Mastiha Chios Tears Tea Candle

TEA CANDLE + RAPESEED WAX + MASTIHA CHIOS RESIN + MANDARIN ORANGE

Eleusinian Solar Candle, guiding light through the changing seasonal times. It was ritually hand poured on appointed Solar Day & Hour. The 5,5⌀ ceramic pot was hand crafted with finger handle, made in Bulgarian mountain village by local artisans. Wrapped with tissue paper, protected in little canvas pouch with beads and hot wax seal.

INGREDIENTS:

• Rapeseed Oil Wax
• Mastiha Chios Tears (Pistachia lentiscus var. chia)
• Red Mandarin Essential Oil (Citrus reticulate)
• Arabic Nanamint Essential Oil (Mentha Piperita)
• Black Pepper Essential Oil (Piper nigrum)
• Cinnamon Essential Oil (Cinnamomum zeylanicum)

HOW TO USE: This tiny tea candle can be used for ritual divination appointed towards the Solar Deity or your individual rituals. Light up the cotton wick during your home liturgy after the candle has been secured on flat surface place. The lit candle is recommended to be burned until the whole wax liquefies before extinguishing it, otherwise the wax will creates “rings”. If rings were created, it is easy to scrub them off the pot walls helping them melt down. It is not desirable to leave the candle untended.

BEST FOR: While burning, feel spiritual vibrations heighten and ward off negativity. This hand crafted candle makes a delightful offering for a loved one or a treat for your own sacred space. The best times for Sun evocation, would be on Sunday and depending on region, one can find the regional Solar hour from here: https://www.astrology.com.tr/planetary-hours.asp

KEY INGREDIENTS:

♦ Mastiha Chios Tears, the fragrant, creamy white resin of the mastic tree, grows in only one place in the world: the island of Chios, Greece, the birthplace of Homer, where Mediterranean evergreens grow on the southern and more fertile tip of the island. Mastiha, also known as mastic, has been harvested for at least 2,500 years. In Greek culture, legend tells that the mastic trees began to cry in sympathy when the Romans tortured a Christian martyr and left him to die in a mastic grove. It is said that this is how they started to produce the resin. The mastic tree grows in other parts of Greece and the Mediterranean, but it only produces the resin spice in southern Chios. It has anti-microbial properties and has been used to get rid of Helicobacter pylori, the bacteria that causes ulcers.

♦ Red Mandarin Essential Oil has calming and positive oil, which comforts the entire system—mind, body, and heart. The bright orange has fresh, sweet, citrusy, fruity, orange-like aroma. The oil can help reduce the presence of unwanted bacterial and viral activity.Emotionally and energetically, red mandarin essential oil soothes and calms. This essential oil can inspire greater self-care and help release the recirculate stagnant, blocked energy.

♦ Black Pepper Essential Oil has peppery, fresh, and zesty, black pepper essential oil is popular for inspiring productivity and confidence. It is used to get energy moving toward a specific area of the body. Emotionally and energetically, black pepper essential oil is a beautiful support when one is experiencing mental fatigue, low energy, and situational depression. It can also help reduce fears and motivate change when change is needed.

♦ Arabic Nana mint Essential Oil has the ability to open the airways and reduce congestion. The clean, fresh aroma of the oil is also often used to promote alertness and improve concentration. Hades had a temple dedicated to Elide, at the foot of Mount Minthe and in funeral rites they use mint seedling together with rosemary and myrtle. In the Islamic tradition, mint is considered a pledge of love, recharge energy in adversity, overcome unconscious fear. Emotionally and energetically, peppermint essential oil awakens and refreshes the senses, often helping to promote self-confidence and stimulate new ideas and creativity.

♦ Cinnamon Essential Oil made from the Cinnamomum zeylanicum evergreen tree creates a stunning, sweet, spicy, warm, radiant, woodsy essential oil that smells like a beautiful spicy cinnamon stick. This essential oil is high in a chemical component called eugenol, which is a powerful immune support and can help reduce the presence of unwanted fungal or viral activity. Emotionally and energetically, cinnamon leaf essential oil warms and inspires. This essential oil fosters greater self-confidence and increases self-assurance.

All of our products are:

♥ Handcrafted with love and care in Berlin, Germany

♥ Made with natural, organic and wild-crafted ingredients

♥ Made fresh in small batches

♥ Never tested on animals, only on husbands and girlfriends

♥ No artificial colors, dyes or preservatives

♥ No chemicals, parabens, minerals or fillers

♥ Packaged in recyclable bottles/jars/ceramics

♥ Shipped in as much recycled and recyclable packaging as possible.

