Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Ileana Abrev, author of the new Rainbow of Spells. When I was growing up, colour was a big part of my family’s spiritual life. I grew up in Cuba with a Santero father, a faithful follower of Santeria. When Cuba was colonized, the Spaniards brought Catholicism and thousands of slaves came with them. These were from the Yoruba tribe in Africa. The priest tried to convert them to Catholicism, but they wouldn't convert until they found similarities with Catholic Saints and their Deities. This was the birth of Santeria. Santeria focuses a lot on color; each deity has their color that reinforces their attributes. Since I was little, I knew the

Today I am honored to share this guest post by Jean-Louis de Biasi, Grand Master of the Ordo Aurum Solis, Hermetic philosopher, and author of books such as Secrets and Practices of the Freemasons, and The Divine Arcana of the Aurum Solis. A Brief History of Color and Magic For many years now, it has been very easy to find various writings about the ritual use of colors. It seems evident that colors constitute a very old knowledge which was associated with ritual practices from the very beginning of the use of rituals. It is easy to imagine that there must have been a good symbolic understanding of the use of colors in ancient Egypt, but proof of this is very rare in the old texts. In