What color is your...

[Vajradhara]

Namaste all,

i would have to say either Saffron or orange, perhaps maroon, would be the most commonly associated colors with the Buddha Dharma.

metta,

~v

[lunamoth]

Originally Posted by path_of_one

Hmmm... I'd say dark mossy green, white, and blood red. The green for the forests and nature, the red for the sacrifice of Christ, and the white for the light of God.

I'd love to see the quilt when you're done- I think it's a very nifty idea!

I thought you might pick green path of one. Actually, I think I would pick green like my luna's wings for my personal spirituality. I'd fly all of your colors--does that make us Italian?

cheers,
luna

[lunamoth]

Originally Posted by Vajradhara

Namaste all,

i would have to say either Saffron or orange, perhaps maroon, would be the most commonly associated colors with the Buddha Dharma.

metta,

~v

Thank you for the input Vajradhara. I love saffron as a color (and as a spice)--I think it will feature prominently in my project. An aside: did you know that saffron is the delicate pistil of a crocus? Every time I use it I imagine the people who harvest it using tweezers to meticulously gather each little stem, and then I go and dump a dozen of them at a time into my rice.

cheers,
luna

[China Cat Sunflower]

I read a book once titled The Cosmic Octave, I forget the author's name, which said that if you took the planetary "tone" of the earth and kept reducing it's vibrational wavelength by octaves you would arrive at the note C#, and if you kept doing that you would wind up in the visual range with that reddish color that Tibetan Monks wear. Somewhere in between the planetary tone and the audible range, if you broadcast it loud enough you would effect the weather and the cellular structure and growth patterns of plants.

I like saphire blue, and I'm particularly fond of the number six.

Chris

[lunamoth]

Thank you China Cat! I'm not sure I understand the thing about about the cosmic waves, but I do like that color. Also noticed you really had the creative juices flowing in your posts last night...going to take me a while to absorb all that. Looking forward to reading it all.

lunamoth

[lunamoth]

Q! Just realized I did not acknowledge your contribution. Thank you! Blue and gold is a great combination, very royal IMO. Interesting how often blue is coming up. So, I read once that people who like blue are very well-adjusted because blue makes up such a large part of our visual field when we are outside (sky, water).

cheers,
lunamoth

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

China Cat, I don't think I've heard of The Cosmic Octave, but I have a book called The Third Ear by Joachim-Ernst Berendt in which he mentions the same thing. He uses the "day tone" (24 hours) and octavises (doubles) it, over and over, until he reaches the audible range. He gets a G (according to him, the C# is for the year tone). If you continue to octavise it to the visual range, you get saffron yellow, and if you octavise it 66 times you get the resonance of DNA.

lunamoth, when I read your question I thought, for no reason that I can name, "pink". It's not even a color I particularly like, but I put a lot of faith in first impressions and gut reactions, so I'll leave it as it is. To be more specific, the pink I thought of is about the same as our little tongue-smiley, but a little darker. Although I think the seven-color rainbow is often used to represent Wicca, as well as what you might call "Queen-of-Heaven blue".

[lunamoth]

Scarlet, for you I would have guessed...scarlet. But pink is close.

lunamoth

[Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine]

An amalgamation of dusty rose, a soft green, perhaps powder blue and either lavendar or lilac.

Many of the people I know offline in the pagan community consider me "a healer" and that I should "be trained" (um, am I a puppy or something like that? ) So far, I've declined (I have enough to deal with without adding people who should seek out professional assistance.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

[Leafblade]

My colors are probably, green, orange and black.

Green because I love spending most of my time in the woods or fields. Orange because I'm rather cautious around others. Black because I feel I have more energy at night.

[lunamoth]

Originally Posted by Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

An amalgamation of dusty rose, a soft green, perhaps powder blue and either lavendar or lilac.

Many of the people I know offline in the pagan community consider me "a healer" and that I should "be trained" (um, am I a puppy or something like that? ) So far, I've declined (I have enough to deal with without adding people who should seek out professional assistance.)

Phyllis Sidhe_Uaine

Hi Phyllis,

That is a beautiful combination of colors. Rose and lilac, my favorite flowers. It will be a beatiful patch and I will try to work in the flower idea.

I did not know this about you--fascinating! I should have gussed from your gentle use of creatures to lift us up from time to time (my lunas are all well and send their regards. we'll all be going out for a walk/flutter in the park soon with the girls--it is a beautiful day here). The world needs as many healers as it can get.

peace,
luna

[lunamoth]

Originally Posted by Leafblade

My colors are probably, green, orange and black.

Green because I love spending most of my time in the woods or fields. Orange because I'm rather cautious around others. Black because I feel I have more energy at night.

Hi Leafblade, welcome to CR!

Your colors remind me of Autumn, and I love the woods too. I am originally from the Northeast, upstate NY, and I miss the trees and woods. Colorado, so far, has been desperately brown.

I also like your fox--another manifestation of your orange color.

peace,
lunamoth

[Scarlet Pimpernel]

Originally Posted by lunamoth

Scarlet, for you I would have guessed...scarlet. But pink is close.

lunamoth

Heh, no, I'd say scarlet is more the color of my personality...and my hair.
I like this idea of yours - will we all get to see it when it's done?

[wil]

I embrace the entire spectrum...including the known unseen...ultra-violet, and infra-red, the indescribable colors of the sounds below the light frequency and those of the alpha, theta, delta, gamma....and x rays above the visible spectrum...

And contemplate the glory of the colors of enLIGHTenment that will come as science and theology explore and implore around what will come in the future.

(funny I could never answer what was my personal favorite color)

[lunamoth]

Originally Posted by wil

I embrace the entire spectrum...including the known unseen...ultra-violet, and infra-red, the indescribable colors of the sounds below the light frequency and those of the alpha, theta, delta, gamma....and x rays above the visible spectrum...

And contemplate the glory of the colors of enLIGHTenment that will come as science and theology explore and implore around what will come in the future.

(funny I could never answer what was my personal favorite color)

Hey Wil! Good to see you posting again.

Leave it to you to pick a challenge for my quilt. The UV and IR wavelengths will be there, we just won't be able to see them. You must just have faith that they are there.

A good part of my research was into the effects of ultra-violet light on plants, so UV is special to me as well.

cheers,
luna