Can't use candles?

Some one help my magic has never worked for me just for once.

Perhaps you could use things to represent the elements

• Air = Feathers
• Earth = a plant, mud, leaves Ect...
• Wate r= Rain water
• Fire = something burnt.

This is what i use alot when i cant find candles or am in a place where i can't use them, and i think it works better because they have more energy than a candle.

oh i see.... but b4 i know about spells, i always visualise stuff... but it doesn't really seemed to work ==

Candles, just as other tools, are aids. It is not so much the candle that has magic, it is the flame. I remember asking my teacher why we had candles. She told me it was the flame that is important. The candles were used to see in the dark;very simple, really. She said that, in ancient times there was no electricity,no gas. Even oil was hard to come by. So it was candles or work in the dark. By moonlight and starlight, fine; but in the cave or cottage?. But it is the flame that is important. Different coloured candles may help a "mood" (Blue helps healing spells), but outdoors, a bonfire is better than any amount of candles!