What Color Are You Drawn To?

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Color Brown
 
 
People who prefer brown are often conventional and orderly. The negative meaning of brown can be a repressed personality or a lazy person. Brown is the color of the earth and is associated with the material side of life.

Brown Energy

Brown can mix into many surroundings. It is a mixture of red, blue and yellow and has many shades and tones - each producing a different effect. Brown can be a stabilizing color. The red in brown gives it practical energy while the yellow and blue add mental focus energies. Too much brown can make a dull effect. Brown gives a feeling of solidity, and allows one to stay in the background, unnoticed.

Some shades of brown create a warm, comfortable feeling of wholesomeness, naturalness and dependability.

Put some brown in your life when you want:

a solid wholesome feeling
to blend with the background
a connection with natural earth and the stability this brings
orderliness and convention

Brown gem stone properties
Brown gemstones act as a grounding force and promote stability and clear thinking.




Tiger Eye

Petrified Wood

Dravite (brown tourmaline)

Chiastolite
 

Wearing Brown

Wear brown clothing if you want to show no direction or attitude in particular. Brown is a disguise that can be used to effectively hide your true nature. Prior to the introduction of denim, brown was the color worn by manual workers.

Warm browns can be worn to exhibit a 'down to earth' feeling.

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Color Orange
 

 
Orange is a power color. It is one of the healing colors. It is said to increase the craving for food. It also stimulates enthusiasm and creativity. Orange means vitality with endurance. People who like orange are usually thoughtful and sincere. Lady luck's color is orange. I have been told that if a change of any kind is need in life, just burn an orange candle for 7 nights.


Orange Energy

While red is associated with fiery heat, orange is associated with the benign warmth of the sun. A dynamic color to be sure, orange offers a more thoughtful control than explosive red. Curiosity is a driving characteristic of orange, and with it comes exploration of new things.


Put some orange in your life when you want:

to spice things up when you feel time is dragging
to become more involved in something
to increase creativity
relief from things becoming too serious


Orange gem stone properties

Orange gemstones contain some of the fiery energies of red, but are gentler with a more creative spirit. They are used to promote personal power and are useful for people who could use more self esteem. Carry or place orange gemstones around your home or office to stimulate creativity, mental quickness, ability to adjust to changes.




Carnelian

Fire Opal

Sunstone

Orange Calcite
 

   
Wearing Orange

Wearing orange during times of stress, or shock can help to balance your emotions. It can bring about the willingness to embrace new ideas with enjoyment and a sense of exploration and creative play.

Chakra associated with Orange:

Orange is the color associated with the Sacral Hara Chakra (sexuality and reproduction).

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Color Gold
 

 
It is no surprise that gold symbolizes wealth used wisely, but it is also the symbol of good health. People who favor the color gold are optimistic.

Gold Energy

The tibetan Buddhist believes in 5 sacred stones: the crystal for light, turquoise for infinity of sea and sky, coral for life and form, gold for the golden ray of the sun, silver for the light of the moon. Gold is intimately linked with Divinity and those gods associated with the Sun. It symbolizes wealth and success.


Put some gold in your life when you want:

increased personal power
relaxation and enjoyment of life
good health
success


Wearing Gold

Wearing gold in everyday life increases personal power, and promotes courage, confidence and willpower. Gold chains worn around the neck preserve health.

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Color Yellow
 

 
The shade of yellow determines the meaning. Pure, bright and sunny yellow is the easiest color to see. People who are blind to other colors can usually see yellow. Yellow is full of creative and intellectual energy. Always use yellow note pads.

Yellow symbolizes wisdom. Yellow means joy and happiness. People of high intellect favor yellow. Yellow daffodils are a symbol of unrequited love. Sunday's color is yellow-gold.


Yellow Energy

Like the energy of a bright sunny day, yellow brings clarity and awareness. The shade of yellow determines its effect: Yellow-green can mean deceit, and creates a disoriented feeling. Orange-yellow imparts a sense of establishment. Clean light yellow clears the mind, making it active and alert.


Put some yellow in your life when you want:

clarity for decision-making
relief from 'burnout', panic, nervousness, exhaustion
sharper memory and concentration skills
protection from lethargy and depression during dull weather


Yellow gem stone properties

Carry or wear yellow gemstones to promote the ability to express yourself. They are excellent stones for writers and public speakers to increase eloquence. The yellow stones stimulate movement and mental awareness. They are used to enhance decision making skills.




Amber

Citrine

Imperial Topaz

Lemon Quartz

Honey Calcite

Wearing Yellow

Wear yellow to present a cheery, uplifting effect. Use it around your office to help keep a clear your mind, and improve memory and decision making.


