Candle Colour - Yellow

Planet: Mercury
Day: Wednesday
Energy: Male
Colors: Yellow
Used for: To obtain knowledge, learn swiftly, gain insight into problems, intelligence, memory, attraction, success, drawing, communicating, studying/study, clear thinking, decision making, charm, burnt for those who have passed away, persuasion. Yellow represents all institutions of learning, particularly upper level studies such as sciences. Logical imagination, to accelerate learning, activity, creativity, unity; brings power of concentration and imagination to a ritual; use in rituals where you wish to gain anothers confidence or persuade someone, or in rituals that require solar energy. Alters dark mental mood swings, enhances knowledge of healing, ability to concentrate, retention of memory. Yellow attracts people, as it has a warm compelling energy.

In healing for successful treatment, clears away depression, draws happiness, confidence.

A stimulating and uplifting colour that is the colour of creativity; confidence; movement and energy. Connects to clairvoyance, divination, wisdom, learning; inspiration as well as the power of concentration and communication. Used in healing skin conditions as well as stomach complaints and menstrual cramps.

A sunny, positive disposition with spiritual attuning to the healing forces of the male energy. the Element of Air.

Candle Colour: White

Planet: Moon
Day: Monday
Energy: Female
Color: Silvers, pearls, creams, grays, whites, pale pinks, violets, blue hues, etc.
Used for: Consecration rituals, meditation, divination, exorcism, and spells that involve healing, clairvoyance, truth, peace, spiritual strength, spiritual enlightenment, cleansing, truth seeking, to confound enemies, create illusions, contact sginity, pirit helpers, to build purity, balance the aura. The goddess, purity, spiritualism, higher self, virginity, protection, purification, sincerity, cooperation, assistance, truth seeking, summoning spirit guides, astral travel, and to enhance psychic abilities. All purpose spiritual awareness and power. Can be as protective as black and may be substituted for any colour candle. Healing properties include treating broken bones, relieving dental pain and increasing milk production in nursing mothers.

Rituals involving lunar energy. A pastel combination of all colors, white reflects light with little to no absorption. Substitutes any other colour. Whenever in doubt in a magickal act, use white, which is the most highly balanced form of spirituality possible. White contains virtues in their highest form, and is therefore very protective. It is beyond the word or term God/dess. It is the Creative Source itself, zero, the alpha, the light from which all life springs, the female aspect of God, the Craft of the Wise, the full of the moon, the symbol of the life giving Mother, and all female mysteries.

Off-White: Peace of mind

Candle Colour: Silver

Gray often used for Silver, the color of the Moon. Women's mysteries. Neutral colour that removes negative energy or influences and encourages stability. Useful when pondering complex issues during meditation and in magic, this colour often sparks confusion; it also negates or neutralizes when needed. Helps develop psychic abilities and attracts the influence of the Goddess.

Success with and for women, receptivity, meditation, lunar energy, pathworking, attunement to nature, helps with feminine health issues, especially any of the Rites of Passage – from childhood to puberty, to fertility, in pregnancy, for menstrual cycles, menopause.

dreams, intuition, telepathy, feminine power/energy, astral energy, clairvoyance, removes negativity and encourages stability; secrets, flexible, adaptable, communication. Quick money; gambling; cancellation; neutrality; stalemate.

Candle Colour - Red

Red

Planet: Mars Day: Tuesday Energy: Male Colors: Red Used for: Lust, physical desire, base energy, war, attracts and magnetizes, courage, enemies, danger. Red stimulates and energizes. Energy, strength, passion, fast action, career goals, driving force, survival, blood of the Moon, health, love, fertility, protection, will power; increases magnetism in rituals; draws Aries and Scorpio energy.

Red is a fiery color that attracts and magnetizes, but must be used with discernment to avoid disastrous results. The shade of red used or considered in your magickal act will be of extreme importance here. Stay with the lighter, brighter shades of red and leave the darker shades for the more experienced practitioners for now. The darker shades are for wars, battles, hate and danger. The element of fire. God symbol. South Cardinal Point.

