My Candle Making Afternoon

My mom got me a candle making kit, and I made four candles with it!
The candles are 100% soy wax, so they are really nice!
These are the three scents I usd for my candles. The kit came with a vanilla scent, but I prefer these.
The Ostara oil is from Sacred Mists and the Mexican Coaco and the Eucalyptus are from The Body Shop.



So, this is our improvised water bath. I'm getting a cheap double boiler so I can make more candles. Double boilers work better.














The blue one is my mom's Ostara candle, the red is my eucalpytus candle, and the purple are my Mexican chocolate candles.

12 Days of Yule: Day Nine

Green and Red are our traditional colours for this time of year, but what do they symbolize? Each colour resonates differently with each person, so these are just "common" associations. Do a bit of personal research to see what works, or doesn't work, for you.

Green
Uses: Healing, promotes prosperity; money, rituals for good Luck, fertility, harmony, and rejuvenation, earth mother, physical healing, success, tree and plant magic, growth, personal goals, generosity, abundance, good fortune, monetary, charity, wealth, renewal, marriage and balance, north cardinal point
Element: Earth
Direction: North
Chakra: Fourth, heart Chakra
Planet: Venus, Jupiter, Mars
Day: Friday/Venus-Love, friendship; Wednesday/Mercury-Business transactions; Thursday/Jupiter-Luck, prosperity
Number: 4
Magical Tool: Wand, Cauldron
Scent/Oil: Elder, mint, musk, sage, vanilla, pine, sweetpea, mugwort, patchouli, vervain, cinnamon, marjoram
Plant/Herb: Birch, catnip, blackberry, coltsfoot, foxglove, thyme, yarrow, feverfew, burdock, pennyroyal, plantain, briar, verbena, elder, basic, cedarwood, sage, dill, clove, mugwort
Wood: Bitch, elder, almond, hawthorn, fig, oak, palm, pine
Animal: Gnomes, Dwarfs, fishes, bee, bull, rabbit, rat, alligator, turtle, grasshopper, bison, frog
Stones: Emerald, Peridot, jade, malachite, coral, green tourmaline, aventurine, green quartz, gold, silver, rock crystal, onyx, azurite
Tarot: Emperor, sevens
Gods: Agathadaimon, Bonus, Daikoku, Eventus, Buddha, Gansea, Inari, Jambhala, Jupiter, Pluto, Tamon
Goddesses: Anna Koun, Anna Perenna, Benten, Brighid, Buddhi, Carna, Chala, Felicitas, Foruna, Janus, Kichijo-Ten, Lakshmi, Ops, The Muses, Vasudhara, Syn
Gender: either
Zodiac: Cancer, Aquarius, Pisces and Leo
Colour Codes: #008000, #00FF00 (same colour, just different codes for some reason)

Red
Uses: Love, passion, good health, energy, strength, enthusiasm, element of fire, stamina, career goals, charity, fast action, lust, moon blood, driving force, survival, sexual love and potency, fertility, courage, will power, increases magnetism in rituals, romantic atmosphere, south cardinal point, draws Aries and Scorpio energy, enthusiasm
Element: Fire
Direction: South
Chakra: Root Chakra
Planet: Mars
Day: Tuesday
Number: 5
Magical Tool: Sword, cauldron, incense burner, candle
Scent/Oil: Dragons Blood, Basil, Pine, Cinnamon, Mullein, Musk
Plant/Herb: Sunflower, Nettles, Holy Thistle, Crowfoot, Hops, Wormwood, Cranesbills, Chilli Pepper, Chives, Spikenard, Onion, Cornflower, Rose, Mustard, Garlic Rosemary, Dill, Hibiscus, Woodruff, Tobacco, Pepperwort, Heather, and Yew
Wood: Redwood, Cherry
Animal: Bear, Horse, Wolf, Ram, marsupials and night creatures, Tigers, Lions, Badger, Alligator, Ants, beetle, Cardinal, porcupine, Chicken, and Peacock
Stones: Ruby, garnet, bloodstone, spinel, red tourmaline, red topaz, agate, rubelite rhodonchrosite, Quartz crystals, tigers eye, pyrite, tektite, diamond, red jasper
Tarot: The magician, cups, fives
God: Achilles, Ares, Atlas, Hercules, Mars, Thor, Zeus
Goddesses: Athena, Eris, Kali, Minerva
Gender: Male
Zodiac: Taurus, Gemini, Leo, Capricorn, Sagittarious
Colour Code: #FF0000

Brown

Brown is a boring colour for a lot of people. And yes, I will admit, it is not one of my favorite colours. But, for certain types of candle and colour magic, brown is a very important and key colour.

