What are the meanings of different colors?

Answer 1

A Pagan Answer

BLACK

Black is the absence of colour.

It is used to: absorb and banish negativity, return energy to its sender, combat hyperactivity and destroy bad habits.

It represents: the Dark Goddess, the Crone, time, grounding, chaos, winter, rebirth, wisdom, rest, infinity, investigation, divination, protection, the first stage of a working, or the beginning of creation.

It symbolises: outer space, the universe, the number eight.

In some cultures black represents fertility, as in quite fruitful black earth; all potential; the root force of all things; knowledge of hidden things and the container of light.

In western culture it is the colour of death and mourning. It is also in western culture where it has been linked with evil due to religious bias. Although black is a very powerful colour it is not evil.

Feng Shui: Black is the colour of the element Water. It is considered a lucky colour.

Maya West Aztec North

Zuni West Feng Shui North - Black Tortoise

GREY

It is used to stabilise a disturbed personality; to slow down reckless persons or situations and in some glomouries.

Wear grey in combination with green applying for a loan or a raise in wages.

Feng Shui: Grey is sometimes used in Feng Shui as a substitute for White, which is a colour used to denote mourning and hence not used as ornamentation.

WHITE

White is the total expression of light as the sum of all colours. Thus it may be utilised for every magical purpose.

It is used to symbolise a person, place or thing.

It represents the Goddess, the Moon, the Maiden, freshness, snow, cold, potential, peace, purity, truth, perfection, nobility, the disk of the sun (in Norse runes), freedom, love, health, initiation, good will, illumination, general prayer, spirituality, devotional magic, the cycle of life, blessings, feminine mysteries, the Element Spirit, protection, purification, and the ancient mother.

It symbolises the day Monday, the element of Spirit.

Heraldic devices used white to represent silver.

Feng Shui: In the far east uses it as the colour of death and mourning. For this reason it is often represented as silver or grey. White is the symbolisation of the element Metal.

Toltec South Aztec West

Chicmec North Zuni East

Feng Shui West - White Tiger

GREEN

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.

Feng Shui: The Chinese use a Blue-green colour to represent the element of Wood.

Aztec East Checmic East

Maya South Wicca North

Feng Shui East - Green Dragon

YELLOW

Yellow is the colour of the energy of the sun.

Used for healing, prosperity, intellect, intuition, truth, life, attraction, light, beauty, humility, eloquence, confidence, divination, communication, happiness, learning, clairvoyance, goodness, travel and movement.

It symbolises the God, the sun, the Sun King, the power of thought, self-esteem, grain, the Element Air the solar plexus chakra, all sun gods, the mind, the day Sunday and the zodiac signs Taurus & Libra.

The Polynesians saw it as the colour of royalty and divinity. The Norse interpreted it as earthly powers, a sign of desire & lust, and as a will towards manifestation. Heraldic devices used yellow to represent gold.

Use Yellow in magic for studying and to heighten your visualisation skills.

If you wear a bit of yellow to a job interview it shows you can be trusted.

Feng Shui: Yellow is an Imperial colour and often represented by gold.

Maya South Checmics West

Toltec East Wicca East

Feng Shui Earth

ORANGE

Orange is the colour of opportunity.

Used for fire magic, justice, the law, happiness, luxury, spirituality, energy, hospitality, strength, authority, luck, adaptability, motivation, harmony and general attraction.

It symbolises the Lord.

Use it in Magic spells to break blocks, help seal a spell, overcome challenges, remove feelings of abandonment and for natural gains.

Aztec East

PINK

Pink is the colour we most often connect with romance.

Used for love, friendship, harmony, compassion, relaxation and companionship.

Pink is symbolic of gentle emotions and of emotional unions.

Western society often links pink with very young female children and has recently been used in the pick ribbon Breast cancer campaign.

Use it in Magic spells of protection and unconditional love.

RED

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.

