Color plays an essential role in all forms of ritual magic, meditation, and all forms of ritual practice. Colors are very powerful spiritual, emotional and physical energies that influence all planes. Colors gain their power as timeless elements of nature that are considered absolute, that is, they apply to all entities in all realms.
The interpretation of hidden color attributes varies widely between disciplines and cultures; this guide bases the attributions on the spectra of white light, primary, secondary and tertiary light. It is essential that the practitioner choose a color for a particular job based on their own comfort level and intuitive sense for the selected color.
The following attributes can be used for focus, invocation, and visualization during ritual and mediation. It is important to remember that the following associations apply to traditional Ritual Magic, which is itself a spiritual discipline. One is cautioned to avoid applying labels or assuming the meaning of colors in mundane or ordinary reality, as color perception is very different on the spiritual plane.
Spiritually colors are vibrations of Light, entities and energies with specific and distinct actions. With the exception of the color black, this in ordinary reality is a color, but spiritually it is the absence of light or the absence of color, a shadow.
Visible color exists in a small area of the entire spectrum of light, however spiritual color attributes exist both visibly (monochromatic) and spectrally (unseen by the naked eye).
color categories
White: Sure, all colors combined
Black: Spiritually it is not a color, but an absence of light.
Primaries: red, blue, yellow
Secondaries: Orange, Purple, Green
Tertiary: yellow/orange, red/orange, red/purple, blue/purple, blue/green, yellow/green
White:
Spiritually white is the color of spiritual radiance that shines from the center of being and from the face of the All. White is clear and transparent, encompassing the attributes of all colors and none. White is pure and like pure water it has no taste, but it permeates all things. White is the spirit of the non-manifest, which is everywhere and nowhere, promoting vision, but it is not seen. The perception of white invokes the senses of creation, all things, and white returns all things to this state.
White is frequently seen in traditional ritual magic to represent the force of divinity, unknown or divine intervention and invokes the energy of purity and creation for the ritual intent.
Black:
Spiritually, black is not a real color, but it is the result when the light is removed. Black is the antithesis of spirit and can best be understood as a shadow, an illusion, or utter darkness. The energy of black exists only because of light like all things. Black is hollow, empty, unpretentious illusion. Black does not really exist and therefore cannot be destroyed but only banished by the Light. Black is always ready to return the instant the light goes out. Due to humanity’s fall from grace, the illusory qualities of black appear real and are believed to exist and therefore can manifest as cruelty, hate, indifference, violence and the only quality that unites them is emptiness (Tyson , 1988).
Due to the illusory characteristics of black, it cannot exist in the presence of Light, and therefore divine agents associated with Light, such as angels, deities, or nature spirits associated with fire, sun, or the energies of lightning, banish darkness instantly and immediately. it is universal law that it should stop being like a candle flame that illuminates a dark room.
Black serves as an ideal example of one of the differences between visible color and spectral or spiritual color. The visible black color serves as a symbol invoking the vibration or influence of what it represents according to the ritual or meditation. The visible color black is examined in color theory in relation to other visible colors in the light spectrum. Black does not exist on the plane of spectral light, but as a true paradox, it exists in the form of emptiness, nothingness, shadow, illusion, and absence of light.
Primary Color Associations:
Red:
The color associated with masculine energy, red is the Father, the color of the will. Red is action and command activity. Red is radiant and outward force. Red is fiery and explosive by nature.
Blue:
The color associated with feminine energy, blue is the Mother, the color of reflection and inner emotion, the secret, nurturing, creation and formation. Blue is the color of lakes, the ocean, and the sky. Blue is passive and accepting by nature.
Yellow:
Androgynous, yellow is the Child, the color of the intellect and the learning of meditation. Yellow can give and take, it can act immediately or wait depending on the circumstances. Yellow is the color of artistic expression. The nature of yellow is best represented by the path of golden light reflected from the rising sun on the surface of a calm sea.
Secondary Color Associations
Orange:
The opposite of blue and is the combination of the energies of yellow and red. Orange is a bold color of material success and worldly triumph. Orange is victory, a champion. Orange is bold but not brash. By nature, orange is permeated with positive feelings and good humor.
Purple:
The opposite of yellow and is the combination of the energies of blue and red. The least favorite of all the colors in occult practice, purple is disease, disease, putrefaction, and corruption. Purple is futility and impotent rage.
Green:
The opposite of red and is the combination of the energies of yellow and blue. Green is to love, share and accept, it is the color of natural magic and has strong associations with Pan, the powerful spirit of nature and fertility. Green is the color of all the spirits of the woods and jungles, druidism, shamanism and the craft of Wiccan nature spells. Green is joyful abandon, ecstasy, ecstasy and the richness of spring.
Tertiary color associations
The tertiary colors are the combinations of the energies of the secondaries; they are further from the Light and less potent in magical work.
Yellow-Orange: Calculation, diplomacy, mental achievement.
Red-Orange: Joy, mischief, uncontrolled energy but without malice.
Red-Purple: force directed by cruelty and stupidity, waste, decay
Blue-Purple: Inaction, coldness, physical, mental and spiritual poison.
Blue-Green: mystery, depth, cleanliness, life, concealment, wit, warmth, care
Yellow-Green: New life, freshness, a potent combination of life force energies, lethal potential if ruthlessly opposed, unavoidable quest for revenge.
Note: Colors have various esoteric associations depending on culture and spiritual discipline; however, they are essentially the same as color is a manifestation of light. Meditation on specific colors is recommended before a ritual to align with these energies.
Sources
Tyson. (1988). The new magician, ritual magic as a personal process. Llewllyn Publications, St. Paul, MN.
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