My Book of Shadows

Meaning of candle colors

Red:

Power of the flesh, physical world, temporal pleasures, passion, love, scorn, courage, standing up to enemies. stimulates energy, vitality, fertility, and personal power. seeking love, respect, power, magnetism, and willpower.

Orange:

Sudden Change, chaos, bold moves, power, improving memory, clarifying legal matters and justice, removing fear.

Yellow:

Brainpower and intellect. Wisdom of the ages, Creativity, inspiration, concentration, logic, learning, and action. The light of a yellow candle can bring about cheerfulness, endurance, stability, and security.

Green:

Success and abundance, prosperity, bountiful harvest, nature, growth, healing, and good luck.

Blue:

a primary spiritual color, used for the examination of emotions and the attainment of calming wisdom and healing sleep. different shades can imply different intents. For example, dark blue can influence dreams and emotions, Royal blue, loyalty and fealty and spiritual self. Light blue could also radiate aquarian energy and invoke calm waters, seeking truth, harmony, and guidance while amplifying creativity and perception.

Purple:

associated with the third eye, enhancing psychic powers, medication, divination, hidden knowledge. May also be used to obtain spiritual protection, find recognition, wisdom, or seek reconciliation with something that exists in the realm of spirits.

Pink:

Love, Devotion, Friendship, Faith, forming partnerships, seeking affection or emotional healing. Unconditional and enduring pure love. Can be used to attract attention or achieve some other joyful purpose.

Black:

Neutralizing negative energies, protection, warding off of evil or negative energy, curses and curse breaking.

Grey:

a Neutral color. Useful when meditating on complex issues. can offset negative influences without repercussions. The grey candles is used in the same manner that charcoal is used to flush poisons from the body.

White:

Protection, Healing, Purification, Truth, unity, harmony, wholeness of spirit, cleansing, and Lunar energy.
(Since all colors are derived from pure white light, a white candle can be used as a replacement for any other candle in many rituals).

Brown:

Earth, balance, land, grounding, refuge from chaos, eliminating indecisiveness, finding lost items, and developing meaningful friendships.