candle_colors__and_associated_meaning Mahayana White: For higher awareness, protection (from the material plane). Used for Centering yourself because your not distracted by color; Used most often in Meditation for inner peace, Spirituality, and attaining a higher power. Black: For protection from physical harm. Good when meditating on the end of something, such as relationship, death of a loved one. Believed to stop negative thoughts and remove confusion. Red: For Pure Energy, creative and physical. Releases Passion, Power, Energy, Sexuality. Yellow: Used to visualize greater intellect and will. Good when concentrating on creative endeavors. Said to increase psychic awareness and clairvoyance. When trying to expand your imagination, this is a good color to concentrate with. Green: Used when you are concentrating on finding prosperity, money, and attracting wealth to yourself. Also used by some when they want to concentrate on getting married, have a time of good fortune or getting pregnant. Orange: Used when visualizing more Creativity in sex. It is a stimulating color and related to healing energies. This is healing for sudden losses or changes. Blue: Used to concentrate on health, self-expression, peace and tranquillity; and greater understanding of those around you. Purple: Used to stimulate extra-ordinary awareness (psychic powers); Comfort that this has been a color associated with Dignity, Spirituality, and Success it's vibrancy attract people to it. Indigo: Electric in nature, the color is said to increase intuition, Meditation Ability, Spirituality, It is the color of power. Dark Pink: For finding a pure, gentle, unconditional love and now. Also used when concentrating on Spiritual Healing Light Pink: For love, especially sexual in nature Also used to concentrate on being a woman, Emotions of Love, Romance, and a true shared Spiritual Awakening. Dark Colors|Light Colors: Color with black added brings a darker shade and both the protection of black with the color symbolism. Color with white added and brings with it both the color symbolism and the white purity and protection from corruption. 031028 ... girl_jane That's actually quite interesting, but what about my brown candle? 031028 ... Mahayana Brown: Burned for invoking animals, usually in combination with other colors. A brown candle and a red candle for animal protection; brown and blue for healing, and so on. Brown candles are associated with: hesitation, uncertainty, neutrality, influencing friendships, physical objects, healing for animals, special favours, houses and homes. 031028 ... girl_jane Again-thank you. 031029 ... User24 wow, thankyou so much for this! coool.. what's people's opinions on multicoloured candles? 031029 ... phil Arranging them in a circle prevents others from joining you 031029 ... pipedream what fun! thank you, Alternative Goddess of Blather. love, the candle fetisher 031213 ... minnesota_chris Trash Can: Used for healing and warmth when you are a homeless bum. Also good for releasing your anarchic spiritual self. Bag of Dog Poop: For revenge against someone you secretly like, and for relieving boredom and ennui. Curtains or Gasoline: Used to cure the feeling like you need a change of surroundings. Often results in intense communication with your loved ones. Cigarettes: Used when concentrating on Finances, Health, and Weight Loss. The scent again results in intense conversations with loved ones, without the feeling of an immediate change of surroundings. 031213 ... marked . 031214 ... pipers lol minnesota, although 'tis not nice to be flippant on a Alternative Healing thread! mehehe 031214 ... sometimes aliera and why should threads of such a nature get such a treatment? if your answer is good enough, i'll refrain from sharing my opinoin... 031214 ... minnesota_chris I know its not nice... everybody takes it so seriously!!! 031215 ... misstree "now you've done it... now you've *really* done it!" (sharon stone, total_recall) i tried. i did. i bit my tongue and asked for reasons not to be flippant, "especially on an Alternative Healing" thread. (and i won't even poke at the capitalization.) but then even darling chris backed off of his flippancy, so i absolutely must heed the call to arms, and explain exactly why you *must* be flippant, *especially* regarding things you shouldn't be flippant about. i'll even say first that this isn't meant to offend or disparage anyone; different chokes for different folks, ya? this is my gum and i'm sticking to it, so if you're offended, tough titties. i said it over on dead_baby_jokes and and i'll say it again; *everything* is a joke. is someone taking something seriously? stop it! life is a game, and there's no getting out of it alive, so frickin' have some fun while you can! i don't even take nottakingthingsseriously seriously. you know what taking things seriously gets you? crystallized edifices in uncomfortable places, and ulcers! and now, why Alternative Healing especially shouldn't be taken seriously... nuggets of info like the color associations above are wonderfully useful, but you have to remember, if you associate the color green with love more than pink, you should be using a damn green candle. and burning a green candle is not what makes things work; it's what your brain does. so very very many people mistake the trappings for the tools; and many aspects of the whole neopagan conglomerate have dressed themselves up in pretty trappings and fail to issue the