Exorcism, sex, power, romantic atmosphere, vigor, sexual love, bodily strength, physical energy. Conquers fear, strength in battle, heals anemia or when there has been blood loss, builds strength and power for those weakened by fatigue. Always connected to blood, birth and death. 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.

Cherry reds: for physical and mental lovemaking, but without the brutal force of the darker hues.

Ruby Red: Love or anger of a passionate nature
Light Red - Deep affection of a non-sexual nature

Candle Colour - Purple

Planet: Jupiter Day: Thursday Energy: Male Colors: Purple, sometimes royal blue or dark purple/ Saturn. Used for: Purple brings more of what you already have, in a bigger way. Vibrating colour that is highly spiritual and traditionally connected to mysticism, inspiration,wisdom, high idealism, purification, peace, knowledge of the higher realms of magick, spiritual protection and healing, the becoming of your highest potential. Enhancement of power, psychic ability and energy, male energy, protective energy, recognition in your chosen field. Tension; ambition; business progress, work success; power; healing severe diseases; spirituality; meditation; religion; spiritual power, hidden knowledge Third Eye, to influence people in high places, success; ideals for rituals to secure ambitions, independence, financial rewards, or to make contact with the spiritual other world; increases Neptune energy.

Purple is the color of expansion in all forms. Purple expands anything you desire, i.e.., spirituality, business, money, health or love.

A combination of the Blue and Red Energy, overcome odds or competition, control, respect, wealth, dignity, honor, obedience, command, court cases, concentration, victory, repels negativity. Influence, spiritual power, contact with spirits, drive away evil, change luck, government, break habit, sensitivity, household protection. Healing properties include the treatment of allergies, sleep disorders and stress-related disorders.

Students of esoterism believe that purple candles have the power to cancel out the negative effects of bad karma. Use with white candle to neutralize effects of karma and ego. Ancient wisdom, the third eye, confidence, hidden knowledge, protection, divination.

 

Lavender: relaxation, intellectual matters, dignity, spirituality, calming, compassion, understanding, bring out inner strengths and talents. To invoke righteous spirit within yourself; favors for people, knowledge, intuition, spiritual shields, Mother consciousness, manifestation and selflessness, inspiration, make contact with Higher-Self, attract spiritual assistance.

Indigo: a vitalizing colour of inertia; stops situations or people; use in rituals that require a deep meditational state; to neutralize another's magick, or to counteract negative energy; or in rituals that demand Saturn energy. Spiritual guidance, psychic ability, stop gossip/lies, dignity, divination, mediation, ambition, overcome depression, used to cleanse the spirit and remove fear.

Healing properties include dementia, depression, and mental disorders.

It is used to stop situations or people's intentions. Brow, third eye, psychic center. Helps to see aura.

Magenta: This is a combination of red and violet that oscillates on a high frequency. It’s used to energize rituals where immediate action and high levels of power or spiritual healing are required/meeded quickly. Quick changes, Exorcism, Spiritual Healing.

Violet: this is the "softer sister" to purple, spirituality, spiritual world, connection to higher self, Goddess, insight, clarity, tension, strength, success, idealism, psychic revelation; Ideal for rituals which are designed to secure Ambition, Independence and financial success or to establish contact with the other; Enhances Neptune energy.

Dark Purple - Used for calling up the power of the ancient ones; sigils/runes; government

Candle Colour - Pink

Planet:VenusDay: FridayEnergy: FemaleUsed for: Love from the heart without sexual connotation, purest form of love, raises vibrations, love without selfishness, feminine, spiritual healing, banish lower vibrations and hate, love of friends and family, affections, unselfish emotions, to start a relationship. Harmony and friendship with people, binding magic, honour, love, morality, compassion, relaxation, peace, romantic, emotions, affection, caring, nurturing, planetary good will, success, charm, conquers hate and evil, understanding, gentleness, friendship, overcomes anger.

