Colors’ Magickal Awesome Powers 2

     Colors Magickal Awesome Power

Colors’ Magickal Awesome Power is that it is its own energy that ebbs and flows through our daily life.  Colors’ Magickal power is the type of magick that has been used throughout history in many different cultures and some people use it today without even knowing why or where it originated.  So, I thought it appropriate to start with color correspondence in this part of my Wicca 101 series I will call Magick Correspondence.

When working with colors’ magickal powers you need to think of the energy you are seeking and how you achieve this through a color.  Some ways are by colored candles, colored magickal tools, colored incense, colored clothing or material.  It is used for color magick, candle magick, spells, potions, rituals, psychic work, worship, invocations, and altar devotions.

Color Magick can be open to interoperation, so do not let this be the last word on color magick.  Let this just serve as a guide to follow when in doubt.  If every source you find recommends blue for your spell, but you feel that it should be red, then use red.  Trust yourself!  It’s all about the energy you produce by what you believe that color represents.

My favorite color is blue.  It’s my power color.  Is that the first color witches gravitate towards…well no, but it’s my power color.  I feel awesome in it, and I believe I absorb energy needed to get my magick flowing and that is what works most of the time.  Now if we are talking about specific spell instructions and ingredients, well they are usually best as recommended but it doesn’t make it wrong to change it up if you feel the need.

     The Purpose of Color

Each color has a specific correspondence– a magickal meaning, energetic vibration, and use. For instance, green increases prosperity, while white purifies and heals.  Each color has a specific frequency and energy type that Wiccans can harness and use in their magickal applications. Match the right candle color to its application, and see the power of your spellcraft rapidly increase.

Colors can be used in isolation, to create a concentrated and focused effect. They can also be combined, to create a blended and balanced magickal result. Similarly, spells may call for a single colored candle to achieve a specific end. Or, they might call for one candle color to represent one aspect of the spell, and another candle color for a different aspect.

     Colors and Their Magickal Purpose

• BLACK: Return to sender; divination; negative work; protection; binding; banishing; mourning; crone magick; uncrossing; exorcism; indrinking spells; setting limits; restricting someone or something; and reaching the deepest levels of meditation.  Black’s planet is Saturn, its direction is North, and its element is water.  Black is also the color of the waning moon.  In ancient Egypt black symbolized resurrection and eternal life.  The Aztecs seen it as a symbol of wisdom. In Greece and western countries, it is a symbol of death.

• BLUE_BLACK: For wounded pride; broken bones; angelic protection

• DARK PURPLE: Used for calling up the power of the ancient ones; sigils/runes; government.

• PURPLE:  Use for wisdom; prophecy; divination; power; ambition; success; independence; magickal power; astral projection; spiritual contact and psychic work.  Purple symbolizes royalty and corresponds to the planet Jupiter.  It is sacred to Babalu-Aye, Maman Brigitte, Oya, and Yansa.

• MAGENTA: Use magenta for spiritual healing and magickal working that require a lot of energy.

• VIOLET: Violet symbolizes the astral plane and the Akashic Principal.  Mercury is its planet.  Violet is sacred to the Chinese goddess Tzu-Ku-Shen, the Violet Lady. Use violet for spirituality. intuition, insight, clarity, gay love spells, and gay sex magic.

• WINE/MAROON: Dark brownish purple is sacred to the orishas Maman Brigitte, Oya, and Yansa.

• LAVENDER: to invoke righteous spirit within yourself and favors for people.

• DARK GREEN: Use dark green to counter ambition, greed, and jealousy.  Invoking the goddess of regeneration; agriculture; financial.

• EMERALD GREEN: Emerald green corresponds to the planet Venus. Use it for attraction, fertility, and any working that is social in nature.

• MINT GREEN: Financial gain-used with silver and gold.