disclaimer. yes there is a horned god! yes isis will protect you! yes thor and zeus go bowling on weekends! if you tie three knots in a cord it will bind someone, and if you tie three knots in a cord you will come to wealth, and if you tie three knots in my bootlaces i'll just unzip the damn things. these things are all *potentially* as true as the others. you are the one who tells what truth is, not some book from starhawk, not some dumbed-down version of the samurai code. what's useful in these things is the systems, the potentials, having the concepts there for you to use or not as it suits you; and to use reality as it suits you is to Play with it, and to Play with it is to not take it so damn seriously! you know why you can't fly? because you take your notflyingness too seriously! it's all a lie. every minute of every day is a pretty pretty fantasy, and it drives me guano to see people running around all stuffy-like, pretending any of it matters. the things that most pretend to importance are the ones most in need of a pie to the face, a piece of perspective from the peanut gallery that the rest of the world is part of. there are bits of info that would come under "Alternative Healing" that have hard fact behind them; herbalism in a medical sense is one of them. (phoocking pharm companies, need to get smacked down and told to look in good ol' momma dirt instead of concocting the most expensive and ineffective thing they can think of... but that's another_rant), but people, these are systems, guideposts, suggestions, things to think about! when someone holds something up and says "this is Truth, mofos, look upon it and tremble!!!" and people actually believe them, it becomes religion and it becomes dead, unable to interact or grow or synthesize. if you look upon it instead and say, "there is value there to me, i shall do with it as i please," and decide that instead of adam and eve you had abbot and costello, and that rather than the Triple Goddess of the Faces of the Moon who must be called down by doing such and such and such, you have Rikku, Yuna, and Paine, called upon by waving your favorite sparkly trinket in the proper manner, who the hell is closer to Truth? i'll tell ya; neither! because you make your own Truth, no one else can do it for you, thou art god, mofos, and everything needs holes poked in it to see if it can still hold water, everything needs to be taken with a grain of salt and a grin, and every edifice needs to be toppled before it can rejoin the world of living, breathing, evolving concepts. so maybe i got off the point. maybe it's in there somewhere. maybe people got offended; if i managed to offend you, good, you deserved it. but that's still my gum, and i'm at least going to chew it at ya. ;) 031216 ... minnesota_chris oh I wasn't backing off. But I wasn't trying to piss off Ms. Sassafrass either. I was having fun, dammit! 031216 ... oldephebe i think if we are secure enough inour own truth(s) then the liklihood of offense kind of wanes prortionate to the extent of the perceived heresy.. whatever.. as i've said many, many, times..you are inimitable mtree, probably one of the really two or three truly inimitable voices here...and yes we AAL are inimitable..and singular in all of the cosmos...this is just ME sharing out of my blather affection ..mtree - she say something true..yeah truedat, even when she pissin' you off..dat a irresolvable diachatomy upon kiachotomy dat one.. can't HELP but being fond of her... even when i disagree.....YEA-UP!! (that's an old school inner city yawp of either a call to arms, term of approval, or underscore or just a kind of primeval pawp of personhood., it's pronounced phonetically, YEE-UP!..with a really hard "P" at the end. ... yeah dat mistree, she okay dat one.. 031217 ... oldephebe primeval YAWP not pawp..all i have to do is pay attention to what i'm typing..there's the screen genious!..look at it.. *oldephebe, dope slaps relentless innercritic, stung by the truth of his words* holy schism of personhood blatherman! ... 031217 ... pd pokin fun at huffy mtree youse funny when youse angry...hee hee hee 031217 ... misstree i was angry? *looks around confused* i guess the inflection doesn't come through as much... not angry in the slightest, m'dears, simply vehemently cantankerous... arguing anywhere i could, yesterday... besides, wouldn't it be kinda, um, strange, to get angry when you're ranting about how nothing should be taken seriously? i would say i keep a grin in my back pocket but it spends far more time on my face... i am funny when i'm angry, though, at least at first... i rant and stomp and roar and huffpuff and whatnot... it's not funny if something puts me in the truly dangerous stage... but that's another_story... and i absolutely didn't *mean* to piss anyone off... i just wasn't overly concerned if i had that side effect... and 'phebe, i just needed to reiterate your "i think if we are secure enough inour own truth(s) then the liklihood of offense kind of wanes prortionate to the extent of the perceived heresy.." absolutely, astute observation... as for my inimitability... "hey, she's just this tree, yaknow?" -(zaphod's psychologist)... i love getting a chance to unfold portions of my mental map that don't get much air in such large chunks... and whatevertheheck kinda writing that is, is my flavorite way to do it... colorful, maybe? hmmph. regardless, many thanks, darlin' 'phebe... makes me glow and grin just a leetle beet