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The Peace candle from the World Magic Line will be back for a limited time starting in November.  We have only poured a few small batches for the holiday season.  The candle will have new new label, updated blessing but same wonderful formula.

What is the Peace candle for?

Through this candle, your personal prayers for peace join with the collective prayers of humanity to form a web of peace around the globe. The sacred herbs and oils from the 4 corners of the Earth, bringing a global focus for our prayers and intentions to transform hatred into love, fear into peace and intolerance into empathy.

Included in the candle recipe are:

Lavender from Europe

Frankincense from Africa

Jasmine from Asia

Cedar and Vanilla from the Americas

The Peace candle is sold on a first come, first serve basis.  We only make a limited amount of candles so don’t wait too long to get your candles!  The Peace candles will be available starting November 1st until sold out.

We want YOU to join our Witches Union!  It’s time to stand together loud and proud to celebrate all the diverse and amazing folks who are delighted to call themselves a witch.  We are very excited to offer all the Coventry Creations family, membership into the Witches Union.  

Spell Casters Club: Wildly Successful Spell

This spell is all about powering up your spells and building upon success. Success can be professional or personal, help bring the positive, happy and lucky energy your way. The Dragon’s Blood candle and oil are all about energizing and adding that extra kick. The set includes 1 Dragon’s Blood Oil, 1 Dragon’s Blood Pillar, a spell recipe card and a witches union member card.

The spell card comes with two spells on it and they are easily repeatable! There are also some substitutions offered on the card. Please remove all packaging before use and never leave a burning candle unattended.

It is the month of Halloween and everyone starts talking about black cats, witches and brooms. We took a moment to stop and ask ourselves, what does it mean to us to be a witch.  Thankfully, we have many members of the staff who identify with the pagan and wiccan community and we asked them to give us a couple of words they would use to define a witch. Below are a the most common words and explanations on the anatomy of a witch.

 What do you think?  Did they get it on point? Missing anything important?  Share your thoughts with us on our facebook at coventry creation or tweet at us @coventryc #beingawitch.

We want YOU to join our Witches Union!  It’s time to stand together loud and proud to celebrate all the diverse and amazing folks who are delighted to call themselves a witch.  We are very excited to offer all the Coventry Creations family, membership into the Witches Union.  

Spell Casters Club: Wildly Successful Spell

This spell is all about powering up your spells and building upon success. Success can be professional or personal, help bring the positive, happy and lucky energy your way. The Dragon’s Blood candle and oil are all about energizing and adding that extra kick. The set includes 1 Dragon’s Blood Oil, 1 Dragon’s Blood Pillar, a spell recipe card and a witches union member card.

The spell card comes with two spells on it and they are easily repeatable! There are also some substitutions offered on the card. Please remove all packaging before use and never leave a burning candle unattended.

We want YOU to join our Witches Union!  It’s time to stand together loud and proud to celebrate all the diverse and amazing folks who are delighted to call themselves a witch.  We are very excited to offer all the Coventry Creations family, membership into the Witches Union.  

Spell Casters Club: Curse Breaker Spell

Negative energy and thoughts flowing your way can feel like a curse.  It could be that you have accidently surrounded yourself with negative or jealous people, or that a series of hard events have left yourself and your space in a pattern of pessimistic heavy energy. Break any bad energy or jealous thoughts headed your way with the Curse Breaker spell. If you feel like you have been going through some bad luck lately or you feel like you need some protection and cleansing from those who may not be wishing you well.  The set includes: 1  Evil Eye oil, 1 Evil Eye Pillar, a spell recipe card and a witches union member card

The spell card comes with two spells on it and they are easily repeatable! There are also some substitutions offered on the card. Please remove all packaging before use and never leave a burning candle unattended.

We want YOU to join our Witches Union!  It’s time to stand together loud and proud to celebrate all the diverse and amazing folks who are delighted to call themselves a witch.  We are very excited to offer all the Coventry Creations family, membership into the Witches Union.  

