or favor.

But, honey and sugar have been associated with pleasure, attraction, persuasion, hospitality, and desirable speech in many cultures, and sweet substances have long carried symbolic value in ritual and courtship.

Here are some ways to work with honey and sugar in your love magic without using a honey-jar format:

• You might infuse sugar with vanilla or rose petals and add a pinch to an attraction spell
• Sprinkle it around a pink candle
• Use honey to lightly dress a petition before adding love herbs
• Add a sweetener into food or drink made as part of a romantic ritual

Love Oils

Love oils are prepared blends used to dress candles, petitions, charms, or other spell materials. Some are general attraction oils, while others are formulated for reconciliation, passion, or commitment. They often are made with the love herbs listed above.

As with any magical oil, look at what’s actually in the formula and what tradition it comes from. “Love oil” can mean several very different things depending on the intended result. An attraction oil, reconciliation oil, Come to Me oil, and passion oil may all be sold as “love oils,” but they are directing the spell toward different outcomes.

Petitions

A petition gives the spell a specific target or outcome. For attraction work, you might describe the qualities you want in a relationship. For reconciliation, you might write both names and state that honest communication and affection return. For a specific-person spell, the person’s name may become the sympathetic link to the target.

Petitions for attraction are often folded toward yourself to symbolize drawing something in. If you are doing a spell with your partner and both writing the petition, stand or sit together so you can fold it towards both of you.

Love Spell Jars

A love spell jar creates a physical container for the intention and can be customized with herbs, petitions, candle wax, crystals, and other correspondences. Because there are so many ways to build one, here’s a guide to love spell jars for attraction, specific people, and different romantic intentions.

Can Love Spells Work Immediately?

Some love spells may create movement very quickly, particularly when there is already attraction, affection, or an open line of communication between two people.

A passion spell cast for a couple that already has a healthy sex life has considerably less ground to cover than a spell asking your college boyfriend from 2007 to suddenly appear at your door.

You may also notice internal shifts first. You might feel more confident, less anxious about an outcome, more willing to meet new people, or suddenly clear about what you actually want. Be wary of anyone promising that a particular person will call, text, propose, or come back within a guaranteed number of hours.

When Should You Cast a Love Spell?

You can cast a love spell whenever you need one, but magical timing can help reinforce the intention. Some witches work with planetary alignments and the Moon phases, some just follow their intuition. Follow your own and do what feels most aligned.

Also, as an example, you can do your spell during the planetary hour of Venus if you want to use Venusian timing without waiting for Friday.

Here are the best times to cast love spells:

• Friday: Friday is associated with Venus and is the most traditional general choice for spells for love, romance, beauty, pleasure, affection, and relationships. Friday spells are good for attraction, reconciliation, harmony, commitment, self-love, beauty, and glamour magic.
• Tuesday: Tuesday is associated with Mars and is better for passion, confidence, courage, chemistry, and action. (If Venus is a candlelit dinner, Mars is the one who pushes everything off the table.)
• New Moon: The New Moon works well when you’re beginning something such as calling in a new relationship or setting the intentions to begin a new, healthier chapter with an existing partner.
• Waxing Moon: The waxing moon is associated with increase and attraction. As the moon moves towards fullness, the power of your spell will increase and it will start to gain momentum. This can be used for drawing someone closer (using a come to me spell, for instance), improving a relationship, deepening connection, or reconciliation.
• Full Moon: Use the Full Moon for culmination, emotional revelation, amplifying attraction or passion, and relationship work that needs something brought into the light.

How Long Does a Love Spell Take to Work?

Everyone wants their love spell to work quickly. But, there’s no official timeline. A spell involving an existing relationship can sometimes produce movement quickly because the relationship, communication, and emotional connection already exist. Or, it might take some time because there’s a lot of resentment and past hurts and obstacles it needs to work through first.

Attracting an entirely new partner may take longer simply because you need an actual opportunity to meet that person. Or, you could meet them when you go out for coffee tomorrow.

Reconciliation can be even more variable. If two people still love each other and broke up after one terrible argument, there’s more room for quick movement than if they’ve been separated for three years and one of them has moved to Finland.

Do the spell, take appropriate real-world action, and give the situation room to move. Casting the same spell again and again because you’re worried it isn’t working mostly gives you a new hobby: obsessing over whether your spell is working.

