Happy Spring Equinox
I love the DailyOm!! It fills me with love, light, and happiness. This post makes me want to go outside and hula hoop barefoot out in the green grass tomorrow.
March 24, 2008
Unifier Of Opposites
The Color Green
Green is a combination of the colors yellow and blue, each of which
brings its own unique energy to the overall feeling of the color green.
Blue exudes calm and peace, while yellow radiates liveliness and high
levels of energy. As a marriage between these two very different
colors, green is a unifier of opposites, offering both the excitement
of yellow and the tranquility of blue. It energizes blue’s passivity
and soothes yellow’s intensity, inspiring us to be both active and
peaceful at the same time. It is a mainstay of the seasons of spring
and summer, thus symbolizing birth and growth.
Green is one of the reasons that spring instigates so much
excitement and activity. As a visual harbinger of the end of winter,
green stems and leaves shoot up and out from the dark branches of trees
and the muddy ground, letting us know that it’s safe for us to come
out, too. In this way, green invites us to shed our layers and open
ourselves to the outside world, not in a frantic way, but with an
easygoing excitement that draws us outside just to sniff the spring
air. Unlike almost any other color, green seems to have its own smell,
an intoxicating combination of sun and sky—earthy, bright, and clean.
In the best-case scenario, it stops us in our tracks and reminds us to
appreciate the great experience of simply being alive.
Green balances our energy so that, in looking at it, we feel
confident that growth is inevitable. It also gives us the energy to
contribute to the process of growth, to nurture ourselves
appropriately, without becoming overly attached to our part in the
process. Green reminds us to let go and let nature do her work, while
at the same time giving us the energy to do our own.
