COLOR IS VIBRATION, the basic energy form underlying all of creation. Color is an essential ingredient in our daily environment. Not only does it communicate emotion and create a mood, it also has the power to affect our energy level. In this way seeing a color and experiencing a color are virtually inseparable, since much of what is seen is also felt. People react to colors in various ways, since they evoke personal emotions and experiences.

Meditate upon a specific color in order to get a benefit from it. Clear your mind, take a few deep breaths, and stare at an object in the color you have chosen. Breathe in the color until you can feel it seep in your skin and deep inside you. Repeat this ritual whenever you feel as if you need a psychic "color infusion" in order to bring healing, happiness, prosperity, or any other good thing into your life.

Red
Red signifies the attributes of confidence and courage. It inspires boldness in thought and deed. A strong awareness of the physical body is indicated. There can sometimes be so much passion in its energy that when it is displayed it can be perceived as aggression. When the color presents itself in a seemingly coincidental context, it can be the equivalent of a stop sign from the universe. Because of its strong psychic saturation, it needs to be used carefully, especially in a domestic environment, and in combination with a balance of other colors. Also, too much red in the environment can cause feelings of anger, irritability, or impatience.

A simple spell for red: To inspire a sense of bravery, wear a red accessory. Even if the color is not immediately visible to anyone else (a piece of lingerie, a handkerchief, a piece of red construction paper folded in a purse or wallet), you will know that you have this splash of red and will feel more courageous as a result.

Fuchsia
The color fuchsia can influence both physical and spiritual well-being. It is the flag for nonconformist, innovative, strong-willed, imaginative, artistic, and creative individuals. Depending on how it is received, it can be the color of radiant happiness. It has the qualities of red, plus empathy; it is a mixture of passion and compassion. The negative side of its color influence is that it can create a lazy, laid-back attitude that shuns challenges and responsibilities. For this reason, people who are chronically depressed or introverted should avoid this color. Magenta is ideal for rituals to secure ambitions and financial rewards.

A simple spell for fuchsia: To lift the vibe of your environment, put a sprig of the fuchsia plant into a bud vase. Keep it in the room where you spend a great deal of your time. An object of this color is favorable to use when attempting to make contact with the spirit world.

Orange
Orange is a joyous color, representing vibrant energy and intellectual curiosity. It is the color of surprise and enthusiasm. It promotes physical attraction as well as friendship. Because orange is the color of communication, it works as an emotional and intellectual stimulant, which alleviates feelings of self-pity, lack of self-worth, and an unwillingness to forgive. It connects us to our senses and helps to remove inhibitions in order to make us independent and social. Unlike many colors, it has a sense of humor; wearing just a bit of orange can bring smiles and a sense of optimism.

A simple spell for orange: Keep a bowl of oranges on the table as a focal point in the morning. Their scent and bright color are exhilarating. Like the glass of orange juice it represents, it will start your day off right! To promote and facilitate learning a new subject, use an orange bookmark.

Yellow
The color yellow signifies cheerfulness, optimism, and bright ideas. Like orange, it is a happy and energetic color that reflects mental acuity and communication. It is also a celebration of sunny days. Yellow energy is related to the ability to perceive and understand, while also acting on the senses as a stimulant. It signifies the intellectual side of our nature and relates to matters of travel, information, and self-expression. Because of this, it helps in the powers of discernment and memory, decision making, and the thought process.

A simple spell for yellow: To create a feeling of confidence and happiness, wear yellow-gold jewelry to an event. If you are feeling worn-out or tired in the evening hours when the sun has gone to sleep, sit under a lamp with your eyes closed. The warmth and light that permeate your closed lids will help you to concentrate on the power and promise of tomorrow's sunrise.

Green
Green is one of the colors that best reflects both the magical and the material world. In the material sense it represents employment, money, prosperity, and success. In the magical sense it symbolizes fertility, healing, growth, and the good green Earth. Its strong affinity to nature helps us connect with empathy to others and to the natural world. Like plants and trees that promote wellness by putting out oxygen, green suffuses the environment with healing vibrations that give a general sense of happiness and wellness. The color connects us to unconditional love and is used to balance our whole being. Green in the aura suggests an individual who has the natural gift of healing.

A simple spell for green: Keep a potted plant on your table, desk, nightstand, or balcony. Each day spend a few minutes communing with your plant. Talk to it while you water it or give it food. Pray over it, too.

Blue
Although it is identified with feelings of sadness (the blues), this color actually promotes calm and restfulness. Blue symbolizes peace and emotional tranquility. It also inspires mental control, creativity, and clarity. Because its energy is secure and nonthreatening, it is particularly helpful in creating a soothing sleep environment for young children and insomniacs. Blue is known to have a pacifying effect. Holistic healers often treat headaches and other complaints with color therapy, using various shades of the color blue. It symbolizes the sky, the shielding dome above our heads, and therefore represents boundless potential and opportunities.