Spell Casters Club: Money Bags Spell

Money, money, money!  It makes the world go round.  As much as we hate to admit it, sometimes we just need a little more cash flow to get things done. This spell is for money! Use this spell to bring prosperity and abundance your way. This spell can be used for situation where quick cash is required or reveal a path you can take to help change your money woes in a bigger way. This set includes: 1 Witches Purse oil, 1 Witches Purse Pillar, a spell recipe card and a witches union member card.

The spell card comes with two spells on it and they are easily repeatable! There are also some substitutions offered on the card. Please remove all packaging before use and never leave a burning candle unattended.

Witches Union Spell Box

We are very excited to offer all the Coventry Creations family, membership into the Witches Union.   It’s time to stand together loud and proud to celebrate all the diverse and amazing folks who are delighted to call themselves a witch.  The Witches Union is a series of Spell Boxes that come with the candles, a spell with detailed instructions and of course your very own witches union card. Unlike a subscription box, we make them available to purchase when you are ready.  Buy them every month or skip a few and pick the ones that are relevant to you.

The Spell boxes have been custom designed and formulated by Jacki Smith, President of Coventry Creations and author of the books Coventry Magic and Do it Yourself Akashic Wisdom. They are perfect on the go spells that are simple to set up and created to fit  with the season.  We hope to continue updating the witches union spell boxes, and we invite you to become a card carrying member of the witches union.

Here are this season’s Spell Boxes

Ancestor Altar-Recipe and candles to setting up your ancestor altar.  Create an altar to deepen your connection to them and build a strong spiritual foundation for all magical and inspirational pursuits.

Gratitude-This kit is for when you have experience failure, disappointment or stress to drive into gratitude and stop yourself from continuing down a negative path.

Jinx Removing-When you are trying to figure out where this bad luck keeps coming from, use this kit to clear up the jinx and get back to normal.

Spiritual Cleansing-After a particularly difficult situation, when you are surrounded by negative people or just had a bad day; it is always a good idea to spiritually cleanse.

In addition to these season spell boxes, we also have our Witches Brew Spell Caster club boxes featured throughout August.  Look for the the details in the Witches Union Category at the Coventry Creations Shop!

We want YOU to join our Witches Union!  It’s time to stand together loud and proud to celebrate all the diverse and amazing folks who are delighted to call themselves a witch.  We are very excited to offer all the Coventry Creations family membership into the Witches Union.  

The Witches Union is a selection of spell boxes that will update every few months. Unlike a subscription box, we make them available to purchase when you are ready.  Buy them all or skip a few and pick the ones that are relevant to you.

When you purchase a Spell Box or a witches brew Spell Caster Club Recipe Box, included will be the candles, a recipe card for the spell for when, why and how and also will be your very own Witches Union card.  You can find the sets under Witches Union in the Coventry Creations Shop.

Written on the back of the card are the entitlements and benefits of being a card carrying member of the witches union!  We would love to hear your thoughts on what this means to you or even some pictures of you toting your card loud and proud!  Post to our facebook at coventry creations or you can also tag us on instagram @coventrycandles.  If you want to proclaim what it means to you to be a witch, tweet us @coventryc #beingawitch

Witches Brew Spell Caster Club Sets

Money Bags Spell

Curse Breaker Spell

Wildly Successful Spell

Guts and Glory Spell

Witches Union Spell Boxes

Ancestor Altar Spell Box

Gratitude Spell Box

Jing Removing Spell Box

Spiritual Cleansing Spell Box

Using the Halloween Pillar in Candle Magic

The Halloween candle also known as the Night of the Witch is from an old favorite from the original witches brew line known as spell caster.   The original label said “a powerful blend to open the path to manifesting your dreams.”  For us, this recipe was perfect to incorporate into Halloween or Samhain traditions and ceremonies.  Using the time when the veil is it at its thinnest between this world and the next.  Call on your ancestors to help bring about the energy to manifest your goals, wishes and dreams.   

