Tag: Witchcraft

When it comes to colours, you may wish to have a variety on hand for different purposes. Typically, colour correspondences for candle magic are as follows:

White: A balance of all colours; Spiritual enlightenment, cleansing, clairvoyance, healing, truth seeking; Rituals involving lunar energy’ May be substituted for any colour candle.

Yellow: Activity, Creativity, unity; brings power of concentration and imagination to a ritual; use in rituals where you wish to gain another’s confidence or persuade someone,or in rituals that require solar energy.

Gold: Fosters understanding and attracts the powers of cosmic influences; beneficial in rituals intended to bring about fast luck or money, or in rituals needing solar energy.

Orange: Creativity, ability to speak one’s mind, ambition, career matters and the Law, self-confidence. Solar color and also stands for Leo.

Pink: Promotes romance, friendship; standard color for rituals to draw affections; a color of femininity, honor, service, brings friendly, lively conversation to the dinner table.

Red: Health, passion, love, fertility, strength, courage, will power; increases magnetism in rituals; draws Aries and Scorpio energy.

Silver: Removes negativity and encourages stability; helps develop psychic abilities; attracts the influence of the Mother Goddess.

Purple: Power, success, idealism, psychic manifestations; ideals for rituals to secure ambitions, independence, financial rewards, or to make contact with the spiritual other world; increases Neptune energy.

Magenta: Combination of red and violet that oscillates on a high frequency; energizes rituals where immediate action and high levels of power or spiritual healing are required.

Brown: Earthly, balanced colour; for rituals of materiel increase; eliminates indecisiveness; improves powers of concentration, study, telepathy; increases financial success; locates objects that have been lost.

Indigo: Colour of inertia; stops situations or people; use in rituals that require a deep meditational state; or in rituals that demand Saturn energy.

Royal Blue: Promotes laughter and joviality; color or loyalty; use to attract Jupiter energy, or whenever an influence needs to be increased.

Light Blue: Spiritual colour; helpful in devotional or inspirational meditations; brings peace and tranquillity to the home; radiates Aquarius energy; employ where a situation must be synthesized.

Blue: Primary spiritual colour ; for rituals to obtain wisdom, harmony, inner light, or peace; confers truth and guidance.

Emerald Green: Important component in Venusian rituals; attracts love, social delights, and fertility.

Dark Green: Color of ambition, greed, and jealousy; counteracts these influences in a ritual.

Green: Promotes prosperity, fertility, success; stimulates rituals for good luck, money, harmony, and rejuvenation.

Grey: Neutral color useful when pondering complex issues during meditation; in magic, this color often sparks confusion; it also negates or neutralizes a negative influence.

Black: Opens up the deeper levels of the unconscious; use in rituals to induce a deep meditational state, or to banish evil or negativity as in un-crossing rituals; attracts Saturn energy.

Colours associated with the Zodiac

Aries: Red, white, pink

Aquarius: Light blue, dark blue, green

Capricorn: Red, black, dark brown

Cancer: White, green, brown

Gemini: Yellow, silver, green, red, blue

Leo: Gold, orange, red, green

Libra: Royal blue, light brown, black

Pisces: Aquamarine, royal blue, white, green

Sagittarius: Dark blue, purple, gold, red

Scorpio: Black, red, brown

Taurus: Green, pink, red , yellow.

Here are the most common candle colors and their suggested uses:

White.

The color of purity and new beginnings.

Use a white candle for rituals involving healing, new beginnings, and spiritual growth.

Also appropriate for Lunar and Goddess workings.

Church candles are usually white, thus white candles are associated with prayer, remembrance, and devotion.

White may be substituted for any other color candle when that color is not available.

Black.

A strong, banishing color, black is associated with transition and rest.

Burn a black candle to absorb negativity, break a bad habit, or mark the end of a phase in your life.

Many protective spells include a black candle.

Red.

Red is the color of sex, love, power, and vitality.

A red candle draws these qualities to you and aids you in any spellwork that requires strong, fiery energy.

A red candle is often used in conjunction with black—burn the black candle first to banish negativity, then the red candle to draw in fresh energy.

So-called “dual action” or “reversible” candles combine red and black into one candle.

Blue.

Blue helps you call upon the peace and patience of the element of Water.

Blue carries a gentle, but powerful energy.

Choose a blue candle for spells involving emotional healing, truth, and justice.

A very spiritual color, blue can help awaken and heal the psychic mind.