Signs Your Love Spell Is Working

Rarely do you get a giant neon sign with the words “They Are Into You” spelled out on it. Though, never say never. Usually the signs are a bit more subtle. For a deeper look at what to watch for, see my guide to signs your spell is working.

Here are some things you might notice:

• Increased communication
• An ex reaching out
• More affection from your partner
• You feel more attractive or magnetic
• You find yourself meeting new people and making more connections
• Feeling less desperate about the outcome
• Dreams or synchronicities related to the working
• Unexpected opportunities to see or speak to the person
• A noticeable change in your own energy or confidence

Why Your Love Spell Might Not Be Working

A spell can fail, stall, or produce an unexpected result for a lot of reasons. Love spells can go overboard and create obsession in the person you bound to you. There are plenty of practitioner stories about spells that seemed to work a little too well.

If you’re wondering why the spell didn’t work (versus worked too well), here are some possible reasons:

You’re Using the Wrong Spell

A passion spell doesn’t automatically create commitment. A Come to Me spell may reopen communication without resolving what caused the breakup. You need to match your spell to the actual problem, which means it might have more steps than a simple candle spell.

Your Intention Is Too Broad

“I want to more people to be attracted to me” is technically satisfied if 10 people you don’t want are swiping right on you. Be specific about the kind of love you’re looking for.

You’re Not Taking Action

If you’re trying to attract someone new but refuse every invitation and haven’t spoken to an adult you don’t know in six months, help the spell out. Yes, your delivery person could be your soulmate, but unless that’s the person you have your eye set on, manifestation or magic tends to work best when paired with the mundane.

You’re Working Against the Outcome

If you don’t believe your outcome is possible, you’re going to get in your own way of seeing it when it does show up and possibly blocking it when it does.

I don’t mean this in a woo way. I mean it in a literal one. I watch those I love do it all the time with money manifestation. They ask for abundance, and then when an abundance of work shows up they get overwhelmed and don’t follow through on those opportunities. The same can happen with love.

Are Love Spells Ethical?

That is up to you to decide. All spells, love magic included, require some manipulation of what is on the earthly plane. Witchcraft is the practice of bending or shaping things to your will.

Historically, love magic has included everything from attraction and marriage spells to binding and coercive workings intended to make someone fall in love. You need to decide what feels right for you. If someone has clearly asked you not to contact them, magic isn’t a reason to ignore that boundary.

Attracting a compatible partner, strengthening an existing relationship, doing a love spell with your partner or telling your partner you’re going to do one to improve your relationship, all feel above board to me.

But, I’m not going to judge you for doing a love spell to get your ex back. I’ve done those spells and sometimes they worked to some degree. Though, like bringing the dead back to life in the movies, what came back was never quite the version I wanted.

But, even if you don’t end up getting someone specific to fall in love with you, perhaps you’ll transform into a more confident, secure person and as a result, will be more attractive to them. There’s magic in that. And, also in the gods or the universe putting you two together in the right place at the right time.

8 Love Spells

1. Pink Candle Spell to Attract New Love

This is a simple come to me or attraction spell for calling a new romantic relationship into your life. You can use this to draw in a specific person or a new romantic love you don’t know yet. If it’s the latter, instead of focusing on a specific person when doing the spell, focus on the qualities and emotional experience you’re looking for.

If you’re using two figural candles, designate one as yourself and one as the person you’re drawing toward you or, if you don’t have a specific person in mind, the future partner you’re calling in. Place them facing one another.

After casting this spell, take real world actions that support it. Update your dating profile. Go to the party you’re invited to. Answer the text.

Ingredients You Will Need:

• 2 pink figural candles
• 1 small piece of paper
• Pen
• Rose petals
• Myrtle or basil
• Optional: attraction oil
• A heat-safe surface or large cauldron or bowl

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Write Your Petition: Write the name of the person you’re focused on and what experience you want to have with them. Or, write a list of the qualities you want in a partner, followed by a sentence describing the kind of relationship you want. While attraction and chemistry are important, focus primarily on the qualities of how being around them makes you feel.
2. Fold the Petition Toward You: Fold the petition toward yourself three times to symbolize drawing the relationship into your life.
3. Dress the Candles: Lightly dress the candles with attraction oil if you’re using it, then roll them towards you in the herbs and rose petals. Sprinkle rose and herbs around the base of the candles. Place your petition underneath them.
4. Light the Candles: Visualize yourself experiencing the relationship while you light the candles. If you’re working the spell over multiple nights, move the figures slightly closer together each time you light them.

