Do you know about working with fire? Candle magic?? I want to get into candle magic because I feel pulled towards it but I don’t really know how to do it or what it entails. I have candles, and potions to anoint them with :3

themanicnami:

I do work with candles (even though I’m not suppose to >-> shhhh) all the time! I love them. So the first thing you should know about working with candles is that you need to practice proper fire safety. Fire is dangerous, even if it is from a small candle, I have heard of many witches harming themselves due to accidental neglect.

• Always tie back your hair if it is longer than your jaw, you don’t want to catch it on fire
• Keep a bowl of salt or sand near you at all times. Water can work when its just a candle but if you anoint a candle with oils and that catches on fire you DO NOT want to throw water on that. I always keep a bowl of salt near me to throw onto any out of control fire
• Practice with a window open, if the candle flares or burns something it will help get the smoke out much faster and prevent the fire alarms from going off
• If you are going to burn something via the candle, place it in a fire safe container to burn, don’t hold it!
• always burn candles in candle holders, wax is a bitch to clean up 
• if you do ever spill wax on your clothing or carpet put newspaper over it and use an iron or hair dryer to slowly bring it up out of the carpet/fabric and into the newspaper. it can take a while though sometimes
• Never leave candles burning when you are not home or in the room. 
• When anointing candles never anoint the top near the fuse, this can lead to oil fires or flares

Some witch tips for using fire/candle:

• use color correspondences that go with your intent (you can find plenty on my blog)
• using scented candles work great when the scents go with your intent!
• Carve sigils, words or images into candles to let them melt away to activate them
• You can buy candles cheap at the dollar store or at craft stores like Michael’s in the clarence section
• tea lights work great for spells too and are very affordable
• You can make your own candles to customize your spells by matching herbs, scents, oils and colors when making them
• You can use seashells, acorn caps and other things for fun custom candle holders and to help with your intent
• Use old candle wax in spells and color magick
• Use the smoke from an blown out candle for enchanting, cleansing and charming objects
• White candles are the universal replacement candle. It can be used in place of any scented or colored candles in a pinch
• charge candles in the sun or moon for added effects
• Place crystals around a candle to charge it with the crystals’ correspondences to help you with your intent
• use candles to burn sigils or words on paper to release your intent into the world (do it safely please)

If you want to know anything more specific about candles feel free to send me another ask dear ^-^