The Color Code – The Meaning Behind the Sparkle
As we’ve all heard before, our favorite colors reflect our personalities but hues do more than tell us about ourselves. Colors can also influence our emotions and evoke unconscious responses. Some even believe that colored stones hold special powers and energies that follow their related meanings. No matter what color does for you, we can all say that different tints, tones and shades certainly make our world a more beautiful place.
Here we look information that tells us just how stone colors speak to us, what they symbolize and what type of personality they bring to the world.
Red
Red can speak to people in many ways. It is the warmest color and can evoke a sense of warmth, fieriness or danger. In China, red means prosperity and joy. Red roses symbolize fiery passion and love. Red is also the color of Mars, the planet also known as the God of War.
No matter what red means to you, there is no doubt that it has a certain vivacious energy about it. Case in point, it is the color of blood which allows it to stand for life. Red stones can increase enthusiasm, energy and interest. It also enhances self-assurance; what woman in a fiery red dress doesn’t exude confidence?! It also gives a sense of security, an emphasis on survival in life and protects us from fear; ie: a burning fire keeping wild animals at bay. On the negative side it can also mean a furious temper, bad attitude or anger.
Energy Properties: Red stones can strengthen the body, promote courage and confidence, enhance vigor and can help people over come sexual dysfunction with its passionate energy.
Pink
The color pink is universally associated with love. It is a color of peace and inner beauty; rare qualities in people as well as in gemstones (pink diamonds are the rarest form of the stone).
Pink is a combination of red and white and pulls in qualities of both hues. It uses the fulfilling potential of white in combination with the achievements and confidence of red to evoke a sense of self-worth, love, acceptance and compassion. Pink stones evoke a sense of calm, tranquility and contentment.
Energy Properties: Pink stones can promote self-love, inspire beauty and maintain a neutral balance and order to protect from homes hostility.
Brown
Brown is often considered a neutral and conventional color. It is often preferred by traditional, methodical people. It is also the color of earth, associating with life in this way.
As a mixture of red, blue and yellow, brown comes in many shades depending on the variant of each color in its combo. The red gives it real potential while the yellow and blue give that potential focus. However, too much brown can have a dulling, solitary effect. As with the earth, brown evokes a solid, wholesome, blending feeling bringing in a sense of orderliness and stability.
Energy Properties: Brown stones are grounding, promoting stability and a sense of clarity.
Orange
Orange is a powerful color. It promotes healing, endurance, enthusiasm and a craving for food! It also helps get creative juices flowing during times of block. Lady Luck’s flush is orange and it’s
Orange is a mixture of red and yellow. Curiosity and the urge to explore new things comes from the red mixture in orange while the selfless purity side comes from yellow. If your favorite color is orange, you are probably caring and sincere. Orange hues add spice to life, help spring curiosity to try something new and creative and can bring relief from intense situations.
Energy Properties: Orange stones use the potential red brings in a more subtle, creative way. They are wonderful for people who need an esteem boost and personal empowerment. Orange gems can encourage creativity and bring prompt change to life.
Yellow
Yellow is one of the happiest of stone colors. It is a reminder of the purity, brightness and sunny attitude that a sunshine filled day can bring. It symbolized creativity, wisdom and joy.
Just like a sunshiny day, yellow can bring a sense of warmth, clarity and acute awareness to one’s life. However the shade of the color ultimately determines its meaning and some aren’t so cheery. Yellow-green can mean deceit and often creates a dizzying effect. Orange-yellow evokes a sense of being firmly grounded. Light yellow emits a sense of clarity, making a mind more active and alert. Yellow can help relieve exhaustion and anxiety’ evoke a sense of clarity, concentration and alertness; and can protect one from lazy habits and feelings of sadness during unpleasant weather.
Energy Properties: Yellow gemstones allow people to express themselves. They are wonderful for writers and others who need a clear mind to conduct business. They inspire movement and enhance mental alertness, especially in decision making skills.
Green
Green is the color of nature, symbolizing fertility and life. It is as restful as a grove of swaying trees and also evokes a sense of well being and respect. Green is balancing and harmonizing. It also promotes growth and learning. It is a healing color and a life force.
Green is a wonderful hue in that it promotes natures best forces; growth, desire to expand and a sense of order and peace. It helps protect people from fear and anxiety in connection with others and will help restore a sense of stability in one’s life.
Energy properties: Green stones are used in attracting money, prosperity and wealth through its expansion properties. It also promotes fertility and change in the same manner.
Blue
While red is the warmest color, blue is the coolest. It symbolizes purity, sincerity and spirituality. Think about things that are blue; the Virgin Mary’s garments, the sky, the ocean, twilight… all of these things certainly evoke a calming, spiritual affect. It is often chosen by conservative people because of these wholesome properties.
Different shades of blue mean different things. Turquoise symbolizes youth, strength, health and confidence while aqua often means a state of higher truths. Regardless, blue provides a sense of distance, expansion and vast, yet soothing energy. It can help open a flow of communication by counterbalancing bedlam with tranquility, resulting in a feeling of broadness on the horizon, solitude and peacefulness.
Energy properties: Blue stones are peaceful and can calm the most anxious of emotions. They offer quite inspiration and evoke a feeling of an ever broadening horizon.
Purple
Purple is used for meditative purposes as it evokes a certain peace of mind unlike any other color, clearing negativity and allowing for good judgment to shine through. It has long symbolized magic, mystery and royalty. Its association with royalty aligns it with individuality and universal matters.
As a combination of soothing, expansive blue and focusing, energetic red, violet takes the best of both worlds. It uses the expansive properties of blue and the creativity of red to combine for endless creativity, which is why it is often associated with magic and motivation. It offers very important energy to allow for living life to the fullest, using imagination to get creative juices flowing, removing obstacles and rebalancing life, and calming yet energizing in relieving depression.
Energy properties: Purple stones evoke a sense of mystery and purity. They can help in meditation and in sharpening aura awareness to allow a greater connection with a higher self; therefore enhancing imagination and creative spirit.
White
White is the color of purity and symbolizes many aspects of the word. Brides wear white to symbolize purity. Kindness can be summarized in color by using white. White daises mean loyalty and love.
Since white is a combination of all colors it stands for wholeness, completion and clarity. It is an opener and can represent truth, helping to clear blocks and purify the mind; perfect for new beginnings.
Energy properties: White stones are ruled by the moon and help with sleep. They can also be used for good luck, clarity and purification purposes.
Black
Black has quite the yin and yang; black tie is formal, black dresses are wanted yet black symbolizes death. What gives? In some Native American cultures black was considered a good color because it was the color of soil where the dead were buried to be reclaimed by mother nature. Conversely, in using the yin and yang, white reveals all colors and black masks all colors. This is what typical connects black with the unknown, darkness and fear.
Regardless of all of this, black is mysterious and provides a sense of possibility to the unknown. It brings mystery, anonymity and obscurity to life; all of which aren’t always a bad thing!
Energy properties: Black stones symbolically represent control, resilience and protection through its invisible and mysterious features.