The Halloween candle will only be around for a limited time.  The candle burns for 70 hours and includes a blessing on the label to recite with the candle and intention. Please never leave a burning candle unattended.

Unwrapping the Gratitude Spell Box

We want YOU to join our Witches Union!  It’s time to stand together loud and proud to celebrate all the diverse and amazing folks who are delighted to call themselves a witch.  We are very excited to offer all the Coventry Creations family, membership into the Witches Union.  These spells are simple, easy to do and most importantly work well and work fast!

Gratitude is a beautiful thing.  It helps to bring in happiness, forgiveness and even open to fresh ideas.  Celebrating the wins in your life as well as the lessons learned can give you the edge in this world. The more grateful you are to the universe, the higher power you believe in, your family, your friends and even your little pet companions the more you are opening yourself up to the abundance of life, happiness and prosperity. This simple spell kit helps you pay tribute to all that is around you while welcoming more positive and lucky energy towards you.

The set contains the candles, oil or spray in the recipe, a spell, instructions for a superior spell and a short list of some simple items that can easily be found in your home and your Witches Union Membership card.  They are perfect for your new witches or witches on the go and a great way  to learn about magic! To get the spell box of your choice, go to the Witches Union box sets in the coventry creation shop.

Using the Day of the Death Pillar in Candle Magic

The day of the dead, or dia de los muertos is an ancient tradition celebrated all over the world to honor our ancestors and our roots.   Many of us feel the need to connect with something older and bigger than ourselves, finding out where we came from in order to help us discover our own path.  By honoring our ancestors and also the land in which has housed us, fed us and formed our cultural identity, we allow ourselves gratitude and growth to complete the challenges before us. In our path for personal discovery, we need not lose the important lessons gained by our family and heritage.

Celebrate your family here and those no longer with us by lighting the Day of the Dead candle in their honor.  Whether or not you have an altar, a collection of photos or just memories and stories, you can manifest that love and energy through this candle and feel the love your family has for you.

The Day of the Dead candle will only be around for a limited time.  The candle burns for 70 hours and includes a blessing on the label to recite with the candle and intention. Please never leave a burning candle unattended.

Unwrapping the Spiritual Cleansing Spell Box

We want YOU to join our Witches Union!  It’s time to stand together loud and proud to celebrate all the diverse and amazing folks who are delighted to call themselves a witch.  We are very excited to offer all the Coventry Creations family, membership into the Witches Union.  These spells are simple, easy to do and most importantly work well and work fast!

It is important to clean things out every once and a while.  This goes for your closet, your fridge, your car and your soul. Negative thoughts, fights, misunderstandings, stress and even a depressing movie; these things grow bad mojo mold all over your insides. Clear out the bad energy and let the lemon fresh happy vibes back into your life.  This spell combines the power of clearing and cleansing in both candle and room spray to bring you back to a peaceful and positive space.

The set contains the candles, oil or spray in the recipe, a spell, instructions for a superior spell and a short list of some simple items that can easily be found in your home and your Witches Union Membership card.  They are perfect for your new witches or witches on the go and a great way  to learn about magic! To get the spell box of your choice, go to the Witches Union box sets in the coventry creation shop.

Using Santisima Muerte Pillar in Candle Magic

Of the Halloween candle series, Santisima Muerte,or the bony lady, is the most unknown.   We wanted to include this candle in the line, not only because of who the bony lady is, but because her magic is so strong and so beautiful, a Halloween set would not be complete without her.  

Santisima Muerte means the holiest of deaths. Now death does not need to be literal for this candle magic.  It is all about transitions, changes and protection. Whether you are burning the candle for someone you love to give them strength during a difficult passage of life or for yourself during a time of metamorphosis; our lady of blessings can be there to help protect and cleanse you through this process.   She is there for those moments you feel the most alone to remind you that you never are.

