Light Blue 7 Day Glass Candle

Not the Ocean. The Sky. Not the Depth That Goes Down Forever. The Openness That Goes Up Forever. The Difference Matters.

Blue is a large color. It contains multitudes, the crushing pressure of the deep ocean and the weightless freedom of open sky, the slow inevitability of deep water truth and the immediate, gentle clarity of a cool morning after a storm. The deep blue candle works at depth, with patience, with the comprehensive power of something that has been building for a long time. Light blue works differently. Light blue works the way the sky works, immediately, openly, with a softness that is not weakness but is in fact one of the most disarming and effective forces available, because nothing defends against gentleness the way it defends against force.

Light blue is the home peace candle. Not peace in the abstract, philosophical sense, the peace of the household, the specific, daily, lived peace of people who share a space and need that space to feel safe and calm and good to come home to. The argument that has been running for three days. The tension between family members that everyone can feel but no one is addressing. The atmosphere of a house that has absorbed too much conflict and needs to be reset. Light blue addresses all of that not by forcing a resolution but by cooling the temperature of the space itself, by softening the edges of the people in it, by creating the conditions in which resolution becomes possible because the heat has gone out of the situation and what remains is two people who are tired of fighting and ready to find their way back to each other.

Light blue is also the candle of emotional healing in its most immediate form — not the deep, structural healing of the whole person that deep blue governs, but the soothing of what is raw and tender right now, the cooling of a wound that is still fresh, the gentling of a grief or an anxiety or a fear that has been running too hot and needs to be brought down to a temperature that can be lived with. It is the candle of patience, of forgiveness, of the breath you take before you say something you cannot take back. It is the candle of the open sky — the reminder that above whatever weather is passing through, the sky is still there, still open, still blue.

The Light Blue 7 Day Glass Candle carries that soft, cooling, peace-restoring, emotionally soothing energy through seven full days of burning.

Traditional Uses

• Peace in the home — the quintessential home peace candle; burned to calm a household, reduce conflict, and restore a harmonious atmosphere
• Emotional healing and soothing — cooling raw emotions, calming anxiety, easing fresh grief and worry
• Patience and understanding — burned when a situation requires slowing down, listening, and the restoration of understanding between people
• Healing of the mind — anxiety, overthinking, and the exhaustion of a mind that will not rest
• Gentle communication — burned when a difficult conversation needs to happen with softness rather than force
• Children and the protection of the young — associated with innocence and the gentle protection of children
• Forgiveness — burned when forgiveness needs to be extended or received, when the heart needs to soften
• Spiritual openness and receptivity — the open sky; burned to create a state of receptivity to guidance and grace
• Cooling a heated situation — when tempers are high and a situation is running hot, light blue brings the temperature down

How to Work This Candle

Bring this candle into the space that needs peace — the living room, the kitchen, the bedroom where the argument happened. Place it where it will burn in the center of the energy that needs to shift. Write your petition naming what you need: the peace between specific people, the calming of a specific conflict, the soothing of a specific emotional wound, the patience you need to find, the forgiveness you need to extend or receive. Be gentle in how you write it — the energy of this candle responds to softness, and a petition written with gentleness carries more of light blue’s power than one written in anger or demand. Place the petition beneath the candle. Dress the top of the glass with Peace oil, Tranquility oil, or a soft floral oil — lavender, chamomile, or blue lotus — the calming, cooling scents that carry light blue’s energy in aromatic form. White or light blue flowers placed beside the candle — white roses, blue hydrangeas, lavender sprigs — reinforce the working. If you are burning this for a specific person or relationship, write both names on the petition and place them facing each other. Light the candle. Lower your voice. Breathe. The sky is still there. It always is.

Each candle is approximately 8 inches tall and burns for up to 7 days.