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I got off the phone the other day with someone who was asking why her candles were not “working”. I realized I was right to have the initial presumption that she meant that she was not getting the results she wanted. When I asked her a few questions on the nature of her candles, she told me it was for her boyfriend of three years to basically, “put up or shut up” – meaning she wanted him to make a full commitment to her. It seems that he would run hot and cold with their relationship; that when he felt he needed to be ‘free’, she was to go along with it and allow him to flit and flutter into and back out of her life like a butterfly in the backyard. Now mind you, SHE couldn’t so the same thing; no, she was to ‘wait’ for him to come to his senses and return. She then told me she was doing a candle spell she had found on the Internet about making someone make up their mind. This was the first red flag I saw in the matters of candle burning and I told her so. This candle spell is contradictory in its creation and nature; you just can’t expect someone to stop being wishy-washy and burn a candle to make them choose one way or the other because the person is acting EXACTLY as is being petitioned for – making one choice or the other. I told her that she needed to trash that spell and do one that basically says, “Get over here and be my man, dammit!” – in a nutshell. Only there was a deeper problem when I told her that this type of clear, direct and demanding candle spell was needed. She was not sure if she wanted him. Whaaat? Why are you burning candles for them then, I asked. Her answer was that if he didn’t want to be with her, then she wanted him to be gone and stay gone but if he really wanted her, he needed to stay and stay stayed (a play with words). So, we were working on the recipient of the blessing from the candles not being completely and 100% sure if this was what they wanted, coupled with a person that wasn’t sure they wanted to stay or go. I had to tell her that no candle spell will be successful unless you are completely and totally SURE that the results or outcomes from the candle burning is truly what she wanted. Kind of like pointing a gun at a person that you would rather be six feet under, pulling the trigger, and then saying, “I really didn’t MEAN IT!!!” So I suggested a very non-hoodoo-y, magical thing to do: Go make two lists of the good and bad qualities about this person. The list with the more items wins. It would have been easier for me to play into her candle spell, load her up with a lot more spells to create more confusion and also sell her a bunch more oils. Jacqueline don’t play that way. I have a higher power that I have to justify my moves with. I had another recent encounter with the same situation, and I wrote about it on my other blog on Tarot by Jacqueline. I called it “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” – after the Rolling Stones song. Click on the blue title to go to the blog post. To summarize my story today, I want to emphasize that you must be certain and focused on your intention you have in regards to candle...
I recently had a client who was having love and financial problems in the form of a mortgage situation. She first contacted me in early April with a few questions. We briefly communicated back and forth, and then she committed to having some candles burned as a result of my suggestions. I lit the candles and for a day it seemed that al was going good. Then the signs came up during the candle burn. First, one of the two pink candles used in the love spell didn’t burn right. While one was burning correctly, the other had only burned a 3/4 inch opening in the wax – just enough to allow the candle flame to pass. This candle went on for about another day, then went out on its own. The other candle burned brightly until the end. Here’s a photo Both of these candles were purchased at the same place and lit at the same time. They were side by side in the same environment on my Altar. In all of my candle burning days, this has only happened twice and both in love spells. can it be technical, like a bad candle pour from the manufacturer? Sure – but these are the same candles used all the time, bought form the same place. Given a little information about the couple, I told the client that one has much stronger feelings for the other and the love is not reciprocated as strongly by the other. Then, about a day and a half later, her other candles started their antics. The court case candle I was burning for her cracked and the wax was oozing out all over the side of the candle, until the flame went out. Her second court case candle went as as well mid way on the burn. I told her that this is not a good sign and that this party in the situation will not be one that she can overcome. I get an e-mail a week later with this comment: your candles didn’t help I then responded by giving some deeper explanation of Faith in God to make these choices for you, but the return e-mails became more of a accusatory tone as if I was at fault for the candles not “helping”. Candle burning is not the be-all-and-end-all to a difficult situation. It is a plea, a prayer for help from God, the Angels and the Saints. It is a method of connecting with the Spiritual by turning over the decision of the outcome to the Higher Power. It is applying an offering and prayer in a better outcome for you, but ultimately leaving the decision to the Just Judge – God. Something to consider is that one set of candles is not touted to be the only thing that you have to do. It may take more than one set of candles to get the job done. I have people who light candles constantly so that their situation is always right before God’s eyes. It is a reminder to the recipient that there is something that needs constant attention until the condition improves. I burn green candles for prosperity constantly – for myself. I am a mother of children and I will constantly provide for them. I do not light candles for myself strictly when times are tough but in times of good as well. Setting lights for myself is my way of thanking the Higher Power for the good times and the bad. You don’t take the newest diet pill touted by the movie stars then go and plow through a double cheese McWhopper with a hit-me-king-sized fries...
