Adam and Eve Candles: These are human figure candles that come in a variety of colors. They can be used for anything from love (Pink) to gaining a new job (Green). Just use your imagination and the information in this site.

Altar Candles: The Altar Candles are used to represent the Deities or Powers with which you wish to communicate. This is a method of honoring them and their presence while tapping into their energy.

Two Altar Candles are placed on the altar, one to the left side and one to the right. The candles must always be taller and longer burning than any others on the altar. They must be lit first and extinguished last. Which of the Altar Candles is lit first depends on the type of Magick you are performing.

Color not withstanding, the right candle represents male energy while the left represents female energy. Colors will vary from system to system and from Deity to Deity.

Astral Candles: These are "Personal Candles" of colors and shapes you feel right for you or another person. They are not to be confused with Zodiac Candles (listed later) that are affixed to you by birth sign.

Astrological Candles: See Zodiac Candles.

Cat Candle: the Cat Candles are used for luck, jinx- breaking, and hexing, depending on the oils and energies placed into the candle. They are usually are found in three basic colors:

· Black: used to banish bad luck and bring good luck. Gamblers should alter burning times between seven and eleven minutes per night.

· Red: generally used for gaining the love of another by feminine (feline) guile.

· Green: can be used to obtain money of a transient nature or to heal a sick pet.

Compass Candle: A Compass or Directional Candle is employed to help you determine a specific direction to take in life. It is usually a taper that drips freely when lit.

After assigning each of the four quarters a direction that you believe you would like your life to proceed in, observe the candle closely. The wax will drip in the direction that is best for you to take, not necessarily the one you might want, but you will be told what is best based on your present abilities.

Cross or Crucifix Candle: Sometimes referred to as the "Flora" or "Floral Cross" Candle, this comes in a variety of colors. It is generally burnt for protection and banishing. It can be used to represent angels which are called in to protect the home. One angel for each day of the week in the appropriate color.

Dehexing Candle: The best colors of Dehexing Candles are Gray, Silver, Black and bi-colored Reversible Candles.

· Black: Absorbs anything coming to you.

· Gray: neutralizes anything coming to you.

· Silver: reflects the incoming energy back to the sender. The curse, jinx or crossing that was meant for you now rests on the sender. With the gray color, your energy must remain neutral.

· Reversible Color: is usually found in a combination of Red and Black, with the Black absorbing the incoming energy and the Red concentrating it, adding any tidbits of your making, and returning it to the sender with interest.

Devil Candle: This ominous candle is used to banish a jinxed or crossed condition in the home or place of employment, or about one's person. It is commonly used to exorcise someone of undesirable habits, energies, and entities. Mainly used in conjunction with the Psalms. It can be used to create a jinx, hex, or crossed condition.

Devotional Candle: Devotional Candles, a from of Novena Candle, are usually those found in picturesque, heat resistant glass containers. The pictures on the glass are usually of various Saints or Loas while a prayer is normally inscribed on the reverse.

Double/Triple Action Candle: Double Action Candles have two colors. They are usually referred to as dual action or dual purpose candles. Exemplified by the Red and Black Reversible candle mentioned above.

Triple Action Candles have one more color than the double action ones, hence one more action in combination. As an example, a typical triple action combination would be Red (passion), White (protection), and Green (money).

Floating Wick Candle: This candle merely exchanges the wax body for one of fragrant oils. A floating wick is suspended in the oil that lies within a decorative holder. These not only are beautiful at social gatherings, but you can remove stale cooking or smoke odors as well. You can energize the oil body as you would a wax body, but you must do so through the glass as the oil has no solid structure.

Glass Oil Candle: Though similar to the Floating Wick Candle by virtue of using oil instead of wax in a (glass) container, the Glass Oil Candle's wick does not float. It is suspended into the oil body from a separate metal or glass fixture. The Glass Oil Candle comes in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, and is extremely useful in Magick as a Perpetual Flame or Altar Candle. The fragrant oils can be exchanged to match the Magick you are performing. The thick glass is usually safe and heat resistant.

The container usually has a small opening where new oil can be added without extinguishing the flame. As many of the containers are transparent, it is easy to see when the oil needs replacing.