E N E R G E T I C S

Solar herbs tend to be hot and dry. They tend to be Yang — expansive, and radiant. “Solar herbs help open your view of life around you. They are able to assist you in avoiding the magnetic tug of incarnate reality which seeks to place one’s ego upon the very altar of one’s circle.” (Beyerl, P.)

Using solar herbs in ritual brings expansive clarity to that which you are seeking. It helps us understand aspects of our life, our ego and situations that we need clarity on. These herbs help us put things back into perspective, and help us find the flow that actually suits our own authentic rhythm. They endow us with courage to fearlessly seek our true vision, and the means to manifest it.

The Eleusinian Candle Story:

The Rites of Eleusis, or the Eleusinian Mysteries, were the secret rituals of the mystery school of Eleusis and were observed regularly from c. 1600 BCE – 392 CE. The rituals were based on a symbolic reading of the story of Demeter and Persephone and provided initiates with a vision of the afterlife so powerful that it changed the way they saw the world and their place in it. The Mysteries were enacted twice a year at the equinox times.

The story of Demeter and Persephone offers a vision of eternal life and triumph over death. Persephone was named Kore, who was abducted by the underworld lord Hades. The goddess of harvest Demeter is also know as Ceres. “While she was playing in a glade where Spring was everlasting, gathering violets, Pluto ‘saw her, prized her, took her.’- writes Ovid. The Romans named Hades (Hell) as Pluto. Pluto ruled Hades, the Underworld, and in the myth, he takes Proserpina back down with him, every Autumn and Winter. This symbolizes the notorious peaks and troughs, the turning seasons, bipolar feelings of highs and lows, light and dark, summer and winter.

During the times Proserpina spend in the Underworld, she would eat Pomegranate seeds. They are the symbol of the deal Ceres had with Pluto to let her daughter visit the Earth for six months. Proserpina, lady of transitions, other-worldly realms, and sacrifice was the Queen of Hell. Proserpina shows you altered states of being, can help you to open up to all the stimuli of life, assists you to adapt and change in response to your environment, and even helps you to cultivate psychic perception.

Goddess of the Harvest, Ceres is about cycles, the waxing and waning of the crops. She is seen through the loss of her daughter as a portal of angst. She presents the dark emotions of attachment and agape mother has to go through when her children mature. This feelings are often negative and desperate, connected to the Dark Moon Hecate. Those are the conditions connected to the age crises of a woman and the time she has to spend without her children. Ceres represents the abundant, emerging, cyclical maturation and creative bloom. She embodies the tremendous power, passion and productivity, which are pulled from the negative emotions of grief, loss, betrayal, rage, pain and abandonment.

Pluto symbolizes this which presides over the after life and was considered as a healer. Hades’s brothers were Zeus/Jupiter and Poseidon/Neptune. Pluto rules the river of death with his tree headed dog. He is a secondary ruler of the astrological sign of Scorpio, which is originally ruled by Mars, but it is feminine sign. Scorpio rules rebirth and things “below the surface”, this are the deep emotions buried out of sight.

The former sites of this great pagan ritual and learning were destroyed throughout the 4th and 5th centuries CE. The temple of Demeter and every sacred site in Eleusis was sacked by the Arian Christians with Alaric, King of the Goths, in his invasion of 396 CE. The story of this rites is not new and were once the ancient world gathered to experience viscerally the truths of life, of death, and the promise of rebirth, now there commonly church has been build over. It is quite likely that the Mysteries were influenced by Egyptian religious beliefs which understood death as a transition to another phase of existence, not the end of one’s life. By telling this story, Onca’s aim is to revive this sacred tradition, with symbolism for revival and regeneration, instead of judgment and punishment. The understanding of the cyclical power of Life and to show gratitude towards it, because without the seasons, our Earth would have been a very different place. Thanks to this story of transformation struggle, which blooms into fruitful harvest, we humans have existed. The wisdom here is to never forget how important for us is this balance of light and dark, summer and winter, sweet and sour.

++++++++++++ LEGAL STUFF ++++++++++++

+ Although they may smell edible, our products are NOT for human consumption. FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY. No liability will be assumed by OnçaRitualOfferings for any claims arising out of the misuse or otherwise of these items or any other product sold or made by OnçaRitualOfferings.

+ OnçaRitualOfferings products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any type of disease or medical condition. No claims have been made or approved by the FDA. Please research all essential oils before using if pregnant or nursing. We suggest seeking professional medical advice if you feel necessary.