Candle/Color Magick

        References from
        D J Conway's "Celtic Magic"

        Candle and color magick is some of the simplest, but very powerful magick. Below you will find a listing of colors, and their corresponding meanings.

        GOLD

        (or very light yellow)

        Great fortune, Intuition, Understanding, Divination, God powers

        SILVER

        (or very light clear gray)

        Removes negative powers, Victory, Stability, Meditation,
        Develop psychic abilities, Goddess powers

        WHITE

        Purity, Spirituality and greater attainments in life,
        Truth, Sincerity, Power of a higher nature, Wholeness

        YELLOW

        Intellect, Imagination, Power of the mind, Creativity, Confidence,
        Gentle Persuasion, Concentration, Inspiration

        ORANGE

        Encouragement, Adaptability, Stimulation, Attraction, Control,
        To draw good things, Change luck

        RED

        Health, Sexual love, Passion, Energy, Enthusiasm, Courage, Strength,
        Health, Danger

        PINK

        Love, Affection, Romance, Spiritual Awakening, Healing of
        the spirit, Togetherness


        PURPLE

        Success, Idealism, Higher psychic ability, Wisdom, Protection,
        Spirit contact, Divination

        INDIGO

        Meditation, Stop gossip or lies, Balance out Karma

        BLUE

        Truth, Inspiration, Wisdom, Protection, Understanding, Peace,
        Good health, Happiness, Harmony in the home, Patience

        GREEN

        Healing, Money, Prosperity, Luck, Fertility, Abundance,
        Good Fortune, Renewal, Marriage, Balance, Wealth

        BROWN

        Attract money & financial success, Concentration, Balance, Intuition, Study

        BLACK

        Absorption of Negativity, Destruction of Negativity.


        Crystal Magick

        Being deeply attuned to Mother Nature is yet another way to create powerful magick. Crystals and stones can help to attune to the harmonies and energies of the Earth, and their powers can be beneficial to any who choose this method of communing with Mother Earth.

        AGATE:... The best stone for healing serpent or scorpion bites. Aids strength and courage. Compels truth, promotes good manners, happiness, intelligence, prosperity, longevity, fertility, and good health.

        AMBER:... An aid to furthering ambitions, and for healing throat disease. Magnetic. Electrically alive with solidified golden light. Emits powerful amount of heat and light. Powerful healing stone with large amount of organic energy. In ancient times, ground to a powder and mixed with honey or oil of roses for various physical problems. Filters germs and infections and has the power to disinfect. Worn around the neck to help fight infection and respiratory diseases. Lifts the spirits. Golden yellow stone.

        AMETHYST:... Stone of Venus. Assists those to maintain faithfulness, gives wearer the gift of tongues, Increases spiritual awareness, has calming and soothing influence, has ability to transmute negative into positive, very effective as a healing stone. Has ability to prophesy, and wards off drunkenness. Warmed and placed on the forehead and temples, it is good for headaches. Has the ability to draw through it forces directed towards the body and repels vibrations which the body doesn't need, thus releasing only the energy patterns beneficial to the body. Best worn in healing near the heart center. Calming and protective, aids meditation,. aids in purification and regeneration on all levels of consciousness. Calming, grounding, a cleanser and spiritual stimulator, strengthens heart, cleanses liver of toxins, excellent for lung problems. Purple ranging from light to dark

        AQUAMARINE:... Assists inspiration, favorable for travelers; helps to protect against accidents. Calms nervous tension. Calming effects of the sea. Used to help banish fears and phobias. Soothing and cleansing. Powerful aid to happiness in marriage. Light blue clear stone.

        AVENTURINE:... Increases perception and creative insight. Stimulates opportunity and motivation. Soothes emotions, used for the heart and heartache, for acceptance of self and others, for inner peace.

        AZURITE:... Powerful healing stone, invokes spiritual guidance, opens psychic eye. Good for dreams and improving psychic ability.

        BLOODSTONE:... A favorite for healing and strength. Soldiers of old wore it in battle, believing it had the power to stop bleeding. Stimulates flow of energy for healing blood circulation, stops hemorrhaging. Removes emotional blockages. A talisman for warding off all accidents and disease, especially suitable for men. Red stone.


        CARNELIAN:...         Brings owner joy. Gives protection and energy. Orange-red stone.

