Colors: psychologies, methaphores and methaphysics.

Hey M, I think colors have a special representation to individuals but I did see a news report where they had painted a jail house w/ pink walls b/c it was said that it calmed the inmates down. also I went through a phase when I only wore black clothing but not so much as a fashion statement more so b/c I think it was a depressing time in my life. +'s 2 U

I've read that these metaphors change depending on which culture you come from. This doesn't seem like a very comprehensive list, but it gives some examples: http://webdesign.about.com/od/color/a/bl_colorculture.htm I share the same set of metaphors as you, since I'm of European ancestry. As you can guess I think we feel so strongly about those associations (for example, it feels odd to see a bride dressed in red in the West), because of what we've been taught, not because there's an intrinsic quality of the color. Tanya

i think that a colours help, psicology and metaphisic.....i love a blue..tell that is a colour of a good health...and relax my badroom...are more thigs blue bye myry

I think one also has to look at the context within we are evaluating the meaning of colors. For instance, when one is majoring in business in college, they often have to take a course that includes a lot of information about color. For instance, in the business world when one dresses in certain colors it supposedly gives off certain messages. They will tell one not to wear certain colors to interviews or important meetings for certain reasons. Example: green indicates money hungry so it isn't to be worn. Brown is considered drab and unintersting, red is power etc. That is in the business world! Yet, when one looks at colors for painting a house, green is supposed to be calming....hence its use in spas and bathrooms! I think a lot has to do with the situation!

For me green is love and purple is passion. The convention you describe is just that; a convention. all the best urban

I know in Golden Dawn (an esoteric organization) thourgh the rituals and course material that a member is trained to look at colors as symbols. For instance, in Outer Order, you are only exposed to the colors white, black, and red at first. Because of this, red becomes a symbol of the Middle Pillar and balance point between the extremes of Merscy and Severity. In Inner Order, you are exposed to the idea that colors are vibrations and attract certain energies. So the red of Outer Order, becomes Mars, Fire and Aries (actually there is a slightly different color used for each of these, but without seeing the paint chips side by side, most people would think that they are hte same color). So inside the mind of a Golden Dawn member, each color has it only specific energy and type of experience. On the practical end, an Adept of the Golden Dawn turns around and uses color to summon the type of experiences that they need. As for colors of different Gods and Goddesses, there are whole lectures about the significance of how to visualize the divine in the proper colors, and why they are colored the way that they are.

I do not really know about those colors at all. They might be the case, so I think it could be so somehow.

I'm sure different colors mean different things to different people. I know as far as my own style goes, I prefer dark colors. I wear a lot of dark blue, dark green, black, gray, and maroon. The only special meanings that colors have for me is how they relate to the chakras. The colors red and black go with the root chakra. Orange goes with the sacral chakra. Yellow goes with the solar plexus chakra. Green and Pink go with the heart chakra. Blue goes with the throat chakra. Dark blue, indigo, and purple goes with the third eye chakra. Violet and white go with the crown chakra. Sometime there can be variations on the colors though and sometimes the chakra colors can overlap.

I use different colors in my day to day activity in life depending on my mood. Basing it on the clothes that I wear. Whatever color I wear I guess greatly affects my mood.. ;)

From my understanding of color from an energy perspective is that different colors create different responses biological responses in the body. Studies in the area have been valid enough for hospitals to change from their sterile 'whites' of the past to more soothing colors on walls and rooms and operating room attendents changing into green scrubs rather than the old whites from before. Wall colors have been known to affect troubled children and those with learning disabilites. Pink is soothing, orange can stimulate and not a good idea for kids with attention deficit disorder. There is enough information out there to have convinced me that color has and does have a biological impact and energetic impact that goes way beyond cultural, religious or indiviudal preferences...now whether that is genetic or socialogical programming...that may require more research.