Subtle Yule Witching - 2 - Candles ✨🕯✨
The Holiday season is one of those magical times of year where witches can go about their witching and go unnoticed if they wish to since many modern Christmas traditions either have Pagan/witchy roots or can easily be made magical simply by doing things with purpose and intention.
I’ll be posting a series of posts on Subtle Yule Witching throughout the season and I’ll be making a master post that links to them all. If you have any suggestions for other areas of the season that could be made witchy, feel free to suggest them!
*links to the other posts in this series at the bottom, updating as they’re posted*
During the holidays, candles are /everywhere/ at this time of year, which is great news for us witches! No one will question at all why your home is covered in flaming beauties. Since colour correspondence charts are everywhere and easy to find, I thought I’d talk about candle placement. Candles give off energy and can charge a space but they aren’t great absorbers of energy (at least for me,) So placing them in areas with an excess of hot energy can be too much.
Some places I love to place candles:
- By the front door - you know how big stores have those massive heat or cooling vents right at the front door to regulate temperature? Candles in the entrance way can do the same thing with energies. If you enchant your candles, you can create wards to only allow positive energies and spirits to enter, or you can enchant them cleans any energies that come through to keep your home in balance with your own energies instead of getting all messed up with the stuff that your guests all bring in.
- In the kitchen - I feel like you wouldn't even need to enchant kitchen candles specifically in order for them to put good energies into any meals you prepare. You could enchant them if you’re having other people bring meals or pot-luck style gatherings to add positivity (or anything else you want to add) to the food others bring in as well.
- On dining room tables - this sort of has the same effect as candles in the kitchen, but since it’s a very social setting, it can have a great effect on the mood of the room and if your family tends to have tense holiday meals together, you can enchant them to bring harmony and understanding to the space.
- In guest rooms - If any room in the house has stagnant energy followed by a whirlwind of strange energies when people come through to stay for the holidays. Before your guests come, light some candles and maybe some smoke cleansing to get that stagnation away and then have them lit in there at least once a day to keep it moving and positive.
- Near decorations that have a specific intent (like greenery etc) - The candles being near (but at a safe distance from) your purposeful decorations will help amplify and spread those item’s intention.
- Outside - Having candles in hurricane candle holders might not be the most common thing, but it certainly won’t raise any unwanted eyebrows. It can do similar things to having candles in an entrance way, but any wards you have will have a much larger radius and your positivity will spread to more people and anyone who passes your property.
Scented candles are really not talked about much in the witchy community and I have no clue why! The scent notes that a candle has can be used as correspondences to your intent, and then the flame can work to activate, amplify and spread your enchantments/intentions/spells.
Here are some popular seasonal candle scent notes correspondences:
* Remember that correspondences are a rather personal thing. While historical uses are important, I mainly write correspondence lists based on the energies I feel and medicinal uses of the item. You may not get the same feeling as I do from an item, and that’s totally okay.
Almond - love, fertility, money drawing, wisdom
Apple - love, fertility, abundance, marriage, wisdom, afterlife/immortality, healing, beauty, cleansing, protection, banishing
Candy Cane - nostalgia, childlike wonder, innocence, peace, settling nervous energies, sweetness, cleansing
Cedar - comfort, cleansing, longevity, preservation, protection, growth, summoning spirits. (one of my favourite scents)
Cinnamon - Warmth, energy, circulating/moving energies, sweetness
Clementine - Joy, sweetness, refreshment, attracting positivity, good compartmentalizing in life
Cloves - pain relief (physical and emotional,) high energy, moving energies,
Cranberry - perseverance, action, healing
Fir (balsam) - clarity, sealing/binding, cleansing, protection, warding, longevity
Juniper - cleansing, motivation, health, energy, protection, prosperity (another of my favourites)
Lavender - calm, peace, sleep, healing, cleansing, mood boosting/banish depression and anxiety
Nutmeg - luck, love drawing, psychic energy, money drawing
Mint - cooling hot energies, settling nervous energies, peace, settling stomach health issues, refreshing energy, cleansing
Orange - Joy, abundance, health, refreshment, attracting positivity, good compartmentalizing in life
Pine - protection, cleansing, new beginnings, clean breaks, grounding, growth
Plum - fertility, love, protection, cleansing
Pomegranate - fertility, abundance, wishes, attraction
Rosemary - improving memory, studying, cleansing, healing, banish nightmares, past lives, banishing, faerie work
Vanilla - Harmony, peace, innocence, childlike wonder/sweetness
Subtle Yule Witching - 1- Decorating with Plants ✨🌲🌱🌿🌾🌹🍊✨
Subtle Yule Witching - 3 - Tree Ornaments ✨🎄✨