For this spell make sure you place the candles on a heat-safe surface and extinguish them when you are not near them. You can use ordinary pink candles for this spell or a prepared Come to Me Candle Spell Kit if you want figural candles designed specifically for attraction work.

2. Herbal Charm to Attract a Long-Term Partner

While candle spells are popular in modern witchcraft, you don’t need candles to cast a love spell. This herb-based charm spell by Judy Ann Nock can help you attract a healthy long-term partnership.

She told us, “This herbal charm would impart beauty, happiness, flavor, lasting love, and a serious bond. I honestly don’t think I would personally do a spell to attract a soul mate but if I did, I would first get that person’s consent. Manipulative magick that attracts and binds a soul would never work if it wasn’t mutual. So this is a more theoretical answer.”

She continued, saying “I would connect the flowers, herbs, and evergreens with burdock seed because if you’ve ever experienced burdock, you know that there is no way those two bundles are ever coming apart!”

Ingredients You Will Need:

• Your favorite flowers
• Fresh basil
• Pine
• Burdock burr
• An herb your ideal partner loves

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Choose Your Flowers: Pick flowers that represent the energy and feeling of the relationship you want.
2. Add Basil and Pine: Include basil for love, partnership, and household harmony and pine for commitment and longevity.
3. Seal the Charm: Add a burdock burr for sticking power. If you can’t find burdock, wrap the bouquet with pink thread. When you’re done, place the charm on your altar or wrap it in a cloth or charm bag and carry it with you.

3. Magnetism Charm

This attract a lover spell is also from Nock. She said, “I would start with two cinnamon sticks and fresh mint. I would write my name and the name of my target in runes on a ginkgo leaf. Then, just wrap it around those spicy sticks! I would tuck in some fresh mint because it is both stimulating and promotes happiness, then tie it with a red thread.

What you do next depends on your intention. Nock says, “If I wanted to sleep with someone, I would sleep with the charm. If I wanted a dinner date, I would probably simmer it. And if I just wanted companionship and shared experiences, I would give the charm to the person. Anyone who would think that is weird is not someone I need to be wasting my love on. And the charm is super easy to unbind for when it’s time to move on. Throw in some coltsfoot and get out of there.”

Ingredients You Will Need:

• 2 cinnamon sticks
• Fresh mint
• 1 ginkgo leaf or small piece of paper
• Red thread
• Small red cloth pouch or bottle

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Write the Name of the Person: If you are interested in someone specific, write their name on the leaf or paper. If you are just looking for a lover, write down the qualities you desire.
2. Build the Charm: Place the mint between the two cinnamon sticks and wrap the written leaf or paper around them.
3. Bind the Bundle: Wind the red thread around the charm toward yourself.
4. Work the Charm According to Your Goal: Place it under your pillow in a red bag if you want a lover, simmer it in a pot for a date, or place it in a bottle or red bag and give it to the person you have in mind. If you want to simmer the charm, use only plant-based, heat-safe components and a dedicated ritual pot and don’t drink the liquid.

If later you wish to undo it, untie the thread and dismantle the charm or add coltsfoot to it.

4. Love Spell to Bring an Ex Back

The first part of this spell involving the acorn and ash seeds draws your love back to you, and comes from Judika Illes Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells. The second part is meant to help renew and maintain their interest, and create a sweet, protected atmosphere between the two of you so you have more of a chance of staying together. You can wait to get the ingredients for the candle spell portion until you have the results of the first part.

Ingredients You Will Need:

• 1 empty acorn cap attached to an oak leaf or twig
• A few ash seeds
• 1 small sachet
• 1 pink candle
• 1 tsp. honey
• 1/4 cup sugar
• A few violet petals
• Your favorite perfume or cologne
• 1 hollowed half of a coconut shell
• 1 small beryl stone
• 1 candle wick

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Find the ingredients: Look for a fallen, empty acorn cup attached to an oak leaf or twig and gather some ash seeds.
2. Put them together: Place them together and say “Acorn cup and ashen key, bring my true love back to me.” Then, put them into the small bag or sachet.
3. Sleep with them under your pillow: Place the bag under your pillow on three Friday nights in a row, saying the incantation each time. Illes’s instructions are that if they haven’t returned or gotten in touch after that point, you should probably let the matter go.
4. Melt candle wax: If they did return or get in touch with you, melt your pink candle on the stove in a small pot.
5. Add the sweetening ingredients: Once melted, add the honey and sugar and stir together. Add the violet petals and a spritz of your favorite perfume or cologne.
6. Pour the mixture into the coconut shell: Place the piece of beryl in the coconut shell and pour the mixture carefully on top. Add the candle wick so you can light it.
7. Light the candle: Once the wax hardens, light the candle.