Promotes romance, standard color for rituals to draw affections, service, brings friendly, lively conversation to the dinner table, draws forgiveness for others, from others, from self. Helps heal the damages of abuse, accidents or trauma, allows for self love and self respect. Heals broken hearts, conquers discord.

As a lighter shade of red, it deals with spiritual, emotional love rather than the physical form. It represents love that comes from the heart that is freely given without condition, example emotions and feelings between parent and child.

Deep Pink - Harmony and friendship in the home
Pale Pink – Friendship, young females

Candle Colour - Other Colours

Amber: Witchcraft-oriented symbol, development of ability, empowerment

Burgundy: half-way between the two colours, it tempers the passion of red with the practicality of brown. Use for magic related to determination, strength, and personal power. It resonates with blood, and helps in grounding and bringing your passions to fruition.

Copper: money (goals), (professional) growth, business (success), fertility, career maneuvers/growth, passion

Greenish Yellow: jealousy, anger, discord

Ivory (beige): similar meanings to white, but with a touch of earthy brown. It is good for Full Moon workings, initations, or you want an alternative to bright white. Because it corresponds to precious things like ivory, pearl, and cream, this colour is also used to attract and abundance. Neutrality, balance, harmlessness. Good just for meditation and.or prayer.

Peach: Reassurance, kindness, sympathy, granting others' wishes; (promotes) restoration and rejuvenation – since being a combination of pink/light red with orange. Confers a softness and gentleness, it is good to gentle help a person through ritual regain their vitality after a long, deliberating illness without over taxing the body system.

Teal: Balancing the practical and the spiritual, decision-making skills, achieving a level of trust with someone

Turquoise: Getting things in perspective, relieving stress, attaining control over matters that are out of hand, memory aid, finding logical solutions or reasons for problems, healing, prosperity, peace, growth, awareness, meditation, creativity, neutrality, and cancellation. Often used to represent the Goddess.

Candle Colour - Orange

Planet: Sun, Mars, Mercury Day: Sunday (best day to use it), Tuesday, Wednesday (both used with success depending on goal)Colors: Orange, rarely red, sometimes yellow Used for: Prosperity, energy building, attracts others in a positive way, property deals, legal matters, justice, selling, attracts success, adaptability, good luck and fortune; material gain, to seal a spell, attraction, encouragement, stimulation, energy. Builds energy, vitality and stamina, mental clarity, control, personal strangth, authority, power, sudden changes. Encourages fun and discourages laziness. Enhances mental agility, accompanied by the ability to take physical action toward a desired goal. Energizes the entire system. Promotes a happy-go-lucky appearance.

Also used for Gold, mental clarity, control, happiness, joyfulness, attracts luck and money, adds zest and adaptability, helps break out of the doldrums or a rut. For healing, gives needed energy, hopefulness, confidence.

It attracts the characteristics wanted from other tools, spells and rituals. Very good for healing coughs, colds and asthma as well as arthritis and exhaustion. Also used during Samhain.

Being a combination of yellow/Mercury (mental agility) and red/Mars (action-engery) it is the best of both, the energies of the actions with the intelligence to know how to use this action. Red is toned and tapered with the healing widsom of yellow that nurtures the system.

If used on Tuesday, the emphasis is on physical action. If used on Wednesday, it is on mental actions whereas Sunday is a balance of both.

Burnt Orange - Opportunity

Candle Colour - Greens

Planet: Venus, MercuryDay: Friday, WednesdayEnergy: Female or MaleUsed for: Spells involving fertility, success, good luck, prosperity/growth, money/finance, rejuvenation and ambition, rituals to counteract greed and jealousy. Communication with the plant kingdom (darker greens) or fairies (pastels); stimulates plant life. Personal goals, harmony, employment, better business, creative ideas, rewards, bringer of love and renewal; beauty, independence, luck.

