Spiritual Meaning Of Colors: Blue
Blue: It is the coolest and calmest color of the spectrum. Blue symbolizes loyalty, faith, truth, tranquility, heaven, and wisdom. Blue correlates to intellect and consciousness. Blue is the color of creative energy and is associated with compassion. According to Richard Cavendish, editor in chief of Man Myth And Magic, Vol 2 (1985), blue represents intuition, seriousness, and healing. In ancient as well as in current times blue is the color used to represent public servants such as police officers. In Iran, blue is the color of mourning, while in China it is worn by female children. Egyptian pharaohs wore blue to protect themselves from evil. In conjunction with healing, blue can be used to calm the senses and slow human metabolism. Blue is the color associated with the elements of water. It is said that people with a “blue strong point in their aura are relaxed, balanced and ready to live in a cave and survive. They are born survivors.” (www.thiaoouba.com/see_aura_color.htm)
Blue is the color of the Throat Chakra. Some gemstones that can be used to represent blue in ceremony are sapphire, sodalite and blue topaz (www.crystal-cure.com). According to www.crystal-cure.com, “For healing, these stones are said to aid the treatment of any blockage or disease of the throat. It is also helpful when inflammation occurs, since blue is a cooling color. It is also said to aid with internal bleeding and nervous conditions.” Ted Andres, in his book How To Heal With Color (1992), states, “Blue is cooling to our system and it is relaxing… quieting to our energies, and it has an antiseptic effect as well. It is strengthening and balancing to the respiratory system of the body. It is excellent for high blood pressure and all conditions of the throat.” Useful in healing children, “it is effective in easing childhood diseases, along with asthma, chicken pox, jaundice and rheumatism… It is beneficial to venous conditions of the body,” and can awaken intuition, ease loneliness, spark inspiration and artistic expression. Very effective when paired with warmer colors. Blue assists in the healing of abscesses, headaches, toothaches, asthma, high blood pressure, bronchitis, burns, fevers, inflammation, and liver problems.
Light Blue: The energy becomes finer as we move toward the cooler parts of the color spectrum. Blue enters an even more serene area than green. It is less physically stimulating and is more astringent in vibration. It soothes worries and lessens grief and loss. It prompts the human mind to consider the truth about infinity and how the human fits in to that infinity. It raises a human above the coarser vibrations of the warmer colors. It helps us let go of pettiness and pet peeves.
It causes us to move toward the realm of higher consciousness and spiritual maturity, evolving into a higher being. Light blue symbolizes spiritual development, faith in spirit, sincerity, and peace. It is energizing to devotional and spiritual powers, bringing into being spiritual qualities of guidance and ethical inspiration. Blue can deepen faith in the process of life and consciousness, giving the human being more peace by knowledge alone that a higher force, or deeper force, guides the whole process.
Ted Andres, in his book How To Heal With Color (1992), states, light blue can assist in the healing of anxieties, powder or ice blue can assist in the healing of blisters, nausea, and swelling. It soothes all types of anxiety, giving tranquility. It helps insomnia and calms the mind.
Blue-Green: Psychologist Max Luscher, in Color Test: The Remarkable Test That Reveals Your Personality Through Color (1969) states that blue-green represents “Elasticity of Will” and is concentric, passive, defensive, autonomous, retentive, possessive, and immutable. Its affective aspects are persistence, self-assertion, obstinacy, and self-esteem. Green “expresses itself psychologically as the will in operation, as perseverance and tenacity. Blue-green is therefore an expression of firmness, of constancy and, above all, of resistance to change.” Ted Andres, in his book How To Heal With Color (1992), states, “The brighter greens, leaning toward the blue spectrum, are powerful in healing most conditions.” Blue-green can assist in the healing of bleeding, bronchitis, burns, menstrual problems, and nerves.
Dark Blue: Dark Blue is representative of expertise, depth, knowledge, moderation, and power. Use dark blue to promote joy, loyalty, and change. Psychologist Max Luscher, in Color Test: The Remarkable Test That Reveals Your Personality Through Color (1969) believes dark-blue represents “Depth of Feeling” and is concentric, passive, incorporative, heteronomous, sensitive, perceptive, and unifying. Its affective aspects are tranquility, contentment, tenderness, love, and affection. Dark-blue represents complete calm, “blood pressure, pulse and respiration rate are all reduced, while self-protective mechanisms work to recharge the organism.” Ted Andres, in his book How To Heal With Color (1992), states, Royal Blue “is very antiseptic and it helps the body assimilate oxygen. It can clear the foggy mind and is an aid to negative physical conditions that affect the brain.” Royal Blue assists in the healing of Alzheimer’s disease, and eyes. Deep Blue assists in the healing of epilepsy, hemorrhoids, and influenza.
