This guide is helpful when performing candle rituals or for determining which candle color to burn on the Sabbats. For a complete guide to Candle Magick please see Bri Anasazi Wynd’s page. Her overview and ritual suggestions are the most complete I’ve seen to date.
Orange
Encouragement, adaptability, luck, sudden changes, legal matters justice, selling, stimulation, attraction, control, personal strength and authority.
Use on Lughnasadh, Mabon & Samhain.
Yellow
Creativity, intelligence, confidence, movement and energy, clairvoyance, divination, wisdom, learning, imagination, inspiration, concentration, communication and to break mental blocks.
Use to represent the element of Air.
Use to represent the Sun.
Use on Lughnasadh, Mabon & Ostara.
White
Peace, purity, innocence, power of a higher nature, promoting peace, tranquility, purification, truth spirituality, sincerity and higher self.
Use to represent the Goddess.
Use on Yule.
Gold
Understanding, attracts the powers of cosmic influences, intuition, persuasion, charm, happiness, confidence and divination.
Use to represent the God.
Use on Yule & Ostara.
Red
Energy, love, passion, fertility, physical energy, strength, lust, life, health, blood, birth, death, survival and sex.
Use to represent the element of Fire.
Use on Yule & Imbolc.
Pink
Emotional love, nurturing relationships, romance, spiritual awakening, healing of the spirit, femininity, friendships, honor and morality.
Use to represent the element of Fire.
Use on Imbolc.
Purple
Mysticism, inspiration, wisdom, idealism, purification, success, peace, power, meditation, sensitivity, psychic talents and household protection.
Indigo/ Dark Blue
Cleanse the spirit, remove fear, counteract negative energy, impulsiveness, depression and changeability.
Brown
Financial success, emotional stability, balance, eliminates indecisiveness, improves powers of concentration, study, intuitions and telepathy.
Use on Imbolc & Mabon.
Blue
Spirituality, wisdom, tranquility, harmony, peace, inner light and truth, health, inspiration, protection, calming, opening blocked communication, understanding,
patience and loyalty.
Use to represent the element of Water.
Use on Midsummer & Ostara.
Green
Nature, fertility, rejuvenation, growth, personal goals, healing, works involving finical issues and money, aids good fortune, prosperity, luck, ambition and success.
Use to represent the element of Earth.
Use on Ostara, Mabon, Yule, Midsummer & Beltane.
Silver/Gray
Removes negative energy or influences, encourages stability, cancellation, neutrality, feminine and astral energy, clairvoyance, intuition, dreams, telepathy and meditation.
Use to represent the Goddess.
Black
Opens up the deeper levels of the unconscious. Banishes evil and negativity. Aids in binding, protection, self control, quiet power, and resilience, absorbs negativity and destroys it.
Use on Samhain.