Influence of Color
There's no doubt about us being affected by color. There are studies out there that confirm that players of a red team play more aggressive and players of a blue team play more calm and thoughtful.
We even associate feelings with colors.
From color theory, we learn that:
Red represents
fire, blood, energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination, passion, desire and love.
Orange represents
joy, sunshine, tropics, healthy food, fall, harvest, strength, and endurance.
Yellow represents
sunshine, joy, happiness, intellect, energy, cheerfulness, food, honor, loyalty and cowardice.
Green represents
nature, growth, harmony, freshness, fertility, safety, lack of experience, hope.
Blue represents
sky, sea, depth, stability, trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, heaven, tranquility, calmness, piety, sincerity and expertise.
Purple represents
royalty, power, nobility, luxury, ambition, wealth, extravagance, wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery and magic.
White represents
light, goodness, innocence, purity, virginity, perfection, safety, purity, cleanliness, successful beginning, faith, and purity.
Black represents
power, elegance, formality, death, evil, mystery and grief.
Though the color theory is not what this post is about, it's interesting to compare the color meanings according to color theory and according to magic.
Magical Meaning of Colors
This is most likely what you came for though I must say these are just a small bunch of meanings I got taught. So if you've learned something different from your sources they might be right just as well! I'm not saying neither are wrong. Anyways here we go:
Red is the most active of all colors.
It increases strength and power and helps against depression.
Orange is the color of vitality, it increases spiritual power, supports communication and cheerful serenity.
Generally, yellow is an active color that supports interest in learning, increases interest and understanding. It is useful for and improves thinking while attracting the positive and changes things to the better.
Green is also an active color that brings good luck in business. It represents the flow of movement and makes faltering energies move again. It improves spiritual growth, heals feelings and is the color of choice when working or interacting with children.
Generally, blue calms and removes anger. It decreases any kind of stress while supporting concentration and relaxation. It counts as a color that heals and protects.
Lavendel is a spiritual color. It decreases any kind of stress and improves calmness, spirituality, and internalization.
White counts as a neutral color.
Black deflects negative influences, can be used for banning and protects from influences from outside. It also purifies and protects from dark scheming.
Comparison
Alright. I have some more but let's compare these for now. It's actually quite different but the most different is probably the color black. In color theory, it is compared to something unknown or evil whilst in magic, it is supposed to protect oneself - from evil as well. No wonder witches and occultists like to wear black, everyone likes to be safe.
Physics Digression
Also, physicists may notice that red is called the most active of all colors here.
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As you can see red is one of the colors of light with the lowest energy. So what happens here? Shouldn't magic and physic agree if they're connected like I mentioned in an earlier post that magic is a science? Of course, there must be a reason for this. I would assume that it's a leftover in the unconsciousness of us all. Everyone knows if something is shown as hot it's shown a red. If something is cold it's shown as blue. If something heats up the particles increase in speed and if something has speed it has energy. Following this through one would assume red would have more energy. Maybe it has to do with the warmth of the light since it matches the spike of heat flux near the red light? I guess this is one of the problems magic has that haven't been solved yet. The problem is that most often something in magic is taken for granted. In magic, almost everyone goes for the effect or end result instead of the way to get there which is understandable since in physics you too can tell a quantum computer to calculate 1 + 1 but if you actually look at how it calculated 1 + 1 you might get three as a solution. Alright, enough of physics digression.
Additional Magical Meaning of Colors
Let's go through the rest of the list I have noted down so this post is complete according to my current state.
So two variations of yellow are:
- Gold, which strengthens the spirit as well as every type of perception. It can be used for gold and money spells.
- Amber develops visionary abilities, improves communication with spirits and supports reaching a deep meditative state.