Yellow.

Yellow is associated with the element of Air and the powers of the mind.

Burn a yellow candle for success in school or the arts, or to enhance communication in a relationship.

Yellow also increases focus and intuition.

Yellow is a great choice for business spells, especially when you need fresh ideas and inspiration.

Green.

Traditionally the color of money magick, green symbolizes growth in every sense.

A green candle attracts abundance and earthly well-being.

Use for prosperity, health, and workings involving Nature.

Green is also a popular choice for luck-drawing spells.

Orange.

The vibrant hue of orange evokes ambition and creativity.

Orange candles are well-suited for career workings, or any other time you need to assert your strength and individuality.

Purple.

The color of mystery and magic, purple is associated with psychic matters.

Use a purple candle for divination, astral travel, and to strengthen your connection with the unseen realms.

Historically the color of royalty, purple is also suitable for magick related to wishes, ambition, power, and authority.

Pink.

Pink is the color of emotional well-being, sensuality, and matters of the heart.

Choose a pink candle when you wish to grow in compassion and self-love, or attract the love of others.

Forgiveness and reconciliation spells also call for gentle pink.

Grey.

Resting halfway between white and black, grey is the color of neutrality and balance.

A grey candle may be used in protective magick, when you wish to neutralize the negative energy that may be directed at you.

Also used to gain discernment and wisdom.

Light Blue.

The calming, cleansing energy of light blue is used for spells of healing, and also to dispel anger.

Light blue invokes the soothing qualities of the element of Water without its deeper, more dangerous properties.

The color of unclouded daylight, light blue is also good for truth-seeking.

Turquoise.

Turquoise is a greenish tint of blue.

It is the color of the famous desert gem or the Caribbean sea.

Turquoise shares many of the calming, healing qualities of light blue.

Turquoise also stimulates creativity and the spirit of exploration.

Sea-blue candles are sometimes used to connect with Undines and water Fae.

Lavender.

Lavender combines the innocence of white with the spirituality and passion of purple.

Lavender candles are used for spells of love, intimacy, and friendship, as well as wishes of all kinds.

Ivory.

Similar in meaning to white, but with a tinge of earthy brown.

Ivory is good for Full Moon workings, initiations, or any time you want an alternative to bright white.

Because it corresponds to precious things like ivory, pearl, and cream, this color is also used to attract luxury and abundance.

Light Green.

Light Green is used to invoke the lighter qualities of the Earth element—good luck, prosperity, and celebration.

Light green is a good choice for Faery workings and rites of Springtime.

Magenta.

Magenta, dark pink, and hot pink candles take the loving energy of pink and kick it up a notch!

While pink candles draw compassion and tenderness, stronger pinks are all about the passion.

Use a dark pink candle for spells of sexuality, sexual confidence, and flirtation.

Dark pink candles are used to attract a lover (especially a female lover).

Brown.
Brown is a strong grounding, Earthy color.

It aids in emotional stability, balance, and building trust.

Some Witches also use brown for manifestation magic and connecting with the realm of animals.

Burgundy.

Halfway between the two colors, burgundy tempers the passion of red with the practicality of brown.

Use burgundy for magick related to determination, strength, and personal power.

Burgundy resonates with the blood, and helps in grounding and bringing your passions to fruition.

Silver.

Silver is associated with the Moon, psychic receptivity, dreaming, love, rest, and healing.

On a Witch’s altar, a silver candle is often used to represent the Goddess.

Gold.

Gold corresponds with the Sun, wealth, confidence, willpower, generosity, and optimism.

A gold candle may be used to represent the God.

A grey or white candle may be substituted for silver, but there is really no substitute for the eye-catching gleam of gold!

Blue is for Water and the West, dusk, and autumn. A blue candle is placed in the nine o’clock position.

Water represents love, relationships, sympathy, intuition, reconciliation, harmony, healing, and the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, natural cyclical evolutions from one stage to another as opposed to changes made consciously under the auspices of Air.

It is also potent for fighting floods, cleansing seas, lakes, and rivers of pollution, in campaigns to provide fresh water in arid places, in all initiatives towards world health and the care of whales, dolphins, seals, and endangered sea creatures.

Like Earth, Water represents the yin, a female goddess in the form of the Moon Goddesses. Surround your Water candles with silver objects, seashells, and pieces of coral or, for the lunar goddesses, mother of pearl and moonstones that grow brighter as the Moon waxes.

