Using the 2020 Color of the Year in Magic
If you’re out of the loop or not as obsessed with Pantone’s carefully color-blocked Instagram page as I am, you might not know that each year the Pantone Color Institute announces a single color that represents the Pantone for the year.
2020 is heralded in by the dusky and relaxing Classic Blue. Pantone is looking toward fashion, entertainment, and design for uses for this color, but it is also useful in witchcraft. This is especially true for those of us that rely on color correspondences in our spell work and rituals.
“Instilling calm, confidence, and connection, this enduring blue hue highlights our desire for a dependable and stable foundation on which to build as we cross the threshold into a new era.”
In witchcraft, the color blue is associated, of course, with water and therefore with cleansing and movement. Blue is also a color for relaxation, for truth, for focus, forgiveness, fortune, and patience. Classic Blue continues this tradition by representing confidence, growth, and communication as well.
Everyday Witchcraft with Classic Blue
🌙 Look at the night sky that inspired the creation of this color.
🌙 Add something blue to your altar for the year (imbued with your intentions for 2020).
🌙 Light a blue candle to relax and refocus.
🌙 Incorporate this dreamy blue into your wardrobe with accessories, clothes, shoes, and whatever else makes you happy and feel very you.
🌙 Create a page in your grimoire to write down 20 “classic” things that inspire you or play a role in your craft and why they’re important to you.
Recipes and Rituals with Classic Blue
🌙 Incorporate blue ingredients into your recipes. Pair things that bring both the qualities of the color as well as the correspondences you wants from various foods into your recipes for your desired magical outcome. (Blueberries are, of course, a fantastic choice for this.)
🌙 Start your day off or prepare for spellwork by drinking a cup of blue tea such as butterfly pea flower tea which has similar uses to green tea.
🌙 Do a cleansing ritual by lighting a blue candle carved with a symbol that represents what you want to cleanse or writing down items you want to release on a slip of paper and using the candle to light the paper to burn in a heat-safe bowl. While the candle burns, meditate over the flames, releasing the things you want to cleanse and focusing on what you want to put energy into instead.
🌙 Collect blue items or stones such as lapis lazuli and use string or wire to create a wall hanging or mobile to hang over an area where you want to encourage clean, patient energy or focus.
🌙 Use a blue piece of fabric to create a new altar cloth that you can decorate with symbols, sigils, embroidery, and whatever else you creative witch heart desires.
"It's a color that anticipates what's going to happen next," Laurie Pressman, the vice president of the Pantone Color Institute, told CNN. Classic Blue is the perfect tool to bring into your practice to keep yourself looking forward. Bringing it into your world and keeping it close is sure to be useful in 2020.
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