RED is the most forcible of colors, with a constantly active urge. It does not necessarily denote a headstrong nature, despite such phrases as “seeing red,” for it may be cool and calculating as well as vigorous. People who like red are stalwart and their bravery is often evidenced. But if badly goaded, they may become vengeful. Analysts are therefore apt to regard this as a fiery color, Whereas it actually represents virility, so flare-ups by persons with red preference may result from normal experiences. Being challengers, they frequently have encounters with persons who are just as determined as themselves.

Red is the most popular of colors, and when we realize that it is greatly favored by primitive tribes and persons of low mentality, it is easy to see how it has mistakenly been regarded as a symbol of brute force. Actually, red is the most controllable of colors, so no one should hesitate to admit it as a preference.

Instead, persons with red proclivities should make the most of them. Consider first that red includes such traits as passion, drive, endurance, boldness, and other qualities that lead to joy of life and love of adventure. Add to that the fact that the vibratory influence of red, like that of other colors, may run from the extremes of the utter physical to that of the sheer mental. You will then realize how rarely all the red elements are embodied in one personality.

You w1ll find heroes and hero-worshipers both responsive to red vibrations; the same with great athletes and avid sports fans. Men of action may have little time for anger; while persons of tempestuous moods may show it in bluster, nothing more. People who actually choose red as a color to wear are optimistic and high-spirited.

The very power of the red wave length causes it to reflect the individual’s nature more vividly than with other colors, where preference may be governed by more rational notions. Red, being an instinctive choice, characterizes people who need guidance in their development; and here, a study of shades and their significance is highly important.

MAROON, with its deep hue, shows stamina along with strength. Purpose and restraint are in this color, but perhaps more than any other, it represents the true fighting spirit, especially in the face of odds or adversity. It is a color of warmth and cooperative effort; though given to moody spells, it is strongly recuperative. This color itself has variance in shades; the richer it is, the better; too much brown restricts it to mundane affairs and selfish action.

CRIMSON shows the optimistic, go-getter traits of red. Here is the challenging competitive nature, eager for success and always ready to champion a cause. Here we have action and aggressiveness on the intellectual plane, and its very drive carries the individual on to greater things. Often this volatile nature demands the satisfaction of desire regardless of consequences, but the ability to sway opinion and the promise of the future makes up for such shortcomings. Affectionate dispositions characterize this hue.

SCARLET is the most impassioned of red hues and can produce a nature more likable or more spiteful than any other type. Sudden temper can flare with those who hold this color preference, and often their action lacks purpose, being largely the result of a restless mood. Their affection is often superficial, a mere cover-up for their own selfish urge. Yet this is a gay, volatile hue that teems with vivacity and rules out the despair that so often handicaps other red shades.

PINK is the ultimate in light red shades, showing love rather than mere affection and a willingness to serve and help others. It has the activity of red, but it indicates a nature so softened that jealousy and spite cannot become a part of it. True pink is a delicate shade, however, and people who respond to its vibration can be easily hurt, though they recover readily.

The darker the red hue, toward brown or black, the more its violence must be controlled. The lighter the hue, the more loving and humane the nature, with calm moods amid the action. Bright tints show buoyancy; dull tints, glumness.

ORANGE is a color of high aspiration. People with that vibration are proud and self-sufficient, yet by direct manner and approach they impress other persons strongly. The drive of red is found in the orange aura, but it is high-minded and usually restrained or deficient on the sensual side, its one aim being ambition.

That handicaps the orange nature, for it shows a lack of warmth. The orange temperament is social, because it wants success. So orange folk go out of their way to gain popularity, which may cause people to mistrust them. Orange rides over opposition, however, through sheer exuberance and inventive ability. Orange people get what they want, and if conceited, they are also contented. Whatever their course, they justify it in their own minds, which gives them confidence, but often narrows their outlook.

With orange as your color, you must learn to recognize your own limitations. You must realize that intelligence and logic are not the only things that count in life. To make people like you, first you should like them.

YELLOW is a much maligned color that actually deserves the highest rating, but only as a strong, full-bodied hue. Where orange leans to intelligence, yellow shows intellectuality. It is the color of the sun, and Oriental mystics use it to dispel evil, as the sun’s rays banish the dark. In more practical terms, yellow denotes the scientific mind that overcomes ignorance. Yellow also denotes artistry.

