Forget pink cotton candy, bubble gum, Elvis and Mary Kay’s pink cadillacs, pink slips and the Pink Panther. Forget the color’s association with baby girls and all things feminine… lipstick, nail polish and party dresses. Just… think pink.
Pink, often called rose, is considered one of the calmest colors to look at. Its delicate blush is attractive, non-threatening and uplifting. To look at the world through rose colored glasses is to see everything in a positive light.
You may already know that Picasso had a blue period of painting, characterized by sombre arrangements of melancholic, seemingly disconnected individuals. But did you know that his blue style was superceded by a rose period? It expressed a changed life of personal happiness for Picasso, marked by closer relationships with others.
In nature, flowers like peonies, clematis and wild roses paint garden and roadside scenes with joyful jots of pink and rose. The rising and setting sun may also blush the sky and landscape with a rosy glow. Perhaps a walk at dawn or sunset may be just the remedy for a sad disposition. If you’re really feeling blue, it might be helpful to gaze into a pink flower for a few minutes and breathe in its color. It certainly wouldn’t hurt. Just keep an eye out for the bees!
Frequently the wood are pink –
Frequently are brown.
Frequently the hills undress
Behind my native town.
Oft a head is crested
I was wont to see –
And as oft a cranny
Where it used to be –
And the Earth — they tell me –
On its Axis turned!
Wonderful Rotation!
By but twelve performed!~ Emily Dickinson
I love the way you think. You come up with some of the greatest themes, you know it! Pink is beautiful. So is rose. Have you ever thought about the colors in relation to the chakras? And where pink fits in the scheme? Would it be between the 1st (red) chakra and the 2nd (orange)or between the 2nd and 3rd (yellow)?? Just wonderin’. I figure you’ve researched it.
No, I haven’t thought about the color/chakra connection Kathy. I’ll have to investigate. Since pink is red + white, I’m guessing that it is associated with the 1st chakra.
Supposedly, pink used to be known as a male color because its red origins were considered so powerful and masculine.
The system of chakra colours that I’m most familiar with follows the colours of the rainbow from red (root chakra), via orange (reproductive organs and intestines), yellow (stomach, liver and pancreas), green (heart and chest), blue (throat), indigo (third eye) to violet (crown chakra).
I think the heart-chakra may be associated with either green or pink – after all, isn’t a pink heart or a pink rose the symbol for love, which is centred in the heart?
I’ve always wondered where some of the other colours fit in, like gold, silver, white… personally, I think they can be used in a healing way throughout the entire aura.
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This is what I’ve been able to discover about the pink chakra…
It is not one of the main ones (as described by Reggie)but is a bit smaller, lying just below the fourth green heart & chest chakra. It’s activated by consciousness of unconditional love. It’s flexible and not dependent on external feedback. How lovely!
Kathy and Reggie, thank-you for this whole other dimension to thinking pink.
Trying to follow the conversation today is giving me a headache, but I will say this: that peony is the very definition of Pink. It is of a Pinkness with the universe of Pink. It Pinks my imagination and will doubtless creep Pinkly into my dreams tonight. It is, in short, Pink Its Ownself.
Too bad the loveliness of pink doesn’t fit into our scavenger hunt assignment. ;oD (How is everybody doing on that?)
Joan, I haven’t started yet! Hopefully it happens before July 20th. Otherwise July 19th is going to be a busy day!
How do you get “emoticons” in here???
Ha ha Gerry
Yes it is PINK. It took me a while to get my head around the chakras too.
Joan, Jessica from the Magical Mundane in Michigan has already left a link to her submission on A Midsummer’s Scavenger Hunt at
http://flandrumhill.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/a-midsummers-scavenger-hunt/
As for emoticons, I don’t know about anyone else, but I create them here by just typing in characters that are converted automatically by WordPress:
For example…
: plus ) equals
Beautiful post. Pink was a color I did not appreciate until I was an adult. Although I did have hot pink Converse Hightops in the 80′s LOL The Peony was absolutely stunning.
Thank you Jessica. I forgot all about ‘hot pink.’ I think pink is too often dismissed by people because of its reputation as a fluffy color. That beautiful peony is still in bloom in the yard. So many of the other flowers on the plant ended up rotting before they even had a chance to open fully because of all the rain we’ve been getting.