The Psalms have carried money petitions in Hoodoo for generations. The verses the tradition keeps for provision and favor, and how to work them.
If your grandmother kept a Bible with a worn spine, you already own the most used money-work tool in the tradition. The Psalms have carried petitions in Hoodoo since before the candle shops existed, and working them for provision is some of the oldest and most respectable money work there is.
Scripture and the work were never separate
Hoodoo grew up inside Black Christian life, in the hush harbors and the praying grounds, and the Book sat at the center of it. I told that history in The Invisible Institution. By the early twentieth century, a little book called Secrets of the Psalms sat next to the Bible in working households across the country, matching psalms to conditions, and the money psalms in it got the most wear.
The psalms the tradition keeps for money
Psalm 23. The provision psalm. I shall not want has covered more rent than any formula ever printed. Worked for daily needs and steady supply.
Psalm 4. Kept in the tradition for luck and relief in tight places, the psalm for the month that needs a turn.
Psalm 8. The favor psalm, worked for standing and success in business matters, for being seen right in rooms where money moves.
Psalm 65. The harvest psalm, crowning the year with goodness. Our farming ancestors knew this one in their bones, and it suits long work coming to fruit.
How to work a psalm
Read it aloud over your money candle when you set the petition, and again each time you tend the light. Write the verse and keep it where your money lives: the wallet, the register, the desk where the invoices go out. Speak it at the door on your way to anything financial. The psalm is the petition in its oldest form, and it pairs with She Eats First and Open Hands the way word has always paired with work. My own front-door verse practice is in My Front Door's Secret.
Take the Book off the shelf and put it back to work. The full psalm workings, verse by verse and condition by condition, go out on the email list at the bottom of this page.