. There are a number of different ways that you can choose the candle color to use in your candle magick. The candle color is important when doing spellwork as each color emits a particular vibration and attracts certain influences. However, if you really must perform the spell and you have no colored candles you can use plain white. If using a white candle as a substitution you should cause the name of the color that is needed into the white candle.
If you do not agree with the list that has been provided it is okay. If you cannot find what you are looking for that is okay too. Use your intuition if you have to, it will not let you down.
Any type of candle can be used for candle magic as long as it has been cleansed and consecrated prior to use. Cleansing removes any negative energies that the candle has picked up along the way. As with all supplies you want your candles to be as free of psychic debris as possible. The candles you use for any type of magic should be unused. Under no circumstances use a candle which has already adorned a dinner table or been used as a bedroom candle or night light. Vibrations picked up by second-hand materials or equipment may disturb your workings and negate their effectiveness.
"The degree of a color is also an important consideration to bear in mind. The deeper the color is, the more powerful the results tend to be. Additionally, the symbolic value may charge a bit. Dark blue is good for inner harmony and light blue seems good as a meditative color that inspires mental peace. Similarly, if a candle is a combination of two colors (as peach is a combination of orange and pink), both colors affect the overall energy of that candle and it's final application. For example peach might be used to nurture a friendship." (Exploring Candle Magick by Patricia Telesco)
"We live in a sea of living energy. Our conscious mind perceives, in the form of color, only a fragment of this living energy. Our subconscious, however, misses nothing, and, as psychologists are finding these color radiations have a tremendous influence upon our health, thoughts, and actions.
A major tool in magick is the proper use of color to one's best advantage. In dress, decor, or healing, color is of the utmost importance for one's success.
Knowing what a color can do on a conscious, as well a subconscious level, is what candle magick is all about." (Candle Magick Workbook by Kala and Ketz Pajeon)
Candles are also used in circle/ritual to represent the God, Goddess, Spirit, and corners. Once again use whatever feels comfortable to you for your work. Here are a number of color lists to help you on your way.
General List:
WHITE: A balance of all colors. Symbolizes peace, purity, innocence and power of a higher nature. Promotes peace, tranquility, purification, truth, spirituality, and sincerity. Also used for meditation, truth seeking, spiritual enlightenment, summoning spirit guides, astral travel, and to enhance psychic abilities. Can be as protective as black and may be substituted for any color candle. Healing properties include treating broken bones, relieving dental pain and increasing milk production in nursing mothers. White is also a Goddess symbol.
YELLOW: A stimulating and uplifting color that is the color of creativity; intelligence, confidence; movement and energy. Connects to clairvoyance, divination, wisdom, learning; imagination, and inspiration as well as the power of concentration and communication. Used in healing skin conditions as well as stomach complaints and menstrual cramps. Yellow symbolizes the element of Air.
ORANGE: Is a stimulating and energizing color. It connects to attraction, stimulation, control, personal strength, authority, and power. Also encouragement, adaptability, luck, and sudden changes. It attracts the characteristics wanted from other tools, spells ad rituals. Very good for healing coughs, colds and asthma as well as arthritis and exhaustion.
GOLD: Color that promoted understanding and attracts the powers of cosmic influences; intuition, persuasion, charm and confidence. Beneficial in rituals intended to bring about fast luck or financial benefits, or in rituals honoring solar deities.
PINK/ROSE: A positive color symbolic of emotional love, nurturing relationships and romance. Promotes spiritual awakening, healing of the spirit, femininity, friendships, honor and morality. it is the standard color of rituals to draw affections and brings friendly, lively conversation to the dinner table. Excellent for treating anxiety and depression, as well as ailments of the heart.
RED: The fiery, invigorating color of energy and life. Always connected to blood, birth and death; and sex. Connects with love, passion, fertility, physical energy and strength. Increases magnetism in rituals and is used in defensive magick. Also emotes courage and enthusiasm. Good in health, strength and vigor spells and defensive magick. Used in healing neuralgias and exhaustion. Red symbolizes the element of Fire as well as being a God Symbol.
