Blue: definition

Blue is the symbolic colour associated with thought, depth, interiority, distance and the spiritual dimension. It is the colour of what reflects, contains and elevates more than of what acts.

It can calm, contain, structure or open toward a more inner depth. It is often perceived as a colour of mediation between sensitivity and thought, between emotion and reason.

In the cards it sustains readings of distance, wisdom, elaboration or verticality: blue cloaks and backgrounds usually mark serenity, contemplation or an authority more spiritual than earthly.

Against red, which desires and acts, blue thinks and cools. The proportion between the two in a card indicates whether impulse or reflection, passion or distance, predominates.

In a positive key it evokes calm, mental clarity and depth; in a negative key, coldness, excessive distance or disconnection from concrete life. The nuance is given by the card and the neighbouring colours.

Like any symbolic colour, blue is read in relation: what it covers, where it appears and which other colours it dialogues with within the image and the whole spread matter.

Ultimately, blue brings to the reading a note of depth and calm: it invites thinking before acting and, depending on context, can be the colour of serene wisdom or of a distance that cools too much.

When blue dominates a card or a spread, the reading leans toward reflection and inner depth, and it is worth asking whether that distance brings wisdom or a coldness cut off from life.