[Opinion] Reusing a spiritually unmolested tealight

[DiLoco_DelEted]

Hi all,

I burnt a used tea light and a birthday candle to light my pipe a few times without a lighter, and after the tea light burned out, I got the idea of sigilizing it while it cools since it's easier to work with than cold wax in my opinion. Possibly overlaid sigils. As it cools in layers.

Good purpose or not, ya think?

 

[Vandheer]

Unmolested? What the hell do you do with them tealights man?

 

[DiLoco_DelEted]

Only one knows besides us what is done in the darkness...
Meaning LHP or RHP use, if it's used, common view is discard or recycle the remainder. Most people use tealight candles for ambience or vigils. So for that matter use, relight and burn until it goes out. As it hardens design a sigil and get pin or needle, or even a blade...and carefully etch your sigil over the wick. So next time it burns it is consecrated and put to use.

 

[Ancient]

I think that’s a great idea. My wife has been talking about trying her hand at making her own candles, if she gets around to it I might join in and create a sigilized candle in a reverse manner. Pour a layer of wax, then etch, then pour another layer…timestamp the outside with a particular moon phase and burn when it comes around.

Unmolested? What the hell do you do with them tealights man?

You should try it tho. Might just be the hottest encounter you’ll ever have.

 

[SkullTraill]

Diluco, you're not a troll, but your milkshake brings all the trolls to the yard. If you catch my drift.

 

[Grayhoss]

This is derived from the ceremonial magician's emphasis on 'virgin' materials for eachrite, to the degree of having a new, ruinously costly set of vestments for each working.
Its rich man's magick, wallowing in conspicuous consumption, basically.
Shamanic , witchcraft and other 'Low Magick' practitioners have never had this affectation with non-dedicated materials, and our rites work just fine.

 

[Parrsplat]

Hi all,

I burnt a used tea light and a birthday candle to light my pipe a few times without a lighter, and after the tea light burned out, I got the idea of sigilizing it while it cools since it's easier to work with than cold wax in my opinion. Possibly overlaid sigils. As it cools in layers.

Good purpose or not, ya think?

This would likely increase the potency of whatever you do with them provided the magic imbued into it is cast with that in mind. Fire related magics would likely be much stronger from this considering the wax will be melted and used as a fuel burning the magic along with it. In fact for the uses of fire a partially burn candle might be better since the wax has been touched by the fire energies from normal use.

 

[reverendsteveii]

Shamanic , witchcraft and other 'Low Magick' practitioners have never had this affectation with non-dedicated materials, and our rites work just fine.

Malbrough's candle magick is definitely "low magick", it's hoodoo/conjure influenced, and it requires new candles that are allowed to burn down until they go out on their own. Just to show there's an exception that tests every rule and that no practice is a monolith, doubly so for folk practices.

 

[Grayhoss]

Malbrough's candle magick is definitely "low magick", it's hoodoo/conjure influenced, and it requires new candles that are allowed to burn down until they go out on their own. Just to show there's an exception that tests every rule and that no practice is a monolith, doubly so for folk practices.

Yes, but.. Wicca got a dose of ceremonial magick (and thus the 'virgin materials' beliefs common to High magick) and from there, its made its way into various folk witchcraft books.

More power to them, if keeping the stricture helps them, but its still an artificial taboo instituted by wealthy practitioners of past eras, and smacks of wastefulness in a more egalitarian era.