Rejection of the Color Red

The absence of a particular color in one’s aura, or a blocked chakra, is described somewhat indirectly in psychology textbooks as the repression of that color from one’s life, clothing, and surroundings. Every person has a favorite color whose vibrations resonate with them more than others. Sometimes we are attracted to a particular color, shade, or even several colors at once. We value them so highly that they become a personal reflection of our tastes and personality. The clothes we wear and the colors of our immediate surroundings symbolize temperament and predispositions consistent with the characteristics of our nature, which do not always manifest openly. Liking or disliking a chosen color is an inner reaction.

For example, in color tests the dark blue color represents complete calmness combined with loyalty and depth of feeling. When chosen first among colors important to us, it indicates a need for emotional peace and inner harmony. Blue placed last among a palette of 10–15 colors is considered a sign of dissatisfaction, restless behavior, and mental unease.

Simple exercises in observation revealed to me deficiencies in my own red color, the color of vitality, appetite, and desire. It expresses life force and impulsiveness, indicating a need for success and achievement. When pushed to the end of the list of important colors or expelled from one’s surroundings, it signifies sexual inhibition and emotional coldness.

Here and now, the reason for my rejection of red was my mother, who was zealously striving to harmonize the masculine and feminine principles by dressing me in coats of a feminine red color. The boys in kindergarten were merciless. My five-year-old sense of masculinity could not tolerate such clothing under any circumstances. Yet this was not the true reason for the rejection.

Accepting my personal red, I bought a winter jacket of that color. Immediately I remembered the kingdom of Sparta, where approximately 8,000 permanently armed soldiers kept 250,000 inhabitants of several neighboring lands in subjugation. For practical reasons they wore red cloaks.

While healing relationships and forgiving myself for my stay in Sparta, I reached memories of nineteenth-century Italy, where together with me, through the wearing of red shirts, first 200, then a thousand, and eventually about 40,000 warriors acknowledged their Spartan roots. There took place a brief and extraordinary war that eliminated the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, known as the Expedition of the Thousand or the March of the Redshirts.

The period after 1860 contained many turbulent centers of unrest focusing human thoughts upon redness and the red color.

“…And its color is red,
for upon it is workers’ blood…”
shouted revolutionary poets.

Revolutionary, though not always red, ferment was simultaneously stirred up by many radical centers and the groups gathered within them: Paris, Hungary, Poland, Italy, and several countries of South America. The First Red International was organizing itself. While developing their spirituality through various religious schools over millennia, former rulers threw themselves against current rulers in the name of the good of the country and the social group in which they happened to live.

Red flags and red totalitarian systems of government, sparing no blood to purify their ranks and maintain power seized by force, also have Spartan origins. This stems from the very structure of the Spartan state and the transfer of those methods of governing and exercising authority into modern times. What was done in that period, with varying consequences, was later used for the next hundred years by various people under the cloak of red, not necessarily Spartans.

Where should Spartans be sought today?

In strict customs, in personally applied terror and tyranny, in one’s own aggressiveness, in a fondness for wars and struggles—verbal, magical, and physical—in brief and laconic speech (one of Sparta’s conquered neighboring kingdoms was called Laconia), and in efficient, effective action carried out according to orders.

The repression of red and the search for it at its source led me to Greece and Italy.

I accept that stains upon the aura, chakras, the hara line, and similar structures should be recognized and removed in the ongoing process of development and self-improvement through surrendering oneself to God, the creative force of love. The clarity, completeness, and purity of colors proved to be an important element of development and realization, and a seemingly simple aversion to the color red brought me the unblocking of memories of events that I no longer wished to see even on television.

Opublikowano: 01/06/2026
Autor: Sławomir Majda
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