Symbols and Colours

[Silver Venus]

I just found this on one of the links dagda has posted up recently and thought Id honour it with a thread as these symbol, colour and moon phases interpretations are fun! :D
So what does everyone else think of these?
Do you agree or have different interpretations for the animals and symbols and colours in your deck?
Do some really jump out at you when you read?
Do you look for all the different symbols, colours and animals and take these into account when you read?

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http://home1.gte.net/darrowmp/TouchofTarot.htm

SYMBOL INTERPRETATIONS:

Snake - wisdom and knowledge

Mountains - Man's aspirations

Mountains (snow capped) - God's aspirations for man

Pyramids - That which is eternal

Yods - Blessings, small sparks of fire, leaves or droplets of water

Fish - symbol of ordination of dedication to spiritual service, creativity, pregnancy

Birds - Animal symbol of Air, ideas, messages

Water - reflection, receptivity and the subconscious

Right side of the body - male, out going, future, aware, conscious mind

Left side of the body - female, receptive, past, subconscious mind

Shoes - one's understanding

Wreath - Victory or success, acquired wisdom

Ships at sea - that which is beyond our control, lessons in faith

Plants and flowers

Holly - Christmas - birth

Palm - Easter - resurrection - severity

Olive - peace - mercy

Rose - red-physical desires; white - purity and peace within

Lily - Purified thoughts and spiritual unfoldment



Moon phases -
1st phase - into a new cycle or beginning

last phase - end of a cycle; clear up old ideas


Colours:

Red - Desire, energy, aggression

Orange - Strength, energy, social

Yellow - Mind, thought, expanded perspective

Green - Balance, harmony, healing, prosperity

Blue - Faith, peace, serenity, patience

Purple - Spirituality, penitence, and forgiveness

White - Purity, light of perfect wisdom, light of God

Black - unknown, shadow, mysterious, protection

Grey - Reconciliation of opposites; neutral; uncertainty

Aurabora - Enlightenment, purity of thought, promise of peace

[Kiya]

>Snake - wisdom and knowledge
a snake symbolised both flexibility and also looking for hidden intentions to me

>Mountains - Man's aspirations
Spot on!

>Mountains (snow capped) - God's aspirations for man
Interesting, hadn't thought of that! I just lumped it in with mountains :)

>Pyramids - That which is eternal
Powerful but benign secrets that carry the weight of time with them

>Fish - symbol of ordination of dedication to spiritual service, creativity, pregnancy
I agree - but the pregnancy thing I try to block out!!!!!!! :bigredgrin not quite ready for that yet!

>Birds - Animal symbol of Air, ideas, messages
Yep, my totem animal is a robin, whose appearance both in my thoughts and when I see him out the kitchen window always precedes a message from my God or Goddess

>Water - reflection, receptivity and the subconscious
Also represents energy to me - i see energy as a 'flow' like a river

>Right side of the body - male, out going, future, aware, conscious mind
>Left side of the body - female, receptive, past, subconscious mind
Ah yes, only really thought about this when I got involved with the Tarot. I've started using my right hand to cut for men, and my left to cut for women. It's an experiment!!


>Holly - Christmas - birth
giving shelter and peace to those in need

>Palm - Easter - resurrection - severity
Don't relate to that - palms just symbolise summer hols for me!

>Olive - peace - mercy
definitely, also the offer of friendship



>Red - Desire, energy, aggression
Orange - Strength, energy, social
Yellow - Mind, thought, expanded perspective
Green - Balance, harmony, healing, prosperity
Blue - Faith, peace, serenity, patience
Purple - Spirituality, penitence, and forgiveness
White - Purity, light of perfect wisdom, light of God
Black - unknown, shadow, mysterious, protection
Grey - Reconciliation of opposites; neutral; uncertainty
Aurabora - Enlightenment, purity of thought, promise of peace

Oh yes, these are pretty well what I've been learning. I want to spend some time meditating and really feeling the colours, and I would like to start using colours in my candle magick (I just use white right now.)

I find that a particular colour or reference does jump out - for instance I did a reading and the Ace of Wands came up. Now on my deck, the background is orange, the wand is white and red and there are flames licking around the base of the hand holding the wand. All I could see was the red, even though this is not the dominant colour. I felt this meant the person needed to put every ounce of his passion and creativity into his efforts, and really go over the top with what he was doing that week.




