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Candles are seen as the most powerful object for witches. If one lights a candle while reciting a chant or prayer for enlightenment, empowerment, and good health is one way to use a candle. One can also ward off negative energy and impart positive energy into one’s life using a candle also. 

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Historical Uses

• Birthdays were the first ritual with candles used. Many believe the practice of wishing and blowing out the candle brought this wish to the gods who would grant it via the smoke. 
• Candles represent earth (wax), air (smoke), water (melted wax), and fire (flaming wick).

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Magical Uses

• Always be in the right frame of mind, or the spell will create an opposite effect intended
• Allow candle to burn down on its own for most rituals 
• When the candle has extinguished itself, the spell will be complete
• Some rituals and spells may ask for the candle to be extinguished and then re-lit the next day
• Never leave a candle unattended 
• Give decent amounts of time for the candle to burn

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Choosing a Candle 

• Magickally disinfecting your candles before using them is very important, since the energy from those who shipped it may linger on the wax. It is good to make your own candles from scratch for this reason also. 
• Avoid dipped candles such as white candles dipped into colored wax. Try to find ones solid color throughout  

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Cleansing Your Candle

• Depending upon your preference, you can do a few things to cleanse your candle, such as leaving it outside for a week in the garden to soak up the moon’s rays at night. 
• For a less time-consuming cleansing, you may anoint your candle, using water and oils prior to the spell or ritual:

1. Wipe clean with a paper towel, removing all dirt 
2. Prepare a solution of spring water, one teaspoon of sea salt, and warm until the salt dissolves. Allow to cool, and then pour back into the bottle. Keep this in the refrigerator for about a month for use over time. 
3. Intent. Stand in front of your sink, hold the candle in your left hand (nearer to your heart). Be very careful not to wet the wick, and pour a small amount of the sea salt spring water solution over the candle. If using a tea-light candle for quick burn time, remove the candle from its casing before cleansing with the water. Take a fresh paper towel and dry the candle very well and say the following: “This magickal water cleanses thee, with good intent and purity” (Robbins and Bedell, 2017).
4. Inscribe the candle with a small, sharp knife or thick needle, and scratch your full name and your wish into the wax. It is not important that it be legible, nor the location where inscribed. The words will clout the spell more as the candle burns down. 
5. To anoint your candle, pour some pure vegetable oil into a bowl. This oil is used for most anointing, but if using a spell for health and well-being, you may mix in a few drops of other oils if you wish. Lavender is common for health and well-being spells and will make the magick more intense. Hold the candle in your left hand again and dip the first finger of your right hand into the oil and run it down the candle from top to bottom in a line. If anointing a tea-light, place it back in its casing, dip your finger into the oil, and smear it in a clockwork motion around the top of the candle wax. Say this invocation: “This magickal oil anoints thee, with all things good, magickally” (Robbins and Bedell, 2017). The candle is now cleansed, charged, and ready to be placed in a suitable holder in preparation for the spell you choose. 
6. Rhyming and repetition can help add punch to a spell. A lot of ancient and prewritten spells will rhyme with a poetic fluidity. Repeating the spell will give power to the message each time. The most magickal numbers that represent completion are 7, 9, and 12. 
7. To end the spell, you will need to close the ritual. Choose one of the phrases such as “and so it is” or “the spell is cast” or “so mote it be” before looking upward and saying “thank you.” 

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Colorful Uses

• The correct color is the most important thing with candle use
• Some spells are exact to the color needed, and others more flexible 
• When in doubt, always use a white candle for it is neutral 

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Color Correspondances 

• White
• Cleansing homes
• Purifying spaces
• Creating harmony
• Invoking spirits
• Improving communication with others
• Summoning guides and angels
• For use in every situation 
• Blue 
• Promoting restful sleep
• Finding the truth
• Gaining wisdom and knowledge
• Invoking psychic visions
• Calming emotions
• Suppressing anger
• Aiding meditation
• Moving your house
• Becoming more patient with others
• Curing a fever
• Having a better understanding
• Protection 
• Red
• Promoting strength and vigor
• Rejuvenating energy and stamina
• Conjuring willpower
• Summoning courage
• Inciting passion and sexual love
• Sparking enthusiasm
• Prompting quick results
• Warding off enemies
• Becoming more attractive to others
• Pink
• Healing emotions
• Attracting romance
• Becoming more caring
• Inviting peace and tranquility 
• Healing rifts
• Banishing selfish emotions
• Protecting family and friendships
• Invoking spiritual healing
• Being more compassionate 
• Green
• Accumulating money and wealth
• Promoting prosperity and abundance
• Accomplishing goals
• Growing plants
• Attracting luck
• Negotiating employment matters and finding new jobs
• Hastening conception and solving fertility issues
• Casting out greed and resentment 
• Yellow
• Increasing activity
• Resolving health matters
• Nurturing creativity and imagination
• Passing exams and learning
• Aiding concentration
• Controlling mood swings
• Protecting yourself when traveling
• Persuading others
• Healing problems associated with the head
• Orange
• Increasing energy and stamina 
• Improving the mind and memory
• Promoting success and luck
• Developing business and career
• Helping those with new jobs
• Clarifying legal matters and justice 
• Selling goods or houses
• Capturing a thief or recovering lost property 
• Removing fear
• Purple
• Summoning spirit help
• Bringing peace, tranquility, and harmony
• Improving psychic ability 
• Aiding astral projection
• Healing
• Easing sadness
• Improving male energy 
• Summoning spiritual protection
• Brown
• Attuning with the trees and earth
• Promoting concentration
• Helping with decisiveness
• Protecting animals
• Amplifying assertiveness 
• Aiding friendships
• Bringing material gain
• Gaining mental stability
• Connecting with Mother Nature
• Studying and learning
• Silver
• Summoning the Mother Goddess
• Drawing down the moon
• Connecting with lunar animals
• Purifying female energy
• Improving all psychic abilities
• Aiding clairvoyance and the unconscious mind
• Ridding negativity
• Developing intuition 
• Interpreting messages in dreams
• Banishing bad habits
• Gold
• healing and enhancing well-being
• Rejuvenating yourself
• Improving intelligence
• Bringing financial gain and wealth
• Winning competitions
• Attracting love and happiness
• Maintaining peace in families
• Cosmic ordering
• Black
• Protection
• Strength
• Banishing
• Reversal
• Hex-breaking 

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Source

Robbins, Shawn, and Bedell, Charity. The Good Witch’s Guide. New York: Sterling Ethos, 2017. Print.