Are you curious about candle magick?

Candle colour is a great place to start, Because choosing the right candle colour is instrumental when it comes to rituals and spells, and any kind of magickal work.

Each colour resonates with a specific frequency, which not only carries meaning that the mind can understand, but a vibration that cuts right to the unconscious layers of our being.  This means that the right coloured candles can enhance your rituals and focus your desires… OR scatter your intention and misdirect your magick.

By aligning your candle colour choice with your intentions, you can create a more powerful and directed experience in your spellwork.

Whether it’s love, healing, prosperity, or protection, there is a colour that resonates with each type of intention. So understanding the significance behind colours can completely transform your approach to magic, and amplify the effectiveness of your rituals and spells.

How the frequency of colour affects us

Colours are more than just visual stimuli. They each correspond to a different wavelength of light, and these wavelengths carry specific frequencies that can influence our emotions, behaviours, and even physical well-being.

The psychological effects of colour

Research has shown that colours can evoke specific emotions. For instance:

• Red: Often associated with passion, energy, and urgency, red can increase heart rates and stimulate excitement.
• Blue: Known for its calming effects, blue can promote feelings of tranquility and peace, often used in spaces meant for relaxation.
• Yellow: Bright and cheerful, yellow can stimulate mental activity and evoke happiness, but too much can lead to feelings of agitation.

Colours are also energetically and spiritually connected to other systems of thought, belief and natural order, such as astrology, the chakras, herbal lore and crystals. These are described later. For now, let’s dive into candle magick and colour…

Candle colour meanings for specific intentions

Candle magic is a beautiful way to harness the energies of colour, each hue resonating with specific intentions and spiritual frequencies. Allow yourself to be enchanted by the meanings and uses of these colours, inviting their magic into your rituals and daily life.

White

White candles are highly effective in rituals where purity and new beginnings are the focus. They represent renewal, clarity, and healing. Lighting a white candle when starting a new project or chapter in your life can be a symbolic and meaningful act.

While focusing on your intention, a white candle helps to clear away any obstacles. Consider using white candles in rituals for cleansing, purification or setting intentions for the future.

White candles are effective in magickal workings for healing, truth, meditation, peace, gratitude, and harmony, and to connect with spirit guides and allies. Some witches use white candles to invoke the pure energies of the moon and the Goddess.

They are versatile and can replace any other colour candle if needed.

White candle intentions: Cleansing, purifying, protection, healing, truth, clarity, peace, harmony, gratitude, spiritual guidance, attraction, balance, new beginnings.

Black

Black candles serve a powerful purpose in protection spells, and rituals for banishing negativity. When you’re facing challenges or seeking to eliminate harmful energy, black candles provide a strong barrier against unwanted influences.

This colour absorbs and banishes unwanted energies, making it ideal for reversing curses, unblocking stagnant energy, and ending unhealthy situations.

Light a black candle to reclaim your power and restore balance.

Black candle intentions: Protection, banishing negativity, reversing curses, unblocking energy, ending unhealthy situations, death, release, endings, rebirth, magick, bindings.

Red

Red candles symbolize love and passion. When the aim is to attract romance or deepen an existing relationship, a red candle is your best choice as the vibrant energy of red ignites desire and enhances your emotional connections.

Tapping into the dynamic power of Mars, red is perfect for fast-acting spells related to lust, determination, and survival. Red candles can also boost your confidence, willpower, and physical strength.

Red candle intentions: Fire, passion, determination, motivation, action, strength, courage, assertiveness, survival, attraction, seduction, confidence, fresh starts, power, good luck.

Orange

Orange candles are known for attracting success and enhancing creativity. They’re an excellent choice when working toward goals, including career advancement or creative endeavours. Orange blend the intellectual agility of yellow with the assertiveness of red, so orange candles stimulate enthusiasm and motivation.

Use orange candles for making quick-fire decisions, career advancements, help with networking and connections, and simply to invite joy and playfulness into your life.

Orange candle intentions: Creativity, abundance, positivity, vitality, confidence, quick action, career success, ambition, networking, celebration, joy, freedom

Yellow

For those looking to boost intellect and creativity, yellow candles are ideal. This bright, sunny colour stimulates mental clarity and inspires new ideas. If you’re working through (or just starting) a project that requires focus or innovative thinking, yellow can be a real support during your efforts.

