How to Make Money Rice: A Prosperity Practice That Grows With You
- Anya I
- Jan 1
- 6 min read
Updated: 6 days ago
How to Make Money Rice: A Prosperity Practice That Grows With You
Happy New Year Everyone! As we welcome in the new year I want share a tradition that my coven, the Liminal Flame, and I created this past yule: Money rice. Also Known as prosperity rice and lucky rice. Rooted in folk magic, this activity was far from a quiet creation: as we gathered around the table we shared positive energy, tasty drinks, laughs and a whole lot of holiday cheer.
In today's post, I'm going to share how to make money rice as we bring on the new year (although this can be made at any time). This is not a flashy money spell or a promise of quick money. It’s a lived, relational practice one meant to attract money, yes, but more importantly to attract prosperity, stability, and right relationship with your resources.
This guide is for anyone interested in spiritual prosperity practices, from beginners to experienced practitioners. Understanding and practicing money rice rituals can help you focus your intentions and invite abundance and prosperity into your life.
This is folk magick in its truest sense. Practical. Grounded. Rooted in Spirit and daily life. Abundance meant to be shared with your community, and with that comes great responsibility.
Where Money Rice Comes From (And Why That’s Important)
This practice comes from conjure traditions, specifically Hoodoo and Southern conjure, traditions developed by Black Americans in the American South. Conjure is a living, land-based spiritual system rooted in survival, protection, prosperity, and relationship with Spirit and ancestors. Food, roots, oils, coins, prayer, and daily action are essential elements of the work.
Rice appears in conjure as a symbol of sustenance as it's always been something meant to stretch, feed a family, and support members of a household over time. Prosperity work within this tradition has never been about bypassing effort or chasing luck alone. It’s about blessing what you have, protecting your resources, sharing your resources, and aligning yourself with steady provision.
This practice was passed on to me by a Southern conjurer. I don’t claim ownership — only stewardship and deep gratitude for the ability to receive this magick and share it with my audience. If you choose to work with money rice, it’s important to approach it with reverence and respect. Conjure is not aesthetic. It is relational, ethical, and lived. It's meant to be shared with our communities, and comes with great responsibility.
What Money Rice Is (Practically Speaking)
Money rice is used to bring prosperity, attract money, abundance, luck. The main ingredient, rice has been a long-standing symbol of prosperity, fertility, luck, wealth, and love.
Money rice is a simple prosperity working designed to:
Attract money in a steady, sustainable way
Bring prosperity and abundance into your home
Support success, business growth, and protection
Keep your relationship with money conscious and intentional
It can live in a spell jar, money bowl, piggy bank, or a small pouch you carry in your wallet like a witchy satchel or mojo bag. Some people place it near the door to invite opportunity in. Others keep it where they manage bills, purchases, or business planning.
How to Make Money Rice (Spirit-Led Creation)
This is not something you rush. Let it be a moment you enter fully.
Ingredients, & Their Magickal Properties
These ingredients are traditional, practical, and adaptable.
Rice The foundation. Rice represents sustenance, continuity, and long-term wealth. It speaks to having enough — and trusting that enough can grow.
Green Food Coloring: Typically, green food coloring is brought in to welcome the spirit of abundance and prosperity.
If you dye your rice, be sure to do so a couple hours or even a day ahead of time
Cinnamon sticks Cinnamon brings warmth, movement, and draw. It helps money circulate instead of stagnating and supports momentum. When possible use the sticks, break them apart, and then sprinkle it onto your rice.
Coin (gold-colored if possible)Coins anchor the work in the physical world — wages, purchases, business exchange. Gold tones are commonly used to symbolize prosperity.
Salt Protection. Salt guards resources and keeps energy from leaking away.
Herbs
Bay: success, achievement, steady growth
Basil: prosperity, right livelihood, financial protection
Rosemary: clarity, remembrance, guarding what you’ve built
Dried orange peel Adds brightness, positivity, opportunity, and forward motion. It helps sweeten circumstances around money and work.