A simple spell for blue: Whenever you are feeling stressed, put on a piece of blue clothing. Avoid dark or navy blue, since the lighter the shade of blue you choose, the more comforted and lighthearted you will feel. Meditating with a blue candle before bedtime promotes restful sleep.

Aqua
Aqua is a serene yet uplifting color, balanced at a point between blue and green. Like blue, of which it is a variant, aqua has a deeply soothing quality, suggesting the beauty and serenity of a tropical lagoon. Like green, it is highly symbolic of nature. This laid-back energy is associated with meditation, sensitivity, and emotional vulnerability. Because of its association with the throat chakra, aqua promotes clear communication, honesty, openness, and the need to join together with others. It represents the ability to transform, just as water turns to ice and the cycle repeats.

A simple spell for aqua: Take time to page through a few decorating magazines, cutting out shapes wherever you find aqua. Arrange these shapes on card stock and glue them lightly into place, fashioning a collage. When it is done, post the collage in a place where you can see it every day, to appreciate its soothing vibration.

Purple
Purple denotes power, authority, and psychic strength. It has been associated with royalty since classical antiquity and throughout the Middle Ages, when it was the color of choice for monarchs' ceremonial clothing. It can also infer wealth ("burn to the purple"). In a metaphysical sense, purple energy connects us to our spiritual guidance, wisdom, and inner strength. It is a color of artists, mystics, and fantasy seekers, so those attracted and attuned to it need to guard against living in a fantasy world. On a deeper level, purple is a color of transformation, combating fear and resistance to change.

A simple spell for purple: Tape a decorative purple embellishment to your mirror, or drape a purple shawl or throw over a chair. The presence of this vibrant color in your everyday life will remind you to live in the here and now, even while embracing spiritual truths.

Indigo
Indigo is the color of spiritual awakening and awareness. It is an imaginative, intuitive, and mystical shade. It is also works on the mind and eyes as a sedative. Indigo is connected with artistic and musical impulses. It inspires sensitivity to beauty, harmony, and compassion for others, as well as promoting lucid dreams and dream skills such as problem solving. Indigo acts as a psychic and spiritual barrier to the ego, and it channels energy in a positive way. Indigo energy strengthens intuition and connects us to a higher spiritual realm. Its subtle vibration can be useful in ESP such as telepathy, clairvoyance, and even astral projection.

A simple spell for indigo: If you have a special meditation area in your home or apartment, keep an indigo object ever present in this area. A scarf, a pillow, or a decorative object will call up indigo energy whenever you need to tap into its special power.

Brown
Brown is the ultimate earth tone, reflective of nature, especially in the autumnal months. Because it is one of the most prominent colors in nature, it can be a stabilizing influence both psychologically and emotionally. It denotes practicality, simplicity, humility, and purposefulness. A wood-paneled study gives the user a sense of being ensconced in a safe, traditional, and protective environment, suggesting that brown need not be dismissed as drab or uninteresting.

A simple spell for brown: The next time you want to make a special wish, find or buy a Popsicle stick and write your wish on both sides of it in fine-point felt pen. Then take the stick outside and "plant" it in your garden or lawn. Make sure that the stick is fully buried so that none of your writing is showing. Then say a blessing over it. When the wish comes true, remove the stick.

Lavender
Lavender is the color of spiritual healing, dispelling sadness, loneliness, and mental confusion. It is helpful in opening the third eye and clearing the away karmic debris from past lifetimes. On the material level, it is known as a shade of refinement and delicacy. Like pink, it is associated with femininity. It can also reflect romance, sentimentality, or old age, especially in women. Like the plant for which it is named, this gentle shade is helpful in treating bronchial and digestive disorders. It is a good color for use on a ceremonial altar or in a room where meditation or rituals are practiced.

A simple spell for lavender: If you are a seeker after truth and are traveling on a spiritual path, a sprig of lavender or some lavender-scented oil can be a reminder to stay centered and focused on your quest. Keeping track of your dreams in a lavender-colored notebook or diary is also a reminder of the importance of your spiritual search.

Pink
Pink is the color of overwhelming joy and personal happiness. It is emblematic of good health ("in the pink"). This lively yet gentle shade reflects optimism, a youthful attitude, and the ability to take chances. It signifies romantic rather than sexual love. It is generally associated with femininity. Pink suggests a talent for fun and the ability to bring a fresh perspective to any endeavor.

A simple spell for pink: Everyone needs a little of this color in their life. Create a "pink corner" in your bedroom or bathroom. Do this by filling a shallow glass bowl with a variety of pink objects: stones, shells, even candy. Whenever you feel you need a fresh or more youthful perspective on matters, visit your pink corner and run your hands over the items. Your point of view will be refreshed and updated.

