Use color correspondence to help choose the colors of your candles, altar decorations and more when planning a spell or act of worship. Colors can also be used in home decor and clothing choices to bring their energies into your everyday life.
It is important to note that colors have the potential to have deep symbolic meaning. Because of this color correspondences are very subjective, even more so than many other correspondences. It is important in magical work that the symbols, in this case the colors, you are using have personal meaning for you.
Additionally, colors can symbolize vastly different things in different cultures. For example, some cultures consider white a color of mourning, while other associate it with weddings, and there's a host of brides to be who wouldn't dream of marrying in anything but red.
Clearly, it is important to look to your own cultural upbringing as well as your own experiences before taking correspondence table recommendations to heart, particularly with colors. If your gut tells you the color doesn't make sense in your spell, you should not use it regardless of what any chart tells you. All correspondence tables should be used as a guide only and not be taken as law.
RED
The color red is bold, bright and energetic. It evokes images of passion and violence. It is the color of the sweet red rose and our very life blood. Red is used in magic for purifying the blood, for inducing lust and passion, to increase energy, power, courage, even violence.
Wear red or decorate with red to stimulate energy, enthusiasm and confidence and to draw attention. Use the color red to highlight a focal point in your home or garden.
In Eastern cultures, the color red typically symbolizes joy, luck and good fortune and is often the choice for bride's to wear on their wedding day. In India, a red mark worn on the forehead is said to bring good luck. In China, the Lunar New Year is celebrated by decorating with red, hanging red banners, and giving children "luck money" in red envelopes. A man-eating creature, the Nian is afraid of loud noises and the color red.
Correspondences for the Color Red.
Number: 1
Zodiac Sign(s): Aries
Planet(s): Mars
Element: Fir
Direction: South
Season: Summer
Day: Tuesday
Holidays: Beltane, Yule, Lunar New Year
Rite of Passage: Birth, Death, Marriage
Tool(s): Athame, Candles, Sword, Incense Burner
Chakra: First, Root Chakra
Fragrances: Basil, Cinnamon, Dragon's Blood, Pine
Herbs: Cayenne, Chives, Cranesbill, Crowfoot, Hibiscus, Holy Thistle, Hops, Onion, Nettle, Sunflower, Rose, Tobacco, Wormwood.
Animals: Alligator, Ant, Bear, Badger, Beetle, Chicken, Lion, Ram, Tiger, Wolf
Stones/Minerals: Agate, Garnet, Ruby, Spinel, Red Tourmaline, Red Topaz, Rubelite, Rhodochrosite, Red Jasper
Tarot: Cups, Fives
Politics: The color red is associated with communism. It is also associated with the Republican party in the United States.
Symbols: The color red means STOP in Western culture. In the US's color coded terrorist threat system, the color red means "severe". A red cross symbolizes medical personnel.
Feng Shui: Paint your door red to invite prosperity to your home.
Magical Intents: Action, birth, change, courage, lust, passion, life, excitement, energy, celebration, blood and healing and purification of blood and physical body, sexual healing, sex, inflammations, violence. stimulation, passion in love, transformation, will, passion in love and beauty.
PINK
The color pink is gentle and feminine and evokes the scent of apple blossoms and the laughter of little girls. Pink is calming and energetic all at once. Wear the color pink to evoke youthful energy and childlike joy. Pink can be used in magic for emotional love, tenderness, conception, babies, pregnancy, romance, youth, peace, emotional healing, inner harmony, femininity and friendship. The action of the color pink is similar to that of the color red, but gentler and more muted.
Wear and decorate with the color pink, or burn pink candles to relax and energie, calm aggression and relieve stress. The color pink is also used to suppress the appetite.
In Japan, the color pink is associate with the spring blooming of the cherry blossoms (Sakura) which are associate with the souls of warriors fallen in battle.
Correspondences for the Color Pink.
Element: Fire
Direction: South
Venus