Paper and pen To write intentions clearly and honestly.
Optional additions:
Crystals or stones for grounding or prosperity
Personal symbols connected to your dreams, ancestors, or business
If you are looking for a more soulful witchcraft practice, check out my free Beginners Guide here.
Essential Oils to Infuse in Your Money Rice
Essential oil is not required, but it can deepen the work by engaging scent and memory, both powerful elements in conjure, and a little goes a long way.
Choose one oil or a small blend:
Cinnamon essential oil: For movement, heat, and drawing money toward you. Especially helpful if things feel stuck.
Orange essential oil: For opportunity, positivity, and encouraging favorable outcomes around work and luck.
Patchouli essential oil: For grounding prosperity in the material world — steady income, business growth, long-term wealth. (My favorite!)
Use one-two drops only. Oils are potent. This is about infusion, not saturation.
Creating the Money Rice
Grab the green food dye and add a few drops to your rice. Place the rice in a plastic zip-top bag and mix it by shaking and working it with your hands until the color is evenly distributed. Spread the rice out to dry for a few hours, or prepare it the day before and let it dry overnight.
Pour the green rice into your jar or bowl. As you do, reflect on what prosperity actually looks like in your life right now; paid bills, steady income, room for rest, space to breathe.
Add the cinnamon sticks, salt, herbs, rosemary, dried orange peel, and coins (if using). Mix the rice gently with your hands. As you mix, be intentional about your thoughts, about your connection, about the energy you are infusing into your rise. When we tear apart the herbs, be rhythmic and mindful of how you're tearing them. Every step of making the money rice is a ritual in itself, deeply rooted in connection to the world around us. Take your time when combining the ingredients In conjure, touch matters. Your body carries the intention.
Add your chosen essential oil. Let scent anchor the work.
Write your intentions on paper. Be specific and realistic. Fold it and place it into the rice. You may sprinkle a small bit of rice around the bowl as an offering, then keep the rest contained.
Money Rice vs. a Money Bowl
Money rice can stand alone, or it can become the base of a money bowl.
A money bowl may also include:
Bills or receipts
Business cards
Dollar Bills
Symbols of Prosperity or personal sigils
Fake gold coins
Items from your wallet
Notes about goals or upcoming purchases
Place the your rice somewhere you’ll see it frequently. Let it act as a sign — a reminder of intention and responsibility and allowing abundance into your life.
Blessing The Money Rice
Personally, I often find that the creation itself carries enough energy and love that I don’t always add spoken blessings when creating this. But sometimes, a blessing feels like the final seal so here is an optional blessing to carry you through your journey:
What I put my hands to, let it grow.Let nothing waste.Let nothing drain.With thanks for what already sustains me —my hands, my heart, and my home.
Blessed be.
Working With Money Rice Over Time
This is relational work.
Touch or stir it when refocusing intentions
Offer gratitude when met with moments of abundance
Refresh it seasonally or when energy feels stale
Carry a small bit in your wallet, or a spell jar
Log shifts, opportunities, or lessons
When the working is complete, dispose of it respectfully by burying it back into the earth or toss it in the bonfire.
Gifting & Sharing the Practice
Money rice can be gifted for new homes, businesses, or major transitions. If you gift it, include context. Prosperity work should always be understood and consensual.
Have you ever made money rice? If this post resonated, comment, save, or share it. Folk practices survive through care, conversation, and respect.
Closing Thoughts
Making money rice with The Liminal Flame at Yule felt like honoring a true threshold; between years, between survival and growth, between intention and action.
If you’d like to hear about our upcoming 2026 events as we open our space to the public, stay close.
And if you’re navigating spiritual life as a witch here in Southern California, I highly recommend my SoCal Witch Guide — a grounded resource for weaving Spirit, the land we walk on, and daily life together.
Prosperity isn’t something you wish for once.It’s something you tend — frequently, personally, and with care.
Wishing you all an abundant and prosperous new year.
--Anya
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