Technopagans: use hex triplet #964B00 for brown!

Used for: Healing animals or the home, balanced colour, neutrality, house blessing, locates physical objects that have been lost, influencing friendships, special favours, attract money and financial success, influence Earth Elementals, improves powers of concentration, ESP, intuition, study, telepathy, spiritual attachment to the earth. Peace in the home; herb magic; friendship
Element: Air/Fire
Direction: East/South
Chakra: Spleen Chakra
Planet: Mercury/Mars
Day: Tuesday-Physical action, Wednesday-mental action, Sunday-both actions
Number: 2
Magical Tools: Wand and Censor
Scent/Oil: Dill, lily of the valley, savory, honeysuckle, sweetpea, jasmine
Planet/Herb: Ferm, Lily of the Valley, Marjorma, Savory, Valerian, Vervain, Alstonia, Buckwheat, Calamint, Snapdragon, Flax, Senna, Wandering Jew, Mugwort, Rue, Ferugreek, Gardenia
Wood: Hazel, Beech, Lemon Tree, Maple, Orange Tree
Animals: Bear, Horse, Wolf, Ram, marsupials and night creatures, Tigers, Lions, Badger, Alligator, Ants, beetle, Cardinal, porcupine, Chicken, Peacock,Swallow, prairie dog, butterfly, scallop, bison, butterfly, catbird, crane, fox, hawk, martin, squirrel
Stones: Moss Agate, Carnelian, Alexandrite, Orange Sapphire, Quartz, Orange Calcite, Petrified Wood
Tarot: Eights
Gods: Atlas, Janus, Terminus, Pan, Zeus
Goddess: Athena, Bast, Carna, Diana, Lilith, Kali, Melusine, Minerva, Rhiannon, Syn
Gender: Female

A special note about Dark Brown. Though all browns are "earth" colours, the darker the brown, the closer the connection to the Earth and Earth benefits.

The General Meaning Of Colours

This is a list of general correspondences for colour magic. Every colour will resonate differently with different people, so use this list as a guideline in choosing candle colours.
When in doubt, always go for white.

White: Beginning (in the sense of a blank page) or ending and healing. White shadow (animus). Union through the mind or new intellectual frontier

Gray: Unawareness or deliberate indifference

Black: The unknown, the center of the earth or of a situation; “black box:, black shadow (anima), the dark side of the soul or new physiological territory

Red: Heart, soul, willpower, vitality

Yellow: Sun, consciousness, zest for life; envy, mental dissonance

Blue: Open sky/space and clear water; spirituality

Green: Fresh, young, promising, inexperienced, immature

Brown: Connected to nature and the earth, rooted in the soil, vegetative

Violet: Experiencing boundaries; a mixture of blue and red

Dark Gray

A lot of people associate gray and dark gray with being bored or depressed. However, in candle and colour magic, dark gray is assoiated with glamour.

To use this colour magically: burn candles, use ribbons, paint a room or wall, or buy clothes in that colour.

Technopagans: The hex triplet colour code for Dark Grey is A9A9A9.

Copper

Colour magic is probably one of the easiest forms of magic, in my opinion. You can use colour magic by:
- Tying a ribbon to yourself
- Wearing a certain colour of clothing
- Burning a candle of the same colour
- Painting a room/wall in the colour

Todays colour is copper. Copper is a money and business colour. It is associated with professional growth, business, fertility, career manoeuvres, passion, money, and goals.
If you are starting a new business, you may wish to paint your walls copper. If you are going to a job interveiw, try incorporating some copper.

Now, the metal copper is different and much more powerful for different reasons. This is about the COLOUR not the METAL. They are different things, they just happen to have the same hue.

For all you technopagans out there, the Hex Triplet colour code for copper is #B87333, the RGB colour code for copper is 184, 115, 51