Pentacle candle

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Protection: burn the black pentacle by the front door or a window when the home feels unsettled.
• Consecration: light it on the altar while blessing new tools, passing each one through the smoke of incense nearby.
• Elemental work: set it at the North quarter, the place of Earth and the pentacle suit in tarot.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Pentagram rituals: burn it during a banishing ritual of the pentagram, drawing the star in the air at each quarter.
• Talismans: place a talisman or seal beneath the candle while it burns to charge it.

A Simple Working

• Clean the space with a sweep or a little salt water.
• Set the candle on a plate and ring it with sea salt.
• Light it and trace a pentagram in the air in front of it.
• Say: “Earth, air, fire, water and spirit, guard this place.”
• Turn to each direction and repeat the gesture.
• Let it burn for an hour, snuff it, and repeat on the following nights.

Pairs Well With

• Sea salt: to ring the candle and seal the space.
• A pentacle altar tile: for consecrating tools.
• Frankincense: for consecration smoke.
• A black chime candle: for shorter protection burns.

What You Receive

A pentacle candle cast with a base, about 3.5″ long x 2″ wide x 4.75″ high, in black, blue, purple or chakra colours with a silver pentacle design. Burn time is roughly 8 to 25 hours.

Origin & Lore

The pentagram is a five-pointed star drawn in a single line; set inside a circle it becomes the pentacle used in modern witchcraft. In Wicca it represents the four elements beneath spirit and is a sign of protection. In older ceremonial magick, the word “pentacle” also meant a consecrated disc or talisman inscribed with signs.

Five points in one unbroken line: the pentagram has stood for health to Pythagoreans, for truth to a knight of the Round Table, and for protection to modern witches.

In the 14th-century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain’s shield bears a gold pentangle, called the “endless knot”, which the poet explains point by point as five sets of five virtues. Earlier still, the Pythagoreans used the pentagram as a sign of health and recognition among themselves.