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If you are unfamiliar with the tenets of modern witchcraft, here are some articles you may find useful. As always, the content below is mine - and therefore my interpretation.
What is the Wheel of the Year?
 The Wheel of the Year is a common term given to the seasonal cycles and the festivals associated with key points in our calendar, namely: the Solstices and Equinoxes and four quarter days. Our ancestors’ lives would have been ruled by the changing of the seasons as the seasons influenced livestock and crops, so these days were seen as significant. As you probably know, some stone circles and dolmens have entrances facing the sun, which illuminate the gap between certain points when there is a Solstice. This helps to confirm that the practice of celebrating the turning of the seasons has been important to us as a race, for millennia.
Sabbats
Each major festival on the Wheel of the Year is called a Sabbat. Witches celebrate the Sabbats and give thanks for all that they have received during the year, each Sabbat being a reminder of what is happening in Nature as well as what is happening to us – we follow the seasons internally, whether we are aware of it or not. Esbats
The Moon is of great importance to witches, it is seen as a representation of the Goddess and is so closely connected with ourselves and our planet (it affects tides, moods, menstruation etc.) that we cannot really ignore it. An Esbat is a celebration of the full moon – a symbol of the Goddess at the height of her power. It is seen as a time when we can most strongly feel the Goddess around us and in us. A common practice during an Esbat is the ceremony of Drawing Down the Moon. You will find a ritual for this in my Book of Shadows. The Major Festivals
 Samhain: 31st October (pronounced Sow-in) The Wheel of the Year is seen to begin at Samhain, which is also known as Hallowe'en or All Hallows Eve. This is the Celtic New Year, the time when the gates between the worlds of life and death stand open. Samhain is a festival of the dead, when Pagans remember those who have gone before and acknowledge the mystery of life, death and rebirth. As Pagans we celebrate death as a part of life. The acknowledgement of the ancestors also lies in our old traditions – it was common to leave an empty chair at the dinner table on Samhain to act as a reminder of those loved ones that have gone before us. Samhain is the very best time to try Scrying, the art of seeing visions in a reflective surface, such as a black mirror or a bowl of water. All types of divination are favoured; choose your tarot now for the year ahead. It is also an excellent time to ask for help to get rid of bad habits, or to ask that things you no longer need are removed from your life.
Yule: 19th – 21st December (normally celebrated on 21st)
Yule is the time of the winter solstice, when the sun child is reborn; when the God is born to the Goddess and starts anew. This is the shortest  day of the year and therefore the darkest. The enduring image of the Sun King returning encouraged our ancestors to light candles to show him the way. Offerings of greenery such as the Holly and the Ivy would be decking the halls (notice a theme here?) and sometimes evergreens such as the fir tree (or ‘Christmas’ tree) would be brought into the home. The greenery is a symbol of the hope that vegetation would return to the Earth with the Sun returning again.This is a time to celebrate family and to give thanks for all that is to come with the return of the Sun. Eat, drink and be merry and show your love for those around you by giving gifts, food is particularly appropriate.
 Imbolc: 1st – 2nd February (Pronounced Im-olk) Imbolc, also called Oimelc and Candlemas, is a celebration of the growing power of the Sun and life beginning to return to the land. Snowdrops are a strong symbol of this festival. The returning life is indicative of the presence of the Goddess in the land and she is honoured with offerings to encourage her to bless the land with further fruitfulness.  Spring Equinox / Ostara: 20th – 23rd March At the Spring Equinox, day and night are of equal length. Flowers are beginning to show and the Sun grows stronger. At this time the God is seen to dance and celebrate across the land and we are inspired to do the same. Eostre, Kore and/or Persephone, the Spring Goddesses, are also venerated. This is the time to remember the mysteries of life, death and rebirth once again. Eggs are painted to symbolise the potential of the coming year and children are encouraged to laugh and play. They may want to remember the Easter Bunny – which is the Moon Hare in Pagan tradition, and is associated with the Goddess.
