The Spellcaster's Source Hoodoo and Voodoo Witchcraft Blog of Talia Felix

  Modern discussions of color magic often devolve quickly into some scientific mumbo jumbo about "light frequencies." Study of color from such perspective did not exist meaningfully until the late 18th century. Yet color correspondences for magical workings are far older... but also unsteady. We've talked previously about hoodoo style color magic on this blog and in my book The Conjure Cookbook,  but for this post we are concerned solely with the planetary magic correspondences in historical sources. Agrippa's  De Occulta Philosophia  (16th century) holds: Now the colours of the Planets are these: of Saturn, blew and leaden, and shining with this: of Jupiter citrine neer to a paleness, and clear with this; of Mars, red, and fiery; of the Sun, yellow, and when it riseth red, afterward glittering: of Venus, white and shining; white with the morning, and reddish in the evening: of Mercury, glittering; of the Moon, fair. The 17th century Clavicula Salomonis lists: Of ...