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Colors and Uses/Properties
Color |
Properties for Candles |
Prperties for Robes |
Properties for Feathers |
Other Properties (General Purposes) |
Yellow |
Power of the mind, divination, movement, air. Wednesday. The Sun,
intelligence, accelerated learning, memory, logical imagination, breaking
mental blocks, selling yoursrlf. |
An excellent color for those involved with divination. |
Attraction, persuasion, instills confidence, charm. Found to
stimulate the intellect. Intellect, confidence, divination,
communication, eloquence, travel, movement. Color of the element Air. It
symbolizes the Sun, grain, and the power of thought. To American Zuni it
symbolizes the North. In Polynesia, is a color of royalty and Divinity. |
Gold |
Wealth, the God, promote winning, safety and power of the male,
happiness, playful humor. |
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Purple |
Spirituality, devotion, sensitivity. Influencing people in high
places, third eye, psychic ability, spiritual power, self assurance,
hidden knowledge. |
Favored for those who work with pure Divine power (magicians. NOTE:
Not in the David Copperfield sense) or those who wish to deepen their
awareness of the Goddess and God. |
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Ambition, promotes business progress, power (worldly, psychic, or
magickal), causes tension, strengthens will power. Viewed as a regal
color. Color of confidence that seems to emit a sense of high esteem from
within. Power, healing severe disease, spirituality, meditation,
religion. Was once a European symbol of royalty. Today, it symbolizes the
Divine. |
Blue |
Water, peace, healing, joy. Thursday. Good fortune, opening blocked
communication, wisdom, protection, spiritual inspiration, calm,
reassurance, gently moving, element of water, creativity.]
| Suited for healers and those who work with their psychic awareness or
for attuning with the Goddess in her ocean aspect. |
Psychic awareness, peace, health. |
Healing, peace, psychism, patience, happiness. Color of the element
of water. Symbolic of the ocean, sleep, twilight, and the sky. Zuni
employ this color to represent the West. |
Dark Blue |
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Depression, moodiness, changeability, impulsiveness, unfortunate and
very subdoing. |
Green |
Prosperity, growth, faith. Friday. Earth mother, physical healing,
monetary success, abundance, fertility, tree and plant magick, element of
Earth, personal goals. |
Empowers herbalists and magickal ecologists |
Money, fertility, growth. |
Money, luck, financial success and prosperity, fertility, good crops
and harvest, cooperation. A refreshing color. Will install a feeling of
vitality. Honey, prosperity, employment, healing, growth. Color of
element Water. Symbolic of Earth and symbolizes our planet's fertility
(it's the color of chloropyll), and life itself. |
Brown |
To increase the effect of any other color, also for use of
rituals/spells with pets or natural magick. Earth. Saturday. Influence
friendships, special favors. |
Worn by those who attune with animals as familiars, or who cast
spells for them. |
Stability, health, grounding, home. |
Hesitation in all matters, uncertainty, doub, neutrality, robs
energy. An earthen color, stabilizing and consistent. Animals. Represents
soil, and to a lesser degree--fertility of the Earth. |
White |
Protection, purification. Monday. Spirituality, the Goddess, peace,
higher self, purity, virginity (as in woman's MIND is owned by no man), a
substitute for any other color when the more specific color for the
purpose is not available. |
Symbolizes purification and pure spirituality, and is also perfect
for meditation and cleansing rituals. It is worn for full moon
celebrations, or to attune with the Goddess. |
Purification, spirituality, hope, protection, peace, blessings of the
Moon. |
Adds to spiritual strength, breaks curses or crossed conditions,
represents faith, purity, truth, and sincerity. Color of purity, with
intent. Makes one feel fresh and renewed. Protection, purification, all
purposes. Symbolic of the moon, freshness, snow, cold, and
potentia. Because white contains all colors, it can be utilized for every
magickal purpose. Zuni employ the color to represent the East. |
Silver |
Telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, psychometry, intuition,
dreams, astral energies, female, communication, the Goddess. |
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Gray |
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Peace, neutrality |
Cancellation, stalemate, neutrality |
Black |
Banishing, the night, the void. Protection, repelling negativity,
binding, shapeshifting. |
A protective hue and symbolizes night, the universe, and lack of
falsehood. |
Not recommended |
Sadness and mourning, evil, loss, discord, confusion. A color that
causes fear. Invokes suppression with obvious signs of withdrawl.
Banishing negativity. Symbolizes outer space and the universe. Black is
the absence of all colors. In some cultures, it symbolizes fertility (as
in quite fruitful black earth), in others--wisdom. In our culture, it has
been linked with evil, due to "religious"associations. It is NOT an evil
color. |
Red |
For strength, courage, fire, and vitality. Tuesday. Energy, strength,
passion, courage, element of Fire, career goals, fast action, lust, Blood
of the Moon (menstruation), vibrancy, driving force, love, survival. |
Worn to Sabbats, for protective rites, or when attuning to the God in
his fiery solar aspect. |
Courage, good fortune, life. |
Love, sexuality, good health, strength, and physical vigor. Invokes
impatience and a high anxiety level, coupled with a tremendous amount of
energy. Maintaining health, strength, physical energy, sex passion,
courage, protection. Widely used in defensive magick. The color of Fire.
Red is associated with blood, death and birth, volcanoes, and intense
emotions. The American Zuni linked this color to the South. In Polynesia,
red is a sacred color associated with both the deities and with the
highest social classes. |
Pink |
Loving, friendship, relaxation. Romantic love, planetary good will,
healing of emotions, pece, affection, romance, partnerships of emotional
maturity, caring, nurturing. |
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Love |
Overcomes evil, represents honor, love, morality, friendship, general
success. Love, friendship, compassion, relaxation. Symbolic of gentle
emotions and of emotional unions. It's less intense than red. |
Orange |
A color of energy, the sun at morning. Saturday. Business goals,
property goals, ambition, career goals, general success, justice, legal
matters, selling, action. |
Worn to Sabbats, for protective rites, or when attuning to the God in
his fiery solar aspect. |
Attraction, energy, success. |
Encouragement, strengthens the ability to concentrate, attraction,
adaptability, stimulation. A festive color and seems to heal and soothe
the body and mind. General attraction, energy. Orange is a lesser aspect
than red. |
Greenish yellow |
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Jealousy and anger, sickness, quarrels, discord, cowardice |
Copper |
Passion, money goals, professional growth, fertility in business,
career maneuvers. |
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*Above information was gathered from the following sources:
"Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner", Scott Cunningham
"Spell Crafts", David Harrington and Scott Cunningham
"Candle Lighting Encyclopedia", Tina Ketch
"Charms, Spells, and Formulas", Ray Malbrough
"A Victorian Grimoire", Patricia Tolesco
"To Ride a Silver Broomstick", Silver Ravenwolf
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