This announcement is to welcome you to the second Holistic Healing Expo on Sunday, August 3, 2008 in the beautiful Holiday Inn Express, located at HWY 99 South at the Laguna Blvd. exit. The Expo is from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm.

There will be exhibitors from all kinds of healing modalities that range from Bowen Therapy, Intuitive Readings, Hand Made Candles, Inspirational Art, Energy charged Jewelry, Crystals, Aromatherapy Products, Reiki and much, much more!

Admission is $3.00 for ages 12 years old and up. Free samples given to guests! This fair is located just 10 miles south of Sacramento, CA

For more information, please go to: http://www.holistichealingexpo.com

This variation of a love apple was something that I recently did for a client. Now she is waiting for the John Meyer concert to see if it does its’ thing.

INGREDIENTS:

I had the client write her full name on the piece of paper. I then had her rotate the paper 90 degrees and write the lovers’ full name over her name, thus forming a cross. She then was to write IN ONE CONTINUOUS STROKE AND WITHOUT LIFTING THE PEN the qualities she is expecting this lover to bring to and exhibit in the relationship. She chose the words, loving, equality, passion, sharing, warm, exciting, adventure , etc. This took her twice to do this as she inadvertently lifted the pen, thus breaking the spell. She had to start over again.

I then placed the lodestone in the center of the paper with some of the magnetic sand, wrapped the paper around it and began to wind the red crochet string around the packet, all the while anointing the string drop by drop with the various oils I chose for the occasion.

Once the “ball” was finished, I then cut a portion of the top of the apple out, near the stem, retaining the stem/lid and coring out some of the apple seed section large enough to place the ball of string with the ingredients in it in the apple. I then dropped a few more drops of each of the oil, for good measure, closed the apple up, burned a bit of the pink candle so that the wax dips would “seal” the edges of the candle.

We then chose a corner of the front flower bed where the concrete formed a corner to bury the apple. As I looked at the view, the words of the song, “Long and Winding Road” by Paul McCartney came to mind! It truly was the walk leading up to the steps to her door! She buried it and I told her to get a red glass 7 day encased candle and doubly protect it by placing it in a terra cotta pot or glass hurricane jar to protect it from tipping over and starting a fire.

The concert is late July, so we’ll see what happens…..

Here is a note I received this morning regarding my most recent posts by a very observant reader:

Hello Ms. Jacqueline,

I have read with interest your most recent blog post and am confused. How are we supposed to “label” our candles? Do we tape the piece of paper on the candle — you just say to use the piece of paper for the black candle?

And what do you do with the papers? Do they burn up with the candle when it burns?

I have read you can carve or scratch the name(s) in the candle numerous times. And I’ve read that the petition papers are folded either towards you or away from you, depending on the kind of spell you are doing, and then set under the candle somehow, like under the saucer the candle sits on.

I don’t want to do this wrong as I am a beginner.

Thanks! Lawanda - TX

This is a photo of Pink St. Jude Candles used for Love Spells

This is not to say that you could not use candles that are known as free standing candles, but attaching name papers, petitions or photos to free standing would almost assuredly bring about a fire - something no one wants!

How I attach a name paper is to place it at the base of the candle with a piece of scotch tape. This way, the candle is “labeled” but not at the top, where it will scorch and possibly catch fire. By the time the flame gets to the base of the candle, very little flammable wax is in the the glass, and less likely to catch the paper on fire.

For petitions and photos, I lay them under the edge of the glass, with the glass rim of the candle along the edge of the paper, so that in the last few hours of the candle’s burning, it does not damage the photo (sometimes you want to re-use the photo, as in love spells)

Thank you for a great question!