The energy of yellow promotes a positive mindset, enhancing your capacity for learning, problem-solving and expanding wisdom.

It’s an especially useful colour for students or individuals involved in creative endeavours, ad yellow candles will invite in new ideas and help you to see the world through a more logical lens.

Yellow candle intentions: Learning, communication, inspiration, new knowledge, clarity, confidence, new ideas, overcoming mental blocks, happiness, friendship, wisdom, intellect, business, air.

Green

Choosing a green candle is ideal when your focus is on prosperity and abundance. Green represents growth, renewal, and the flow of wealth, making it perfect for money magic and good luck spells.  green candles help manifest success in all earthly pursuits.

If you are manifesting financial gains, abundance, prosperity or personal growth, the vibrant energy of green candles can act as a powerful ally in your rituals.

Green candle intentions: Abundance, prosperity, success, health, harmony, fertility, healing, nurturing, sustaining, good luck, money, finances, earth

Blue

Blue candles are often associated with healing and tranquillity. They can be particularly helpful during times of stress, grief, or emotional turmoil. If you’re aiming to cultivate peace within yourself or in your surroundings, a blue candle is a perfect fit.

Blue candles are also used for spellwork involving memory, justice, prophetic dreams, and inspiration, while also connecting with your higher self.

Blue candle intentions: Spiritual healing, communication, creativity, inspiration, focus, integrity, peace, truth, trust, protection, wisdom, higher self connection, relaxation, water 

Purple

Purple candles connect you with spiritual awareness and inner wisdom. They are excellent for enhancing your intuition and deepening your spiritual practice.

Historically associated with royalty and the mystical arts, purple is known to enhance psychic abilities, deepen wisdom, and activate spiritual awareness. Use this colour for meditation, divination, and uncovering hidden knowledge.

If you seek enlightenment or guidance, a purple candle can help facilitate your path.

Purple candle intentions: Spirituality, psychic power, magick, divination, wisdom, meditation, spiritual awareness, imagination, meditation, higher truth

Pink

Pink candles embody the qualities of romance and friendship. Pink candles radiate warmth, compassion, and affection, making them suitable for rituals focused on love, strengthening relationships, or attracting new friendships.

Pink candles create a nurturing atmosphere, perfect for emotional healing, reconciliation, and strengthening connections in relationships.

Pink candle intentions: Unconditional love, self-love, acceptance, compassion, romance, marriage, family, friendship, joy, emotional healing, connection, kindness, affection

Magenta or dark pink

Dark pink or magenta candles offer a blend of passion and love. Their sultry hue combines the fiery energy of red with the gentle warmth of pink, enhancing flirtation and sexual confidence while inviting deeper connections in romance.

Magenta candles can also be used to energize rituals, bringing in the fast action of the red frequency, with a touch of the higher spiritual power of purple. This tone can help call in spirit guides and benevolent higher forces to aid your magickal work, whilst staying rooted firmly in the heart.

Magenta and dark pink intentions: Love, passion, flirtation, adoration, depth, devotion, sexual confidence, higher spiritual connection

Brown

Brown candles represent grounding and stability. They’re great for rituals focused on creating a sense of security and balance in your life. When you need to reconnect with yourself and the earth, a brown candle can provide solace.

Brown candles can stabilize your energy by helping you drop into neutrality, making them ideal for fostering understanding, balance, and trust. Brown candles also strengthen your connection with animal guides, offering wisdom and support from the natural world.

Brown candle intentions: Stability, security, grounding, neutrality, materiality, endurance, understanding, balance, trust, animal connection, harmony

Grey

Grey is often seen as unexciting, yet this colour exudes timeless elegance, stability and wisdom. Symbolising maturity, authority and control, grey candles also embody tranquillity and impartiality. This colour does, however, carry some negative connotations, such as emotional distance, sadness, and indecisiveness.

