As a maven of ceremony, on an auspicious moon before an occasion, I create a candle for everyone joining the circle. 
—Moondancer
Candlelit ceremonies
I make ceremonial candles from beeswax and source the best quality, pure-hearted regenerative practice wax I can find. Yes, it’s an investment – it should be! Purity is an honouring in ceremony and ritual.
The deep honey glow of the lit candles—like sunlight—sets the tone for a sacred space. While the soothing natural aroma freshens and clears the air of spores, odour and dust. No soot, no staining smoke, and no toxins from beeswax. It burns clean and balancing the positive ions from all the appliances around us.
It elevates our mood, and takes away our stresses.
I make my candles in glass jars with all the love, intention and attention I can muster. Using jars helps control and contain the heat and flame as it burns.
I remember my little brothers’ first gig as an altar boy. He put the lit sacred candle down right next to the dried flower arrangement and Holy Moses!
Suddenly we had our very own burning bush!!
It is so important to respect the flame and stay in sacred relationship with it at all stages of your work. Prepare the space you will be using fire in, and consciously manage all interactions it may have with other elements, objects, and people.
Only have open flames where you have complete control.
We have a entire altar “fire” set-up that only uses battery-powered candles and fairy lights. There are many ceremonies, we have held where we had to decide not to use open flames, it is not just an indoor vs outdoor thing, wind is unpredictable and flame loves to dance with the air spirits.
The absolute best moon to create beeswax candles on is a spring moon when the flowers are most abundant—so if you have the space make everything you need for the year at this time.
Each person lights their candle as part of the ceremonial opening prayer to act as a guiding light as they journey into their deeper truths. With gratitude and reverence, the candles are put out at the close of ceremony.
As a take home gift, we can reignite them whenever we wish to drop back into that ceremonial space.
Honey Bee Medicine
To create this very sacred tool, I get clear on my intention—drawing on honey bee medicine, which is about creating abundantly.
The bees work diligently together in groups. They find the sweet spot. They stop to smell the roses. They are always producing and pollinating and progressing. They have a very strong work ethic. They create a better world. They are amazing architects and builders. They are mindful, dedicated, never overwhelmed or overextended because they are a true cooperative.
Across all traditions, the bee is central in story and myth.
I draw on the belief that bees are able to travel to the other realms and bring back messengers from the Gods.
I draw on the belief that they teach us to live cooperatively, in balancing work and play in the present moment, playfully on purpose, as they stop to appreciate the scenery, breathing in the beauty of nature while collecting nectar, while pollinating our food supply.
To your Self, Bee true
They are tiny, but very powerful.
Apart from creating some of Mother Earth’s most wholesome, sweet and potent medicines in honey (food of the gods), bee’s wax and royal jelly, they are pollinators which are a crucial part of the entire planets biodiversity, so much of our food is reliant on the work of the pollinators.
I thank the sacred bee and all they give.
In service to this powerful and harmonious medicine, I make our candles as an invitation for the spirit of fire to come and dance…and from this dance we in turn progress and produce and pollinate our own magic.
In loving service 