Fire Safety: This spell involves creating your own candle. The ingredients can affect how wax burns and may cause sputtering, an unusually large flame, or other unpredictable behavior. Burn the finished candle only in a large fireproof container on a heat-safe surface, keep it away from anything flammable, and never leave it unattended. Extinguish it immediately if the flame becomes unusually high or unstable. (And consider what that might mean for the pairing.)

If you’re doing reconciliation work rather than simply trying to draw someone back, our Love & Reconciliation Spell Kit is designed for reconnecting after conflict or distance, encouraging communication, and strengthening the emotional bond between two people.

5. Love Spell to Reignite Passion

This one also comes from Illes Encyclopedia of Spells. Reportedly, the 8 of Wands tarot card is the card of Cupid’s arrows and love at first sight. And while it’s used in the book to create that experience, it could also be used to reignite passion in an existing relationship.

Ingredients You Will Need:

• 1 red candle
• An 8 of Wands tarot card from the Rider-Waite-Smith deck
• 1 rose quartz crystal
• 1 charm bag (optional)
• Love drawing oil (optional)

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Prep the Candle: Carve your initials or the initials of you and your beloved into the candle. Dress it with oils, rolling it towards you in the oil if you use them.
2. Light the Candle: Focus on the outcome you desire, and light the candle.
3. Add the card and crystal: Place the rose quartz and 8 of Wands tarot card upright near the candle. Once the candle has burned completely, place the card underneath your pillow.
4. Carry the crystal: Carry the crystal with you in a charm bag in your pocket.

6. Sweetening Spell

Sweetening magic operates on one of the simplest sympathetic principles around: if you want a relationship, conversation, or romantic situation to become sweeter, use something sweet.

For this spell, you’ll make a love sugar. You can later use the sugar in your coffee or tea or add it as a finishing touch to baked goods or as part of your devotional practice.

Ingredients You Will Need:

• 1 cup sugar
• Culinary-grade dried rose petals
• 1 vanilla bean
• Small clean jar for storing the sugar
• 1 pink candle
• Petition paper, preferably in light pink

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Make the Sugar: Combine the sugar with a small amount of culinary rose and vanilla. You can simply place a single vanilla bean in a small jar of sugar and add a few rose petals. Stir clockwise while thinking about warmth, affection, and sweetness.
2. Let It Infuse: Store it for several days if desired so the vanilla and rose infuse into the sugar.
3. Write Your Petition: Write what you want softened or strengthened: affection, kinder communication, warmth after conflict.
4. Add the Sugar: Place a small pinch of the infused sugar on the petition.
5. Fold Toward You: Fold the paper toward yourself.
6. Light a Pink Candle: Place the petition underneath the candle and focus on the situation becoming warmer and more affectionate.

7. Self-Love Bath Ritual

Self-love is not a prerequisite for being loved by somebody else. But self-love magic can be useful for confidence, pleasure, magnetism, and remembering what sort of treatment you are willing to accept. And enjoying what life has to offer with or without a partner. Here’s Nock’s spell for a self-love bath.

She says, “My favorite ritual bath for self love is a nourishing combination of minerals, essential oil, herbs, and crystals. Magickally, witches need to extra special care of ourselves as the wondrous beings that we are and this is how I do it.”

