Drip candles (set of 2)

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Love work: burn a red pair side by side, one for you and one for the person you want, and let the wax run together at the base.
• Romance and self-love: a pink and purple candle burned on a Friday at a vanity mirror for glamour, sweetness and charm.
• Wax reading: burn on a plain white plate and read the coloured flow once spent; runs that meet and join are read as union, runs that split as distance.

A Simple Working

• Take one red drip candle and carve your initials on one side and your lover’s on the other.
• Rub the shaft lightly with a love oil or a little rose oil, stroking towards you.
• Set it on a white saucer with a few dried rose petals around the base.
• Light it on a Friday evening and speak aloud what you want between you.
• Let it burn to the end while you sit with it.
• Keep the joined wax and rose petals in a red cloth or a small jar near your bed.

Pairs Well With

• Rose petals: to ring the base in love and glamour work.
• Love oil: for dressing the candle before lighting.
• A white ceramic plate: so the coloured drips show clearly for reading.
• Rose quartz: to set beside a pink and purple candle for tenderness.
• Amethyst: with the purple drips for spiritual focus.

What You Receive

A set of 2 white drip candles, each 9 1/2 inches tall, available in red, or in pink and purple.

Origin & Lore

Drip candles are built with coloured wax under or within a white body, so colour floods down the sides as they melt. In candle magick the white body stands for a clean start and the colours carry the intent: red for passion and desire, pink for affection and tenderness, purple for spiritual sight and influence.

These candles start white and finish striped. As the flame eats down, layers of coloured wax let go and run, so every burn leaves its own pattern behind.

Candles left to drip over wine bottles became a fixture of bohemian cafés and Italian-American restaurants in the mid-20th century, where layer after layer of coloured wax built up on straw-covered Chianti flasks. Reading the shapes of melted wax, ceromancy, is an old European divination practice in which wax was poured or dripped and its forms read as omens.