What is the purpose different colors of candles? What are the different colors used for?

andles are one of the most important tools used in the practice of Wicca. Candles
represent the element of fire and act as the conduit between our intentions and
the manifesting of the magick in our lives. When you work with candles for magickal
purposes, you need to fill them with your energy by consecrating them with oil,
adding inscriptions around the base and meditating while holding them. This will
fill the candle with energy for release that will help the magick work.

Different colored candles are used for different purposes. This list of correspondences
can help you find the right color candle for your magick:

White: A balance of all colors; Spiritual enlightenment, cleansing, clairvoyance,
healing, truth seeking; Rituals involving lunar energy’ May be substituted for
any color candle.

Yellow: Activity, Creativity, unity; brings power of concentration and imagination
to a ritual; use in rituals where you wish to gain another�s confidence
or persuade someone, or in rituals that require solar energy.

Gold: Fosters understanding and attracts the powers of cosmic influences; beneficial
in rituals intended to bring about fast luck or money, or in rituals needing
solar energy.

Orange: Creativity, ability to speak one’s mind, ambition, career matters and
the Law, self-confidence. Solar color and also stands for Leo.

Pink: Promotes romance, friendship; standard color for rituals to draw affections;
a color of femininity, honor, service, brings friendly, lively conversation
to the dinner table.

Red: Health, passion, love, fertility, strength, courage, will power; increases
magnetism in rituals; draws Aries and Scorpio energy.

Silver: Removes negativity and encourages stability; helps develop psychic
abilities; attracts the influence of the Mother Goddess.

Purple: Power, success, idealism, psychic manifestations; ideals for rituals
to secure ambitions, independence, financial rewards, or to make contact with
the spiritual other world; increases Neptune energy.

Magenta: Combination of red and violet that oscillates on a high frequency;
energizes rituals where immediate action and high levels of power or spiritual
healing are required.

Brown: Earthly, balanced color; for rituals of materiel increase; eliminates
indecisiveness; improves powers of concentration, study, telepathy; increases
financial success; locates objects that have been lost.

Blue: Primary spiritual color; for rituals to obtain wisdom, harmony, inner
light, or peace; confers truth and guidance.

Dark Green: Color of ambition, greed, and jealousy; counteracts these influences
in a ritual.

Green: Promotes prosperity, fertility, success; stimulates rituals for good
luck, money, harmony, and rejuvenation.

Black: Opens up the deeper levels of the unconscious; use in rituals to induce
a deep meditational state, or to banish evil or negativity as in uncrossing
rituals; attracts Saturn energy.