The Santisima Muerte  candle will only be around for a limited time.  The candle burns for 70 hours and includes a blessing on the label to recite with the candle and intention. Please never leave a burning candle unattended

Unwrapping the Ancestor Altar Spell Box

We want YOU to join our Witches Union!  It’s time to stand together loud and proud to celebrate all the diverse and amazing folks who are delighted to call themselves a witch.  We are very excited to offer all the Coventry Creations family, membership into the Witches Union.  These spells are simple, easy to do and most importantly work well and work fast!

Creating a connection to your ancestors is vitally important.  You fill a hole inside of you that helps you to know where you come from and where you want to go.  Use this kit to create a sacred space that invites your ancestors into your life. Honor them and ask them for protection, abundance and help on your journey.  If you are lost, your ancestors will help you figure out what are your values and lessons in order to give you direction to your true most fulfilled self.

The set contains the candles, oil or spray in the recipe, a spell, instructions for a superior spell and a short list of some simple items that can easily be found in your home and your Witches Union Membership card.  They are perfect for your new witches or witches on the go and a great way  to learn about magic! To get the spell box of your choice, go to the Witches Union box sets in the coventry creation shop.

Fall is the time of power and Jacki wants YOU to join the witches union. Witches Union Spell Box sets come filled with candles, a spell card and a special limited edition Witches Union card made by Jacki Smith. The spell boxes will be available all fall!  There will be 6 boxes made with the Autumn traditions like creating an ancestor altar, spiritual cleansing, removing a jinx and other amazing kits. Go to coventrycreations.com to check how you can join the witches union!

Using the Hekate Pillar in Candle Magic

The Halloween candles are a special set of pillars that we made for the autumn.  Hekate is one of the most popular of the Halloween special pour that we have.  She celebrated by many and is known as the triple goddess, goddess of the crossroads, goddess of the ghost, queen of the witches among many other titles.

For candle magic, this pillar is for calling for help when on the crossroads from one transition to another. With help not only for help navigating in transitions but vision on which path will be the safest journey what will lead you on towards the right path. Follow its light to help you to keep going towards the journey you need for growth and recuperation.

The Hekate candle will only be around for a limited time.  The candle burns for 70 hours and includes a blessing on the label to recite with the candle and intention. Please never leave a burning candle unattended.

Halloween Special Pour Available for September!

We do two special pours in late summer.  One is our ghost candle line that we have been promoting all August.  The second pour are the Halloween candles. The Halloween candles are a combination of old retired favorites and a new recipe from 2014.  They are mostly candles that, while are not popular year round, are amazing candles for working with  ancestors, samhain, spirit work and family traditions and with altars.

Just like the ghost candles, we only make a few batches once a year. Once they are sold out, they will not be available until the next year. Last year we sold through them very quickly so we did up our batch size this year, but we are still expecting them to go fast so if you are interested,do not hesitate.  These candles will be available starting in September, so keep a look out.  If you are interested in keeping up to date with our newest products and current sales, I suggest subscribing to our newsletters.  Not only is there up to date information but also links to Jacki and Patty’s more recent articles and upcoming events to stores near you!

The Halloween Special Pours are:

Hekate: Queen of the Witches-Is a retired candle from the world magic line, Hekate stands at the crossroads to open the paths between the worlds and lights the way to the future. Hekate is ageless, believed to have come from Egypt and crossed into the Greek pantheon as the original Triple Goddess. It is helping us through these crossroads of like that has earned her title of "Queen of the Witches." Her traditions continue to this day, as many honor her at places where three roads meet

Halloween: Night of the Witches Is a retired candle from the witches brew line known originally as Spell Caster. Halloween, also known to many pagans as Samhain(sah-win), is the night when the veil between the world of the living and the land of the dead is the thinnest.  Ancient Celts would call upon the blessing of their ancestors to protect them from spirits that would spoil the harvest.

