Waxomancy – The Sacred Art of Flame Healing

A cave in the northern Cape province, South Africa, is home to the planet’s oldest known hearth. Scientists dated the domestic community fire at one million years old and the occupation of the cave closer to two million. The distance between the mouth of the cave and the hearth extinguished any doubt that the ancient remains had been affected by wildfire and declared the hearth the most ancient of all. Wonderwerk, meaning miracle in Afrikaans, was named by the surrounding community years prior to the scientific declaration, understanding the enormity of the site.

Six hundred thousand years later, Suffolk’s, Beeches Pit hosted the UK’s first firestarters, the passage between Britian, the netherlands, denmark, and Germany was made by foot, what is now the North Sea was at the time of the first fires of Beaches Pit, called Doggerland; it was through a long process of changing climate and an eventual catastrophic tsunami that the North Sea was created. By the time fire reached UK shores, it had moved beyond survival. Our planet’s oldest technology was a source of community, connection and creativity.

Flame had brought us life, light and luminosity, protection, and as our connection to it deepened, it carried prayer, dispelled supernatural shadow, and became a source of alchemy. To the Celts and pre-Christian Europe, fire was sacred. In Scotland and Ireland, the hearth was a living spirit, honoured ancestors and sat at the heart of spiritual and domestic life, living guardians that were honoured through festivals and ritual bonfires, the embers being brought home for renewal and protection.

Agni, the Sanskrit word for fire, is rooted in many Indo-European words, ignite, ignis; Agni, the fire Deity central to Vedic ritual and the living intermediary between humans and the divine.

In Zoroastrianism, fire is revered as the purest symbol of Asha, truth, order and divine wisdom. Facing the flame while praying, working with the light for focus and inner clarity is focal.

Indigenous North and South American traditions honour the flame as a living spirit, working with it to connect to spirit, purify and protect. Indigenous Australian traditions viewed fire as creation, renewal and a caretaker of life.

Goma, the Japanese esoteric Buddhist fire ritual, burn wooden prayer sticks seeking to connect with the higher realms, purify karma and restore harmony.

In many African cosmologies, the birthplace of fire as technology views flame as an elemental force of transformation and protection; candle and flame offerings became a central offering and a deep connection to spirit and light.

Flame has held a sacred space in so many of our indigenous cultures, cultural practices. Waxomancy, a sacred form of flame healing and soul alchemy, honours these practices and sits in resonance with many of them, transformation through flame and light, fire as a living, breathing intelligence, purifier and protector.

As our world advances technologically, it is perhaps more important to root into our heritage, our community hearth, Waxomancy intertwines its frequency with our primal practices, rediscovering and revolutionising the path of light, connection and community with each flame lit, healing candle ignited.

The path of the flame as it spread through our world was tenable and trackable, Waxomancy invites you to witness the flame as it works to transcend shadow, watch the wick as it mirrors and reflects your journey through the healing, intuiting the wax remains- a well studied eye can see the storyboard of the journey, sense what has been transcended, glimpses at the support that showed up, for those that enjoy structure Waxomancy offers insight with Flameology, Wickolgy, and Waxology guides.

Flame healing awakens a light, a primal spark in each of us, from our first ancestors, Earth’s first peoples, regardless of our geographical location, flame is sacred and held in great reverence; As we consciously work with and honour it, we honour our heritage, our ancestors in a way that can pay it forward for generations to come, and keep the light bright on our planet.