Violet is also known as purple, and is the last of the cool colours, being the shortest wavelength and highest frequency colour on the spectrum. It is a combination of red and blue and therefore shares many of the qualities being both warm and cool, depending on the tone, passionate and intellectual, active and passive.

It is the most spiritual of colours, above the high awareness of indigo and typically is associated with psychic ability and innate inner knowledge.

For these reasons violet is the perfect colour to meditate to, it is also an ideal stress reliever and can help aid restful sleep, as well as heighten passion if needs be!

It has a many positive attributes and naturally several negative attributes and as with other colours these depend on tone, tint and surrounding colours. Each attribute relates to how we feel when we are in the presence of the colour as well as what it says about our own personalities when indigo is our favourite or least favourite colour.

Positive traits:

Psychic ability and awareness

Spirituality

Calm, soothing and comforting

Stress relief, sleep inducing and meditative

Inner perspective, intuition and inspirational

Trusting in fate

Listener/healer

Passion and romance

Humanitarian

Luxury, abundance, regality

Authenticity, quality

Abstract

Vision

Negative traits:

Introversion

Decadence

Suppression

Inferiority/Superiority

Over-powerful

Fanatical

Out of touch with reality

Laid back

Idealist

If violet or purple is your favourite colour, then you are probably well on your way to discovering your innermoo! Violet indicates a psychic awareness and continued focus on the colour in meditation can help develop this further. You probably have a sense of serenity and calm about you and make a good listener, healing others through this capability. You may however come across as slightly too airy fairy and may put others off with a sense of superiority.

If you don't like violet, then you may well prefer your feet to be firmly on the ground and are not entirely sure about the psychic side of things, preferring to have things proven to you, rather than relying on your intuition. You may feel suppressed or inferior to others and may be over stressed or tired and not prepared to acknowledge that.

When we don't like a colour one of the best things to do is acknowledge what negative aspects or traits relate to us and try to embrace the colour's positive traits through meditation, wearing the colour, or surrounding ourselves with that colour in a personal space (not necessarily by going as far as decorating, but with a throw or piece of material). Tune into the colour and try to learn the lessons it is sharing with us.

In the home violet is a lovely colour for our living space, bedrooms and meditation rooms. Its not the best colour for dining rooms or kitchens as it will induce a sense of calm and quietude instead of community those rooms need. The bathroom is another room that lighter shades of violet (such as lilac) would be ideal as it will create a stress free environment that feels decadent and luxurious, the perfect place to relax.

Violet relates to the crown charka, located above the head and associated with higher level of thought and spiritual awareness.

In tarot violet is associated with The Star, Wheel of Fortune and The Moon (red-violet) in the major arcana.