What does the color green mean? Hope and nature

Green is loved or loathed. The color of nature and freshness in the West, it stands for money and ambition in the English-speaking world, for fertility in Asia, and it is sacred in Islam.

What does green really mean, and what does it reveal about your personality? Find out.

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What does the color green mean?

Green is soothing, refreshing and invigorating all at once. The color of hope and of life awakening, it brings harmony, stability and focus, and invites calm. Nature remains its best-known meaning: it is the emblem of eternity and rebirth, that of the buds returning every spring.

A symbol of youth, it also has its weak spots: inexperience, naivety and envy, since we turn “green with envy”. In China, wearing a “green hat” even designates a betrayed husband. In the English-speaking world, finally, it is the color of money, the color of US banknotes.

👉 Green is banned from theaters: Molière collapsed while performing The Imaginary Invalid, dressed in green according to tradition, and died at home a few hours later, in 1673. The superstition lives on.

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What green says about your personality

People who love green are particularly independent: they need autonomy and freedom, hate confined spaces and prefer vast, unspoiled nature. If you love green, you would rather be alone than in bad company: solitude helps you find balance, the key to a fulfilling life.

You move forward with a lot of hope and kindness. Protective of your loved ones, optimistic and sensitive, you have great instinct. Just watch out for envy and a tendency to let yourself be influenced.

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Green in spirituality: the color of the heart

In the aura, green is associated with the 4th chakra, Anahata, the heart chakra. In balance, it symbolizes liberation and closeness to others and to nature; out of balance, confinement and submission. It helps you let go and move forward with optimism, in a regained inner peace.

In Feng Shui, green means growth, youth and renewal: it is said to favor creativity. In Islam, it is the color of paradise and of the Prophet's banner, and it adorns many mosques.

For the alchemists, it was the color of Venus, whose metal, copper, becomes covered with green patina over time: a green of love and nature, far from being just the color of banknotes.

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How to bring green into your daily life

• Bring plants into your home: it is the most alive way to enjoy green.
• Treat yourself to a forest walk when your mind goes round in circles: green soothes and recenters.
• Wear an aventurine, the green stone of luck, to accompany a new beginning.

Longing for nature? Discover the meaning of brown, the other color of the earth, or of blue, which, mixed with yellow, makes green.

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