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Green:
Green flowers represent harmony with nature as well as health, wellness, and a promise of good fortune.

Orange:
These flowers offer happiness & joy, warmth, love, adventure & spontaneity.

Pink:
Pink flowers represent innocence, playfulness, and sensitivity. Traditionally associated with femininity, pink flowers are the most romantic.

Purple:
These flowers have an enchanted, otherworldly ambience to them. They represent mystery, creativity, charm, grace, elegance, and refinement.

Red:
Sends the powerful message of romantic love & passion. Red flowers are symbolic to the heart. Red is the color of seduction and desire.

White:
White flowers are associated with purity and innocence. The delicate white blossoms represent honesty, purity, perfection, elegance and innocence. These flowers communicate pure, thoughtful love & undying fidelity.

Yellow:
Represents friendship and filial love - the love of a child for a parent. Yellow flowers represent trust, compassion, & respect. Yellow flowers also communicate sympathy.

CANDLE REFERENCE CHART.

Candles are lit to enhance the powers of a spell.

Black
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Opens the levels of the subconscious mind, is used in spells and rituals to elicit a deeper meditative state or to ban bad or negative things.

Blue
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Primarily spiritual color for love spells and rituals around wisdom, harmony, inner light or peace; grants truth and guidance.

Brown
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Earth, a balanced color. Rituals for material gain, eliminates indecisiveness, furthers powers of concentration, learning, telepathy. Expands financial success, finds lost items.

Dark Green
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The color of ambition, avarice, jealousy. Neutralizes and works against these powers in a spell or ritual.

Emerald Green
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Important component in Isis love spells and rituals: love, companionship, joy, fertility.

Golden
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Enhances communication and attracts the power of cosmic influences. Useful in money spell rituals which are designed to gain fortune or money – spells and rituals which require solar energy.

Gray
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Neutral color. Helpful when thoughts complicate questions during a meditation. In love magic, this color often creates confusion. It neutralizes and eliminates negative influences.

Green
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Enhances wealth, fertility, and success, and stimulates rituals and spells for luck, money, harmony, and rejuvenation.

Indigo
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inactive color. Ends situations, detains people. For spells and rituals which require a deep meditative state or Saturn energy.

Light Blue
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Spiritual color, helpful for devotions or inspirational meditation. Brings peace and calm into the house, exudes Aquarius energy.

Magenta
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Combination of red and violet. Operates with a high frequency. Energizes spells and rituals in which immediate action or powers on a high plane or spiritual oneness are essential.

Pink
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Enhances romance and friendship. Standard color for love spells and love rituals which are designed to attract attention and achieve a purpose. The color of femininity, honor, and pleasantness – enhances joyful and lively conversation.

Red
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Health, passion, love, fertility, strength, courage, willpower. Strengthens magnetism in a love spell or ritual, creates Ram and Scorpio energies.

Royal Blue
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Enhances laughter and serenity, color of loyalty. Used to create Jupiter energy or whenever an influence must be strengthened.

Silver
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eliminates negativity and enhances stability, helps develop psychic skills, attracts the influence of the Great Mother.

Violet/Purple
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Strength, success, idealism, psychic revelation; ideal for spells and rituals which are designed to secure ambition, independence and financial success or to establish contact with the other, spiritual world; enhances Neptune energy. Reversing curses, psychic healing, psychic power, inspiration, meditation, spirituality, spiritual power, astral projection, and third eye.

White
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The balance of all colors. Spiritual enlightenment, cleansing, clairvoyance, healing, truth seeking. Used in love spells and rituals that contain lunar (moon) energy, and can substitute for any other color.

Yellow
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Activity, creativity, oneness. Yellow strengthens the imagination and concentration in all spells, such as love spells, money spells, and protection spells. It is used in rituals in which the trust of a person is gained, or in which one wants to convince someone. For rituals which require solar energy.

CRYSTALS – COLORS AND USES.

Blue
- The throat chakra. Blue is the color of communication. A balanced throat chakra supports self-expression. Blue is a cool color which gives perspective, and it is soothing and peaceful. Some blue gemstones are lapis lazuli, turquoise, aquamarine, sapphire and blue topaz. They produce a calming effect and promote good sleep and relaxation.

Green
- Heart chakra. Green is the color of nature. It is the color of healing, well-being and harmony. It is also the color of transformation, symbolized by the cycle of the seasons. Some green gemstones are emerald, malachite, moss agate, jade, peridot and green tourmaline. Encourages growth, fertility and change, as well as compassion and forgiveness.

Indigo -
The third-eye chakra, between the brows, indigo has an energy which connects the spiritual self with the embodied self, enhancing insight, intuition and understanding. Some indigo gemstones are azurite and lolite. They provide access to the unconscious, cosmic knowledge and clairvoyance.

Orange
- The sacral chakra, in the lower abdomen, orange is the color of vitality and curiosity. It is associated with playfulness and willingness to take on life's challenges. Some orange gemstones are carnelian, orange calcite and tangerine quartz. They enhance self-esteem and strength to embrace change.

Red -
Root chakra, at the base of the spine. Red is the color of blood and fire, of vitality and survival. It is also the color of lust and love. Some red gemstones are red coral, bloodstone, garnet, red calcite, red jasper and ruby. They increase enthusiasm for life and promote courage.

Violet
- The crown chakra - just above the top of the head. Violet reconnects you with your spiritual and creative source, for inspiration and imagination. Some violet gemstones are amethyst, fluorite and sugilite. Enhance meditation and your connection to higher self.

Yellow -
Solar plexus chakra, yellow, is the color of mental and creative energy. It is also the color of joy, clarity and awareness. Some yellow gemstones are citrine, amber and lemon quartz. They support the chakra's energy and personal power with clear decision-making, concentration and memory.

BIRTHSTONES AND THEIR MEANINGS.

January
- The garnet is thought to keep the wearer safe during travel.

February
- The amethyst is said to strengthen relationships and give its wearer courage. At one time, only royalty could wear the gem. The word amethyst comes from the Greek amethystos, meaning "sober" and was once thought to protect against intoxication.

March
- The aquamarine was thought to cure gout, liver, and stomach diseases, simply by drinking water in which the gem had been soaking. Early sailors believed that having an aquamarine amulet on board their ship, carved in the likeness of Neptune, god of the sea protected them from the danger of the oceans.

April
- The diamond, a symbol of everlasting love, was also once thought to bring courage. In Sanskrit, the diamond is called "vajra", which means lighting; in Hindu mythology, vajra was the weapon of Indra, king of the gods.

May
- The emerald, one of Cleopatra's favored gems, has long been associated with fertility, rebirth and love. Ancient Romans dedicated this stone to Venus, goddess of beauty and love. Today it signifies wisdom, growth and patience.

June
- The pearl has always been a symbol of purity. Greeks believed that pearls were the hardened tears of Aphrodite, goddess of love.

July
- The ruby, regarded by Ancient Hindus as "king of gems". It was believed to protect its wearer from evil. Today, the ruby's deep red color signifies love and passion.

August
- The peridot symbolizes strength. Some call it the evening emerald because of its light green color. It was once thought that green peridot crystals found in volcanic ashes were the tears of the volcano goddess, Pelé. When set in gold, this gem was said to protect against nightmares.

September
- The sapphire was once used to protect against evil and poisoning. Also traditionally a favorite stone of priests and kings, the sapphire symbolizes purity and wisdom.

October
- The opal symbolizes faithfulness and confidence. The word comes from the Latin opalus, which means "precious jewel". Necklaces with opals are said to repel evil and protect eyesight.