BLACK

Planet: Saturn

Chakra : Base

Black is one of the most powerful colors.

Use black for binding, reversing spells, repelling negativity. Black can be used for concealing, transformation, causing confusion, giving onesel endurance and patience. Black can be used in the stead of all other colors.

THE COLOR BLACK AROUND THE WORLD

Africa; Age and wisdom

Australian Aborigines; ceremonial color commonly used in their artworks

Western cultures; power, control, intimidation, funerals, death, mourning, rebellion

Eastern; wealth, health and prosperity

China; color for young boys

India; evil, negativity, darkness

lack of appeal

anger and apathy

used to ward off evil

Japan; color of mystery and the night may be associated with feminine energy – either evil and a threat or provocative and alluring

Magical Uses for black;

Knowledge of hidden things, divination, self control, beginning, creation and rebirth, absorbing energies, patience, binding, stability, neutralizing forces, protection, death, manifestation, understanding your limits, overcoming obsticals, challenges, tests, sacrifice, separation, justice, wills, debts, discoveries, elders and truth. Burning black candles with any other color dissolves negative energies. Protection, banishing, binding, and repelling. Also used for healing serious illnesses.

Use in combination with white to represent balance, opposites or union of opposing forces.

The base chakra controls our grounding to the earth and is associated with survival instincts and self-preservation. It relates also to the physical body, individuality, stability and security.

Base Chakra stones and crystals are mostly red and black and include, Anyolite, Black Kyanite, Black Onyx, Black Sapphire, Black Star, Black Tourmaline, Bloodstone, Brecciated Jasper, Dalmation Jasper, Jet, Fire Agate, Hematite, Larvikite, Magnetite, Mookaite, Obsidian, Rutilated Quartz, Tanzanite.

The color black relates to the hidden, the secretive and the unknown, and as a result it creates an air of mystery. It keeps things bottled up inside, hidden from the world.

In color psychology this color gives protection from external emotional stress.

It creates a barrier between itself and the outside world, providing comfort while protecting its emotions and feelings, and hiding its vulnerabilities, insecurities and lack of self confidence.

Black is the absorption of all color and the absence of light.

Black hides, while white brings to light.

What black covers, white uncovers.

We all use black at various times to hide from the world around us in one way or another. Some of us use it to hide our weight; others among us use it to hide our feelings, our fears or our insecurities.

In color psychology, black means power and control, hanging on to information and things rather than giving out to others.

Black is intimidating, unfriendly and unapproachable because of the power it exudes.

It can prevent two-way communication because of its intimidation. The salesman wearing all black will make a lot of sales, but no friends! It radiates authority, but creates fear in the process.

Black implies self-control and discipline, independence and a strong will, and giving an impression of authority and power.

Black absorbs negative energy. It is useful to carry something black with you to protect you from harm and negativity when traveling or when going about your usual daily activities outside your home.

People who like black may be conventional, conservative and serious, or they may think of themselves as being sophisticated or very dignified.

The color black is often seen as a color of sophistication, as in ‘the little black dress’, or ‘the black tie event’.

Affluent and success orientated women often choose black as it can give an impression of elegance, sophistication and confidence.

Black is often associated with sexiness and seduction, as in the temptress in sexy black lingerie creating an air of mystery and intrigue. It can also imply submission to another (including a sexual partner), similar to the priest wearing black robes in submission to God.

Black is the end, but the end always implies a new beginning. When the light appears, black becomes white, the color of new beginnings.

Teenagers often have a psychological need to wear black during the stage of transition from the innocence of childhood to the sophistication of adulthood. It signifies the ending of one part of their life and the beginning of another, allowing them to hide from the world while they discover their own unique identity. It is important they go through this stage but a worry when it continues on into adult years if they continue to wear black to the exclusion of other colors.

Too much black can cause depression and mood swings and create a negative environment. Combined with white only, it can create an argumentative atmosphere.

It is best to use some color with black to lighten and brighten its energy.