Gray candles reflect dual qualities, promoting balance, harmony, and focus. They can help calm the mind, enhance clarity, and improve emotional well-being, allowing for more objective thinking. Rituals involving grey candles often help to simplify problems and resolve conflicts by encouraging impartiality and helping you navigate decisions without bias or prejudice.

Grey candle intentions: Neutrality, balance, peace, spiritual wisdom, conflict resolution, tranquillity, clarity, well-being

Silver

Silver candles are associated with intuition, lunar energies, and the Goddess. They are ideal for rituals focused on enhancing psychic abilities and emotional insight. Silver’s reflective quality also helps you connect with your inner self.

Silver candles resonate with divine feminine energy and astral connections. Use silver to enhance intuition, telepathy, and clairvoyance, while inviting powerful dreams and deeper spiritual insights into your life.

Silver candle intentions: Intuition, telepathy, clairvoyance, powerful dreams, divination, purification, potential, healing, the divine feminine, the Moon

Gold

Gold candles symbolize wealth and solar energy. They are powerful tools for manifesting financial prosperity and abundance as the gleam of gold enhances confidence and draws in wealth.

Utilize gold candles in rituals aimed at attracting wealth through enhancing your personal power. Combining gold with green candles can strengthen financial intentions even more.

The colour gold resonates with divine masculine energy and the essence of God. Burn gold candles to attract success, happiness, enlightenment, and personal power. This colour is a powerful ally in manifesting wealth and wisdom.

Gold candle intentions: Success, happiness, abundance, prosperity, wealth, fame, recognition, enlightenment, confidence, power, positivity, the divine masculine, the Sun

How to perform a candle magick spell

Candle magick is a powerful and accessible form of spellwork that harnesses the energy of flame and colour to manifest your desires. By focusing your intentions and channelling your energy through the act of lighting a candle, you can create a sacred space for transformation and healing.

Here are just a few simple steps to perform your own candle spell and invite the magick of colour into your life…

1. Set your intention

Begin by clearly defining your intention or desire. Take a moment to visualize what you want, and write it down if it helps to clarify your thoughts.

2. Choose your candle

Select a candle that corresponds to your intention. The focus here is colour, so consider the colour carefully, and ponder the specific meaning, symbolism and sacred associated with it, as this will enhance the energy of your spell.

3. Prepare your space

Create a sacred space for your ritual. Cleanse the area by burning sustainably sourced sage or another local herb, using sound, or simply by tidying up!

Place your candle on a stable surface, arranging it with any other sacred objects or ingredients for your spell.

4. Anoint the candle

If you feel to, anoint your candle with oil that aligns with your intention. As you do this, focus on infusing the candle with your pure energy and intention, visualizing it attracting the desired outcome for you.

5. Light the Candle and Focus

Light the candle while concentrating on your intention. Speak your desire aloud or silently, visualizing it coming to fruition. Allow yourself to feel the emotions associated with achieving your goal.

6. Close the Ritual

Once the candle has burned down or you feel the energy has been fully released, thank any energies you invoked. Allow the candle to extinguish naturally, and take a moment to reflect on your experience before returning to your daily activities.

Combining multiple colours in candle magick

Combining candles of different colours can enhance your intention-setting process by honing in on more specific frequency alignments. Whilst each colour holds specific meanings and energies, when these burn together more nuance and depth can be harnessed.

For instance:

Using a red candle for passion alongside a pink candle for love can deepen romantic connections while also igniting desire.

Pairing green candles for abundance with gold candles for prosperity can attract financial success while infusing it with divine energy.

Combining a brown candle for security with a yellow candle for innovation and creativity could help create roots in a new business venture.

The point it to very thoughtfully combine colours which match the root intention and motivation behind your spell.  This way you’ll create a powerful synergy that resonates with multiple aspects of your intention, allowing for a more comprehensive manifestation of your desires.

Be sure to monitor how the energies feel during your practice. It’s okay to adapt and tweak your approach as you learn and get better at tuning into the subtleties of colour vibrations.

Reflect on your achievements and adjust as necessary!

Regular reflection allows you to assess your progress and realign your intentions. Set aside time weekly to evaluate how your practice is going. Ask yourself what worked well and what didn’t. This can help you adjust your rituals and candle colours to make them more effective.

