Color Basics

Lucky Colors – is your favorite color your lucky color?

Many Colors - What's your lucky color?

By Cozee Cackel

Colors can be beautiful, soothing, and lucky colors, among many other things. Colors can influence your mood, make rooms and objects brighter or more subdued and act as a messenger when used in stoplights and other signaling devices. Each color has a special significance in attracting or repelling the power of the planets according to ancient writings.

Although all the colors can be created from three basic colors such as used in TV – red, green, and blue, you might be surprised to know there are practically an unlimited number of actual colors. For our purposes, however, less than a couple of dozen have been given meanings. Some color meanings are described below.

There may be conflicts in what different people say about the meanings of the different colors and there seems to be no definitive definition of some of the colors. So all this means to use your own judgment, especially when some shades of colors are close to another color.

Here is a brief summary of some basic color meanings found in various books and literature:

BLACK
Saturn is attracted by black, and because Saturn has a negative effect on children, youngsters are cautioned never to wear black clothing. It is a good color, however, for persons born under the signs of Libra, Aquarius, or Capricorn. In some cultures black in general symbolizes the unknown, unconscious, danger, mystery, darkness, death, mourning, hate or malice, but also dignity.  One only has to look at TV or the movies to verify these uses of the color black. Go to a funeral and the color black is unmistakable.

BLUE
The color blue associated with Venus as well as the color of the sky, blue has been sacred in religions dating back to prehistoric times. Today it is associated with the Virgin Mary. We sometimes say we are “blue” when we are in a sad or down mood. Still, the color blue is a happy, even lucky color for most of us. And when we have unexpected good luck, we often say it came “out of the blue.” It is an especially lucky color for people born under the signs of Aquarius, Libra, and Taurus.

Blue colored neckbands have been worn for centuries by nursing mothers in parts of Europe. They believe the color blue protects their babies from fevers. And what bride would tempt fate by walking down the aisle without “something borrowed, something blue”?

BROWN
The color brown is not generally considered a lucky color except in very light shades. Those born under the sign of Cancer are advised to avoid brown color altogether.

GREEN
One of the most common theatrical superstitions is that green should be avoided at all costs. The tradition began in the days when stages were lit by limelights, which burned lime, producing a greenish light that made anything green nearly invisible. In the Middle Ages, it was believed that the color green was the color of fairies and other “little people” who didn’t like the idea of sharing it with mere mortals. In Ireland, leprechauns notwithstanding, green is considered the luckiest of colors. It is also a lucky color for those born under the signs of Aquarius and Capricorn.

Truth has but one color, a lie has many.
Sanskrit Proverb

PURPLE
Purple is considered the color of royalty since the ancient Phoenicians extracted purple dye from sea creatures and sold it around the world at incredibly high prices. Purple is an exceptionally good color for anyone who wants to get lucky – especially people born under the sign of Pisces or Sagittarius.

RED
People born under the sign of Libra of Taurus may find red color an unlucky color, but those whose birth date falls in Aries or Scorpio should wear the color red for good luck. The ancients believed that a talisman written in red was double powerful. In China and other parts of the East, no other color can compete with the color red or has as much power to bring good luck.

WHITE
The classic color of purity, white (or silver) is especially lucky for people born under the sign of Cancer, Gemini or Virgo. Though in some cultures, a white horse, a white cat of a white mouse are all considered very unlucky, in general, the color white can bring you good luck.

YELLOW
As the color associated with the sun, the color yellow or gold color is lucky for just about everyone. People born under the sign of Virgo or Taurus might disagree. It can bring them misfortune, some say. But it is the lucky color of Leo.

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