Color magick was used everywhere in LJ's work. One particular instance was in the third book of The Secret Circle, The Power, there was a candle ceremony for the holiday of Hecate. Each female coven member lit a colored candle to represent a quality. Real color magick also uses color to represent qualities and he's a list:
Red
Associations:health, energy, strength, sexual potency, courage, will power, to conquer fear or laziness. Health, passion, love, fertility, strength,courage, will power; increases magnetism in rituals.
Planet: Mars
Day: Tuesday
Energy: Male/ positive
Uses in Magick : Lust, physical desire, base energy, war, attracts and magnetizes, courage, enemies, danger. Red stimulates and energizes. Cherry reds are for physical and mental lovemaking, but without the brutal force of the darker hues.
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Pink
Associations:love, affection, romance, spiritual awakening, healing of the spirit, togetherness. Promotes romance, friendship; standard color for rituals to draw effections; a color of femininity, honor, service, brings friendly,lively conversation to the dinner table.
Planet:Venus
Day: Friday
Energy: Female/negative
Uses in Magick: Love from the heart without sexual connotation, purest form of love, raises vibrations, love without selfishness, feminine, spiritual healing, banish lower vibrations and hate, love of friends and family, affections, unselfish emotions, to start a relationship.
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Yellow
Associations: intellect, imagination, power of the mind, creativity,confidence, gentle persuasion, action, attraction, concentration,inspiration, sudden changes. Activity, Creativity, unity; brings power of concentration and imagination to a ritual; use in rituals where you wish to gain anothers confidence or persuade someone, or in rituals that require solar energy.
Planet: Mercury
Day: Wednesday
Energy: Male
Uses in Magick: obtaining knowledge, learn swiftly, gain insight into problems. Yellow represents all institutions of learning, particularly upper level studies such as sciences. Alters dark mental mood swings, enhances knowledge of healing, ability to concentrate, retention of memory. Yellow attracts people, as it has a warm compelling energy.
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Orange
Associations: encouragement, adaptability, stimulation, attraction, sudden changes, control, power, to draw good things, change luck.
Planet: Sun, Mars, Mercury
Day: Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Energy: male/positive
Uses in Magick:Prosperity, energy building, attracts others in a positive way, attracts success, good luck and fortune. Builds energy, vitality and stamina. Encourages fun and discourages laziness. Enhances mental agility, accompanied by the ability to take physical action toward a desired goal. Energizes the entire system. Promotes a happy-go-lucky appearance.
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Green
Associations: abundance, fertility, good fortune, generosity, money, wealth, success, renewal, marriage, balance. Promotes prosperity, fertility,success; stimulates rituals for good luck, money, harmony, and rejuvenation. Emerald Green is an important component in Venusian rituals; attracts love,social delights, and fertility.
Planet: Venus
Day: FridayEnergy: Female/negative and Male/positive
Uses in Magick: Spells involving fertility, success, good luck, prosperity, money,rejuvenation and ambition, rituals to counteract greed and jealousy. Communication with the plant kingdom (darker greens) or fairies (pastels). The secrets of healing are yours when you tune in to this color. Use in conjunction with herbal healing techniques.
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Blue
Association: truth, inspiration, wisdom, occult power, protection, understanding, good health, happiness, peace, fidelity, harmony in the home, patience.
Planet: Moon, Saturn
Day: Monday, Saturday
,Energy: Female/negative
Uses in magick: Magick that involves honor, loyalty, peace, tranquility, truth, wisdom, protection during sleep, astral projection and spells to induce prophetic dreams.
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Purple
Associations: success, idealism, higher psychic ability, wisdom, progress, protection, honors, spirit contact, break bad luck, drive away evil, divination. Power, success, idealism, psychic manifestations; ideals for rituals to secure ambitions, independence, financial rewards, or to make contact with the spiritual other world
Planet: Jupiter
Day: Thursday
Energy: Male/positive
Uses in Magick:Purple brings more of what you already have, in a bigger way. Wisdom, high idealism, knowledge of the higher realms of magick, spiritual protection and healing, the becoming of your highest potential. Enhancement of power, psychic ability, male energy, protective energy, recognition in your chosen field.
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Brown
Associations: attract money and financial success; inflluence Earth Elementals, concentration, balance, ESP, intuition, study. Earthly, balanced color; for rituals of meterial increase; eleminates indecisiveness; improves powers of concentration, study, telepathy; increases financial success; locates objects that have been lost.
Planet:SaturnDay: Saturday
Energy: Feminine/negative
Uses in magick:Spells to locate lost objects and improve powers of concentration and telepathy, protection of the familiars and household pets, ground and center your conciseness with the earth, to attune with trees and communicate with their intelligence.
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Black
Associations: reversing, uncrossing, binding negative forces, discord, protection, releasing, repel dark magick and negative thoughtforms. 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
Planet: Saturn
Day: Saturday
Energy: Female/negative
Uses in magick: Meditation rituals, uncrossing rituals and spells to banish evil and negativity, to break up a blocked or stagnant situation. The Crone, the unconscious.
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White
Associations: purity, spirituality and greater attainments in life, truth, sincerity, power of a higher nature, wholness. A balance of all colors; Spiritual enlightenment, cleansing, clairvouance, healing, truth seeking; Rituals involving lunar energy' May be substituted for any color candle.Planet: Moon
Day: Monday
Energy: Female /negative
Used in magick: Consecration rituals, meditation, divination, exorcism, and spells that involve healing, clairvoyance, truth, peace, spiritual strength, to confound enemies, create illusions, contact spirit helpers, to build purity, balance the aura.
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Gold
Associations: The male half of the Cosmic or Universal Life Force, God-sun energy. Intelligent action or action motivated by deliberation and knowledge, usually with healing, money, or wealth in mind.
Planet: Sun
Day: Sunday
Energy: Male
Used for in magick: Spells to attract the power of cosmic influences, and rituals to honor solar deities, to heal and rejuvenate your being, attracting happy, active people into your life, to expedite money you know is coming to you, to impart energy and intelligence to take proper action in a monetary situation.
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Silver
Associations: removes negative powers, victory, stability, meditation, develop psychic abilities, female deity power. Removes negativity and encourages stability; helps develop psychic abilities; attracts the influence of the Mother Goddess. Grey is a Neutral color useful when pondering complex issues during meditation; in magic, this color often sparks confusion; it also negates or neutralizes a negative influence. This color is unique, due to its aspect of neutrality.
Planet: Moon
Day: Monday
Energy: Female/negative and Male/positive
Uses is magick: To erase, cancel, neutralize, and return to the universe without repercussion, to eradicate or jumble destructive forces, to attract neither destructive nor constructive energies to your life (this includes people and situations).
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