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Dressing Candles
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Use plain olive oil / saffron oil / or corn oil is good too.
Oils must be consecrated to the God/Goddess or the all before use.
(inscription the same)
To draw something to you. Rub the oil on the candle in a downward motion from top to the middle , then from the bottom to the middle.
To repel from you, start in the middle and go outwards, to the ends.
Dab remaining oil on the 3rd eye, in the middle or the breastbone.
Words of power - I cleanse & consecrate this taper (candle) in the name of the God/Goddess ( or the All). May it burn in strength, in the service of Light.
State purpose of the candle.
Never blow out the candle when used in Magick. always snuff it out.
Never use the same candle in another spell ( unless it is the same spell)
Always use a different candle for each purpose.
You may also use specific oils for the use of what you need.
In the case of a candle that is encased in a glass container, you may use a few drops of the oil, on top of the candle, before lighting.
FOR HEALING Start at bottom and continue straight up. |
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Anointing Candles
You can use virgin olive oil with essential oils added to dress candles for
any purpose. Some people add a pinch of salt for its purifying and
life-giving properties.
Before beginning, pour a small quantity of the oil into a clear glass or
ceramic dish and gently swirl it nine times clockwise with a ceramic or glass
spoon, visualizing light pouring into it and endowing it with healing and
magickal energies.
Use a previously unlit candle, as this will not have absorbed any energies
apart from those with which you will endow it. Rub the oil into the candle
in an upwards motion, starting in the middle of the candle. Rub only in that
direction, concentrating on the purpose of your ritual. You need use only a
small quantity of oil as the action is symbolic. See the qualities of your
oil entering the candle. Then, starting in the middle again, rub the candle
downwards, concentrating on your goal. A few practitioners will rub from
base to top for attracting magick and from top to bottom for banishing
magick. In such cases they usually use a white candle for attracting
energies and black for banishing.
By physically touching the candle with the oil, you are charging the candle
with your personal vibrations, so that when it is lit, it becomes an
extension of your mental power and life energy. If the candle represents
another person who is present, ask them to anoint their own candle.
If you light a candle on successive days, you should re-anoint it each time
if the ritual is a formal one, visualizing the completion of your goal.
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Candle Annointing Annoint your candle with the oil that you have chosen. This is done by placing a little of the oil on your fingertips. Grasp the candle at its midpoint with your left index finger and thumb, and use your right index finger and thumb to stroke oil on the candle from the midpoint up to the top of the candle. Next, grasp the candle at its midpoint with your right index finger and thumb, and use your left index finger and thumb to stroke oil on the candle from the midpoint down to the bottom of the candle. Continue in this fashion until the entire candle has been annointed. All-purpose Candle Annointing Oil 1 cup rose petals 1 cup violets 1 cup water 1 cup olive oil 1 tablespoon clove oil 2 teaspoons powdered cinnamon 1 tablespoon powdered myrrh 1/4 cup wild fennel seeds For more recipes See Oils Charging a candle with your personal energy While ritually annointing your candle, visualize a pure white beam of light coming up from Mother Earth, entering your body through the soles of your feet and another beam of white light coming down from the Universe and entering your body through the top of your head. Envision the energy of these beams of light flowing throughout your body and mingling together, finally concentrating in your hands, causing them to feel warm and to tingle. Now continue to stroke your candle until you feel the energy from your hands transfer to the candle. Your candle is now charged with your personal energy and magickal intent. | |
