If you are in to candle magic, you know that different colours can be used for different intentions. However, you can really up your candle magic game by combining candle colours. One of the most potent combinations for magical intentions are black and red candle spells.

The reason black and red candles work so well together is that black candles have powerful protection, banishing, grounding and reversal properties while red candles help with energy, action, passion, strength and speed. This means that using this combination clan clear away blocks and then create magic that is infused with energy and works fast.

To begin working with black and red candle magic it is helpful to understand a bit about how black candle spells and red candle spells work individually. This will help you understand how to combine them in the best way for your intention.

Here is a little more detail about what these candles are traditionally used for.

Black Candle Uses

Black candle spells are often used for:

Protection – Creating psychic shields and warding off negative energies
Banishing – Removing unwanted influences, entities or energies
Absorption – Drawing out and absorbing negative energy from a space or person
Binding – Restraining harmful energies or influences
Grounding – Centering oneself and establishing stability
Shadow work – Exploring one’s unconscious, repressed aspects or hidden self
Reversing – Returning negative energy or curses to their sender
Divination – Enhancing psychic abilities and connecting with ancestral wisdom
Uncrossing – Breaking hexes, curses or persistent bad luck
Transformation – Supporting major life transitions by dissolving old patterns
Endings and new beginnings – Ritually closing one chapter to begin another
Strengthening willpower – Providing resolve during challenging undertakings

Red Candle Uses

Here are the primary uses for red candle spells:

Passion and love magic – Intensifying romantic feelings and attraction
Sexual energy – Enhancing libido and sexual connection
Courage and strength – Building personal power and bravery
Motivation and energy – Overcoming lethargy and increasing drive
Health and vitality – Supporting physical healing and strengthening the body
Protection with an active quality – Creating shields that repel rather than just block
Action and movement – Breaking through stagnation and creating momentum
Power and influence – Gaining influence in competitive situations
Mars-related workings – Aligning with the planet’s assertive energies
Fertility – Encouraging conception or creative productivity
Fire element spells – Working with transformation and purification
Fast results – Accelerating outcomes when quick manifestation is needed

Now that you understand how black candle spells and red candles spells work individually, it’s time to look at some ways to combine them.

Protection spells

Black and red candle spells can be used for protection that requires a more active approach. While black candles alone can absorb negative energy that is directed towards you, red candles can project a more fierce and active boundary. It’s a bit like the difference between surrounding your house with a secure fence (black candle spells) and adding a guard dog (red candle spells). You can see that the combination of the fence and the guard dog will provide much better protection than either of the elements alone.

Love Magic

Black and red candle spells can be used in love magic where there are obstacles to overcome. For example, working with a black candle can remove inner blocks, such as a feeling of not deserving love or a fear of failure or intimacy. In addition, black candles can ease external obstacles such as unsupportive family and friends, financial issues, or other practical obstacles that are getting in the way of smooth relationships. Then the red candle adds the ability to attract love and passion and helps create the energy to get out there and seek the love you are looking for.

Courage and Strength Spells

Black and red candle spells work really well for courage and strength spells because the black candle helps with grounding and feeling stable and secure, as well as helping to remove fear and anxiety around your intention. The red candles adds courage and energy to the spell, giving you the strength to achieve your goals.

Healing Spells

Lastly, Red and black candle spells are a particularly good combination for healing spells. The black candle can cleanse and banish negativity and disease while the red candle restores energy and vitality.

Black and Red Candle Spells

If you are ready to give black and red candle spells a try, here are a few examples. Feel free to adapt the spells to suit your own intentions, practice and purposes.

Simple Black and Red Protection Candle Spell

This spell harnesses the defensive power of black candles with the active, assertive energy of red candles to create a shield of protection that blocks negativity and repels harmful energies.

What You Need

• 1 black candle
• 1 red candle
• Sea salt or black salt
• Black peppercorns
• A fireproof plate or holder for each candle
• Matches or a lighter

What to do

1. Create a small circle with the salt and peppercorns, leaving space in the centre for your candles.
2. Place the black and red candles in the centre of the circle, about 3 inches apart.
3. Light the black candle while saying: “Darkness shields and darkness hides, a barrier strong that none divides.”
4. Light the red candle while saying: “Fire burns and fire warns, what threatens me shall be transformed.”
5. Place your hands palms down on either side of the candles (not touching them) and visualise a protective barrier forming around you or your home. See the black energy absorbing and neutralising negativity, while the red energy creates an active shield of strength.
6. Speak your declaration of protection: “By shadow and flame, I claim my space, no harm shall enter, no ill take place. With darkness that shields and fire that burns, protection surrounds me as the wheel turns.”
7. Remain in silent meditation for a few minutes, focusing on feeling safe and protected.
8. When complete, say: “As I will it, so it shall be.”
9. Allow the candles to burn for a while as you continue to meditate on feeling safe and protected.
10. You can either sit with the candles until they burn down completely, or if time is short, burn the candles repeatedly over the next few days, being sure never to leave them unattended.

Simple Black and Red Healing Candle Spell

This spell combines the transformative power of black candles (to absorb and remove illness or negative energy) with the vitality and strength of red candles (to restore health and energy).

What You’ll Need

• 1 black candle
• 1 red candle
• A fireproof plate or holder for each candle
• Rosemary, lavender or chamomile (optional)
• Rose quartz or clear quartz crystal (optional)
• Matches or a lighter

What to do

1. Choose a quiet time when you won’t be disturbed
2. Cleanse your space by opening windows or using incense. If you are using a crystal, cleanse it by passing it through incense smoke, or rinsing it under cool running water.
3. Place the black candle in front of you to the left side and on your left side and the red candle in front of you to your right side, about 8-12 inches apart.
4. If you are using herbs, sprinkle a small amount around the base of each candle.
5. If you are using a crystal, place it between the candles.
6. Light the black candle first, and, as you do, say: “With this flame, I banish pain and illness from my body and spirit. What no longer serves my health is absorbed and transformed.”
7. Focus on the black candle for a few moments, visualising it drawing out any illness, pain or negative energy affecting your health.
8. Now light the red candle and say: “With this flame, I call forth strength, vitality and healing. New energy flows through me, restoring balance and wellness.”
9. Sit quietly for 5-10 minutes, breathing deeply and visualising yourself becoming healthier and more vital. See the black candle absorbing what needs to be removed, while the red candle infuses you with healing energy.
10. When you feel ready, say: “As these flames burn together, transformation occurs. What was broken is mended, what was weak grows strong. By fire and intention, healing comes to me. So it is done.”
11. If you are using the crystal, visualise this healing energy flowing into the crystal.
12. Allow both candles to burn for another 5- 10 minutes. You may relight them for the next 2-3 days to continue the healing work.
13. If you have used a crystal you can carry it with you, or meditate with it daily to continue the healing process.

It’s always worth considering combining colours in your candle spells to make them perfect for your intentions. You can add a red candle to almost any spell to speed up the process. The only time I wouldn’t add one is when you are looking for a more gentle magic energy. You don’t need to stop at two colours either, for example, using a black red and green candle would be a great combination for a prosperity spell as the black would remove blocks, the red would provide action energy and speed up the spell and the green would attract abundance.

I hope you have found this post about black and red candle spells useful. If you have, please consider sharing it with like-minded folk – it really does help.

Blessed be

Eva x