Use in conjunction with herbal healing techniques. Also, related to healing, used when regeneration is needed, to heal wounds when needed, eye problems, fertility and childhood growth, and healing after childbirth, headaches, cold, nervousness. Best used on Wednesday for healing.

An Earth colour, tree and plant magic, Mother Earth, associated a lot with North and Venus (verdigris is a green tarnishing of copper, the metal of Venus). A Goddess synbol. Green is and emotional soother and balancer, used to counteract greed and jealousy.

Be very clear in your intent regarding money sought with this color, when done with haste and no specific intent it seems to fade quickly or trickle in a little at a time. Used on Friday it gives an emotional healing (matters of the heart).

 

Avocado Green - Beginnings

Dark Green - Color of ambition, greed, and jealousy - it can be used to counteract these influences in a ritual. Is used for Beauty, Employment, Fertility, Healing, Success, Good Luck, Prosperity, Heart Matters, Money and Masculine Divinity. Use it to promote Taurus energy.

Emerald Green - Important component in Venusian rituals; attracts love, social delights, and fertility.

Greenish Yellow - Sickness; cowardice; anger; jealousy; discord

Light Green - Improve weather
Mint Green - Financial gains (used with gold and/or silver)

Candle Colour - Gray

Planet: Moon Day: Monday Energy: Female and Male Colors: Gray Used for :To erase, cancel, neutralize and return to the universe without repercussion, to eradicate or jumble destructive forces, to attract neither destructive nor constructive energies to your life (this includes people and situations).

Neutral color useful when pondering complex issues during meditation; in magic, this color often sparks confusion; it also negates or neutralizes a negative influence. Gray can be used to neutralize anything from a magical act that not longer serves your best interest, to neutralize destructive energies in a passive non-karmic fashion.

neutralizes stress, negativity, lessens the impact of mistakes, represents Silver. As a combination of white and black, it is used to get rid of negativity, cleanse unwanted energies, break a spell of bad luck, and exorcisms. Silver gray can help understanding and work with karma and past life recall. Eases guilt. As a balance of black and white it absorbs and repels. With this quality, gray draws in the undesirable energies and then sends them out to the universe for dispersal as neither a destructive nor constructive properties. Glamories; cancellation; stalemate

Neutral colour that removes negative energy or influences and encourages stability. Helps develop psychic abilities and attracts the influence of the Goddess.

Use it to promote Virgo energy

Candle Colour - Gold

Planet: Sun Day: Sunday Energy: Male Colors: Gold Used for: Spells to attract the power of cosmic influences, and rituals to honor solar deities, to heal and rejuvenate your being, to expedite money you know is coming to you, to impart energy and intelligence to take proper action in a monetary situation.

Attraction, persuasion, charm, confidence, wealth, money, happiness, promote winning, safety and power of the male, success, wishes, untuition, persuasion, charm, confidence, playful humor, healing

Colour of the God, can be represented by orange or yellow. The male half of the Cosmic or Universal Life Force. Gold has a higher vibration of orange and yellow and any one of the three can actually be used on Sunday (sun) with success.

Deep Gold - Prosperity; sun magick
Pale Gold - Prosperity in health

Candle Colour - Brown

Planet: Moon (tan browns), Venus (all), Saturn (dark browns)Day: Monday/ Friday/ Saturday Colors: Browns, earth tones Used For: Spells to locate lost objects and improve powers of concentration and telepathy, protection of the familiars and household pets, ground and center your conciseness with the earth, to attune with trees and communicate with their intelligence, (to influence) friendships, (special) favours. The home (ex peace in the home), to attract the power of the cosmic influences, balanced colour, herb magic, neutrality.

For rituals of material increase; eliminates indecisiveness; study; increases financial success; stability, fertility, thrift, work, control, conquering, success in business, grounding, long term achievements, growth, determination, planting, spells that involve animals, friendship, hesitation, uncertainty.

