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Color
Symbolism
Color Symbolism is the most universal type of symbolism and is found throughout our lives, art, music, literature, physically, and emotionally. The symbolic references to the color as cited from, Dictionary of Symbols by J.E. Cirlot, 2002, are as follows:
Red, Orange, Yellow, and White: Warm, advancing, corresponding to the process of assimilation, activity and intensity
Blue, Indigo, Violet and Black: Cold, retreating, corresponding to the process of dissimilation, passivity, and debilitation
Green: Transitional color spanning the two above groups White, Red, and Green: Celtic and Egyptian believe symbolic of Hope, Faith, and Charity Red and Purple: Union of Body and Spirit
White: Feminine, Virgin, Purity, Relates to principle, concepts and purpose
Red: Blood, Fire, Intense Emotion, Passion, Sentiment, Life-giving principle, Life, Motivation to provide basic needs for self and others, Courage
Pink: Sensuality, Human Love, Emotions, Resurrection
Orange: Fire and Flames, Pride, Ambition, Wisdom and Justice, Mind and Body, Creativity,Feeling attracted to that which is newly emerging
Yellow: Illumination, Excitement, Sun, Dissemination and Comprehensive Generalization, Air, Magnanimity, Intellectual, Mental, Indicate organizational, categorical, management skills
Green: Earthly, Tangible, Growth, Immediate perceptibility, Vegetation, Connection, Fertility of fields, Sympathy, and Adaptability, Healing Skills; likes to see people or projects move to fruition
Blue: Clear Thinking, Spatial, God and Goddess of Heaven, Devotion and Innocence, Compassion, Understanding, Communicable; likes learning and understanding
Dark Blue/Indigo: Darkness, Stormy Sea, Deeply Spiritual, Inner Awareness of real truth, New Age, Independent
Light Blue: Calmness, Calm Sea
Violet: With Green is Water, Nostalgia and Memories, Devotion, Royalty, Power, Spirituality, Ceremony, Deeply Intuitive, humanly spiritual, Color of Transformation
Black: Masculine, Fertile Land, Primal, Unconscious, Wisdom stemming from a hidden source, Hidden Power, Need or Skill in protecting oneself or others, May also cover a hidden or understood ability that needs to come forth, Diamond, Initial, Crone, Strong Ability
Brown: Earthy and earth bound, connection between nature and natural processes
Ochre: Earth
Grey: Neutralization, egoism, Inertia, Indifference
Gold: Heavenly, Mystic aspects of the Sun, Universal Love
Silver: Moon, Lunar, Transmission; transmit data
Copper: Conductivity, Pliable, Sensitivity