I am burning a white glass candle for healing and it is almost at the end. I came home and found the glass cracked all around. I have never seen this before.
Help!!! What is the meaning of this??? I need guidance...I will be eagerly awaiting a reply.
Thank You,
ACMC
Re: Burning of Candles By: Misanthropy Moderator / Adept
Post # 3 Jun 30, 2019
I've had this happen with candles and their containers before. If the glass gets too hot, it can crack or shatter, in serious cases. It's always a good idea to never leave your candles unattended and have them in your sight at all times, because of fire danger, their containers breaking from heat build up, etc. I'd suggest putting some sand or some other heat absorbing material in the container and then placing the candle on that. It can help keep the glass from getting too hot and cracking or breaking.
Oddly, I've been seeing a lot of similar posts lately. It may just be the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but who knows.
ACMC, a lot of people never burn a candle down to the bottom of its holder, so please don't take anything like this personally! I remember the first time I let a votive burn, and its jar cracked. It scared me quite badly!
But seeing that you were not home when it happened, that is very dangerous! This is one reason* it is so strongly recommended to not leave candles unattended, and why people who do candle magic, intending to leave a candle burning for extended periods, will go to extreme lengths to make sure everything remains safe.
As Misanthropy suggested, standing the candle in a bed of sand is one such option.
Some more ideas would be things like
clearing as much space around the candle as possible, so that even if the candle gets out of control, it is less likely to catch fire to something else;
putting the candle into a tray of water wider on all sides than the height of the candle, such that a wax spill would be immediately cooled and contained, and a tipping candle would be almost immediately extinguished;
not burning the candle over carpet or on top of cloth
There are so many important things which can be done, and considerations to take into account. The last thing I want to find out is that someone suffered a serious loss over their own candle working.
On the one hand, I tend to scoff a bit at people who seem afraid of candles in general, but at the same time, caution is very important when using them.
*Once I was busy in another room while burning some rather large pillar candles on my coffee table. There was apparently an air pocket in the wax, and when the wick melted down to that point, a combination of things happened, resulting in a guttering candle erupting melted wax all over the place. It very easily could have caught fire.
