Colour Symbolism

Aqua means "water", the color symbolizes youth and is associated with speech and communication, confidence, strength, and idealism. It is also associated with emotional healing and protection and has a soothing affect.
 Green is the color that represents money, prosperity, employment, fertility, healing, and growth. It is the color of the element of the earth and symbolic of the planet's fertility and life. Green is soothing, refreshing and calming. Pale and medium greens connect with nature.
Green denotes the season of spring, youth and vigor. The color green is also related to envy and misfortune as in the “green-eyed monster” and “green around the gills” refers to someone who is sick.

Orange is the color of general attraction and energy, ideas and mental stimulation. It is flamboyant, denotes energy, enthusiasm and warmth.
The color pink signifies love, friendship, compassion, relaxation. Pink is symbolic of gentle emotions and is often associated with femininity. It symbolizes good health as "in  the pink."
The color purple is pacifying, refreshing and calming. It denotes power, healing, meditation and religion, wisdom and spirituality.

Purple was once a European symbol of royalty and nobility. It is sometimes associated with arrogance or cruelty. In Thailand, purple is related to mourning and is worn by widows.

 Red is the color of health, strength, physical energy, sex, passion, courage and protection. It is associated with blood, birth, death and intense emotions.
Red symbolizes energy, excitement, strength, power, war and violence, and aggression. It is the color of love as seen in the red Valentine's Day heart and is also associated with anger as in "he's so mad, he saw red". When good fortune arrives it is called a “red-letter day”.
In Polynesia, red was a sacred color associated with the deities and with the highest social classes. In China, the color red is the symbol of happiness, prosperity, and good luck while red is the color of mourning in South Africa.
The color yellow signifies intellect, philosophy, confidence, divination, communication, eloquence and travel. It is the color of the element air and is symbolic of the sun, grain, and the power of thought. 

Yellow is associated with joy, happiness, and optimism. It denotes imagination, hope,and idealism, is related to sunshine, as in "she has a "sunny disposition" and the season of summer. In some cultures, yellow denotes dishonesty and cowardice, jealousy, betrayal, and deceit. In Egypt and Burma, yellow signified mourning and in Polynesia, yellow was a color of royalty.

Blue is the color of the element of Water. It symbolizes the ocean, sleep, the sky, and twilight. Pacifying, peaceful, refreshing and calming, it denotes stability and harmony.
Blue is associated with healing, psychic ability, patience, confidence, happiness and loyalty. In some cultures it signifies depression or sadness, as in "he's in a blue mood". The ancient Egyptian pharaohs wore blue for protection against evil and in Iran, blue is the color of mourning.

The color brown represents the soil and fertility.  Brown is associated with the home, comfort, and constancy. It denotes simplicity, reliability, stamina, and the outdoors.