 Beltane: 30th April / 1st May Beltane is the major fire festival and is the beginning of the pagan summer. Fires are always built at this time and many couples would marry, jumping the broom to symbolise the leap from one life to another, and also to symbolise fertility. Single young women who wanted to ensure fertility may jump the Balefire / Belfire. Maypoles would be danced around – another connection to fertility as the Maypole is traditionally a phallic symbol. The ribbons are the weaving of the Sun energy with that of the Earth; The God with the Goddess, the male with the female. Rituals for fertility, love and marriage are closely connected with Beltane.  Midsummer / Litha: 19th – 23rd June
The summer solstice is the time when the God as the Sun is at his height of power, it is the longest day. It is a time for celebration, and is another fire festival. This is a great time to conduct rituals for achievement, success, courage, health and happiness.  Lughnasadh / Lammas: 1st – 2nd August (Lughnasadh is pronounced Loo-nassa)This is the time of the corn harvest, where the Corn King is willingly sacrificed (if you’d like a musical rendition of this, you could do a lot worse than listen to Steeleye Span’s John Barleycorn!). At this time we give thanks for the bounty of the Earth to the Goddess, and thanks to the God for his willing sacrifice, so that we can continue to eat and be healthy and happy for another year. Corn Dollies are traditionally woven (if you’re a purist it should be from the last ear(s) of corn), and are tied with red ribbons. These would be saved until the next year’s sowing of the crop, or until the harvest, when then may be buried in the Earth and replaced with newly harvested corn. Autumn Equinox / Mabon: 19th – 23rd September (pronounced Ma-bon)
Day and night are once again equal and the Sun starts to lose his strength. Here we prepare for the onset of winter as the days start to grow  longer. This is when we will celebrate the harvest and give thanks for that which we have. As the leaves drop and rot, we remember the upcoming journey of the God into the Underworld (after his death as the Corn King) and reflect on that which has gone by and prepare for that which is to come. Rituals conducted at Mabon may connect with the Crone energy of the Goddess, old age and winter. Samhain: 31st October
We return again to Samhain, and the wheel turns again. Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane and Lammas are the major sabbats. Samhain is the most important of all, followed by Beltane. These are all fire celebrations and fires can be lit and candles burnt.
Yule and Litha are the two solstices and are minor sabbats. Ostara and Mabon are the two equinoxes and are minor sabbats.
Most faiths have symbols that their followers wear or use, and witchcraft is no different in that respect. The difference for us, perhaps, is that we use many symbolic items as tools in our rituals and our lives; as a reminder of what we believe as well as carriers of our emotions and energy. It is not absolutely essential to have any tools to practice as a witch, but they do help to focus the mind and they certainly help to make a ritual feel special. It is not necessary to spend a fortune having tools especially created for you – in some cases you can make them yourself and many purists insist that you do. In all cases you can obtain them second-hand if you wish, all tools will be blessed prior to use as a matter of course, so you don’t have to worry about someone else’s energies on them.
Let’s have a look at some of the tools a witch may use, so that you can include them into your rituals if you wish. I have attempted to list them in order of ‘importance’, but I know that my witch did not manage to get hers in this order – and it’s never held her back!
The Four Elemental Tools
As you know, the four elements are very important to a witch. Air, Fire, Water and Earth are seen as the four building blocks of the magickal universe, with Spirit (or Ether) binding them as a whole. Most rituals will include each of the elements in their content, so having a tool for each helps to focus the mind on the particular energies of that tool and also (in many cases) helps to direct those energies. The Athame
 The Athame (pronounced Ath-ay-me) is a ritual knife that is connected with the element of Air (in some traditions it is linked with Fire). It is usually black-handled and has a steel double-edged blade. Some witches like to engrave their blade with symbols – if you choose to do so, be very careful! Usually the Athame is sharp, although it is not used for cutting anything except air, as it is for magickal direction of energy, particularly in the construction of a magickal circle. It is never used for mundane purposes. My Athame is blunt, but I like it that way. Because of its phallic shape, it is linked with the God. It is possible to make your own Athame, but I would recommend you buy one, it is much safer! My own Athame is a reproduction of a fantasy knife from a famous novel: but I like it, it connects with me and that is, in my opinion, all that is needed.The Wand
The Wand is closely associated with Fire (although, confusingly, in some traditions it is associated with Air). It is also associated with the God,  as it has a phallic shape. The Wand is traditionally constructed of wood – and just wood. There are many good choices of wood for a wand, many trees are considered sacred so you could choose from Ash (associated with Yggdrasil, the World Tree in Norse Mythology); Elder (sacred to the Goddess); Apple (sacred to the Goddess) or Oak (sacred to the God) and many more. You may also choose to make a wand from your own Celtic Birth tree, so that its energies closely match your own. It does help to forge a closer connection between you and your wand if you can make it yourself, and it is not that hard to do so, but it does require some patience. If you think that this is just way too complicated and ‘crafty’ for you, then you can always buy one. They can be found in a variety of materials and many of them are engraved and tipped with crystals.
