What Color is Magic?

Pagan Blog Prompts: Today's prompt is about the "color" of your magick. We have ALL heard the discussions...white magick vs. grey magick vs. black magick...does magick have a color? What do the colors mean? If white is "good" then is black "bad"? What constitutes "bad"? Is the whole argument invalid? Doesn't the practitioner determine if the magick being worked is good or bad? If so, then is magick "neutral"? So many angles. Today's prompt is a bit of a heavy one. Enjoy!

I don't like to label magic as white or black - good or bad. To me, all magic comes in shades of gray. Gray magic means that it is neither good nor bad but rather neutral. All spells have the potential to cause good things to happen or be to destructive. Even a spell that may seem to be completely good can cause harm.

I want to talk about other colors too. Many witches work with four elements - earth, water, fire and air - and these elements tend to be associated with colors. Earth is green, water is blue, fire is red and air is white or yellow. Often times we attach these colors to the elements and give them meanings so, for example, a blue candle would be used to represent the water element but not the fire element.

But really, all colors can be found in each element. Think about the earth. Flowers of all kinds of colors from bright pinks to deep purples grow from the earth and bloom. All colors can come to be associated with the earth element if we look at it this way.

In the end, I don't believe that color associations are really important. They act as a visual aid for the witch and nothing more. For me, your words and power you feed into the spell is what gives the spell its energy and "color".