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    2023 + 2024 platinum winner

    Thank you to everyone who voted!

    Your support means the world to us. Knowing we have such amazing people behind us fills us with such gratitude.

    We are so excited to keep making you proud!

  • Soy wax candle labeled "August Moon Rise Quietude" with scents of tobacco leaf, sumac, and guaiacwood, on a wooden surface.

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  • Soy wax candle labeled 'August Moon Rise Zest' with lemon rose vanilla scent.

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  • Person holding a copper candle labeled 'August Moon Rise, Goddess'. The label mentions yuzu lotus blossom and banyan bark, indicating it's a soy wax candle.

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  • Three August Moon Rise candles named August, Quietude, and Tennessee on a shelf.

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At August Moon Rise, we believe the everyday holds quiet thresholds. Moments that ask to be recognized — the shift of a season, the softening of light, the pause between inhale and exhale.

Through our candles, we offer not only scent and flame, but an invitation to ritual — to anchor those fleeting recognition into something lasting. Because recognition without ritual drifts away, and ritual without recognition loses its meaning. Our work lives in the meeting of the two.

This is The Essence of Modern Ritual —a practice of recognition and ritual, woven into daily life.

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