Full Moon scented jar candle

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Esbat candle: light it at the centre of the altar at moonrise and keep it burning through the rite.
• Charging: set crystals, tarot cards or a jar of water around the candle and leave them under the full moon afterwards.
• Abundance: write what you want to grow on paper and place it beneath the jar for the night.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Lunar invocation: burn it during a Monday or full moon working, with an invocation to Diana or Selene and an offering of white flowers or milk.

A Simple Working

• On the night of the full moon, set a bowl of water beside the candle.
• Light the candle and greet the moon by name.
• Drop a few jasmine flowers or a moonstone into the water.
• Speak aloud what you are thankful for and what you want to grow.
• Burn the candle for a few hours, then leave the bowl on a windowsill until morning.
• Use the water to anoint your brow or bless your altar during the next month.

Pairs Well With

• Full Moon oil: the matching oil for anointing during the rite.
• Moonstone: a classic lunar stone for the altar and the water bowl.
• Jasmine flowers: to float in moon water or lay around the base.
• Tarot cards: to read and charge by its light.

What You Receive

One jasmine-scented Full Moon ritual jar candle; colours vary from candle to candle; burns approximately 3 1/2 days.

Origin & Lore

The full moon is the most widely kept magickal night of the month, the time for esbats, charging tools and water, divination and spells of increase. This candle pairs that night with jasmine, a white, night-scented flower long given to the moon in Western correspondences.

The full moon rises as the sun sets and sets as it rises, the one night of the month when it keeps watch from dusk to dawn.

Charles Godfrey Leland’s Aradia, or the Gospel of the Witches, published in 1899, a text Leland said he received from a Tuscan witch, tells followers to meet once in the month, when the moon is full, and worship Diana; Doreen Valiente later reworked the passage into the Charge of the Goddess used in Wicca. Selene was the Titan goddess who drove the moon across the sky, while Diana became the moon goddess of the Roman world and of Italian witch lore.