If your favorite color is black, it will reflect in your personality! Personality color black will give you more information on this.

Positive and Negative Traits of the Color Black

Positive keywords include protection and comfort, strong, contained, formal, sophisticated, seductive, mysterious, endings & beginnings.

Negative keywords include aloof, depressing and pessimistic, secretive and withholding, conservative and serious, power & control, sadness and negativity.

The Color Black Represents

Mystery: Black is the unknown. It is secretive, keeping a lot buried inside, unwilling to show its real feelings.

Power and Control: Black is power and control of the self and others. It creates fear and intimidation.

Effects of the Color Black

Formal, dignified and sophisticated: As in the little black dress and the formal dinner suit.

Aloof: Black sets itself aside from others with its heavy and intense energy. It keeps others at arm’s length.

Depressing: Black can close us to the positive aspects of life, forcing us to look at our disappointments and the black or negative aspects of our life. It can create a fear of the future.

Pessimistic: Too much black encourages us to look at the negative side of life.

Personality Color. -. Black

Personality Color Black

While you may not exhibit all the character traits of a personality color black as listed here, if this is your favorite color you will find yourself somewhere in the description. You may also find you exhibit some of the negative traits, particularly when you are stressed.

If Your Favorite Color is Black

Prestige and power are important to you.

You are independent, strong-willed and determined and like to be in control of yourself and situations.

As a lover of black you may be conservative and conventional – black is restricting and contained.

With black as your personality color, you may be too serious for your own good – bring some colour into your life to lighten you up – life should be fun.

You may appear intimidating to even your closest colleagues and friends, with an authoritarian, demanding and dictatorial attitude.

As a personality color black, you are non-emotional and give the appearance of a dignified and sophisticated person who is in total control – this is often a front as you may feel quite insecure in the company of sophisticated and cultured VIP’s and upper class people.

You like to keep people at a distance, guarding your emotions and creating an impenetrable barrier between yourself and others.

With a personality color black, you may be looking for protection from any negativity that surrounds you.

You may wish to create an aura of mystery and intrigue, as in the sexy black negligee.

You may be going through a stage of self-denial, not allowing pleasure and joy into your life.

You hold things inside and are not good at sharing yourself with others, possibly out of fear.

You are methodical in your work, making sure everything is completed as required, down to the last detail.

It may be a color of comfort to you, allowing you to retreat and hide from the real world.

You may be a teenager or young adult hiding behind black while searching for your own identity or your own true colors.

You may be rebelling against society or your family.

You may have lost sight of your direction in life and are going through a very negative phase.

You may be suppressing your own desires and aspirations.

You may be retreating behind black during a difficult time in your life such as a serious illness or a period of grief – black protects, allowing for a deep inner healing without interference from others.

If you dislike black:

You are a light-hearted and easy going person – not so serious, conservative and formal.

You may feel that it is a depressing color, especially if you have a happy, extroverted and optimistic outlook on life.

You are not into power and control – you have a gentle disposition and black is too intimidating for you.

You are practical and down-to-earth and don’t wish to be seen as overly sophisticated.

You may have a fear of the dark from your childhood that you can’t shift.

You may have been dominated and intimidated during your early years and black brings back those feelings.

The Chaos of the divine feminine

“The reason that they felt ill at ease was that by eating and drinking they laid themselves open to Az-concupiscence: their bodies were no longer self-sufficient but depended on nourishment from outside, and this in turn ultimately led to their own wastage and death when they themselves are devoured by Az, for Az is not only the demon of gluttony and lust, she is also the demon of death who is never sated; she is the demon ‘who swallows all things.” – : The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism, R.C. Zaehner, New York, 1961

Az, which is a female demon related directly to Ahriman, is considered a harlot and Goddess of Death and Blood. In this aspect Az is related or a blue-print for, Lilith, Hecate and Babalon. She is the Vampyre Queen, the immortal witch whom creates the alchemical elixir of endless existence, the very core essence of the Luciferian and Vampyre. Az may also be related to KALI, the Goddess who devours and brings life. The Vampyre in this aspect is one who feeds of the blood – lifeforce or the nectar of the mind, the imagination, thus revealing the Vampyre as a solitary being who holds no need in the actual draining of blood. The blood itself is symbolic, as an invocation to the Dark Well of the Fallen Angels, the subconscious or imagination (Iblis, Shaitan).

