Even though I’ve already discussed the purples, including violet and indigo, in the previous entries, I can’t yet move on to blue. Technically, though, if I’m talking about purple, I’m talking about blue. In their article, Your Guide to How Red and Blue Make Purple, the unnamed author states, “Red and blue are considered primary colors. Any time you mix two primary colors, you create a secondary color. In this case, when you mix the primary color red with the primary color blue, you make the secondary color purple.“
Before I studied the blending of colors, I had a harder time distinguishing where blue ends and purple begins.
Above, I added a side by side comparison of my aura photo and a color chart. As I already said, I started researching after I had my aura photo taken. And that is when I found Gwyneth Paltrow’s beautiful rainbow aura photo along with the article, The Goop Team’s’ Aura Photos. Luckily, I took a screenshot of the part that caught my eye, because while I can find other similar articles, I can no longer find this specific one.
In reference to Paltrow’s aura, the photographer was quoted as saying, “The purple in the lower left corner is representative of incoming energy.” I don’t recall whether she went on to specify that she meant the left side of the body and not the left side of the photo. But either way, Paltrow has purple on both the expressive or outgoing side as well as on the incoming side. I too have the colors of the purple family, including indigo, amethyst and violet, not only above my head, but also on my incoming side.
However, there is a milky cloud concealing much of the violet on the bottom right side of my photo which is the left side of my body. My photographer, Monika George, explained that this was not the same as the white at the top of my head between the yellow and the purple. That particular white, by the way, Craig Hamilton-Parker describes as “pure prana,” Monika went on to say that the cloud indicates that incoming energy is being partially blocked instead of fully received.
And since violet was the color being covered, according to W. J. Colville, that meant I was blocking that which is represented by “the seventh color in the rainbow spectrum, (which) denotes the highest of all earthly attainments.” I can see that the milky cloud represents my Pluto wound. Since I’m going to discuss this in-depth later, I will only introduce it here. A writer for medium.com, who goes by Astro Era, says, “Purple represents transformation, change (and) spiritual evolution.”
In my natal eight house, is Pluto, which according to Meredith, astrologist from Soul Navigation, is largely about “the transformative power within us.” And the eighth house, according to a writer for advancedastrology.com, who goes by stargazer, “governs death, birth (and) rebirth” along with “transformation (and) regeneration.” But the eighth house is also represented by blue. Stargazer says, “The eighth house in the natal chart has everything to do with the resources of other people.”
And according to Colville, blue, from which purple is partly derived, is a “region (in which) hard work has no place.” For me, blue represents several of my my natal eighth house placements including Uranus and the Lot of Fortune, both of which are in Scorpio, It also represents, in part, my North Node in Libra which is also in my natal eighth house. These blue placements require me to perfect the art of receiving, which is, perhaps, the same thing as the art of surrendering or letting go.
On the other hand, the opposite is true for my red placements which is the other color from which purple is derived. For example, my sixth house Saturn in Leo is not so different from my South Node in Aries who naturally prefers to independently muscle through the acquisition of resources in its quest for power. I wish I could say that if I properly balanced the red of my South Node with the blue of my North Node, that the violet on my receiving side would shine through properly.
However, because my North Node is in Libra, and because my Pluto has so many aspects, the balancing act entails a bit more than just that. But for now, I’ll conclude by saying that the long-term care nurse in me sees that milky cloud as slough, a collection of matter made up in part from dead cells. And it must be resolved before the chronically inflamed wound can heal.