Astro Tips: Why You Shouldn't Blow Candles On Birthday

Most people cut cakes and blow out candles while celebrating their birthdays. While it is a common custom, it’s definitely not ideal according to Astrology. The Indian culture suggests that to celebrate your birthday, you start the morning with blessings and worship of elders.

Let us know about the astrological reason behind the belief of not blowing out candles from Astrologer Radhakant Vats.

• Since birthdays are auspicious occasions, the candles are lit to follow the tradition of Indian civilisation which is lighting fire at the time of every auspicious work.
• To draw the negative energy and evil powers, one should worship fire and light fire during auspicious occasions.
• It is believed that lighting a fire infuses Sattvic qualities in the person and fire is also believed to calm the evil eye and the fierce anger.
• This is also the reason behind the tradition of lighting a lamp in front of God on your birthday.

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• The belief is that this will provide positivity to the person and that person will have God's blessings. Astrology believes that this also helps in calming the planets.
• You should not blow out the candles as it is considered wrong and inauspicious according to astrology. Extinguishing the fire is considered to be the representation of promoting negative energy (Diwali 2023: A Lamp To Remove Negative Energy) and disturbing the planets.

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