Colours

[Altair]

What has always intrigued me is that religions throughout time have viewed certain colours as more (or less) auspicious. This is not to suggest there are 'bad' colours but some colours seem disproportionally viewed as auspicious.

Blue is usually favoured over red. It is the colour of Mother Mary in Christianity, she wears a blue dress, whereas red is the colour of the devil and demons. One could reason that blue was more special because it was harder to get, just like gold as a material, or that it simply is the colour of the sky and therefore closer to the world beyond. In Eastern religion, there are the seven main chakras, and there as well we find blue high up the ladder and red as the base. Again, it's not that red is a bad colour or anything, but it is literally the base and connected to the world. Christian myth does not beat around the bush, even picturing the worldly pleasures as red skinned demons.

Even without the equipment we have today, where we can measure frequencies of colours, people placed blue above many other colours. I think people intuitively and/or through mystical experience knew certain colours were more auspicious. That chakras and 'holy'/'earthly' colours happen to reflect modern scientific findings is fascinating.

wavelength, frequency (1014 Hz), energy

red 700, 4.29, 1.77
red 650, 4.62, 1.91
orange 600, 5.00, 2.06
yellow 580, 5.16, 2.14
green 550, 5.45, 2.25
cyan 500, 5.99, 2.48
blue 450, 6.66, 2.75
violet 400, 7.50, 3.10

https://www.britannica.com/science/c...sible-spectrum

Probably not new info for most of us, but still interesting. Colour psychology is fascinating.
When I still went to the gym, I always liked wearing a red t-shirt.