Be honest about your achievements. Reflect on how your candle practice has influenced your life and celebrate even small victories –  they build momentum.

If you notice a lack of progress, consider changing your approach. Explore different candle colors or scents that may better suit your evolving intentions. Adapt your rituals to ensure they continually resonate with your goals.

How colour frequencies interconnect with other spiritual and magickal systems

The frequencies of colour resonate with many systems of belief and natural elements, from chakras and astrology to herbs and crystals. These correspondences create a rich tapestry of associations that can enhance our understanding of their influence. For example:

Colours and astrology

Colours in astrology are often linked to the characteristics of zodiac signs. Each sign is associated with specific colours that reflect its traits:

• Aries: Red, symbolizing passion and energy.
• Taurus: Green, representing growth and stability.
• Gemini: Yellow, embodying communication and curiosity.
• Cancer: Silver or white, reflecting intuition and emotional depth.
• Leo: Gold, symbolising confidence and creativity.
• Virgo: Brown, representing practicality and grounding.
• Libra: Pink, embodying harmony and balance.
• Scorpio: Deep red or black, reflecting intensity and transformation.
• Sagittarius: Purple, symbolizing spirituality and adventure.
• Capricorn: Dark green, representing discipline and ambition.
• Aquarius: Electric blue, embodying innovation and individuality.
• Pisces: Sea green or turquoise, reflecting sensitivity and intuition.

Note that these astrological colour associations are not set in stone, and a zodiac sign may resonate with more than one colour. Or you may sense that a sign corresponds to a different colour, in which case, trust your instinct.

Colours and chakras

In the chakra system, each energy centre corresponds to a specific colour, influencing physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being:

• Root Chakra (Muladhara): Red, associated with grounding and survival.
• Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana): Orange, linked to creativity and pleasure.
• Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura): Yellow, representing personal power and confidence.
• Heart Chakra (Anahata): Green, symbolizing love and compassion.
• Throat Chakra (Vishuddha): Blue, associated with communication and expression.
• Third Eye Chakra (Ajna): Indigo, linked to intuition and insight.
• Crown Chakra (Sahasrara): Violet or white, representing spiritual connection and enlightenment.

Colours and emotions

Colours evoke specific emotional responses, and understanding these associations can help in emotional healing and expression:

• Red: Passion, anger, and love.
• Blue: Calmness, sadness, and tranquillity.
• Yellow: Happiness, optimism, and energy.
• Green: Balance, growth, and harmony.
• Purple: Spirituality, creativity, and mystery.
• Orange: Enthusiasm, warmth, and encouragement.
• Black: Power, elegance, and sometimes fear or negativity.

Plants, herbs and colours

Many plants and herbs are associated with specific colours, and of course many have flowers, berries, seeds and leaves that grow in beautiful and varied tones. Sometimes, the vibrancy of colour will enhance their magical or healing properties. This is a deep and nuanced art that takes years of study and practice to understand, but here are a few very simple examples:

• Green Herbs (e.g., Basil, Mint): Can be linked to prosperity and growth.
• Red Flowers (e.g., Roses, Hibiscus): Associated with love and passion.
• Yellow Flowers (e.g., Sunflowers, Dandelions): Linked to joy and positivity.
• Purple Herbs (e.g., Lavender): Associated with tranquillity and spiritual healing.

Crystals and colours

Crystals are often categorized by colour, with each hue corresponding to specific energies and healing properties (of course, each crystal will have unique properties in addition to those held in the colour frequency). Here are a few simple examples of how crystals and colours align: 

• Red Crystals (e.g., Garnet, Ruby): Promote vitality and strength.
• Orange Crystals (e.g., Carnelian, Orange Calcite): Enhance creativity and motivation.
• Yellow Crystals (e.g., Citrine, Yellow Jasper): Foster joy and abundance.
• Green Crystals (e.g., Emerald, Green Aventurine): Attract prosperity and healing.
• Blue Crystals (e.g., Lapis Lazuli, Blue Lace Agate): Support communication and emotional expression.
• Purple Crystals (e.g., Amethyst, Fluorite): Enhance intuition and spiritual awareness.