Oshun Orisha Candle, 7 Day
Seven-day candle · Burn
$8.99
A glass candle meant to burn unbroken for seven days. Dressed before it is lit, then left to do the work in its own time.
- Clear
- Dress
- Burnthis
- Carry
Read from what this product is. It is not a promise about what will happen.
Shipped from the shop in Easley, South Carolina. See this on our storefront.
The practice
What this shop’s tradition does with an object like this. It is how it is used, not a promise about what follows.
- Mondaythe Moon’s day — worked for the roads, the home, and anything that has to open.
How it is used
- 1Say plainly what it is for. One thing, out loud, before anything is lit — a candle set for four purposes is set for none.
- 2Dress it: anoint with oil and, if you have one, a pinch of powder or herb on top of the wax.
- 3Set it somewhere level, away from a draft, where it can burn unbroken for the seven days.
- 4Leave it alone. It is working; watching it is not part of the work.
Waxing moon to draw something toward you; waning to send it away.
What people get wrong
- Blowing it out. The tradition snuffs a candle rather than blowing on it — breath is yours, and the flame is not.
- Over-dressing. Too much oil drowns the wick, and a candle that gutters out on day two is a candle you have to start again.
- Moving it once it is lit. Set it where it will finish.
Named for Ochún
Fresh water, love, sweetness and money that comes through people.
- ColoursYellow and gold
- DayFriday
- Customary offeringHoney — traditionally tasted first by the one offering it.
What is here is what the label says and what any botanica will tell you across the counter. Ceremony, initiation and anything belonging to a house is not ours to publish — that is between you and a padrino or madrina.
Reading the glass afterwards
- Clean glass, steady flame, wax gone
- Read as a working that met nothing in its way.
- Black soot up one side
- Read as resistance — traditionally taken as a sign to clear before setting another.
- Soot at the top only
- Usually just the wick catching up at the start. Read as nothing much.
- Wax left in the bottom
- Read as work unfinished — many practitioners set a second candle rather than relight this one.
- The glass cracks
- Read as force taken by the glass instead of by you. It is also what happens when a candle burns in a draft, and the tradition says to check that first.
- Flame high and loud, then low
- Read as a fast start against something slower underneath.
This is what the tradition looks for, not a diagnosis. A wick sits off-centre, a draft moves a flame, and glass is uneven — most of what a candle does, it does for ordinary reasons.
Want this worked out for your chart rather than in general? A reading ends with a working prescribed from this shelf.
What completes it
A working has more than one part. These stand on the rungs this one does not.
- Obatalá Candle Oil — This is what dresses that candle. A plain glass with nothing on it is just wax.
- Ochosi Candle Oil — This is what dresses that candle. A plain glass with nothing on it is just wax.
- Santa Muerte holy death herb bath 4 — Clears the ground first. Most practitioners wash before they set anything burning.
- 7 African Powers Spray — Clears the ground first. Most practitioners wash before they set anything burning.
- Yemaya (Sea Queen) Herb Bath — Clears the ground first. Most practitioners wash before they set anything burning.
- 7 African powers cologne spray — Clears the ground first. Most practitioners wash before they set anything burning.
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