In an effort to support as many folks as possible in participating in this gorgeous and important ritual, I am offering dipped wicks for making Soul Candles!
This product is the dipped wicks and a length of raw candle wick.
This is particularly relevant for folks who have purchased the Soul Candles Ritual Kits in previous years or folks who want to use the wicks with the Soul Candles Ritual Guides.
From Dori Midnight Re the Soul Candles practice
STONES AND THREAD: honoring/connecting with the dead
"It is customary to visit the graves of your beloved dead during the month of Elul. Since many of us cannot physically do that, we can find other ways to connect with our loved ones who have died. Consider creating a space in your home to put up photos or special objects that remind you of your beloved dead, which you can keep up through Sukkot. You may want to find an outdoor space- a tree or a bench in a park - which you can visit and bring a stone each time, as if you were visiting a grave. Perhaps you want to connect with a specific ancestor of blood or of spirit, or maybe you just want to spend time outside, being open to what comes. This can be another practice of widening our web of support and connection, offering us the chance to do reflection and repair work with the more than human and with the loved ones who have passed.
There is an Ashkenazi tradition of making Soul Candles for the Days of Awe in which people walk and measure the length of wick around the graves of their dead and make candles from those wicks. Many of us aren’t able to visit the physical graves of our ancestors or beloved dead, so instead you might want to recite their names while wrapping the wick around a stone or a tree.
