Candlecraft origins
was gifted and taught to me by my soul, by the elements, and by my many non-human teachers. I was shown a vision of myself working with candles and candlelight during prayer and energy shifting sessions. The candles would function as a witness to the unfolding energy, holding the memory of the intentions, prayers, and inspired field of healing. When lit, the flame would release the architectural energetic framework and assist in rapid (as is how fire travels) restructuring of the environments its received into. Thus candlecraft is actually fieldcraft.
As I engaged further in my work with this arts, I developed a greater reverence for the energetic quality of the tools I introduced in the field of practice. Realising that harmonization of energy is impacted by the ability of each vessel, or tool, to hold it and amplify it cleanly, it felt imperative to take steps that would ensure all the tools involved were crafted with loving intention from start to finish. I knew the only way for me to be sure of the source energy my tools were created with was to craft them myself. And from this the modalities I practice and the candles were born...in me.
I say they were 'born in me' because I now know that this is something that has been birthed before - by many others - in many spiritual walks of life - in different ways - and holding different intentions. My origins story is but a chapter in the book of time, faith, and ceremony.
Candle Craft
Next: the co-creation process
The creation process always begins with inspired healing and prayer. Eminent and present shifts in collective soul consciousness present themselves as attuning energies for these vessels of gnosis time and time again. What I do is listen, feel, and attune my senses to the voice of the present energy and moment through both waking and dreaming realities and then move towards intentionally crafting a ritual & tool around it.
Combining wisdom of elemental and etheric/subtle bodies with my background expertise of the human body and the natural history of illness, these crafts are designed to be a form of energetic and spiritual life support, taking into consideration all realms of being and engaging in relational intimacy with each as a living entity. Through this relational intimacy, I translate their Divine essence into form by identifying existing and relevant elements from our natural world that hold building blocks of the energy - like proteins that code a strand a DNA - and that when brought together, like ingredients in a recipe, are able to hold the soul of the energy to a fuller capacity.
Co- Creation
process
On many occasions, I will be led to attune a particular candle under the energy of the moon. This will usually be a candle whose energy aligns with what is happening cosmically & with the healing needs of the collective. Both Illume and Dark Moon were created in this way during their relevant lunar phases.
Following guidance, I will either create a new candle or make a special batch of an existing candle for these ceremonies. Under the night sky and often upon the Earth herself, the candles are arranged geometrically within an elemental grid created to anchor in Spirit messages and intentions. The grid and communion with the elements also serve as a way to amplify intentions, like a beacon to the Unseen world. For hours, we sit together in prayer, meditation, and union until our time feels complete. I leave them with the moon and the elements until they call me to close the ceremony.
Pre-orders are usually taken. This allows me to dedicate a particular candle to a particular person. And to call in Spirit support (guides, angels, higher self) to attune the candle to what that person's soul is most in need of.
The Lunar attunement ceremony
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