Guide to Making Your Own Happiness Spell Jars

Happiness is a state of consciousness not necessarily dependent on any specific physical outcome but rather a pleasurable, light, and enjoyable feeling that we constantly seek out and is almost always a matter of personal energetic alignment.

We take inspiration from a powerful and ancient magical practice that is great for this purpose: the creation of a happiness spell jar.

So, what is a happiness spell jar and how do you make a spell jar for happiness with crystals?

A happiness spell jar is essentially a magical object that can help you align with your intentions surrounding happiness. The ritual of creating it and the spell jar energy clarifies and strengthens your attunement to the frequency of happiness. 

Happiness spell jars contain specific ingredients that energize and symbolize your ideal experiences of happiness. One of the most important ingredients in a modern spell jar is healing crystals, which have properties that encourage happiness.

The process of learning about and making your happiness spell jar can be fascinating and fun. You can choose to gift or keep this pleasing magical object and use it to attune to the frequency of happiness, bliss, and joy. 

Stepwise Guide to Make a Happiness Spell Jar

It’s time to learn how to make a happiness spell jar. First, you will need to gather your tools and ingredients, then read through our step-by-step happiness spell jar recipe as guidance. 

Feel free to follow the suggestions and prompts as is or get creative by changing or adding elements when designing or while engaged in your happiness sell jar ritual.

Follow your intuition, prioritizing what feels good to you. Spell jars are a magical art form, not a strict formula.

Tools and Ingredients for a Happiness Spell Jar

• Jar: A glass or ceramic jar of your choosing. I recommend small clear glass jars with a cork or wooden closing.
• Crystals: Read on to learn which crystals are most beneficial to add to your happiness spell jar.
• Plants: Every plant has a specific energetic vibration and many associated benefits. Continue reading to learn which plants are suited to include in your happiness spell jar. Add appropriate plants in preserved forms, such as dry plants, essential oils, or tinctures.
• Incense: The smoke of incense sticks, a herb smudge bundle, sacred woods, or resins to cleanse your space, tools, and ingredients.
• Stationary: A piece of paper and pen for writing down your affirmation to add to your jar.
• Candle: A candle to light as part of your ritual and for sealing your jar with melted wax. Pick a candle color that invokes happiness for you.
• Salt: Salt has energetic cleansing benefits that clear negative vibrations hindering happiness.
• Soil: Contributes an earthy energy that grounds the effects of your spell into a physical experience. 
• Symbols: Additionally, consider including a symbol or small object that distinctly evokes feelings of happiness for you.

How to Make a Spell Jar for Happiness with Crystals 

1. Prepare your space for this ritual by lighting a candle and taking a few deep breaths.
2. Lay out your spell jar tools and ingredients before you and cleanse the space with incense or smudge smoke.
3. Clarify your intention for embodied happiness, taking a few moments to imagine how you would look, feel, and act in your happiest state.
4. Create an affirmation that resonates with your happiness. For example, “I am radiant and flow through life joyously,” or simply, “I enjoy being happy.”
5. Hold your jar and add in base layers of salt and then some soil.
6. Please write down your happiness affirmation, fold or roll it, and add it in.
7. Add in your chosen happiness crystal that you have available and resonates with you. 
8. Include powerful plant allies that are uplifting, joy-inducing, balancing, supportive, and high-vibrational.
9. Include other objects or symbols of your choosing.
10. Close the jar and seal the spell with dripping candle wax
11. Activate your spell jar for happiness.

How to Activate or Use a Happiness Spell Jar

Activating your happiness spell jar should be done immediately upon sealing it. After this, it can be activated whenever you want to realign yourself with this frequency of happiness. 

To activate your spell jar, hold it, express gratitude for the ingredients and process, and repeat your happiness affirmation aloud or silently within. 

Take a few moments to meditate upon or breathe deeply and be present to the energetic interconnection of you and your happiness spell jar. Your spell will also radiate energy and impact your alignment over time even by simply being placed on your altar, within your personal space, or awareness often.

12 Happiness Crystals to Use in a Spell Jar

There are several crystals that will work well in a happiness spell, and these are a few of our top picks, including their properties and some of the perfect plants to combine with each stone for greater synergy and power within your spell.

Clear Quartz

This crystal is a clever addition to your happiness spell as one of the most well-known powers of Quartz is amplification. Clear Quartz can be programmed with your intention for happiness.

It will amplify the positive energy of your words, thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and the benefits of other spell ingredients.

Add a piece or point of Clear Quartz into your happiness spell along with a sunflower, jasmine, lemon balm, tulsi, cannabis, or sceletium in dried, essential oil, or tincture form.

Rose Quartz

This pink variety of Quartz is greatly appreciated for its heart-opening properties. This crystal resonates with unconditional love, and adding it to your happiness spell jar will enhance happiness through connection, self-love, compassion, acceptance, peace, and appreciation.

This crystal is great for a spell for increasing happiness within relationships, including your relationship with yourself. 

Plants including rose, lavender, geranium, hibiscus, violet, cacao, and tulsi pair well with Rose Quartz within this happiness spell jar.

