The OTG Daily #61 Meditation on Blue

 It seems time for a meditation on blue. Blue things, blue colors, the presence of blue or bleu or blu or 'azraq or bue or goluboy.

I collect blue things. It was my color, a family color...a sort of dusky grey blue I associated with my name and my grandmother's sweaters.  As a teenager I wore blue and black as a uniform, now I have a preference for orange yellows and pale greens.  But blue is always the staple, the calming element. The color of the sea, of the ocean, of the bay, and the reflected sky on the river.  The color of the clear sky itself.

Blue can be associated with sadness (I feel blue) or depression, but also intuition and the mother archetype in Jungian terms. 

Blue is the harmonic color of the fifth chakra "vishuda" located in the throat and associated with our sense of voice and ability to speak our truth.  In ancient times it was associated with wealth, commerce, and royalty because lapis lazuli and cobalt were precious commodities from the east. Indigo dying was a specialty craft and only the wealthy could afford it while browns were easily had from other plants. 

  

 I associate blue in association with red with democracy or whatever remains of it. Blue is the dream and presence of equanimity.

It's composite color on the color wheel is orange and thus my attraction to the more golden spectrum may be a sign of balance. Then there is the mixing of blue with gold, orange, or yellow to make green the color of growth. 

 
Blue things around my home ground me in the body and have a mystical appeal as the light passes through them and then there is blue ink and the anchor of many thoughts that might other fly away like so much dust.

What is the color of your gratitude today?