I think plain wood, with any inscription that is important to you is best. If you want to make your own, and like the idea of making one from your Celtic Birth Tree, these are as follows:
Making Your Wand
I have made a wand before, so I can give you my own method for doing so. I’m sure there are as many methods for making wands as there are wands in existence, but my method worked for me, and as I am currently short of a wand, it shall have to work again! Making a wand is one of only a few exceptions when you would take live wood (i.e. from a twig or branch still living and attached to the tree). Witches choose not to harm plants and don’t help themselves to anything they fancy any time they want. If you want to make a wand from live wood, there is a reason and a method. According to our beliefs, the spirit of the tree (the Dryad) lives within live wood. The Dryad has all the innate wisdom of the tree as well as the power and energy of it, so having a Dryad to help you with your spells is a distinct bonus.
Understandably, you won’t make best friends with a dryad if you lop off a branch because it looks like a good choice. Taking live wood requires respect (and some understanding of what you can and can’t do legally … don’t go cutting of branches from any old tree – you’ll have the Dryad AND the law after you).
Method
The Chalice
 The Chalice is a glass which is representative of the element of Water. Because of its shape, it is closely associated with the Goddess. The cup shape ‘contains’ and connects with the womb and will also receive and contain spiritual energy; the stem is the connection between this world and the next and the base is symbolic of this world – the Earth. A chalice can be any glass that has been blessed, in any material. It is very easy to obtain one that looks and feels the part. There is great benefit in having tools that ‘look’ as if they are magickal, much of ritual requires an emotional response and if you feel that you are using magickal things, you will have more luck in making magick! Really. Silver is a favourite material for a chalice, because of the connection between silver and the Moon (which connects with the Goddess too). The Chalice holds blessed wine or water on the altar, and is often passed round a coven so that a blessed drink can be shared.Pentacle
The Pentacle is a tool that you will probably have seen in one form or another, as it features the pentagram. The Pentagram is a five-pointed  star with one point upright – it becomes a pentacle when it in enclosed with a circle. The pentagram is found in ceremonial magick and is a very ancient symbol. There are as many theories for what it stands for as there are version of it. I’ll list a few for your interest:
Whatever version you choose to believe, there is no doubt that the pentagram is a very protective device and also connects very strongly with the Goddess in her role as Mother Earth. You can make your own pentagram out of any material you wish (clay and wood are favourites at they both come from the Earth), but you can also buy one ready-made. Some pentagrams have other symbols engraved on them, particularly those used in covens. If you don’t have one, you can always use a potted plant on your altar to represent Earth, or use salt.
The Censer
 ‘Censer’ is another name for an incense burner. A censer is not designed for joss sticks, but for loose incense, which must be burnt on charcoal. Loose incense is comprised of a mixture of resins, gums, herbs and essential oils, all chosen to correspond with the intent for which the incense is created. You will doubtless have seen the selection of loose incense that you can buy from Warty’s One-Hop Shop; these have all been designed to work with a censer. The advantage of using loose incense (as opposed to joss) is that the fragrance released when burning is much more atmospheric and intense than the fragrance created by joss. There is also something very magickal about the preparation of the charcoal and the sprinkling of the incense, the whole effect works well on the subconscious mind to help you believe that you really are creating magick when you work. Of course, you won’t really know what I mean unless you use it – you’ll just have to take my word for it!Censers come in all shapes and sizes: from the very ornate swinging censers that you may have seen in a High Church in the UK to simple ceramic open burners that you can buy from Warty. All of them have one thing in common – they are fireproof! If you are really desperate and don’t have a censer but want to use loose incense you can fill a plant pot with sand and put the charcoal on that, but it really doesn’t work so well on your subconscious mind and the whole effect is a lot less potent.
Before I leave this section – a word about charcoal. As I have mentioned, you will need charcoal to burn your loose incense on. There is a type of charcoal designed specifically for use with loose incense. It is self-igniting and comes in tubes (usually incorporating 10 discs). Each disc is enough for one use (and you can’t reuse them – you try to save white-hot crumbly charcoal when you are done!). The theory is that you will light the charcoal with a match, the chemical added to the charcoal will then sparkle and ignite the whole disc and you can then blow on it until it is white hot and place in a censer. It doesn’t work like this – trust me! I have been using loose incense on and off for over 20 years and I have yet to light a charcoal block that really does self-ignite without any help.
