Most magick that people do is actually candle magick, that is magick using candles.  The simplest form of candle magick is lighting a candle, and while watching the flame, ask the Goddess to grant your wish and visualise it coming true.  A more complex example would have several candles set about in a specific pattern, and requiring a different verse to be chanted while lighting each one, the candles being burned down for a certain amount of time and then extinguished, and the spell repeated again the next day.  Both will work equally as well, as long as your main intent was there.  The second spell would not work if the person casting it forgot to visualise their intent, no matter how "cool" the spell looked.  Candles work in Magick mostly because they help focus your intent, however they also symbolise the element Fire, and have the energies of Fire for that reason.  They can be annointed with herbal oils or Essential Oils, and you can even sprinkle herbs or gums into the part of the wax that melts around the wick of the candle, and burn incense from it as well. Usually on the Altar you will have a candle to represent the Goddess, one for the God and one "Altar Candle" from which other candles (and incense) can be lit.  The 4 Elements usually have a candle to represent them too.

Some people believe that it is wrong to blow out a candle (as they believe it is disrespectful to Fire or that you are blowing the energy away), they say you should snuff it with a snuffer, or use the tip of your Athame or pinch it out with your fingers to quench it. I personally believe that using your breath (Element Air) is the most natural and practical way to extinguish a candle, and to not use it, would be disrespectful to Air!  I also think of snuffing candles out as snuffing your magick out, and blowing them out as blowing your wish to the Air Element to take it to the Goddess and God to grant it.  Plus…everyone likes blowing out candles, and that can bring magick of its own to your spell!  Again (as with most things about the Craft) you are free to make your own decisions.  I have tried to give you lots of different options and not just tell you the way I do things, so that you can make your choice on what you will believe.

When using candle magick, you can buy candles to use (tapers, pillar candles or whatever kind of candle you wish), or you can make your own candles.  You can use beeswax sheets to roll your own candles (and if you do this, you may like to include herbs or a piece of paper with the desired effect, as you roll up the wax), or you can mould your own candles (using either bought moulds, or a milk carton), or you could make dipped candles.

If you are making candles specifically for a particular spell, you might want to add herbs and oils (or even small crystals) to the wax for the spell you are doing, such as rose for love, lavender for healing.   Some people say that only natural beeswax candles should be used, however these can become expensive and coloured taper type candles made from natural beeswax are extremely hard (if not impossible) to find.  You can use plain white candles for any spell though. If you are making dipped candles, you can make them totally from scratch, or you could get a taper candle, and dip that.  To add the herbs to a dipped candle, dip the candle, then quickly toss it in a bowl of herbs, so that they stick to the warm wax.  (You may need to help them by pressing them into the wax), then you can dip the candle again.

When using candles for spells, they can be anointed with oil.  This can be oil that you have made, an Essential oil, or fragrant oil.  Of course, the more natural the oil the more magickal its properties.  You can make your own herbal anointing oils in a few ways, the easiest one being to take the herb/s for the particular spell you are doing, and let them sit in a bowl of oil (Vegetable oil, not mineral oil) in the sunlight for a day.  Take the herbs out, and you can repeat the process if you like.  You now have a herbal infused oil.  When anointing the candle, you should start from the middle of the candle and rub the oil from the middle of the candle up, and the middle of the candle down.  Use a candle symbolic of your wish, or a plain white one.