(Comparison of various traditions, including several of the more popular Pagan
traditions)
Compiled by Marc Carlson
It was last edited 9 June 2004
| * | ** | Budge | Clement | Hutton | Hyatt | Long Lost Friend | Mann | Ravenwolf | Cunningham | Farrar | |
| Black: | Shadows; the Absence of Light | Protects against the Evil Eye. Death, Sorrow, Sadness, Grief; Saturn; Carpicorn |
Humility; Mourning; Purity of Life. Darkness;Wickedness; Death.
(Hyatt) Death. |
Protection from "worms" (Disease) | Protection; Binding | Protection; The Night; the Universe, the ultimate source of Divine Energy; the Lack of Falsehood |
Restriction; Limitation; Binding; Saturn; Binah on the Tree of Life. |
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| Blue: | Good Luck. | Divine Love | Chaste Affection; Jupiter; Sagittarius; Pisces | Heaven, Heavenly Love, Truth, Constancy, and Fidelity. |
Sagittarius | Heaven; God/Divinity; Spirituality; Peace | Healing; Psychic awareness; the Goddess in her Ocean aspect. |
The Sky Goddess; Air; Functional Healing; Jupiter; Justice; Organization; Administration; Chesed on the Tree of Life; the female, magnetic principle |
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| Brown: | Wards off Sickness; Penitence and Grief. | St. Anthony - To recover lost articles | Friendship and strength. Agriculture. | Animals | preferred by some as the Earth color. | ||||||
| Gold/Yellow: | Unfaithfulness. | Death in Summer's Heat | Assists with people who suffer from Jaundice & other diseases of the Liver; triumph; Falsity; Treason; Ambition; Avarice; Sun; Leo |
Sun; Goodness of God; Marriage; Fruitfulness. Jealousy; Inconstancy; and Deceit. |
Peace and Satisfaction; Money; Curse others. | Leo. | Sun; Fertility; Good form; Health in Mind and Body. |
Divination | Solar magic; the Sun God; Tiphareth on the Tree; in some systems, the Earth color. |
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| Gray: | Sadness | Balance (Darkness and Light) | Aquarius | Pennance; Mourning; Humility; Accused Innocence |
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| Green: | A Hope Fulfilled. | Life; Love; Fulfillment | Vegetation and fertilizing rain; Fertility;Strength; Virility;
Triumph; Hope; Confidence; Venus; Taurus, Libra. |
Spring; Expressed Hope; Victory | Enchantment; Gods. | Money. | Libra. | Fertility; Ideas and things that grow and prosper; Success. |
Herbalists and magical ecologists. | Nature; the Goddess in her summer, Death-in-life aspect; Water; Emotion; Instinct; Intuition; Venus/Aphrodite; Netzach on the Tree of Life. |
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| Orange: | Burning embers, still living but coming to an end | Luxury. | Gemini | Career and matters involving needed success and abundance of projects already begun. |
Protection; The God in Solar Aspect. | Intellect, Communication; Travel; Mercury; Hod on the Tree of Life. |
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| Red: | A Strong Love | Passion; Life | Used to stop blood fluxes and bleeding; Protection from Fire and Lightning; Ardoir; Health; Strength; Mars; Aries. |
Royalty, Fire, Divine Love, the Holy Spirit,Creative Power, and Heat. Blood, War, Hatred. | Death, Destruction, more "primitive" gods. | Victory; Blood; Good Luck; Starting fights. | Protection from "worms" (Disease); Luck |
Aries | Power; Sacrifice; Passion; Strength. | Protection; The God in Solar Aspect. | Life; Fire; Vigor; Organic healing; Mars; Geburah on the Tree of Life; the male electric principle. |
| Rose | Sweetness of Disposition. | ||||||||||
| Silver: | The Moon; Cancer | Purity, Virginity, Innocence, Faith, Joy, Light. |
Moon Magic; the Moon Goddess; the Goddess in her Winter, Life-in-Death aspect. |
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| Violet/Purple: | Mourning | Mourning, the Lost Past, faded glories | Protects Children from Sickness; Makes them Docile; Triumph; Constancy; Fidelity; Freshness; Firstborn; Pomp; Pride. |
Passion; Suffering; Love and Truth. | Aquarius | Sacred and Spiritual. | Magicians; Spiritual awareness. | The Akhashic Principle; the Astral Plane; Yesod on the Tree of Life; in some systems, the Spirit color. |
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| White: | The Will of the Gods; the Supernatural | Protects against the Evil Eye; Carries the Protection of Heaven; Purity; Truth; Joy. |
Risen Savior; the Virgin at the Assumption; Chastity; Humility; Integrity. |
Supernatural. | Luck; Peace and Happiness. | Protection from "worms" (Disease) | Purity; Tabula Rasa. Moon; Female aspect of Life; Water. |
Purification; Pure spirituality; Mediation; Cleansing; the Goddess. |
Purity; Innocence; Work for small children; Kether on the Tree of Life. |
Budge, Earnest Alfred Thompson Wallis. Amulets and Talismans. New Hyde Park, NY:
University Books, 1961.
Clememt, Clara Erskine. A Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art. Boston:
Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1880.
Hohman, John George. John George Hohman's Pow-Wow's or Long Lost Friend.
"Printed in the U.S.A.", 1820.
Hutton, Ronald. The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1991.
Hyatt, Harry M. Hoodoo, Conjuration, Witchcraft, Rootwork. Washington D.C.: The
American University, 1970.
Kieckhefer, Richard. Magic in the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Mann, A.T., The Round Art. New York: Mayflower Books, 1979.
RavenWolf, Silver. Hexcraft, Dutch Country Pow-Wow Magic. St. Paul: Llewellyn,
1995.
(*) An undocumented stone divination form.
(**) An undocumented occult tradition.