Lesson One - Candle, Color, and Petition Magic
Lesson One - Candle, Color, and Petition Magic
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Reach your hands up, but when your arms reach their maximum extension, keep reaching with your
mind and spirit and everything you have. Reach up, up, up to the depths of space. Reach up, up, up
to the “edges” of the universe. And, when you have reached up as far as you can, vibrate “eeeeeeeee”
and yank down the energy you find there, bright, sparkling and scintillating like starlight. If you can’t
feel the energy, that’s ok. Just pretend that you can. Energy sensitivity grows with practice.
Continue pulling it down, down, down through the top of your head and down, down, down
through your chest and down into your genitals. It should “paint” your spine, through the center of
your body, leaving a trail of starlight. down through your legs and down, down, down into the center
of the earth, where you should fling the energy as hard as you can. Now, reach down, down, down as
far as you can (keep your back straight) and vibrate “oooooooooooh” as deep and rumbly as you can.
Grab some of the energy you find there, cool and calm and still as the deep dark sea. Pull it up, up, up
through the Earth, through your feet, up your legs, through your genitals, and up into your chest. It
should “paint” this energy through your lower body. Leave it in your core, where it mingles with the
starlight already there. Put your hands on your chest again, and push. Vibrate “ahhhhhhhhhhh”
there, and let the two mingle. Unless you already have a lot of experience with energy work (such as qi
gong, for example) this should feel like hard work. You should be tired. If it is easy, you’re doing it
wrong.
Next, repeat these steps up and down a few times, in different orders. Try all the combinations.
However, the last one you do should be IAO (top, middle, down). Plant yourself as firmly into the
ground as you can with that last one. All your weight on your heels, and none on your toes. Now,
reach out in the four directions: front and back, left and right. Just like you did with up and down,
push out and pull in, collecting yourself very firmly at the center. There are no fixed vocalizations for
the directions, but you might try other vowel sounds until you find something that feels right for you.
Open your eyes, and be confident in the knowledge that you stand at the omphalos, the sacred center
of the universe, and that from this position, your will makes things happen. To release, simply feel the
energy you have gathered sink in to your body and come to rest. You’re actually always in this state;
you just need to release your awareness of it.
DO NOT do this exercise more than twice in a row without taking a break to be “in the real world”
for at least half an hour. It is not healthy to try to live in this centered state. However, it is a good idea,
when you are new, to practice this exercise every day, if possible. Practice this exercise several times,
until you can do the whole thing in under 3 minutes, while still putting attention and effort into each
step, and keeping them all discrete. Eventually, you should be able to do it in 30 seconds or less, but
that takes practice. Try it sitting down, as well. Eventually, learn to do it without moving (so you can
do it stealthily in public). But, as I mentioned, that takes time.
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Red Magic
Red is the first color in the rainbow. Red smells like chillies and tastes like
strawberries. Red is the color of blood, and also of valentine’s day hearts. Red is
the color that the center of the earth is, where it’s so hot that rocks melt! It
sometimes feels hot and angry like a volcano. Other times, it’s exciting and fun like
riding a bike! Red magic is very strong; it works hard to keep people safe. That’s
why fire trucks and stop signs are red. Red magic fights for good and protects
people, like a superhero or a knight. When I do red magic, I imagine that I’m riding
on a giant red dragon! She is breathing fire.
Can you imagine that you’re a knight, riding on the back of a red dragon?
What is on the banner your knight-form holds?
What’s your dragon’s name?
What sound do they make when they breathe fire?
Can you feel the heat rising up from their back?
That’s what red magic feels like!
When you want to be strong, so that you can fight for good and protect people, use
fire breathing red magic!
Orange Magic
Orange comes next. Marigolds are a kind of flower that are orange. Did you know
that flowers are fancy costumes that plants wear so that bees will come visit
them? The bees carry messages from one plant to another, so flowers always want
a visit! Bumblebees have orange butts, and they know all the best stories. Orange
is a funny color, it’s the color of ideas and making new things! It feels warm like a
cozy blanket and it tastes like pumpkin pie. Puzzles and games are orange. Orange
is the color of construction cones. “Construction” means building new things.
Making new things that didn’t exist before is an orange sort of thing to do.
Orange magic is very fast, it goes buzzzzzoooooom like a flash! Orange magic
helps you think and move and learn. When I do orange magic, I like to pretend that
I am a fairy, dressed all in orange, riding on a bumblebee. I can fly fast, and I
know all the best stories.
Can you imagine riding on a bumblebee?
Does your bee have a name?
Their whole body buzzes while you ride them; can you can feel the orange magic
zzzzzzzz just below your belly button?
Try saying “Bumblebee Buzz Belly Button” as fast as you can!
