As anyone who has visited The College of Psychic Studies will know, the library is often a hub of fascinating conversation. Subjects range from encounters with Spirit to tarot, Victorian seances, astrology, and so much more. This week, with a nod to International Colour Day on 21st March, we directed the conversation towards the spiritual meaning of colour. Four of our wonderful tutors – each of whom weaves colour into their spiritual practice – shared their personal experiences. From indigo's quiet wisdom to yellow's transformative challenge, these reflections reveal just how rich and alive the world of colour truly is...
Colour expert Mark Wentworth on dating with indigo...
"It would be hard to choose a favourite colour because they have all taught me so much in their own unique way. The way they make me laugh is different for each shade and tone, too. For instance, one time Indigo shape-shifted into an Einstein-looking character, with wild hair and rolling eyes, specifically when I was thinking about meeting someone for a potential date. It was as if Indigo were saying, 'Really, do you need to repeat this pattern again?' And, of course, I, thinking I knew best, ignored indigo's advice and went anyway, only to later wonder why I hadn't taken notice of wild-haired, rolling eyes, indigo Einstein. We live, we learn and remember to laugh too!
I've also come to understand that colour is so flirtatious, especially when it wants to tell you something. It has a way of attracting your attention, so you can't help but notice it. Maybe to start, there's a small red flower on the path, then a bold red sign on the high street that has probably always been there, but today it's looking at you. Then someone sits opposite you on the underground wearing a coat with little red buttons. Have I got your attention yet?"
Artist Nicole Frobusch on the intuitive power of indigo...
"Indigo feels like a threshold colour to me, a liminal place where the visible world softens and something deeper begins to speak. I often encounter it in quiet, inward moments, in meditation, in the deepening sky at dusk, or in the night sky filled with bright stars.
Indigo carries a sense of vastness and listening. It does not announce itself loudly, instead it draws the senses inward, inviting stillness and inner sight.
In my creative practice, where pigments are gathered from the land, colour often feels like a message from the earth itself. When indigo tones emerge in washes or layered surfaces, they bring a feeling of depth and mystery, as if the material is remembering something ancient. It becomes less about representation and more about presence.
For me, indigo is the colour of intuition and the unseen, a gentle portal between worlds. It holds the quiet intelligence of twilight, reminding me that there is wisdom in the spaces where light and darkness meet."
Colour tutor Tyrone Cusack on manifesting with yellow...
"When I was in university, all I wanted to do was travel and work abroad. In meditation, I asked: what's the feeling state of already being there, doing this, living this? Yellow appeared. But I didn't like yellow. It challenged my definition of happiness, of what I'd known to be true. Why was I resisting this colour? So, I painted my bedroom wall bright yellow to experience it differently.
Every day, I sat with that colour, owning the frequency of someone already living and working abroad. Yellow wasn't pretty to me. But it was true. It showed me where my own biases were blocking my alignment. Each time I resisted the colour, I was resisting the frequency of my own manifestation. When I stopped resisting and started embracing it, everything shifted. My energy changed. My decisions aligned. My perspective cleared. And within months, I moved overseas.
Yellow inspired the informed decisions that got me there. It sparked my curiosity and confidence to leave what I'd known as my only truth and discover a new reality. Yellow was all about perception for me; it opened my awareness to clarity even when my logic could find none."
Artist Clarissa Shanahan on healing in white, pink & gold...
"Colour is a big part of my personal practice. I begin my meditations by imagining myself channelling light in one of three colours — white, pink, or gold — depending on what I feel I need: white for clarity and purification, pink for love and support, and gold for powerful, divine energy. This often leads to seeing waves of colour during meditation, as well as occasionally perceiving energy fields of colour around others.
I began Reiki training a few years ago, and as I practised on friends, I found that each person had a very specific colour map of their body that revealed itself as I worked with them. I would see colours almost diagnostically. For example, I noticed red around one person's right knee and hip, held the energy there until it turned pink, and later learned that this was where they had always experienced inflammation from an old injury. I saw pearl white around the head, sky blue across the shoulders. With someone else, I saw yellow across both wrists — and discovered this was where they suffered from carpal tunnel. Another subject had a fascinating midnight blue/violet aurora borealis colouring throughout the body. When we each wrote about our experiences with this session, we found that he saw the same colours and visuals as me. Each person I worked with had their own distinct colour patterning, and in every case, each colour pointed to something specific happening in their body. So I believe it's a way of communication. It's a universal experience for all of us.
I am also a visual artist with several forms of synaesthesia. Letters, numbers and words each carry a colour. Feelings have colours. Sounds and shapes have colours. Even time itself – weekdays, months, years – has its own distinct palette. This is simply how I perceive the world: entirely through the senses. It feels completely natural, then, that my experiences of spirit, of ideas, of emotion, all speak to me through this – my first language."
Colour is everywhere, and for many of us who work with it on a deeper level, it is far more than a visual experience. It speaks, it guides, it heals. For those attuned to its frequencies, colour can act as a messenger from the intuition, a tool for manifestation, a diagnostic language of the body, or even a gentle nudge from the universe to reconsider a life decision. Come along to a course or workshop at The College of Psychic Studies to discover your own spiritual meanings for colour.
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