Az is connected with the word, Azhi, meaning a serpent. The Chaos of the divine feminine or lunar essence is explored through a Godform relation to this Goddess, thus the magician invokes AZ to understand the feminine within. It is the Serpent and Dragon which are the immortal avatars of the well of the imagination, the blood pool of immortality and the endless existence of the psyche.

Death and the grave exists a challenge and significance within the Shadow Sabbatic Path, being of two primary points. One is that death and darkness is a challenging image and concept which the magician must overcome mentally to invoke a higher point of self-initiation, to understand opposites and their dual meaning. The second is that death is a gateway of self-transformation and thus the relation of the vampyre and the grave is this; that the developed and isolated psyche strives for survival beyond the grave, that the mind may prove immortal to exist thus as the fallen angels or watchers.

The Dragon of Darkness is our freedom within the Nightside world of Atavisms and the Lesser and Greater Famulus of the self, that the Sabbatic Path awakens our potential as Gods and Goddesses. Reach forth into the shadow, for it is there that Lucifer and Iblis emerge, and through the Nightside may the gates of immortality open. Ford

The Blood of Wolves

In the ancient witchcraft religion (Yatuk), Persian Sorcerers used blood of wolves (who are sacred to Ahriman) to call upon darkness. Ahriman was probably in this sense, one of the first Vampyre forms of ancient history. While similar to other fallen angels such as Azazel/Iblis or Lucifer, there is a strong separation of Ahriman from such fire djinn. The reason for this is that Ahriman is of death and shade, a black flame of essence hidden by the cloak of darkness. Iblis/Azazel/Lucifer is an Angel of Light, self-liberation and illumination of knowledge (Gnosis). In this however, do not dismiss the forces of darkness, they are essential to ones own individual initiation and growth. It is in the darkness that the roots give the nourishment for the tree to reach for the Sun.

Ahriman is thus a form of the Vampyre, the shadow which grows in the darkness and solitude of psychic seclusion, isolation and loneliness. Many forms may be taken by Ahriman, from Toad to Dragon, Shadow and Wolf. Ahriman is the model for our Nightside Primal Conscious, the kingdom of the demonium or infernal realm. This is not a moralistic Evil designed to perform harmful deeds against others, but rather a model of self-initiation from which the essence is awakened or discovered through the opposite. The offuscation of the self or Lunar Eclipse is the night – calling of both Ahriman and Az, from which through the Vampyric transformation of self can one reach the consort of Ahriman, known as AZ.

The workings of Saturn

The workings of Saturn are focused within darkness, and the possibility therein. The self-alchemical process of moving through the sphere of Saturn is relative to darkness in that the initiate moves through the chthonic realms of the Earth (Satanas or Mephistopheles), or the Demonium of the Earth, from which one then rises through the higher octaves of Saturn (Lucifer). Within a Sabbatic sense, the Arcanum of Lucifer is presented in the dual essence of self-liberation, isolation and transformation. Just as Lucifer/Azazel fell from the sphere of light to the darkness of the earth, shall a new knowledge be gained in the exploration of the chthonic realms of the psyche. From tasting and knowing the darkness shall the light be controlled and mastered unto the self.

One of the specific focuses of the Sabbatic Path is one rising to acknowledge that the only God is the self, from which all other God and Goddess find their existence in, it is from the well spring of the abyss (the subconscious) that we nourish our Great Famulus and Demonium of the Depths. The individual will then soon realize that there is no God and there is no Devil, yet we as the image of the Adversary, are both God and the Master of the Devil, the gifts of the fallen angels themselves. Ford

The Saturnian Mysteries

The Saturnian Mysteries is only one avenue of magical exploration which may be explored within a Sabbatic context, not to, by any means, destroy an ongoing tradition but rather develop it. Through such excellent magical focuses, from the Fraturnitias Saturni to the work of Stephen Edred Flowers, which at face point is unrelated, the Sabbatic Gnosis itself is closely related by means of effective initiatory material. The Luciferian Path itself is reflective of this gnosis, known by the essence of exploration and self-discovery through the Saturnian Sphere.

