Gambler's Luck Santa Muerte Magick

Center image found at: https://www.pexels.com/photo/cards-casino-chance-chip-269630/

Primary Use:

For luck and good fortune from gambling, games of chance, and bets.

---

---

***Someone reached out to me online and requested I petition the Santa Muerte for gambler's luck on his behalf. This is what I came up with.

You Will Need
 

• Alfalfa - an anti-hunger herb, Alfalfa also represents prosperity and money. When combined with the rest of the herbs in this recipe, it becomes an herb for gambler's prosperity.
• Chamomile - for attracting good luck and wealth.
• Cinnamon - a luxury in many ancient societies, cinnamon is today associated with prosperity, abundance, and more specifically, drawing in money.
• Nutmeg - thanks to past traditions of gamblers carrying whole pieces of nutmeg as a good luck charm, nutmeg is commonly associated with gamblers and bringing good luck to games of chance. If working with whole nutmeg, you will also need a cheese grater or lemon zester to turn your nutmeg into a powder or crumbs that you can incorporate with your other herbal ingredients.
• From a Deck of Cards - an Ace and a face card, to represent a winning hand of blackjack. You will also need tape to tape your playing cards to your offering candle. If you're using an offering candle that is NOT encased in glass, then you can simply place these two cards under your candle.
• Casino or Poker Chip - to represent a gambler's jackpot. You will also need a kitchen knife to etch out a slit on the top of your candle where you can press this chip into the wax. Again, if you are using a candle that is NOT encased in glass, then you can lean your chip against the base of the candle, or carve out a small circle in the bottom of the candle where you can press in the chip so it becomes flush with the candle base.
• Lottery Scratch Card - to represent a windfall of fortune and further good luck playing games of chance. "Gag" lotto tickets make a good substitute if real scratchers are not available where you live.
• ​Cauldron or Burn Pot - for burning your lotto scratcher to ashes.
• Double Luck Fast / Doble Suerte Rapida Oil - to take any luck coming your way and double it.
• Mortar and Pestle - for incorporating your dry herbal ingredients and the ashes from your burned lotto ticket.
• 1 Piece of Paper - to write your name and date of birth, or the name and date of birth of the person to whom you want to send some good gambling luck. If the date of birth is unknown, use any other identifying information you can think of - like email address, phone number, city or town of residence, occupational title, etc.
• 1 Silver Ink Pen - for writing on your piece of paper.
• 1 Silver Candle - to invoke the energy of the Silver Cloaked Santa Muerte of Gambler's Luck and Good Fortune in Games of Chance.

Prepare Your Candle

To start, slowly cut a slit in the top of your candle wide and deep enough to fit your casino / poker chip. Make it so that the slit is as close to the outer edge as possible, to keep the chip from getting in the way of the flame. Next, rub Double Good Luck / Doble Suerte Rapida oil on both sides of your casino or poker chip before pressing the chip into the slit you carved out. As you press the chip into the wax, try to angle the chip slightly so that, as the candle melts, the chip will tilt away from the flame instead of toward it.

Remember, this technique is only if you're using a votive candle encased in glass. If you're using a candle NOT encased in glass, then you can lean your chip against the base of the candle, or carve out a small circle in the bottom of the candle where you can press in the chip so it becomes flush with the candle base.

Next, tape your blackjack playing cards to the outside of your offering candle. Again, if you're using an offering candle NOT encased in glass, you can place these two cards flat under your offering candle.

Light your candle so that you may continue the rest of the working in its light.

Establish a Magickal Connection

Using your silver ink pen, write your name and date of birth, or the name and date of birth of the target for this petition, on your piece of paper. In the absence of this information, as much personal information as you can come up with will suffice - as would a photo, if you have one. This is what allows the magickal energy raised to be delivered to the appropriate person.

With your paper on your altar, stand your candle on top of it and recite the Gambler's Luck Santa Muerte magick prayer, found below.

NOTE: If your offering candle is NOT encased in glass and you placed your playing cards beneath your candle, simply place your piece of paper below the playing cards. You want the playing cards and the candle to be touching.

Prepare Your Herbal Mixture

If using whole nutmeg, grate one or two pieces and move the resulting powder / crumbs into your mortar and pestle. Combine approximately equal parts of the rest of your herbal ingredients - the alfalfa, chamomile, and cinnamon - in your mortar and use your pestle to incorporate. You don't need a powder necessarily, but you should combine the ingredients well enough so you end up with a little bit in each pinch.

As you grate and incorporate, continue to recite the below Gambler's Luck Santa Muerte magick prayer as you focus on your intent of your target experiencing success and fortune in games of chance. When the ingredients have been incorporated, set your mortar aside.
​
Burn Your Lotto Ticket

Next, safely light your lottery ticket on fire and allow to burn in your cauldron or burn pot until reduced to ashes. Move these ashes into your mortar and incorporate these ashes with the rest of your herbal mixture. In essence, you're treating the ashes of your lottery ticket like an herbal ingredient. Again recite the below Gambler's Luck Santa Muerte magick prayer as you incorporate your ashes into the herbal mixture.

Oil Your Candle

Using your Double Good Luck / Doble Suerte Rapida oil, dress the outside of your offering candle. You don't need to cover every inch, a little goes a long way, but use your intuition to determine when you've applied enough. If you taped your playing cards to your candle, cover those in oil as well.

Encircle Your Target with Gambler's Luck

Next, sprinkle your herbal mixture around the outside of your candle to create a circle around the base of the candle. With this, you completely surround the name on your paper with the energy of the magick you're raising. Below your paper is your magick altar, above your paper is your gambler's luck candle, and on all sides is your herbal mixture designed to promote good luck while gambling, making bets, and playing games of chance.

Continue to focus on your intent of sending good gambler's luck to your target as you sprinkle your herbal mixture, reciting the below magick prayer as you do.

Burn Completely

From here, all you have to do is allow your offering candle to burn on your Santa Muerte altar until complete. When the candle has burned to completion, you can burn or bury any organic material that is left over, and treat all inorganic material as regular trash.

Gambler's Luck Santa Muerte Magick Prayer

Santa Muerte, cloak of silver,
luck be doubled, over and over.

From games of chance, to bets wagered,
send the luck of the master gamblers.

Bless with jackpots and fortune found,
let a windfall of winning abound.

In your name, Santa Muerte, amen.

---

---