As an Altar Candle for a magickal act, use the glass tapers. A neutral yet high vibrational oil in a thick crystal taper burns long after your Magick is complete.

When using the Glass Oil Candle in a magickal act, always imbue the container first with your will. Do not anoint the container however. Instead, with your will, imbue the oil meant to go into the container. In this way, the container has stored energy and power along with the oil.

Hand of Glory Candle: The Hand of Glory Candle and spell dates well into the early Middle Ages. According to Anna Riva in Candle Burning Magick, the spell was attributed to Albertus Magnus. Whether Magnus was the originator of this work or was simply passing on even older folk lore is not known.

The real danger of not understanding the "whys" or "hows" of Magick is well depicted with this legend. It also illustrates the real need for you to master the basics and then build upon them for your own understanding of Magick.

There are several legends on how to obtain and use the Hand of Glory. Generally, the hand of a hanged thief or some successful criminal (at least until he was hanged) was taken, then processed and dipped into hot wax. The hand was then set afire so that the light from it would render its carrier invisible, along with paralyzing anyone seeing it.

Before you start digging around in your local graveyard, let's examine the thoughts behind this magickal legend.

First, the taking of the hand of an executed man, once a thief, now a spirit and invisible to mortal eyes, was believed to bestow his invisibility trait to the possessor.

Second, the legend is so incomplete that the exact "facts" cannot be ascertained. You can do much better with Creative Visualization or Candle Magick and leave the hands with the owners.

With Creative Visualization, you can cloak yourself in a cloud of mist using the energy from the solar plexus. This raises the bodily vibrations tot he point of invisibility. I use this method on our car when a traffic cop is getting ready to pounce. Remember though to lift the veil before driving off or you may find yourself in frequent auto accidents!

With Candle Magick, you can control the mind of those you wish to be invisible to by using image candles. By willing others not to see you, you can come and go as you please.

Combining the two methods for a more theatrical approach, obtain some graveyard dust. Create a white, wax image candle of yourself, including the dust within the wax. Conjure your Magick around your will and your desire to become invisible to others. As you burn the candle, envision yourself surrounded by a white cottony substance. This takes a lot of concentration, since anytime you lose your concentration, you drop the veil and again will be visible.

The Guardian Flame Candle: There are many magicians who will only light a ritual candle with the "Sacred Flame" that has been dedicated to a Deity. This flame stands as a guardian in the home or temple. The glass Oil Candle is excellent for his purpose.

Household Candle: An all-purpose candle used for Magick.

Invocation Candle: An Altar Candle used to invoke a specific Deity. The Seven-Day Novena Candle is frequently used as an Invocation Candle as it is tall and will normally outlast other candles on the altar.

Jumbo Candle: A larger, thicker version of the Household Candle.

Knob Candle: this candle has seven small knobs, one atop another, and stand approximately seven inches high. One knob can be burnt each day while concentrating on what you desire to manifest into your life. A separate oil is used for each knob or an all purpose oil can be used on all seven knobs, the choice is yours.

The Black Seven Knob Candle provides an excellent way to banish undesirable energies from your home and the surrounding area. Burn one knob each day, starting on the Full Moon and working until the New Moon for best results. Use a Green Seven Knob Candle or a White Seven Knob Candle to build a protective wall around your home and those you love.

Mummy Candle: Traditionally, this candle is used to acquire success and power. We prefer to use to ward off illness, dangerous situations, or the specter of death.

Novelty Candle: Any candle that is not housed in glass and has a shape other than cylindrical. Some examples of the Novelty Candle are the Cat Candle, the Skull Candle, the Seven Knob Candle, and the Adam and Eve Candles.

Novena Candle: generally, this is a seven- to twelve-day, glass-enclosed candle. Frequently it is inscribed with pictures of various Saints along with prayers or chants on the reverse.

Seven-Day Novena: This long-burning candle is housed within a thick, heat resistant glass, and comes in three varieties: Plain Novena, the Spiritual Novena, and the Specialty Novena. Each comes unscented and in a variety of colored wax and glass casings.

· Plain Novena: This is an unmarked Seven-Day Candle found in a variety of colors.