Kiya :sunny:

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

Thanks for posting this SV! ;)

I can really relate to everything stated above for interpretations! :p

Kiya,....palms = VACATION!! :D That is what it means to me too! lol

[Emy]

Originally posted by Silver Venus

Colours:

Red - Desire, energy, aggression

Orange - Strength, energy, social

Yellow - Mind, thought, expanded perspective

Green - Balance, harmony, healing, prosperity

Blue - Faith, peace, serenity, patience

Purple - Spirituality, penitence, and forgiveness

White - Purity, light of perfect wisdom, light of God

Black - unknown, shadow, mysterious, protection

Grey - Reconciliation of opposites; neutral; uncertainty

Aurabora - Enlightenment, purity of thought, promise of peace





hmmm oki, about the colors... :)

To red I'd also add passion... :)
Orange is also knowledge to me
Yellow I'd add travel to that list...
Green also has to do with money for me, but well prosperity... sort of the same thing I guess... :) And I place love here, well as in the love we have for our family and friends
Blue is healing (aswell as green is to me)

Purple, white, black and grey I haven't got much to add... and aurabora, what color is that?

As for pink that stands for love between to persons...

Well, hmmm when I come to think of it, I read in more to this colors than I just mentioned, but generally this is what I feel about thease colors. :)

Blessed be

[Silver Venus]

Brilliant!!

Heres my take on the symbols ~

Snake - wisdom and knowledge ~ & Vanity, planning and material possesions

Mountains - Man's aspirations ~ & Climbing up the mountains ~ achieveing your goals

Mountains (snow capped) - God's aspirations for man ~ & Very close to achieveing your goals

Pyramids - That which is eternal ~ & Secret, mysteries, hidden

Yods - Blessings, small sparks of fire, leaves or droplets of water ~ Not really sure what these are??? :crazy:

Fish - symbol of ordination of dedication to spiritual service, creativity, pregnancy ~ wouldnt say pregnancy!! Id say ~ Travel, luck and working hard

Birds - Animal symbol of Air, ideas, messages ~ & love

Water - reflection, receptivity and the subconscious ~ & Emotions, Love, depression, healing and blessing

Right side of the body - male, out going, future, aware, conscious mind ~ :crazy: I always thought that the right hand was for receiving and the left from transmitting information????

Left side of the body - female, receptive, past, subconscious mind ~ agree with this but not sure about the receptive bit??
Great what you said about cutting the pack Kiya ~ ill have to try that one :)

Shoes - one's understanding ~ & Travel, feet on the ground, direction, wealth, vanity

Wreath - Victory or success, acquired wisdom ~ & Peace, love

Ships at sea - that which is beyond our control, lessons in faith ~ & Travel, movement, going forward, the future

Plants and flowers ~ Growing emotions or whatever suit the card is, nuturing, peace, joy, summer, spring,

Holly - Christmas - birth ~ & luck, forgotten memories (dont know why?), celebration, happiness

Palm - Easter - resurrection - severity ~ & Holidays too!! blessings and calmness

Olive - peace - mercy ~ I just think of Italian food!!

Rose - red-physical desires ~ & passion
white - purity and peace within ~ & rebirth

Lily - Purified thoughts and spiritual unfoldment ~ & death

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

My take on the symbols....

Okay first of all....I can't seem for the life of think of what Yod looks like.....is it the "Y" where the "-" intersects at the connection of the stem to the V ? (what a morning! :crazy: )

Snake: Territorial, reactive, temptation.

Mountains: challenges

Snow-capped Mountains: adventure

Pyramids: hard work, endurance.

Yods: ? (clueless)

Fish: nothing coming to mind at moment....I think it would depend on what type of fish....and how big/small it is.

birds: see fish

Water: Emotions, subconscious.

R-Body: Dominant, contolling, action

L-Body: submissive, intuitive, non-action...passive

shoes: see fish

wreath: completion of cycles, wholeness, attainment

ships at sea: adventure, exploration, hard work but worth the effort.


Okay.....that's all I can work on at the moment. I may come back and post more later. :D

[Emy]

Ok and so the symbols:

Snake: temptation, knowledge, hidden intentions, territiorial.

Mountains: challenge and also aspiration

Snow capped mountains.... never thought of that in a sense that it might make a different meaning then just mountains... however I think challenges that are tougher...

Pyramids: balance, perfection, hard work, some sort of eternal feeling also comes here... or perhaps something that remains for a long long time..

Yod: Don't know what that is...

