| Helena,
I use colors in healing work and there are different ways that they
can be used. My sense is that you may be working with colors in one
of two ways. One, no one color is "bad" or "negative" in and of
itself, even black. It is more the "quality" of the color that is
important. Is it dull and afflicted, or is it translucent and vibrant?
Also, some people tend to "feel" these color qualities better
than they can "see" them.
The other possibility is that you may be developing your own unique
and personal "dictionary" of what certain colors mean to *you*. In
that sense they are more like symbols. And like dream symbols, may
not communicate the same information from person to person.
This is something you will have to discern for yourself and may take
some time to do. Keeping a journal and recording your experiences with
color could be invaluable. That way you can see the patterns that emerge
and note the common traits. There are also some good books available
on color healing that may be of some assistance. I'll check on some,
and perhaps other people in this conference can recommend some good
reading for you.
best regards,
Karen
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| Helena,
In my experience there is no universal language to clairvoyant
symbolism. Each person has their own, which may be *just* their own,
or which they have been trained in by their teachers. Even in the
case of an untrained, personal symbol system, there tend to be some
simiarities to that of others because people, by the mere fact of
being people, have certain similarities in the way they react to
things. People who share a particular culture will have even more
similarities.
The advice in .1 is good, I think, try to keep track, preferably in
writing, of what you sense and how it turns out, and use that to decode
your own language. In the short term, you might try just comtemplating
each color for a while (one per session) and see what
images/associations/thoughts come to mind.
You might use the following associations as a *very tentative* starting
point -- a first guess, very much subject to reinterpretation with
experience. In my experience these are common -- but not at all
universal -- strong associations within our culture (note that many
colors are not represented since I have detected no unambiguous
dominant interpretation; also note that there are some contraditions
even here):
Black -- death, fear, peace
White -- purity
Red -- violence, anger, life
Blue -- peace, sadness, grief
Green -- comfort, vitality, illness
I caution you again *not* to simply accept these as true, but at most,
to just use them as a starting point until you learn more about your
own meanings.
Topher
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