Art of Candle Magick

Candle Magick is greatly desired by

Witches. Almost always used in magick
making, candles are associated with the fire
element. They speak a magickal language,
the words being expressed by the flickering
and dancing of the candle flame, the
billowing of the smoke, and the popping of
the hot wax. Candles chatter, and the
direction of the flame denote magical
communication. Just sitting in a room lit only
by a few candles or several creates this
mystical, magickal experience as the flame
of the candle dances in the darkened
room. In one's temple, lit candles set the
mystical atmosphere for what is to transpire
that night. I have 48 candles in my temple
and that does not count the Elemental
candles nor the candles on my altar.

There are many questions on the art of

candle magick. This section will show the
different techniques in successful candle
magick using feathers, rattles, oils, crystals
and parchment paper. This teaches a simple
yet successful way in burning candles and
 candle magick. Your candle magick can be
very ceremonial or very simple. Sometimes,
the simpler the better.

A lot of witches burn candles just about

every night. They burn a candle in honor of
the Goddess. Just burning a candle, too, puts
you in the right frame of mind. Some witches,
even if they are burning a candle in honor of
the Goddess, still dress the candle. Dressing
the candle means applying the right kind of
oil and/or writing out on your candle what
you want. So, you need to know the right kind
of candle and the right oil. Most of this
information is supplied in books which can be
purchased are many book stores. If you can
find a nice witchy shop, more the better.

Now you have to do a little homework for

your candle magick to be successful.
Research, research, research. There are
planetary influences, there is whether the
moon is waxing, full, or waning; there is the
day of the week -- certain days are better to
do the kind of magick you are looking for.
There is also Moon Void Of Course. When the
Moon is void of course, do not do any
magick. If you want to do a simple candle
magick, the most important thing would be
 the phase of the moon and the void of
course.. There is the oil or oils that you will
need. Whenever you are searching for the
right oil, you also need a catalyst which
gives it that extra boost, like cinnamon.
Catalyst herbs need to be in all spells. You
need to use catalyst herb/oil along with
your intended oil to send it off, to activate it.
But just a pinch or drop or so of oil. They
are:

1. Dragons Blood - all spells should have

this herb. Whatever you put in, you get out.
2. Allspice is good for money.
3. Cinnamon - psychic work and love spell.
4. Cloves - love and psychic.
5. Galangal - this is a good one for
prosperity.
6. Lilac - with flower power (feminine).
7. Lavender
8. Musk
9. Myrrh - another great oil which gives
power to any oil.
10. Ginger
The color of the candle is very important as
well:
White candles reflect all colors back.
Red for sexual love.
Pink for love of the heart.
Orange - for attraction. This is good for a
calling.
Yellow - well being, concentration, intuition.
Green - represents health and healing,
money, changes and renewal.
Blue - spiritual, healing, memory.
Indigo - Brow, third eye, psychic
center. Helps to see aura. Psychic
awareness.
Purple - Crown center, royal color, Deity,
spiritual.
Brown - Stability.
Grey - represents intuition.
 Now when purchasing your candle, most
witches buy the small candles which can be
found in New Age stores.

When you are doing your spell, think positive

that it will work. Never, ever think that your
spell will not work.
When doing candle magick, leave opening for
Gods to let them make decision. Also, set a
time limit on the candle magick. Give it a
certain amount of time for it to happen and if
it does not, then do it again. Also remember,
sometimes you just might not get your wish,
and it might not be because you failed in your
magick, but because it is not in the cards for
you. Like you might ask to be rich but maybe
this lifetime you are not meant to be rich.

However, when your magick does work, do

not forget to thank the Gods. Also, feel that
feeling of how it feels when something great
happens and put that same feeling in another
candle magick that you do.

When you are putting things together for

magick, you are making magick work; you are
energizing and enhancing magick. Ritual
sweep is acquiring the ingredients you need
for particular spell beforehand, thinking
what you want, what will make it work.

Spells do not last forever. If some time has

passed, say a Full Moon or so then you must
do it again.

To start with, write a paragraph of what you

want. Then form into a few sentences, then a
sentence, then a word. You have to visualize
what you want. Do not narrow yourself on
how you will get what you want, leave open
for that.

Most people go to a God for the energy

source like Kuan Yin for love and
compassion, etc. But know your energy
source. If you do go to the Gods, make sure
that you go to the God for that strength and
character traits.

You can charge your candle with a quartz

crystal, or by using a laser wand crystal, or
a magickal wand made out of a particular
wood. You can place your candle on a paton
 or pentacle. You can write a petition on
parchment paper of what you specifically
want and also putting certain oils on the
paper or wrap herbs in the parchment paper
as well or do both. Then fold parchment
paper up and place it under your candle and
let candle burn down and then light
parchment paper and watch it burn and
while doing so, see what you want happening.
Then take the ashes outside and toss them in
the air to be taken to the Gods.