The work of Saturn itself is one connected with the Left Hand Path. As the Saturn Sphere is connected with Demiurge Saturnus, or Satanas, the self is the avenue of which this planetary influence is found. Saturn, as being held in two Octaves or “rays”, is itself a means of psychic isolation from which the psyche is refined to a deified level.

From the graves of Corpse-sleep

“Oh moon nourished haunters of dreams, who have tasted the souls’ blood of life, From the graves of Corpse-sleep from which ye emerge, from the pools of blood beneath the fountains of red sea, that emerge from the dreaming sleep of Azrail, Move now through the manes of the dead, they seek the commune of those in the warm flesh of the living. My shadow, as I build, calls forth the famulus whose spirit is the Djinn of the Noon tide sun, the fire of spirit later withdrawn in midnight honor. Moon hungering shade of the tomb, I summon thee! From beneath the city of Chorazin have your rested, yet though I go forth to the city of shadows, I embrace the darkness within and beyond!”

Luciferian path

As the darkest night is coming and recently with some of my friends came around to talk about darker side of magick, I though may be good idea to talk about branches of witchcraft like Luciferian path. I know, that most followers of craft avoids talks about this kind of magick. But in my own opinion- there is both, dark and light in this world and in each of us. I don’t press any judgement on what path people may choose. And I think it is most important to know what you about to embrace. So, lets open the veil and talk a bit about this.

BLACK MAGICK

Sometimes you’ll hear people in the Pagan community – and outside of it – use the term “black magic.” Others will tell you that magic has no colour at all. So what does “black magic” really mean?

Traditionally, black magic is how people often describe magic that is done in what’s perceived as a negative manner. This can include, but is not limited to:

Magical workings that impact the free will of others

Magic performed to bring about destruction or harm, such as cursing or hexing

Magic invoking the spirit realm for a negative purpose

Magical workings that are baneful; i.e., that restrict or eliminate the actions of other people

In some traditions, workings done with negative intent are referred to as “dark magic.” However, bear in mind that not all Pagan traditions divide magic into such simplistic categories as “black” or “white.” Also, most magic does have some impact on the free will of others, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Doing magic is about changing things. Unless you’re only working magic on yourself – and that’s okay, if that’s what you choose to do – there’s no way to perform magic without influencing something or someone, somehow, somewhere.

When it comes to spirit work, sure, there’s always a possibility that someone’s going to conjure up something they didn’t mean to.

But the fact is, if you’re going to put the energy into working with spirits, then failing to put an equal about of energy into protective measures is foolish, to say nothing of lazy.

It’s important to recognise that one person’s “negative intent” is another person’s “getting things done.” There seems to be a trend in the Pagan community, particularly among Neowiccan groups, to frown upon anyone who doesn’t follow a white-light-and-rainbows magical tradition. Sometimes you may also hear the phrase “left hand path” thrown out – and you’ll often find that people who self-identify with Left Hand Path traditions don’t especially care what other people think of them.

In other words, the person warning you off may have been doing so simply because this group has a set of standards that doesn’t meet his or her approval.

More often than not, you’ll hear the term “black magic” used by non-Pagans to describe any sort of magical working at all. For more discussion on black magic, please be sure to read about Magical Ethics.

The bottom line is that if you already feel like you’re comfortable with this group, and you like what you’ve seen of them so far, there’s no reason you can’t continue discussions.

If, at any point, you feel like they’re going in a direction you don’t like, you can always change your mind – but it sounds as though you’re thinking practically, and that means this group may well be a very good fit for you.