I made my first spell jar. How will I kn

A spell jar is a hoodoo/conjure working — a small jar holding a written paper, herbs, candle stubs, oil, hair, or similar — so your question is about the practice itself, not a card reading. So let me answer it straight and then offer the tarot side.

How people traditionally judge it

Hoodoo practitioners don't usually say a jar is "working" on a schedule. What they watch for is *signs*, and signs are personal, not proof:

• In the jar itself — the paper darkening or the ink bleeding, the oil separating or sinking, herbs drying out faster than expected, the candle having burned down when you didn't light it again.
• In behavior — a person or situation shifting without you pushing: a reply that arrives, an obstacle clearing, a door opening you didn't knock on. These are the classic "signs."
• In you — dream patterns, a feeling of lightness or of unresolved tension, which most writers treat as a sign the working is or isn't sitting right.

The honest limit

None of that is verifiable, and the jar won't tell you. There's no agreed test that separates "the working landed" from "a good week" or "I noticed the coincidence because I was looking." Traditional advice is to set your own check-in point — often a date a few weeks out — and write down what you expected before the jar was made, so you're comparing against a prediction instead of a feeling afterward. That journal habit is the one part of it that actually holds up.

Two practical cautions

If you used any plant in the jar, keep it sealed and away from food and kids, and don't assume it's edible or that a herb is safe because it's "herbal." And don't let a working become something you'd have to keep maintaining forever — the traditional view is that a finished working is finished.

If you'd rather ask the question as a spread — whether this working is well-made, whether the situation is actually moving — say so and I'll draw three cards and read them by position. I won't claim those cards can confirm a jar works; they'd read the situation as the cards frame it.