Feng Shui: Red represents the element Fire, and associated with life, and good fortune.

Maya East Checmics South

Toltec North Zuni East(?)

Wicca South Feng Shui South - Red Bird

PURPLE

Purple is the colour of passion and magic.

Used for power, spirituality, meditation, intelligence, religion & religious devotion, anything to do with government, truth, justice, and humility.

Purple symbolises the divine, the Lady, the planet Jupiter, the day Wednesday and the Zodiac signs Sagittarius & Gemini.

It was once the European symbol of royalty

Use purple in magic spells for healing severe disease, psychic work, prophetic dreams, to create sigils and to call the ancient ones.

LAVENDER

Lavender is the colour of serenity.

Used for peace, meditation, forgiveness, poetry, in dreaming magical and to invoke Spirit when in the process of charitable work.

Purple is symbolic of the Zodiac sign Virgo.

BLUE

Blue is the colour of fidelity.

Used for truth, wisdom, faith, intelligence, peace, meditation, healing, psychism, patience, decision making, poetry, understanding,

Happiness, sleep, dreams, tranquility, the oceans, waters, and the sky.

Blue symbolises the Great Mother Queen of Heaven, feminine mysteries, The Element Water, the planet Venus, the day Thursday and the Zodiac signs Aquarius & Pisces.

The Norse saw blue as the all encompassing, all penetrating, and omnipresent mystical force of numen and a sign of restless motion. The Europeans connected it with the upper classes (blue-blooded) and it is commonly used as a term of loyalty (true blue).

Use blue in magic spells to protect one's reputation, defeat enemies, protect hearth & home, protect the young and for self-awareness. When combined with white it is said to create confusion among the evil.

Zuni South Wicca West

INDIGO

Indigo is the colour of infinity.

Used for healing, sleep, inner harmony and rest.

Indigo symbolises the crown chakra, Zodiac sign Capricorn, wounded pride, and the last twilight.

The Norse saw it as the colour of Odhinn's cloak.

Use indigo in magic spells to remove guilt and to properly knit broken bones.

BROWN

Brown is the colour of the soil.

Used for support, security, home, friendship, grounding and endurance.

Brown symbolises the Dark Hunter and the fertility of the earth.

Use it in magic spells involving animals, nature, to sooth emotional upsets and in combination with other colours to lend stability & grounding.

Wear brown to a job interview to show you are responsible.

GOLD

Gold is the colour of the Sun God.

Used for prosperity, solar energy, confidence, success, reputation and honour.

Gold symbolises the Sun, the God, spiritual light, the Zodiac sign Leo and the physical light of the sun.

The Norse saw gold as the force of Ond in the universe and power in all realms. The Amerind and the Aztec called it the tears of the gods but did not attach worldly value to it.

SILVER

Silver is the colour of Moonlight.

Used for reality, freedom, fast money, endurance, star magic, meditation, peace, the Charge of the Goddess and hope.

Silver symbolises the moon, the stars, the Goddess, and spiritual light.

Use it in magic spells for restoring balance, destroying illusions, negating stress, for astral travel, personal illumination, and Moon magic.

Feng Shui: Silver is sometimes used in Feng Shui as a substitute for White, which is a colour used to denote mourning and hence not used as ornamentation.

Answer 2

Colors can represent many things depending upon the person and the instance in which they are used. Generally Red is associated with the element of Fire and the magick properties of that element. Blue is associated with the element of Water and its properties and Green associated with the element Earth and its properties and Yellow associated with Air and its properties.

Green could also represent, strength, protection, healing

Red could represent, passion, sex, lust, anger, vengeance

Yellow could represent knowledge, intellect, inspiration

Blue could represent mystery, psychic ability, emotion

silver could represent the moon and female divinity

gold could represent the sun and male divinity

the list goes on and on

Answer 3

In the Olympics? The colors and rings represent the colors of the flags and the rings are the continents.

Answer 4

Green means hope. Now, other ones....