Candle Color Meanings
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Lighting colored candles draws specific traits into your environment, life, and soul. Always cleanse and annoint a candle before lighting it.

Cleansing Techniques - sea salt, ocean water, sunlight, blessed water
Annoint With - Olive oil, or a sacred oil such as Frankincense or Sage
(if none of the above is available, smudge the candle with Sage incense)
Red:
Energy, strength, passionate love, will power

Orange:
Prosperity, creativity, enthusiasm, success, attraction, luck, joy, career

Yellow:
Creativity, confidence, concentration, intellect, inspiration, awakens enthusiasm

Green:
Abundance, good fortune, success, balance, emotions, money, luck

Pink:
Love, friendship, affection, romance, healing, compassion

Blue (light):
Inspiration, wisdom, protection, patience, tranquility, inner peace, contact higher self

Blue (dark):
Psychic ability, wisdom, spiritual protection, success

Purple/Violet:

Highly spiritual, mysticism, wisdom, purification, peace, higher psychic talents

White:
Purity, spirituality, contacting spirits, raises vibrations

Black:
Absorbs negativity

Gold:
Fortune, intuition, divination, fast luck, financial gain, attracts higher influences