PREPARATION FOR CANDLE MAGICK

Remember the most important thing is what
phase the moon is in. If it is waning, you want
to work on something that you do not want
anymore or some kind of psychic work. It is a
great time for banishment of any kind. If it is
waxing, then for new things to come into
your life, etc. Or, suppose you are in need of
money but the moon is waning, then you do a
banishing spell of banishing poverty. You do
not have to really wait for the moonyou
just work WITH THE MOON. Most witches
are particular with the moon. If the moon is
full at 7:30 a.m. Sunday morning, then
sometime Saturday night, they will do their
candle magick, because by 7:31 a.m. Sunday
morning, the moon has started its waning
process. Spells are too important to
witches. If they want something bad enough,
they will make time for their magick. I have
heard some and astonishingly read wherein
some Witches believe that they can do Full
moon magick (or dark moon magick) two to
three days after the moon is at its
fullest.....in this instance Sunday 7:30
a.m. This is not correct, and they do not
truly understand the energies of the Moon.

Prepare for ritual. Decide what it is you

want to work on which is called the ritual
sweep we mentioned above. You can prepare
sacred space or you can cast a circle.
Sometimes, when you are preparing your
candle for the type of magick, music can play
a major roll in your candle magick. Music
reaches into the depth of your soul and you
need that depth to put in that candle. You
need your feelings to be poured into that
candle.

Ceremonial - make test of things. Choose

space and set up like props appropriately
and then prepare yourself: wearing special
clothes, jewelry, wear something different
to trigger your mind. You will have done your
homework in the oils and incenses you will
need.
 Choose color of candle best for situation.
Before this point you will have done your
petition and then you put that petition onto
the candle with a special knife/cutter --
something you use only for magickal
purposes. Then you will put on the oil that
goes with the spell onto your candle and all
of the time you are rubbing that candle with
the oil, you are visualizing that it has
happened, and that you got your wish. There
are different ways in which books tell you to
rub the oil in your candle. There really is no
wrong way. Only what you feel is right. But
concentration is very important. When
dressing the candle, see your spell as
already happening. Do not say "I WANT" but
"I HAVE," as if it happened already. If you
want to run your prepared candle through
the smoke of your incense burner, then do so
as well.

Then you do a Rune of Consecration as

follows:
"Upon this candle words of fire, spell out
the words of my desire.
Take these words and give them wings, As
they descend from thoughts to things.
 Bless these things and make them real, O
Lady of the Silver Wheel."

CONE OF POWER -
Then you want to energize that candle.
There are many ways to energize the candle --
singing, chanting, dancing, meditation. Some
witches use a special rattle that is sacred to
them. They start up slowly and start
chanting and rattling over the candle to
wake up the spirits. Some have turtle rattles
that are very magickal. Then you go faster,
faster, still chanting, and then faster till
you think you are going to burst with it all.
You are loud with your chanting, you are
holding nothing back. Then all of a sudden,
drop your rattle and grab candle with both
hands and send that energy into that candle.
Feel it going into the candle. This is called
the Cone of Power. Then light the candle.
Some people prefer lighting their candle
with the candle representing the Goddess.
Also, if you have a feather or a feather with
a crystal, whatever, with that feather you
can send the energy up to the Gods. Birds are
great messengers to the Gods. So imagine you
are pushing, pushing that energy of your
desires up with the feather until a bird
comes to take your wish and watch that bird
fly, fly away to the Gods.
 When done, you bind the candle spell with
this Rune as follows:

"I call Earth to bind this spell,

Air, speed its travel well.
Fire, give it spirit from above,
Water, quench my spell with love."

Now watch the flame of your spell candle,

and in that flame, see yourself having what
you wished for. Let your spell candle burn
completely and evenly. Some believe that if
your candle does not burn down all the way
that you will not get what you wished for.

After this is done, do not think of spell

again. Do not dwell on it. And remember
KEEP SILENT. Do not go around and discuss
your spell. There will be forces out there
that will start tearing it down either by
friends who do not believe in magick, etc.
If you cast a circle, then it is time for the
Goddess to leave so say your farewells.
 Then dismiss the quarters.
Draw back the energy of your circle.
.
Now remember, the candle must burn down
by the end of the waxing moon or waning
moon, depending on the magickal time you did
it in. Never blow out a magickal candle. If
you cannot let it burn all night, put it out by
snuffing, and when you have more time,
simply say a prayer over the candle, visualize
your having what you want, light the candle
and you are on your way. But most of your
serious witches always make time for their
candles to burn. You can also put the
burning candle in the middle of your tub (no
curtains around it of course) or in the
kitchen sink, free of any articles in the sink.

ETHICS OF MAGICK
A so called Black Magician is one who has no
ethics where Magick is concerned. He has no
qualms about interfering with anothers
free will. A young woman in love, who sets
out to work a spell to draw a particular
young man to her, would be included under
this heading. She would be a black, or
negative magician. Her goal is to draw that
 man to her whether he wants to or not,
which then interferes with his free will.

