I made these with the tutorial from @baduhennasraven , but instead of Spell Candles I made candles for the Sabbats or Feast Days I celebrate!
Here are all the Feast Day candles in order!
Red, yellow and orange candles were used on this candle. I used pumpkin spice black tea and red glitter on the top of the candle and it is tied with an orange piece of twine and a triskele charm. These are all my personal associates for Brighid and Imbolc is her Feast day.
This candle celebrates the dichotomy of light and dark. This Feast Day for me represents the turning of the wheel and after this day of equal light and dark it will start to get lighter every day. I used yellow, black, and white candles for this. The light side has salt for cleansing, and white quartz chips. The dark side has silver glitter and smoky quartz chips for banishing. It is topped with lemon peel for cleansing.
This candle is for one of the first Fire festivals of the year. It has purple, green, and red candles dripped on it. The herbs used are lavender, dried roses (whole and crumbled up) and dried honeysuckle - for the sweetness, love and romance of the season. It also has pink glitter for romance and pink Himalayan sea salt for self care and cleansing. This is basically like my Valentine’s day. It is tied with a purple sparkly ribbon and the charm is a purple butterfly, to represent the Fair Folk. This holiday is a time when the veil between the worlds is at its thinnest, and it is said the Faeries walk the land.
I live in very warm place so basically summer starts on Beltaine and lasts well into August or September. This candle is for the summer solstice, or as I celebrate it - Midsummer. This candle is for Manannán Mac Lir. It has green, purple, and ocean scented aqua candle drips on it. It is topped with beach sand, salt, shell pieces, and ocean jasper chips - to represent the sea, the realm of Manannán. It is tied with a straw ribbon that represents the rushes we pay as rent to him, and a sea shell with a hole in it I found at the beach. It smells the best out of all the candles!
One of my favorite Feast Days, this candle is for the harvest feast of Lughnasadh. It represents three deities, Lugh, Taitlu, and Brighid. The yellow is for Brighid, who I honor this time of the year as well. The purple is for Taitlu, who plowed the land non-stop, purple represents her bruised body and tireless work. Green is for Lugh, the Many-Talented. This Feast Day is the funeral games he threw for Taitlu. It is topped with pumpkin pie spice, which looks like dirt and smells like all the good things that grow in it. It also has Brighid’s tea on top, and then a sprinkle of all the left over colors of wax to represent all the talents of Lugh. It is tied with a green ribbon and a sprig of Ornage flowers, to represent the harvest that starts on this Feast Day.
Samhain was a fun one. It’s not quite done, because I am going to look for a charm for it. It has black, purple, and white candle drips. It’s the second time of the year that the veil between worlds is thinnest, and is know for the spirits of the dead to visit. The purple is for the Fae as wel, for they too step through the veil. The top has silver glitter, rosemary for remembrance, and theee juniper berries, offering for the honored dead. This candle is to honor my ancestors, the gods and not-gods, and the beloved dead.
And those are the candles I worked on today!