My preferred method for lighting is to take a charcoal block and hold it in a pair of long-nosed pliers over a gas flame (usually my long-suffering cooker). It will then prompt the chemical to sparkle and light the whole block but will keep the heat on (normally you would have to blow while the chemical is sparking – great if you want to have your eyebrows tidied up for you … completely). The block has to be cherry red at the very least to keep burning and one match, a couple of blows and a lot of wishful thinking doesn’t do it! All I would say is … take supreme care when lighting charcoal and using loose incense. Safety first. Once you have got the hang of it, you’ll not want to go back to joss … it’s worth the effort. For a complete range, check out Warty’s One-Hop Shop. He also sells a discreet ceramic burner and charcoal discs as well as most types of loose incense you could need.
The Broom (or Besom)
The Broom has long been associated with witchcraft and not without reason. It is a tool that is sacred to both the Goddess and the God. The  three different woods traditionally used to create it symbolise the three faces of the Goddess (Maiden, Mother and Crone) and the phallic shape symbolises the God. Traditionally, the stale (handle) of the broom is made of Ash (protective, commanding all four elements); the twigs are made from Birch (purifies and draws spirits to help with the task in hand) and the binding is made from Willow (which is sacred to the Goddess). The broom is best-known in folklore as the method of transport for a witch. Mediaeval confessions state that witches rode on brooms. What they are most likely referring to in truth is a combination of Astral Projection and the assumption that witches are mostly concerned with orgiastic activities (complete rubbish!) … the broom is a phallic shape and the mediaeval church were not referring to travelling when they said ‘riding’! The broom is primarily used as a purifier and cleanser and is perfect for sweeping the ground on which you construct your circle, as it will clear away both physical and astral debris. It is also protective, and was used as a ‘block’ to negative energies by placing it across the threshold. Its best-known use is as a symbolic gateway from one phase of life to another – seen in both olden and modern handfastings (Pagan weddings) where the bride and groom both jump the broom. I shall be doing so myself sometime in 2009 during my own handfasting.
The Bolline
 We have already looked at the Athame, the ritual tool representing the element of Air. Now we look at the Bolline, the other knife used by the witch. Unlike the Athame, which is only used for cutting Air, the Bolline is actually a working knife. It is usually white-handled to differentiate it from the Athame, and is used to cut herbs for brews and potions, to inscribe candles with runes and magickal statements of intent and for cutting cords in cord magick. You can also use the Bolline to cut flowers for the altar if you wish to decorate it in this way. The Cauldron
Another witches’ tool that has been hyped by the media. The Cauldron is sacred and symbolic of the Goddess: the most traditional shape being the pot-bellied type with three legs. The pot-belly is symbolic of the womb and the three legs connect with the three faces of the Goddess. Everything originates from the cauldron, and everything returns to it. In many of the myths of our ancestors, a cauldron contains magickal wisdom. Certainly, childbirth is some kind of miracle – so it is not hard to see why it would have such an importance. Cauldrons will not be top of your purchase list. They are very heavy if you get a proper cast-iron one and this makes them expensive if you get one via mail order (the postal costs are astronomical). My fiancé managed to find one locally as a Yule present for me, but you need to be lucky and live somewhere where traditional cooking implements are still made, to be able to just go out and buy one!The cauldron is perfect for making brews and potions. You can also use it to cook with (but only for food that would be consumed during a ritual – not everyday food) and for crying (fill it with water and gaze into the depths. It is blessed and kept as you would any other tool. The Bell
 The Bell is used to either (or both) invoke and banish. It symbolises entry or exit into this world from the astral worlds. Often it is used to invoke the Goddess into the ritual and is also commonly used to invoke the four quarters. Bells are purifying and their presence alone can be helpful to keep the home or magickal space clear of
 The Book of Shadows
A diary, a workbook, a recipe book, a style of living and working. The Book of Shadows is all these things and anything else you want to make it. It is the witches’ workbook. Traditionally it is written by hand and often in magickal scripts such as Runic or Theban script, but you can write it how you want. It would be consecrated and treated as sacred as it is usually handed down – particularly in magickal families. The Book of Shadows can be any book with plain pages to write in – these days you are just as likely to find one electronically (such as Warty’s Book of Shadows) as you are to find one hand-written and bound. Why Candle Magick?
