Review/Giveaway: Candle Charms

“This is definitely the coolest thing you’ve gotten to review,” my boyfriend said, as I opened up the package containing a large, handmade green candle on the dining room table. Anita at Candle Charms makes her “candle charms” by hand, using herbs, essential oils, and quartz crystal aligned to the purpose of the charm.

This particular candle contained herbs and oils dedicated to Anu, the Celtic mother goddess of abundance. The scent filled up the entire room.

“Candle Charms” aren’t just your everyday candle to scent your home; they’re designed with a purpose in mind. Each candle is created with the intention of bringing beneficial energies into your home.

The slip included with the candle reads:

“Call upon this Goddess when you need to be ‘fed’ and when you need to tap into the primal energies behind and within everything. By reconnecting with Her, you will be able to experience the abundance of life and its inner vitality. 

As a Triple Goddess, in her form as Danu, She is also a goddess of movement, tides, and process – the flux and flow of existence – all that is connected with water for human beings (survival, refreshment, and pleasure). 

In Her form as Tailtiu, She is the goddess of vigor, strength, and endurance. 

As the goddess who returned to the body of the Earth, She is the connection with the land, its manifestation and protector.”

I certainly felt like I needed to be “fed”. This last year has been tough financially.

We had an unexpected loss of income of the sudden unemployment variety.  We had just bought a house, and unemployment benefits aren’t much more than a pittance. Bills began to stack up. I had recently gotten a new job, but the coffers had to be restored to their former glory (har, har).

So my Anu candle would be used for bringing financial wealth and abundance into my home.

I am a Neopagan Druid, and the Celtic pantheon is my “hearth culture”, which means this sort of thing is right in my wheelhouse. I dressed my home altar in green and set the candle in the middle on a nice glass plate.  

I had done a tarot reading to sort of direct me where to go in all of this, in which the first card was the Magician, the second was the Eight of Pentacles, and the third was the Three of Cups. This means if I direct my Will (and literally in this case, through magick) and work diligently, I will achieve results.

Seems like kind of a no-brainer, but when it pops up in a reading right in front of your face, it’s encouraging. I laid the spread out in front of the candle and left it there.

Every day, from the Full Moon in February until the Full Moon in March, I lit the candle and said a variation of the prayer that came on the wrapper while lighting the candle:

“Anu, Celtic Mother of the Gods, Goddess of Sustenance, Nurture, and Abundance — help me bring success and prosperity into my life. So be it!”

 I didn’t want to get too specific because I didn’t want to put limits on how it would manifest in my life.

After making up a little budget, I realized that my situation isn’t as soul crushing and hopeless as I had originally thought.  I began to notice little things right away; opportunities to pick up extra shifts at work, bills being considerably cheaper than originally anticipated, finding money I didn’t know I had, and little windfalls here and there.

It managed to spill over into my boyfriend’s life—he won a decent chunk of change in a little lottery game they had at his work’s belated holiday party.

I had also received a couple of small bonus candles—one for Cerridwen and one for Morrighan. I’ll have to think about how I’m going to use these later, but of course, they smell lovely.

A variety of Candle Charms are available, including intention candles (used for completing goals or drawing things to yourself), spiritual candles (dedicated to gods and goddesses, saints, or angels), totem candles (dedicated to animal totems), and personalized wedding candles. All are handmade to order with eco-friendly palm wax, fragrance and essential oils, and herbs. If you have sensitivities to certain scents or herbs, just ask and Anita will be happy to accommodate you. 

Visit CandleCharms on Etsy and see what she has to offer for you!

Candle Charms is giving away one candle of the winner's choice!  The value is variable depending on the candle chosen and would not include sets or custom candles.

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This giveaway is open to US RESIDENTS ONLY
and will end just before midnight ET on 3-27-15. 

The winner will be notified by email within 24 hours after the end of the giveaway.  In order to claim the giveaway prize, the winner will need to respond within 24 hours of notification, or an alternate winner will be selected.

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