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Taurus Vigil Candle Questions and Answers

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 9:51 pm
by country_girl
I'm want to add my helper light to my altar. I'm confused on the color. The Master Book of Candle Burning by Henri Gamache, says that Taurus is red. But the LM dressed candle is brown. Can I use either, or both? Is LM the best way to follow all true colors for the Astrological themed candles?

Re: Zodiac color

Posted: Fri Mar 01, 2013 10:26 pm
by catherineyronwode
There is no one system of colour symbolism for candles. Red for Taurus is not what i was taught. I was taught a chromatic colour-wheel appraoch -- Red for Aries, Red-Orange for Taurus, orange for Genimini.

However, this is complicated because very few candle companies make more than 10 colours of wax. Subtracting Black and White, that leaves 8 colours -- and there are 12 signs of the Zodiac.

If you don't use the colour-wheel method of assigning colours, you can use the planetary method. Taurus is ruled by Venus -- but even in Classical colour cymbolism, venus has TWO colour ranges -- pink coral to red coral and green. Some assign the coral colours to Taurus and some assign green. But coral red and coral pink are not literally red or pink, of course.

Brown goes to Taurus out of a THIRD colour-cymbol system -- Taurus is an Earth sign ruled by Venus, so it is reddish-orangish earth, that is, clay-brown.

If you look at our candle and oil labels, you will see that we blend most of those colours into our Taurus product labels: Green, brown, coral-pink, red-orange. coral-red.

CAN-GLZ-02TA
Taurus Glass-Encased Candle, Fixed
$9.00

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OIL-ZOD-02TA
Taurus Oil
$7.50

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Now look at Libra:

This is the other Zodiac sign ruled by Venus.

Using the chromatic colour wheel system, its colour is green, but, again, we must not forget that Venus, in Classic colour symbology, is coral-pink, and that brown also enters in. So look at our Libra candle and oil labels to see how we dealt with that:

CAN-GLZ-07LI
Libra Glass-Encased Candle, Fixed
$9.00

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OIL-ZOD-07LI
Libra Oil
$7.50

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Re: Zodiac Sign Candles Questions and Answers

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 10:51 am
by country_girl
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Re: Taurus Sign Candles Questions and Answers

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2013 6:46 am
by Witchyone
I had the same question about Zodiac / Astral Candle Colors. Good to see that its been addressed here.

I think that I'll just stick with the candle colors listed here on lucky mojo's site, and if I don't have the proper candle colors used in LM vigil glass lights but I have colors stated by Gamache, I'll use those as secondary. I figure it would be better to use LM's because I can always depend on getting the best out of my work when I work by following LM in its foot tracks.

ARIES Vigil Candle (fixed)

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 7:26 pm
by Miss Aida
Ask us about the Aries glass vigil candle (fixed) here.

Re: Taurus Vigil Candles Questions and Answers

Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 7:27 pm
by Miss Aida
Taurus vigil lights are used to represent people of the Zodiacal sign Taurus in rootwork and occult spells.