ALUNA TEMPLE MAGAZINE EDITION No5 'ALCHEMY' | Page 77

How all this matches with the language of colour is particularly interesting. So why not focus for a bit on the three main characters on the stage of Alchemy: gold, royal blue and violet. Within the Aura-Soma Colour Care System® transformation as well as transmutation are connected to the colour violet and pale violet. Violet is formed by equal parts of blue and red. Blue generally is associated with a passing and red with a new beginning (amongst others). So an ending and a new begin. A transformation literally means leaving behind an old form, and taking on a new hopefully improved- form. The Ascended Master connected to (pale) violet from an Aura-Soma point of view is St Germain, the Master Alchemist, also said to have been incarnated as Merlin. Violet is related to the seventh chakra, the Crown chakra, the area of spirituality and service. St. Germain, Source © indianinthemachine.wordpress.com Translated into an alchemistic process: * in Western traditions, any change (e.g. transformation) starts with a change of mind, which would be within the violet area of the human body (crown chakra) * in Indian wisdom tradition, the Crown chakra opens as a consequence of a transformation that started with the three energy flows -Ida, Pingala and Sushumna- taking off in the red area (root chakra) and meeting each other in harmony within the sixth chakra The colour gold is formed by equal parts of yellow and orange. However gold is not mentioned in the classical diagram of 7 chakras. However, New Age brought us new views involving more chakras. There’s no right or wrong in anyone’s view, it’s just a matt