Brown

Brown is a boring colour for a lot of people. And yes, I will admit, it is not one of my favorite colours. But, for certain types of candle and colour magic, brown is a very important and key colour.

Technopagans: use hex triplet #964B00 for brown!

Used for: Healing animals or the home, balanced colour, neutrality, house blessing, locates physical objects that have been lost, influencing friendships, special favours, attract money and financial success, influence Earth Elementals, improves powers of concentration, ESP, intuition, study, telepathy, spiritual attachment to the earth. Peace in the home; herb magic; friendship
Element: Air/Fire
Direction: East/South
Chakra: Spleen Chakra
Planet: Mercury/Mars
Day: Tuesday-Physical action, Wednesday-mental action, Sunday-both actions
Number: 2
Magical Tools: Wand and Censor
Scent/Oil: Dill, lily of the valley, savory, honeysuckle, sweetpea, jasmine
Planet/Herb: Ferm, Lily of the Valley, Marjorma, Savory, Valerian, Vervain, Alstonia, Buckwheat, Calamint, Snapdragon, Flax, Senna, Wandering Jew, Mugwort, Rue, Ferugreek, Gardenia
Wood: Hazel, Beech, Lemon Tree, Maple, Orange Tree
Animals: Bear, Horse, Wolf, Ram, marsupials and night creatures, Tigers, Lions, Badger, Alligator, Ants, beetle, Cardinal, porcupine, Chicken, Peacock,Swallow, prairie dog, butterfly, scallop, bison, butterfly, catbird, crane, fox, hawk, martin, squirrel
Stones: Moss Agate, Carnelian, Alexandrite, Orange Sapphire, Quartz, Orange Calcite, Petrified Wood
Tarot: Eights
Gods: Atlas, Janus, Terminus, Pan, Zeus
Goddess: Athena, Bast, Carna, Diana, Lilith, Kali, Melusine, Minerva, Rhiannon, Syn
Gender: Female

A special note about Dark Brown. Though all browns are "earth" colours, the darker the brown, the closer the connection to the Earth and Earth benefits.

The General Meaning Of Colours

This is a list of general correspondences for colour magic. Every colour will resonate differently with different people, so use this list as a guideline in choosing candle colours.
When in doubt, always go for white.

White: Beginning (in the sense of a blank page) or ending and healing. White shadow (animus). Union through the mind or new intellectual frontier

Gray: Unawareness or deliberate indifference

Black: The unknown, the center of the earth or of a situation; “black box:, black shadow (anima), the dark side of the soul or new physiological territory

Red: Heart, soul, willpower, vitality

Yellow: Sun, consciousness, zest for life; envy, mental dissonance

Blue: Open sky/space and clear water; spirituality

Green: Fresh, young, promising, inexperienced, immature

Brown: Connected to nature and the earth, rooted in the soil, vegetative

Violet: Experiencing boundaries; a mixture of blue and red