Sabbat Candles

Use herb, oil, and color correspondences for each Sabbat to create your own unique seasonal candles. Check correspondences for each of the holidays at my Wheel of the Year page. Have fun! Here are only a few ideas:

Samhain: Black or orange candles with dried rosemary and/or dried mugwort and patchouli, musk, or sandalwood oil. Carnelian, bloodstone, or jasper crystals can be dropped into the candle as it cools. Skull candles (symbolizing wisdom) and pumpkin-shaped candles are entirely appropriate.

Yule: Red or green candles (also gold and silver) with ground cinnamon; and bayberry, cedar, spruce, pine, or cinnamon oil. Decorate the candles with poinsettia, holly, red roses or white carnations. Drop quartz, garnets, blue topaz, or pearls into the cooling wax.

Imbolc: Red, black, and white candles with dried dragon's blood or red and white rose petals; and carnation, vanilla, or vanilla musk oil. Garnets, clear quartz, or pearls may be added.

Ostara: Pastel green, yellow, pink, and blue candles (egg-shaped is appropriate) with purple clover, lilac, lavender, vervain or lemon balm herbs; and heather, lilac, lavender or new mown hay oil. Decorate with daisies, tulips or daffodils. Clear and rose quartz, lapis lazuli, agates and amethysts can be dropped into the wax as it sets.

Beltane: Purple, gold or green candles with honeysuckle, roses, lilac or vanilla; and rose, lilac, or vanilla oil. Decorate with daisies, roses, lilacs, fern, or violets. Drop in peridot, citrine, amethysts or rose quartz.

Litha: Orange, gold, yellow, or green candles with rose petals; and violets, rose, orange, lime, or thyme oil. Or include nine sacred herbs of the season: mistletoe, vervain, St. John's Wort, heartsease, lavender, mugwort, sage, rosemary, and honeysuckle. Decorate with roses, marigolds or sunflowers. Add citrine, peridot, carnelian or calcite crystals or drop in a hazelnut.

Lughnasadh: Brown, yellow, or orange candles with copal, tangerine, musk, or patchouli oil. Decorate with marigolds, corn, wheat, grapes, sunflowers, ivy, barley, or any wild flowers and plants. Use tiger's eye, citrine, aventurine, golden topaz, obsidian, moss agate, rhodochrosite, or clear quartz.

Mabon: Orange, brown, tan, or yellow candles with cinnamon, rosemary, marigold, sage, or clove; and cinnamon, tangerine, or orange oils. Decorate with fallen leaves, rue, yarrow, or other fall plants. Use citrine, rose quartz or moonstone crystals.