What do the Christmas colors red and green symbolize?

Answer 1

Green is the colour most commonly connected with nature and ecology.

It is used for money, prosperity, employment, fertility, self-knowledge, protection, healing, growth, youth, hope, spring, happiness, abundance, idealism, honour, immortality, balance, luck, calmness, love and personal appearance.

It symbolises: the Green Man; the Element Earth; the planets Venus and Mercury; gods and goddesses of vegetation and/or the forest; the day Friday; and the Zodiac sign Cancer.

Green is the colour we connect with our planet's fertility (it's the colour of chlorophyll), new beginnings, agriculture, and ecological magic.

The Norse saw it as organic life as well as the passage between worlds. It is also used in spells to improve the weather and when combined with silver and/or gold for financial gain.

Red is the colour of blood, and thus, life & death.

Used for strength, protection, sex, passion, courage, projection, birth, action, festivity, faith, anger, enthusiasm, life, renewal, vitality, power, aggression and achievement.

Red symbolises will, intense emotion, the Mother, the masculine principal, volcanoes, summer, the element Fire, the planet Mars, the day Tuesday and the Zodiac signs Aries & Scorpio.

Throughout Polynesia red was a sacred colour associated with both deities and the highest social classes. The Norse saw it as a sign of magical might & main, protective power, spiritual life & vigour, aggressive force and used it as the principal colour of runes. In the far east red is the colour of joy and fertility, thus it is a traditional colour for brides' dresses.

Use red in magic spells for deep affection, active leadership, expansion, life force, maintaining health and physical energy. It is also widely used in magical defence.