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The Oil and Dressing Your Candle You'll need oil to anoint the candle. This is called "dressing" the candle and it's a very crucial part of every candle spell: you're "addressing" it so its message is delivered accurately. Sure, you can buy perfumed candles that are already scented: please, save them for relaxing in the tub. You can even buy candles that are already dressed, but since the point is to personalize the candle exclusively to you, what good does it do to have the candle dressed by someone else? Dressing your own candle assures that you are attuning that candle to your intentions, personalizing it, enlisting it as your ally. What kind of oil? Ah, more decisions! Many metaphysical shops and botanicas (the wonderful herb shops located in Spanish speaking neighborhoods throughout the country) sell oils suitable for candle dressing. Some are attuned (through the herbs they contain) to certain colors, some have colorful descriptive names like "Come To Me" and "Fast Luck." Select these oils based on color and/or purpose, and pick a scent you find pleasing. A small vial will suffice for starters: you can gradually collect a variety of oils for different candle occasions. You can also make your own oils, using specific herbs, essential or perfume oils and small amounts of any mild-scented vegetable oil, such as grapeseed or almond. (See Oil Recipes) How to apply your oil to your candle is determined by your intention: Inviting Stroke: When your aim is to call something to you and bring it into your life, apply the oil first around the top of the candle (in a clockwise motion, looking down at the wick), the bottom (again, clockwise, with the candle upside down), and then center (that is, around the candle's "waist", clockwise as you hold the candle upright). Then rub more oil from the top in toward the candle's center and from the bottom up to the candle's center. As you do this, hold a clear mental image of drawing good things to you, pulling them in toward your own heart-center. Banishing Stroke: When your intention is to move stuff out of your life, reverse this process: apply oil in a counter-clockwise motion to top, bottom, and center, then rub out and away from the candle's center, keeping a clear picture of things departing as you do so. For Novenas (tall candles in glass): These burn for days and many people feel safer about leaving them unattended (still in a bathtub or sink, please). Obviously you must dress them in a different manner. To write directly on the candle, reach down with your tool and scratch the words into the wax around the wick. Then, apply your oil around the wick and on the glass around the bottom only, working clockwise to draw to you, counter-clockwise to send away. With novena candles, petitions can be fastened directly around the glass jar itself, so the light of the candle's flame will shine through the paper as the candle burns. While a number of books suggest always applying oil from the center out (what I consider the banishing stroke), I learned the inviting/banishing methods that I use many years ago and they've always felt right to me. Does that mean the books are wrong, I'm wrong, or that it really doesn't matter how it's done? No, it means that what ultimately makes these things "right" is one's own intention. Do what feels right for you and be consistent with your intention. Fragrance Associations Monday/Moon/Whites/Emotions White Rose, White Garden Lily, or Gardenia Tuesday/Mars/Reds/Aggression Pine, Carnation, or Honeysuckle Wednesday/Mercury/Yellows/Mental Lily of the Valley, Lavender, or Bayberry Thursday/Jupiter/Purples/Expansion Magnolia, Sandalwood, or Sage Friday/Venus/Greens/Love Primrose, Thyme, or Lilac Saturday/Saturn/Blacks/Endings Water Violets, Black Orchid, or Hyacinth Sunday/Sun/Oranges//Creating Rosemary, Rue, or Cloves Fragrances Ruled By The Moon Balm Coconut Eucalyptus Gardenia Jasmine Lily Lotus Myrrh Poppy Sandalwood Water Lily Wintergreen Fragrances Ruled By Mars All Spice Carnation Dragon's Blood Ginger High John the Conqueror Honeysuckle Hot Peppers Peppermint Pine Snapdragon Fragrances Ruled By Mercury Azalea Bayberry Clover Fern Lavender Lemon Grass Lily of the Valley Mandrake Mint Hemp Tobacco Fragrances Ruled By Jupiter Anise Datura Lime Magnolia Maple Meadowsweet Nutmeg Oak Sage Sandalwood Fragrances Ruled By Venus Adam and Eve African Violet Cherry Lilac Primrose Spearmint Strawberry Thyme Vanilla Fragrances Ruled By Saturn Black Orchid Hyacinth Iris Morning Glory Opium Poppy Pansy Patchouli Peyote Solomon's Seal Water Violets Fragrances Ruled By The Sun Cedar Cloves Chrysanthemum Cinnamon Frankincense Juniper Marigold Rosemary Rowan Rue | | |
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How to Dress a Candle By Lady Majyk Before beginning any spell casting please be sure that you understand the 3-Fold-Law. Imagine this, you're all set up for your candle spell, the circle has been cast, you have your altar ready, the candles set out, the incense going, music plays lightly in the background. The lights are off and moonlight is streaming through the open window. The power is electric and flowing though the air. You are 'charged' and ready to do your candle spell. You reach for your candle and read the instructions that are lying out on the altar. The instructions say; "Dress your candle with oil." ...You stop! The mood begins to falter, you loose your concentration on the spell. All that keeps racing through your mind is, "What is...'Dress your candle'... and how do I do it????"
