Setting Lights, or candle-altar service, is a service offered by many spiritual-workers. The setting of lights entails the burning of a fixed Vigil-Candle on top of a client’s petition for a period of 5 to 7 days. Typically, the client will speak with the worker about their issues or problems. Sometimes a reading on the issue will be performed, but not always. The worker will often have the client write out their petition on a piece of paper or email it, however sometimes the worker will write the petition for them. The worker will then take the petition and set a fixing vigil light for the client’s goal. Fixing a vigil light entails choosing an appropriately candle and corresponding herbs and oils. The candle is often ritually lit with appropriate prayers pertaining to the client’s goal. The worker will carefully observe the candle each day making notes regarding how the candle burns. When the candle is spent, the worker will usually prepare a candle-burn report explaining how the candle burned and what that means in relation to the client’s wish.
Marking Your Vigil Lights:
You don’t have to buy your Vigil-Lights with ready made labels. You can easily make your own Vigil lights by buying plain Vigil-Lights and creating your own labels for them if you want. Some folks use photo copy of tarot cards in color and glue them to their glass, other folks use magic-markers, or markers.
How to Prepare Vigil Lights Begin: First off I want to say the photo above is the improper way of dressing a candle. (I advise you not to do it this way). When you add all these things to a candle your candle will burns hot, it can make for a false reading. I want you to think about it this way. If your looking for directions and you ask someone they may say ' well take a left and a right go up here then down towards here and make two rights etc'; and then you get lost ok now the same thing can happen with the universe when you ask for help from the spirits. You ask them for all these things at once and they might think what does he/she really want? So if your going to dress a candle put a little oil,(rub oil around the wick) powder, or herb but not much. A little goes along way. If your asking for different things like for financial, employment, relationship etc, use different candles for that purpose do not but all these herbs all together in one can.
Prepare: Once you have everything you need cut the wick (long wicks makes for a big flame) then dress your candle. The petition is then placed under the candle (see how to make a petition in a later post above) Place the clients photo next to the dressed candle. (Each herb,oil, powder needs to be baptized or blessed with their intention one by one before placing it on the candle then baptized or bless the finished product.)
Finally: I grasps the vigil light with my left hand and place my right palm down on top of the candle. Holding the candle in this matter, I make my prayer or petition by speaking an appropriate prayer from my heart or reciting a Psalm. (You can write your prayer on the candle as well)
Personally regard the setting of lights as a journey. The journey begins when you first light the candle and ends when the candle is spent...as the candle burns it leaves evidence of the journey along the glass in the form of wax remains, plant matter, soot, cracks, etc..... The appearance of such signs and omens often have a direct connection the person for whom the candle is set for.
A Blank Vigil Light Observation Worksheet:
After the client's work is completed I fill in the clients name and information on a worksheet with the wax-level on the diagram. I make note of the date, time, candle light, candle smoke. and moon phase (if there is one when the work was started) candle light and any signs or other omens I may observe, as well as any additional information that may be relevant to the working.
When examining a vigil-light I often get psychic impressions about the work that have nothing to do with the anything I physically see in or on the glass. I then take all this information into account and write a Candle Burn Report. The client is emailed the candle-burn report.
