Psychic Vision scented jar candle

How to Use It

Witchcraft & Folk Magick

• Divination: light the candle before tarot, runes, pendulum or scrying, and keep it burning through the reading.
• Dream work: burn it for half an hour before bed with a mugwort sachet beside it, then move the sachet under your pillow.
• Mirror or bowl scrying: set a black mirror or bowl of dark water so the flame reflects in it, and gaze softly into the reflection.

Ceremonial & Occult Magick

• Opening a session: light it after banishing the space and before calling on any spirit or guide you work with for vision.

A Simple Working

• Cleanse your reading space and lay out a dark cloth.
• Light the candle and let the scent fill the room for a few minutes.
• Shuffle your tarot deck while asking your question aloud.
• Draw three cards and lay them in front of the candle.
• Sit quietly and note every image, word or feeling that comes before you look anything up.
• Write the reading down and snuff the candle when you are done.

Pairs Well With

• Psychic Vision oil: the matching oil for the brow and third eye.
• Mugwort: dried, for dream sachets and smoke.
• Tarot cards: to read by its light.
• A black scrying mirror: for gazing work alongside the flame.

What You Receive

One mugwort ritual jar candle; colours vary from candle to candle; burns approximately 3 1/2 days.

Origin & Lore

Mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris, is a common roadside plant of Europe and Asia with silvery-backed leaves and a bitter, sage-like smell. In European folk tradition it was a herb of travellers, midsummer fires and protection, and in modern witchcraft it is the best-known herb for opening psychic sight and dreams, the use this candle is made for.

The Old English Nine Herbs Charm calls on mugwort first of all, as the oldest of herbs.

Mugwort is named in the Nine Herbs Charm preserved in the late Anglo-Saxon Lacnunga manuscript, where it is asked to stand against poison and evil. Its genus is named after the goddess Artemis, and in medieval Europe it was worn as a girdle on St John’s Eve and thrown into the midsummer fire. Nicholas Culpeper placed mugwort under Venus.