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.“
Left: My Aura Photo from February 2020 & Right: Color Chart Screenshot from homemade-gifts-made-easy.com
Before I studied blended colors, I had a harder time understanding where blue ends and purple begins.
Above, I added a side by side comparison of my aura photo alongside a color chart. As I already said, I started researching colors 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.
Screenshot is from goop.com.
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 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, as you can see in my aura photo below, 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.” Anyway, Monika went on to say that the cloud indicates that incoming energy is being partially blocked instead of fully received.
My Pluto Wound
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.”
But one of the planets as well as one of the astrological houses, also both represent the exact same thing. Pluto, according to Meredith, astrologist from Soul Navigation, says this planet is largely about “the transformative power within us.” Also, the eighth house, according to stargazer, writer for advancedastrology.com, “governs death, birth (and) rebirth” along with “transformation (and) regeneration.” And it just so happens that my Pluto is in my (natal) eighth house.
But the eighth house isn’t just purple. It is also represented by the color blue.
Stargazer says, “The eighth house in the natal chart has everything to do with the resources of other people.” And that aligns perfectly with what Colville said. He described blue as the “region (in which) hard work has no place.” And why should it if it is about other people’s resources? It sounds like a lucky house, right? And it is but it’s also one you have to keep burning down and rebuilding.
I have a full (Placidus) eighth house in my natal chart which includes both my Scorpio Lot of Fortune as well as my Libra North Node or North Star. My blue eighth house placements require me to perfect the art of being in a region in which hard work has no place but other people’s resources do. For me, this flow state demands that I develop the art of surrendering by letting go and if necessary, letting it all burn to the ground.
Screenshot is from homemade-gifts-made-easy.com.
See, my red hot Aries (second house) South Node would much rather work hard and do it all by myself with all or most of my own resources. And I suppose that’s why my Chiron sits right there alongside my South Node. It makes sure that it’s too painful to stay too long in my work-filled Red South Node. It pushes me to trust by moving me towards my faith-filled Blue North Node. Perhaps when the red side of the tension rod is perfectly balanced with the blue end, the remaining fog over the incoming purple-violet energy in my aura will lift completely.
However, I have found the calibration process to be complex. Maybe it is because my Pluto has so many aspects. Or, maybe it is because my Chiron and Pluto wounds work in tandem along with my nodes as demonstrated in the image above. Either way, I’ll conclude theorizing for now 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 so it must be resolved before the chronically inflamed wound can heal.