Color Purple in Witchcraft: Symbolism, Dreams, Associations & More

The color purple is royal and elegant, mysterious and powerful. It represents royalty, mysticism and the supernatural. Purple is a bold, active color.

Purple color spiritual symbolism

The spiritual symbolism of purple can vary depending on the context and cultural traditions. Here are a few possible interpretations of the spiritual symbolism of purple:

1. Spiritual awakening and higher states of consciousness: Purple is often associated with spiritual awakening and higher states of consciousness. It is a color that helps to facilitate spiritual growth and the attainment of higher states of awareness.
2. Creativity and self-expression: Purple is often associated with creativity and self-expression. It t helps to inspire and facilitate the creation of new ideas and the expression of oneself.
3. Royalty and nobility: Purple is often associated with royalty and nobility. It is seen as a color that represents power, status, and self-importance.
4. Emotions and intuition: Purple is often associated with emotions and intuition. It helps to facilitate emotional balance and the ability to trust and follow one’s gut instincts.
5. Healing and transformation: Purple is often associated with healing and transformation. It helps to encourage change and bring about positive growth and evolution.

Correspondences for the Color Purple

• Element: Air
• Planets: Jupiter
• Direction: East
• Chakra: crown
• Number: 7
• Tools: wand, cauldron
• Stones: amethyst
• Tarot: chariot, fours
• Healing: Mental issues, severe illnesses, addictions

Using the Color Purple in Witchcraft

You can utilize the color purple in a magic spell by using purple candles, a purple altar cloth, purple decorations, flowers or stones. Purple cloth bags can be used to house amulets, and purple stones can be charged with amulets. Wearing purple clothing can be worn to bring the color purple into your life. Purple curtains, rugs, paint and other home decor can bring its energies into your home.

From flowery faerie cakes to enchanted moonwater, here are ten creative ways to bring the mystery of purple into your Craft.

Wear purple during a spiritual fast. 

Purple encourages spiritual resolve.  Wearing purple during a fast or other personal deprivation strengthens the will and reminds us to draw energy from the limitless source of our higher power.

Use (edible!) purple flowers in faerie cakes. 

Purple connotes the world of the unseen.  Include purple flowers in late spring and early summer offering cakes for the woodland spirits.

Don’t forget about the “scent of purple.” 

Essential oils made from purple flowers like violet and lavender emit the “scent of purple.”  Burn these oils, anoint candles with them or include them in sachets for deep meditation, psychic awareness spells and dream work.

Burn lavender-colored candles in spells for grace, beauty & wit. 

On the fairer end of the spectrum, pale shades of lavender make lovely additions to call forth the “delicate” side of femininity.

Use a purple altar cloth under your divination tools. 

This colors association with psychic awareness makes it an ideal shade for casting runes, scrying or reading tarot cards.

Store dream oils in purple bottles. 

For those of you who love dream work, consider storing your dream oils, pillow sprays or loose dream incenses in purple bottles to steep them in its whimsical energy.

Paint the walls of your sacred space purple. 

If you lucked into an entire room for your sacred space, consider the bold color choice of purple for the walls to seal it in spiritual energy.  Not feeling quite that brave?  Paint a small canvas with your birth sign in purple and then use it as an altar piece.

Draw out your inner queen. 

Evoke the power of the color’s longstanding association with nobility and use purple in rituals to conjure your illustrious inner royal self.

Get to know your purple chakra. 

Lots of guided meditations focus on opening the chakras.  Take the time to research the purple chakra and see what you can do about cracking that bad boy wide open.

Add purple gemstones to your next batch of moonwater. 

Most of us have heard that a piece of amethyst in your tarot pouch or rune bag charges them up with all kinds of intuitive goodness.  Why not add this to your monthly batch of moonwater for the same reason?

A list of deities associated with purple color

Several deities from various mythologies are associated with the color purple. 

Here is a list of some of them:

1. Iris – In Greek mythology, Iris is the goddess of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. She is often depicted with wings and carrying a staff with a purple ribbon, symbolizing her connection to the color purple.
2. Dionysus – Dionysus is the Greek god of wine, celebration, and fertility. He is often associated with the color purple due to the purple robes that he wears and the purple grapes used to make wine.
3. Artemis – In Greek mythology, Artemis is the goddess of the hunt, wilderness, and childbirth. She is sometimes depicted wearing purple clothing or with purple animals, such as purple deer or purple boars.
4. Amaterasu – In Japanese mythology, Amaterasu is the sun goddess and the highest deity in the Shinto pantheon. She is often depicted wearing a purple robe and is associated with the color purple due to her connection to the sun and its rays.
5. Anhur – In Egyptian mythology, Anhur is the god of war and the patron deity of the city of Thinis. He is often depicted wearing a purple headdress and is associated with the color purple due to his connection to royalty and power.
6. Krishna – In Hindu mythology, Krishna is a major deity and is considered to be an avatar of the god Vishnu. He is often depicted wearing purple clothing and is associated with the color purple due to his divine nature and association with the universe’s divine energy.