Candles etched with zodiacal signs may be used to represent people born during a particular Sun period.

They may then be burnt in rituals for different purposes.

For instance, you can burn your own zodiacal candle at a time when you need confidence or to assert your identity.

Alternatively, you may burn any astrological candles whose strengths you need at a particular time, perhaps the courage of Aries before a confrontation or travelling to an unfamiliar location.

You might also use them in a love ritual.

Note also the influence of particular groups of signs of the zodiac.

The cardinal signs – Aries, Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn – are so-called because when the Sun moved into these signs, it marked the beginning of a new season – spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

People born under a cardinal sign manifest this as a desire to initiate and to take command of people and situations.

The fixed signs – Leo, Taurus, Aquarius and Scorpio – are signs entered by the Sun in the middle of a season.

People born under them exhibit stability and a tendency to continue in a predetermined path.

The mutable signs -Sagittarius, Gemini, Virgo and Pisces – mark the time when the seasons are about to change.

Those born under them are correspondingly versatile and ready to compromise.

This recipe makes six 10 x three-quarter inch tapers.

You will need

• 4 pounds of bees wax.
• Three 24-inch lengths of flat-braided 2/0 wick
• A drying rack. You can make a drying rack by hammering pairs of nails into a board or by suspending a dowel or slat between two chairs.

Method

Place a 12-inch dipping can in the bottom of a double boiler over medium heat.

Heat the wax to 160° F.

To start dipping your candle pairs drape a wick over 3 fingers so the sides hang separately and evenly.

Dip the lower 10 1/2 inches of wick into the wax and hold for 10 seconds.

Remove the wick and hang it on a drying rack to dry.

This primes the wick and adds the first layer to the candle.

Dip the other two lengths of wick the same as the first. Be sure to check the temperature of the wax often to maintain a constant temperature of 160° F.

Start with the first pair again and dip only the lower 10 inches of the wick to create a 10-inch candle.

Repeat again with the other two pairs hanging the pairs on the drying rack each time.

The optimum drying time between dips depends on your workroom temperature. The cooler the room, the shorter the drying time.

For the best results dip the candles while the previous layer is still tacky.

Continue dipping the candles until they measure 3/4 of an inch in diameter (about 30 dips) then dip once more.

To give the candle a smooth, clean finish, bring the wax temperature up to 180° F.

Dip each pair for 3 seconds.

Allow the candles to cool for 4 minutes.

Hold the candle with a sheet of waxed paper to keep from leaving imprints.

Trim the base of the finished candles with a sharp knife.

Return the candles to the drying rack and allow to cool for several hours or overnight.

Trim the wicks to 1/4 inch and the candles are ready to light.

Pillar candles are tall, wide, and generally round.  They last a long time, so they are excellent for ongoing spells. The way that pillar candles burn varies according to shape, content, and manufacture, but they generally burn down the center. This creates a growing ring of wax around the wick.

You may find it necessary with some pillar candles to trim or pour off their wax after you extinguish them, in order to keep their wicks exposed.

The longevity of some pillar candles can be increased by gently pushing the ring of wax inward, while it is warm and malleable so that the excess wax will be remelted. With time and practice, you will develop a personal method for working with pillar candles.

Many witches feel that to blow out a candle is to extinguish its magick, or to undo the spell. If you feel this way, you should use a candle snuffer for these spells.

Here is a Black And White Candle Ritual ritual for a new beginning after sorrow or loss.

You can carry out this ritual for yourself or someone you know who is grieving or unhappy after a betrayal of some kind.

It may be especially healing if you are feeling angry over unjust or cruel treatment.

Hopefully, it will stop any guilt, blame or pain turning inwards and will start a much-needed healing process.

You may need to repeat the ritual many times before you get the desired results.

This is an essentially private ritual, but if you are doing it on behalf of someone else, you may like to invite that person to share the experience.

The suggested time to use this magick is towards the end of the waning moon cycle, late in the evening before the Moon has risen.

Take a small black candle and a large white one and place them side by side in your cauldron, on a metal tray or in a sand-filled, heatproof bowl.

On the black candle, etch a symbol or word to represent your sorrow or anger about a third of the way down the candle.

As you do so, send all the negative feelings into the wax.

Light the candle and say.

Burn, burn.
sorrow turn.
melt away.
do not stay.
Go in peace.
trouble cease.

Burn pieces of black wool, cut from a large ball with a knife, naming each aspect of your grief and watching it burn away, piece by piece.