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Four-leaf clovers are especially lucky. Clovers grow in big patches, with lots of
little plants all connected to each other. Together a patch of clover is very strong.
You can even walk on it, and it won’t get hurt at all! Each clover is connected to the
other ones, but they’re all different! Next time you see clovers, look hard until you
find a four leafed one that makes a square.
When I do green magic, I like to pretend that I’m a clover plant. I feel my leaves
all big and green, soaking up sunshine. I feel my roots that go down into the
ground, and connect to other clovers. I feel love in my heart for all my clover
friends. When you want to make new friends, or you want people to like you,
remember what it’s like to be a clover and feel green love in your heart. When you
want to be lucky, try being a four leaf clover!
Blue Magic
Blue is the next color. Blue is the color that the sky is. Blue feels very calm, and
very big and powerful, like the sky. Blue feels like soft wind, and it smells like rain.
My faery godmother says that Sofia, the Wisdom Goddess who has my name, wears
a blue cloak, because she’s a Queen of the Sky. When I do blue magic, I imagine
that I’m a Queen of the Sky, flying through the air like Superman. I am wearing a
big blue cape, and it flutters around in the wind. I hold my back very straight, and
my head up high. I streeeeeeetch my neck up, up, up.
What sound do you think the Queen of the Sky sings?
Hum along with her.
Can you feel it hum in your throat?
That’s blue magic!
Blue magic is good for helping you be nice to people, even when you’re angry. It’s
also good for helping you you be calm when you are worried or scared. Blue magic
can also help you go to sleep and have good dreams. Whenever you need blue magic,
remember what it was like to be a Queen of the Sky.
Indigo Magic
Indigo is the next color in the rainbow, which is a secret color that not everyone
knows the name of, even though they can see it. Indigo is dark blue, like the sky at
twilight, or the ocean, or a thunderstorm, or very dark blue jeans. Indigo feels like
waiting and it smells like fruit. Indigo is the color that time would be, if time were
a thing that had a color.
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When I do indigo magic, I imagine that I’m a wizard, in a long indigo robe, with a
pointy indigo hat. I have a staff, and there is an owl on my shoulder.
Can you imagine being a wizard?
What kind of bird is on your shoulder?
What’s their name?
Do you feel the hat, tight around your forehead, and going up to a point above your
head?
That’s what indigo magic feels like!
Indigo magic is a little bit of a secret, but I’ll teach you how to learn it. Just like
the color indigo, it’s all around you, even if not everyone knows about it. When
you’re in bed, almost asleep, imagine the dark blue indigo sky above you. Imagine
that you’re a space wizard, wearing a pointy hat, floating up into the sky. Practice
that when you’re falling asleep, and soon enough you’ll have a dream where you learn
indigo magic!
Violet Magic
The last color is violet. Violet is my favorite color, except for all the other colors,
which are also my favorites! Violet feels like wisdom, and it tastes like flowers.
Violet is the color of the dream world, where anything is possible. Violet is what
color imagination would be if imagination were a single color. Violet magic is what
lets you do all the other kinds. Violet magic will help you learn from fairies and
other friendly spirits.
When I do violet magic, I like to pretend that I am an angel, wearing a long violet
robe.
I am very very tall, and I have big shiny white wings, and there is violet-colored
light shining down onto the top of my head.
Can you imagine what it’s like to be a violet angel?
Can you feel the light on the top of your head?
Do you have a special angel name?
Sometimes, everyone makes mistakes or does bad things. I feel bad after I do
something bad, because I want to be good. Do you want to be good too? Use
violet magic to help you know what is the right thing to do, and to help you be good,
just remember what it felt like to be a violet angel, with light shining into your
head.
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After you have a good picture, put it on top of your head. Say all the color names
in order. Then, say this rhyme:
Roy G. Biv, Roy G. Biv:
Seven pointed rainbow star,
All the colors that there are,
Even the ones that are in between,
Even the ones that remain unseen,
All the colors of the light,
Come to me, shining bright!
Seven pointed rainbow star,
I’m the magic that you are!”
While you say the rhyme (you might need to say it more than once), imagine all
seven colors inside you at the same time. Feel them balancing out, so that you are
a glowing rainbow pillar, with red at the bottom and violet at the top.
Sofia is leaving us now, but we’ll learn more from her in later lessons. I encourage you to make
believe your child self and her are playing together, and ask her questions to learn from her more. If
you draw a picture of her, I would love to see it!
The table below summarizes Sofia’s teaching, and adds some other details, which we’ll discuss further
in later lessons, particularly lesson five, on planetary magic, which is closely related, but not identical
to, color magic.
