StoneMan
I went to the first of a series of tarot lessons a few weeks ago, and something that I had never taken into great consideration before was the colours in the cards. I read the previous thread about colours in RW, but nobody actually stated much about what the colours mean.
I was given a list, that I was told is not the Law by any means, but for the most part a useful guide as to interpreting the cards colours, and what the various garments and other items colours could mean.
They are as follows:
Gold/Yellow - Positive, happiness, contentment, communication, good outcomes.
Blue - Emotions (more intense, deeper the colour).
Lavender/Purple - Spirituality, royalty.
Red - Passion, anger.
Orange - Passion also, but subdued and somewhat humbled (burnt by the passion of red).
White - Purity, spiritually harmony, virginal.
Grey - Depression, sadness (sometimes suggests mental illness).
Black - Total dispair, death, negativity, hopelessness, not good outcome.
I am still not sure what to make of these things. In some cases they meaning seems to hold true, but quite a bit this becomes flawed and contradictory.
I tend to prefer to locate things that stick out to me and work from them rather than use the totality of the card to try and gleam specifics. With that in mind colour becomes a useful tool to a greater extent I have found.
What do you think of these interpretations? Do you think its wise to pin too much meaning into colours that could just be there because they are typical of that which they represent? (Blues for water, yellow for sun, grey for clouds etc)
Thanks for your time and thoughts
I was given a list, that I was told is not the Law by any means, but for the most part a useful guide as to interpreting the cards colours, and what the various garments and other items colours could mean.
They are as follows:
Gold/Yellow - Positive, happiness, contentment, communication, good outcomes.
Blue - Emotions (more intense, deeper the colour).
Lavender/Purple - Spirituality, royalty.
Red - Passion, anger.
Orange - Passion also, but subdued and somewhat humbled (burnt by the passion of red).
White - Purity, spiritually harmony, virginal.
Grey - Depression, sadness (sometimes suggests mental illness).
Black - Total dispair, death, negativity, hopelessness, not good outcome.
I am still not sure what to make of these things. In some cases they meaning seems to hold true, but quite a bit this becomes flawed and contradictory.
I tend to prefer to locate things that stick out to me and work from them rather than use the totality of the card to try and gleam specifics. With that in mind colour becomes a useful tool to a greater extent I have found.
What do you think of these interpretations? Do you think its wise to pin too much meaning into colours that could just be there because they are typical of that which they represent? (Blues for water, yellow for sun, grey for clouds etc)
Thanks for your time and thoughts