Colors

Amber (colour)

A warm honey-gold — the colour of preserved old material held in something translucent.

Amber in a dream is the dream's image of a warm honey-gold, the colour of fossil resin that has held ancient insects intact for millions of years. Amber is preservation made visible. The dream brings amber when something in your life — a feeling, a memory, a piece of a person — is being held intact across much more time than would seem possible. An amber held to the light, with what is inside it visible, is the dream affirming that the preservation is real and the past is still legible. An amber clouded over, with what is inside no longer readable, is the dream noting that the preservation succeeded as storage but the inner record is being lost.

Related symbols

Ash grey

The grey of what fire leaves — colour that is evidence of a finished burning.

Black

What is hidden — the unknown, the unconscious, what you have not let into the light.

Blue

Calm, distance, and the cool part of the spectrum — what holds steady.

Brown

Earth, durability — what is not glamorous and is reliably solid.

Crimson

A deep, blood-toned red — the colour of decision and of cost that has already been paid.

Earth brown

The brown of worked soil — colour of ground that produces food and absorbs what is put on it.

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