Posts Tagged ‘Red’

Our baby is due to be born any day now.

The other night Elena had a dream. In it a girl was standing at our gate. Waiting. As the dream had affected Elena I thought to explore further the meaning and message of the dream. “What was the girl wearing?” “A red coat and a magenta hat,” she replied.

The closest Equilibrium combination would be B89 Red / Deep Magenta. And it struck me “How interesting!” That is the return journey of B11 the Clear / Pink which is the energy vital at the start of the pregnancy. Now as the pregnancy period is coming to a close and the baby is, literally, about to come to earth we find the B89.

This red and B89 also precipitated a process for Elena and I. After sharing a pink pomander we drew a picture together to represent the space or energy that the baby is stepping into. It needs to be welcomed by us and invited in so that it can take its place. This is also part of the red. The energy to step into a family, to find ones place in the family and on the earth. It seems that while green is the colour we first think of for space, red which is the colour opposite to green also plays a vital role in taking one’s place. See my previous post on Red : Finding your place for more.

A few days ago Elena told me “Today is a public holiday in Russia.” My impression is that Russia has quite a few national holidays so I asked what this holiday was for. She told me it was Dyen Zashitnika Otechestva - translated as “Defender of the Motherland” - basically for all those who are or have been in the armed forces. This sparked something inside me. It reminded me of the way the Russians like to make toasts, everything is honoured, everything is celebrated, everything has its place. In Russia it is as if there is a day for everyone. This strikes me as a very red aspect of Russia. Red is to do with blood, the family and the tribe, in which everyone has their place.

I remember watching a TV documentary a few years ago about children who, for one reason or another, had been neglected by their parents to the extent that these children started living with dogs rather than human beings. Yes incredible but true. (If you want know more, or even understand exactly what i am saying here, follow the link at the end of this post).

Though the subject was sensationalist the documentary itself was made with sensitively. One of the strongest impressions for me came towards the end of the programme. One of the girls they had been following – now back in human society was staying in a small farm community. She had a job. Her job was to collect the milk each morning. As she told the camera this fact, she smiled. It was a real smile. This simple fact that she had a place seemed the most healing of all, she belonged. It seemed as important as any psychological therapy looking back at the past.

Perhaps orange and coral are the feeling of togetherness, but red is even more basic. In red we have our place.

If you would like to see the girl in question here is a link

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/the-girl-who-ran-with-the-pack/2006/07/18/1153166383022.html

There is a new government in Japan. A party that did not exist two years ago has swept to power. There is a very interesting interpretation to be taken from the colour and shape of the symbol that has been chosen by the Minshu political party. It is fitting with their promise to the Japanese people. A message of change and new beginning.

The two red circles of the Minshu symbol

The symbol shows two red circles meeting on a white background. The red circle is an echo of the sun on the Japanese flag – and thus associates the Minshu party with Japanese identity. However the presence of the second red circle indicates something new is happening. We should pay attention. Something new is being added to the traditional situation.

Look more closely and you will see the lower circle has a shaky edge. Why? What can this mean? The lower circle seems to be more energetic, the shaky edge seems to express movement, as if this second circle is vibrating with some kind of energy. This second circle is alive. The message is the Minshu party is vibrating with energy, an energy they can bring to Japan.

Even in England the Japanese election result was treated as big news. It was described as a political earthquake. We were told that for 50 years Japan had had only one party in government, and the result was that everything had become very fixed: politics, big corporations, the bureaucracy, nothing could move anymore in this power structure. This election result has broken an important part of this fixed power structure, something new can now grow. A shaking energy has been brought to what used to be very solid. The symbol with its vibrating red circle hovering over the traditional fixed red sun perfectly expresses this new (red) awakening energy.

There is more though. See the white space where the two circles overlap. As the energised red begins to overshadow the original circle a white process happens. White is clearing, cleansing - like a blank page, white offers a fresh start for a new story. As the Minshu party move to the centre of the Japanese picture, more and more of the original red sun will be bathed in white. There will be a clearing from which a new start may be made. This is what the Minshu party and this election result offers. A fresh start from which Japan can emerge reenergised. This seems to be what so many people hope for.

Colour, shape and resonance offer insight into the messages of the symbols around us. They allow us deeper understanding of the messages offered to us. Look around and enjoy.

71 and 1: a No and a Yes

In Numerology 1 (see previous blog) I looked at the 171 steps of the Statue of Liberty from a numerological perspective as a combination of a 17 and a 1 : B17 (the path of The Star) and B1 (the path of The Magician). It is however more orthodox to see the 171 as a combination of a 1 and a 71. This article explores the implications of this view. Since in numerology we read numbers from right to left we shall start with the inside number - 71.

B71: Born out of No

The Pink / Cear combination brings the intensity of the light to the red in the top fraction a very strong way. Pink is primarily the energy for love of course, but the red hidden within the pink has further themes related to it. Themes such as the tendency to say “No” (introduced in the Level 2 course); and also themes of separation and grounding (finding one’s place to stand on the earth).