To help bones, teeth, recuperation from chronic illness.

North direction. Earth energy, like black it represents Earth, also soil, trees bark and herbs, feminine in nature. Brown is one of the more complex colors, with varied associations.

It can be associated with Saturn for long term gains and family heritage.

Dark Brown - Invoking Earth for benefits
Pale Brown - Material benefits in the home

candle colour - blues

Planet: Moon, Venus, Saturn, JupiterDay: Monday, Friday, Saturday, Thursday Energy: Female (sometimes male when used with Jupiter/Thursday) Colors: Blue Whites/ Moon, Blues/ Venus, Dark Blues/ Saturn, Royal Blue/JupiterUsed for: Magick that involves honour, loyalty, peace, tranquility, healing, peace, truth, patience, happiness, wisdom, protection during sleep, general protection, astral projection and spells to induce prophetic dreams, psychism, harmony, inner light, confers guidance, justice, meditation, kindness, depresses excess energy, fidelity, relieves worry and stress, helps insomnia, high blood pressure, and minor wounds.

Creativity, communication, calm, good fortune, spiritual inspiration.

West Cardinal Point, water or air, Goddess energy

Blue transforms violence, anger, and hate, while it soothes and cools, to give one peace, calm, harmony, satisfaction, bliss, oneness, and understanding of the spiritual realms.

It is predominately feminine in energy, and is ruled, depending on the hue, by either the Moon, Venus, or Saturn. Many consider the royal blues belonging to the male energies of Jupiter. Use it to promote Jupiter energy and whenever an influence needs to be increased.

Royal Blue - Promotes laughter, power, joviality, loyalty, protection; use to attract Jupiter energy, or whenever an influence needs to be increased.

Dark Blue – Change, Flexibility, Healing, Psychism, The subconscious mind

Is the color of Loyalty and is used to promote Laughter and Joviality. Use it to promote Sagittarius energy. Adding control and structure

Pale/Light Blue - Spiritual color; helpful in devotional or inspirational meditations; brings peace, protection and tranquillity to the home; radiates Aquarius energy; employ where a situation must be synthesized. Happiness, healing, patience, clearing of the mind, invoking calmness, sending good dreams, tranquility, understanding, health

Indigo Blue - To reveal deep secrets; protection on the astral levels; defenses

Candle Colour - Black

Planet: Saturn and plutoDay: SaturdayEnergy: FemaleUsed For: Meditation rituals, uncrossing rituals and spells to banish evil and negativity, to break up a blocked or stagnant situation, transformation.

The Crone, the unconscious, binding, protection – most proctrective of the colours, banishing/repels negativity, shapeshifting, healing severe diseases, absorbing and destroying negativity, hexwork.

Mourning a loss; aids in the loss, feminine divinity, and Samhain

An intense concentration of all colors, it absorbs light and reflects very little, if any, light back to the viewer. So it can give the false impression that there is no colour, but it is the absence of color reflection. When properly used, black can be one of the most useful and powerful colors. However, when or if misused, it can cause disaster.

Black opens up the deeper levels of the unconscious. Use in rituals to induce a deep meditational state, or to banish evil or negativity as in uncrossing rituals

It can create a void and vacuum that you can fill with another wanted energy. Black represents fertile, rich black soil for which new life/things can be created. It represents mystery and secrets, the direction is North. You can use it to clear away blocks, break unwanted patterns, understand karma, for releasing energy or exorcisms. In healings, it can be used to cleanse a condition.

For positive purposes when burned, this colour opens up the deeper levels of the unconscious. It connects to self control, quiet power, and resilience, as it absorbs negativity and destroys it; offers strength and support in spells.

The black candle is very powerful. It can be used to bring a person back down to earth. It stabilizes and awakens greater responsibility. When burnt with a white candle it is most effective.

Blue-Black - For wounded pride; broken bones; angelic protection