10 Most popular purple-colored symbols

1. Purple pentagram: The purple pentagram is often used to represent spiritual wisdom and the higher self. It is also associated with the element of spirit, and is used in some traditions as a symbol of protection against negative energies.
2. Purple chalice: The purple chalice is often used to represent the divine feminine and the goddess and is associated with spirituality, creativity, and fertility.
3. Purple lotus: The purple lotus is often associated with the crown chakra and is seen as a symbol of enlightenment, spiritual awakening, and attaining higher states of consciousness.
4. Purple hamsa hand: The purple hamsa hand symbolizes protection and good luck and is often used as a talisman to ward off negative energies. It is associated with spiritual growth and attaining higher states of consciousness.
5. Purple Om symbol: The purple Om symbol is often used to represent spiritual enlightenment, the ultimate reality, and the ultimate consciousness. It is associated with the divine and is seen as a powerful symbol of spiritual transformation.
6. Purple yin yang: The purple yin yang is often used to represent balance and harmony and is associated with the balance between masculine and feminine energies. It is also seen as a symbol of spiritual growth and attaining higher states of consciousness.
7. Purple sun: The purple sun is often associated with spiritual energy and enlightenment and symbolizes rebirth and renewal. It is also associated with the higher self and attaining higher states of consciousness.
8. Purple ankh: The purple ankh is often used to represent spiritual enlightenment and attaining higher states of consciousness. It is also associated with eternal life and the life force.
9. Purple cross: The purple cross is often used to represent spiritual transformation and attaining higher states of consciousness. It is also associated with the Christian faith and the sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross.
10. Purple star: The purple star is often used to represent spiritual enlightenment, higher states of consciousness, and the attainment of spiritual goals. It is also associated with the element of spirit, and is seen as a symbol of protection against negative energies.

Purple Ribbons

In some Pagan communities, purple ribbons are worn to represent Pagan Pride, especially at Pagan Pride Day and similar festivals. The color purple was chosen for this cause because it symbolizes spirituality and open-mindedness.

(Note: This practice seems to have peaked in the early 2000s. Though I have memories of handing them out at festivals and even of sitting around with a bunch of other Pagans stitching cute little pentagram buttons on the front and little safety pins on the back, nobody seems to do this anymore.)

The purple ribbon is also a symbol of the Keep Wicca Traditional campaign (which now appears to be defunct) devoted to preventing the spread of misinformation about Wicca and promoting traditional and factual information about Wicca.

The purple ribbon also symbolizes a number of other worthy causes including increased awareness of fibromyalgia, lupus, testicular cancer, migraine, drug overdose, peripheral neuropathy, cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer’s disease, suicide prevention, animal cruelty, domestic violence, child neglect, homophobia, sarcoidosis, Arnold-Chiari malformation, childhood hemiplegia and stroke, pancreatic cancer, March of Dimes, hidradenitis suppurativa, leiomyosarcoma and orca whales.

Magickal Purple Doors & Lore

Doors themselves are magickal and full of lore and the color purple guarding the place of entry invites the energy of the color purple into your life. According to Feng Shui lore, chi (energy) enters your home through the front door and the color purple invites opportunity and inspiration into your home (or business) and encourages those who live their to have an open mind. A purple door also symbolizes prosperity and honor and sends the message to those entering your home that you are a person of import who deserves respect.

Recently, a trend among witches of painting their doors purple to mean “A witch lives here” has sprung up. This seems to have started with a Facebook meme a few years ago, though it has been reported to me that some occult stores were selling signs saying “A purple door means a witch lives here” even before the meme appeared. Since I don’t have exact dates for either, I can’t say which came first and I have no idea who came up with it or where they got it from.

As purple is a color related to spirit and magick, this is appropriate in modern times. However, it should not be construed as an ancient tradition. Witches, historically, have been members of the common classes. Purple was expensive because it required great amounts of materials (sea snails at first) to create and soon became a status symbol for the wealthy and powerful, which often included clergy. Soon, it became a status symbol, unattainable by the common folk not just by it’s cost, but in some places by tradition and even law. This is why purple continues to represent wealth, power and spirituality to this day. Purple, historically, may of been an appropriate color to represent High Magick and certainly an appropriate color for Ceremonial Magicians but witches? Not likely.

That all being said, there is much to recommend purple- now as available as any other color- to all members of the magical community, including witches. The word Witch no longer implies a member of the common class practicing low magick. The lines between the different types of magick the different classes practice have become as blurred as the lines between classes have become (at least between middle and lower classes, the upper line remains pretty clear). Witches have expanded our practice Eastward as well, incorporating Chakra work into our practice and purple, or violet, represents the crown chakra representing oneness, consciousness and our willingness to receive wisdom from the Universe.

Perhaps the most significant and legitimate reason to embrace the purple door trend, despite the fact that it’s not likely to have any historical significance is that it promotes unity among witches, just like Pagan Pride ribbons did/do. We paint our doors purple because other witches paint their doors purple. We are part of this group and this is a symbol of our solidarity. This can only be a good thing. Purple is a spiritual color, it does symbolize many of the things modern witches value and work toward and, it’s not a common color for doors so it sets your home apart, which enhances it’s sanctity. And it lets other witches know that a witch lives here.

What is the meaning of dreaming of a purple color?

The meaning of dreaming about the color purple can vary depending on the context of the dream and the individual’s associations with the color. 

Here are a few possible interpretations of dreaming about purple:

1. Spiritual awakening and higher states of consciousness: Purple is often associated with spiritual awakening and higher states of consciousness. Seeing purple in a dream might indicate a desire for spiritual growth or a need to tap into your intuitive and spiritual side.
2. Creativity and self-expression: Purple is often associated with creativity and self-expression. Seeing purple in a dream might indicate a need to tap into your creative side or to express yourself more fully.
3. Royalty and nobility: Purple is often associated with royalty and nobility. Seeing purple in a dream might symbolize a desire for power or status, or it might represent feelings of self-importance.
4. Emotions and intuition: Purple is often associated with emotions and intuition. Seeing purple in a dream might indicate a need to pay attention to your emotional state or to trust your gut instincts.
5. Healing and transformation: Purple is often associated with healing and transformation. Seeing purple in a dream might indicate a desire for change or a need to heal from past wounds.