Yellow, yes yellow... a wonderful colour that fills our world with life. I was just researching the Yin Yang to write about it and then remembered I had planned a blog on the colour yellow.
Winter is over and spring is announced when the world springs forth yellow blooms.
The crocus pops up as spring gets ready to announce itself.
It's spring when the daffodils rise and shake their heads at the sun.
When the forsythia turns the hedges from green to brilliant yellow, it's nearly summer.
The sun! Oh that glorious burning star in the sky that gives us light and warmth, beams to us yellow.
When the sun rises and sets, the world is bathed in a myriad of yellow and golden hues.
The solstice celebrates the death and birth of the sun. The decent and ascent of the sun in our skies. The length of the day and night - how much sun rays soak us.
Seasonal affective disorder is sun-depression. The lack of yellow, of light, of life giving rays.
Yellow is healing - the solar plexus chakra is represent by the colour yellow. The breath of life aka Manna, represented by the Dolphin in the medicine cards.
Walking on the golden sands, sun in the sky, waves lapping the shore - these are beautiful moments.
Citrine
USES: Citrine is a premier stone of manifestation, imagination, and personal will. Carrying the power of the sun, it is warm and comforting, energizing and life giving. It stimulates the chakras like the sunlight of spring, clearing the mind and stirring the soul to action. Its frequency awakens creativity and imagination, and sustains the process of transforming dreams and wishes into tangible form. With its pure yellow energy, Citrine encourages fullness of life, fresh beginnings and new pursuits. Citrine is a popular healing and meditation crystal. This natural Citrine with its internal dynamics is reported to be able to clarify your thoughts and allow the creative juices to flow in your mind. Source
Look at the keywords used here: pure yellow energy; fullness of life; life giving; energizing; like sunlight of spring .... none of these are my words, yet this yellow crystal has been found to hold the qualities above and is described as being like sunlight, life giving and energizing. It is a stone I do not have, but I've been drawn to it lately, obviously because I need some of what it has to give.
Those who heal, channel golden light through themselves, as a vessel. Yellow is a powerful colour. Betty Shine spoke of colour healing in her books, wearing an item of clothing to project that energy. For example, if you needed to speak with confidence, you'd wear the colour associated with your throat chakra - blue. You would wear blue jewellery, or a scarf or a top. It is thought that colour is part of you aura.... some people are colourful, vibrant and full of life. Some need colour in their life.
Every year my sister runs away abroad, to sunnier climes. Not necessarily warmer, but where there is a lot of daylight. She has SAD, lack of sun sickness, really kicks in a massive bout of depression. I think that in the winter months, while we have shorter days, the suns intensity is greater. The skies are blue, the air crisp, the sun is brilliant. The sunrise and sunset are spectacular and leave you in awe at the coloured spectacle around you. Whilst it's not my favourite season, it isn't all doom and gloom and should be seen without blinkers on.
Parachutes
I bought this album back in 2002 and didn't really click with it at all. I was going to take it back... then I had a massive nervous breakdown. I recall lying in a bath, totally locked away in a horrible depression and Parachutes was playing on my stereo. I had heard the album a few times before and it was background noise really. The half way through the album, something clicked. It was a lightbulb moment. The music lifted me up and the words washed my depression away. People say that Coldplay is depressing but that's because they haven't listened to the lyrics, really listened to the way the music reaches in and pulls you up. I was suicidal at that time and had tried to crash my car.... after the light went on, I didn't want to die anymore. I felt alive. Whenever the black dog pays me a visit, when I feel really really low, I play Parachutes and I feel better. It's my medicine. Yellow was the track that did it. He looks so young in the video lol...
Look at the world around you, look outside your bubble. The Universe is bigger than you think and it is trying to show you it's messages of splendor. Take your blinkers off and SEE what is truly there. The colour yellow is one we couldn't live without.
May the sunbeams find you. Live life and love /|\
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| dead oak, winter sunset |
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| summer solstice sunset at Long Meg |
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| summer solstice sunrise at Castlerigg |
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| Spring is coming... |
