Purple is indeed a mysterious colour.
It is a colour of made of opposites – cool blue and hot red.
I am liking it already!
Although is associated with spirituality and royalty it 's descriptive names are a host of lovely things such as lilac, lavender, violet, pomegranate, plum, mulberry and amethyst. Hardly the image you have when you picture slabs of rich royal purple or when you imagine spirituality with its wispy trailing clouds of delicate mauve.
On my quest to know ‘purple’, I actually found out that it is “Thursday’s colour”. I didn’t know days had colours – so there you are! And as my beautiful granddaughter was recently born on a Thursday as was her father before her, ‘purple days’ are right up there as my all time highlight day of the week! I also discovered that it was “a colour of good judgement” and of course, “a good colour to use in meditation” and “if you surround yourself in purple you will have “peace of mind”!
The real power of purple is in the colour ‘violet’ though, because violet links the ‘individual and the universe” by the Crown chakra. Violet is a combination of the sheer intensity and energy of the red singing across the coolness and flatness of the blue. It’s this bouncing and blending of these two colours on each other and within the wiring of our brains that has always associated violet with imagination and inspiration.
And did you know that purple was Cleopatra’s and Elizabeth Taylor’s favourite colour or that it is the traditional colour for mourning for Thai women?
And I bet you didn’t know there was ‘good’ purple and ‘bad’ purple as well. Yes, the language of purple is quite extraordinary. We might as well start with the ‘bad’ purple ones.
If you are using raunchy language – you are using purple speech, and if you wander around in a fog of confusion – well, you are likely to be in a purple haze.
But let’s get on to the ‘good’ purple. Have you ever heard of something being a ‘purple cow’? This means something is eye catching or unusual. I love it and I think I will have a lot of fun using ‘purple cow’ in conversation. And if you are thinking, writing or saying something highly imaginative or exaggerated – it’s deemed ‘purple prose’!
If you would like to put some purple in your life – think amethyst! What a gorgeous colour and if you are lucky enough to have amethyst as your birthstone like me – for goodness sake, wear it. This crystalline quartz is known as the ‘wisdom stone’, the ‘protection stone’, the ‘healing stone’ and ‘power stone’ and all of those reasons seems like a perfect reason put a piece on your body.
So why not consider buying a nice piece of Amethyst to keep the air and life force in the home clean and positive. Here you will have the best of both worlds by surrounding yourself with both forces:
the power of the stone and the mysterious colour purple.