Santisima Muerte: Our Lady of Blessings- Our newest recipe, Santisima Muerte, "The Most Holy Death", is a folk saint with origins in the Aztec Gods. Santa Muerte holds dominion over all death, thus holds dominion over all aspects of life. Call to "The Bony Lady" to help you through any of life's challenges, to bring blessings and cleanse you of negativity.

Dia de los Muertos: Day of the Dead- A seasonal favorite, Day of the Dead, celebrated on November 1st, is when families gather in the graveyards or create Offrenedas (altars) to celebrate their ancestors. This celebration shows us that death is not to be feared, but to be celebrated as the return to the creator.

BEST OF JACKI

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Letting go of the past, do you know whose past you are letting go of?

By Jacki Smith

I can place a pretty sure bet that you start thinking about family, family gatherings and your reaction to them.You either are obligated to attend a gathering of the clan and you, or feel abandoned and isolated from family. We idealize (or demonize) what this gathering would look like and like every other member of society have a reaction to the holidays. You try and try to create a new paradigm for yourself around this, but you fall back into that old pattern.

I have a nice big fat reaction to family and/or friend gatherings. In past years it would cause huge anxiety and I would either overcompensate from guilt of not wanting to be there or have so much trepidation I would refuse to go. Oh, how I hated the holidays. I had such a big issue around impending holidays that I even chose a husband that doesn’t celebrate holidays or birthdays… at all… ever (after 20 years he has not budged on this).  When I look at this from the 30,000 foot view I realized it all works together forcing me to heal this issue.   

Into the Akashic records I went!  For full disclosure, I don’t think I went into the Akashic records for this issue.  If I remember correctly, I went into the records for a food issue and found myself smack dab in the middle of some family legacy issues that needed to be addressed.  Needed is not even an adequate word to describe the urgency of me dealing with this issue.  What I found waiting for me was a filter that I was viewing family and friends and that was causing a lot of disconnected and abandoned feelings.   This filter was not even of my own making!  I was trying to release something that was mine, but what I needed to clear was not something that I created, it was something I inherited.  

It was not my past I needed to let go of, but the collective past of my family that was attached to me. Family Legacies can also be called a family curse, but that implies this energetic discord was placed upon your unwitting and innocent ancestors.   A Family Legacy is the collection of belief and energetic blocks that build generation upon generation until it is so restrictive to your personal growth that is defines you in uncomfortable ways.   In the book Hauntings; Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives by James Hollis he talks about how the complexes, or issues of our parents are the lens we initially view our own life through.  If we remain unaware that we are running our lives based on the complexes of our parents, they become our own adult issues and then are compounded by the new complexes that are created through our own experiences.    It is when you clear or let go of the issues of your parents and ancestors that you can begin to heal your own jazz.

In DIY Akashic Wisdom: Access the Library of Your Soul, Patty Shaw and I talk about Family Legacies.  In chapter 10, “The people that we meet on the Akashic street” we talk about a spiritual pattern that you inherit along with your DNA.  These legacies can be filled with gifts, talents and strengths, but can also be filled with beliefs, thought forms and even contracts of behavior that are not good for us.   It is amazing how much nature and nurture combines to create YOU!  You are an ever growing and evolving being that is like no other.  It is when you consciously choose to move through life, connect with your divine spark and live today to its fullest that you can see the miasmas or dysfunctions that keep you anchored into unconscious drama that limits your joy.    

When I looked at the Family Legacy surrounding my holiday experience, it didn’t go back very far.  It went back to a place where the only thing that mattered was appearance.  We all must maintain the appearance of a happy, beautiful family.  This was not new or earth shattering or even unique to my family, but there it was trying to drive a bus that was not willing to go there (that bus being me).   

Since I had been living my life in a conscious way to bring love and joy into my life, that family legacy was the opposite of what I was going for.   No wonder I would melt down and become a complete wreck over what to buy as gifts, wear for gatherings and how we presented our own little family to my greater family of origin.   I even saw how my husband broke free of that belief and that I needed his stubborn refusal to participate in that legacy to break free of it on my own.  I had to let go of my mother’s complexes before I could heal and rewrite my own experience.