• GREEN: Earth and Venus are its planets, earth its element, and north its cardinal point. Green symbolizes youth, new life, and vegetation in ancient Egypt.  It is a fairy color. Use green fro growth harmony, prosperity, success, luck, healing, beauty, fertility, courage, renewal, love, acceptance, money spells, faith, instinct, intuition, envy, garden magic, green witchcraft, fairy magic, finding a job, working with Mother Nature, making a safe space, and working with your inner child.

• AVOCADO GREEN: Beginnings.

• LIGHT GREEN: Improve the weather.

• AQUA: Aqua is a sacred color to Olokun, Afro-Caribbean god of the unconscious and the ocean depths.  Use it for sea spells.

• INDIGO BLUE: Saturn and Venus are indigo blue’s planets and is sacred to the goddess Venus.  Use to reach a deep meditative state or to stop someone or something dead in its tracks.  To reveal deep secrets; protection on the astral levels; defenses.

• DARK BLUE:  Jupiter and Saturn are dark blue’s planets.  It symbolizes infinity and is sacred to Anu, the Triple Goddess, and Vishnu.  Use dark blue for justice and fertility. Also, to create confusion-used with white or you will confuse yourself!

• BLUE: Protection; peace; truth; sleep; serenity; communication; hope; organization; administration; tranquility; spirituality; harmony, inner light; guidance; psychic dreams; healing image spells; removing bad vibrations; making a safe space; blessing a new home; and getting in touch with your inner child. Blue is a heavenly color, sacred to Aphrodite, Mary, Oshosi, rain god/goddesses, sky goddesses, the Triple Goddess, Yemaya, and Zeus.  It is a symbol of the female, magnetic principal.

• ROYAL BLUE: Power; loyalty; joviality; and protection.  Jupiter is royal blue’s planet.

• PALE/LIGHT BLUE: Protection of home, buildings, young and young males.  Spirituality; peace; tranquility; beauty; angel magic; and meditation.  Sky blue is sacred to Isis.

• RUBY RED: Love or anger of a passionate nature

• RED:  Red corresponds to the south cardinal point, the element of fire, the Full Moon and Mars, the red planet.  Aries and Scorpio are its astrological houses.  It symbolizes the male, electric principle.  Use red for lust, passion, love, romance, willpower, exorcism, healing, strength, health, courage, vitality, mercy, anger, brazenness, power, protection, energy, magnetism, female power, sex magick, organic healing, atmosphere, and sexual energy. Wear red to combat evil.

• SCARLET: Scarlet is sacred to Aphrodite.

• LIGHT RED: Deep affection of a non-sexual nature.

• DEEP PINK: Harmony and friendship in the home.

• PINK: Pink is an angelic color, according to William Blake.  It is sacred to Aphrodite and Venus.  Use for happiness, youth, beauty, romance, service, fidelity, love spells, angel magick, female energy, attracting new love, drawing affection, harmony and friendship with people, all emotional workings. and binding magick.

• ROSE: Use rose for youth and love spells.

• PALE PINK: Friendship; young females.

• YELLOW: Corresponds to the Sun, Center or East cardinal point, air its element, and symbolizes the creative feminine power.  Use yellow for attraction, centering, power, happiness, confidence, jealousy, joy, creativity, divination, unity, a new home, personal charm, solar magick, astral projection, the power of concentration the power of persuasion, finding your center, making a safe space, and to activate any magickal working.

• SAFFRON YELLOW: Saffron yellow is sacred to the Egyptian Sun god Amon.

• DEEP GOLD: Prosperity; sun magick.

• GOLD:  Gold corresponds to the Sun and fire is its element.  Gold has god energy andis sacred to all sun gods.  Use the color gold for attraction, solar magick, money spells, influencing cosmic forces, and the astral planes.

• PALE GOLD: Prosperity in health.

• BURNT ORANGE: Opportunity.

• ORANGE: Mercury is orange’s planet, and fire its element. Use orange for success, energy, creativity, travel, strength, balance, communication, intellectual pursuits, and attracting love or romance, for material gain and to seal a spell.

• COPPER: Copper is sacred to the Native American goddess Copper Woman.  Use the color copper in money spells.  Venus is its planet.

