30 Herbs and Oils for Candle Magic: The Complete Quick Reference
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This complete quick reference covers the 30 most important herbs and oils for candle magic — their magical correspondences, their best uses, and the intentions they most powerfully support. Use this guide to select the right botanical ingredients for any candle dressing working, to build your ritual herb and oil collection, and to deepen your understanding of the botanical intelligence that underlies the candle magic tradition.
Herbs for Candle Magic
Basil — Abundance, prosperity, protection, harmony, love. Use with green candles for money workings. Bay leaf — Success, wishes, victory, psychic power, protection. Write wishes on bay leaves and burn with the candle. Black salt — Banishing, protection, warding, absorbing negativity. Use with black candles for protection workings. Calendula — Solar energy, success, protection, legal matters, psychic power. Use with yellow/gold candles. Chamomile — Peace, healing, luck, sleep, purification, money. Use with blue or green candles. Cinnamon — Speed, abundance, success, passion, attraction. The most versatile and powerful herb in candle magic. Clove — Protection, banishing, money, love, stopping gossip. Use with black or green candles. Frankincense resin — Spiritual protection, purification, connection to higher realms, blessing. Use with white or purple candles. Lavender — Peace, healing, love, sleep, spiritual development, purification. Use with blue, pink, or purple candles. Mugwort — Psychic power, divination, dreams, astral travel, lunar energy. Use with purple or silver candles. Myrrh resin — Healing, protection, transformation, ancestor work, purification. Use with black or white candles. Patchouli — Earth energy, abundance, sensuality, grounding, attraction. Use with green or brown candles. Rose petals — Love, romance, beauty, self-love, Venus energy, healing. Use with pink or red candles. Rosemary — Protection, clarity, purification, memory, love, healing. The most versatile protective herb. Thyme — Courage, healing, purification, love, psychic power. Use with blue or white candles. Wormwood — Psychic power, divination, spirit communication, banishing. Use with purple or black candles.
Essential Oils for Candle Magic
Bergamot — Prosperity, success, financial flow, confidence, joy. Use in money drawing oil blends. Black pepper — Protection, banishing, courage, breaking hexes. Use in protection oil blends. Cedarwood — Grounding, strength, ancestral protection, purification. Use in protection and grounding blends. Cinnamon bark — Speed, abundance, attraction, passion. Use sparingly (skin irritant). Clary sage — Vision, clarity, psychic enhancement, creativity. Use in psychic power blends. Dragon's blood — Power, protection, love, banishing, amplification. Amplifies any working. Frankincense — Spiritual protection, purification, third eye opening, blessing. Ginger — Speed, fire energy, amplification, success, courage. Jasmine — Love, romance, lunar energy, new beginnings, spiritual love. Patchouli — Earth energy, abundance, sensuality, grounding. Rose — Love, beauty, Venus energy, heart opening, self-love. Sandalwood — Grounding, sensuality, spiritual love, meditation, protection. Vetiver — Earth energy, financial stability, grounding, protection. Ylang ylang — Attraction, sensuality, joy, love, confidence.