Chakra associated with Yellow:

Yellow is the color associated with the Solar Plexus Chakra. This chakra deals with identity.

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Color Green  
 

 
Green is the color of nature, fertility, life. Grass green is the most restful color. Green symbolizes self-respect and well being. Green is the color of balance. It also means learning, growth and harmony. Green is a safe color, if you don't know what color to use anywhere use green.


Green is favored by well balanced people. Green symbolizes the master healer and the life force. It often symbolizes money.

It was believed green was healing for the eyes. Egyptians wore green eyeliner. Green eyeshades are still used. You should eat raw green foods for good health. Friday is the day of green. Green jade is a sacred stone of Asia.


Green Energy

Green contains the powerful energies of nature, growth, desire to expand or increase. Balance and a sense of order are found in the color green. Change and transformation is necessary for growth, and so this ability to sustain changes is also a part of the energy of green.


Put some green in your life when you want:

a new state of balance

feel a need for change or growth

freedom to pursue new ideas

protection from fears and anxieties connected with the demands of others


Green gem stone properties

Green gemstones are used to attract money, prosperity and wealth. They are balancing stones that promote growth and fertility. Carry, wear or place green gemstones around your home or office to promote balance, change and growth.




Emerald

Malachite

Aventurine

Jade

Peridot
   
Moss Agate

Chrysoprase

Serpentine

Green Calcite

Green Tourmaline
   
Dioptase

Prehnite

Infinite Stone

Tree Agate

Bloodstone

Seraphinite

Green Chlorite

Green Irish Blessings stones
 
 

Wearing Green

Wear green when you want to overcome a sense of thwarted ambition. Green says growth - balance - harmony. It is a color of healthy relationships.


Chakra associated with Green:

Green is the color associated with the Heart Chakra. This chakra deals with higher consciousness and love.

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Color Blue
 

 
Blue is the coolest color - the color of the sky, ocean, sleep, twilight. The ancient Egyptians used lapis lazuli to represent heaven. Blue symbolizes the Virgin Mary. A pure blue is the color of inspiration, sincerity and spirituality. Blue is often the chosen color by conservative people. Blue is the calming color. That makes it a wonderful color to use in the home, especially for babies. Blue is so soothing that is a good choice for pajamas. Dark blue is the color of truth and moderation. A blue iris means your friendship is very important to me. Wednesday's color is blue. Blue gemstones to wear to feel calm are blue sapphire and blue topaz. Lapis lazuli and azurite are said to heighten psychic power.

Turquoise is the symbol of youth, both the color and the gemstone. This color has a soothing affect. Turquoise is the color of communication. It contains the growth quality of green with the blue quality of communication. Turquoise has long been used in amulets to provide protection, health, confidence and strength.

Aqua is the color of high ideals.


Blue Energy

Blue gives a feeling of distance. Artists use it to to show perspective. This is a good way to understand the energy of the color blue - it allows us to look beyond and increase our perspective outward. It contains a cool vibration that is helpful to communication.

The vibration if blue can be used to open energy flow where it is blocked. Using blue to relax will encourage feelings of communication and peace.


Put some blue in your life when you want:

calm and relaxation to counteract chaos or agitation
to open the flow of communication
to broaden your perspective in learning new information
solitude and peace


Blue gem stone properties

Blue gemstones promote peace and are used to calm ragged emotions. They are used to provide relief to people who have difficulty sleeping or who have nightmares. They offer inspiration and enhance the quality of communication.




Sodalite

Turquoise

Aquamarine

Blue quartz

Lapis Lazuli
   
Blue lace agate

Blue Calcite

Blue Kyanite

Blue Apatite

Angelite

Dumortierite

Chrysocolla

Sapphire

Blue Aventurine

Celestite

   
Wearing Blue

Wear dark blues for a stable, calm conservative feeling. All shades of blue will help to make easy communication, whether it is with yourself or others. Use blue paper for notes when you want help in remembering a speech or other information.


Chakra associated with Blue:

Blue is the color associated with the Throat Chakra. This chakra deals with communication of how we feel and what we think.

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Color Purple - Violet
 

 
Purple is the color of good judgment. It is the color of people seeking spiritual fulfillment. It is said if you surround yourself with purple you will have peace of mind. Purple is a good color to use in meditation.

Purple has been used to symbolize magic and mystery, as well as royalty. Being the combination of red and blue, the warmest and coolest colors, purple is believed to be the ideal color. Most children love the color purple. Purple is the color most favored by artists. Thursday's color is purple.

Violet is the color of purpose. Violet is associated with the Crown chakra (This links individual and universal).


