Pink

As I was growing up I learned that being a redhead has its advantages and disadvantages.  I received quite a bit of attention because it set me apart from my peers.  Everyone was always telling me how beautiful my hair was and that they wished they had been graced with my hair color.  My parents never had a hard time finding me or my sister in a crowd or spotting us in group pictures.  Plus it is just assumed that you have a temper and are willing to use it.  Like most teenagers, I tended to focus on the negatives instead of the underlying blessings.

One thing that I remember being told was that if you have red hair, you cannot wear the color pink.  This rule never really bothered me much, since pink was a girly color and I was a bit of a tomboy in my younger years.  Poor dad ended up with three daughters, but he made sure we were independent (much to his own dismay), responsible and studied hard.  To me the color pink was the representation of all the things I was not.

For most of my teenage and adult life, green has been my favorite color.  During much of this last year, I have been going through a bit of a black (the color) phase.  Now, much to my own bewilderment, pink has emerged as a constant in my life.

My website now is partially pink, my writing notebook is pink and my favorite set of PJs is pink.  What the heck is going on?

So I decided to take a look at the correspondence information for the color and here is some of what I found:

PLANET: Venus
DAY: Friday
SACRED TO: Aphrodite – Venus
COLOR MEANING: Love and Friendship, Entertaining, Morality, Overcoming Evil, Spiritual Awakening, Harmony, Honor, Service
OTHER MEANINGS: Angelic color, according to William Blake

Information from The Mystic Moon (http://the_mystic_moon.tripod.com/colors.htm)

After looking at this information, some of the reasons for pink’s emergence have become clearer to me.  I feel that the key cause for this new color surfacing is that I need to take better care, love and honor myself.

The Wiccan ideal of “harming none” also extends to one’s self.  Even though I do not consider myself Wiccan, this is a code that I try to uphold.  My tendency to burn the candle at both ends and the expectation of being able to do it forever is not exactly nurturing to my body, mind or soul.  It is my body’s cry out for help.

I will continue to look into this and find other ways to bring pink into my life.  You may see more of it in my artwork and possibly in my wardrobe.  The time to embrace the color pink has come.

And I also might add this redhead is sporting a pink shirt today!