Post by Sir Black Fox on Apr 10, 2007 22:10:58 GMT -5
While the colour of roses mean certain things from men to women. . . did you know that some feathers in a woman's hat mean things to men in the days of the Renaissance?
Peacosik feathers - the "eye" is thought to ward off the evil eye.
RED: Maintaining health, strength, physical energy, sex, passion, courage, protection. The color of the element of Fire. Red is associated with blood (and thus, life and death), birth, volcanoes, and intense emotions. The Zuni of America linked this color with the South. Throughout Polynesia, red was a sacred color associated with both the deities and with the highest social classes.
PINK: is symbolic of gentle emotions and of emotional unions. It's less intense than red.
ORANGE: General attraction, energy. Orange is a lesser aspect of red.
YELLOW: Intellect, confidence, divination, communication, eloquence, travel, movement. Yellow is the color of the element of Air. It symbolizes the sun, grain, and the power of thought. To the Zuni, it symbolized the North. In Polynesia, yellow was a color of royalty and divinity.
GREEN: Honey, prosperity, employment, fertility, healing, growth. Green is the color of the element of Earth and symbolizes our planet's fertility (it's the color of chlorophyll) as well as life itself.
BLUE: Healing, peace, psychism, patience, happiness. Blue is the color of the element of Water. Symbolic of the ocean, sleep, twilight, and the sky.
Light Blue or pastel: is concidered to be the color of King Luis OF FRANCE and a fopish color, a symbol of homosexuality in europe during this time period
PURPLE: Power, healing severe disease, spirituality, meditation, religion. Purple was once a European symbol of royalty; today it symbolizes the divine.
WHITE: Protection, purification, all purposes. Symbolic of the moon, freshness, snow, cold, and potential. Because white contains all colors, it can be utilized for every magical purpose.
BLACK: Banishing negativity, absorbing negativity. Symbolizes outer space and the universe. Black is the absence of colors. In some cultures, black represented fertility (as in quite fruitful black earth); in others, wisdom. In our culture it has been curiously linked with evil, due to religious associations. It is not an evil color.
BROWN: Animals. Used for spells involving animals, usually in combination with other colors. Brown also represents soil and, to a lesser degree, fertility of the Earth.
Peacosik feathers - the "eye" is thought to ward off the evil eye.
RED: Maintaining health, strength, physical energy, sex, passion, courage, protection. The color of the element of Fire. Red is associated with blood (and thus, life and death), birth, volcanoes, and intense emotions. The Zuni of America linked this color with the South. Throughout Polynesia, red was a sacred color associated with both the deities and with the highest social classes.
PINK: is symbolic of gentle emotions and of emotional unions. It's less intense than red.
ORANGE: General attraction, energy. Orange is a lesser aspect of red.
YELLOW: Intellect, confidence, divination, communication, eloquence, travel, movement. Yellow is the color of the element of Air. It symbolizes the sun, grain, and the power of thought. To the Zuni, it symbolized the North. In Polynesia, yellow was a color of royalty and divinity.
GREEN: Honey, prosperity, employment, fertility, healing, growth. Green is the color of the element of Earth and symbolizes our planet's fertility (it's the color of chlorophyll) as well as life itself.
BLUE: Healing, peace, psychism, patience, happiness. Blue is the color of the element of Water. Symbolic of the ocean, sleep, twilight, and the sky.
Light Blue or pastel: is concidered to be the color of King Luis OF FRANCE and a fopish color, a symbol of homosexuality in europe during this time period
PURPLE: Power, healing severe disease, spirituality, meditation, religion. Purple was once a European symbol of royalty; today it symbolizes the divine.
WHITE: Protection, purification, all purposes. Symbolic of the moon, freshness, snow, cold, and potential. Because white contains all colors, it can be utilized for every magical purpose.
BLACK: Banishing negativity, absorbing negativity. Symbolizes outer space and the universe. Black is the absence of colors. In some cultures, black represented fertility (as in quite fruitful black earth); in others, wisdom. In our culture it has been curiously linked with evil, due to religious associations. It is not an evil color.
BROWN: Animals. Used for spells involving animals, usually in combination with other colors. Brown also represents soil and, to a lesser degree, fertility of the Earth.