The Symbolism Behind Your Favorite Color
When asked what is your favorite color, some people answer immediately while others hesitate. My favorite color is yellow, but there is little yellow in my home or in the clothes I wear. Green represents life to me, and red is both excitement and caution. I love to see an orange pumpkin, but cringe at the idea of wearing an orange dress.
Colors are complicated. We respond to them on a subconscious and emotional level. The response to a color is often contradictory and varies depending on the culture and the circumstances. When I think of green, I think of green grass and the coming of spring. It is the symbol of ecology, but it also represents wealth and money. A green light gives us the go-ahead.
We will never truly understand our reaction to one color or another, but a better understanding of the symbolism behind the color will bring us one step closer.
Rainbows
A Spectrum of Color
Rainbows
White light is a combination of all colors. It represents life and hope. We step out of the darkness and into the light.
Follow the Rainbow!
Create Your Own Rainbow
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Rainbows are a beautiful symbol of hope. Bring one into your home. It will brighten your day.
Red
Good and Evil
Love and Hate
Red
The color red evokes extreme emotions in everyone. It is a passionate color that can lead to violence and warfare, or the flush of love that transcends time. It is power, the banner that leads the troops to war, and a warning of danger up ahead. Red is the symbol of courage and sacrifice, life and death.
It is Cupid on one end and the Devil on the other.
Red roses are a symbol of one's undying love.
The blood of life is red.
So angry he sees red.
Red.
Love and Life
Red Accents for Your Home
Red Satin Sheets
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Decadent Delight.
Enjoy the luxurious feel of satin against your skin.
Orange
Strength and Endurance
Warnings
Orange
Orange is a combination of both red and yellow. While it is a warm color, it doesn't shout the way red does. The aggression associated with red is calmed by the cheerfulness of yellow.
Orange
When I think of orange, the colors of fall come to mind. It is still warm, but the cold of winter will be upon us soon. Orange is strength and endurance. It will keep us warm until the signs of life stir in the frozen land once again.Orange is vibrant and warm. It will stimulate your emotions as well as your appetite.
Warmth and Food
Survival and Strength
Beautiful Singer
Yellow
A beacon of light.
Yellow
Yellow is bright and beautiful. It is the sun that shines bringing life to the world around us. It is clarity and awareness. It is a cheerful color and my personal favorite. It is a beacon of light amid the darkness.Sunny smiles
It's clean and bright
Yellow is energy in its purest form.
Bring a Little Sunshine into Your Kitchen
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Bring a little sunshine into the kitchen.
Green
Green
Green is a symbol of spring and the renewal of life. After a long, cold winter the gardens and the landscape comes to life in every hue of green imaginable. If we recycle and care about the nature around us, we're living green.
It is also a soothing color. Hospital rooms are often painted green for its calming effect on patients and their anxious visitors.
In the Middle Ages, brides often wore green on their wedding day as a symbol of fertility.
Green is a cool, refreshing color.
Emeralds are one of the most prized of the precious gemstones.
But there is another side of green.
There is the green-eyed monster named envy. It can rear its ugly head and wreak havoc in the blink of an eye.
And then there is money, the ever popular greenbacks. Nothing will bring the green-eyed monster to the surface faster than that.
Emeralds and Other Precious Stones
Simon & Schuster's Guide to Gems and Precious Stones
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The Green-eyed Monster?
Blue
Blue
Blue is a cool color. It is peaceful and tranquil, like a quiet lake at dusk. It is stability and harmony. Are you true-blue? I try to be.
Blue is loyalty and trust.
It is the water.
It can represent security or send a shiver down your spine.
Are you depressed or melancholy?
Are you blue?
Pretty Blue
Violet
Rare in Nature
Honor
Sacrifice
Violet
Violet is a lighter shade of purple and purple is royalty, luxury and wealth. It is a mysterious color derived from a mixture of opposites. Red is the warmest of the warm colors and blue is cool to the point of being cold. Combined they often pull an unpredictable reaction from people. When it comes to purple, few people are blasé. They either love it or they hate it.The color of mourning
Priced in nature.
Honor and Sacrifice
Beautiful
The Color Scheme Bible
The Color Scheme Bible: Inspirational Palettes for Designing Home Interiors
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An excellent resource for color combinations and the mood you want to acheive.
What is your favorite color?
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Nov 30, 2009 @ 5:29 pm
- I love this lens! I am lensrolling it to my aura lens and blessing it!
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- ShirlW ShirlW Nov 16, 2009 @ 6:10 pm
- The meaning of all things facinates me so I was attracted to this lens right away. You did a great job with it. Love the rainbow poster!
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- Pukeko Pukeko Sep 22, 2009 @ 7:55 pm
- This is really interesting. I had heard some of it, but lots of new meanings here too.
Thanks Lizzy.
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- AppalachianCountry AppalachianCountry Sep 10, 2009 @ 7:19 am
- Great lens. We enjoy color tremendously. Thank-you for the meanings. 5 stars*****
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- Sylvestermouse Sylvestermouse Sep 5, 2009 @ 11:34 am
- All of the colors are beautiful in the pictures you chose for this lens. Blue is my favorite color, but we have a range of colors in our home. Each of us has a different favorite color so as a result and our home features all of those favorites.
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Color and Meaning: Art, Science, and Symbolism
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