As your color, yellow gives you wisdom and marks you as creative, but to what degree is the question. Many persons admit that the yellow which appeals to them is not the golden glow, but a paler, duller shade. With such a yellow, wisdom is restrained by caution. This shows a retiring nature, given to wishful thinking, too timid to take the risks that would lead to success. Vivid yellow, in contrast, shows the person who will take a chance with confidence and win.

Dull yellow marks a selfish individual, too introspective to make the most of opportunity. Yellow-brown is worst, literally both muddy and muddly. If such a color appeals to you, it is time to think in better shades of your favorite color, yellow.

GREEN is the great color of nature and those who emanate that aura are not only adaptable to circumstances but are generally both sympathetic and sentimental. Those factors are perhaps their greatest weakness. They are fond of companionship and therefore inclined to take life too easily. If they don’t succeed as they should, they naturally blame everybody and everything except themselves.

As the diametric opposite of red, green is slow to anger and restrained of action. People with this vibration are as firm, as immutable as nature itself. Their power grows slowly but formidably, and there is no way of repressing their friendly but determined spirit. They are conformists, but in their own way. Once they feel that they are right, nothing can force them to change their opinions.

If green is your color, you may be a bit “green” at times, but people will like you all the better. Just don’t fritter away idly, as this calm color vibration is apt to let you do. Seek action, because you should be capable of it. However, the shade of your aura may have some bearing there.

EMERALD, the strong, rich green, is the most volatile expression of this aura. It raises adaptability to the status of adventure, and persons with that powerful vibration have all the vigor found in red and other colors. They find situations and make the most of them, in a forthright, indomitable way that still sways sentiment and sympathy.

OLIVE, in contrast, is a weak, dull hue, avoiding issues, seeking excuses. This may be a “negative” vibration, too close to nature. It is evasive, unable to express itself or to help the person who adopts it.

APPLE GREEN, a few shades higher, has a happier faculty, a hopeful, pleasant vibration, striving for the sympathy that characterizes the full-fledged color. Yet it is still too light, and therefore over-sentimental.

SEA GREEN is much darker than the others, including emerald; but with its strength, it carries envy. Instead of caution, which features the greens that are on the yellowish side, this deep green shows cunning and defeats its own purpose.

With greens, shades make the difference, more so perhaps than with any other color. Various other hues could be mentioned, but the general rule will suffice. Toward yellow, green becomes unstable; toward blue, it turns over-smart. Find the balance point and focus your vibration there if green is your favorite color.

BLUE is a powerful vibratory influence, living up to the expression of “true blue” and at the same time going far beyond such scope. It is a color that mixes sensitivity with fervor, so eager to do right that it may take the wrong way to that purpose.

The sky is blue, but it varies from the light hue of azure to the near-black of midnight. Thus do the moods of the blue vibration vary. Not only that, it is difficult to find a person whose blue aura maintains a constant shade. It may descend to the depths of the “blues” and then rise to the inspired heights that come “once in a blue moon.” So with blue, you should try to find your most suitable hue and hold it.

Generally speaking, all blue shows some measure of devotion. You make friends readily, but often in a formal way. Blue is a cold color, with a certain self- sufficiency, but persons with this aura recognize the value of cooperative effort and therefore exert it.

Where red responds to warm, primitive urge, and green absorbs the vitality of nature, blue turns to the sky and sea for inspiration. In seeking higher, deeper things, blue has become the predominant color in modern life. In business, social, and educational circles, blue far exceeds red as a motivating color, making blue the favorite color of many thinking persons.

AZURE, or sky blue, is a truly heavenly hue, chosen by many who forgo the world and dedicate themselves to noble causes. This is the token of unselfish personalities, as well as those whose self-interest has been absorbed by the desire for spiritual attainment.

NAVY BLUE is a dark, strong hue, showing faithfulness, trust, and a constancy of purpose. There is a self-sufficiency in this darker shade, but always in a cooperative way. Strength and reliability are characteristic of this and approximate hues.

INDIGO or ultramarine are borderline colors, with a purplish tinge. They have the basic qualities of blue, but they lean less to devotion and more to affection, finding outlets for their ideals by helping other people. Moodiness is more apt to grip such persons than those who favor lighter hues.