Blue-Purple: Blue-purple followed by yellow can assist in the healing of Alzheimer’s disease. It is also useful for spiritual purposes, including deep meditation and exploration of the unconscious.
Turquoise: Turquoise projects a refreshing, cool, and imaginative force. It is the symbol of youth. It is said that turquoise has a calming effect. The gemstone that can be used to represent this color is aquamarine. In the Aura realm this color “indicates dynamic quality of being, highly energized personality capable of projection, influencing other people.” (www.thiaoouba.com/see_aura_color.htm) People with turquoise in their aura are good organizers. Ted Andres, in his book How To Heal With Color (1992), states, “Turquoise assists in the healing of earaches, bronchitis, epilepsy, influenza, and rashes.”
Aqua: Aqua is similar to turquoise but it is representative of motivation and activeness. Ted Andres, in his book How To Heal With Color (1992), states, “Aqua is cooling to the system. It combines the beneficial effects of blue and green, vitalizing the system and purifying as well. It is effective in skin conditions” and for acute pain and earaches.
Indigo: This is a mixture of purple and blue, the in-between shade. It moves us further into the spiritual realms of life, symbolizing mankind’s Third-eye Chakra, or spiritual vision. It is used to clear the head and open the third eye. This color represents power, integrity, and intellect. It is the ray of serious self-introspection, contemplation, analysis from a spiritual standpoint, and increased intuitive powers. It could be thought of as the color of the spiritual aspects of mankind’s intellect.
Indigo is also a sedative and useful when meditating to gain depth, intuition, and awaken devotion, however too much indigo can cause depression and feelings of isolation. This color assists in transforming the shadow self, if one is willing to delve into the murkier waters of his or her consciousness. It leads to comprehension and self-knowledge that might take a turn through the dark halls of the psyche at first, but the rewards are great for this brave act of self-inquiry. It assists in answering the questions we ask ourselves, like “who are we?” and “why are we here?” With this color, the abstract fuses into the concrete, bringing lofty ideas to Earth.
It is only natural that with self-introspection comes an increase in spiritual and intuitive powers. Mankind’s sixth sense is still in development and this is the first step in that maturation. Indigo can assist in developing this next step in evolution. It helps us recognize the bigger picture and let go of the smaller picture as the basis for reality. Perception spontaneously awakens and intuitive powers cause us to explore even deeper states of consciousness than the original self-inquiry that started it all. It is a color used by spiritual teachers and students who wish to increase their intuitive abilities. Indigo helps with self-discipline in spiritual endeavors, but also assists with more menial self-discipline like managing time, money and actions.
The gemstones sapphire, azurite, and indigo can be used in ritual to promote the qualities of indigo. According to www.crystal-cure.com, “For healing, these stones are said to aid the treatment of mental disorders.” Ted Andres, in his book How To Heal With Color (1992), states, “Indigo and the deeper shades of blue are dynamic healing colors on both spiritual and physical levels… It is strengthening to the lymph system, the glands, and to the immune system of the body. It is an excellent blood purifier and can assist in detoxifying the body. It is a color that is balancing to the hemispheres of the brain and the nerve synapses between them. It is effective in treating all conditions of the face (including eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and sinuses)... It can be used for problems in the lungs and for removing certain obsessions.” Indigo also assists in the healing of AIDS (with red and violet, followed by pink and gold), alcoholism, allergies, excessive appetite, eye problems, and Parkinson’s.
Violet/Purple: This is the highest color vibration that we can see with our physical eyes in the spectrum and also has the shortest wavelength. It is a mixture of red and blue, so this color is also a sort of bridge between the warm and cool colors in the spectrum. Purple is symbolic of ambition, luxury, power, wisdom, independence, mystery, magic, and spirituality. It represents confidence and dignity, and it is no wonder that royalty of earlier eras reserved it as a color that could only be worn by kings and queens, princes and princesses. The only material available for making dyes were plants, minerals, and a few animal or insects. The dying process required the luxury of time and money and this meant that colorful paintings and pieces of clothing were only possessed by the wealthy and became a status symbol. Purple carries the energy of great fame. (www.afgen.com/gamble7.html) Cleopatra and Roman Emperors used the costly purple made from hundreds of crushed snail shells. In some instances, it was punishable by death to wear purple if one was not royalty.
According to Richard Cavendish, editor in chief of Man Myth And Magic, Vol 2 (1985), violet represents warmth and humility. Violet is intimate, erotic, intuitive, and sensitive understanding, if somewhat unreal and wish-fulfillment. Psychologist Max Luscher, in Color Test: The Remarkable Test That Reveals Your Personality Through Color (1969) states, “Violet attempts to unify the impulsive conquest of red and the gentle surrender of blue, becoming representative of ‘identification.’ This identification is a sort of mystic union, a high degree of sensitive intimacy leading to complete fusion between subject and object, so that everything which is thought and desired must become Reality.”