occult symbolism of colors
many children but also adults have their own alphabet for colors which includes most diverse things.
the seven old basic colors:
weekdays are often experienced in colors which were already noticed in antiquity. among the romans monday was violet, tuesday was red, wednesday was yellow, thursday was blue, friday was green, saturday was indigo-colored and sunday was orange. I think you have already known these seven old basic colors but new could it perhaps be for you that these colors are in the same order like various gods or planets which are assigned to these colors. in particular that is the moon, mars, mercury, jupiter, venus, saturn and the sun. arabs and the hebrews, however, used other colornames for the days of the week.
pythagoras:
pythagoras, a greek philosopher and mathematician has created a kind of color-geometry which has survived until today. this color-geometry statings that the colors are emphasized most in a specific geometric basic form which corresponds to them and which relates to the theory of harmony : the stodgy square should be red, the rectangle which is slightly more dynamic should be orange, the peak triangle should be yellow, the hexagon green, the circle blue and the ellipse violet.
symbolism:
all these symbols can be found on almost every street corner and they constantly speak to us. it is important to recognize the colors even if they do not have the same strong effects like the alphabet for colors. the magical world of colors is not allways logical. it is an emotional landscape which describes spiritual realities. thus that you can feel yourself homelike in this domain of this knowledge occult we intend to cast a glance at some color symbolics.
the four temperaments and elements:
traditionally, the world was divided into four elements. these elements correspond to the four temperaments of human beings. in turn, these four temperaments go along with the four basic colors. according to that the element fire is seen as red and therefore it characterises choleric types of people. the element air is seen as yellow and is assigned to sanguine types of people. the element earth is seen as green and governs melancholic people. the element water is seen as blue and domiates phlegmatic people.
interaction between music, emotion and colors:
we find the oldest emotions of human beings veiled in colors - a secret which has fascinated visual artists and musicians at any time. carl nielsen, a danish composer addicted his second symphony to the colors of the four elements. if you will have the occasion to listen to this symphony then pay attention to the interaction between music, emotion and color.
therapy of color of karl ryberg mosaik verlag 1992 page 34-36