Violet Energy

Violet is a combination of blue and red. Red is a focusing, dynamic and active energy while blue is cooling, calming and expansive. Violet brings a new dynamic to the expansion of blue and the activity of red. Red brings practicality to the undirected expansiveness of the blue, and allows more creative energy to emerge. For this reason, violet is associated with imagination and inspiration.


Violet is an important energy for those who use blue and indigo skills in the psychic field. The red in violet offers a grounding effect.


Put some violet in your life when you want:

to use your imagination to its fullest
to re-balance your life
to remove obstacles
to calm overactivity or to energize from depression


Violet gem stone properties

Violet gemstones are associated with mysticism and purification. They are used for meditation and to sharpen psychic awareness, connection with higher self, and to increase imagination and inspiration.

Amethyst

Fluorite

Sugilite

Lepidolite

Charoite

   
Wearing Purple

Wear purple when you want to encourage fantasy, mystery and imagination.


Chakra associated with Violet:

Violet is the color associated with the Crown Chakra. This chakra is the main co-oridination center of the body and ensures you are connected to universal sources of energy.

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Color Indigo
 

 
Indigo is the color of the deep midnight sky. It can have a negative effect when used during a depressed state, because it will deepen the mood. Indigo symbolizes a mystical borderland of wisdom, self-mastery and spiritual realization. While blue is the color of communication with others, indigo turns the blue inward, to increase personal thought, profound insights, and instant understandings. While blue can be fast, Indigo is almost instantaneous. Inventors use indigo skills for inspirations that seem to 'come out of the blue'.

Put some indigo in your life when you want:

to focus on personal issues
to develop intuition
to step outside of everyday life for a new and interesting way of viewing a problem
solitude and inner communication


Indigo gem stone properties

Indigo gemstones open the door to the subconscious, symbolizing the bridge between the finite and infinite. They are used as a guide to cosmic knowledge. The indigo stones are indigo, sapphire, and azurite.


Azurite

Iolite
 

Chakra associated with Indigo:

Indigo is the color associated with the Third Eye Chakra located between the eyes. This chakra deals with intelligence and psychic power.

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Color White
 

 
White is the color of purity. Brides wear white in many countries, because white symbolizes a virgin. White means kindness. In some cultures white is worn at funerals. White is Monday's color. White daisies are a symbol of loyal love.


White Energy

Strictly speaking, white is not a color, but the manifestation of the presence of all color - the complete energy of light. It stands for wholeness and completion. In many cultures it represents openness and truth. White has a cold quality. It can provide clarity as its energy is complete.

White has purification vibrations and can be used to clear blocks from your path.

It holds the potential to move toward every other color and this makes it a good choice for new beginnings, and development in any direction.


Put some white in your life when you want:

to clear clutter and obstacles away
to start a fresh beginning
to bring about mental clarity
purification of thoughts or actions


White gem stone properties

White gemstones are ruled by the Moon and are associated with sleep and psychic energy. They are often used for good fortune, protection after dark. The crystal amplifies the powers of other stones. Some say that because white stones contain all the colors, they can act as substitutes for stones of any color.

Crystal quartz

White Topaz

White Calcite

Howlite

Scolecite

Moon Stone    

White Selenite
 
 
Wearing White

Wear white to impart a pure, wholesome impression. Surround yourself with white if your surroundings feel cluttered and you want to refresh your mind.

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Color Black
 
 
Black is the most misunderstood color. A black tie dinner is very formal and elegant. Women can wear that "must have little black dress" to the black tie dinner. Yet the bad guys wear black hats. Black symbolizes death in some cultures. Native Americans thought black was good because it was the color of soil, which gives life. Saturday's color is black.

Black Energy

Black is not a color, strictly speaking. It is the absence of all color. When people speak of opposites, it is usually in terms of black and white. Black, and its opposite white, represent polarities. Black absorbs all aspects of light. While white reveals, black conceals. It has come to mean hidden, fearful or bad experience. It is linked to the unknown or the unseen.

In times of fear and uncertainty black contains the energy of the threatening unknown. In a positive state, black is seen as a restful emptiness into which anything may emerge and disappear once again. It is also mysterious, providing a sense of potential and possibility.

Put some black in your life when you want:

to become inconspicuous
to open the door to mystery
to prepare for the unknown
a restful emptiness


Black gem stone properties

Black gemstones symbolize self control and resilience. Black stones have protective energies in the sense that black is the absence of light, and therefore, can be used to create invisibility.

Black Tourmaline

Obsidian

Onyx

Jet


Wearing Black

Dress in black if you want to become inconspicuous. Black is also used in clothing to make a bold statement of mystery and self control. Black clothing can say "Notice me but do not intrude."

