Sacred to: Babalu-Aye - Osiris - Demeter - Elegba
- Eleggua - Exu - the Great Goddess - Kali, the Black One - Maman Brigitte
- Moon goddesses - Ogum - Ogun - Ogou-Feraille - Oya - Papa Legba - Yansa
Black candle: to bind an enemy - for indrinking spells
Symbolized resurrection and eternal life in ancient
Egypt
Death color in western countries, and in ancient Greece.
Symbol of wisdom to the Aztecs
GRAY:
Sacred to: the Graiae, the Gray Ones - the Grey Goddess
For: loneliness
silver:
Planet: new Moon
For lunar magic
Sacred to Moon goddesses
Symbolizes Life-in-Death
WHITE:
Direction: West
Element: Air
Sacred to: Aphrodite - Batala - Cerridwen, White Lady
of Inspiration - Chango - Elegba - Gauri, Brilliant White - the Great Goddess
- Moon goddesses - Obatala, Chief of the White Cloth - Shango - the Triple
Goddess - the White Goddess - White Tara - Xango - Yemaya - Yemonja
For: purity - protection - love - innocence - healing
- rain - flood - ecstasy - uncrossing - indrinking - cosmic consciousness
- fallow periods - male energy - the spirit world - work for small children
- calm, unbiased judgment
William Blake referred to the "white light of
reason."
Symbolizes death in China
Dress in white for creation or recreation
clear:
Element: Air
Symbolizes the Spirit World
BLUE:
Planet: Saturn - Jupiter
Element: Water
Sacred to: Aphrodite - Mary - Oshosi - rain deities
- sky goddesses - Yemana - Yemaya - Yemonja - Zeus
For: communication - organization - peace - truth
- justice - administration - tranquility - removing bad vibrations - authenticity
of expression - the female, magnetic principle
Blue candle to: make a safe space - bless a new home
- know your inner child - for healing image spells
Sacred to: Agayu - Allah - Al-Uzzah, the Great One
- Aphrodite - Demeter - Ogum - Ogun - Ogou-Feraille - Orule - Orunmila
- Osiris - Green Zeus
Fairy color
Green and yellow are jester colors
Green candle to: attract money - make a safe space
- know your inner child
Symbolized youth and vegetation in ancient Egypt
Male symbol in China
aqua:
Sacred to Olokun
PINK:
Sacred to: Aphrodite - Venus
For: happiness - attracting new love
Angelic color, according to William Blake
rose:
For: love - youth
RED:
Planet: Mars, the Red Planet - full Moon
Element: Fire
Direction: South
For: passion - romance - finding love - keeping love
- mercy - brazenness - female power - organic healing - sexual energy -
the male, electric principle
Sacred to: Agayu - Ares - Chango - Elegba - Eleggua
- Exu - Mars - the Great Goddess - Moon goddesses - Ogou-Feraille - Ogum
- Ogun - Papa Legba - Red Tezcatlipoca - Set - Seth - Shango - the Triple
Goddess - Typhon - Xango
Red animals and red-haired strangers were sacrificed
as fertility charms for grain in ancient Egypt.
Hathor, Set/Seth/Typhon, the Morrigan and Odysseus/Ulysses
all had red hair. Some people consider red hair a witches' mark.
Dress in red to combat evil.
Symbolized wisdom to the Aztecs, sacrificial blood
to the Hebrews.
Celtic color of the Otherworld.
Red was the color of death in ancient Greece and Bronze
Age Britain, where red ocher was used in burials. It was taboo for commoners
to eat red food like lobster, bacon, red berries, fruit or mushrooms except
at feasts to honor the dead. Red toadstools, apples and rowan berries were
all considered foods of the gods.
Sacred kings had their faces stained red, often with
alder dye.