By Candlelight: Rites for Celebration, Blessing & Prayer

I love doing candle magic so this book was awesome for that. For those of you who enjoy candle magic this book you will enjoy.

I picked this book up at a used book store and was so surprised at the beautiful simplicity of the rituals included. These ceremonies can be melded with any religion to create a personal connection with whatever deity (or deities) you believe in. Please seriously consider purchasing this book. You will not be sorry.

This book is just so amazingly wonderful, while being simplistic at the same time, which is quite hard to come by these days. Renee describes the beauty of candles (how they 'illuminate' your life) and gives many different candle-lighting rituals (from basic to more complex) without any religious denomination, which means that a Christian or a Wiccan could use this book and just change some of the wording to suit their own needs. What I also liked about this book was that Renee gives correspondences for candle colors, oils and scents which are lacking in many books today. This book was what caused me to be a fan of Renee's writing and I'm sure you will feel the same way.

It took me a while to finally get this book. I looked it over many times at a local book store. I also recieve Llewellyn's newsletter and it had one of the rituals for Samhain in it. I thought it was beautifully written and wanted to see more. When I looked through the book some more, I found a ritual for the death of a pet and even one for Veteran's Day. It has many rituals and they are easy to use. You can even alter them for your own use as well. This is simply a wonderful book and I do not think you will regret buying it.

I picked up this book at the library hoping that it would indeed offer everything that it said it did. My spiritual studies have taken an extremely ecclectic turn, merging quite a bit of paganism, egyptian, taoism and buddhism with new age, metaphysical and sometimes christian belief systems. I was looking to incorporate some kind of daily spiritual practice through candle rites into my life, and this book has given it to me - I'm about to purchase my own copy now I know how awesome it is! It is simplistic without being pointless, it offers non-denominational rites I'm sure just about ANYONE can use in their studies, and I think it offers a great deal of spiritual wealth to the world. Thank you for writing this book Ms. Renee!