Comments on: Colors http://magickfortherealworld.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/colors/ Just one man trying to change the world by changing himself. Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:31:49 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jessica http://magickfortherealworld.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/colors/#comment-74 Jessica Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:51:13 +0000 http://magickfortherealworld.wordpress.com/?p=82#comment-74 I'm glad to see this post. I completely agree that we need to move beyond the commonly accepted associations with color and let the stone/item, energy and experience be our guide. What we really need is that relationship with something. It's not just about what that stone might inherently do or what characteristics its energy holds, but it is also about what your body, your energy does and how you receive that energy of the second body. In Ayurveda, you try to balance the energies. If you are Kapha dosha, then you need the other two energies (Pitta and Vata) b/c adding like to like stagnates. So there is a subtle balance in determing what effect you will get from using a stone (or anything) for a particular purpose. If malachite and emerald really were both for money, which I think is an arbitrary association based on the color or our printed exchange paper (remember, most other countries don't have green paper money), then a whispy, airy person might do better with a denser stone, or a grounded person might ground out and get stuck without an airy stone. Or it might be completely opposite. It might be that your system is too dense to be able to translate the airiness of a stone, so you are better off with an earthier stone that matches your energy. it's all in what you do with it, what you learn about it from personal experience. And this makes me think about those candles. If both candles are alike in all things but color, then, yes, that is the only difference, but what if you varied the wax content-- palm wax, bees wax, parafin, food-grade parafin, or just used an oil lamp. The flame would have different characteristics energetically. Obviously, if you varied the scent, herbal content, etc then that would influence the energetic makeup as well. I’m glad to see this post. I completely agree that we need to move beyond the commonly accepted associations with color and let the stone/item, energy and experience be our guide. What we really need is that relationship with something. It’s not just about what that stone might inherently do or what characteristics its energy holds, but it is also about what your body, your energy does and how you receive that energy of the second body. In Ayurveda, you try to balance the energies. If you are Kapha dosha, then you need the other two energies (Pitta and Vata) b/c adding like to like stagnates. So there is a subtle balance in determing what effect you will get from using a stone (or anything) for a particular purpose. If malachite and emerald really were both for money, which I think is an arbitrary association based on the color or our printed exchange paper (remember, most other countries don’t have green paper money), then a whispy, airy person might do better with a denser stone, or a grounded person might ground out and get stuck without an airy stone. Or it might be completely opposite. It might be that your system is too dense to be able to translate the airiness of a stone, so you are better off with an earthier stone that matches your energy. it’s all in what you do with it, what you learn about it from personal experience.

And this makes me think about those candles. If both candles are alike in all things but color, then, yes, that is the only difference, but what if you varied the wax content– palm wax, bees wax, parafin, food-grade parafin, or just used an oil lamp. The flame would have different characteristics energetically. Obviously, if you varied the scent, herbal content, etc then that would influence the energetic makeup as well.

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