In this episode, we talk about the power of brown—the color of soil, tree bark, cacao, roots, and so much of our embodied, earthly life. Brown invites you to reconnect with your foundations: your body, your home, your long-term growth, and your relationship to the land.
What we explore in this episode:
How brown is created in color theory, and where it shows up in nature and everyday life
What color magic is and how brown works as a grounding, root-level energy
Ways brown shows up in tarot symbolism through roots, wood, soil, and plant allies
Understanding Brown in Color MagicBrown is a darkened or desaturated shade of orange, often created by mixing many colors together. It’s one of the most common colors in the natural world—showing up in soil, bark, seeds, nuts, coffee, cacao, animal fur, and human hair and eyes.
In color magic, brown can represent:
Grounding and stability
Home, hearth, and domestic magic
Endurance and long-term commitments
Roots, ancestry, and land-based wisdom
Slow, sustainable growth
Practicality, work, and responsibility
Embodiment and connection to the physical world
Brown isn’t always a “flashy” spell color—but it’s the one you reach for when you want something to last, to be real, and to be rooted in the body and the earth. When working magically with brown, you might focus on:
Grounding and centering practices
Long-term projects and slow growth
Creating or tending a home or hearth space
Commitments that need patience and resilience
Days of the Week & Brown
Brown doesn’t have a traditional, fixed day-of-the-week association in many common correspondence lists. However, you can intuitively place brown where it makes sense for your practice:
Tuesday (Red | Mars): if you’re working with brown as a deepened, earthier extension of red or orange, especially around courage + survival.
Sunday or Monday: if you blend brown with golds, creams, or whites as “warm earth” or “home-light” energy.
Or simply as your “Hearth Day” color—whichever day you clean, cook, budget, meal-prep, garden, or tend your home.
Tarot, Symbolism, and the Power of Brown
In tarot imagery, brown often appears through wood, soil, bark, roots, and plant material. It points us toward themes of embodiment, time, and structure—the unglamorous but sacred work of staying alive and building a life.
The Hierophant (The Healer | Kindness) - Brown imagery here is about drawing wisdom from what has survived, not just what is written.
The World (Success) - Brown shows that true “world” energy includes the body, the land, and your lived reality, not just spiritual ideals.
Queen of Cups (Calm | Harmony) - Brown suggests emotional maturity that’s grounded, not floaty or detached.
Therapists Who Tarot Deck, Prompts by Dreya Blume and Images by Rebecca Bloom
Seven of Earth (Oak) - Brown bark, acorns, and wood point to legacy, stewardship, and trust in time.
The Hanged One (Burdock) - Brown here symbolizes the inner work that happens underground, unseen, but vital.
Seven of Fire (Cinnamon) - Brown reminds us that heat and spice can be grounded, embodied, and rooted in tradition.
The Hierophant (Cacao) - Brown cacao beans and drink remind us that wisdom must be taken in slowly, with respect.
💭 Today's Tarot Pull:
From Seasons of the Witch Samhain Oracle, I pulled Third Harvest (Upright).
This is a card of preparation, gratitude, and stored abundance. It asks you to look at everything you’ve grown, gathered, and built and recognize that it’s enough to sustain you through the “winter” seasons of your life.
Reflective prompts on this card:
What have I harvested this year—skills, relationships, healing, money, art, insight?
Where can I pause and really acknowledge how far I’ve come?
What “stores” (rituals, people, tools, savings) can I lean on when my energy dips?
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