RED ORANGE YELLOW GREEN BLUE INDIGO VIOLET
Body Part Genitals Womb Solar Plexus Heart Throat Forehead Crown of
Feet the Head
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a bad goal. It’s too vague; what does “rich” mean? Compared to people starving in the third world,
you’re probably already rich. It has no deadline; if you’re poor for the next 40 years, but win the
lottery and die of a heart attack at age 80, technically this spell still worked. “By New Years Day 2020,
have at least $10,000 in savings.” is a good goal. It’s clear. It has a deadline. It may or may not be
reasonable, depending on your personal circumstances. Perhaps you already have far more than that
(good for you!). Perhaps you are $100,000 in debt, and currently unemployed. In both cases, this
would be a bad goal, because it isn’t a reasonable extension of the current circumstances.
As a general rule of thumb, beginner magical goals should be things that, when they come true, will
seem surprising enough that people ask how you did it, but not so improbable that people cannot
possibly believe it. Magic can work miracles. Your first spell, which will take about 20 minutes to
perform, won't be built to do that. As we move through the course, you’ll learn to do bigger and more
complicated magic that is more appropriate for addressing big, complicated situations. For now, think
about things in your life that could use a little nudge. In everything that follows, I’ll be using the
example of a spell to help a friend named Matt get a job for which he already has an interview
scheduled. This same method can be applied to much more complex situations, but for now, try to
keep to something simple.
There are, in broad terms, four stages of spellcraft:
1) Understand the current situation, and in what ways you want it to change.
2) Make a “recipe” to fit the situation.
3) Cast the magic.
4) Analyse results, and improve your recipe for next time.
The most important stage of spellcraft, and the step where most people go wrong, is not in the
execution of the spell, but rather the first one. People dive into magic without actually figuring out
what the magic is supposed to do. So, let’s talk a little bit about step one: Understand the current
situation.
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In fact, as we’ll discuss later in this lesson, it’s sometimes better to work with multiple colors at once, or to do multiple
spells of different colors. However, for our first spell, we’ll just pick one.
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but they don’t really make a big difference. Before beginning the spell, write a petition
describing what you want. Make it beautiful, both in the language and in the craftsmanship.
If you feel called to do so, decorate it. Address it to “Beneficent spirits of the color ______”
○ In the example, the petition says:
“Beneficent spirits of the color orange, you are beautiful as the glow of sunset, and as
refreshing as a creamsicle. You are the power of the tiger and the heat of the flame.
Awaken within me, and spill your warmth upon me, and upon Matt’s quest to get a
job. Make his tongue clever and his mind quick. Let him be well favored by all who
hear him speak. Let him be hired! Let him succeed! Let him become the teacher he
wants to be!”
● A glass of water A special pretty cup you only use for magic is nice to have, but any container
is fine.
● Olive or other oil For extra potency, scent the oil in a way that resonates with the color you’re
working with. For example, I added some pumpkin pie spice to mine. In the next lesson
“Sympathetic Magic and Magical Materia”, we’ll talk more about choosing appropriate scents.
What to Do:
● Arrange your space so that the candle is the main point of focus, with the water and oil
flanking it. Enter magic time, space, and consciousness like you've practiced in Exercise One,
or by any other method you know.
● Perform Sofia’s Rainbow Star or any other conjuration of the seven rays.
● Imagine the conjuring Sofia taught you for the color until you feel the color glowing inside of
you. In the case of our example, that imagining yourself as a fairy or other spirit clad all in
orange riding on a bumble bee. Feel the orange glow growing inside you, just below your belly
button. Maintain the imagining throughout what follows.
● Imagine the colored glow spreading throughout your body, and pouring out of your hands.
● Anoint the candle with the oil, beginning in the middle of the candle, and working your way
out to both ends. While you do this, speak to the candle, telling it what you want. Read your
petition out loud. Feel the color flowing out of your hands and into the candle. This process
is called “dressing” a candle. You’ll learn some ways to “level up” the practice below, but this is
the basic method.
● When you have poured as much of the color into the candle as you can, and you are feeling too
tired to continue, thank the candle, and put it back between the water and the oil. Make a
seven pointed star over it to seal in the energy you have dressed it with.
● Exit magical space, time, and consciousness. Stand up and move around. Take a break,
however long you like. Drink some water. Eat some food. Take a nap.
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● There’s no need to do the two phases of conjuration on the same day. The candle will retain
its charge for several weeks, at least. Whenever you’re ready, begin phase two.
● Enter into magical space, time, and consciousness.
● Perform the Rainbow Star (or any other invocation of the Seven Rays).
● Light the candle.
● Assume the make believe imagining of the relevant color.
● Read your petition out loud several times, in your very best magician voice. You may find
yourself slipping into song, or glossolalia. Those are excellent signs. You’re doing it right!
● Place the still-lit candle on top of the petition. In a candle holder is fine.