Free Candle Spells | Reprint – “How to Write the Blues” Tutorial
Posted by Jacqueline on Sep 25th, 2011 in Rants and Raves | Comments Off on Free Candle Spells | Reprint – “How to Write the Blues” Tutorial Going over some of my oldest posts this morning and came across this. Cannot believe that at the time this was posted, it had been almost 4 years since I began the Free Candle Spells blog website. Now this website is over 20 years old. This is guaranteed to bring laughter to your heart. You know it is true, you cannot sing about the ‘blues’ if you haven’t lived through trials and tribulations. Enjoy! – J. Courtesy of John in Baton Rouge. Thanks John! 1. Most Blues begin, “Woke up this morning…” 2. “I got a good woman” is a bad way to begin the Blues, ‘less you stick something nasty in the next line like, “I got a good woman, with the meanest face in town.” 3. The Blues is simple. After you get the first line right, repeat it. Then find something that rhymes…sort of: “Got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Yes, I got a good woman with the meanest face in town. Got teeth like Margaret Thatcher, and she weigh 500 pound.” 4. The Blues is not about choice. You stuck in a ditch, you stuck in a ditch – ain’t no way out. 5. Blues cars: Chevys, Fords, Cadillacs and broken-down trucks. Blues don’t travel in Volvos, BMWs, or Sport Utility Vehicles. Most Blues transportation is a Greyhound bus or a southbound train. Jet aircraft an’ state-sponsored motor pools ain’t even in the runnin’. Walkin’ plays a major part in the blues lifestyle. So does fixin’ to die. 6. Teenagers can’t sing the Blues. They “ain’t fixin’ to die” yet. Adults sing the Blues. In Blues, “adulthood” means being old enough to get the electric chair if you shoot a man in Memphis. 7. Blues can take place in New York City, but not in Hawaii or any place in Canada. Hard times in Minneapolis or Seattle is probably just clinical depression. Chicago, St. Louis, and Kansas City are still the best places to have the Blues. You cannot have the blues in any place that don’t get rain. 8. A man with male pattern baldness ain’t the blues. A woman with male pattern baldness is. Breaking your leg cause you skiing is not the blues. Breaking your leg ’cause a alligator be chompin’ on it is. 9. You can’t have no Blues in a office or a shopping mall. The lighting is wrong. Go outside to the parking lot or sit by the dumpster. 10. Good places for the Blues: a. highway b. jailhouse c. empty bed d. bottom of a whiskey glass Bad places: a. Dillard’s b. gallery openings c. Ivy League institutions d. golf courses 11. No one will believe it’s the Blues if you wear a suit, ‘less you happen to be a old ethnic person, and you sleep in it. 12. Do you have the right to sing the Blues? Yes, if: a. you older than dirt b. you blind c. you shot a man in Memphis d. you can’t be satisfied No, if: a. you have all your teeth b. you were once blind but now can see c. the man in Memphis lived d. you have a 401K or trust fund 13. Blues is not a matter of color. It’s a matter of bad luck. Tiger Woods cannot sing the blues. Sonny Liston could. Ugly white people also got a leg up on the blues. 14. If you ask for water and your darlin’ give you gasoline, it’s the Blues. Other acceptable Blues beverages are: a. cheap wine b. whiskey or bourbon c. muddy water d. nasty black coffee The following are...Free Candle Spells | You Can’t be Weak when it comes to Candle Spells
Posted by Jacqueline on Oct 17th, 2010 in Rants and Raves | Comments Off on Free Candle Spells | You Can’t be Weak when it comes to Candle Spells
I got off the phone the other day with someone who was asking why her candles were not “working”. I realized I was right to have the initial presumption that she meant that she was not getting the results she wanted. When I asked her a few questions on the nature of her candles, she told me it was for her boyfriend of three years to basically, “put up or shut up” – meaning she wanted him to make a full commitment to her. It seems that he would run hot and cold with their relationship; that when he felt he needed to be ‘free’, she was to go along with it and allow him to flit and flutter into and back out of her life like a butterfly in the backyard. Now mind you, SHE couldn’t so the same thing; no, she was to ‘wait’ for him to come to his senses and return. She then told me she was doing a candle spell she had found on the Internet about making someone make up their mind. This was the first red flag I saw in the matters of candle burning and I told her so. This candle spell is contradictory in its creation and nature; you just can’t expect someone to stop being wishy-washy and burn a candle to make them choose one way or the other because the person is acting EXACTLY as is being petitioned for – making one choice or the other. I told her that she needed to trash that spell and do one that basically says, “Get over here and be my man, dammit!” – in a nutshell. Only there was a deeper problem when I told her that this type of clear, direct and demanding candle spell was needed. She was not sure if she wanted him. Whaaat? Why are you burning candles for them