Candles, ribbons, cloths: whatever carries brown into a working carries brown meaning with it.
Brown in symbolism
Brown is a feminine color. It is the color of the Earths energy, grounding, exercise, organization, solidity, the soil, practicality, solitude and honesty. Brown combines the prosperity of green with the intellect of yellow. Brown is used in magick primarily for centering, grounding, building, study, house and home, the accumulation of money and material things, healing plants and animals, finding lost items, gardening and decision-making.
Correspondences
- Element: Earth
- Direction: North
- Planet: Earth
- Day: Moon/Mondays - Tan Browns Friday/Venus - All Browns Saturday/Saturn - Dark Browns
- Plants: Corn, Tansy, Ginseng, Willow, Lily, Ivy, Grains, Oats, Mushrooms, Orange Tree, Almond, Begonia, Daisy, Brown includes all of the aspects of yellow and green
- Tarot links: the four Pages and the four Tens
Choose this color for candles or cloths when your question leans toward brown matters.
Old correspondences
- Botanicals: Tansy — herb of the brown candle
- Botanicals: Willow — herb of the brown candle
- Botanicals: Orange — herb of the brown candle
- Botanicals: Almond — herb of the brown candle
- Geomancy: Carcer — figure of the same element
- Geomancy: Fortuna Minor — figure of the same element
- Geomancy: Tristitia — figure of the same element
- Geomancy: Cauda Draconis — figure of the same element