Sunday, May 22, 2011

Color Meanings

Red, an energizing, stimulating color, relates to the physical body. It increases alertness and brings awareness of the present moment. This color signifies passion, life, sexuality, love, and the power to create. It also symbolizes blood, rage, violence and fire.

Blue is the color of clear sky, suggesting infinite space, the heavens, and eternity. A calming and relaxing color, it has to do with nurturing aspects of the feminine principle.

Yellow symbolizes the sun and suggests the rhythms of time set in motion by the sun's rising and setting. It has to do with energizing aspects of the masculine principle. Yellow signifies the light of consciousness that has descended into our nervous system to allow us to be self-aware. Yellow relates to emotional energies and for some it represents the soul of a person.

Green is the color of nature, of balance, and of harmony. It represents the primal power  of fertility that makes seeds sprout. It is symbolic of freshness, health, peace, and prosperity.

Orange speaks of earthiness, in contrast to spirituality. It stands for the energy of the life force that maintains your body in a healthy balance without your direct attention. The color also represents endurance, strength, and worthy ambition.

Purple relates to nobility, refinement, and power. It signifies patience, trust, faith, and fasting.

Turquoise suggests generosity, love, and healing. Traditional peoples in many parts of the world paint doors and window frames turquoise for protection from dangerous spirits. Turquoise helps maintain safe boundaries.

Brown is a symbol of the earth, of fertility. It is also symbolic of holding or blocking energy.

White refers to the blinding light of the spirit, triumphant over death. White suggests the ashes after a fire, the silence of snow. It is a symbol of purity, innocence, virginity and birth.

Black suggests the sinister power of darkness, decay, and death. The symbol of mourning, of nonbeing, it also symbolizes protection from evil. It is the color for penitence and respect for the souls of the departed. Remembrance, eternity, and constancy are represented by the color black.

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