Black Tree of Life candle

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Ancestor work: light it on an ancestor altar with photographs and a glass of water to call on your line.
• Grounding: burn it after ritual or travel to settle back into the body and the earth.
• Family protection: set it in the main room of the home with the names of the household written beneath it.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Kabbalistic meditation: burn it while working through the sephiroth of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, from Malkuth upward.

A Simple Working

• Write the names of your ancestors on a sheet of paper.
• Set the candle on the paper on a small altar.
• Place a glass of water and a little bread beside it.
• Light the candle and read the names aloud.
• Ask them to guide and protect the family.
• Let it burn for an hour, then snuff it.
• Leave the bread outdoors the next morning and pour the water at the roots of a tree.

Pairs Well With

• A glass of water: the simplest ancestor offering.
• Family photographs: for the ancestor altar.
• Rosemary: an old herb of remembrance.
• A white chime candle: for individual ancestors.

What You Receive

One black round candle with a sturdy base and a detailed gold Tree of Life design on the front, about 3.5″ long x 2″ wide x 4.75″ high.

Origin & Lore

The Tree of Life is a symbol found across many cultures, standing for the connection of underworld, earth and heavens, and for family and continuity. The circular design with mirrored roots and branches is a modern decorative form, often called the Celtic Tree of Life. Black gives the candle a grounding, protective and ancestral character.

Roots below, branches above, and a trunk that joins them: the Tree of Life is a map of the worlds drawn in wood.

Norse myth places the world on the great ash Yggdrasil, whose roots reach to the realms of the dead and the giants, while the gods hold council beneath its branches. In Kabbalah the Tree of Life is a diagram of ten sephiroth that describes how the divine flows into the world, and it became central to Western ceremonial magick through groups such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.