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I’ve been pretty reluctant to post spell crafting information on my blog for several reasons:

1. Spell casting information is so widely available that the internet and books are flooded with millions of versions of how to do X, Y, Z spell that I just didn’t feel like contributing to the background noise of it all.
2. It’s best to learn HOW to do spells before trying to pick up a book or read an internet site, or watch a TikTok/YouTube video about spell work. The magic isn’t in the color of the candle you choose, or in the tools you possess, or any other of the multiple items often listed as an ingredient in spell work. It’s in the knowledge, focus, and willpower you have. Train those things up and you can do magic with a piece of chalk and a glass of water, or with nothing but your own hands and your own words.
   

Candle magic is where many Witches start out and where they often excel. Candles are inherently special and magical. They signify many things in different cultures. We use them on celebratory cakes, to set a special ambiance for peace or romance, to offer soothing light, or as an emergency light source when the power goes out. They’re used in spiritual and religious traditions from around the world. They can be enhanced with different aromas, given as gifts, and just generally have a ‘feel good’ vibe to them.

This is all before they are intentionally empowered or enchanted for spell work.

So let’s talk a little bit about how candles are used in magic and ritual.

Again, I’m not going to give a list of ‘how-to’s’ and long correspondence charts. Those can easily be found elsewhere.

What I am going to do is offer some information and insight that I think is often overlooked or perhaps not as widely well-known as other things are in this area.

Color Correspondences:

If you don’t really use color as an important part of your working, then any color candle will work.

If you prefer to use a color that aligns with your focus as a means to add extra energy to the ritual, then it would depend on what the goal of the magic is. Different colors tend to align with specific purposes. Some common correspondences are:

Green: health, luck, or money
Red: passion, energy, high emotions (anger, lust, rage, jealousy, etc.) for when you want to add to or increase the force of an emotion
Blue: communication (by way of being on the same level and understanding each other), calming, soothing, peace (think ‘opposite of red’)
Brown: earth magic, healing land or animals, stability, fertility
Purple: linking with higher powers, meditation, psychic work
Orange: affecting power or influence, drive, achieving goals
Yellow: mental clarity, communication (by way of how you are communicating: emails, phone calls, letters, verbal encounters), this is so you can speak clearly and have your thoughts in order
Black: protection, banishing, removal of energies
Gold: solar energy, wealth, abundance
Silver: lunar energy, serenity, dreams
White: all-purpose use, connecting with ancestors or spirits of the deceased

There is some room for personal interpretation, of course. This list is some of the common color connections, and some of my own, but no list is exact. It’s more important that a color connect with a specific energy for you to have it work for your purpose.

For example, green is typically used in money magic because the currency in the United States is printed with green ink. Personally for me, though, I use orange for money magic because I see it more as coming through effort or achieving goals. So, when I do magic for money, I will usually use gold or orange candles because those resonate with that purpose for me.

A special note about white candles — White candles can be used for anything and everything. Scientifically speaking, white light is the blending of all light colors within the spectrum. That’s how you see bands of colored light if it gets refracted through a prism. If you want to work money magic and a white candle is what you have got, then use the white candle and get those bills paid! Do not hold out waiting to get the right color for your spell. Do you think that our ancestors, the Witches of even just 100 years ago, had access to all of the different colors of candles for their use in spell work?

Of course not.

Witchcraft is about using what you have to get the work done. Of course, if you have the ability and desire to use colored candles, then go for it. But they are a luxury, not a necessity. What matters is that the wax is good, the wick will burn, and you can work the magic. Everything else is just extra.

One of my teachers taught it like this: White candles are like soap. You don’t need the extra scents or colors and you don’t need to know how it works. You just use it to get the job done.

Other tips and advice:

Once you have charged a certain candle for a specific use, do not reuse that candle for a different purpose. You have a candle set aside for doing money magic, that’s great. Don’t light it for another spell use. Get another candle for the next spell.

If you’re going to blow out your candle, have a reason for doing so. When you blow out a candle, you’re using one element (air) to remove another element (fire). Anything done in ritual or magical space should be moving with the same focus for the same end goal. Work with intention. If you want to use air (communication) to send the magic of your candle out into the world to work your desires, that’s one thing. But if this is a candle you intend to use for multiple or repeated uses, then snuffing or pinching the flame is best because it ‘seals in’ the fire (the will and drive).

Candles used repeatedly for the same function will grow in power. They become a tool all of their own. An empowered candle used entirely for a single purpose holds in the energy from every spell it’s been used in, storing it up like a battery. In this way, if you have a candle specifically for doing healing work, and you’ve used that same candle over the course of a month by burning it for a ritual every few days, then by the end of the month, that candle should hold the energy of all the work you’ve put out for healing with it. Remember to snuff this candle, not blow it out.

Using oil to dress a candle for magical work is a great addition. Scented oils or herbal-infused oils are great for this. Be sure you are not using fragrance oils designed to be put in a room diffuser. These are not really oils, but are chemicals, and not good to make contact with your skin. If you don’t have specialty oils, then olive oil will work just fine. It’s like the ‘white candle’ of oils.

Inscribing sigils and things into a candle is an effective way to add additional focus and pull in corresponding energies. Using the same type of inscribing tool specifically for this purpose will empower that tool over time for this use. My favorite tool to use for candle inscription is a long piece of honey locust thorn that was given to me by another witch many years ago. Inscriptions and writing are the only use for this item, and it’s built up a good vibration of power over the years.

Novena candles are my go-to for intensive candle magic where the candle will be utilized over multiple magical sessions. These are the tall, slender candles in glass. Sometimes they are called “9-day candles” or “7-day candles”. This is because, traditionally, a novena is a candle that is lit for nine days of intensive prayer.

You can get very crafty and creative with the glass jar. Sharpie markers, aluminum foil (for sending back negativity/mirror spells), writing spell inscriptions on pieces of paper and securing them to the candle, paints… I’ve even used nail polish on a novena candle when I had nothing else. They can be trusted to burn safely if kept in a good place, because if the area is properly prepared, then even if they tip over, they’ll likely just go out rather than catch anything else on fire. They are a wonderful investment, in my opinion.

Use your imagination and creativity when coming up with how best to use candles in your work. As long as you are smart and know how to keep safe around them, they can be a wonderful addition to your magical tool kit.