Once I cleared what belonged to someone else’s past I was able to heal the immediate discomfort I came to my Akasha to look at.   My food issue came in to play as the replacement of honest emotions and nurturing feelings with food.  That was the easiest part of the healing; now I needed a new belief to be embodied and a way to incorporate this healing into my everyday life.   My new belief is that we create our own holidays and they are not dictated by the calendar.   I also decided that I would participate as much as I wanted to in the family gatherings and no more.  Once I released the guilt, I felt free to create my own traditions. Now my family and I have Thanksgiving Lasagna, Christmas Tacos and spend the day together playing, relaxing and disconnected from stress.   If we decide to go to a family function it is because we are interested in it – not out of obligation.

It is one of the most empowering experiences to go through the Family Tree Meditation on page 137 of DIY Akashic Wisdom.  It is additionally empowering to add in ritual once the mediation is over to anchor in this new belief. I do what I call the Belief Anchoring Ritual and of course I use a selection of Coventry candles.

I start with an Uncrossing Hoo Doo candle or a Needed Change Blessed Herbal Candle and a piece of paper.  I have a terrible memory after any healing work I do so I light the candle that helps release any residual energy and write down what I cleared.   This way if it starts to come up again I will see the details that may need to be healed after the fact.  

I then get a clean sheet of paper, select a river washed stone or crystal, light a Stability Blessed Herbal Candle, a Heart Blessed Herbal Candle and a Fertility Blessed Herbal Candle and write down my new belief.  I do this as bullet points so I can post this paper and quickly reference it in times of stress. I then read through that list and create a new affirmation that embodies the new belief and place it on my mirror so I can recite it every time I look at myself.    I carry my stone with me and think about this new belief that I have.  This helps me remember to incorporate this new way of being in my waking life and to remember it in times of stress.   It is those stressful times that we will unconsciously revert to the old behavior.  It takes 7-9 instances of making a new choice before it becomes your new habit.

Take a moment the next time an old unhealthy behavior comes up and ask it; are you mine or do you belong to someone else’s past.  Sometime what you need to let go of didn’t belong to you in the first place.

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Success is a Journey, Not a Destination!

by Jacki Smith

What does success mean to you? Success, in financial terms, is such an American concept.  It’s what our country was founded on – the right to come here, free of societal class restriction and on our seemingly even playing field, become a success.

We all grew up with the success stories of someone who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps to live the American dream with the assumption that if they can do it, you can do it.    It is so pervasive that if you are not living that American dream there must be something wrong with you.

IF you are old enough to have been an adult in the 80’s and early 90’s you know that success had a very materialistic definition.   Driving your Lexus and living in your McMansion was the definition of our generation’s American dream. As we progressed to the new century with the threat of technology being our downfall, then quickly moving into the threat of terrorists on our own soil, the definition of success started to morph for the new generation into safety, family and spiritual balance.   Yet many of us Gen-X’ers are still stuck in the Michael J Fox “Secret of My Success” obsession with money and continue to define our success in those terms.  

Success is a Journey, Not a Destination

Time to upgrade!   Success is not about money, in the words of Tony Robins (the guru of Success)  “…(Success) has never been on my values list, I would much rather say what creates a meaningful life, what makes people light up, what makes people feel alive… what is your drive.”   Time to redefine success - is not a goal within itself, but the process of manifesting your ideas.   The first question when you are reaching for a goal is, how hungry and driven are you?  Are you passionate enough to push through the small failures and successes?    Are you driven enough to weather the alchemical process of success?

In Tony Robin’s TED talk, he says the defining factor to success is the human emotion; passion.   He demonstrates that is emotion creates action – without the driving force of passion we don’t take the actions needed to realize our goals.

It’s easy to see how you without the driving force of your positive emotions you can easily sabotage your success; meaning the small actions you take moment to moment to manifest your goal.   

