Candles, ribbons, cloths: whatever carries orange into a working carries orange meaning with it.
Orange in symbolism
Orange is another masculine color. Orange is the color of mental agility, eloquence and speech, health, ambition, personal creativity, balancing business, legal problems, memory and sharing. Orange combines the intellect of yellow with the vitality of red. Oranges uses in magic are for breaking spells, promoting personal creativity, increasing memory, healing nervous disorders, controlling runaway emotions, career, legal issues, balance and neutrality, organization, travel, writing, business transactions and obtaining information.
Correspondences
- Element: Air/Fire
- Direction: East/South
- Planet: Mercury/Mars
- Day: Tuesday-Physical ActionWednesday - Mental Action Sunday - Both Actions
- Plants: Fern, Lily of the Valley, Marjoram Savory, Valerian, Vervain, Alstonia, Buckwheat, Calamint, Snapdragon, Flax, Senna, Wandering Jew, Mugwort, Rue, the same as the Red and Yellow for enhancements, Fenugreek, Gardenia
- Tarot links: The four Eights
Choose this color for candles or cloths when your question leans toward orange matters.
How the symbol systems meet
| System | Correspondence |
|---|---|
| Botanicals | Valerian — herb of the orange candle |
| Botanicals | Vervain — herb of the orange candle |
| Botanicals | Mugwort — herb of the orange candle |
| Botanicals | Rue — herb of the orange candle |
| Geomancy | Puer — figure of the same element |
| Geomancy | Rubeus — figure of the same element |
| Geomancy | Amissio — figure of the same element |
| Geomancy | Acquisitio — figure of the same element |
| Geomancy | Laetitia — figure of the same element |
| Geomancy | Caput Draconis — figure of the same element |