🕯Candles in Magick 🕯

Candles are widely used in rituals, and candle magick is great for new and experienced witches alike. The use of them in your own practice will help you keep focused on your dreams!

Black: Grounding, wisdom, protection, knowledge, reversing, banishing negative energies.

Blue: Good fortune, will power, forgiveness, communication, patience, domestic harmony, organization, focus.

Brown: Food/animal/earth/pet magick, stability, concentration, locating lost objects, finances.

Gold: Quick luck, health, attraction, good fortune, abundance, male energy, understanding, divination,  positive attitude, justice.

Gray: Removal of negative influences, contemplation.

Green: Money, meditation, ambition, luck, physical & emotional healing, growth.

Lavender: Intuition, knowledge. 

Light Blue: Peace, spirituality, protection, tranquility.

Orange: Self-expression, joy, creativity, action, overcoming addictions, ambition, opportunity, celebration, investments.

Pink: Romance, femininity, friendship, romance, nurturing, partnership, spiritual/emotional healing, self-improvement.

Purple: Wisdom, spiritual power, contact with spirits, driving away evil, breaking bad habits.

Red: Courage, passion, fertility, vitality, strength, action, independence, assertiveness.

Silver: Feminine divinity, stability, dreams, psychic awareness, intuition, meditation.

Violet: Insight, connecting to your higher self, clarity.

White: Cleansing, unity, balance, healing, purity, peace, truth, balance of your aura, all-purpose.

Yellow: Success, happiness, concentration, travel, success, inspiration, charm, imagination, confidence.

🕯Bonus: Candles and the signs!

Who else loves making spell bottles but can’t find easy items for what I want it to do?

Well y’all are in luck cause I got annoyed and so I made a list of commonly found kitchen items that have properties that are often desired for spell bottles! ~please note that other items that you may have also have these properties but I wanted to make something very generic~

Courage- Thyme

Luck- Clove, Clover, Dill, Hazel, Mint, Orange

Protection- Clove, Clover, Basil, Cinnamon, Cumin, Fennel, Garlic, Grass, Lettuce, Lime, Olive, Onion, Parsley, Pepper, Radish, Rosemary, Sage

Love- Clove, Clover, Orange, Basil, Cinnamon, Ginger, Jasmine, Lemon, Lettuce, Lime, Parsley, Peach, Pear, Pineapple, Rosemary, Thyme, Vanilla

Success- Clove, Clover, Cinnamon, Ginger

Money/Riches/Wealth- Dill, Mint, Orange, Ginger, Jasmine, Oats, Onion, Pecan, Pineapple, Basil

Health- Thyme

Wishes- Hazel, Peach, Sage

Healing- Mint, Fennel, Garlic, Lime, Olive, Onion, Rosemary, Thyme

Travel- Mint

Anti-theft- Garlic

Power- Ginger

Longevity- Lemon, Peach, Sage

Friendship- Lemon

Purification- Fennel, Lemon, Parsley, Thyme

Sleep- Lettuce, Rosemary, Thyme

Fertility- Olive

Potency- Olive

Lust-  Olive, Pear, Radish, Rosemary, Vanilla

Employment- Pecan

Youth- Rosemary

Immortality- Sage

Wisdom- Sage

Incense for Rituals

Incense is good for cleansing your area, amplifying spells or rituals, increasing your luck; plus they smell really good. The list below is no way complete, but just my personal reference sheet, straight outta my grimoire.

African Violet - enhances your spirit. Used in protection rituals. Creates and attraction and harmony in love

Almond - prosperity, wisdom

Amber - emotion balancer, healing, meditation, comfort

Allspice - money, good luck and fortune

Aloes Wood - healing protection, affection

Anise - guides psychic pendulums, good luck charms, drives away negativity. Used for cleansing

Angelica - protection, harmony, inspiration, understanding, meditation

Apple - enhances knowledge and wisdom, love, healing, immortality, garden magick users

