Face to Face candle, 8″

How to Use It

Hoodoo & Rootwork

• Reconciliation: carve each person’s name on their figure, dress the candle with a Come Back or Reconciliation oil, and burn it a little each night.
• Sweetening: set the candle in a dish of honey or sugar to soften hard feelings between the two.
• Name-paper: write the two names crossed over each other on paper and place it under the candle.

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Hearth work: burn a pink candle in the home after an argument to settle the house.
• Friday burns: light it on Fridays, the day of Venus, until it is gone.

A Simple Working

• Carve one name on the man and the other on the woman.
• Write both names on a square of paper, one crossing the other.
• Dress the candle with a few drops of rose oil.
• Place it on the paper in a saucer of sugar.
• Light it and speak to both of them as a couple, saying what you want between them.
• Burn for a short time each night and snuff between sessions.
• Fold the paper and remains together and keep them in the home.

Pairs Well With

• Reconciliation oil: for dressing the candle.
• Sugar: to sweeten the couple.
• Rose petals: for gentle love work.
• Red thread: to tie the name-paper.

What You Receive

An 8″ face to face candle showing a male and a female figure, in red or pink. Moulded candles vary slightly and may need levelling at the base.

Origin & Lore

Face to face candles are a 20th-century candle-shop design, moulded as a male and female figure facing each other. They are used to reconcile a couple, sweeten a relationship gone cold, or draw two people into romance. Red is chosen for passion, pink for affection and gentle reconciliation.

Two figures turned toward each other in one block of wax: this candle is the opposite of the back-to-back separation candle, and is made to close the gap between two people.

In Plato’s Symposium, Aristophanes tells the myth that humans were once double beings with two faces, until Zeus split them in half; ever since, each half has looked for the other. The image of two people turned toward each other to become whole sits behind a great deal of later love magick.