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Showing posts with label yellow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yellow. Show all posts

Thursday, June 16, 2016

Monday, March 11, 2013

Monday, March 11, 2013 New Moon in Pisces 3:52 PM EST

A new cycle begins with the Pisces New Moon. Jumping out/into new warming waters with accepting emotional embrace of our imbalances and our dis ease toward a new kind of balance with ease and grace and trusting the waters around us will support and nourish us with creativity and growth toward the light(s). Consciously construct time and space for these seeds to emerge and prosper and sharing our dreams with the others we meet along our way will bring us to fruition. At this powerful time we find the Moon aligned with Sun, Mars, Venus, Mercury, Mars and Chiron and with the grounding and deep energies of Saturn in Scorpio and Pluto in Capricorn. Be alert that within this Moon cycle as Moon enters Aries in a couple days it will still be aligned to Mars/action and to Uranus/lightening change in Aries at and that at this time the Saturn/structure and Pluto/deeply grounded transformation alignments will also be at play to help with our focus. Trust, Faith and Grace.

my/your/our light shine with conscious action           

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

yellow




many artists' refer to yellow as being the most difficult color to work with. some of this difficulty they say is the physical lower strength/intensity of the pigments in the yellow range.  
from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow
"The word "yellow" comes from the Old English geolu, or geolwe which derived from the Proto-Germanic word gelwaz.[3]According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the oldest known use of this word in English is from The Epinal Glossary in the year 700.[4]
In the English language, yellow has traditionally been associated with jaundice and cowardice.[5] Yellow is associated with the word "caution" and is the second light on stop lights. The color is associated with aging as well, for both people and objects (e.g. "yellowed" paper). Ethnographically, the term "yellow" has been used as a slang term for both Asians ("yellow peril") and, in the early 20th century, light-skinned African-Americans (High yellow).
"Yellow" ("giallo"), in Italy, refers to crime stories, both fictional and real. This association began in about 1930, when the first series of crime novels published in Italy had yellow covers. The term "yellow movie" (黃色電影) can refer to films of pornographic nature in Chinese culture, and is analogous to the English "blue movie".[6] Lastly, it is associated with sensational journalistic practices, or yellow journalism, and resistance to militant trade unions.[7]"

from: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=yellow

"yellow (adj.) Look up yellow at Dictionary.com
O.E. geolugeolwe, from P.Gmc. *gelwaz (cf. O.S., O.H.G. gelo, M.Du. ghele, Du. geel, M.H.G. gel, Ger. gelb, O.N. gulr, Swed. gul "yellow"), from PIE *ghel- "yellow, green" (see Chloe).

Meaning "light-skinned" (of blacks) first recorded 1808. Applied to Asiatics since 1787, though the first recorded reference is to Turkish words for inhabitants of India. Yellow peril translates Ger. die gelbe gefahr. Sense of "cowardly" is 1856, of unknown origin; the color was traditionally associated rather with treachery. Yellow-bellied "cowardly" is from 1924, probably a rhyming reduplication of yellow; earlier yellow-belly was a sailor's name for a half-caste (1867) and a Texas term for Mexican soldiers (1842, based on the color of their uniforms). Yellow dog "mongrel" is attested from c.1770; slang sense of "contemptible person" first recorded 1881. Yellow fever attested from 1748, Amer.Eng. (jaundice is a symptom)."
had the thought cross my mind this morning, "yell ow" establishes a certain pain relatedness to the word. 
how much of these challenging characteristics stem from our associative meanings to the word yellow.
in a more positive light;
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow
Mayan glyph for yellow
perhaps by understanding the range of its meanings, positive and negative yellow significants, as artists we can come to a more harmonic understanding of the positive and negative yellow and effectually relate this understanding to our using yellow in broader strokes...