Bamboo - divination, protection, luck, hex-breaking

Banana - prosperity, fertility

Basil - concentration, trust, mental clarity, confidence, love, good luck

Carnation -  protection, strength, healing

Cedar-wood - Used for purification and protection. Used for banishing bad dreams

Cinnamon - lust, enhancing passion, healing, attracts money, psychic powers

Clove - enhances banishing rituals, attracts positive energies

Cherry - relaxation, money

Dragon’s Blood - enhances love, protection. Used for exorcisms 

Eucalyptus - good health, protection, healing rituals

Frankincense - good health, protection, purification, protection, spiritual growth, knowledge, meditation, astral strength 

Ginger Root - promote psychic growth and success

Hibiscus - divination, love and lust, attraction rituals

Honeysuckle - enhance the bonds of love, heal relationships, strengthen love

Jasmine - relaxation, dreams. Can create prophetic dreams if burned in the bedroom

Juniper - healing, purification from hexes

Lavender - healing, love, compassion, cleanse your spirit

Lemongrass - psychic awareness

Lilac - protection, peace, harmony, soothing

Lotus - fortune, love, long life, sacred offering, finding inner peace

Nutmeg - prosperity, fertility, luck, love

Orange - divination, luck, money 

Patchouli - prosperity, fertility, luck, love

Peppermint - growth and renewal

Pine - humility, protection, health

Roses - love, healing. Promotes calm

Rosemary - enhance memory, love, healing

Sage - wisdom, purification, protects objects, home, and people

Sandalwood - spiritual awareness, meditation, psychic booster

Strawberry - friendship and love

Sweetgrass - purify spaces, attracts positive influences

Vanilla - prosperity, dedication

Violet - wisdom, luck, purification, healing

Please feel free to add!

Zoey, Chosen (via stevie-rae-johnson)

As requested: a list of Greek phrases you can use to talk to your gods/goddesses during worship :)

καλημέρα - Good morning (kal-EE-merh-a)

καληνύχτα - Good night (kal-ee-NYCHT-a)

χαλάζι - Hail (kha-la-ZEE)

σ'αγαπώ - I love you (s'a-ga-POH) Χερνῐβεῖον - vessel that holds Khernips (kher-ni-VEEN) Χἐρνιψ - lustral water used in rituals (kern-IPS) Χερνιπτοσαι - Be purified! (kher-NIP-to-sai-EE)

Nyx’s Protection Spell

Put all colored candles except for the purple candle in a box formation. Clockwise: Yellow, Red, Blue, then Green. Place the purple candle in the center. Call each element to the circle in Nyx’s name as you light the candles in clockwise order and then to the center. “Oh mighty air, that rushes its force through the trees and plants on a windy night, I call to thee!” “Oh mighty fire, that warms us and helps provide us with many comforts, I call to thee!” “Oh mighty water, that overtakes low land with great force and is essential to all life, I call to thee!” “Oh mighty earth, that we walk upon and must treat as we would our own kin, I call to thee!” “Oh mighty spirit, that rages through all of us, keeping us strong and healthy, in the name of Night and my goddess Nyx, I call to thee!” Lift your head toward the sky (Best during a full moon at the height of Nyx’s power) and call this prayer to Nyx. “Oh sweet Mother of Night, I call upon your name to bring me your protection in my troubles.” State what is bothering you and you may offer ideas for Nyx to help you fix it. “In Nyx’s name I call to thee, make my troubles disappear by three! In moon and pentagram and moon again, Please send your wisdom and protection!” Blow out the candles counter-clockwise. (Spirit [Purple], Earth [Green], Water [Blue], Fire [Red], Air [Yellow]) Thank each element as you dismiss Nyx’s prayer circle.

(via Legion Of Pagans)

Fire within me, Earth below me, Water pushing me, and Air within my lungs. Tonight I ask Nyx, Mother of night and darkness, to help me embrace darkness. Help me embrace the night and help me remember there is nothing to fear in the dark. For I am her child, and she but one of my powerful Mothers watching over me every night and day. Tonight I see a bright sphere of light within her sea of darkness, reminding us that within even the darkest of our days, there is always light. Tonight I am Fire. Tonight I embody the Element of passion, pain, and fight. For if I don’t fight for my life, no one will.