| The Lost Art of Candle Magick Visit our "Prayer Room" to light a virtual candle for yourself or someone you love! 
Candle Magick Today, while most magickal systems encompass the use of candles in their rituals, candles are usually relegated to a passive role. Few practitioners know the real potential of the candle and fewer still recognize its use as a system of Magick. Many magickal and religious systems still incorporate candles into their practices but most have forgotten or now ignore the magickal roots of fire. This omission, for whatever reason, greatly reduces the effectiveness of the candle as a magickal tool or petition conveyance. Candle Magick, like any other system of Magick, can be made as simple or elaborate as one wishes. If you prefer the rigors of a challenge, Candle Magick can offer you this or it can offer you the simplicity of merely lighting a dedicated candle. Long complicated rituals and strange languages are not necessary here and often the simplest Candle Magick can give the same results. Candles, coming in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors, look wonderfully innocent and nondescript. A magickal candle does not have to be of a specialty figure such as black cats, mummies, crosses, or human figures. Although it is appropriate to use such candles when necessary, the standard taper or votive may be substituted when in the "public" view. Candle Magick will not solve all your problems immediately nor will it change the world overnight, but it is powerful tool towards those ends. It can also help you to realize that events can be altered and influenced by the will. Candle Magick further demonstrates that we are not helpless bystanders or victims, and we can take appropriate action to alter our reality. For that very reason, Magick has been feared throughout the ages. In my experience, these candle-workings can be effective regardless of what a person's private or religious path might be. What happens in the candle-lighting process detailed here is that we call upon the Higher Powers to lend assistance. Certainly we all perceive these Powers in our own ways. When we prepare ourselves and our setting, and then prepare our candles and finally light them, we send out energy inviting change. I don't claim to know precisely where the messages get delivered, but have seen that they can have worthwhile results. The simplest, non-metaphysical explanation might be that when we clearly acknowledge to ourselves that we're ready for change, we heighten our awareness of the opportunities for transformation that are around us constantly. I've used the vague but inclusive term "Higher-Powers" ~ I know what face I see when I work with a candle, and the one you see might be entirely different, which is fine. | 