MAGICK HOLDS NO GUARANTEES

There are no guarantees with Magick. We
can do everything correctly from the use of
right incense, correct time of month, right
colored candle, etc and still you get
nothing. Why is that?
I feel that the Gods are watching over us
and we picked certain things in our lives
before incarnating onto this planet. If you
chose to be a poor person before
incarnating onto this planet, then no magick
will alter that plan. Or maybe the Gods
know better than we do about the choices we
want.

Also, the time that it takes for Magick to

work can have a bearing on our belief as to
whether our magick worked or not.
Sometimes the results are a long time in
coming.

Or sometimes you limited yourself to a

certain thing by being too specific in what
you want and that can narrow things down
especially in love matters. Sue wants love
and she wants Johnny but the love is not in
Johnny but in someone else. However, Sue
specifically named Johnny as her love.

SYMPATHETIC MAGICK:
Candle burning Magick is based on what is
known as sympathetic magick. People use to
use clay or wax figures as symbols of what
they wanted, or if you have a figure which
represents something real, whatever you do
to that figure will cause the same thing to
happen to who or what it represents. In
other words, one is "in sympathy" with the
other. This is the origin of sympathetic
Magick. People used or use Voodoo dolls, or
images of people, to do black magick on.
Candle magick is sympathetic magick using
candles to represent the participants in
what is to be achieved. Candles also
symbolize things such as Success, Money,
Love, and Protection. By manipulating these
candles, you show what it is that you desire --
for example, to bring success to yourself
(moving one candle toward the other), or to
draw love to a person (advancing two
candles until they meet and join).
Sometimes you need to do your candle magick
more than one time for success.

MAGICK IS A POWER:
Magick is a powerful force which can be
used for good or evil, depending upon the
person.

Magick is energy which can be created by

anyone.

A combination of need and will power is all

that is necessary to do Magick. If you ask
someone else to do your magic for you, it is
unlikely that he or she will be able to
produce the results that you could. The
reason is that the Magician does not have the
personal connection you have -- the need for
the Magick to succeed. You need the driving
need for the Magick to work.

MENTAL PREPARATION:
One of the most important ingredients for
working Magick is will power. It follows,
then, that the most important preparation
 for Magick is mental preparation. You must
train yourself to focus exclusively on the
object of your desire -- your reason for
working the Magick. You will need this
concentration even before the ritual itself,
for you will need it when making the candles
and everything else connected with the
ritual.

READY, AIM, FIRE!!!

You ever see a child pumping up his air gun,
aiming it and squeezing the trigger. The
pumping up is the imagining, building up power
to be released. Aiming is getting a clear
picture in your mind of what you want to
achieve and directing the energy there.
Firing is of course the actual release of the
built-up energy.

Aiming: One of the secrets to successful

Magick is to see the finished product -- to
concentrate on the end result rather than
on the steps to getting there. You would
concentrate on the situation as it will be
when the magick has done its work.
 Building Power in the Ritual: In ordinary
Candle burning rituals, you are using your
need for success in the rite to help you put
your energy into the lighting of the candles
and their manipulation. In advanced candle
Magick, you should do more than that: you
should work up that need and build your
power so that there is a force to be released
like a heat-seeking missile, homing in on the
ultimate goal you have planned.

CRYSTALS AND STONES:

Using a particular crystal (precious or semi-
precious stone) as an amplifier in a ritual.
This is exactly what these stones are:
amplifiers. A crystal will magnify the
Magickal energies at work.

MAGICKAL TOOL CONSTRUCTION:

Magickal Robes are an excellent idea. You
must wear them strictly for magickal
workings only.

Wands: The purpose of a wand is to store and

project your power. You can store the
energy in your body and project it with your
 finger if you prefer. However, for many,
using a wand is a means of focusing; of
mentally balancing the forces.

Engraver: People mark the candles with

names or properties. To do this you use an an
engraver, whether it be with a sacred small
knife, claw of a bird, crystal, whatever. You
scratch or engrave, the characters into the
wax of the candle.

Incense : It was an ancient belief that the

smoke of incense carried ones prayers up to
the Gods. It is also a fact that incense-
burning creates a certain atmosphere or
vibes which add immeasurably to a Magickal
ritual. It is another important ingredient to
help achieve the ultimate Magickal power.
When you are creating your incense from
herbs and oils, you put your thoughts and
your power into the mixture so that when it
burns, it is focused on the rituals purpose as
much as you are. And remember, always
prepare your incense when the moon is right.

Poppets: which represents a person and

frequently used in sympathetic
magick. Poppets must never be used to
 manipulate someone against their will. You
stuff the Poppet with the right herbs for the
occasion. If you have something personal to
be added into the poppet is a good thing.
Draw a face on the Poppet. Decorate it as
much as you feel like it.

Photographs, etc: There will be occasions

when you will use photographs, letters and
other objects in your rituals.