Okay so you don’t love purple or don’t think this topic holds any interest for you?? Read on!
Purple is intuitively a part of our very essence. It’s association with royalty and luxury delves deep into the core of our humanity.
In human color psychology, purple is associated with royalty and nobility stemming from classical antiquity when Tyrian purple was only affordable to the elites. Oh, and by the way, Tyrian dye is from a mucus secreted by the spiny dye-murex snail…not your mainstay Escargo! And let’s not dismiss purple’s connection to wisdom-In the French academic dress system, the five traditional fields of study (Arts, Science, Medicine, Law and Divinity) are each symbolized by a distinctive color, which appears in the academic dress of the people who graduated in this field. Purple is the distinctive color for Divinity. It is also worn by high academic officials regardless of the field in which they graduated. Although not a particularly optimistic color for the Japanese culture, all other cultures have high regard for purple. Even the military utilizes this color (Purple Hearts are awarded to the brave soldiers wounded in action). In parapsychology, people with purple auras are said to have a love of ritual and ceremony. In your feng shui color applications, color purple should be used with moderation. It is a very strong, high vibration color, the color of connection to the spiritual realms (7th chakra.)
To break down the color of purple, physically, it is both warm and cool. The opposites of hot red and cool blue combine to create this uniquely intriguing color so right from the very start, this color has an energy unlike any other.
Pantone selected the color Blue Iris (PANTONE 18-3943) as the 2008 Color of the Year telling us: “Combining the stable and calming aspects of blue with the mystical and spiritual qualities of purple, Blue Iris satisfies the need for reassurance in a complex world, while adding a hint of mystery and excitement.”
So…the Design Doc’s prescription for whatever is ailing you is to FIND YOUR PERFECT PURPLE and let it enpower! Maybe its a dark plummy brown or maybe its Pantone’s Blue Iris…whatever Purple it is that resonates deep within in you-put some into your life and let its mystical qualities flood over you.
