Apothecary's Winter
Motivation, Concentration, Mental Clarity, Sharp Focus, Memory
Infused with Real Herbs
Cinnamon
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Cloves
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Lemon Peel
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Peppermint
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Rosemary
Scent: A harmonious blend: Warm, spicy-sweet with rich depth; Intense, warm, spicy-sweet with numbing warmth; Bright, zesty citrus with clean freshness
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Apothecary's Winter: Focused Success in Cold Months
This winter candle by Elisha combines herbs traditionally associated with mental clarity and success-perfect for those dark, cold months when you're working on important projects, building your business, or just need to stay focused and productive. This is a seasonal ally for getting things done when winter makes you want to hibernate.
Winter Work:
Winter has always been a time for inner work, planning, and focused effort. While the earth rests, humans plan next year's gardens, businesses strategize for the year ahead, and students study for exams. Elisha's blend supports that winter productivity-the focused, indoor work that happens when it's cold outside and you're warm inside with your projects.
Clarity & Success Focus:
This limited edition blend combines herbs known for mental clarity, focus, and success in a combination that Elisha found particularly effective during winter months. It's not about forcing productivity-it's about supporting the natural work that happens in the darker months when we're more inward-focused anyway.
Seasonal Energy:
There's something about this blend that just works for winter-it's warming but clarifying, energizing but grounded. It's the kind of scent that makes you want to sit down with your important work, make progress on your goals, and feel accomplished despite the cold and dark outside.
Elisha's Creation:
Like Victoria's Backroads & Breakfast, this is a personal creation by someone who crafted a blend for a specific purpose and time. This hand-poured beeswax candle is made with the same care as our traditional blends-each herb infused separately, hours spent getting each one right, then blended together in proportions Elisha found most effective.
What You're Getting:
- Hand-poured beeswax candle (size varies by option selected)
- Elisha's clarity and success blend
- Particularly suited for winter months
- Each herb infused separately then blended
- Hemp wick for clean burning
- Metallic wick anchor
- Container included if jar option selected
These statements reflect traditional and historical use. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
- During study sessions
- When working on complex projects
- Before exams or presentations
- When you need sustained focus
- During winter months for seasonal support
Ritual Instructions
Light this candle when winter fog dulls the mind. Five herbs work together—warming you awake, commanding focus, clarifying thought, sharpening concentration, strengthening memory. Use for study, complex work, or mental endurance.
God of Wisdom, sharpen my mind like the winter wind clarifies the air. Focus my scattered thoughts. Strengthen my memory and deepen my concentration. As this blend awakens the senses, awaken my mind to learn, retain, and apply knowledge wisely. Make me a good steward of the mind You have given me. Amen.
Five herbs sharp as winter's bite, Focus my mind with laser light. Memory strong and vision clear— Success and mastery are here.
📜 Sacred & Spiritual References
The herbs in this candle have been revered across many spiritual traditions throughout history:
BIBLE - EXODUS 30:23-25: "Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of fragrant calamus... Make these into a sacred anointing oil." Cinnamon was a key ingredient in the holy anointing oil used to consecrate the Tabernacle and priests.
SONG OF SOLOMON 4:14: "Nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices."
PROVERBS 7:17: "I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon."
REVELATION 18:13: Lists cinnamon among the precious merchandise of Babylon.
AYURVEDIC TEXTS: The Charaka Samhita (ancient Indian medical text) describes cloves as having divine properties for purification and healing.
CHINESE TRADITION: During the Han Dynasty, courtiers held cloves in their mouths when addressing the emperor, as the spice was considered to purify speech and breath - a form of spiritual and physical cleanliness.
ISLAMIC TRADITION: Cloves are mentioned in various Hadith as beneficial spices. Traditional Islamic medicine values cloves for both physical and spiritual purification.
JEWISH TRADITION: Citrus fruits, including lemons, are used in Sukkot celebrations. The etrog (citron, related to lemon) is one of the Four Species used during the festival.
LEVITICUS 23:40: "On the first day you are to take branches from luxuriant trees" - interpreted by rabbinical tradition to include citrus.
AYURVEDIC TRADITION: Lemon is considered sattvic (pure) and is used in purification rituals and offerings.
GREEK MYTHOLOGY: Mint (Mentha) was named for the nymph Minthe, beloved by Hades. When Persephone discovered their relationship, she transformed Minthe into the mint plant so she would be forever trodden underfoot - but Hades gave her a sweet fragrance so she would be remembered.
JEWISH TRADITION: Mint (one interpretation of "bitter herbs") may be one of the maror eaten at Passover as commanded in Exodus 12:8.
CHRISTIAN MONASTIC TRADITION: Mint was grown in monastery gardens for both medicinal and symbolic purposes, representing virtue and hospitality.
ISLAMIC TRADITION: Mint tea is associated with hospitality and blessing, particularly in Moroccan tradition.
CHRISTIAN TRADITION: Legend holds that rosemary's flowers turned blue when the Virgin Mary draped her cloak over the bush during the flight to Egypt. It became known as "Rose of Mary."
Medieval Christians believed rosemary would not grow taller than Christ's height during his life on earth (about 6 feet/33 years), after which it grows outward.
Used at both weddings and funerals in Christian tradition - for remembrance ("There's rosemary, that's for remembrance" - Hamlet).
ANCIENT TRADITIONS: Greeks burned rosemary as incense to the gods. Students wore rosemary garlands while studying, believing it improved memory - appropriate for its association with remembrance of the divine.