• DARK BROWN: Invoking the earth for benefits.

• BROWN:  Corresponds to the planet earth and the element earth.  Sacred to the earth goddesses/god and corn mothers, as well as to the orishas Agayu, Babalu-Aye, Oya, Maman Brigitte, and Yansa.  Use brown for grounding, balance, level-headedness, decisiveness, telepathy, earth energy, material increase, earth magick, find lost items, working with animals, peace in the home, herb magick, and friendship.

• PALE BROWN: Material benefits in the home.

• SILVER: Quick money; gambling; invocation of the moon; moon magick; psychic development and every kind of psychic work, stability; banishing negativity; working with the Mother.  Silver is the color of the new moon, sacred to all moon goddesses.  It symbolizes life in death.

• OFF-WHITE: Peace of mind.

• LILY WHITE: Mother candle (burned for thirty minutes or at each moon phase).

• WHITE: Righteousness; purity; for east cardinal the element air; the New Moon; devotional magick; uncrossing; indrinking; purification; protection; spirituality; healing; truth; meditation; reason; creativity; enlightenment; cleansing; clairvoyance, fallow periods; calm; love; innocence; lunar magick; spiritual strength, ecstasy; omnipotence, cosmic consciousness; make energy; rain spells; angel magic; working with the spirit world; working wiht small children unbiased judgement; and making sacred space.  A white candle can be a substitute for any other color in candle magick.  In China it symbolizes death.

• GRAY: Glamouries; loneliness, sorrow, neutrality, and neutralizing negativity.  Gray is sacred to the Gray Goddess, the Gray Ones, and to the Graiae (the gray ones), three Greek crone goddesses who guard their sisters, the Gorgons.

• CLEAR: Clear symbolizes the spirit world and corresponds to the element air.  Use it for clarity.

• PASTELS: All pastel colors correspond to the element air.

    Colors for the Days of the Week

• MONDAY: White – Monday is regarded to be the day of the Moon so white is the color you must be wearing that day.
• TUESDAY: Red – Red is the color for Tuesday as Mars is the planet for this day. The color signifies sacrifice, risk, danger.
• WEDNESDAY: Purple – Also, on Wednesday, it is advised to wear green. Green denotes fertility, growth, prosperity and Wednesday is the day of Lord Ganapati and green is his favorite color.
• THURSDAY: Green – Also, Thursday is the day of Jupiter and yellow is the color for the day. Yellow color signifies knowledge, education, and learning.
• FRIDAY: Blue – Also. on Friday is dedicated to Goddess Durga and on this day one can wear multi-colored clothes and be blessed from the divine form.
• SATURDAY: Black – Saturday is the day of Lord Shani and royal blue or black is the color for the day. Both these colors indicate strength, power.
• SUNDAY: Yellow – Also, on Sunday is dedicated to Sun God who is also called Surya Dev and pink is the color for the day. This color is the sign of love and eternal bliss.

   Colors and the Elements

CELTIC TRADITION; the four elements unified by spirit were the basis of Celtic magick.  The Druidic universe contained four elements unified by balance.  The Chinese work with five elements, each with its own correspondences. Some traditions count spirit, sometimes called ether or akasha, as a fifth element.

These are my go-to colors for elements and for candles representing the Quarters.

• SPIRIT: Clear, White
• EARTH: Green
• AIR: Yellow
• FIRE: Red
• WATER: Blue

Resources:

I don’t know if you’ve read any of my other blogs, but I am a huge Silver Ravenwolf fan and I follower a lot of her teachings.  Her is her blog page link.  About Me – Silver RavenWolf (wordpress.com)

Solitary Witch Silver Ravenwolf (thecelticcraftshop.com)

Silver Ravenwolf The Witches Notebook

Book Celtic Magic Kristoffer Hughes (thecelticcraftshop.com)

Color Magic Correspondence | Wayward Inspiration | Color magic, Candle color meanings, Color meanings (pinterest.com)