Red and Black candles are used for love and relationship matters (marriage problems, divorce clearing, moving past a broken heart, removing damaging personal habits before starting a new relationship, etc.)

 

Green and Black candles are for money and employment-related workings (changing irresponsible financial patterns, money worries, picking yourself back up after bankruptcy, living without alimony, monetary lawsuits, job concerns, etc.)

 

White and Black DAs can be for everything else (spiritual work, healing, bad habits, miscellanea, etc.).

 

Yellow and Black are used for creativity, luck and success

 

Blue and Black are used for healing of all kinds

 

Purple and Black are used for unblocking psychic blocks and to enhance those workings

 

The black wax signifies that which you desire removed from your life. The colored wax represents that which you desire and what you wish to attract/affirm in your life. When you burn these candles, you first should remove the bad/undesirable which means the black half first.

 

Carve the things you wish to remove into the wax on the black half. It can be words or a short statement, a list, names, and you can repeat these negative conditions once or over and over covering the black part of the candle. Next, carve the things you wish to invite or things you wish to replace the bad with on the white/colored half. Again, this can be a list or some statement such as "My Perfect Lover" or "Financial Freedom" or "Good Luck," whatever. Take a removal-type oil such as Banishing or Cast Off Evil and use it to anoint the black half with. Use downward strokes while speaking your removal petition, being careful not to get any oil on the colored/white half. Wash your hands. Then use your "good" oil on the colored/white half. This can be a Blessing or Healing Oil or it can be specific to your desires such as Love Come To Me, Wealthy Way, or Fast Luck. Anoint this half working upwards and speaking your blessing/attraction petition.

 

On the subject of wax drippings, it is traditional to remove the candle of its black wax drippings and remnants. This is done once the black half of the candle is burnt down. Just pick off the trails of black wax and the puddles surrounding the candle being careful not to upset the candle or burn

yourself. It makes sense to do so as the black wax signifies the condition(s) you're removing, and you want to have no trace of it. If you do not remove these black wax drippings, they will mix with the white wax and you will be left with a big puddle of gray wax. Gray wax is not what you want as a future outcome; you want shiny, virginal, pure white wax. Just pick of the trails and puddles of black wax and dispose of them; I'd suggest burying them off your property or at a crossroads. You can also throw the black wax away in a dumpster - not your own trash containers - or use this black wax immediately in other removal/cleansing spell work. Once the black wax is removed, the rest of the wax remnants will be white and these can be used in a number of ways: add them to a mojo bag, make up a packet amulet, place them on an altar, or bury them by your front door.

 

Since the jumbo candles take so long to burn, you can burn these types of candles in stages - a little bit each day. Divide the candle into seven equal sections and mark them off with little lines dug into the wax. The fourth section, the middle section, will be half black and half white. This is a particularly nice way to burn these candles as it gives you time to pray and reflect on your changes. For the first three days while the black part of the candle burns, you pray/focus/do spell work on removal. On the fourth day, as the black wax gives away to the white, you shift your focus to saying a final goodbye to the old and then welcome in the good. On days five through seven, the white wax days, your work is on blessing and change. In this way it is kind of like working with a glass-encased vigil light. You have seven days of intense prayer and focus on your goal. I like to combine this with spiritual bathing, especially one days one, four, and seven.

 

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Get prepared: Even though a pillar candle is designed to stand on its own, it is a good idea to have something underneath it to catch wax drippings or just in case it gets bumped while burning. Find a level place to place your candle(s), away from drafts, and place it on a decorative candle plate or tray.

 

Trim the wick: You’ll want to trim your wick for your pillar candle just as you would for a container jar. Trim that wick from 1/8-1/4″ long. The best tool for this is a wick trimmer, but I think we’ve all used a pair of scissors or such to trim a wick.

 

Burn, Baby, Burn: Once you’ve lit your candle, let it burn long enough to form a full wax melt pool across the top. A general rule of thumb is you want it to burn 1 hour for every inch in diameter. So, if you have a 3″ diameter pillar, you’d want to let it burn for approximately 3 hours during that first burn to get a full wax melt pool. This will help your candle burn evenly for future burns and help deter the dreaded drowning wick.

 

Hug your pillar today: Pillar candles are designed to burn down from within leaving an outer shell. Part of the beauty of a pillar candle is how it glows as this process takes place. As the candle burns down within, you’ll notice the hard, outer shell is not melting but it is softening. Gently fold over this wax wall toward the center of the candle toward your flame. You’ll want to push in and down with your thumbs while the wax is warm and soft. This is called “hugging” your candle, and it allows more of the wax to be used.

 

Rotate: Sometimes you might notice that your pillar candle is burning unevenly. One easy trick to try is to rotate your candle 1/4 to 1/2 turn. The candle could be burning unevenly because of a draft or unevenness of the surface you have it on. By rotating the candle, you just might help it right itself.

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