🔥 How to Do a Powerful Cord Cutting Spell with Candles and String
There comes a time after a breakup when the vibe shifts from crying over love songs to cutting cords with scissors and sass.
You’ve replayed every convo. You’ve tried to “be the bigger person.” You’ve even (shamefully) checked their star sign compatibility again. But let’s be real — it’s time to cut the spiritual cord and call your energy home.
This is your guide to performing a cord cutting spell using two candles and string — a powerful and symbolic ritual to energetically break up with your ex, clear emotional baggage, and finally move the hell on.
🪄 What Is a Cord Cutting Spell?
A cord cutting spell is a sacred ritual used to cut energetic ties between yourself and someone you’ve shared emotional or spiritual connection with. Often performed after a breakup or emotional entanglement, this spell helps release lingering attachments that keep you stuck.
This specific ritual uses two candles and a string to represent each person and the energetic cord between you.
🔥 Think of it as an energetic unfollow.
🕯️ What You’ll Need for the Candle Cord Cutting Ritual
To perform this spell to break energetic ties, gather:
- Two candles (white for you, black for them — or any personal correspondences)
- One piece of string or twine (cotton or hemp preferred)
- A fireproof tray or dish
- Optional: paper with their name, photo, or a breakup petition
- Matches or lighter
- Extras for more magic: rosemary, rue, bay leaf, black salt, obsidian, rose petals
💡 Want to go extra witchy? Dress your candles with oil and herbs for added power.
🌘 When to Perform a Cord Cutting Spell
Timing matters in witchcraft. Align your candle cord cutting ritual with these energy-boosters:
- Waning Moon — perfect for releasing and endings
- Saturday — day of boundaries, banishing, and closure
- Nighttime — when emotions and intuition are heightened
🧙♀️ How to Perform the Spell with Candles and String
- Cleanse your space using incense, sound, or salt.
- Carve your initials into one candle and theirs into the other.
- Tie the string between the candles, securing them about 6 inches apart.
- Set the candles on a tray or dish.
- Place the petition or photo beneath their candle (optional).
- Say your intention out loud, like: “I release this tie. I take back my power. The connection between us is cut, cleansed, and cleared.”
- Light both candles at the same time.
- Observe the flame as the string slowly burns and breaks.
🔥 When the string snaps, the cord is symbolically severed. Done and dusted.
🔥 How to Read Candle Flames in a Cord Cutting Spell
Flame readings can give insight into the emotional energy still present.
- Tall, steady flame: strong energy and commitment to the spell
- Wavering or flickering flame: lingering emotions or resistance
- One candle burns faster: one of you is more ready to let go
- Smoke or popping sounds: emotional turbulence being released
🕯️ What the Wax and String Reveal
After the candle spell to break up spiritually, look at the wax and string remnants:
- Clean wax pool: clean break, release complete
- Wax trails or mess: emotional residue still releasing
- String burns instantly: you were already halfway there energetically
- String takes time to snap or doesn’t break: you may need a second ritual or deeper healing
💦 Aftercare for Energetic Release
The spell is complete, but your energy needs nurturing.
- Take a ritual bath with rosemary, sea salt, and rose petals
- Burn any remaining petitions or names
- Sleep with black tourmaline under your pillow
- Journal about what you’re reclaiming
And please, for the love of Venus, don’t stalk their socials. The cord is cut — don’t go retying it with your thumbs.
📓 Journal Prompts for Cord Cutting Integration
- What do I feel now that the cord is cut?
- What lesson did this connection teach me?
- What am I now free to create or attract?
- How can I better protect my energy going forward?
Looking for more journal prompts? Check out our printable shadow work journal… Download it here.
🧘 Why This Breakup Spell Works
Cord cutting spells work because they blend intention, symbolism, and ritual. You’re not just watching string burn — you’re reclaiming your magic, your peace, and your personal power.
And babe? That’s always worth casting a spell for.
