Colors and their Symbolic Meanings
Colors and their Symbolic Meanings
Understanding the meaning and use of color can greatly enhance the beauty and splendor of your wedding day. Without color and light the world would be very drab. Instead, the gift of color has imbued the world with great beauty. This beauty can be used to give meaning to the things we do, the objects we surround ourselves with, our personalities and all their shifting moods, and all the events that make up our lives.
The infinite number of colors cannot all be explained. Each color has a subtle impression and is part of the creation of atmosphere, desirability and mood. They are a tribute to the unique qualities of life.
Understanding the meaning behind colors will ensure that your wedding day speaks of love, commitment, and the vitality that is essential to give yourself to one another.
Here are just a few of the different qualities attributed to colors.
Red
Symbolizes the vital force - energy, passion, courage and action. It is associated with leadership, power, the will and the body. Spontaneity, impulsiveness and the instinctual sexual forces are its qualities. It stimulates activity, intensity and extroversion. Red brings out the revolutionary and leads us into affirmative thought and action.
Yellow
Symbolizes the mental force - clarity, perception, understanding and wisdom. Confidence, curiosity and practical application of wisdom are its qualities. Humor and mental detachment make yellow significant for bringing new life to ways of thinking and seeing. Wearing yellow and gold tones brings a rich meaning to activities. It seems to bring crystallization to events and issues.
Orange
Symbolizes the social force - emotions, attractiveness, joy and independence. Self-assuredness, amiability and constructiveness are its qualities. Orange is about spreading joy and happiness and giving emotional pleasure. It helps one become free of inhibitions and lightens the mood.
Green
Symbolizes the balancing forces - peace, compassion and renewal. Moderation, harmony, nurturing and diplomacy are its qualities. It calms the energies and prevails over excess. Like nature, it can draw energy away from being too physical or mental and introduce a stillness that produces a contemplative atmosphere. Relaxation issues from it. Wearing green increases the sense of wonder, and brings that “let it be” feeling.
Indigo
Symbolizes the intuitive force - dreams, the unconscious and the invisible. Associated with it are the powers of mental telepathy, empathy and imagination. Deja vu, knowing what will happen before it happens and that sense of being connected to a unifying nature are the qualities of indigo. It is a color of those who intuit a deeper truth. It has a mysterious quality of the deep sea. It draws you in like the reflection of the moon on the water.
Blue
Symbolizes the communicative force - speech, messages and ideas. It relaxes and opens the mind to share thoughts and ideas. Idealism, sincerity, mental empathy and relaxation are associated with blue. It brings out affection, loyalty and inspiration. It is the color of friendship and development of unconditional bonding.
White
Symbolizes purity, union, truth and innocence. Its qualities are cleanliness, self-sacrifice and beginnings. Purity essentially opens us to the deeper levels of existence and renews the souls experience of the moment. Holiness and divinity in its feminine aspects are associated with white. Wearing white is being present for something greater than oneself. It omits the presence of self from the event and takes on what there is to learn from it.
Violet
Symbolizes the creative force - beauty, inspiration and artistry. Energetically, violet inspires the receptive soul to express itself in art, music, spiritual ideals and selfless acts of love. It is the universal call to excellence that inspires great things and works of art. Violet brings a soft, ethereal quality to the one wearing it and its subtlety and fineness have a strong presence invoking the higher virtues in life.
Aqua
Symbolizes freshness - the pristine and unspoiled, vigor and movement. Vivacious and dramatic in a refreshing way. Confidence, strength and strong individualism bordering on eccentricity are associated with aqua. Wearing aqua suggests excitement about life and brings about the humor of life. Fearless and creative the color encourages a festive and celebratory mood. Its close association with water conjures the more emotional qualities of fun, letting go and joy.
Gold
Symbolizes love of spirit - the primordial yearning towards the essence. Meaning, purpose, awe and spiritual love are its qualities. All quests of the heart are associated with the color gold. Wealth of spirit conjures gold. Gold has an ancient connection to the hearts desire for power and spiritual mysteries. Gold conjures the beautiful sculptures of the civilizations known for mystic powers, high mathematics and profound sciences. Gold is the color of attainment and profound concentration.
Brown
Symbolizes the earth - nurturing, contented sensuality and productivity. Passive, sensual, fertile and generous qualities are associated with brown. Wearing brown has an assured feeling of being very grounded in and belonging to feeling. Sensuality at its deepest roots is conjured by the infinite hues and tones of brown.