Admixtures of other colors disturb the steadfast trend of blue. A leaning to black or brown shows morbid or selfish inclinations. A strong tinge of gray creates uncertainty and even fear. A leaning to green, found in some shades of turquoise, shows an impetuous trend.

VIOLET is a color of grandeur and importance, often too strongly so. Its very richness seems to sway persons with this aura, and many people shy away from it as a favorite color, perhaps for that very reason. Like blue, this color has high ideals, but violet is given more to ritual than to devotion. Its self-esteem is so pronounced that people tuned to this vibration try to influence others accordingly. Sometimes that works out, but often the violet vanity proves its own undoing.

Usually persons who favor violet are unaware of their own faults, as they habitually avoid criticism. They turn their idealism into a form of perfectionism, living in their own world of illusion, often to their own full satisfaction. With violet, the term “out of sight, out of mind” applies to anything they do not like. Violet, as a result, is a soothing, harmonious color, with its meditative side.

People with the violet aura often have literary, artistic, or dramatic ability, and they are highly imaginative and creative. This increases their self-satisfaction, for once aware of their genius, they are apt to flaunt it. But they are by no means self-effacing; the term “shrinking violet” refers strictly to the flower, not the color.

Less persons emanate this aura than any other, but that is all the more reason why violet folk regard themselves as different, if not unique. Often they have a yearning for the mystic, for theirs is the hue of twilight, denoting the transition from day to darkness.

Turning fantasy into reality is a common violet practice.

LAVENDER represents the mild side o the violet nature. People with this aura have sweet dispositions but a precious, precise manner.

They are self centered, insistent upon ruling their own little domain hence they are intensive and exacting, willing to let many small things pass only as a way of gaining their main issue which is often small in its own right. Hence Lavender is often the mark of affectation

PURPLE is the royal hue and here we find violet at its strongest, with pomp and ceremony predominant. There is no limit to the height that a person with this aura will seek to attain. Indeed, many persons swayed by success, purposely take on the purple aura as it gratifies their sense of superiority. Given enough prestige and power they will live up to it; but when it is mostly inflationary, such people dwell in a world of empty grandeur.

MAGENTA or other colors wherein violet or purple have a strong tinge of red often show a practical as well as a pompous nature. Such people have a “down-to-earth” attitude that enables them to couple lofty notions with practical results, despite their tendency to show off their importance.

WHITE, as a color, has long been a symbol of purity. Actually, preference for white does denote an untrammeled mind, though its vibration may be largely neutral. Persons who choose white for their color are fastidious, careful in detail and in manner, but understanding of others. They are sincere and fair, but apt to be overcritical.

GRAY is the color of uncertainty, running the gamut from fear, as shown in its lighter shades, through false bravado of the middle hues, to the selfish dark gray, which is dangerous because of its intensity. This is a deceptive color, as those who prefer it appear to be strict conformists with self-effacing ways, though often they are simply hiding their time before pressing their own interests at the expense of others. When gray shows a decidedly silvery tinge, it becomes stronger and more constant, gaining a line quality, which persons with this aura should seek.

BLACK is by no means a glum aura, as it is highly understanding, in a quiet way. Black is properly a symbol of formality and convention. It supplies dignity without false pride, and is a color that commands respect. It can become dynamic, enabling a person to drive home facts and purposes emphatically. But black is strong chiefly in its own right. If it simply tinges other colors, it becomes too heavy a restraint, curbing their natural trends. That accounts for some of the gloom attached to black.

BROWN is a comparatively rare aura, but it is firm and definite. Otherwise, few persons would develop such a nature, as it seldom rises to great heights. It shows a plain, practical disposition; hence persons strongly of that type exhibit an affinity for brown because it is their obvious choice.

Dull, reddish brown is a token of a sensual trend. An average or medium brown shows a grasping personality. A dark brown indicates an irascible, fault-finding temperament. Yet brown often plods along successfully, and persons with this aura certainly do not wear false colors. They are solid folk who may get places through their plain-spoken, honest manner, despite their shortcomings. However, brown, as a tinge, hurts other colors, clouding out some of their finer points.