Buy a fancy candle because it comes in a Copper bowl. Burn the candle down to the wick.
Steal smallish rounded rocks from the landscaping outside of your workplace. If questioned, admit only that you need them, "for reasons".
Go to your closest Starbucks and see if they still have lavender growing by the drive-thru lane. Take. Alternately, convince one of your friends to grow a lavender plant and gift you some of the flowers.
Have your mom gather wild dandelion roots and send you a bag full of the dried product.
Save a piece of the icing with sprinkles from the cake your boss got for you at a Mexican bakery during lunch, because they remember you talking about how it's similar to a type of cake you loved from back home that you never learned the name of. This cake is a Good Omen.
Find a piece of wood that's shaped like a thing that means something to you.
Find the tiny pinecone that you picked up in the parking lot of your apartment.
Look for the piece of sweetgrass you cut off the braided bundle you gifted to your mom and your aunt. If you can't find it, be briefly saddened, and then make a mental note to purchase
more and support Native-owned local businesses.
Check to see if the plants and animal bones store is open today.
It is not open today.
Take some of the dried petals that you harvested from your friend's backyard while you were making snowglobes with her kids. Sew the bell-shaped petals together on a length of white thread. Forget to ask what type of plant they come from. Hope they aren't poisonous.
12?. Find the dried plant that reminds you of the plant back home that is illegal to pick. The one that a grandmother you never met used to pick anyway and then display in elaborate arrangments in her home. Put in a safe place. You won't need it for this.
If your smoke detector hasn't already been sitting on your kitchen counter for 3 months because you keep forgetting to replace the batteries, consider briefly disabling it. You have no idea what type of smoke this will produce. Make sure you have the fire extinguisher nearby. If you don't own a fire extinguisher, consider befriending a stranger on the internet with more concern for fire safety than you.
Put the rocks at the bottom of the copper bowl. Layer all collected ingredients on top. Pour a small amount of tequila over them. Light.
Maybe say something nice about letting go of the darkness of this year and aggressively pursuing good things in the next. Or beseech the Old Gods for something they might be willing to grant you. I dunno, I'm not an expert.

Lace