If you’ve patiently been reading and collecting articles from my Book of Shadows so far, you might be wondering when we get to do a little magick? Hopefully you have tried a spell or two from the ones I publish, but I would like to tell you more about spellcraft in this article and give you the confidence to write your own simple spells. Witchcraft / Wicca is a faith in its own right and magick is just a small part of it; but I feel that it is time to give you a few basics so you can learn how we do magick and, more importantly, why we do magick. Candle Magick is a form of ‘Low Magick’*, it is one of the simplest ways to put your requests to Deity and to connect with those forces around us. Trying this style of magick is safe, simple, but very efficacious and it allows you to feel the energies you are working with and helps you to strengthen faith.
Why Magick at all?
Magick “ … in the broadest sense, is any ritual act designed to cause intentional change. The spelling with the terminal "k" was repopularised in the first half of the 20th century by Aleister Crowley when he introduced it as a core component of Thelema.”~. This is a good enough description, but it is a little more than that. Most faiths pray: they attempt to connect with Deity(s) and ask them for help. A spell is a simple prayer; an act of devotion and faith, but with more content than just getting on your knees. I often wonder why witches’ prayers are called ‘magick’ and I’ve come to the conclusion that it is because they work – and work often enough to have our language include the phrase “just like magic”; meaning that something works almost instantaneously and effectively.
So What Makes Magick Different To A Standard Prayer?
 The way we do it, I guess! I’ve tried to explain why magick works many times before in the best way that I can: and I’ve always used the same analogy. Imagine that you are trying to speak to your God/Goddess, just as you would when you pray. Imagine that this attempt is a bit like a two-way radio – ‘Station God’ on one end and you on the other. There are an awful lot of people praying – some are probably even praying to the same God/ Goddess for the same thing as you would like to, right now. Although God/Goddess may well be omnipotent, there is a lot to be said for how strongly you ask and also how much emotion and desire you put into your request. If your child said they really, really wanted a pony, but had a face like a wet weekend when they asked; would you really take out a second mortgage in order to please them?
So, back to our radio. All these people are praying and there are only so many things that can be done – if everyone’s request was granted it would be a bit like the movie Bruce Almighty … absolute chaos! So if you want your request granted, you’re going to have to make a very, very good case. You’re also going to have to be heard, and two-way radios are notorious for crackling, losing signal and generally being a right royal pain. So how do you get your radio tuned into God/Goddess and keep that signal until you’ve finished asking?
Correspondences
Correspondences are the key to getting your radio working at optimum. Over the centuries, man and womankind has learnt that certain smells,  herbs, flowers, colours and symbols help to tune their radio if they are carefully chosen to match their request. It is the difference between saying “Please can I have a pony?” and “Please can I have a pony because I love them so much and I’ve always wanted one and it will make me feel ‘this’ good and I get this excited every time I think of ponies and I’m so grateful for the last thing you gave me and I think you are really splendid and I know you can do this … etc.”! Get the idea?How Can I Work With Correspondences?
Learning all the correspondences to everything you could wish for is an impossible task. However, getting to know a few of them is easy and I’ve included a table for you to get you started. Some correspondences are obvious, though. If you are doing a love spell, my guess is that 99% of you would realise that a rose is a good choice of floral decoration. And maybe you would burn a rose joss stick, or have red or pink on your altar? And if you had to choose a candle colour, most of you would probably choose pink or red, wouldn’t you? There we are, that’s got you a long way to tuning in your radio for a love spell and you didn’t even have to learn anything you didn’t already instinctively know! I’m Thinking of the Days …
So I’ve mentioned correspondences and listed a few examples, but I haven’t yet mentioned timing. Even the time of day / day of the week that you perform a spell can have a major impact on how good your radio link is! In this article I won’t be going into hourly correspondences as they can get complicated, but daily correspondences are helpful and easy to work with. You’ll find that I have already listed what days are good for what on the previous page of the Book of Shadows. If you can manage to do your spells on the right day it really, really does help. How do the days work when we have changed our calendars so many times … how can the time still be the same? I don’t know. It works. Live with it! Moon Phases
 Working with the correct phase of the moon also helps your radio communication. The power of the moon should not be underestimated, it is a true connection with the psyche and the intuition and if you can harness the power of the phases you will definitely add punch to your workings.I could write an article about working with the moon (hmmm … actually … I think I did … I think you might find it on page 2 of Warty’s Tavern …) but for this article I’ll make it simple so you can get started.
