by Catherine Mayell
Color is always bursting with meaning. If you pay attention to it when interpreting images, it will deepen your insights. Some tarot decks, like the Thoth deck, make great use of color to convey meaning. Check out the common meanings of colors below. The energy of colors varies with their wavelength. So red, which has the greatest wavelength, is the most stimulating. While violet, which has the shortest, is the most calming. Next time you see color in an image, feel its energy. What’s it telling you?
- Red/Orange: vitality, life, libido, passion, strength, life force, fire energy (wands).
- Brown: earth energy, fertility, nature, manifestation of earth energy.
- Yellow: Joy, spirit in a male (yang) sense, the Sun, joyful energy, vitality.
- Green: Growth, natural world, life, newness, creativity.
- Blue: spiritual receptive love, wisdom, mental planes, air energy, the feminine (yin) principal, clarity (together with yellow and white).
- Violet: royalty, spirituality, in Egyptian mythology, the color of the warrior, uncalculating warmth, lovingness.
- Gold: transformation, as in alchemy, royalty, divinity, wealth.
Love the meditation.
And the Tarot spread. I saw that I had many options in life- the 9 of cups. But, I am consumed by fear, and inertia, and by not opening my eyes to the opportunities around me – the 8 of swords.
The answer to overcoming this – the Queen of Wands – is to be still and open myself to what comes. Be calm, receptive and optimistic. I have the power within me to bloom.