A Butterfly Touch

Burgundy is one of my favourite colours - it is an intense mix of red and purple. Burgundy leads with strength and force making it somewhat intimidating. Burgundy understands that with great power comes great responsibility. With its strong presence, burgundy can increase energy levels and can promote productivity without being overbearing.
Burgundy symbolizes: power, intensity, individuality and sophistication
Positive Traits: ambitious, remarkable, unique, understanding
Negative Traits: somber, controlling, reserved, timid

Pink (Part 1)
The colour pink represents caring, compassion and love. The pink colour stands for unconditional love and understanding, and is associated with giving and receiving care. Since pink is a combination of red and white, both colors add a little to its characteristics. It gets the lust for action from the red colour, and the white colour gives it an opportunity to achieve success and insight. Passion and power from the colour red, softened with the purity and openness of the white colour completes pink colour meaning. The deeper the pink colour, the more passion and energy it radiates.
Pink is romantic and intimate, feminine, loving, caring and extremely considerate. It tones down the physical passion from the red colour and replaces it with a gentle and loving energy. The colour pink is insightful and intuitive and it shows tenderness and kindness from its empathetic and sensitive nature.
Pink is a sign of hope. It is a positive colour that inspires warm and comforting feelings. The colour pink gives the feeling that everything will go well or be okay. Most people have heard of the saying “everything is rosy”. It may also indicate good health and success.

Orange
ORANGE is about Dependency/Co-dependency/Independence. Shock and trauma. Deep insight, joy and ecstasy. The physicality of the red combined with the self-knowledge of yellow.

ORANGE is Harmony. Beauty. Sexuality. Art. Creativity. Renunciation/Divinity (the robes of Buddhist monks). Dedication and devotion to a higher ideal. As we look beyond the material level, we start questioning and aspiring to higher levels than the material & physical. Trust. Acceptance. Bonding - expanding awareness to include others. ORANGE calls in our whole relationship to all life - this is the place we work it out.

From the yellow component comes Insight and self-knowledge - mindfulness. In the ORANGE component, one finds devotion, and the willingness to belong to a team effort. Gregariousness in spirit, expressing as group consciousness and an awareness of other peoples’ needs. Bliss. The social colour. Connects us to our etheric body. Relates to relationships of any kind.

Mindfulness. Patience and perseverance. Deep insights. ORANGE increases oxygen flow through the blood and brain which helps with clarity on a mental level. When imbalanced: Indecision. Lack of self-worth.

"Gut feelings". Spontaneous (red) wisdom. Sexuality for pleasure and joy, not with the intent to conceive. Excitement. Extroversion. Deep delight. Bright and humourous. Connected with belly laughter and playfulness. When imbalanced: Hysteria. Depression. Stubbornness. Shock/Trauma.

GREEN

Green symbolizes money, luck, prosperity, vitality and fertility. It is also associated with envy. Green is the color of healing; it is beneficial in all healing situations. In the aura green signifies balance, peace and often indicates ability as a healer.
The color Green balances our energies, increases love, empathy and compassion. It is good for working with nature and the environment. It increases prosperity and good fortune. Green strengthens the heart, lungs and respiratory system. It helps fight infection and viruses. Green can also counter panic attacks and addiction.
Green represents abundance, renewal, growth and nature. It is a harmonizing, balancing and calming color. Green is a healing color that gives healing energy to the heart.
Green is the color of balance. It also means learning, growth, renewal, and harmony. Green is the color of nature. It brings peace and harmony into our lives. It is the color of Healing and Hope, optimism, freedom, balance.
Green is an emotionally positive color, giving us the ability to love and nurture ourselves and others unconditionally.
Being a combination of yellow and blue, green encompasses the mental clarity and optimism of yellow with the emotional calm and insight of blue, inspiring hope and a generosity of spirit not available from other colors.
This is a color that has a strong sense of right or wrong, inviting good judgment. It sees both sides of the equation, weighs them up, and then usually takes the moral stand in making appropriate decisions. On the negative side, it can be judgmental and over-cautious.

Keywords - Growth, fertility, harmony, healing, refreshing, peaceful, contentment, satisfaction, confidence, money, prosperity, hope, luck, beauty.

Dark Green is associated with ambition, greed, and jealousy.
Yellow-Green can indicate sickness, cowardice, discord, and jealousy.
Aqua is associated with emotional healing and protection.
Olive Green is the traditional color of peace.

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

Colour Matters

With colours you can set a mood, attract attention, or make a statement. You can use colour to energize, or to cool down. By selecting the right colour scheme, you can create an ambiance of elegance, warmth or tranquility, or you can convey an image of playful youthfulness. Colour can be your most powerful element if you learn to use it effectively.

Being able to use colours consciously and harmoniously can help you create spectacular results.

The Colour Wheel

The colour wheel or colour circle is the basic tool for combining colours.
The colour wheel is designed so that virtually any colours you pick from it will look good together. Over the years, many variations of the basic design have been made, but the most common version is a wheel of 12 colors based on the RYB (or artistic) colour model.
Traditionally, there are a number of colour combinations that are considered especially pleasing. These are called colour harmonies or colour chords and they consist of two or more colours with a fixed relation in the colour wheel.

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