When you have finished naming the sorrows, sit quietly in the candlelight, seeing the negativity flowing away in the stream of black wax.

Make positive plans for the future and write a list of daily actions or short breaks from work that will make you happy.

Even if these are of necessity very small, the cumulative effects of a number of minor pleasures can change the balance of your life for the
better once a moon cycle has passed.

Once the symbol has melted away, use a taper to carry the flame from the black candle to the white one.

This is important, for new beginnings do not come from nothing, but are the transformation of endings into positive energies.

Once the white candle is alight, blow out the black candle and dispose of it.

Sit for a few moments, looking into the flame of your white candle, letting thoughts and images appear within either the flame or your mind’s vision.

Carry the candle carefully into the bathroom and add to your bath water a few drops of essential oil of rose or lavender for self-love and let the light make pools in the water.

Lie in the bath until you feel rested.

When you feel completely relaxed, get out of the bath and swirl the water as it rushes down the plug hole, saying:

Flow far.
flow free.
flow in peace and harmony.

Spend the rest of the evening in quiet but pleasurable activity, until your white candle is burned down.

Finally, etch in the wax a new symbol of hope and keep it in your special place until it crumbles, by which time it will hopefully no longer be needed.

If the problem is really deep-seated, you may wish to repeat the ritual monthly, each time using a smaller black candle and a larger white one until there are no black energies left.

Double Boiler

Using a double boiler will help to keep your wax from reaching too high of temperatures. After use you can clean the top of the double boiler by wiping it with a dry dishtowel before the wax residue hardens.

Cookie Sheet

A cookie sheet or baking pan can be a very useful piece of candle-making equipment. You will need it for laying out primed wicks, salvaging unused wax, and creating homemade wax sheets. You will want one or more with high sides – about 3/4 of an inch – so it will hold wax.

Dipping Can

A dipping can is used to hold the hot wax when you dip or over dip candles. You can buy a dipping can at a craft shop or you can find a tall narrow pot to use. Be sure that it is at least 2 inches taller than the candle you want to make. Set the can in a pan of boiling water to keep the wax at a consistent temperature.

Thermometer

A thermometer is a very important tool in candle making. You need to reach and maintain the right temperature to make beautiful candles. You can use a candy or cooking thermometer. Make sure it registers between 100° F and 225° F. Scale You will need a scale for weighing wax and other materials. You can use a kitchen scale found at department stores or a postal scale available at office supply stores.

Molds

You can find a wide variety of candle molds at most craft stores. You can also use your creativity and look for other items that can be used as molds or containers. Tin cans, jello molds, cake pans, sea shells, etc.

Wicking Needles

These are heavy-duty steel needles that come in four to ten-inch lengths. They are used at various stages of candle making. They are used to wick an already molded candle. They can be used as tie rods to hold the wick in place when making molded candles.

Misc. Items

• Stirrer – A wooden spoon or chop stick to mix in dye or scents and to stir the wax.
• Cutting tools – A sharp craft knife to cut beewax sheets and trim wicks.
• Pouring Pot – A pot for pouring melted wax into molds.
• Heat source – A heat source is needed for melting the wax. A stove, camp stove or hot plate will work fine.
• Pot holders, waxed paper, silicone spray and mold seal are also good to have on hand.

Yellow is for Air and the East, dawn, and spring. A yellow candle is placed at the three o’clock position.

Air represents life itself, logic, the mind, communication, health, new beginnings, travel, learning, yang and the male god in the form of Sky deities.

It is a good element to invoke if you are seeking change or when communication is proving difficult with either an individual or an organization, and to clear stagnation of thoughts.

It is also a focus for spells against air pollution, technological devastation, and storms, and for the protection of birds, butterflies, and insects.

Surround your Air candles with feathers, thistledown, tiny helium balloons, model planes, and ceramic or wooden birds.

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 moon—you 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.

Prepare for ritual.

Decide what it is you want to work on which is called the ritual sweep we mentioned above.

You can prepare a 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 a 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 the color of candle best for the 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.

Cone of power -Then you want to energize that candle.

There are many ways to energize the candle –singing, chanting, dancing, and 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 candles 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 sileny.

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.

Drawback 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.

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.

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.

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.

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. I

f 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 that 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.  

These are a few

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 that gives power to any oil.

10. ginger 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.  

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 an opening for Gods to let them make a 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 a particular spell beforehand, thinking about what you want, and 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 the 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 or bury them.