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Colour Correspondences

Colour correspondences run through almost every tradition in the atlas: the colours of the chakras, the four Kabbalistic colour scales of the Golden Dawn, the liturgical colours of the church year, the planetary and elemental colours of magic, and the colours of ritual dress and the directions. A colour is rarely neutral in these systems; it carries a meaning tied to an element, a planet, a mood or a season.

The assignments are not uniform (red may belong to Mars, to fire, to the root chakra or to a season of the liturgical year depending on the system), and part of reading a colour is knowing which scheme is in play.

Sources Divinity Atlas Long-Form Articles, First Edition with Rainbow Body: A History of the Western Chakra System from Blavatsky to BrennanKurt Leland, The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 6th editionIsrael Regardie, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)

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