Candle Magic: Opening Your Crown Chakra

For expansion in Spirit, as well as balancing, expanding, and fortifying your Crown Chakra.

Seventh chakra candle. Photo by Victor Castro

In the colder winter months, when nature retreats into itself, we’re called to reflect, recenter, and ground. Now that spring is just around the corner, it’s the perfect time for psychic expansion, opening and growing our awareness, just as nature does. The seventh chakra—the space just above the top of your head and above it—connects to divine wisdom and guidance, psychic insight, and spiritual expansion. If you work with candle magic, and the chakra system, here’s a ritual that you can try to balance, cleanse, strengthen, and expand your seventh chakra, allowing for higher wisdom to flow in. 

Hand-carved and customized with your personal astrological sign and name,  Enchantments’ Seventh Chakra candle is dressed with corresponding hand-blended oils and incense. Here, we’ve crafted a short ritual to use with the candle and we as a link to order the candle online here:

—Take a ritual bath with sea salt before you light the candle. Add a few drops of essential or fragrance oil to your bath (like frankincense, vetiver, cedar), or try Enchantments’ Purple Wisdom oil for psychic enhancement and wisdom.

—Add herbs to the bath, if you like—sprinkle in loose leaves or add them to an empty tea bag. Cleansing herbs like hyssop, lavender, and even soothing rose can work for this purpose. 
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—While in the water, focus on releasing and letting go of anything holding you back from your highest self, including fear and doubt, from your higher calling. If you don’t have a bath, you can add sea salt to warm water and use it in the shower for this cleansing ritual. 

—Next, sit in front of the candle and focus on your intention. Here are some specific intentions: “I’d like to channel guidance from my Spirit Guides,” or “I seek insight into my past lives,” or “I seek insight into the next steps of my life that aligns with me higher calling,” or “I seek balance in my psychic, emotional, physical, and intellectual planes.” Whichever your intention may be, focus in on it as you light the candle. You can also write down your intention to help you focus. ​

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​—While the candle burns, you can spend the time meditating and working through your chakra points, one by one. Start at the root chakra, working slowly up to the crown to tap into deeper insight and higher vibrations. When you get to your crown chakra, focus on expanding your psychic vision. 

–While in a meditative state, work your way back down each chakra point to get to the root again. Ground yourself and come “back to earth” before getting up. This step is very important. Afterwards, try to channel any insights you received by journaling, drawing, sketching, etc. Remember: your magic is your own. 

—You don’t have to keep the candle lit for the full 7-10 days. Blow out (or it snuff out, whichever is in your unique practice) the candle when you’re not monitoring it. 

—You don’t have to take another ritual bath each time you light it. Just refocus your intention each time, reflecting on your intention for expansion and opening up your crown chakra.

—Stay open to what comes over the course of the week. Pay attention to any greater insights or signs that come, as you explore a deeper, nuanced view of your life. Blessed be. ​