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Color Gray
 

 
Gray is the color of sorrow. People who favor gray can be the lone wolf type or narrow-minded. Gray with more silver in it can be a very active color.

Native Americans associate gray with friendship. Gray is the symbol for security, maturity and dependability. It connotes responsibility and conservative practicality.


Gray Energy

Gray is the true neutral color. Its energy imparts void, emptiness, lack of movement, emotion, warmth and identifying characteristics. Because of this, gray can be restful. It has a detached and isolated feeling. Gray can have a cooling effect when placed next to other more vibrant colors. It has a stabilizing effect, making vibrant colors stand out while muting their vibration.


Put some gray in your life when you want:

to emphasize your willingness to comply
a neutral, non-invasive feeling
to reduce the intense energy of another color
to feel detached or isolated


Gray gem stone properties

Gray gemstones are healing stones and can assist in improving relationships toward more stability.

Hematite

Galena
 
 
Wearing Gray

Gray clothing suggests efficiency and is often used for this in the business world. Gray can also suggest lack of imagination, so should be used carefully. Gray will emphasize neutrality. Too much gray, or the wrong shades will suggest lack of character, initiative and detachment. Add a hint of another color to gray clothing to express efficiency with personality.

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THE COLOR SILVER

Time for Reflection and Changes in Direction



Element: Air

Keywords:
The Goddess, the Moon, the Tide, Ebb and Flow, Moon, female energy, goddess, patience, forbearance, perseverance, insight, reflection,


Properties

Silver is a major conductor and communicator. Aids speech and public speaking eloquence.  Enhances patience and perseverance.

Like the moon who's energy controls the rhythm of ocean tides , it has a soothing , calming effect.

Excellent for mental, emotional, and physical releasing and cleansing. Works on the mind/emotions to see overview, emotional balance, patience.

Silver has the ability to energize other stones during the new and full moons.

Draws negative energy out from the body and replaces it with positive energy.

Dignity, Self control, Wisdom, Responsibility, Organization, Insight,

To much gray can make us: Rigid, Dull, Melancholy, Lonely, and Lifeless. (without color)

Too little gray and we feel uncertainty, neutral, between light and dark, time to make choices.

Silver-gray Stones:

Chalcedony, Gray Calcite, Gray Muscovite, Gray-Silver Cuprite, Hematite, Magnetite (Lodestone), Pyrolusite.

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THE COLOR LIME

Element:

Earth

4th Chakra: Heart  (Anahata) Center of the chest

Possibilities - Perception - Anticipation

Keywords:
excited, motivated, anticipation, money, prosperity, hope, growth, luck, employment.


Properties

A wonderful sense of anticipation at all the possibilities and opportunities the world offers.  Allows us to be perceptive and non judgmental. This color inspires us to try new things by initiating change.

Too little LIME GREEN , and we can become hateful , petty and jealous of the  opportunities other people are experiencing.  (Green with envy?)

When this Chakra is blocked we experience: Emotional problems in our relationships to other people.


Lime Stones:

Cats Eye, Peridot, Fluorite, Lemon Chrysoprase, Green Garnet, Jade.

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THE COLOR BLUE-GREEN

Element: Water

Chakra: Heart

Keywords: cool, refreshing, imaginative, motivated, dynamitic, calm, peaceful, joyful, relaxed, truthfulness, healing, meditation, tranquility, forgiveness, patience, sleep, dream work.


Properties

Blue-green, or Turquoise promotes intuition. Turquoise is the color of communication.

Too much and we can become over-analytical, fussy and egocentric, pushing your heart out of the way and letting logic make all of your decisions.

Too little and we can become secretive, closed, confused about what we want, and possibly sneaky or a bit paranoid. This is very different from being shy.

When this Chakra is blocked we experience: Emotional problems in our relationships to other people


Blue Green Stones:

Aqua Aura, Blue Green Agate, Blue Green, Aquamarine, Blue Green Jade, Blue Green Obsidian, Blue Green Topaz, Chrysocolla, Dioptase, Labradorite, Rainbow Obsidian, Turquoise.

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THE COLOR CLEAR

Element: Air

Clear stone are Universal transmitters, and can enhance the vibrations of all other gemstones.

Keywords: Peace, purity, sincerity, protection, spirituality, ritual, moon, goddess.

Clear Stones: Rock Quartz Crystals, Agate, Clear Danburite, Clear Fluorite, Clear Sardonyx, Clear Tourmaline, DENTRITIC Agate, Diamonds, Herkimer Diamonds, Rutilated Quartz, Tourmalinated Quartz.