Candle color meanings, explained
White can be used as a good "default candle" if you’re short on resources. However, in color magick, it promotes serenity and peace and enhances personal strength and insight. White makes you feel clear-headed and resolute about your goal.
Black is always a protective force in color magick. Black crystals, clothes, and, yes, candles are all there for psychic protection, bb. Think of black as your personal cosmic bodyguard.
Green = growth, luck, fertility, vitality, and creativity. Green is nature’s natural ally, and is always looking to innovate, expand, and develop your ideas to life. It also amplifies prosperity (aka $$$), so you'll want to use this color in money manifestation. Yes, please!
Blue promotes harmony, peace, understanding, empathy, and wisdom. Blue is a great color to surround yourself with when you feel conflicted or stressed. It’s a soothing calming force and connects with your chakras and any emotional wounds that need healing.
Linked to the meaning of blue candles, light blue candles zero in on understanding the truth and accepting it, as well as helping with clarity and communication.
In contrast to light blue, dark blue candles are linked to intuition, psychic abilities, and spiritual work.
Yellow is a networker, a super connector, and a chatterbox! It enhances your networking and social skills, bringing in new career opportunities. (Try keeping a yellow candle on your desk—unlit—as a beacon for new opportunity).
Red encourages love, sex, and passion. If your ritual has anything to do with your love or sex life, odds are you’ll need a red candle.
This one’s for ~romance~. Placing a pink candle by your home’s doorway will welcome in love, and use a pink candle in a ritual to draw the eye of your object of affection.
This color is all set to boost your spiritual enlightenment, psychic ability, and creativity. Purple is a deeply spiritual color.
Orange is vibrant, vital, and energetic. Think of it is like a pep talk. In candle magick, this color encourages your ambition and helps you broaden your horizons. Make your goals bigger and bolder with orange!
Brown is materialistic and practical grounder of the color spectrum. It helps with all things relating to your resources—like health, energy, possessions, pets, endurance, and courage.