Author: A Solitary Pagan
Blue Candle
•The Element of Water •Wisdom •Protection •Calm •Good fortune •Opening communication •Spiritual inspiration
Purple Candle
•Third eye •Psychic ability •Hidden knowledge •To influence people in high places •Spiritual power
Orange Candle
•General success •Property deals •Legal matters •Justice •Selling
Brown Candle
•Special favours•To influence friendships•Healing earth energies
Black Candle
•Binding •Shape shifting •Protection •Repels negativity
White Candle
•The Goddess •Higher Self •Purity •Peace •Virginity
Charging your Candles
This is a quick, uncomplicated method of more fully charging a candle. This method can be used without having to set up your altar completely. It can equally be used to charge your altar candles. You’ll need: A candle or candles of the appropriate colour (if preferred, mark them with appropriate symbols) A candle holder Matches rather than a lighter Method: ✤ Hold the candle in your ‘power ha...
How to Anoint your Candles
Any oil can be used for dressing a candle but initially it is best to use either your favourite essential oil, such as frankincense, or perhaps an oil infused with a suitable herb appropriate to the task in hand. There are various ways to dress a candle but what is important is the direction in which you anoint it. If you remember that working from the top down draws in power from spiritual s...
Matters of the Supernatural
In the eyes of those who regard matter as the sole power in nature, everything which cannot be explained by the laws of matter is marvellous or supernatural; and with such, the marvellous is only another word for superstition. With such minds religion, being founded on the existence of an immaterial principle, is but a tissue of superstitions ; few dare to assert this openly, but many say it in wh...
The spirit is the principal being
Let us, in the first place, consider the spirit in reference to its union with the body. The spirit is the principal being, because it is that which thinks, and which survives the body, the latter being only an envelope, a vestment, of gross matter, that the spirit throws off when it is worn out but, besides this material envelope, the spirit has a second envelope, which is semi-material, and whic...
Spirits
Doubt concerning the existence of spirits arises from ignorance of their real nature. People usually imagine spirits to be something apart from the rest of creation, and the reality of whose existence has not been proved. Many think of them as imaginary beings, known to them only through the fantastic tales of their childhood, and regard their authenticity much as they would that of the personages...
Birch Message of Love
Birch bark was traditionally used to make paper in North America and Russia. Find a shed piece of bark (don’t rip it of alive tree!) Offer a libation. At midnight write a message in red ink on bark. Prick your little finger for a drop of blood or use one of the Magick inks. Write your hearts desire, for example ”Bring my true love to me” or whatever you like. Then burn the message. .