● As the candle burns, allow the power in it to permeate into the petition, and from there into
the situation you are enchanting. Imagine the situation being bathed in color light, and
everything working out the way you want it to. In our example, I imagine Matt succeeding in
the interview, being offered the job, and finally being happy and successful doing the job. If
you are using a long-acting candle, exit magical time, space, and consciousness whenever you
are ready to do so. Each time you pass the candle, greet it, and thank it for working on your
behalf. If you are using a short-action candle, maintain your trance and make believe until the
candle is out.
● Once the spell is done, don’t obsess about it. It’s ok to keep thinking about the situation. In
fact, you may want to separately enchant on many fronts. However, there’s no need to analyze
the spellcasting until the deadline for effects is up. Doing so too much can interfere with the
spell by continually dragging its motive force back to you, and away from the situation.
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enchant. Symbolic links are not quite as effective as material links, but they’re much easier to come
by. In the age of the internet, if you can’t find symbolic links to a person or situation, you’re probably
not trying hard enough.
Another way to add some oomph to your magic is to include magical materials, like plants, metals,
incenses, and such. We’ll learn a lot more about magical materia in the next lesson (Sympathetic
Magic and Magical Materia), but materia related to the colors are particularly easy. You don’t have to
be a learned witch to make some guesses about what kind of materials are, for example, yellow: saffron,
turmeric, honey, marigolds, sunflowers, brass, gold, yellow stones, frankincense, and etc. Make your
own list, or refer to the table of the colors on pages 9 & 10.
Casting from a place of power can make a significant difference in your spells. There are, broadly
speaking, three kinds of places of power: those related to your situation, those which resonate with the
color of magic you are casting, and those places which simply hum with power, such as temples, dance
clubs, and places of great natural beauty. In our example, good choices would be the location of the
job, as well as anywhere on campus because they are directly related to the situation. Crossroads
(associated with travel), markets, and libraries, all of which resonate with the purposes of orange magic,
would also be good choices. Other places are simply good for all kinds of magic. Some are obvious
from the geography or history of the location: mountaintops, river confluences, and cemeteries, for
example. You’ll need to experiment and talk to local witch elders and other experienced magicians to
find others. Here in Pittsburgh, some examples are the Point, the Grandview overlooks, the labyrinth
at the Waterfront, the Spring Hill spring, Carrie Furnace, the Allegheny Cemetery cave, Bandi Shaum
plateau, and many others.
Witching at an opportune moment is another way to add power to spellcasting. There are two kinds
of magical timing. The first is choosing times especially appropriate to your specific situation. For
example, in the example of helping Matt get a job, it would be especially powerful to cast the spell
during the interview. This is one reason why it’s advisable to enchant the candles in advance, and to
use long-acting candles, since sometimes these “magic moments” are very short, or inconvenient. The
other type of timing is astrological: choosing a time based on the positions of celestial bodies in the sky.
Astrological timing is complicated, but we’ll discuss it further in lesson five, on planetary magic. For
now, here are some simple things to try. Cast spells designed to increase something when the moon is
waxing (growing), and those designed to decrease something when the moon in wanging (getting
smaller). Cast on the appropriate day of the week (see the table). Cast spells that target external
actions and situations during the day, and those related to internal emotions and thoughts by night.
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Combining Colors
Just like when we learned the individual colors, we reminded ourselves that, far from there being only
seven colors, when we call ALL the colors, we mean “Even the ones that are in between, Even the ones
that remain unseen,” that is also true about combining colors. Here, I am talking about using both
colors at once, but keeping them separate. I am NOT talking about “mixing” colors, which I generally
do not recommend to beginners. I obviously can’t talk about every possible combination. However,
here are some basic ones to get you started:
Red & Blue magics, when worked together, are excellent for protection, politics, and work to support
the status quo. Think of Superman. In general, by combining two out of three of a triad of colors,
you get a very material manifestation of the third. So, in this case Red & Blue together call a material
manifestation of yellow/sunny energy.
Red & Green magics, when worked together, is an excellent combination for fertility, vitality, familial
love, and luxurious growth. Think of Christmas, or apple trees, or a Red Devil of the Forest. This is
typical of complementary colors, that what is produced is almost explosively growing.
Purple & Yellow magics, when worked together, are excellent for insight, clarity, and psychism.
Imagine the sun king wearing an imperial purple robe, or the lavender moon glowing gold through
clouds.
Green & Purple magics, when worked together, are great for sex, intoxication, artistic inspiration,
criminality, and trickery. Think about grapes on the vine, or comic book supervillans.
Red & Yellow magics, when worked together, are powerful and firey. They are excellent for burning
away things you don’t want.
Blue & Yellow-Orange magics, when worked together, are good for projecting confidence, and
acquiring status, as well as for business, leadership, and authority.
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