Spiritual Meaning Of Colors: Orange
Orange: Orange is the color of fall and harvest. Orange could be associated with social energies, including creating a feeling of well being, uniting people and causing cooperation with others. Orange is associated with joy, wisdom, happiness, creativity, success, attraction, and stimulation. It addresses fear and insecurities and other disharmony in the emotional body. It is an energy for change in the emotions and parts of self that are not feeling good about self. It is not a surprise that orange is used as the color for the clothing of spiritual seekers at ashrams. Seen in the aura, orange is a power color and a majority of orange in the aura indicates a spiritual teacher (www.thiaoouba.com/see_aura_color.htm). Orange is the color of the Sacral Hara Chakra. It is a color that brings feelings of well being and cooperation. It keeps people from squabbling amongst themselves. According to Richard Cavendish, editor in chief of Man Myth And Magic, Vol 2 (1985), orange represents humor, ambition, harmony. Giving an orange rose shows your enthusiasm and desire for the person.
Orange is a more mellow color in the spectrum of warm colors, compared to red. Orange is a mixture of the vitality of red and the intellectuality of yellow, balancing the physical primal urges with the intelligence to assess what is truly fair and right. It enhances self-confidence, but not in the same way as red. Red incites and excites, whereas orange gives quiet poise and self-esteem that need not be expressed outwardly. Red is rather outgoing, whereas orange is welcoming, and calls people together for fellowship. A person dressed in orange is hard to resist or not notice. Orange in places where people congregate or collaborate can enhance the outcome of the group’s interactions with each other. Orange helps in overcoming bad habits, especially habits of attitude. It helps one overcome prejudice, judgment, and unfair bias. Orange banishes loneliness, guilt and remorse, some of the most crippling emotions of mankind. These emotions lead to insecurity, and orange can address this. It also prevents fear of change, and rather invites change into more positive energies. It is the color of hope and a second wind.
It is a very healing energy. It stimulates not only emotional well being, but also physical well-being, but not quite in the same way red does. Orange has a more subtle approach, but effective none the less. Ted Andres, in his book How To Heal With Color (1992), states, orange “stimulates feelings of sociability. It is tied to our emotional health and to the muscular system of the body. Too much orange effects the nerves and should be balanced with shades of green-blues. Orange can assist in healing conditions of the spleen, pancreas, stomach, intestines, and adrenals. Individuals experiencing emotional paralysis or depression can be helped with this color. It can be used to help re-vitalize the physical body and assist with food assimilation,” as it is good for the eliminative system. Orange is said to increase oxygen flow to the brain, stimulating appetite, increase sexual potency and immunity. According to www.crystal-cure.com, “For healing, these stones are essential for health and vitality. It regulates food intake. Orange is warm and positive.” The gemstones to represent orange are carnelian and fire opal.
Dark Orange: Dark orange can mean distrust.
Orange-Red: Orange-Red represents sexual, passion, and arousal. Psychologist Max Luscher, in Color Test: The Remarkable Test That Reveals Your Personality Through Color (1969) believes orange-red represents “Force of Will” and is eccentric, active, offensivee-aggressive, autonomous, locomotor, competitive, and operative. Its affective aspects are desire, excitability, domination, and sexuality. Red “represents an energy-expending physiological condition. It speeds up the pulse, raises blood pressure and increases the respiration rate… red is the urge to achieve results, to win success; it is hungrily to desire all those things which offer intensity of living and fullness of experience.”
Pastel Orange: Pastel Orange assists in healing muscle aches, soft orange assists in allergies, yellow-orange assists with bladder, bowels, and kidneys.
Gold: Gold is a higher octave of orange, and channels the energy of orange into spiritual awakening, or spiritual wisdom. It invites spiritual rebirth and possesses a high level of spiritual happiness and wisdom. It represents beauty of the soul. It provides encouragement, tolerance, comfort, warmth, openness, optimism, and illumination. It is the wise one, the teacher, and assists with communication. It suggests and advises. It makes no value judgments and has great tolerance. It is also cheerful and gives warm hearted feelings. It is the light of joy and happiness. It is symbolic of wealth and good health. The gemstone that can be used to represent gold is citrine. In the Aura, gold is a strengthening and charging field (www.globalpsychics.com). Ted Andres, in his book How To Heal With Color (1992), states, “golden-yellow shades are healthful to both the body and the mind… Gold is a powerful stimulant to the immune system of the body. It helps awaken the individual’s own healing energies to assist the body in restoring homeostasis” and can awaken enthusiasm. In meditation, gold is often seen right before a peak experience.