Black
Black is not actually a color but the absence of color; it is also perceived as the combination of all colors. It can be off-putting because of its intensity, but it is actually comforting, protective, and mysterious. It is associated with silence, the void, the infinite, and the depth of outer space and beyond. For those under psychic attack, it provides a powerful shield. On the practical level, black represents seriousness and commitment to an idea or principle, a total absorption with a cause. It is good for banishing negativity, absorbing negativity, or fighting negativity from an outside source.

A simple spell for black: Those drawn to black may be intractable and impervious to change. In order to combat this, perform the following ritual. On your altar or other safe area, place three candles - black, grey or silver, and white - side by side.. Each day light one of them, in order of their placement. By lighting the black candle only every third day, your subconscious mind will become subtly accustomed to change.

Tan
Classic and understated, tan suggests the path of moderation and neutrality. While it may be seen as representing a conservative attitude, it should not be read as symbolic of boredom or being on the fence. Its energy signifies dependability, caring, and common sense. Tan is often considered to be a noncolor, but its very absence of pigment exudes a sense of relaxation and undemanding energy.

A simple spell for tan: Take a cup of sand from your favorite beach and sift out the impurities. Then put the clean sand in a decorative bowl and keep it on your bedside table. Each night before going to sleep, cup a palm full of the sand, then open your fingers and let it drain back into the bowl as you say, "May my choices and opportunities be as numberless as these grains of sand." After a month, recycle the sand and replace it with a fresh supply.

Gray
Gray represents the middle ground, neither completely positive nor completely negative. Like tan, it is truly a neutral shade. Its energy suggests void, emptiness, lack of movement and warmth, an overcast day, a rain-soaked sky, or the promise of snow. Yet it has a stabilizing effect, making vibrant colors stand out while muting their vibration. For this reason, gray is at its best when displayed in relationship to other, bolder colors. Although not a healing shade, gray is used in color therapy to absorb unwanted energy from the body. Emotionally, it symbolizes a willingness to comply, to be purposefully isolated in order to find a quiet and balancing energy.

A simple spell for gray: When meditating, picture your mind as a gray screen where messages will appear. Because gray has a restful and therapeutic affect, it will soothe your consciousness, making it easier for the messages to come.

White
White is the emblem of innocence, purity, and peace and denotes spiritual authority. It radiates a protective and charismatic energy, which is why it is used by seekers and seers when meditating, as a protective shield or enveloping ball or egg shape of energy. It has strong religious significance, representing spiritual purification, virginity, baptism, and soul redemption. Throughout history and in most cultures, it has symbolized the loftiness of moral authority. It is particularly significant in rituals involving lunar energy. In color therapy, white strengthens and purifies the energy system of the body.

A simple spell for white: On a day when you are beginning a new enterprise or otherwise starting a new chapter in your life, clothe yourself entirely in white. It will make your objective more singular and special. Wearing white also has a ceremonial feel, as if you are being initiated into a new subject.

IF YOU ENJOYED THIS ARTICLE, why not sample the rest of the great articles, series, columns and monthly featured articles in PLW online magazine? WE NOW OFFER a 1-month, 3-month or 6-month subscription, or, for less than the price of one single cup of coffee per month, you get great metaphysical - spiritual - new thought articles, celestial guidance and news every single month for an ENTIRE YEAR …or even two! The longer you sign up for, the cheaper it gets! Your contribution to PLW assists us in covering the monthly costs of running our website server, routinely upgrading hardware and software, and it also funds our latest project, Children of the New Earth Online Magazine. Click here for more...

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Internationally known self-help author Monte Farber's inspiring guidance and empathic insights impact everyone he encounters. Amy Zerner's exquisite, one-of-a-kind spiritual couture creations and collaged fabric paintings exude her profound intuition and deep connection with archetypal stories and healing energies. For more than thirty years they've combined their deep love for each other with the work of inner exploration and self-discovery to build The Enchanted World of Amy Zerner and Monte Farber: books, card decks, and oracles that have helped millions answer questions, find deeper meaning, and follow their own spiritual paths.

Together they've made their love for each other a work of art and their art the work of their lives. Their best-selling titles include The Chakra Meditation Kit, The Tarot Discovery Kit, Karma Cards, The Enchanted Spellboard, Secrets of the Fortune Bell, Little Reminders: Love & Relationships, Little Reminders: The Law of Attraction, Goddess, Guide Me!, The Animal Powers Meditation Kit, Astrology Gems, True Love Tarot, The Enchanted Tarot, The Instant Tarot Reader, The Psychic Circle, The Pathfinder Psychic Talking Board, The Truth Fairy, The Ghostwriter Automatic Writing Kit, Spirit of the Ancestors Altar Kit, The Mystic Messenger, Wish Upon A Star, The Breathe Easy Deck, The Healing Deck, and Gifts of the Goddess Affirmation Cards.

Visit their Website: www.TheEnchantedWorld.com.