An Invitation Jar
My spouse keeps a spell jar on their desk, a spice jar full of little trinkets and baubles representing things they want to attract into their life. I don’t know all the specifics (and they aren’t mine to share) but I like to turn it in my hands sometimes and watch the charms and items come into view. Beads clinking against the glass. Dried flowers rustling.
I made my own little jar, it used to hold pickled ginger but now it is my luck jar and has things I want to attract into my life… I think.
Folded paper stars (I just learned how to fold them last week and am obsessed).
Chunky plastic charms including: more stars, a head of romaine lettuce, a tiny rubber duck, a gummy bear, a pentagram, a cat paw.
Clay things we made, a dragon and a tiny monster.
glass seed beads, jade beads from a broken necklace.
tiny chunks of peridot from an old friend who used to write and exchange smut with me weekly. We’d go to the San Diego zoo with designs to draw the animals (she had a yearly pass) but carried our sketchbooks as we ate cotton candy and chatted about life instead.
morning star green tea incense, broken into chunks, I’d take the train down to seattle’s international district in college to buy packs of it and inexpensive stationary.
butterfly pea flower, loose leaf tea, bits of baby’s breath from our wedding flowers.
a glow in the dark star that fell from the ceiling. they fell one by one and for a month we would wake up covered in stars or with imprints on our asses.
bits of bright plastic confetti, bought as mix ins for a slime night we hosted years ago.
a green and yellow twenty-sided die. when we moved in together, I threw them across the linoleum for the cat to hunt along with my regular six-sided dice. When we decided we wanted to learn to play craps it took some sleuthing to recover them all.
I am not sure what exactly I am aiming to attract with all this, it certainly all seems pleasant. I keep spinning the jar in my hands when I am not sure what to write. It makes a nice noise and every so often the tiny monster (shown above) pokes out to wave “hello”.