        CITRINE:...         Enables self-esteem. Stimulates openness and awakening of the mind. Aid to the digestive system. Helps eliminate toxins. Encourages tremendous healing on the emotional and mental levels, helps unblock subconscious fears, and serves as a natural relaxant. Pale yellow clear stone.

        CORAL:...         Promises a long and happy married life, protects a child from evil influences, and safeguards the teenager during the highly emotional period. Balances physical energy and relaxes tensions. Carries the creative vibrations of the sea. Various colors.

        CORNELIAN (or carnelian):...         Wish Stone, is highly favorable to health, long life, and good fortune. It’s special virtue is the fulfillment of one’s wishes if the stone is worn near the heart.

        DIAMOND:...         A symbol of bravery and strength, and also one of the emblems of innocence. An antidote against pestilence.

        EMERALD:...         Helps women attract a true love, and men to attract a loving wife. Promotes creativity, stimulates perception and insight, and strengthen memory. Beneficial effect on the eyes. Also an excellent preservative against decay, arrests dysentery, and heals bites from venomous animals. Green clear stone with a hint of blue.

        FLUORITE:...         Considered a goodluck piece. Also called Fairy Gem. Manifests innermost wishes. Promotes well being; enhances concentration and meditation. Powerful spirit guide. Opens and softens the way for the use of other stones. Excellent used in aquariums-provides needed minerals. Charge on windowsill at night. Varies in different shades of purples and greens. Identified by the bands of color seen within the stone.

        GARNET:...         Wards off inflammatory diseases, promotes healthy and cheery disposition. Balances hormones, good for mental depression, enhances self-esteem, alleviates bad dreams, and encourages success in business. Thought to assist in seeing into past incarnations. Will ensure consistency in friendship and love, preserve health, and is generally fortunate. Vitality and passion. Stimulates happiness, peace, balance, patience, inspiration, persistence, good for rebirthing, menstruation and life passages, disorders, fertility, eases arthritis pain. Ranges from orange-red to pink-red.


        HEMATITE:... Very strong stone; absorbs negativity. Gives optimism and courage. Calming to the emotions. Worn as an amulet confer strength and procure favorable legal judgments. In Egypt, used to reduce inflammation and treat hysteria. Considered to be a grounding stone. Helps maintain balance between body, mind, and spirit. Use for fevers, alleviates worry and anxiety as it allows for mental clarity, known as the "worry stone". Heavy black metallic stone.

        HERKIMER:...         Balancing special variety of quartz crystal. "Diamond" works with yin/yang energies, known as the "Dream Crystal", aids in bringing teachings of the dream state into conscious awareness, very highly attuned spiritually.

        JADE:... A most sacred stone and a symbol of divine revelation. Brings good fortune and health to its owner. Stimulates practicality, wisdom, and universal attunement. Thought to provide a link between the spiritual and the mundane. Most revered by the Chinese. Creamy green stone.

        JASPER (all):...         Safeguard personal independence, said to bring inspirational warnings when there is danger of unfair domination from others. balance emotions and stress. Aid and comfort during periods of female distress. One stone worn about the neck and another around the waist.

        KYANITE:...         One of the two minerals in the mineral kingdom which never needs cleaning or clearing, as it doesn't accumulate or retain negative energy vibrations. This mineral's energy is unlimited in its applications, thus making it one of the best stones for doing attunements. It aligns the chakras automatically and immediately, with no conscious direction. It can also be used to 'open the chakras', under the direction of the user, and can also, consciously, direct the energy to align the emotional, intellectual, physical, ethereal, and astral bodies. It brings tranquility and a calming effect to the whole being, stimulates communication and psychic awareness on all levels, dispels anger and frustration, further advances the conscious connection between higher levels of intuition and heart-felt love, and dispels confusion arising from emotional, spiritual and intellectual problems. Kyanite also facilitates Meditation, as it's energy is accessible, gentle, and balanced. It is also helpful when accessing the astral plane, connecting with one's 'guides', and recall of dreams and dream-solving.

        LAPIS LAZULI:...         Prized for its prophetic virtues. Stimulates wisdom, truthfulness, & psychic experiences, healing and strengthening when worn next to the skin. Strengthens mind and body to spiritual awareness. Royal blue in color with flecks of real gold.

        MALACHITE:...         Called a magic stone, favorable for travelers, missionaries, and other adventurers. Used as a child's talisman to sleep soundly & protect from bad dreams. Stimulates clear vision and insight, represents hope and inner peace, believed to protect from danger. Increases abundance in all areas of life. This stone supposedly has equal amounts of negative and positive forces, thereby adding to the balance of physical and spiritual life. Used to release repressed emotions and for physical detoxing. Brilliant shades of green, very apparent in bands of shades.