Those who initially left the Old World of Europe to the New World of North Americas did so out of a “No”. It was the lack of religious freedom that led the Founding Fathers to sail from Boston UK (just down the road from Tetford). There was no Statue of Liberty then of course but the principle of No was present. Later waves of immigrants separated (red) from their homelands (red / pink theme of mother country) because of hardships at home such as poverty, famine, persecution and war. Notice too that red is about struggle - red’s complementary colour - green - is about flow and harmony. In green there is no struggle, no pressure to change. Red drives change.

In B71 we find the suffering (clear) that leads people to say No, separate from the mother energy and search for a new place to put down their roots.

B1: Inspired by Yes

Where red is No, blue is Yes. As much as emigrants from the Old World were pushed by No, when they arrived as immigrants they held a strong Yes for a new chance. A desire (blue) for something better. As discussed in the previous blog Numerology 1 - there is a resonance between B1 and the American Dream - the chance to achieve your dream.

Evolution

Reading numbers from right to left is like travelling from East to West. This numerological interpretation of the Statue of Liberty’s 171 steps begins from the inside (the eastern side) with the 71, and travels towards the outside number - the 1 - which is on the far left of the 171 (and so the western-most number). This is how the USA was born. Out of a No and towards a Yes.

Now the USA has extended all the way to the West Coast and the energy has settled there. In contrast to the the East Coast of the USA which looks back across the Atlantic to Europe the West Coast is definitively American and looks out to the Pacific. The West looks forwards to the future rather than back to the past.

Conclusion

In the Numerology 1 blog, I unconsciously started with the 17 and the 1 - reading uncharacteristically from right to left. But I now see that this choice reflected something about the USA itself. The USA has reached its West Coast where the quintessence of the American Dream may be found. For example Hollywood, the creator of dreams is situated here. The American message of freedom and dreams is now able to travel back from the West towards the East! This interpretation sees the 1 - The Magician - the power to create the American Dream - firmly rooted within (the 1 on the inside). And this inner 1 expresses itself through The Star - 17 which represents the freedom to flow and live one’s truth in the world.

Stars and Stripes

A fascinating confirmation to all this comes from the American flag. Known as the Stars and Stripes it is another key symbol for the USA. On its right hand (eastern) side are the 13 red and white stripes (B71 Pink / Clear) that represent the 13 original States that rebelled (red!!) against the British Empire of the Old World. In the top left (western) corner of the flag are the 50 white stars on the blue background which represent the current states of the Union (less Hawaii). From red to blue, from right to left, from east to west.

Can you believe there is yet a third way to interpet the 171. There is. It is creative and original and you can read about it in Numerology 3.

I received an email this morning with a thought provoking story. It ties in with some threads I have been considering recently. Here is the story (thanks to Georgios Perros for forwarding it to me) and then the threads.

Violinist in the Metro

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousand of people went through the station, most of them on their way to work.

Three minutes went by and a middle aged man noticed there was musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried up to meet his schedule.

A minute later, the violinist received his first dollar tip: a woman threw the money in the till and without stopping continued to walk.

A few minutes later, someone leaned against the wall to listen to him, but the man looked at his watch and started to walk again. Clearly he was late for work.

The one who paid the most attention was a 3 year old boy. His mother however was in a hurry and, though the child stopped to look at the violinist, the mother pushed hard and the child had to walk on though he continued to look back. This action was repeated by several other children. All the parents, without exception, forced them to move on.

In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a while. About 20 gave him money but continued to walk their normal pace. He collected $32. When he finished playing and silence took over, no one noticed it. No one applauded, nor was there any recognition.

No one knew this but the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. He played one of the most intricate pieces ever written with a violin worth 3.5 million dollars.

Two days before his playing in the subway, Joshua Bell sold out at a theatre in Boston and the seats average $100.

Joshua Bell playing incognito in the metro station was organized by the Washington Post as part of an social experiment about perception, taste and priorities of people. The outlines were: in a commonplace environment at an inappropriate hour: Do we perceive beauty? Do we stop to appreciate it? Do we recognize the talent in an unexpected context?

And now for my threads …

I have just completed using Equilibrium B80. It is the first bottle I have really worked through for some time and it has been a very good experience. The main theme it has triggered for me has been that of conception – the subject of spirit being born into the material world. Indeed the intention that led to my choosing this bottle was to address my own coming into this world. The colours may be seen to represent spirit - the of love, delicacy and sensitivity underneath the red of matter. In fact, I am beginning to see pink not just as a spiritual quality but actually as the energy of spiritual being-ness itself.

The 8 of the 80 echoes this theme in so far as 8 is the figure of two circles meeting. The worlds of spirit and matter. Spirit enters the world with conception and departs with physical death. The pink enters the red, travels the red experience of living an earthly life, and then, with death, returns to its spiritual home. The 0 initiates and energises this contact at the midpoint of the 8 – the place of meeting between these two worlds.

The emailed story is about beauty appearing unappreciated in a busy world. The theme of Red /Pink with its refined energy of love underneath the coarser energy of red may be seen as equivalent. It is interesting to consider that the colour reversal of this bottle is B84 Pink/Red. This bottle is named Candle in the Wind and is associated with Marilyn Monroe and Princess Diana. They represent the opposite situation, they were not beauty unappreciated, they were symbols – icons even - of beauty that were held up before the whole world.