Success as an Alchemical Process

That is the start of the alchemical process, turning emotion into action; water into earth.   Success is the constant churning of the elements; thought into passion into emotion into action – Air into fire into water into earth.   Add in that unique ingredient of your spirit and you are manifesting within the process of success to achieve your goals.   This is an unending alchemical process – as you experience your growing success, your targets change.  As you learn and evolve, your goals evolve with you.

Success is a process of passion, thus it can be a process of joy and happiness.   What destroys that happiness is when you use outdated cultural norms – or even the expectation of others to define you.

When you embrace success as a process instead of an end goal, you can enjoy who you are and choose happiness. The journey of success is not necessarily about money – remember money is just the catalyst to experience your passion, it does not need to be hoarded, flashy and need to be fed to be sustained.  

Success, Your Definition

What do you want to be successful at?  Parenting? Teaching? Writing? Cooking? Gardening?  Community Service? These things don’t have to make you a million dollars, they are your driving force, your passion and what gets you up in the morning.   They are what brings you joy and happiness.

The old ideal of success = money has taken the fun out of passion and turned it into a dirty work in some spiritual circles.   When I am in the moment with my passion, experiencing happiness and drive for my goal that is not unbalanced.   Living your passion and working 80-90 hours a week to make it a reality is not unbalanced.  It is when you do this without joy and happiness that takes you out of your center.   This is where stress comes from; making the happiness and expectations of others more important than your own.  It also comes when you forget about your passion and love for your goal and try to rely upon the force of your will alone.   Will needs emotion to sustain and nurture you through your process of success.

Remember that your process of success is an ever evolving one, the target continually moving.  To judge yourself or others on the successful achievement of one goal may never happen because along the way you changed.  Or you may devalue your success because once that goal was met, you had long ago changed it into something greater.   

Start living your own magic be shedding the expectations and judgments of what others deem success to be.   Make sure your ideas of success are truly our own and your happiness will grow.

7 Magical Steps to Creating Success (with anything) in Your Life:

1 – Letting go of the past, starting in the here and now.

Your past does not define your future, or even your present.   Past mistakes, fears, experiences can become the driving force in your success and the only place they will drive you is off the cliff.   

Use the Motor City Hoo Doo Uncrossing Candle to identify and clear from you those past emotions that will stop you from achieving your goal.  

On a clean piece of paper write a down who you used to be, and all the things that got in your way.Also write out your 3 greatest accomplishments to date.  Turn the paper 90 degrees and flip it to the other side.  Write out where you want to go with this magic.  Write out what the big picture of your success is to look like and the type of person you want to be when you get there.

Keep that paper open and place the candle holder on top of the paper.  When you light the Uncrossing candle, start talking aloud of all the things that have may stopped you from success.  Name them and know that you are ridding yourself of their sabotage.   Now say aloud where you want to go, what your passion is and how this will fill your life with joy.

Keep that candle burning for at least 3 hours.  DO NOT LEAVE IT UNATTENDED.  IF you need to leave, extinguish the candle while saying, “I may extinguish your flame, but you magic continues to grow”.

Meditate on this embodiment of power every morning for 3 mornings, or longer if needed.  You need to make sure your seeds of magic are taking root within you before you go to your next step.

2 – Clearing Sabotage

Thoughts lead to feelings. Feeling lead to actions. Actions lead to results.

Take a  Spiritual Cleansing candle

Fold a piece of paper the long way, and list any and all of your sabotaging thoughts on the left 1/2 the paper.  Write down your own thoughts and the words of others that may have taken hold in your self-esteem.  Write the phase that represents the core of all that self-sabotaging talk on the candle.

Fold the paper over and write the affirmation that counters that sabotage over the original phrase.  No matter how loopy, fluffy or egomaniacal it sounds, write it down.  You are clearing out all the negative thoughts in your head and replacing them with new positive affirming ones. Your spirit will recognize the new ones and replace them if you tell yourself to.