        MOONSTONE:...         Aid in bringing forth memories of past lives, carried as a good luck piece. Brings good fortune. Reflects the wearers being and feelings. Promotes unselfishness. Opens the heart to humanitarian love and hope. Good for protection while traveling on water. Gives clarity to spiritual understanding. Good for pre-menstrual symptoms and balancing to the reproductive system. Used to ease childbirth. Sometimes called the Queen of the Heavens stone. Calming effect on emotions. Eases menstrual pain, alleviates many degenerative conditions in the skin, hair, eyes, and body fluids (tears, digestive juices). Translucent milky stone with color tints ranging from white-yellow to blue-gray.

        MOSS AGATE:...         Assists in making and keeping friends, helpful to farmers and those interested in growing plants. Moss Agates considered to be most powerful. Aid in restoration of energy, used in healing, and believed to bring wearer happiness, wealth, health, and long life. Increases ability to ward off self-induced anger and inner bitterness. Moss green-balances emotional energy. Moss red-balances physical energy. Blue lace-gives tranquillity. Translucent stone with flecks of green.

        OBSIDIAN:...         Black- Used to sharpen both the internal and external.

        ONYX:...         Preserves against the bites of snakes and venomous insects, and assists in bringing marital happiness. When certain persons wear it, may bring on terrible shapes to a dreamer, from which the future can be devined. Will ground spiritual energy to physical plane. Deep black color.

        OPAL:...         An unlucky stone which can interfere with love and marriage unless one was born between September 23rd and November 21. To these people it will give second sight, or clairvoyance, and prevent contagion from the air. Generally white but various color range depending of variety. Identified by brilliant sparkling effect.

        PEARLS:...         Worn as a necklace, make the wearer chaste. Stimulates feminine qualities, used to focus attention, helps pull together mental and spiritual forces, peace of mind. Represents purity, modesty, & gentleness. A very lucky stone for those born in June.

        PERIDOT:...         Dispels fears, guilt, and depression. Used to counteract negative emotions and healing of the spirit. Once worn as a means of gaining foresight and divine inspiration. Protection, prosperity, emotional calming, purifies, balances. Light green clear stone.

        PYRITE:...         Enhances mental capacity and attracts money to owner. Has protecting, shielding aspect for physical, mental, emotional levels. Shields from negative energy, strengthens circulatory system, clears oxygen in the blood. Also known as fool’s gold.

        QUARTZ:...         Amplifies healing energy. Used to help draw out pain. Able to tap into energies of the universe. Good stone for meditating on. Very potent and often worn to protect from negative vibrations. Cleanse regularly. Rudilated-rutile needles help focus attention.

        RHODOCHROSITE:...         Adds courage, will, passion to the loving heart vibration. Represents love of God. Milky pink stone with definition.

        RHODONITE:...         Used to activate love. Attracts or keeps a loving partner. Pink stone with black highlights -very defined.

        ROSE QUARTZ:...         Worn or carried for love, fidelity, peace, and happy marriage. Aids intuition and emotional balance. Reduces stress and tension - cools hot tempers. Vibrations of universal love & inner serenity. Comforts heart from all wounds, helps heal emotional pain, enhances love , self-love, positive outlook, joy and oneness. Light to medium milky pink color.

        RUBY:...         The stone of freedom, charity, dignity and divine power. Increases vigor, renews vitality and cleanses the blood. The stone of courage. Helps banish grief for those in mourning. Generally deep red with orange or pink undertone.

        SMOKY QUARTZ:...         Good for calming the mind. Eases depression, fear and panic.

        SNOWFLAKE OBSIDIAN:...         Teaches one the truth of oneself in relation to ones ego, depicts the contrasts of life-day and night, darkness and light, truth and error. Grounds spiritual energy to physical plane. Absorbs negativity. Black stone with lacy highlights of white.

        SODALITE:...         Alleviates fears, Clears the mind. Blue with flecks.

        TIGER EYE:...         Calms emotions, protects against external stresses. To restore physical energy & quiet emotional nature.

