Secrets of Santa Muerte by Cressida Stone

Author:Cressida Stone
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781633412569
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser

Activating Your Altar

Any Santa Muerte altar must, when active, feature burning candles. Fire is a powerful, essential, and elemental energy. It can destroy, but it can also create. Most of Santa Muerte brujeria hinges on this double-edged ability to destroy what is bad and to create what is good for you in your life. The flame also communicates and makes palpable those hopes, dreams, and desires you carry in your heart. As I was told by a witch in Acapulco, “The burning flame is a bridge between the natural and the supernatural world and will convey your petitions at the elemental level. The flame can also give you access to extrasensory powers and perceptions. The flickering lit wick can tell you secrets and make dreams into reality.” Fire is thus an essential element in your shrine. As detailed in chapter three, the altar must have four elements—water, air, earth, and fire—to which is often added a fifth essential element—faith. Fire and faith are critical ingredients requisite for any prayer to succeed.

Not everyone understands the secrets of candle work, and I learned only by watching and listening closely to the silver-haired witch of unknown years who would be my guide in the most occult aspects of my Santa Muerte research. A lit votive candle works by transmuting elements essential to nature into new forms: the solid form (wax) metamorphoses into air, fire, and water. In this way, as the witch explained: “The candle is a receptacle for prayer, containing your faith, hopes, and desires. It will transmit wishes, petitions, and dreams, releasing these requests into the world at a supernatural and immaterial level. Once it is lit, these essential energies evaporate and are freed through these elements into the world around us. From a spiritual plane, they then become transformed into tangible outcomes, items, and relations.”

The energy from your mind nourishes the flame; thus, it is vital to focus on the fire, imbuing it with your intentions when you light a candle and pray over it, as well as later contemplate it as you humbly request Santa Muerte to heed your petition. Visualize your dreams becoming reality and let your aspirations fuel the flickering flame; imagine it growing and your petition transformed into reality. If you have a question, focus on the flame to enter into the cosmic realm and to learn the answer. Most Holy Death will answer if she deems your petition worthy or your question of relevance.

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