PURPLE/VIOLET: Vibrating color that is highly spiritual and traditionally connected to mysticism, inspiration, wisdom, idealism, purification; success, peace; and power. Aids in meditation, sensitivity and higher psychic talents; as well as connecting to idealism, ambition, power, success and household protection. Healing properties include the treatment of allergies, sleep disorders and stress-related disorders.
MAGENTA: A combination of red and violet that is a very high vibrational frequency that tends to work fast. This color energizes rituals where immediate action and high levels of power or spiritual healing are required, such as quick changes, exorcism or spiritual healing.
BROWN: An earthy, balanced color, used to attract money and financial success. It aids in emotional stability and balance, eliminates indecisiveness, improves powers of concentration, study, intuition, and telepathy. Also connects to finding lost objects. Aids in the protection of familiars and household pets as well as animal healing.
INIDGO: A vitalizing color of inertia; used to cleanse the spirit and remove fear. Used in rituals that require a deep meditative state, to neutralize another's magick, or to counteract negative energy. Healing properties include dementia, depression, and mental disorders.
BLUE: A cool color that soothes and relaxes. Blue is a primary spiritual color, used in rituals to obtain wisdom, tranquility, harmony, peace, inner light and truth. Connects to inspiration, occult power, protection, understanding, good health, patience and loyalty. Aids in meditation as it connects to intellect and mind. Blue symbolizes the element of Water.
GREEN: The color that connects to nature, fertility, and rejuvenation. Stimulates work involving financial issues and money; aids good fortune, prosperity, luck; ambition and success. Bringer of love and renewal, it is an emotional soother and balancer, used to counteract greed and jealousy. A good color for treating headaches, colds and nervousness. Green is the color of the Earth element and is a Goddess Symbol.
SILVER/GRAY: Neutral color that removes negative energy or influences and encourages stability. Useful when pondering couple issues during meditation and in magic, this color often sparks confusion; it also negates or neutralizes when needed. Helps develop psychic abilities and attracts the influence of the Goddess.
BLACK: Burned for positive purposes, this color opens up deeper levels of the unconscious. Black is used in rituals to induce a deep meditational state and is good for banishing evil or negativity. Connects to self control, quiet power, and resilience, as it absorbs negativity and destroys it; offers strength and support in spells; protects from retribution and is also an aid during loss.
SABBAT CANDLE COLORS
Samhain: Black and orange.
Yule: Red, Green, and White.
Imbolc: Red, Pink, and Brown
Ostara: Green, Yellow, and Gold.
Beltane: Dark Green
Midsummer: Green and Blue
Lughnasadh: Yellow and Orange
Mabon: Orange, Brown, and Yellow
ASTROLOGICAL CANDLE COLORS
Aquarius: Light Blue or Pale Yellow
Pisces: Aquamarine
Aries: Red
Taurus: Green
Gemini: Yellow and Orange
Cancer: White or Dark Green
Leo: Gold or Yellow
Virgo: Gray or Marbled
Libra: Royal Blue
Scorpio: Black or Red
Sagittarius: Dark Blue and Purple
Capricorn: Black or Dark Brown
DAYS OF THE WEEK
Sunday: Yellow
Monday: White
Tuesday: Red
Wednesday: Purple
Thursday: Blue
Friday: Green
Saturday: Black
CANDLE MAGIC FOR FAERIES
MAGENTA: This is a good candle to burn with other candles when you need a speeder result.
YELLOW: Good for working with the air elemental fae bringing quick changes, mental creativity and developing your mind.
WHITE: Calm and peace, spirit guidance, direction
RED: Use with fire elementals, courage, sexual relations
GOLD: Solar fae, money and prosperity, good luck.
BLACK: Good for binding spells.
DARK BLUE: Ending depression, changes in your spiritual dealings.
LIGHT BLUE: Use when working with faerie and elementals, peace, healing.
GREEN: Good luck, good when working with earth faeries such as leprechauns, gnomes, and elves bringing balance, fertility, quick money.