Red/Pink, resonating with the beauty we each have within, a beauty that is so easy to overlook, to ignore, or dismiss. Yet the pink is our essence. The email story is about missing the beauty in the world around us. My message from using the B80 is about honouring the beauty, the preciousness within our self.

This awareness goes towards a healing for what has been the hardest part of my life: to welcome conception, to understand that the soul coming to earth is purely and simply adding love to life.

“Money no object” is usually understood to mean “spend as much as is needed to achieve the desired goal” However if we look at it word by word it can mean something else, simply that money does not exist in a physical sense. The coins and notes we call money only act as money because we all agree on their value. If we did not agree, these coins and notes would become just paper and metal again. What money is objectively is not the same as what it is subjectively.

This expression has been going around in my head these last few days. Tonight I read an article on another website, from a lady Ros Gardener, whose actions i admire very much. Her message reminded me of this phrase “Money no object.” and so i wrote a reponse. If you would like to read her original message then you can find it at http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/successful-people-core-philosophy-revealed Here is my response:

Firstly, i would like to say i have been receiving your newsletter for a couple of years, and your quality Ros has always really shone through. Your willingness to share, support and foster abundance and know-how with others is so inspiring.

Your attitude of sharing, as i see it, is reflected in the way you live as though money and business are not a limited pot that have to be fought over in a win / lose competition way, but rather your actions say that business is a win / win, sharing sucess together, way.

And right now, in the midst of this tightness around money - the credit crunch, where fear of losing is freezing everything up, you are bringing exactly the right message. Its not the money - its the way it serves our dreams that counts.

The sentence that has been in my head these last couple of weeks is “Money no object.” (It seems the credit crunch is helping us to wake up from the dream of money as value simply disappears day by day. If money were really an object it couldn’t simply disappear)

For so much of my life i have lived in what i would call “poverty consciousness” as opposed to “abundance consciousness”. This poverty consciousness has affected me most in the way i release money, it has always been hard to spend in an open hearted way, joyful way, to really let go and trust that there is a flow of money of which i am a part. But now I am beginning to truly realise that it is in the emotion with which i spend that there exists the potential for real transformation. For me until now the truth is that money has been an object. It is something that i have perceived as the source of security and so i have felt the reluctance to let it go. Instead in some way i needed to sit on it instead.

But now, to be in the flow of money, as i look through money to my wishes, for myself and for those around me, rather than look at money as an object in its own right, this is what i am learning and beginning to truly practice now.

My work is with colour, colour as energy, and your message Ros is that money is energy. Energy to live our life, not an object to count on for its own sake. If i put that in to colour terms i would say that red represents our relationship to the earth and thus the material world. (Red is traditionally associated with the chakra - the energy centre - at the base of the spine). Red can be the assertiveness of the top dog with its tail up (indicating strong red chakra energy) as it dominates those around it - competition, or it can be the abundance of Father Christmas in his red cloak, bring presents and goodies for all. Your message Ros is very much the latter.

Red’s complementary colour is Green. Green represents flow and is associated with the energy centre located at the heart. (Just notice how our feelings flow throughout the day) So here we have a red / green balance to strike. Red = sit on money, green = let it flow, spend from the heart.

Even more importantly though from your message Ros, is the importance of blue. Blue is the energy centre of the throat that sits above the heart. Here is our power to declare and affirm our beliefs and desires. Red - earth is a place to manifest our (blue) dreams - just as you say your friend Yanick is doing.

Money is simply the medium for this. Money is no object - just a means to an end, the means to realise our dreams.

And if i may, in closing, it strikes me that in so far as your name Ros - Rosalind, includes the energy of Rose - which is pink (a light red) - then you Ros, help shine the light in to the red of abundance and material success for all of us, helping to make all our lives richer in the true sense. Thank you so much.

There you are, her website again is www.netprofits today. and here is the link to the specific article http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/successful-people-core-philosophy-revealed

May you too live in abundance and realise your dreams!

Osaka is Japan’s second largest city. Its telephone code is 06. As you get deeper into Aura-Soma, numbers become more significant - they indicate colour combinations. 06 is the number of the double red combination in the Equilibrium range. Red is the energy of the base chakra, the energy of mother earth, and also that of the female energy. It empowers all women.

While sitting outside an Osaka cafe one evening, casually watching the traffic passing by, a growing awareness of something surreal began to impress itself upon me. Many of the passing bicycles were being pedalled by men, but above and behind the man would be a woman standing up over the rear wheel. These women seemed like charioteers. Proud and commanding, as they sighted their path ahead, travelling effortlessly through space while the man beneath them worked hard.

I felt as if I were in another world, a civilisation of women warriors, a kind of mythic culture of dragons where the the female earth energy was in the ascendant, surreally interposed in this 21st century modern city scene.

From a telephone code that seems only chance, to a colour - Red - and to an expression of that red energy on the streets of the city. The dragon earth energy is strong in Osaka and it is the women who carry it. They experience what it is to be in the ascendant here.