How to Inscribe & Anoint Your Ritual Candles

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