        TOPAZ:...         Will make melancholy vanish when worn or carried in the left hand. Calms emotions, protects against external stresses. To restore physical energy & quiet emotional nature. Protects against insomnia and depression, mood elevator, revitalizes, stimulates creative thinking processes, eases death. Clear gold stone (deeper color than amber).

        TOURMALINE:...         Supercharged with magnetic and electric energy. Lifts fears and negative conditions. Causes the wearer to be flexible, understanding and more objective in purpose and reason. Electric and magnetic properties. Works as protective shield, consumes negative energy without releasing into atmosphere, has to do with visions and "seeing" with compassion,, teaches to expand limited concepts of thinking, relates to aspirations for higher love, very complete stone. Various shades of pink and green. Some stones will have both colors.

        TURQUOISE:...         Helps ward off danger and clears one’s path of pitfalls. Protector against evil. Self-love stone. Primary holy stone of Native Americans. Vibrates calming radiations, protective, and restores healthy mental attitude. Stone of friendship. Balancing and healing. Great strength and vitality. Takes on characteristics of the wearer. It is unwise to wear a turquoise formerly worn by one who has died. excellent for both Spiritual attunement and healing of the energy centers and the physical body, valuable for grounding as well as for vision quests and astral travel , purifies all levels of being and is capable of handling strong negativity, also used for wounds and for damage to bones. Shades of blue, ranging from deep sky blue to greenish Chinese turquoise.

        Balancing and Grounding Ritual Offered by
        Anya of Silver Oak

        Face East and center yourself.
        "I am grounded in the center of my being."

        Visualize energy of below.
        "I am supported by the powers of below."

        Visualize the God/Goddess of above.
        "I am guided by the powers of above."

        Visualize the unity of self with center above and below.
        "I am balanced in the axis of my becoming."

        Extend your hand to the East. Visualize and make contact with the powers
        of the elemental forces. Visualize clarity.
        "I am inspired by the powers of Air."

        Visualize purifying/transforming.
        "I am enlightened by the powers of Fire."

        Visualize healing/cleansing.
        "I am renewed by the powers of Water."

        Visualize nurturing/stability.
        "I am nurtured by the powers of Earth."

        Establish the balance of axis and elements. Feel this to be true.
        "The forces are in balance within me and about me."

        Feel the Sphere of the Circle.
        "The Sphere is placed."

        Feel the Cube of the Temple within the Sphere.
        "The Temple is established."

        Feel the Temple within yourself.
        "I am the Temple."

        A Cleansing House Blessing

        Offered by
        R. Persephone

        Persephone, Goddess of the Underworld, sister light and sister dark, hear my call, heed my words! Lady betrayed, Thou hast firsthand knowledge of innocence stolen. Thou knowest the feel of the separation of She who gave you life. Be with us now in the underworld this house has become, aid us in healing the pain that has ripped it asunder. Aid us as we search for the seeds of new life in its darkness.

        Demeter, Mother Goddess, gifter of life, bestower of growth, hear my call, heed my words! Mother betrayed, Thou hast firsthand knowledge of the separation from Thy child. Thou knowest the pain of a child violated. Be with us now in the empty shell stripped of innocent laughter. Aid us in planting and germinating the new life to heal this void.

        Arachne, Spider Woman, weaver of life, hear my call, heed my words! Thou who stands at the crossroads of the beginning and the end. Gift us with Your silver threads of making as we enter this darkness. Aid us in re-weaving the fabric of life and beauty needed to bind the wounds and heal this home.

        Maiden, Mother, Crone, hear my call, heed my words! Thou hast been at our side through each turning of the cycle. Be with us now as we end the turning of this cycle. Gift us with the understanding that follows the pain. Bestow upon us the comfort that will heal this wound. Strengthen us with the shield of knowledge to reach the new beginning. Silence the cries that have stilled the growth.

        Bless this house, these walls, and the very air within these rooms. Sickness and evil once lived her, but now it is gone. This house was meant to sustain Love. Let the healing energy once again fill this air. Let the fire of creative passion once again illuminate the rooms. Let the Love flow from all who enter wash its walls. Let the seeds of new life and new beginnings plant themselves in its foundation.

        By the power of Maiden, Mother, Crone, and we who are Her children, no evil may again cross this threshold. By Her daughters who are by birthright Goddess, we do so decree.

        As Our Will, So Mote It Be!

        If you have any rituals or other magickal information you would like to add to this page, please email me. I will be happy to include it, with the proper link for
        "credit" to you.

        Bright Blessings and Gentle Breezes!