What do the colors of candles mean?

By accentuating and using different colors and as a complement to our surroundings candles have some incomprehensible, influential power. Each color vibrates at a different frequency. This is no news, certain colors are well known to radiate energy that influences us, promotes our virtues, facilitates the power of meditation, provides for comfort and creates a magical setting.
The use of certain candle colors also depends on our intentions, mood, our desire for additional stimulation or consolation.

Blue candles

Blue is the color associated with cold water. It stimulates reflection and serenity at times when you need a lot of concentration, it is also used to enhance memory and interior contemplation and to create a quiet and peaceful environment. In magic, blue emphasizes communication and brings about flow as it is linked to the throat chakra, it harmonizes relationships.

Red candle

Red color is associated with fire, change, love, and sexuality. Red is used in magic to connect with our loved one when we start various new projects (e.g. relationships, business, marriage, etc.). It is a color associated with the root chakra, so red gives us a greater sense of reality and a sense of pleasure in the things we do in our life.

White candles

White is associated with purity, with impeccable and divine light. White is used to purify and harmonize the environment and to help acquire things. White brings peace and helps lift your mood when you are depressed.
White candles help draw attention to what we want to achieve and to absorb people’s energy. Some believe that white candles can decode a person’s life and future. White candles are also very useful for sick people, they help cleanse the body and find the way for a person to heal.

Violet candles

Violet is the priest’s color, a mystical color associated with the transformation of energy and magical or spiritual action. It creates a mystical atmosphere that transports you, meditating on a strong spiritual connection. Purple candles are suitable in religious ceremonies for those who need to develop faith and those who are experiencing the pain of a loved one passing away. They are very useful in meditation, visualization, and decoration, they indeed give a deep and mystical touch.

Gold candles

Gold is the color of wisdom, birth, and renewal. It is associated with wealth and property and is used in meditation or magic to earn money, luck, increase sales and attract customers. This color helps us have an open, liberated mind, to understand spirituality, to be self-aware. Gold also helps us connect with all living beings, so that in meditation we understand that we are all united by the same divine being.

Green candles

Green is the dominant color in nature and is related to health, growth, hope, renewal, and freshness. Green is used as a healing colour. It is the colour of the fourth chakra, connected with the heart, relationships, friendship and love, and especially self-love. Green makes the environment fresh and spreads the energy of departure and prosperity.

Brown candles

Brown (or cinnamon) is used to make sense of problems, difficult times, difficult experiences, in situations that seem hopeless.

Orange candles

Orange is associated with creativity, intelligence, and strength. This color is also associated with
the second chakra, the chakra of creativity (in the context of the sexual organs). Orange is used in magic to treat infertility cases as it is a very stimulating colour. Orange candles are also used to lift the mood, in difficult situations or conflicts.

Yellow candles

Yellow candles are also used to raise funds and material goods. Yellow is associated with wisdom, helping to revitalize the environment and recharge the batteries.

Candles and holidays

Christmas and New Year are very special moments when we get to reflection and meditation, and candles are part of this magical and spiritual time. However, we can use candles at any time as an element in our lives.