Posts Tagged 'candle magic'

Sunny Spellwork in the Snow

Custom candle and sachet spellwork

It’s been snowing and raining here so it was nice to do a bit of sunny spellwork for a client for success, achievement, and prosperity. I use tarot cards to customize novena candles to a client’s petition as I’m all about simplicity and using what you have on hand. In this situation I chose the four of wands and the sun from the major arcana and bound them to the candle with red thread.

Consecrating the candle and sachet

The sachet is raw yellow silk stuffed with a mix of herbs matching the desires of the petition and then stitched up inside golden felt with orange embroidery. A ritual, an offering, and some words later the candle and sachet were consecrated to their purpose. The sachet is to be tucked in the client’s pocket during the day and under the pillow at night. My sachets are good for a year and then need to be remade.

Other side of candle

Now to let the candle burn down…

Come All Who Hunger

The candle in the window

The candle is lit in the window, it’s light shining out into the darkness through the droplet-covered screen onto the street slick with rain. Welcome spirits and welcome friends. It is warm inside and there is food, music, empty chairs and cups to be filled with mead.

Come all who hunger
Come ye rogue and restless souls
Come to the feast and
Let your greatest deeds be told
Raise up your voice and
let your songs be free and bold
For this night we feast with the Mighty

~ Written by Sharon Knight

Waiting Out Chaos

Burning down a spell

The flickering flame of the road opening spell burns out. Now to wait and see what doors are open and what doors are closed once the trickster-fueled chaos of Mercury in retrograde subsides. My garden is in chaos, my house is in chaos and it has been difficult to craft salves and incenses with men dressed in white and standing on ladders staring through my kitchen window all day… and so I wait.

I’ve had to acknowledge that I have too many irons in the fire and I need to let some projects go (at least for the time being) and, as some of you may have already guessed, I am leaving behind HedgeFolk Tales (but still leaving up the website and all the episodes).  In the spirit of letting things go for the harvest and the coming of deathly autumn, I also let my woodwork and my other crafts go. I need to focus on my illustration and working with herbs alone until I finish the ogham deck project and finish expanding the botanica. Hopefully if I filter all my creative energies into only a couple of things I’ll actually complete them!

On a happier mercurial note, I received a birthday package from my folks this morning – some fresh heads of garlic from the farm and a new camera to take better product photos with (it has a zoom lens and video!). Two wonderful gifts with a handmade card of birds, bees, and strawberries. Much love to the folks!

I'm up to herbal mischief

Lwa Candles

I have been painting up a storm and getting myself covered in paint… and the result are some lovely folk art vigil candles for the lwa. The first is Papa Legba’s, the second is Erzulie’s, and the third is for La Sirène. More of the lwa to come as well as altar candles for other pantheons as well, I’ve been getting a lot of requests for the Greek and Norse gods…

Lwa Candles

Lwa Candles

Lwa Candles

Midnight Candle Magic

Altar working

Candle and fire magic were the first types of folk magic I ever used, before I’d heard of Wicca and Paganism when I believed witches were mythical creatures alongside the unicorn and bigfoot… I would burn little spells or light candles at the full moon to send blessings to loved ones. Today my candle magic has definitely advanced and I even make my own candles now, but the principles and purposes still remain the same. Now I dress my own candles with my handmade anointing oils and  I carve names, symbols or prayers into the wax. I have certain candle burning rituals  linked to Brighid’s eternal flame – one on my altar and one in my kitchen. When I perform workings for myself, I always use candles, and if I’m out (which rarely occurs!), I use burnt offerings. It may be because I am a fire sign, I love fire, watching it, tending it, scrying in the flames…

Consecrating my prayer beads

Two healing workings

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