Tags: Colors | Chakra Colors | Nature

In my neck of the woods, the earth is in her springtime transition – pulling away from winter and building momentum into the urging new life warmth promises.

It’s a great time to talk about the subject of color meanings ,  because it’s all about transition. Plus, spring is a time when color returns to our sight in special ways. Consequently, it can be a phenomenal time for spiritual growth and understanding.

When I experience in colors, I use the chakras as a meaningful template for deeper understanding.

Just as colors share energy in order to complete their value, so too do the chakras. Each chakra is unique, but never separate. Each lends value to the other.

When we look at the spectrum of colors, it’s easy to see how the colors progress, and deliciously morph into each other. All the colors dance in and out of each other to create new colors, new depths, and new meanings.

For example, blue could never be blue if it had never held hands with yellow, or green. It’s all a dance in which all the colorful dance partners share the beat of life.

And it’s the subject of value that’s prompted me to write this page on chakra color meanings. It drives this point home: Everything is connected and lends value to everything else.

Keeping to that same premise, we can build extraordinary connections between the mundane and the mystical.

What do I mean by that?

Another example: When spring unveils her presence with fresh violet crocus jutting up from the earth, it’s akin to an awakening. The color violet corresponds to the crown chakra, which also represents an awareness and blossoming.

By connecting with the awakening violet crocus, our violet crown chakra is awakened. This elicits an internal dawning – a vital crowning as we situate ourselves into a new awareness.

I continue this line of thought with this page on Chakra Color Meanings.

Click here for the permalink for Chakra Color Meanings.

• Chakra Intro & Chakra Charts
• Chakra Meanings (brief)
• Chakra Animals

A friend of mine responded to a video post about the symbolism of hands (you can read her comment here), which prompted me to wax philosophically about energetic circuitry.

My friend D~, the author of When Isis Rises and also the master mind behind Sapphokinesis will have the honor of being in the presence of her Spiritual Mother, Amma Sri Karunamayi, this weekend.

D~ has thoughtfully observed Amma, and expressed curiosity in her etiquette concerning giving and receiving with hands.

Specifically, Amma’s preference is for an offering to be extended by the giver from the right hand. If the giver forgets, and offers an object to Amma with the left hand, she will gently, lovingly correct – encouraging the offering to be extended with the right hand.  This, from a woman who doesn’t speak much really.

What does this have to do with the symbolism of hands, or with energetic circuitry for that matter?  Plenty.  And here’s why:

Do you remember this experiment as a kid?  This one really blew me away in spiritual terms.  It opened up my awareness about connections, and how energy flows in a circle (the term circuit is derived from circle).

Awareness of that pattern of energetic flow can open up some superior opportunities to enhance, and even channel energy.

I can’t speak for Amma Sri Karunamayi, but, I’m willing to bet she has an intimate understanding of how energy moves from person to person. 

I’m suspecting she is one with the knowledge that each human is a powerful generator, with currents of energy streaming from each of us like gloriously divine batteries.

In order for the light bulbs to remain bright, the currents to stay fluid, and the connections to be at their keenest – we must move with the natural flow of energy. 

Continuing the analogy of energetic circuitry the connection of human-to-human energy would look like an electrical current with a circular energetic pathway similar to the above-shown illustration.

Being mindful of which hand is used can augment the transmission of energy.  Just by being aware of how the flow of energy works, allows it to behave more powerfully. 

Here are a few symbolic attributes pertaining to hands that might further illustrate what I mean by augmenting the flow/transmission of energy: 

 
The simple act (or, more accurately, being aware of the act) of giving with the right hand and receiving with the left has eliminated (what I once viewed as) countless blockages for me. 

I think it has everything to do with allowing the current of energy to flow through its natural courses.

When we dance with the undulating motion of etheric forces, we participate in a grand ball, and we are moving to an energetic concert played by the universe.

If this post spoke to you on an energetic level, you may also be interested in these pages:

• Deeper Symbolism of Circles
• A Brief Video on Hand Symbolism
• Symbolism of Hands

More details and insights on the symbolism of hands can be found on my website here.

Even more thoughts on hands are offered here on my blog.

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If you like this, you may also dig these other symbolic meanings:

• Symbolism of Eyes
• Heart Symbolism
• Five-fold Symbol Meanings (Celtic)
• Number Symbolism