Snuffing Out, or Blowing Out a Candle?

[Ostara]

@CelestiaMoon I blow candles out the same way you do. My lungs don’t hold very much air. Lol!

[MeganB]

@CelestiaMoon

Might be the same kind of thing with the candles

It could be! I have definitely stepped on a Lego before it’s more of a surprise because you don’t expect it to be there. I tend to walk with my eyes to the ground so I don’t step on anything that shouldn’t be there – the joys of having pets and a child – but I have blown too hard on a candle and sent wax in directions it should’t have gone

[TheMuslimWitch]

@Aurora_Hestia

Ooh, this changes how I think about it completely! I’m interested to see the other answers because this definitely gave me some pause on candles.

I second that. I just thought before reading this blowing out a candle was rude and snuffing was more respectful if i make sense, but now i am swinging the other way… Thanks for this little brain teaser

[TheMuslimWitch]

@AileyGrey

I guess blowing out a candle makes me think of that… air from my lungs… a gift.

What is more precious to us that the very air we breathe right? Why not share that gift as you said

[TheMuslimWitch]

@CelestiaMoon

I guess my blow is so gentle that it would not take the dust off a pixie’s wings!

I know right like what is your mission are you the big bad wold from the three little pigs story?
I am like you gentle as they come when blowing out candles. I even miss a few on birthdays i do it so gracefully (*coming from someone mentally imagining spit from the kids on the cake from their birthday party)lol

[TheMuslimWitch]

@MeganB

…yes, yes I have I know you weren’t asking me but I have actually done this.

Oh no need to worry i am the worst with wax… You should seen my altar cloth and even my floor. I am left to scrap it off thanks to my clumsiness

[JadeMermaid_Lara]

I like your idea of using a cinnamon stick. Thanks for sharing!

[CelestiaMoon]

@TheMuslimWitch

I know right like what is your mission are you the big bad wold from the three little pigs story?

I love this!

[Aurora_Hestia]

@TheMuslimWitch

I know right like what is your mission are you the big bad wold from the three little pigs story?

@TheMuslimWitch

I just thought before reading this blowing out a candle was rude and snuffing was more respectful if i make sense

Same. It’s one of those things I didn’t really question or give more thought to until this post.

@MeganB

’m gonna be 100% honest here – I always blow out my candles because I don’t have a snuffer and I don’t see any reason to get one. I don’t view putting out my candles a specific way as any sort of intention

I love your honesty. I still feel like I forget sometimes to just follow my intention with my practice. I get stuck sometimes with how I think things should be done and then I start to second guess everything. If I’d just trust myself, I wouldn’t struggle so much! Thank you for the reminder

[MeganB]

@Aurora_Hestia

If I’d just trust myself, I wouldn’t struggle so much! Thank you for the reminder

That’s definitely the hardest part about the path of witchcraft and paganism – we don’t have anyone to teach us “the right way” (which doesn’t necessarily exist lol) that we have to learn how to do everything ourselves!

[angela46]

Hello Everyone! This my first post and I had to share. I snuff out my candles with my fingers. Mostly because that is what was taught to me by my mother. So it’s more of a tradition for me. The only candles I blow out are the ones on my birthday cake and that is quite a task.

[MeganB]

@angela46

So it’s more of a tradition for me.

Welcome to the forum @angela46

I just wanted to say that I love how you’ve carried this tradition with you from your mother this is my hope with my own child - carrying on traditions, wisdom, and magic from one generation to the next!