New age products — from crystals and incense to tarot decks and yoga mats — aim to promote spiritual development. However, this label also covers items which may seem unconventional to mainstream markets, like Native American dreamcatchers or pagan rituals like witchcraft.

Retailers that embrace the New Age concept are well suited to draw in younger customers with an assortment of metaphysical goods and services.

A Year and a Day Mystical Shoppe

Asbury Park’s A Year and a Day Mystical Shoppe offers everything you could possibly need for new age and spiritual needs, including everything related to Pagan, Wiccan, Witchcraft, Santeria and Buddhism paths. A Year and a Day specializes in all these areas as well as crystals, incense and tarot decks – not forgetting their community events such as psychic development workshops, drumming circles and tarot card reading instruction!

Earth Spirit New Age Center in Red Bank offers crystals, books, sage and palo santo, shaman’s bundles, aromatherapy oils, crystal jewelry, tarot cards and candles as well as offering classes on classic interpretations as well as common astrological correspondences for major and minor arcana of standard 78-card decks. Aura photography services and palm reading are also provided here in addition to monthly full moon circles and psychic development workshops held there; Reiki and massage therapy therapy services may also be made available upon appointment.

Lucky House

Ho is a second generation immigrant from China whose work often addresses notions of cultural mismatch, (un)belonging and identity. Her art draws heavily upon her experiences between cultures as she utilizes everyday objects to explore themes like eroticism, politics and domesticity.

At Lucky House, several residents live in plywood bunk beds with sliding doors – commonly referred to as coffins – made out of plywood. Residents include retirees, working poor individuals and drug addicts. Twice daily they light incense for the God of Soil and Ground in hopes of receiving good fortune and luck – something they have not received so far.

Location near Fort Schuyler makes this popular with tourists. Recognized for their authentic Chinese cuisine and friendly service, their delicious fried dumplings, pork roast, and fried chicken standout among their top offerings.

Pymander

The Pymander Script meditation program helps individuals connect with their inner selves. It has many benefits, including stress reduction and improved cognitive function, while helping individuals cultivate spirituality and a sense of self-worth that will positively influence relationships and well-being overall.

This program offers individuals various tools and resources, including affirmations and visualization techniques, goal-setting frameworks and community support – tools which help individuals stay motivated and focused in pursuit of their goals.

New Age products include smudge sticks, candles, books and herbs – ideal products for New Age stores as they’re less costly than religious merchandise like incense or crystals while remaining easy to store and sell. Furthermore, smudge sticks can be used during ceremonies and rituals with great effectiveness.

The Green Man

The Green Man is an unsettling, foliage-covered figure commonly depicted on medieval church carvings. Some scholars have suggested it represents vestigal pagan beliefs regarding an antediluvian nature spirit; however, how such beliefs fit with Christian concepts of resurrection and eternal life remains unclear.

It seems more likely that the Green Man represents an intermediary between old and new beliefs. Pagan traditions and superstitions relating to nature worship persisted alongside Christianity until its Reformation.

The Green Man was introduced into medieval churches as a reminder to parishioners of their connection to nature, but his modern representation can be found throughout popular culture – gardens, sculptures and festivals like Wales’ Green Man Festival all feature him prominently; musicians Jethro Tull wrote a song entitled “Green Man”, while Kingsley Amis featured him prominently in one of his novels published in 1969.