Chapter 5 – The colours of the Holy Death
The colours of the Holy Death’s cloak or robe have a special meaning. If the robe covers her from head to feet, it symbolises the way we try to hide our true personality, what we show is not what we are.
The cloth that covers the skeleton that represents the Lady is what we, as humans, try to disguise.
Our skin and our face is what we show: it’s unique and beautiful. But if we dig, we find the bones, the skull, which makes us all equal before the fate that awaits us which is Death.
White, black and red are the colours mostly used, but I hereby describe in detail all the other colours and their meaning.
Gold:
This colour represents economic power, money, success, liquidity. It is ideal for businesses or shops. The cloak should be all gold to enhance these qualities. It opens the roads in the economic aspect.
Bone or natural:
Natural colour helps to maintain peace, harmony and success wherever the figure is placed.
This colour is highly recommended for homes and businesses.
Red:
This colour has been related with love, sex and passion. It helps to maintain harmony with our partner and the people around us.
It represents emotional stability, it is ideal to have harmony in your family and that all the members of your house support each other.
If the figure is standing and has an owl between the feet, it represents everything related to love.
White:
It represents tranquillity and peace, total purification wherever the figure is placed. It helps to cleanse all the negative energy, mainly in homes where jealousies and family grudges abound.
Green:
This colour is associated with justice or legal issues.
It is advisable to have this figure in law firms.
It is very venerated by this group.
Amber:
This colour is used to treat drug addictions and alcoholism. It can be found in rehabilitation centres. The name of the sick person is usually placed under the image of the Most Holy Death and works wonderful and miraculous results with the patient.
Black:
It represents the total protection in our home or business: it avoids the bad influences of any work, negative energy, black magic, palo mayombe, santería, voodoo, etc. either against your family or in a business. It unlocks any spiritual damage made against you.
It also helps the person who owns this figure to achieve his/her goals and objectives without anybody bothering or finding out, hiding his/her true intentions in the eyes of potential enemies.
Blue:
It represents wisdom. It is the colour associated with studies and people related to teaching, since it helps to understand better and to explain ideas correctly. It enhances concentration.
Purple:
It represents transmutation; it changes negative energy to positive energy. It is also associated with health at any level, both spiritual and physical. This colour was widely used by shamans and healers. Some spiritual brothers also consider white a symbol of being healthy.
Yellow:
It is related to liquidity, prosperity and economic success, ideal for any type of business. It also implies strength and energy.
Pink:
It is related to love relationships, for finding a partner and for emotional stability. It is also associated with pride, feelings, softening hard hearts and everything related to feminine and friendship.
Silver:
Silver is linked to economic situations, considered as the colour of fortune or abundance it helps to bring money and success. People who spend their time and money gambling seek this colour.
Gamblers may sometimes be seen with a malachite stone or a silver-coloured Holy Death. Silver is also one of the best energy drivers and, when gambling, people always look for good energy for good luck.
Copper or grey:
By nature this colour represents firmness, and it is also related to economic issues.
In addition, it is also frequently used in rituals to disrupt any negative energy that may be in our path. It helps to unblock any economic problem, and to conclude or close any pending business. That is why this colour was included in the Holy Death’s cloak.
Coffee:
It facilitates communication with the supernatural, with the afterlife. It improves concentration and telepathy.
7 colours:
The Holy Death usually appears standing, with the position of firmness and security that characterises her, as the great spiritual lady and entity of light that she is.
In one hand, she is holding her faithful and inseparable scythe – so feared by some and so sought after by others; feared because it can end the life of every living being and sought because it cuts all the negative energy that is in our path. In her other hand she is holding the world, our home. This represents that she is a faithful servant of the Almighty Creator. You may also find the Holy Death holding a balance, which represents the balance on both the spiritual and the material plane of humans.
This type of figure is used to combine and boost the 7 colours and to carry out special works. The 7 colours are: gold, silver, copper, red, purple, green and blue.
Gold calls abundance, i.e. money. Red is the ideal colour of love and passion, it represents the image of passionate love and family. Purple is the colour of transmutation, it changes negative to positive and the health of the sick. Silver is linked to economic situations: considered as the colour of luck or abundance, it helps to bring money and success. Green represents justice. Copper disrupts all negative energies and blue symbolizes heaven and ocean, immensity and spirituality.