Fish: element of water of course, a sense of being free perhaps, calm, serenity, creativity, pregnancy perhaps...
Why do I associate fish with pregnancy? I don't know that... hmm maybe because the little baby swims in her mothers womb :)

Birds: element of air, messenger, ideas etc. Well i am not sure here, different birds may have different associations aswell, a crow is different than a hawk... and a sparrow different than a raven...

Water: reflections, subconscious, calm, serenity or energy depending on the water, it might aslo be wild... emotions definitly...

Right side of the body: dominant, logical, intellectual

Left side of the body: receptive, intuitive, creative, emotional

shoes:? well never thought about shoes before, but well I'll give it a try... hmmm let me see, experiences, wandering, the ability to understand others feelings etc.

wreath: hmmm whats that? gotta look it up in my dictionary... ooooh I see, I should have known that one (it is not always easy having swedish for my first language and discussing in another...) ok, completion, circles, winnings, conquering, success, wholeness, victory, at the top of something (having completed something... and have gotten more wise from it..)

Ships at sea: travelling, beyond reach, adventures, hard work, motions

Ok that'll be all for now :)

Blessings

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

Okay, I found out what the Yod is. If you will look back to our lessons of the majors, and look at the pictures Tower and Moon, Yod are the "drops of light" "~" (they look similar to rain drops coming down.)

:)

[Silver Venus]

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They look like drops of Fire!!

[Silver Venus]

Yods ~ Im really not sure what I would say they stand for ~ maybe inspiration! Especially because of the light, fire connections.
But they dont seem to fit the cards...Hmmm... then again I guess they do!! :)

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

Silver, when you get a chance look in the book "Tarot Companion" in the symbolism part....what does it say about Yod? (I left my book at home today)

[Silver Venus]

Ooops me too! Im at work too ~ Ill tell ya tomorrow ~ but guess you will alreayd know by then... Oo Ill try a search....

[Silver Venus]

Just found quite allot of interesting stuff actually ~
got this from this page which is brill for the cards ~
http://www.astrologyzine.com/tower.shtml

Have you ever heard the expression "The Finger of God"? In Astrology, a certain angle or "aspect" between two heavenly bodies and a third one is called "a Yod", or "The Finger of God" -- though some call it "The Finger of Fate". Now if you look closely at The Tower card, you will see many little symbols which look like raindrops (in the shape of an apostrophe, or the black section of the yin/yang Tao symbol). These are called "yods", and a Yod is actually a letter in the ancient Hebrew alphabet. Yod is also the first letter of the Hebrew word for Jehovah -- Yod-He-Vah-He.

It is a symbol for God, in the same way that the first letter of the Greek alphabet, Alpha, and the last letter, Omega, is a symbol which Christ used to describe himself: "I am the Alpha and the Omega" -- the Beginning and the End. In other words, Christ (and God) is "everything" -- omnipresent, everywhere, in everything and in everyone.

The realization and belief in this is "the at-one-ment". In "A Course In Miracles" the times we achieve atonement are called "The Holy Instant" -- that instant in time where we actually remember that we are all One and not separate from one another, when we look upon a brother with Love and see him or her as being "at one" with ourselves -- and all of us innocent and always loved and loving. For a brief instant, it is as if we are in Heaven gazing upon the face of God, and when we experience these brief glimpses of the Truth, we feel an ecstatic rush unlike anything else we normally experience here in The Illusion we call "the material world" -- unlike anything except those other rare instances when we allow ourselves to extend or receive Love in any of its myriad of forms, one of which is true sexual union. Another would be the sense of Awe on seeing the magnificent Beauty of a sunrise, or being touched in our soul by a beautiful song, or feeling true Compassion for a brother who is truly suffering.

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& from this site http://www.tryskelion.com/moon.htm
which is actually about the moon card ~ it says ~
Nine Yods: These can be symbolic of two things. First, they can be seen as tears of joy at the new awareness found after inner exploration. Second, they can be seen as tears of heartache and pain that accompany the journey

:D

[Kaylara]

If you want to see a good set of correspondences, pop over to www.wicca.com and look around for a bit... There's tons of great knowledge there!

Kaylara

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

;)

Thanks!

[Kaylara]

You're welcome!

Kaylara

[Dagda Moon~Lily]

Nice Blanket! Congrats! :p

[Kaylara]

Thank you... It's hard work!
;)

Goddess I am bored...
*slinks off to play family feud*

kaylara