Once you are done writing, tear the list separating the sabotages from the affirmations.  Take the sabotage list and either rip-up the paper or burn it (in a safe place outside).  Take the affirmations list and place it where you will see and repeat them.

(This silly little affirming step is pretty darn crucial to your overall success.  If you are manifesting from a place of negative emotions and self-talk, that is all you will manifest.  If you need a little spiritual help with this, call to your spirit guide and ask that they give you a spirit that will help you hold this new space of life affirming thoughts.)

Light the Spiritual cleansing candle every day, repeating your list of new affirmations to yourself at least 3 times (with meaning please!)  Let the candle burn for an hour or three while you visualize yourself having these affirming thoughts in times of doubt.

3 – Defining Success

Heart Blessed Herbal Candle – This candle is to show you where your passion lies and how you want to experience success.

What are the actions or steps you need to take to get to your place of success?  How would you know if you actually achieved your success if you do not have a benchmark to measure it against?

Everyone has a list of needs to meet before they feel that success has begun.  For instance, you need to create $500 of income a week before you can quit your job and freelance all the time.  Success to you could mean that you are home every day with your children, or that you have a garden that will feed you all winter.

List out 5 things you need to do in the physical world to promote your success.

Start with a plan, but double space it so you can flow with the new ideas that WILL come your way.

Visualize your target success every morning, take action towards it every day, and keep your eyes open for new ways of getting there.

4 – Clearing the Road

Ganesh World Magic Candle - Ganesh is known as the remover of obstacles and the bringer of joy.   When you invite his energy into your life the unexpected creates the miracles you are looking for. The Ganesh Candle helps you see those roadblock and then laugh at yourself about them.   

You know you are on the right path when you come upon roadblocks.  We actually look for road blocks to give us excuses for diversion from your goal.  “Well of course I cannot start my own business, I have too many bills (my car broke down, my boss is a jerk, etc)”.  That statement may seem farfetched, but if you bring it closer to home you may hear, “My car is acting up so I cannot drive for that school field trip” or “I don’t know how to find that resource so I cannot proceed”.  

Humor, the ultimate demon repellant…..

Light the Ganesh candle for a few hours every day as your work your plan.  Light it every time you come upon a block or fear.  If you cannot get rolling on your plan then definitely light the candles and ask to see what blocks your road.  When you open your mind to see the block for what it truly is, it gets less scary and formidable.

5 – Inviting in Success

Success Affirmation Candle

Start with gratitude, giving thanks for everything you have already accomplished and all that you have.  Honoring these successes and your current abundance opens the door for more to enter. If you have been struggling with success it is because you have forgotten what it is to succeed.  You have depleted your self-esteem and personal power through self-sabotage, roadblocks, and holding onto past mistakes.  This step helps you get back into your place of power where you can invite in success.

6 – Relaxing your Expectations

Attraction – Love Blessed Herbal Candle Let the universe bring to you what you truly need to manifest your success.  It may not be exacting to your plan, but if you open your mind you will find that what you receive is even better than the original expectation.

Take out the plan you made earlier (the one you double spaced) and track each step and outcome as you travel toward your goal.  Don’t be afraid if a new idea comes and totally changes your plan – just write a new one.  You stared it on this journey with one set of skills and a brain full of ideas, but each step on the journey teaches you something new.  It is that new piece of information that will take you to new vibrations that open up new ideas that bring you closer to your goal.

7 – Open to Opportunity

Crown of Glory Motor City Hoo Doo Candle

When the opportunity presents itself – GRAB  IT!  The universe will provide the opportunity, you have to see it and use it.  This part it totally up you!  It is the brass ring – snatch it up and run with it.

The perfect time, place and opportunity will arrive.  Every time.  Every step you take in this magical journey lead you to this moment.   It is your moment alone, your moment of glory.  Your courage to change for the better, your courage to be successful will be what helps you take advantage and travel through the manifestation of your success.  

Enjoy, be at peace and know you have traveled through to a place where you can sustain your new vibration, living a glorious life full of continued successes