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Color
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Red
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CHAKRA:
Root, 1st Chakra (base of tailbone)
ELEMENT: Fire
DIRECTION:
South
PLANET: Mars
DAY: Tuesday
SACRED TO: Ares
- Eleggua - Exu - Isis - Mars - The Great
Goddess - Moon goddesses - Ogou-Feraille -
Ogum - Ogun - Papa Legba - Set - Seth -
Shango - The Triple Goddess
COLOR MEANING
-- Love, Passion, Lust, Courage, Energy,
Strength, Fast Action, Physical Health,
Protection, Willpower
Darker Reds stand for:
War, Blood, Battles, Danger.
OTHER MEANINGS
-- Celtic color of the Otherworld.
Hathor, Set/Seth/Typhon, the Morrigan and
Odysseus/Ulysses all had red hair. Some
people consider red hair a witches' mark.
Red was the color of death in ancient Greece
and Bronze Age Britain, where red ocher was
used in burials. It was taboo for commoners
to eat red food like lobster, bacon, red
berries, fruit or mushrooms except at feasts
to honor the dead.
Red toadstools, apples and rowan berries
were all considered foods of the gods. |
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Orange
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CHAKRA:
Navel, 2nd Chakra (just below belly button)
ELEMENT: Fire
DIRECTION:
South
PLANET: Mercury
DAY: Wednesday
COLOR MEANING
-- Property, Deals, Ambition, Legal Matters,
Selling, Career, Success, Concentration,
encouragement, Authority, Communications,
Balance |
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Yellow
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CHAKRA:
Solar Plexus, 3rd Chakra (center of
stomach),
ELEMENT: Air
DIRECTION:
East, (some say center)
PLANET: Sun
DAY: Sunday
SACRED TO:
Orula - Orunmila - Oshoshi - Oshun - Shakti
- Sun gods
COLOR MEANING
-- Intelligence, Memory, School Studies,
Accelerated Learning, Selling yourself,
Clairvoyance
OTHER MEANINGS
-- Mayan death color, associated with Judas,
and with the Spanish Inquisition, and
convicted murderers once wore yellow gowns
for execution. |
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Green
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CHAKRA:
Heart, 4th Chakra (center of breast bone)
ELEMENT: Earth
DIRECTION:
North
PLANET: Earth,
Venus
SACRED TO:
Agayu - Allah - Al-Uzzah, the Great One -
Aphrodite - Demeter - Ogum - Ogun -
Ogou-Feraille - Orule - Orunmila - Osiris -
Green Zeus - Gaia
COLOR MEANING
-- Healing, Money, Fertility, Growth,
Personal Goals, Good Luck, Love, Eco Magick
OTHER MEANINGS
-- Feary Color, symbolized youth and
vegetation in ancient Egypt, male color in
China. |
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Blue
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CHAKRA:
Throat, 5th Chakra (center of throat)
ELEMENT: Water
DIRECTION: West
PLANET: Saturn
and Jupiter
DAY: Thursday
SACRED TO:
Aphrodite - Mary - Oshosi - rain deities -
sky goddesses - Nut - Yemana - Yemaya -
Yemonja - Zeus
COLOR MEANING
-- Good Fortune, Wisdom, Opening Blocked
Communications, Calmness, Spiritual
Inspiration, Prophetic Dreams, Protection
During Dreams, Honesty, Healing |
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Indigo
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CHAKRA:
Third Eye, 6th Chakra (between and just
above the eyes)
SACRED TO:
Venus
COLOR MEANING
-- See Purple |
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Violet
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CHAKRA:
Head, 7th Chakra (Just above the head)
PLANET: Mercury
SACRED TO:
Tzu-Ku-Shen, The Violet Lady
COLOR MEANING
-- : Spirituality, Intuition, Insight,
Clarity, The Astral Plane, The Akashic
Principle |
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Silver
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DAY:
Monday
PLANET: The
Moon
SACRED TO:
All Moon Goddess
COLOR MEANING
-- Represents the Goddess, Removes
Negativity, Encourages Stability, Lunar
Magick, Telepathy, Clairaudience,
Clairvoyance, Psychomentry, Intuition,
Dreams, Astral Energies, Female Power
OTHER MEANINGS
-- Symbolizes Life-in-Death |
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Purple
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CHAKRA:
Third Eye, 6th Chakra (See Indigo)
PLANET: Jupiter
DAY: Thursday
SACRED TO:
Babalu Aye - Maman Brigitte - Oya - Yansa
COLOR MEANING
-- Psychic Ability, Spiritual Power, Self
Assurance, Hidden Knowledge, Reversing
Curses, Independence, Divination, Symbol of
Royalty |
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White
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DAY:
Monday
SACRED TO: Aphrodite - Batala -
Cerridwen - Brighid - White Lady of
Inspiration - Isis - Chango - Elegba - Gauri
BRILLIANT WHITE: The Great Goddess -
Moon goddesses - Obatala, Chief of the White
Cloth - Shango - the Triple Goddess - the
White Goddess - White Tara - Xango - Yemaya
- Yemonja
COLOR MEANING -- Spirituality, Peace,
Purity, Higher Self, Virginity, Spiritual
truth and strength, breaking of curses,
meditation, peace, household purification,
cleansing, spirituality, clairvoyance,
prophesy, enlightenment. The substitute for
any candle color.
OTHER MEANINGS: William Blake
referred to the "White Light of
Reason", also symbolizes death in
China. |
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Black
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DAY:
Saturday
PLANET: Saturn
and The Waning Moon
SACRED TO: Babalu Aye - Osiris
- Demeter - Hecate - Elegba - Eleggua - Exu
- the Great Goddess - Kali, the Black One -
Maman Brigitte - Moon Goddesses - Ogum -
Ogun - Ogou-Feraille - Oya - Papa Legba -
Yansa
COLOR MEANING: Evil, loss
sadness, discord, confusion, absorption
& destruction of negative energy,
binding, restriction,
limitation, retribution, hexing |
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Gold
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DAY:
Sunday
PLANET: Sun
COLOR MEANING: Represents the God,
initiation, protection, attraction, and
persuasion |
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Gray
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DAY:
Monday
SACRED TO: The
Graiae, the Gray Ones - the Grey Goddess
COLOR MEANING: Stalemate, Neutrality,
Cancellation, Loneliness |
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Pink
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PLANET:
Venus
DAY: Friday
SACRED TO: Aphrodite - Venus
COLOR MEANING: Love and Friendship,
Entertaining, Morality, Overcoming Evil,
Spiritual Awakening, Harmony, Honor, Service
OTHER MEANINGS:
Angelic color, according to William Blake |
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Brown
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PLANET:
Earth
ELEMENT: Earth
DIRECTION:
North
SACRED TO: Agayu - Babalu-Aye - Oya -
Maman Brigitte - Yansa
COLOR MEANING: Protection of Pets,
Solving Household Problems, Attracting Help
in Financial Crises, Balance, Improve
Concentration, Telepathy, Finding Lost
Items, Eco Magick |
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