In magick colors all have their own properties. You can use colors to create a proper enviroment and bring sucess, happiness, wealth and love into your life. You can also use colors for healing. I have found many resources on this, and most of them state the same thing.... So, here is what I have!
Red: Love, passion, attraction, lust, strength, courage, power, sexual potency, energy, passion, element of fire, carreer goals, fast action, blood of the moon, vibrancy, driving force, survival. Especially helpful to shy folk who hold positions of authority, this color really shines when it comes to taking charge of difficult situations. It also works well in efforts that involve passion, sexual desire, vitality, and physical strength, energy, and activity. Use it, too, when invoking the Fire Element or the Mother aspect of the Triple Goddess.
Pink: friendship, fidelity, romatic love, planetary good will, healing of emotions, peace, affection, romance, parnerships of emotiona maturity, caring nutruring.
Orange: Energy, attraction, legal matters, success, business goals, property deals, ambition, career goals , general success, justice, selling, action.
Yellow: Confidence, attraction, persuasion, charm, activity, creativity, unity, divination, psychic powers, mental powers, wisdom, visions, the sun, intelligence, accelerated learning, memory, logical imagination, breaking mental blocks, selling yourself.
Green: Money, success, luck, health, growth, healing, prosperity, fertility, beauty, employment, youth, earth mother, physical healing, monetary success, abundance, tree and plant magick, growth, element of earth, personal goals.
Blue: Loyalty, peace, wisdom, astral projection, prophecy, healing, sleep, good fortune, opening blocked communications, wisdom, protection, spirtual inspiration, calm, reassurance, gently moving, element of water, creativity.
Violet: Healing, power, independence, psychic powers, success, protection, exorcism, influencing people in high places, third eye, spiritual power, self assurance, hidden knowledge.
Brown: healing animals, the home, influence friendships, special events.
Black: Protection, counteraction, banishing evil, repelling negativity, binding, shapeshifting.
White: all colors, purity, peace, truth, strength in spirit, divination, meditation, spiritual enlightenment, cleansing, clairvoyance, healing, protection, chastity, happiness, halting gossip, spirituality, the Goddess, higher self, virginity, a subsitute for any other color.
Gray: Neutralizing negativity
Gold: Honoring the sun, understanding, cosmic influences, wealth, the God, promote winning, safety and power of the Male, happiness, playful humor.
Silver: Gaining the aid of the Goddess, removing negative forces, telepathy, clairvoyance, psychometry, intuition, dreams, astral energies, female power, communication, The Goddess.
Copper: Passion, money goals, professional growth, fertility in business, career movements.
Elemental Correspondences of the Pentacle
by Graelan Wintertide
Winter Solstice 1997
So often we find ourselves wondering why something is the way it is, without finding the answers. I was always taught that certain Elements were associated with specific points of the pentacle. As the lesson went, Earth was connected with the lower left and Fire with the lower right. On the center tier, Air occupied the left hand side while Water sat opposite to it. The top point was represented by Spirit, above the four other Elements. Most of the people that I know who walk a magickal path adhere to this system, but no one could tell me why it was this way.
I found the what I believe to be the answer in a confusing, archaic text. Originally written by Henry Cornelius Agrippa in 1509, "Three Books of Occult Philosophy, or of Magic" is often considered the foundation book of Western magick. The book itself is broken into three parts focusing in turn on Natural Magic (Book One), Celestial Magic (Book Two), and Ceremonial Magic (Book Three). It's in book one that we find our lead.
Building on the work of Plato and other early scholars, Agrippa states that, "There are four elements, and original grounds of all corporeal things, Fire, Earth, Water, Air..." He goes on to explain that each element has certain qualities that are opposite or similar to one another. These take the form of natural qualities such as coldness (hotness), moistness (dryness), etc.
Aristotle is quoted as saying that Earth and Fire are the extremes. In the natural order of the elements, Fire rises to the top while Earth sinks to the bottom. He further states that Fire and Earth are the "purest" while Water and Air, are "more like blends."
Agrippa goes on to suggest that Plato distinguishes the Elemental properties in another manner, assigning "...to the Fire brightness, thinness, and motion, but to the Earth darkness thickness and quietness." Continuing with Aristotle's assumptions that Fire and Earth are the "purest" Elements, Agrippa states that each of the other two Elements (Water and Air) draw their properties from Fire and Earth.
It's natural at this point to assume that Fire and Earth are the "building block" Elements, as they are not only the purest, but also where Air and Water draw their properties. In this manner, they form the bottom to points of the Pentacle, the base for which the rest is built upon.
Air and Water don't draw from the base Elements equally, rather they "...borrow their qualities from these [Fire and Earth], so that the Air receives two qualities of the Fire... and one of the Earth... In like manner Water receives two qualities of the Earth... and one of Fire."
If we follow the lines of the pentacle (in much the same way we would draw an invoking pentagram), each of the "base" Elements connects to only one of the other Elements. Fire connects with Air, which is considered to be the Element most closely associated with it, as they share two qualities in common. In a similar manner, Earth only connects with Water, and they also have to qualities in common.
This leaves Spirit. Agrippa, Aristotle, and Plato only name four Elements, so where does Spirit come in? I was taught that through magick and growth, we can achieve a process known as spiritual alchemy, a mechanism by which our actions and attitudes are transmuted into spiritual matter. This spiritual matter creates the fabric of our soul. It is composed of energy, memories and emotion. I was taught that to keep things in a proper perspective, you should look at the pentacle as the human body. When we keep spiritual growth (represented by Spirit at the top point of the pentacle) as our ultimate goal, we stay in proper balance. When we put worldly things before our path, the star get's turned upside down and can't properly balance on one point.
The actual origin of Spirit being associated with the top point is probably not too far from that. Agrippa speaks of the goal of a magician to be participation in the "one work" or the "great work." It is alluded that this is finding our proper spiritual path and manifesting it in the mundane world. This would involve growing spiritually and magickally to the point that we'd achieved great power and responsibility. To keep ourselves balanced and on a proper path, we would need to keep spiritual principles as our guiding tenets. Which is not much different than the process of spiritual alchemy.
While a bit complex, Agrippa's approach to magick lends us insight into the Elements and their association with the Pentacle. As with most areas of magick, the theories are always open to personal interpretation and it is wise to follow what you believe and that which works for you.
There will be information added to this in the future. If you have information that I have not included here that you would like to see included, please email it to me and I will add it as soon as I can.
