Color in Candle Magic: What Does Each Candle Color Mean?
Using color in ritual work brings even more power and support to your craft.
Choosing a candle, crystal, or altar cloth in a color that corresponds to your intention as well as to other herbs and tools you are using will yield better results.
Here is a quick guide to help you select the color best suited for your intentions:
Black is ideal for protection
It is used for transformation, banishing, cloaking, and to represent the unconscious or unknown.
Blue is ideal for spirituality.
It is used for harmony, healing, blessings, and to represent forgiveness and inspiration.
Brown is ideal for grounding .
It is used for practical matters and represents balance and fairness.
Gray is used for neutralizing or undoing.
Green is perfect for abundance, balance, and self-love.
Lavender is wonderful for tranquility and compassion.
Metallic Gold is ideal for charisma, wisdom, enlightenment, and sun magic.
Metallic Silver is ideal for psychic work, cycles, divination, and moon magic.
Orange is perfect for new beginning, encouragement, and creativity.
Pink is ideal for love, beauty, healing grief, and compassion.
Purple is wonderful for empowerment, psychic expansion, insight, and divination.
Red is used for sexuality, magnetism, courage, and vitality.
White is primarily used for divine connection, innocence, and cleansing.
White can be used as a stand-in for any color, though. This is true of white candles and crystal quartz stones.
Yellow is ideal for inspiration, intellect, and concentration.