ORANGE: Renewing confidence, changing your luck for the better.
PINK: Love, healing, emotional matters.
Oil Correspondences
Anise: Psychic insight.
Basil: Harmony.
Berry: Joy, happiness, freedom.
Cedar: Bravery.
Cinnamon: Good fortune.
Cloves: Affection returned.
Dill: Stress reduction.
Ginger: Power, stamina.
Lavender: Rest, depression.
Lime: Turning negative into positive.
Lemon Grass: Protection, purification.
Rose: Love.
Sandalwood: Vitality, spirituality.
Vanilla: Passion.
There are oils for every herb, it all depends on how much you are willing to spend. Oils come in two forms, essential and non-essential. Essential oils are generally more expensive. This is due to the fact that the oil comes from the natural herb. Non-essential oils are synthetic oils that are designed to smell like the essential oil. Most people say use essential oils only. Personally, I have had success with both. My suggestion is go for what you feel is best. Better yet, go for what you can afford. The study of oils and their affects is called aromatherapy. You can find many books on this. Scott Cunningham has a book called "Armoatherapy" that is another good introduction into this art.
Herbal Correspondences
Herbs can serve one of two functions in candle magick. First you can dip the oil coated candle into the herb to add the herbs effect to the candle. Secondly the herbs could be powered and burned on charcoal blocks as an incense during the spell. The study of herbs and their affect in magick and medicine is called herbalism. Once again Scott Cunningham has written two excellent books for research on the magickal aspect of herbs. They are "Encyclopedia of Magical Herbs" and "The Complete Book of Incense Oils and Brews". For a look at the medical side of herbs one should check out "The Herb Book" by John Lust. This book lists over five hundred herbs and their medical uses.
Herbal Correspondences
Allspice: Money, luck, physical energy.
Alfalfa: Protection, purification.
Bay: Healing, protection, psychic powers.
Benzoin: Protection, prosperity.
Cedar: Purification, spirituality, protection, speed healing.
Cinnamon: Money, protection, love, purification.
Clove: Exorcism, protection, money, purification.
Copal: Spirituality.
Dragons Blood: Exorcism, sex, love, protection, banishing.
Frankincense: Spirituality, love.
Juniper: Exorcism, healing, love.
Sandalwood: Exorcism, spirituality, healing, protection.
Thyme: Health, healing.
Deity Correspondences:
Black: Anpu, Anu, Anubis, Asar, Freya, Persephone, Seth
Blue: Aditi, Djehuti (royal blue), Heru (royal blue), Het Heret (light blue), Nuit
Brown: Ceres
Crimson: Sekhmet
Gold: Amaterasu-O-Mi-Kami, Apollo, Helios, Heru, Ptah, Ra, Sunna, Zeus
Green: Abundantia, Anahita, Arianrhod, Aset, Asherali, Astarte, Baal, Bast, Ceres, Demeter, Frey, Freya, Geb, Nebt Het
Orange: Ceres, Demeter
Pink: Amon-Ra, Aphrodite, Astarte, Cybele, Mercury, Venus
Purple: Athena, Bacchus, Djehuti, Jupiter, Odin, Tyr, Woden
Red: Agni, Aodh, Aphrodite, Astarte, Bast, Bellona, Freya, Mars, Neith, Odin, Sekhmet (crimson), Seth, Thor, Woden
Royal Blue: Djehuti, Heru (royal blue), Nuit
Silver: Aah, Artemis, Asherali, Astarte, Djehuti, Nebt Het, Selene
White: Anu, Apollo, Arianrhod, Artemis, Asherali, Astraea, Athena, Bast, Brighid, Diana, Khons, Luna, Maat, Ptah, Selene, Themis
Yellow: Amaterasu-O-Mi-Kami, Ceres, Heru, Sol
Chakra Correspondences
Red- Root
Orange-Spleen
Yellow Solar Plexus
Green-Heart
Blue-Throat
Purple- Third Eye
White- Crown
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