Citrine

This warm yellow Quartz stimulates the energy of joy, self-confidence, and abundance, which can contribute significantly to your overall well-being and maintaining a frequency of happiness.

Citrine is a perfect addition to a happiness spell for increased joy, positivity, and radiance. Include this stone within your spell jar with uplifting plants, such as sunflowers, saffron, cacao, calendula, selenium, St. John’s wort, basil, or dandelion.

Amethyst

Brilliant purple Amethyst crystals resonate with the higher chakras. Working with this crystal will guide you to a state of higher self-perception. You will be at peace with a deep inner knowing of your divinity.

Sustained happiness and peace from perceiving life from this higher self-perspective is one of the main benefits of adding a piece of Amethyst to your happiness spell jar.

Plants that will work well with Amethyst in this type of happiness spell are lavender, blue lotus, sage, or tulsi. You can also include sacred mushrooms for expanding consciousness, such as psilocybin or reishi.

Aventurine 

This sparkly green Quartz variety is well known as a luck crystal. Aventurine is energetic yet light and playful, and this may be exactly what you need to fully embody a state of great happiness and ease.

Adding Aventurine to your happiness spell jar attunes its effects to vitality, enjoyment, and an experience of miracles. Add in clover, thyme, tulsi rosemary, lemongrass, chamomile, cannabis, or hops with a piece of Aventurine and other happiness spell jar ingredients.

Agate

Agate has so many benefits that can guide you to experience clear and grounded happiness. This crystal is energetically cleansing, increases energy, harmonizes emotions, and deepens meditation. 

Include an Agate in your spell for happiness through a deepened connection to your true nature within and the natural world.

Many plants pair well with Agate, and within this particular spell, consider adding plantain herb, tulsi, cannabis, cinnamon, sandalwood, san pedro cactus, lotus, or witch hazel.

Carnelian

This deep orange crystal has been appreciated since ancient times. It activates the Sacral Chakra, igniting creative power, emotional health, and pleasure.

Carnelian within a spell for happiness can be used for fully enjoying the many pleasures of being you and being human. Plants that pair well with Carnelian for this purpose include calendula, mucuna, ashwagandha, ginseng, nasturtium, ylang-ylang, or jasmine.

Brown Jasper 

Brown Jasper is an unassumingly beautiful and powerful stone that has so many wonderful benefits that support your happiness. It is nurturing and balancing, guiding you to be grateful and present.

This crystal can make a special addition to your personal happiness jar or a spell for the happiness of all beings on Earth and the planet itself. Place your crystal into your spell jar with gratitude and intention. 

Combine other elements, including plants in dry, essential oil or tincture forms, such as tobacco, cacao, cannabis, dandelion root, turmeric, and tulsi of motherwort.

Lepidolite

A soft and shiny purple crystal that is deeply peaceful, harmonizing, and protective. The energetic wisdom of Lepidolite is activated and transferred through your intentional happiness spell. 

Add in a piece of Lepidolite to your spell for a high vibrational state of spiritual understanding, embodied peace, and blissful experiences of oneness.

Lepidolite pairs well with plants such as lavender, tulsi, blue lotus, rose, nutmeg, palo santo, or sage, so include any of these or other plants for spiritual expansion or harmony within your spell jar.

Opal

Add in any type of Opal to boost your happiness through well-being, joy, inspiration, and divine connection. Opal benefits also include beauty, grace, and abundance.

Including Opal in your happiness spell will help with guidance and motivation to fulfill your soul’s purpose. It pairs well with rosemary, lemon balm, gotu kola, sage, mint, bougainvillea, or cosmos.

Pyrite

This metallic silvery to brassy yellow stone effects increased energy, creativity, willpower, strength, and protection. Pyrite is a stone of positive focus and prosperity. 

The mental clarity, inspiration, and abundant manifestations that you can gain from connecting with Pyrite will increase your happy experiences and well-being. 

Bay, tulsi, palo santo, sunflower, juniper, dock, licorice, sage, gotu kola, or cedar are plants that are beneficial to combine with Pyrite in a spell jar for inspiring, manifesting, and protecting happiness. 

Angelite

This soft blue Peruvian gemstone is regarded as a stone for angelic and divine spiritual communication. It can also help you to connect with your divinity within and inner guidance.

Angelite energy encourages self-healing and relieves energy blocks preventing your full experience and expression of happiness. Use it within your spell for happiness to align with higher self-awareness.

Angelite works really well alongside lavender, rosemary, angelica, chamomile, tulsi, thyme, or saffron.

Set and Activate Your Happiness Spell Jar Today!

Take the time and effort to be fully present in this ritual and work with your spell jar overtime to set into motion your powerful intentions for happiness. 

Consciously maintain complete trust in your powerful magic and the positive vibrations held by your chosen ingredients. Enjoy your increased happiness with gratitude for your choice to align with and consistently attune to this energy. 

Safety Note: Keep spell jars out of reach of young, unsupervised children, as most components are unsafe for ingestion.