I have been asked that question by many a practitioner of the arts. So here's a handout I give to students who don't know how. Hope it clears up everything.
| Often, spells call for the spellworker to "dress the candle". No, they don't mean for you to grab a bunch of Barbie clothes and start working out a good outfit for your spell tapers.
Once you have chosen a candle for the spell you intend on casting, you will need to take time to "dress" it.
"Dressing" a candle is fairly simple task, and should be done to EVERY candle you will ever use. The reason for dressing a candle are two fold. ONE is to remove any existing energies that may be in/on the candle. TWO, to place the images, energies and qualities within/on the candle. That way you ensure a higher percentage of success with your spellcasting.
Before dressing your candle, you will need to obtain some oil for this specific purpose. There are many types of blended and essential oils you could use, be sure you pick one that best represents what you want, in reference to the spell you will cast. If you are unsure of what oil to get that best represents your spell. I recommend something like Goddess Rising Oil or Blue Roses...(Patchoulli or Sandlewood are also good choices and ones you should always have on hand.)
All of these can be used in all forms of positive magicks. Dressing the candle is a process that imbues the candle with your own personal energy, and that of the spell, in order to add more "oomph" to what you're doing.
Several correspondences are:
Love: rose, ylang-ylang
Money: patchouli, cinnamon
Protection: myrrh, frankincense [yes, they do come in oils]
Healing: clary sage, neroli ( I would look at your intent and which essential oils correspond with it and use accordingly...)
The next step is to take some oil and dab it on your finger, then go clockwise around your candle to make a complete ring of oil on it. During this think of God/dess energies pouring from you into the candle. "See" in your minds eye, the oil flowing from you into the candle. Know that what you seek in your spell will come true, that you will accept nothing less. Once you have done this then pull some of the oil upwards toward the wick, once again in a clockwise manner, until you encircle the candle again. Continue to empower the candle by "seeing & knowing" the energies are flowing through you to the candle. Feel the power grow within the candle as every stroke adds the knowledge that your candle is now being filled, more and more, with your wishes and intent.
The last step in dressing a candle is to pull the oil down from the center to the bottom of the candle clockwise once again. If you are like me, you may feel the need to add more oil at this time cause there doesn't feel like there's enough left on the candle, just add more. But be sure that you place the oil around the center first, like at the beginning, and then draw it down in the same clockwise circle. Be sure to concentrate, once more, on what you want the outcome of your spell to be. Remember to send as many positive energies into the candle as you can muster up. The key to success with any candle spell is to VISUALIZE & CONCENTRATE!!!Now once you have visualized, concentrated, and instilled into the candle all the qualities you can. Once you have visualized the outcome of your spell and know that it will be the way you want it to, then you are ready to begin your spell casting. Your candle is dressed and ready to go.
One last note, many people have asked me if you can use a candle you have dressed for another spell if its not burnt all the way down. There are no hard and fast rules here ... you can IF you cleanse the candle very well and re-dress it for the next spell. Yet, be warned, your success rate may be lower as it has already been used before and those energies may remain and send the spell off-focus a bit. I highly recommend that if you are doing a spell, use new candles for that spell. It allows for a higher success rate and the candle is much easier to impress your wishes and intent upon when its fresh and not used.
(But, then thats my opinion, You do what works best for you. After all, it's your magick...no one else's.)
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