Hello and welcome to old friends and new!
If you are just jumping in, I have been speaking of color lately. I have dedicated each of my last six blog posts to one color. This posting is a recap of what we have discussed, with a few new additions (I know how curious you are!). Please feel free to go back and read more.
Let’s jump in, and please let me know what additional or different meanings these colors have for you.
Do you notice how large of a role color plays in our lives? Color influences our mood, energy, environment, personality and even our health. In the tarot, there is a system and traditions for why card have a certain number, symbol, name and even color.
Color can be a bridge for you between reading the tarot and seeking a corresponding meaning in your daily life. You may not know the individual meaning, title and symbolism in each card, but if certain colors are present, it can give you an overall energy or feeling for what is happening. Learning to trust your instinct is an essential element of tarot reading.
What is your color and why?
Violet (purple) – Healing, spirituality, psychic development, unconscious wisdom. Magic and mystery. Purple is associated with the Moon and expansion and good fortune. Beauty, creativity and inspiration. Crown Chakra (top of head) connects us to the universe and the divine.
Blue – In divination, blue is associated with high ideals and purity. Blue is the element of water, coolness, peace and tranquility. Self expression, introspection and sensitivity. Knowledge, health,decisiveness, winter. Throat chakra and communication.
Green – Nature, fertility, money, finances, jealousy, protection and healing. It symbolizes balance, health, self respect and harmony. Promotes change and growth. Self control, balance and love. Summer. Heart Chakra which is love and a higher consciousness.
Yellow – Communication, success, power, clarity, warmth, optimism, use your head. Self worth, creativity. Promotes clarity and concentration. Associated with joy and the Sun. Spring. Governs the Solar Plexus Chakra, located below the ribs, deals with identity.
Orange – Independence or equality in partnerships and self respect. Very optimistic, full of power, creativity, vitality, endurance and healing. Happiness, confidence, resourcefulness, and season of Autumn. Associated with Mercury (planet of communication). Sacral Chakra (lower abdomen) which rules sexuality and reproduction.
Red – Fertility,self confidence, challenges, passion, fire, anger, and self awareness. Represents action, survival, security and courage. Red represents Mars. Base/Root Chakra (situated at base of spine), and deals with basic survival needs.
Pink – Love, beauty, calm, peace, reconciliation, children, patience and perseverance.
White – Purity, new beginnings and ventures, clear vision, strong energy, original ideas, wholeness. Take positive action.
Black – Letting go of old sorrows and griefs for acceptance and transformation. Introspection. In divination black represents the ending of a period in life. It could mean release. It could also mean absorption (like a black hole). Restless and emptiness, mystery. What is unseen.
Gray – Timeless, practical and solid. Loss or depression, unsettling, expectant.
Brown – Planting seeds, earth, grounding, money, animals, and older people. Simplicity. Autumn.
As you take the time to really think about each of these meanings, do you agree? Disagree? Feel some need to be tweaked a bit?
So, are you up for a challenge?
I am.
Please see below, the Page of Cups.
What is going on in this card? Do you notice a color pattern? What colors are here (even if in small amounts) and what is not? What jumps out at you first? Is the energy of this card positive? Does the figure in this card make you feel happy, sad, hopeful, skeptical or maybe just like laughing because his outfit is so silly?
Challenge: If you were to give yourself or a friend advice based on this picture and the colors involved, what would you say?
Let me be your friend for this reading. Reply to me or post a comment on my Facebook page – https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dina-Berrin/110319915692369 – and if you have not liked me yet, please do . . . . (what are you waiting for?)
Tell me what you see.
In return, for my next blog, I will make the Page of Cups our card and we will speak of color, meaning, symbolism and even his clothing! Deal?
While you are getting your tarot skills on, please note that the holidays are approaching. I am available to spice up the end of the year with individual readings, private parties, corporate events and special celebrations. The time to book is NOW.
I look forward to hearing your comments.
Until the next time . . . .
