It helps with:
- Raising and teaching children.
- Healing father wounds - those stemming from abandonment, not having or knowing a father and also the grief of losing a father.
- Helping with fathering, whether you are the biological parent, step parent,
guardian or are simply asked to be a male role model in the community.
- Holding together a family after a tragedy, misfortune, loss, poverty -
ask him to ‘get you through’ and he will.
- Making the best of situations/resourcefulness.  Fosters and encourages resilience and a 'can do' attitude.
- Builds an awareness that it is in the everyday moments that we are truly
granted a chance to serve God.  Truly embodies the spirit of 'chop wood and carry
water.'
- Being still, focused, completing the job or project at hand.
- Strength to fulfil a spiritual life mission.
- Putting the needs of others first when required like caring for a partner or parent.
- Laying down burdens.  Including in situations as described above.  Joseph helps carry you, just as he taught Jesus to do for others.
- Practical and creative endeavours, particularly engineering and carpentry.
- Apprenticeships - and learning ‘on the job’.

Essential Oils: Galbanum, orange, narcissus, lemon, black pepper and yarrow.

Crystal Essence: Blue amber, aragonite sputnik, copal, kaurilite, jet, selenite, imperial topaz, and desert rose (shared with the Mother Mary essence).

It is interesting that of the crystals on that list blue amber, copal, jet and kaurilite all derive from fossilised or petrified wood.  Being around wood and trees helps us connect to Joseph and is an extra nod to his carpenter roots whilst he was here on Earth 2,000 years ago.