· Spiritual Novena: This candle comes with various depictions of Saints or Holy Personages on the glass container along with specific prayers or petitions to that Saint. The scene in which the Saint is depicted is usually a clue as to the Saint's power and use.

· Specialty Novena: This candle is made of specific colors and sports specific designs on the glass container. It is named for the various actions it is to perform, and is often confused with the Novelty Candle. Remember, Novelty Candles do not come in glass containers and are not cylindrically shaped. Their names include Lucky 13, Controlling, Double Action, Reversible and many others.

Offertory Candle: This is the name for the main candle that offers your desires, goals, or wishes out to the Universe for manifestation. It is also known as a Purpose Candle.

Phallus Candle: A candle in the shape of the male organ, it can be used for anything dealing with male sexuality, sterility, or impotence.

Protection Candle: A candle of any shape and size. The color here is what counts. Burn a White candle or a Saint Candle whenever doing destructive Magick (banishing disease, for example) to protect yourself from harm. Also use Silver if you are doing destructive Magick against another person who also knows Magick.

Should your Magick return unexpectedly, neutralize it with a Gray Candle.

Some Novena Candles are considered Protection Candles. San Capistrano to keep away enemies; Saint Anthony for a job; Saint Jude for court problems; Sacred Heart fro Marriage; Santa Clara for drug and addiction problems; Saint Michael for general protection. Whenever using the Saints, always write down your desire nine times on parchment and tape it to the candle bottom.

Using the Saints is not hard as the prayers are usually inscribe right into the candle containers.

Rebirthing Candle: A candle, with three or more days of burning time, that is used to guide the dead across to peace and rest.

Skull Candle: This candle, shaped in the form of a human skull, comes in several colors, the most common of which are Black, White, Red, and Green.

Traditionally, the Green Skull Candle is used to make someone who is gullible easier to separate fro his or her money. It can be used to heal mental or physical disorder of the mind, brain or cranium. We have used the Green Skull Candle to aid in memory retention fro College.

A Friend of ours had a brain tumor and asked for help. As the Black Skull is normally used to cause great harm, suffering and pain, we focused that destructive power and directed it toward the tumor. It stopped enlarging and then could be removed safely by surgery. We then used the Green Skull on a waxing Moon to promote health and healing.

The Red Skull could be used to force someone physically to move away or to make him or her fall out of love with another person. Of course, the reverse could also be attempted depending on the Moon Cycle.

The White Skull Candle is the best one to use to bend someone to your will, contrary to our chart, as the Yellow Skull is very hard to find. This is a very good reason to learn to make your own candles.

Skull Candles of the appropriate colors can be of great aid to activists who must deal with bureaucracies. The large entities can be equated to headless monsters that feed off the life energies of their employees. By using the Skull Candle to represent the thought form of the bureaucracy, you can tap this thought form's energy and thus control much of what happens to it. By making the thought form feed upon itself, you can destroy it or allow it to restructure.

Snake or Bust Away Candle: This candle is used to break free or "bust away" from evil. It is used to break free of undesirable conditions, situations or habits.

Specialty Candle: The same as the Specialty Novena Candle mentioned previously. As the use of Novena and Specialty Candles varies a bit from my own method of candle Magick, the colors, oils, and traditional meanings will vary slightly from what has been told to you here in this site. As Anna Riva has a wonderful book entitled Devotions to the Saints, further reference is not required here.

Vigil Candle: Any candle will suffice when burnt not only for a long period of time for another's benefit but also to peacefully demonstrate for a cause or action.

Witch Candle: Traditionally used as an extremely potent love candle, the idea of being to "bewitch" your intended.

Yoni Candle: The female counterpart of the Phallus Candle. Shaped like a Vulva, this candle is used in sex Magick, safe birthing, and most anything dealing with women and their sexuality.

Zodiac or Astrological Candle: This candle is used to represent each of the twelve signs of the Zodiac. It is specifically colored, scented, and adorned with the information pertinent to the individual sign. Its use, normally in conjunction with other candles, is to represent your goal or target. The Zodiac Candle would be placed on the altar and then moved closer to the target candle to simulate the merging of the two.