Colours

This is a work in-progress...

Black & White

Goethe's Theory of Colours is still discussed albeit dismissed. He suggested light and dark were the primary colours, and colours were made by mixing them in different ways.

Black and white, shadow and light, are equivalent to Yin and Yang respectively.

Yin and Yang are sometimes described as Silver and Gold.

White symbolises Innocence, purity, cleanliness, life. Black: Death, darkness, earth...

Four Primary Colours

The four elements suggest four primary colours, although they could be broken up into two sets of three for the additive & subtractive sets. Perhaps all four are required to create the full gamut of visible colours.

Additive colours: RGB

Subtractive colours: RYB

Principle	Colour	Description
Fire	Red	Heat, desire, love, energy, passion, health, strength
Air	Yellow	Sunshine, brightness, intellect
Water	Blue	Cold, tranquility, ...
Earth	Green	Wealth, money, growth, fertility

The Colour Spectrum

Colour is a spectrum with octaves, so it's cyclic and the four-elements take the pattern FAEW of the sine-wave/seasons.

There are 8 parts in total if we include the solstices & equinoxes.

If we overlay the natural light spectrum onto the list it seems to fit quite well, with some fairly natural color associations being made. Fire is red, Earth is green and Water is blue. Is the Air yellow? Sometimes the sky is...

I'm not sure how accurate or useful this mapping is, only time will tell.

Principle	Colour	Season	Description
Fire	Red	Spring	Fire is Will / Desire.
Voice F + A	Orange	Summer Solstice	Should signify freedom, choice, logic.
Air	Yellow	Summer	Air is Plan / Law / Design. Summer is a passive season, driven by events in Spring.
Equinox	YellowGreen	Autumn Equinox	?
Earth	Green	Autumn	Green is a good color for the Earth, although almost any colour would fit. Autumn is the season of death though...
Sex W + E	Cyan	Winter Solstice	Cyan, as the colour of the ocean is perfect here.
Water	Blue	Winter	Blue is the colour of water and of ice and cold.
Equinox	Magenta	Spring Equinox	Magenta, purple is the most common flower colour.