[HPforGrownups] Color Symbolism

[Jenserai Bariman]

No: HPFGUIDX 44401

Catlady:
>Fire - Gryffindor - passion and courage
>Earth - Hufflepuff - work and patience
>Air - Ravenclaw - thought and communication
>Water - Slytherin - deviousness (water can sneak out of even the
>smallest crack in a vessel).
>As shown, the Four Elements do pretty much match up with the Four
>Houses, marred mainly by the plot's requirement that one House
>(Slytherin) be evil and the other good, when all four Elements have
>both good and evil aspects. (Devious is called flexible when it's
>good.)
>

Me:
I did some research in Tarot, astrology, wicca, etc a year ago, and the 
meanings I got of the colors/elements was this:

Red - Fire - Active, creative
Blue - Water - Diplomacy, love, intuition
Yellow - Air - Intellect
Green - Earth - Material gain, practicality

These weren't the conceptions I had previously had when I had started the 
research, but it was pretty universal for all the sites visited, and the 
people I was working with (some of whom had been very into the whole thing 
long before I met them) didn't object.
They seem to to fit the Hogwarts colors quite well only with Hufflepuff and 
Ravenclaw reversed.

-Jens, who quite likes Daharja's post on the secondary house colors 
corresponding to male and female and all the issues this brings up, but 
can't actually give her own views on it because her favorite wicca book has 
gone missing


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