Hello Everyone,
This is Ms. Q.
This post is going to be specifically on Skull Candles, they
are an unusual figure candle and I was asked by one of my readers about if I
would do a post on them and something a bit more specific on how they could be
used which I will repeat here.
The
Question was asked:
“Dear Ms. Q,
One thing that has always stumped me about
this spell is the wording of the idea you carve onto the candle that you want
to influence your target with. For example, would you carve "Mary is
perfect for you" or "I am perfect for you"?
My response was :
“Frankly I would not do either because that is interfering with
someone’s life path, or being manipulative. Instead I would write “Mary think
about (your name here) and see if (he/she) is right for you”
That way instead of
completely influencing the person you still give them the freedom to make up
their own mind, you still give them free will. And that is very important in matters of Love.
My Granny use to say
that “The wanting is always greater than the having” Why? Because once you
realize what it is then you become disenchanted.
Remember Dorothy in
the Wizard of Oz, she was wishing for what was over the rainbow, but when she
got there all she wanted to do was go home.
So manipulating someone is really not good in a way.”
And I really stress that primarily in Love matters, but in
areas of justice, having a good working or home environment, gaining employment
or having money returned to you or even healing, that is completely different,
one is trying to bring about happiness, peace, contentment and a balance in
life.
But there is more to working with skull candles than just
what was posted here.
Skull candles specifically are associated with the human
head/mind or mental workings, they are used to penetrate anothers' thoughts and
make them think a certain way. But
because many people relate skeletons and skulls with sickness and death, some
practitioners also use these candles to bring health to the sick or on the
negative side to curse their enemies with sickness until they are dead.
But to do that take a lot of energy and determination, and
if that other person has protections up, then one may not be successful. I’ve never made anyone sick to death, but I
have upon request made someone ill to help another person get free, which is a
bit different---granted it’s a bit grey but doing the work is never black and
white just various shades of grey.
O.K. so back to Skull Candles---- They come in these basic
colors:
White: healing,
protection, uncrossing, removing negativity, legal matters and white magick
Green: money,
luck, gambling, prosperity and justice
Red: love,
passion, lust, friendship and happy marriage
Black: cursing,
hexing, break up lovers and black magick
Sometimes especially during Halloween one can find them in
other colors like purple or blue or brown, even yellow and pink if you do find them in other colors Load up
on them because you never know what will come up where using a skull candle in
that color will be perfect.
Just remember those more unusual colors also relate with
what I described in my colors section and candle colors section so check those
posts to see how skull candles would relate to those colors.
In some cases, a practitioner would use a skull candle to act
in a similar manner to a voodoo doll. For example, some folks have been known
to hollow out the mouth of the doll and fill it in with alum or tobacco to stop
the individual from gossiping. In other cases, the eye sockets are filled in
with wax, or stick pins in them, to prevent a person from noticing them either
visually or psychically, or in other cases to give them migraine headaches by
sticking pins into the area above the eyes.
Some people prefer to work with skull candles when the moon
is in the sign of Aries, which rules the head, or when the moon is in the
sun-sign of the person one is doing the work upon that is if one happens to
know the month that person was born in.
To prepare your candle, one should hollow out the base and
load it with the individual's personal concerns if you happen to have saved
anything, a little bit of hair or nail clippings, a used Kleenex, or a tiny
snippet of thread from something they wear, or a sample of their handwriting. It
doesn’t take much.
One can carve the individuals name across the forehead or
the back of the neck. In the case of a reversing spell, one would write the
name reversed (as it would appear in a mirror).
When done, dress the candle with the appropriate oil and
place your written petition underneath. If you want, you can also sprinkle any
herbs and/or powders over the skull. Then light the candle and make your prayer or
petition. Some folks will even talk to the skull as if it were the actual
person in question, either saying “You will return to me the money I loaned
you” or even shouting curses at them to be failures.
You can then leave the candle to burn itself out or burn it
for a few minutes a day over a period of a week. Just remember if it’s something you want to
be brought to you or returned to you when you write out your petition paper,
fold the paper towards you, if it’s something you want to banish then fold the
paper away from you.
Once the ritual is complete burn the petition paper and
dispose of it and the remains of the skull candle and any pins, etc. in the
appropriate manner according to the spell working.
There was one fun thing I discovered and that I why I love
to shop around Halloween, sometimes
you’ll find those glass or ceramic candle holders that is in the shape of a
skull and they come in handy if you can’t find or don’t have time to find and
buy a skull candle, so just get a regular candle such as a vigil candle about 2
inches tall in the appropriate color and dress it as if it were a skull candle if
you don't have a skull candle on hand and place your petition under the ceramic
or glass skull candle holder.
Once you’re are done with the ritual complete it by doing
the same thing, burn the petition to ashes and set aside, and then soak the
glass or ceramic skull candle holder in very hot water to soften up and loosen
the remaining melted candle and remove the left over wax, then dispose of the
ashes and wax in the correct manner according to the spell. Be sure to wash out the glass or ceramic
holder with dish soap that has lemon added to it to completely clean it from
the previous ritual, just in case you want to use it for a different skull
ritual.
That’s why I just LOVE Halloween, you never know what fun
things you can find that is very usable for folk magic and yet look
harmless.
There are some more specific rituals using skull candles and
as I come across them I will post them here.
Bright Blessings,
Ms. Q
