Candles have been used in magickal workings since ancient times.  Just like a wand or an athame, candles are tools.  Any type of candle can be used for your work.  The important attributes of candles are their color.  Herbs and/or herbal oils can also be used to strengthen a candle's magick.  White: A balance of all colors; spiritual enlightment, cleansing, clairvoyance, healing, truth seeking; rituals involving lunar energy; may be substituded for any other color candle.

Yellow: Activity, creativity, unity; brings the power of concentration and imagination to the success of a ritual; use in rituals where you wish to gain another's confidence or persuade someone or in rituals that require solar energy. Gold: Fosters understanding and attracts the power of cosmic influences; beneficial in rituals intended to bring about fast luck or money, or in rituals needing solar energy. Pink: Promotes romance, friendship; standard color for rituals to draw affections; a color of femininity, honor, service; brings friendly, lively conversation to the dinner table. Orange: Charges and recharges the intellect; combine with any other candles to stimulate their action; for rituals stipulating Mercury energy, and sometimes solar energy. Red: Health, passion, love, fertility, strength, courage, will power; increases magnetism in rituals; draws Aries and Scorpio energy. Silver: Removes negativity and encourages stability; helps develop psychic abilities; attracts the influence of the Mother Goddess. Purple: Power, success, idealism, psychic manifestations; ideal for rituals to secure ambitions, independence, financial rewards, or to make contact with the spiritual other world; increases Neptune energy. Magenta: Combination of red and violet that oscillates on a hight frequency; energizes rituals where immediate action and high levels of power or spiritual healing are required. Brown: Earthly, balanced color; for rituals of material increase; eliminates indecisiveness; improves powers of concentration, study, telepathy; increases financial success; locates objects that have been lost.

Indigo: Color of inertia; stops situations or people; use in rituals that require a deep meditational state; or in rituals that demand Saturn energy. Royal Blue: Promotes laughter and joviality; color of loyalty; use to attract Jupiter energy, or whenever an influence needs to be increased. Light Blue: Spiritual color; helpful in devotional or inspirational meditations; brings peace and tranquility to the home; radiates Aquarius energy; employ where a situation must be synthesized. Blue: Primary spiritual color; for rituals to obtain wisdom, harmony, inner light, or peace; confers truth and guidance. Emerald Green: Important component in Venusian rituals; attracts love, social delights and fertility. Dark Green: Color of ambition, greed and jealousy; counteracts these influences in a ritual. Green: Promotes prosperity, gertility, success; stimulates rituals for good luck, money, harmony, and rejuvenation. Grey: Neutral color useful when pondering complex issues during meditation; in magic, this color often sparks confusion; it also negatates or nuetralizes a negative influence.

Black: Opens up the deeper levels of the unconcious; use in rituals to induce a deep meditational state, or to banish evil or negativity as in uncrossing rituals; attracts Saturn energy.  A new candle must be used for each new spell.  The candle must not be cracked, broken or damaged in any way.  Make sure you have time when you plan to do your candle magick, because the candle must be allowed to burn out on it's own and you should never leave a candle burning unattended!  Using herbs or herbal oils with your candles can increase your candle's power.  For increasing magick, before the candle is lit, rub candle with appropriate herb(s) or herbal oil(s) from the bottom to the top of the candle.  For decreasing magick, before the candle is lit, rub candle with the appropriate  herbs or herbal oils from the top to the bottom.  Before you light your candle, clear your mind of all thoughts except for the intended need.  Let the match burn out in a fire proof container such as an ashtray, don't blow it out.  Once the candle is lit, imagine your need manifesting as the flame burns.  Pour your energy into the flame and concentrate on the task at hand.  A single pinch of herbs (any more than that is a waste and a fire hazard) can be sprinkled into and around the flame in addition to or instead of any herbal rubbings.  Be sure the herbs you use have the correct properties for the needed spell.  Do the research if you want to use herbs.  Don't use an herb if you don't know what it does, you'll only defeat the purpose of your intentions.