Ingredients You Will Need:

• ¼ cup of sea salt
• 2 cups of magnesium crystals or Epsom salts
• ¼ cup dried lavender
• ¼ cup dried or fresh rosebuds or rose petals
• Up to 5 drops essential oil, such as lavender or rose
• 1 rose quartz crystal
• 1 32 oz. jar
• 1 green, pink, or red candle (optional)
• Muslin bag or cheesecloth

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Start with a candle. Light a green candle for the heart, pink for affection and self-love, or red for confidence, passion, and vitality. Work by candlelight as you prepare the bath.
2. Combine the minerals. Add the sea salt, and magnesium crystals or Epsom salts to the jar. Close it tightly and shake. As you shake the mixture, imagine shaking off your self-doubt, hesitation, insecurity, and all the little criticisms you have been carrying around.
3. Add the essential oil. Add no more than about five drops to the salt mixture and shake again. Lavender or rose work particularly well here.
4. Add the flowers and crystal. Add the lavender and rose, followed by the rose quartz. As each ingredient goes into the jar, turn your attention toward what you actually like about yourself. Acknowledge your beauty, strength, kindness, resilience, creativity, capacity for love, or whatever feels true. Give yourself some of the compliments you keep hoping to hear from everybody else.
5. Prepare the bath. Run the water as warm as you can comfortably tolerate. Pour the mixture into the bath and allow the minerals to dissolve and the dried flowers to soften in the water. If cleaning the herbs out of the drain later sounds unromantic, put the mixture into a large muslin bag or cheesecloth and drop that into the bath.
6. Get into the bath and hold the rose quartz. Take the crystal out of the bag if it’s in it or pick it up from the bath. Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and let your body relax into the water and receive the ritual. Nock says, “Stay as long as you need to. It’s your magick to weave as you will.”

8. Marjoram Spell for a Happy Marriage

Marjoram has been associated with love, marriage, and marital happiness since the ancient Mediterranean world. Greek and Roman wedding traditions included crowns made from marjoram or related Origanum plants, and the herb became associated with Aphrodite and Venus.

You can use this during a wedding ceremony or as part of a love ritual later on. And, you could also create an herb bundle or boutonniere instead of, or in addition to, a wreath.

If this is the type of work you’re doing, you might also consider our Happy Marriage Candle Spell Kit which is designed specifically for strengthening love and harmony within an established partnership.

Ingredients You Will Need:

• Fresh marjoram
• Fresh myrtle, optional
• Floral wire, ribbon, or thread

Step-by-Step Instructions:

1. Set Your Intention: Before you begin, decide what form you are creating (crown, bundle, boutonniere) and what you want the working to support. That could be marriage, commitment, fidelity, longevity, mutual devotion, or simply a strong partnership that continues to grow.
2. Create the Floral Piece: Weave the marjoram into a small crown. You can add myrtle for its associations with Aphrodite, love, marriage, and fertility.
3. Build the Intention Into It: As you shape the crown or bundle, focus on the qualities you want the relationship to carry forward. You can name them aloud as you work: love, loyalty, joy, patience, passion, friendship, or whatever feels most important to you.
4. Use It in Your Wedding: Wear the crown or crowns, have the groom wear the boutonniere, or incorporate the herb bundle into the bouquet.
5. Keep or Dry It: After the ceremony or ritual, dry the marjoram and keep the wreath or a small portion of it with your wedding items, on your altar, or somewhere meaningful in your home.

What is the easiest love spell?

A simple candle spell is one of the easiest places to start. Choose a candle color that matches your intention, focus on the kind of love or relationship you want to attract, and let the candle become the focal point for that intention. You can add herbs, oils, or a petition if you want, but you don’t need an elaborate setup for the spell to be meaningful.

Can a love spell work overnight?

It can, especially if there is already attraction, affection, or communication between the people involved. But there is no reliable timeline for love magic, and anyone promising a guaranteed text, proposal, or reconciliation within a certain number of hours is making a promise they can’t actually guarantee.

Can you cast a love spell on a specific person?

Yes. Historically, plenty of love magic has been directed at specific people, including attraction, binding, reconciliation, and return spells. Whether you personally want to do that depends on your own magical ethics and the situation you’re working with.

What is the best candle color for a love spell?

Pink is a popular modern choice for romance, affection, and emotional intimacy. Red is better suited to passion, sexual attraction, and desire, while green works well for Venusian magic involving love, fertility, growth, abundance, and long-term relationships.

Can you undo a love spell?

Usually, yes. If the spell uses a physical charm, knot, petition, or bundle, you can often dismantle it, untie it, dispose of the ingredients, or otherwise reverse the sympathetic action you used to cast it. You can also follow with cleansing, uncrossing, or a separate working specifically intended to release the attachment.