How to Light a Candle for All Umbanda Entities (2022)

Today I will teach you to how to light a candle for all Umbanda entities. So, if you want to see how to light a candle for Zé Pilintra, Oxum, Ogun and much more, keep reading.

Should I light it individually for each entity, or do I just light one candle and offer it to everyone?

Although it can be lit a seven-day candle of the seven lines and serve all the Orixás, there are people who prefer to light a candle for their home Orisha or line of work.

We have already learned that it is not the candle that matters when asking or saying thank you for something. what matters is the intention, the desire, we know that the candle is just the materialization of the request.

Because it is at this moment, at the moment when we are lighting the candle, that we stop and fix our thoughts on spirituality.

That is why it is common to say that the candle we light is not to give light to the entity or Orisha, but for what it asks, for us, the light of the candle illuminates our path.

How to light a candle for the different entities of Umbanda

Although we can use a single seven-day candle of the seven lines or a white seven-day candle and offer it to all the Orixás or lines of work, we can do it individually, respecting the days dedicated to the Orixás or entities.

How to light a candle for your Zé Pilintra

If Zé Pilintra is an entity that works both left and right, that is, it can come in a tour of Exus and Pombo Giras or it can come in a tour of Baianos.

We can light your candle both indoors when it is white, or outside when it is red and white. Therefore, this choice is up to you.

Day of the week: Tuesdaycandle color: red and whitewhat can we ask: we can ask for health, work, protection, to undo demands.

How to Light a Candle for Oxum

Mama Oxum is the Orixá responsible for love, unconditional love, for affective fortune and not the material, which can also be. However, the axé of Mama Oxum is in the abundance of feelings.

We can light this candle indoors in a place above our heads.

Day of the week: Saturdaycandle color: dark blue in Umbanda and yellow in Candomblé.what can we ask: for Mama Oxum we ask for understanding, for pure and clean love, for invoice in our feelings and protection, but we can ask for health too.

How to light a candle for Shango

Father Xangô, lord of justice, your candle must be lit indoors above our heads with the intention of doing justice, or at least not to suffer from injustices.

Day of the week: Wednesdaycandle color: brownwhat can we ask: For Xangô we ask for justice, for his help in resolving problems with justice or contracts, for work issues as well.

How to light a candle for Yemanja

Mother Iemanjá, lady of the seas, of the big calunga, protective mother that with their waters wash us from evils and wounds, that take to the bottom of the sea everything that does not serve us.

We light the candle indoors in a location above our heads. If you want, you can put some salt in the dish where the candle will be placed.

Day of the week: Saturdaycandle color: light bluewhat can we ask: we ask Mother Yemanja for energy purification, for cleaning our magnetic fields, we ask for protection, but we can also ask for health, for work.

How to Light Candle for Pigeon Gira

If you have a place at home to light the candles on the left, that’s where this candle should go. We don’t have the habit of lighting a candle to the left inside the house, it must therefore remain outside and on the ground, never above our heads.

Day of the week: Mondaycandle color: redwhat can we ask: although many people think that Pombo Gira is only asked for matters related to love, know that it caters for all matters, health, work, lack of motivation, it helps couples who are already together for love to improve their relationships. Pombo Gira works in several ways.

How to Light a Candle for Exu

For Exu as well as for the Pombo Gira we light the candle outside the house and on the ground, if you already have a place for them, better, if you don’t have it, it can be at the door of the house on the inside of the gate.

Day of the week: Mondaycandle color: blackwhat can we ask: to Exus we ask for work, money, health, to undo demands, for protection, for opening paths, Exu can act in several demands.

How to light candle for Iansã

Iansã lady of the winds and the eguns, we can light a candle indoors in a place above our heads.

Day of the week: Wednesdaycandle color: Yellow in Umbanda, red in Candombléwhat can we ask: opening of paths, removal of bad energies from our energy field, we can ask for health, for protection.

How to light a candle for Oxossi

Pai Oxossi’s candle can be placed indoors in a place above our heads, lord of the woods, knowledge, hunting and abundance.

Day of the week: Thursdaycandle color: greenwhat can we ask: for Pai Oxóssi we can ask for work, abundance in our lives and tables, we can also ask for health, protection and knowledge.

How to light a candle for Obaluayê

To Father Obaluayê we ask for the healing of our wounds, both in body and spirit.your candle can stay indoors in a location above our heads.

Day of the week: Mondaycandle color: White and blackwhat can we ask: we ask for health, for protection, for the cure of an illness whether it be of the body or the spirit.

What is the role of candles in Umbanda entities?

Umbanda is a religion that works with the forces of nature and fire is one of them. When we light our candles on the conga before starting a job, we are asking and activating the forces of the Orixás.

Therefore, each candle represents an open portal in spirituality, a connection where we ask for strength and light for our work.

Therefore, there is no work in Umbanda that does not use candles.

If the candle we need is green, for example, and we don’t have it, we can activate the portal with Pai Oxossi with a white candle, and the important thing is to have light and fire represented.

When an entity draws its point on the ground, and lights a candle within the point andis creating a portal through which all the bad energies will be sucked out.

Should I light more than one candle for entities?

You can light as many candles as you like for the entities, if you don’t know the color of the entity you want to light the candle for, use a white candle, this candle fits all.

But if you light one just with the firm thought of what you want, there will be no need to light more than one.unless it has been requested by some entity, in which case you will light as many as were requested.

The candle, as I have said at other times, is just the materialization of what we ask for, it is our connection with spirituality.

So if you don’t have a candle to light at that moment, just say your prayer! Mentalize what you need and ask, you will definitely be heard. You may not even have what you asked for, but you will have the strength and support to move forward.

So, was I able to answer all your questions? I hope so! From now on, there’s no reason not to light a candle, because I’ve explained all the steps you need to know.

Any questions you have, please leave a comment, as I will try to respond to it as quickly as possible.

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