![]() Purple is also related to the crown chakra and intuition, or what Ashby calls the "repository of your potential manifestations." Through the crown, we're able to make manifest anything we're holding in that space, she notes.Īnd in terms of purple's psychological effects, she adds, it's a tranquilizing and hypnotic color that can help you access higher states of consciousness. "So combine them together and you get violet, which combines the highest and the lowest energy, and violet is the color of the power of heaven over Earth," she explains. As Ashby notes, purple combines blue and red, with red being the lowest vibrational energy in the color spectrum, and purple and blue being the highest. ![]() Nowadays, those associations have stuck around, particularly with regard to spirituality. And in those days, royal people were regarded as "divinely appointed," so royalty and spiritual wisdom were often considered synonymous. So not only was it a status symbol to wear purple, but those in lower classes could rarely afford it.Īshby explains that from the Byzantine Empire to the Greek and Roman empires, to ancient China, purple mainly meant extravagance but also spiritual wisdom, with priests and bishops donning purple robes and sashes. As psychic and author of Simply Color Therapy Nina Ashby tells mindbodygreen, it was a sought-after color for the royal class as early as 1500 B.C., because it was expensive to make purple dye. ![]() Purple has strong associations with royalty and power because it was quite a rare color once upon a time. ![]()
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