more... 031217 ... oldephebe zaphod's psychologist? is that like a book or something?..could you elaborate..i'm kinda intriguiged by the referance.. maybe i should just google it.. yeah inimitable mtree..in a totally good way 031217 ... oE is the Pan Galactic Garbleblaster? he of the being really bad at personal relationships but really prolific esoteric etudes and such? 031217 ... misstree it's a reference to zaphod_beeblebrox from the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams... zaphod had an ego the size of a small star system... i forget exactly why, but a news program interviewed his psychologist (probably about the theft of the heart_of_gold), and the psychologist's response was "hey, zaphod's just this guy, you know?" (in the tv series it's with a vaguely russian accent)... just a snippet that gets stuck in my head... but it hearkens to my own expansive ego, coupled with the fact that i half expect the rest of the world to have egos of comparative size... mine should be nothing special... and if i myself am something special, i happily ignore it... 'cause i'm just this tree, you know? it's like complimenting a monkey on climbing trees... thass just what i do... 031217 ... oldephebe the whole babelfish thing sounds while neurally overwhelming..kinda aurally, pereceptually orgasmic..sonic collage and all that..thankyou for your marvelous referances mtree...*evokes music of the NBC stream on "The More You Know" glissando..and shimmer effect and fade out.. 031217 ... oldephebe oh cool i had googled it..you must have posted this just before i got done..my little referential smear..pools and pools of pap I am..*says in exxagerated cockney mid-19 century dickensian conjured accent* i liked the way that felt coming out of my mouth..i'll say it again.. "pools and pools of pap i am" 031217 ... pipers pools and pools of pap sounds SO hooray when i do my best eliza doolittle on it....hey mtree, whadidja think of the aliens who keep calling arthur an asshole in restaurant?heheahahaha well-done british humour, nothin' can beat 031218 ... celestias shadow if i were immortal, i would DEFINITELY fly around the universe insulting everyone in alphabetical order. i think that should be my next goal in life/the afterlife. 040101 ... oldephebe sWeEt! 040124 ... u24 oldephebe, I don't believe you've not read the hitchikers guide, man! go now! and don't come back till you've read the entire trilogy in five parts! 040124 ... oldephebe You know I've found that if you mix mustard greens and kale with a spritz of hot sauce and a teaspoon fo apple vinegar it blunts the acrid edge of the mustard green and provides and interesting melange of complimentary textures...a real tableau of taste ... 040124 ... oE seriously..with a side of smoked ham (or smoked turkey) and some corn bread..sWeEt!!! 040212 ... pipers im starving and that sounds VERY sweet....*wipes up drool with mop* 040212 ... falling_alone i recieved a black candle for christmas 040212 ... u24 was it scented? I had a great black candle that was clove and cinnamon scented. anda white one that was sage and something else scented. and a yellow one that was wax scented. yah. 040226 ... pipers the satyr ah, wax scented.... *breathes in deeply* SO aromatic, it makes the senses quiver... 040226 ... white_wave seeing red This was said about the candle color i have a deep fondness for: Red: For Pure Energy, creative and physical. Releases Passion, Power, Energy, Sexuality. But that's not how it makes me feel, usually. It's less about firing up my emotionsm than it is about calming me down and giving me peace. It's like a red stop sign, which says "Stop and smell the roses". The first time I saw a red candle was in 1990. At that little house in Santa Monica. It was placed on the bathroom counter as if it were waiting for me to find it. I could have stayed in that room all day. 040412 ... joe. see also http://www.gothicgirl.com/candle.htm 040524 ... witchesrequiem Damn Wiaccans.. Sunday .. ruled by the sun..yellow/orange/gold ..material gain, strength.anything you would ask your father for...fire Moonday...ruled by the moon..white/pink/silver...psychicness, friendship, emotion...anthing you would ask a mother for..water Tuesday...Red..Ruled by Mars Primative,..war, competition, winning in court, sex, lust, healing of the blood, ..Angel Raphiel can be invoked for all sorts of healing, an any angel through him. fire. Wedsnday... purple..ruled by mercury... anything with communication,..letters,phone calls, buisness through time.. and spiritual attunement. Air thursday..jupitar... growth and expansion..mainly in money and buisness. Earth Friday..Blue..Venus True love, fertility, angel aneal..good for any real love situations...water Saturday..black/brown.... high magic, karmic justice, study..ruled by saturn... brown is usesed mostly for animal healing..Earth/Air White/silver also represents our Goddess..and white can be used in place of any color if charged properly.. and can be lit to cleans any atmosphere.. 040714 ... u24 sun's day moon's day mars's day (believe me) woden's day thor's day frig(ga)'s day saturn's day . 040714 ... u24 interesting info @ http://www.design.caltech.edu /erik/Misc/days-of-the-week.html 040714 ... u24 it all depends which pantheon you trust/like better 040714 ... phil I love the addition minnesota chris made to the blathe. I didn't even read misstree or OE's stuff, cause they always suck! 050130 what's it to you? who go blather from