All you need is a candle, something to light it with, and an intention. You can do candle magick with any type of candle, as long as your intention is there. Candle magick can be tailored to your preferences. Keep an eye on the flame and observe how it behaves. There's one important thing to remember: "Remember not to blow your candle out unless you want to blow away your intention!
Snuff it out with a tool or your fingers instead, if it can't be left to burn out. This is a good sign that the vibes are flowing and the magick is working. Take a few deep breaths, release tension, and visualize your worries or thoughts drifting away from you. Clear your mind. Then start to visualize your goal as if it has already happened. Then imagine it expanding beyond the room into the universe, beaming out and sending a signal to bring your intention to you.
Hold this vision in your mind as long as you can. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories. White: purification, peace, protection from negativity, truth, binding, sincerity, serenity, chastity, gladness, spirit.
Purple: female power, stress relief, ambition, healing past wounds, goddess-hood, business success. Yellow: mental power and vision, intelligence, clear thinking, study, self-assurance, prosperity, divination, psychism, abundance, wisdom, the power of persuasion, charisma, a sound sleep. Charging a candle means instilling it with magical intent.
Once you clarify your intention, cleanse your candles by passing them through the purifying smoke of sage or incense. Further charge your candle by carving a symbol into the wax. You can warm the tip of your ritual knife using a lit match and carve your full intention into the candle wax.
Caroline Robertson, proprietor of Westbury Music, the UK's leading independent dance-music label, was initiated into Wicca four years ago, but her interest in witchcraft began in childhood. I believed in the force and power of nature and in the mystery of life. Witchcraft is about threshold worlds and shifting realities. It appeals to odd people, loners, folk who don't follow the normal rules.
Cassandra Latham doesn't follow "the normal rules", but her clients - she sees about a year - tend to be regular Joes and Joannas with all the usual problems. Relationships, jobs, money, health. People often ask me to cleanse their homes of psychic debris. One of the most common things I get asked to do is to remove curses, but no one ever asks me for anything ridiculous.
It's pastoral work, just like the vicar, really. Well, not quite like the vicar though Latham says she gets on well with him. I believe that old habit patterns lie in the unconscious. If you want to change them, you need to communicate to the unconscious in a way it'll respond to - with symbols and archetypes and ritual.
If you perform a spell with particular motifs, it will clear the unconscious ground. I find it very effective and very quick. You could spend years in psychotherapy getting to that point, whereas magic will take the shortest route, and in it goes. Ah yes, magic. It's nonsense, obviously. Well, perhaps not complete nonsense. But definitely something for the funny folk. Except, except Every time we step over cracks in the pavement, don our lucky ties for the job interview, spit on the dice before we throw, we have fallen under magic's spell.
Vivianne Crowley, senior lecturer in the psychology of religion at London University, puts it like this: "Magical thinking gives us a sense of control in a world of random events. It gives you a sense that the universe is listening to you and speaking to you.
Psychologically, that can be a very useful strategy. What else are biblical miracles or the mysticism of the Jewish cabbala? However much we may pooh-pooh magic, we seem to be saturated in it all the same. It hits the primitive part of our minds. Crowley agrees: "Most witches believe that magic is innate in the human psyche. It's something lots of people can develop. She's talking about actual, transformative magic. But what is magic? Well, no one really knows, but received wisdom defines it as the use of the will to effect change, and recognises two types: natural and high, or ritualistic.
In natural magic, witches emphasise folk wisdom. They may cast spells and use candles, herbs, wax images, crystals and scrying or divination objects such as crystal balls and dowsing rods, as well as more familiar psychological techniques such as meditation, visualisation and repetition to focus their minds on the effects they want to manifest.
Natural magic is craftwork, and its practitioners regard themselves as craftsmen and women. They are in The Craft. High or ritualistic magic tends to focus more on ceremony, ritual and invocation. Alchemists were generally high magicians, but high magic's most famous son is probably the turn-of-the-century mystic and occultist Aleister Crowley. Most ritualistic magic is conducted in groups or covens.
Witchcraft's own religion, Wicca, makes much use of it. Does magic work? Graham King thinks so. Four years ago, King sold his successful business making specialist cameras for archive libraries, got rid of the Jag and the country cottage, burned his collection of silk ties and bought the Museum Of Witchcraft, Boscastle, on the north coast of Cornwall, which he now runs as a going concern.
Fifty thousand visitors come to the museum every year to peer at the cases of charms, amulets, poppets wax dolls , wands, athames ceremonial knives , scourges ceremonial whips and talismans. Having spent 20years as a scientist, technician and businessman, King now devotes his life to witchery.
Look, I have been employed in the electronics industry, and I don't know how electricity really works, either, but it does, right? Hands up who really understands how the telly makes pictures, or the microwave makes dinners. As for the VCR. Debate as to whether magic is a psychological or supernatural power, or a bit of both, boils like a brothy cauldron in the witching community. Vivianne Crowley no relation to Aleister, incidentally is in no doubt. Even the British Psychological Society has become interested in the ability of spiritual practices to manifest healing powers, and in clairvoyance, psychometry [the ability to divine by touching something] and telepathy, those techniques psychologists call parapsychology.
According to Crowley, Wiccans simply harness and develop these parapsychological techniques. Which is both disappointing no fabulous supernatural phenomena and intriguing anyone can do it. When I told her that some witches claimed to be able to turn lightbulbs into frogs, she just laughed and said, "Rubbish!
The obvious question remains. And why isn't every witch a millionaire?
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