Quick Specs
- Brand: Sonavi
- Type: Hand-rolled beeswax candles
- Wax: Natural beeswax
- Color: Yellow
- Height: 4 inches
- Base: About 1 inch across
- Set: 5 candles
Golden Yellow Wax and the Look of a Honeycomb
Yellow is the color most people picture when they imagine honeycomb, and on these candles the match is complete: a clear golden yellow wax pressed into rows of small hexagons, with the cells brightening where light hits their edges. The white wick is a small pale mark above all that gold, and turning a candle slowly makes the cell edges flash with thin lines of light. In a lit room the candle looks sunny, and with a flame at the top the color looks warmer still. That makes it the cheeriest of the set, and the one most likely to look right on a desk, a kitchen windowsill or a shelf of books as well as on an altar. Five of them stood side by side on a windowsill look like a small hive, with the flames adding the warmth. The shape is short, so the flame stays near the table, where you can see it while you work, and the pale wick gives your eye a place to rest between lines of text. The golden tone also lifts a dark wood desk.
Yellow’s meanings in candle guides run to the mind and the sun. Intellect, imagination and inspiration head one list; another adds joy, happiness, success and attraction, and gives yellow the element of air. Divination appears on that first list as well, which ties yellow to intuition and inspiration as well as to intellect. The thread through all of it is lightness and clarity: yellow is the color for thinking well and expressing it, and for keeping the mood up while you do. It’s a working color, suited to a desk, a deadline, a pile of reading or a stack of cards you’re trying to learn. The sun and air associations suit a spot near a window, where daylight lights the golden wax. Lists vary by author, so go with whichever of these fits the way you work. A yellow flame at the edge of your workspace gives the hour a shape: you begin when it’s lit and stop when it’s out. That small structure is useful on days when work has no natural edges.
Practical Ritual Applications
Yellow belongs where thinking happens. Light one at the start of a study session, a writing block or a long afternoon of correspondence, and put it out when you stop, so the flame marks the working hours. Use one beside your tarot journal while you learn a new deck, writing out what each card suggests before you look anything up. Light one before a presentation or an important phone call to mark the moment you collect your thoughts. For something brighter, set a yellow candle on a table where friends gather, with a note of what you’re celebrating. Five candles can see you through five exam subjects or five chapters of a long reading list. For more on how authors use color in candle work, see my candle magic books.
How to Burn a Yellow Beeswax Candle While You Work
A yellow candle sits at the edge of your workspace, and these three steps keep it safe there.
- Position It at the Edge of the Desk
Set the candle on a dish or holder at the far edge of your workspace, on a stable, heat-safe surface. Papers, notebooks and screens belong a good distance away; keep anything that burns at least a foot from the flame. Trim the wick to a quarter inch, and stand the candle straight so it burns evenly.
- Light It When You Start
Light the wick as you sit down, and say in a sentence what you plan to finish. Then get to work. Check the flame whenever you look up, and keep the candle clear of drafts from a window, a fan or a door. Remain in the room for as long as the candle is lit.
- Snuff It When You Stop
When the session ends, snuff the candle with a snuffer and let the wax set before you move it. If you're working over several days, relight the same candle for the next session and give the wick a fresh trim first. Then close your notes and mark the end of the session.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
Yellow is here for study and clear thinking, whether that means a tarot deck, an exam or an overdue letter. It’s the color guides tie most often to knowledge and communication, and a short rolled candle fits on a crowded desk. It’s also a candle that looks at home in a kitchen or on a bookshelf, as well as on an altar. For candles in a different shape to keep on the shelf beside it, browse my household and taper candles.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. Beeswax is vegetarian, since bees make it and it contains no animal flesh, and it is an animal product by vegan standards. Collecting it carries some risk of disturbing or damaging a hive, and many vegans object to taking something from bees without their consent. Plant-based candle waxes such as soy or coconut are the usual alternatives for anyone following a vegan practice.
Beeswax, a natural wax that worker bees make themselves. Honey bees have four pairs of wax glands on the underside of the abdomen, most productive when the bees are about 12 to 18 days old, and the liquid wax hardens into small white scales. A bee passes a scale to her mouthparts, chews it until it's pliable and builds it into comb. Making one pound of wax takes about 7 to 8 pounds of honey.
Beeswax is one kind of candle wax. The term also covers paraffin, soy, palm and other waxes, and most candles made today are paraffin, a by-product of petroleum refining that arrived in the 1850s. Beeswax comes from honeycomb and is a by-product of honey collection, which makes it one of the oldest candle materials still in use.
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