| ortance charging and anointing your candles before | | | | you have inscribed your candle, you may wish to |
| you use them for spells and rituals cannot be | | | | 'Dress' it. This is optional, your choice entirely, but it's |
| overlooked. | | | | easy and again adds to the potency of your spell. |
| If you wish for your rituals and spells to work to full | | | | Anointing Your Ritual Candle |
| effect, charging and anointing a candle with a particular | | | | Anointing your candle would be the next step to |
| oil, or inscribing symbols and words on them, will make | | | | properly charged your ritual candles. As stated above, |
| the candle and it's purpose all that more potent. | | | | you should anoint with oils that are specific to your |
| For example, if you are performing a love spell or | | | | desired outcome. There for if you are looking for love |
| attraction spell to try and find love or to strengthen | | | | and attraction, you would use those types of oils. |
| love you already have, you would use a pink colored | | | | The method for anointing your candle is pretty specific. |
| candle(pink represents love) and then inscribed love | | | | The most general method is to hold the ritual candle in |
| based symbols. After inscribing, you would then anoint | | | | one hand, dip the first two fingers of the other hand in |
| that candle with a love based or attraction based oil. | | | | oil and starting at the top (the end with the wick) run |
| The same could be said to prosperity or wealth based | | | | your oiled finger down toward the centre of the ritual |
| spells and rituals. A green candle would be used(to | | | | candle. Stop at the centre, lift your finger off, turn the |
| represent prosperity, wealth, and money) and then | | | | candle slightly and repeat the process until all the top |
| inscriptions towards prosperity and wealth would be | | | | half of the candle is covered. Then starting at the base |
| drawn onto the candle. Afterword, an oil would be | | | | of the candle, run the oiled fingers toward the centre. |
| anointed that focuses on prosperity. | | | | Again stop at the centre, lift the fingers off, turn the |
| Inscribing Your Ritual Candle | | | | candle slightly and repeat the process until the entire |
| After cleansing and blessing a spell candle, you should | | | | bottom of the candle has been coated. |
| begin to inscribed the candle with symbols or words | | | | The whole time your are anointing the candle, |
| towards whatever it is your ritual or spell is on. | | | | concentrate on the outcome you wish to achieve with |
| For example, if you are using a love spell and you wish | | | | your spell. Experienced spell weavers often anoint the |
| to obtain the love of someone you know, you can | | | | candle in a specific direction depending on the type of |
| inscribed your initials and their initials onto the candle, or | | | | spell they are performing. For spells to attract |
| you can even use the full name of the quarent and | | | | something to the spell weaver, the candle is anointed |
| yourself. You can add the names along side with | | | | from top to middle, then from bottom to middle. For |
| symbols that represent love as well, such as a heart | | | | banishing or sending something away i.e.. getting rid of |
| or even ancient symbols of love such as the Reiki love | | | | bad habits, negative energy, breaking jinxes or hexes, |
| symbol. | | | | the candle is dressed from the centre out to the top, |
| You will need something with a fine point to scratch | | | | and then from the centre out to the bottom. |
| the surface of the candle. It can be a pin, a specialist | | | | Once the candle is coated in oil, it can be rolled in herbs |
| scribing tool, a cocktail stick or anything else your | | | | relevant to the particular spell you are performing. For |
| imagination can dream up. Once you have chosen | | | | example, use Agrimony for breaking hexes and |
| your tool though, dedicate it properly, then tuck it away | | | | returning them to sender, use Chamomile for attracting |
| in your magical tool chest and reserve it for just this | | | | friendship, Hyssop for purification and cleansing, |
| purpose. | | | | Patchouli for wealth and so on. Once you have lit your |
| As you are inscribing your candle, visualise the | | | | spell candle and performed your spell, allow the candle |
| outcome. Make it a small ritual in it's own right. Once | | | | to burn itself out completely. |