Colors

Verdigris

The green that forms on aged copper — beauty produced by the slow corrosion of what was once bright.

Verdigris in a dream is the dream's image of the soft green that forms on copper that has been left to the weather. The colour is beautiful; it is also evidence that the metal has been changing under the surface. The dream brings verdigris when something in your life — an institution, a relationship, a long-kept object — has reached the age where the patina is both its grace and its warning. A verdigris loved on a public statue is the dream telling you the age is being honoured. A verdigris on something that still has work to do is the dream noting that the corrosion is no longer cosmetic, and the part that needs to be functional is being eaten.

Related symbols

Amber (colour)

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

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.

Disclaimer: For entertainment and self-reflection only. Not a substitute for professional advice.