then, I asked. Her answer was that if he didn’t want to be with her, then she wanted him to be gone and stay gone but if he really wanted her, he needed to stay and stay stayed (a play with words). So, we were working on the recipient of the blessing from the candles not being completely and 100% sure if this was what they wanted, coupled with a person that wasn’t sure they wanted to stay or go. I had to tell her that no candle spell will be successful unless you are completely and totally SURE that the results or outcomes from the candle burning is truly what she wanted. Kind of like pointing a gun at a person that you would rather be six feet under, pulling the trigger, and then saying, “I really didn’t MEAN IT!!!” So I suggested a very non-hoodoo-y, magical thing to do: Go make two lists of the good and bad qualities about this person. The list with the more items wins. It would have been easier for me to play into her candle spell, load her up with a lot more spells to create more confusion and also sell her a bunch more oils. Jacqueline don’t play that way. I have a higher power that I have to justify my moves with. I had another recent encounter with the same situation, and I wrote about it on my other blog on Tarot by Jacqueline. I called it “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” – after the Rolling Stones song. Click on the blue title to go to the blog post. To summarize my story today, I want to emphasize that you must be certain and focused on your intention you have in regards to candle...Lucky 13 Clover Spiritual Supply | Elk Grove – Sacramento, CA
Posted by Jacqueline on Jul 31st, 2010 in Rants and Raves | Comments Off on Lucky 13 Clover Spiritual Supply | Elk Grove – Sacramento, CA Lucky 13 Clover Spiritual...Free Candle Spells | Expectations in Candle Burning – A Commentary
Posted by Jacqueline on May 8th, 2010 in Rants and Raves | Comments Off on Free Candle Spells | Expectations in Candle Burning – A Commentary
I recently had a client who was having love and financial problems in the form of a mortgage situation. She first contacted me in early April with a few questions. We briefly communicated back and forth, and then she committed to having some candles burned as a result of my suggestions. I lit the candles and for a day it seemed that al was going good. Then the signs came up during the candle burn. First, one of the two pink candles used in the love spell didn’t burn right. While one was burning correctly, the other had only burned a 3/4 inch opening in the wax – just enough to allow the candle flame to pass. This candle went on for about another day, then went out on its own. The other candle burned brightly until the end. Here’s a photo Both of these candles were purchased at the same place and lit at the same time. They were side by side in the same environment on my Altar. In all of my candle burning days, this has only happened twice and both in love spells. can it be technical, like a bad candle pour from the manufacturer? Sure – but these are the same candles used all the time, bought form the same place. Given a little information about the couple, I told the client that one has much stronger feelings for the other and the love is not reciprocated as strongly by the other. Then, about a day and a half later, her other candles started their antics. The court case candle I was burning for her cracked and the wax was oozing out all over the side of the candle, until the flame went out. Her second court case candle went as as well mid way on the burn. I told her that this is not a good sign and that this party in the situation will not be one that she can overcome. I get an e-mail a week later with this comment: your candles didn’t help I then responded by giving some deeper explanation of Faith in God to make these choices for you, but the return e-mails became more of a accusatory tone as if I was at fault for the candles not “helping”. Candle burning is not the be-all-and-end-all to a difficult situation. It is a plea, a prayer for help from God, the Angels and the Saints. It is a method of connecting with the Spiritual by turning over the decision of the outcome to the Higher Power. It is applying an offering and prayer in a better outcome for you, but ultimately leaving the decision to the Just Judge – God. Something to consider is that one set of candles is not touted to be the only thing that you have to do. It may take more than one set of candles to get the job done. I have people who light candles constantly so that their situation is always right before God’s eyes. It is a reminder to the recipient that there is something that needs constant attention until the condition improves. I burn green candles for prosperity constantly – for myself. I am a mother of children and I will constantly provide for them. I do not light candles for myself strictly when times are tough but in times of good as well. Setting lights for myself is my way of thanking the Higher Power for the good times and the bad. You don’t take the newest diet pill touted by the movie stars then go and plow through a double cheese McWhopper with a hit-me-king-sized fries...