Dark of the Moon (inc. New Moon)
This is the time when there is a New Moon and lasts for three days. Contrary to popular belief, the New Moon is when the moon is black, not when you can see a small sliver. During this period we do not normally work. Some Covens may, but in general only Left-Hand Path (Dark Magick). If in doubt, do not work when there is no moon! Dark of the Moon is best for divination and introspection. First Crescent
Two days after the New Moon a small sliver of moon appears at sunset, this is the First Crescent. This is a great time for dedications (yourself, your tools, the altar) and for any brand new project. The power of the moon as it grows can be harnessed to add power to the growth of your project. Waxing Moon
Between the first crescent and the Full Moon is the Waxing Moon. You will see it grow daily in size in the sky. Use this waxing period to attract things towards you. Any spell of increase or growth can be performed during this period. You can also add power to any ritual you’ve done at the first crescent by doing it again whilst the moon is waxing. Full Moon
Although there is only one day where the moon is astronomically full, there are three days when you can consider the moon full for magickal workings. The Full Moon is ‘the’ time. If the astronomical full moon appears during the day and you really want to work with its power: choose the night before when the moon is still waxing. If you want to thank the Deities, if you want to do an initiation or charge or bless your tools; the full moon is an excellent time. It is also traditionally the time when the ritual “Drawing Down the Moon” is performed. You can find a copy of this ritual on the first page of the Book of Shadows. Waning Moon
After the three days of full moon, the moon starts to decrease in size: this is called the waning moon. The waning moon is not used as often for magickal practices, but it should be. The symbolic loss of power of the full moon can be replicated in spells. You can’t think of a reason to want to lose power? How about the power of an illness, a bad habit, or negativity? Now you see how you can use the waning moon – to help to banish those things from your life that you no longer need! The waning moon is also a good time for study and meditation. Doctrine of Signatures
Doesn’t this sound grand? The Doctrine of Signatures is “… a philosophy shared by herbalists from the time of Dioscurides and Galen which is still reflected in the common names of some plants whose coincidental shapes and colors reminded the gatherers of such simples of the parts of the body where they could do good: liverwort; snakeroot, an antidote for snake venom; lungwort, bloodroot; toothwort; wormwood, to expel intestinal parasites, and the like … The doctrine of signatures was further spread by the writings of Jakob Böhme (1575 - 1624), who suggested that God marked objects with a sign, or "signature", for their purpose. For instance, a plant bearing parts that resembled human body parts, animals, or other objects, had useful relevance to those parts, animals or objects. The "signature" may also be identified in the environments or specific sites in which plants grew.”~ This belief has been backed up by magickal use over the centuries and there is a lot to be said for how efficacious it is when used with magick. However, it is not as simple to use as it looks, and you may well find that you will be better served using a good book of herbal magick to get some decent correspondences. However, it is worth bearing in mind the principle – it will help you to realise that if a Sunflower is called a Sunflower it will work well as a correspondences for all Sun rites and the same applies to a Moonflower and Moon rites!
Colours
You will use colour particularly in your choice of candles, when you perform candle magick. Colours have correspondences too, and they not only match your intention (often referred to as ‘petition’) but also your star sign. If you are doing a spell for love you probably won’t need much help in choosing an appropriate colour, but if you are tempted to use red, then think again. Yes, it is a good colour for passion, but do you just want sex in a relationship? See … not as easy as it appears, is it? So you can find some basic colours and correspondences in my table at the bottom of this page, but you can find many more in a basic book on the subject. I could not possibly list them all for you, there is not the space and no list will be definitive on the subject of correspondences. This is really just a starter, do some research yourself and work with what feels right for you. Making your Spell I’ve given you quite a lot of information to take in and to research, now I’d like to tell you how to construct a basic candle magick spell.
Final Thoughts I’ve tried to give you a basic run down of doing a spell. You may feel you don’t have enough information to go ahead. You do! Although you may not do things the way I do, or may not get it quite right – the most important thing is to say what you want with the whole of your heart and your emotions and that will carry you through any minor ‘mistakes’. If you are concerned that an error will bring on retribution, don’t be. If you work with the light and the bright, the worst they will do is laugh at you! Although I cannot guarantee any magick, nor can I guarantee that your life will be fantastically better if you do it, I can tell you that from my experience, candle-magick is life-enhancing and makes you feel closer to Deity. It also works … at least it has done many times for me.
*’High Magick’ is the term usually given to group or lodge work, although it is not as simple as just that! The format and style of High Magick is different to Low Magick and the energies invoked/ evoked are different too.
~ Quotes from Wikipedia (we LOVE Wikipedia!) www.en.wikipedia.org
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e incense, rose quartz crystal, picture of lovers, rose annointing oil (for both you and the candle) etc. for a love spell. Set up your candle and all your tools.