Make Colourful Design Choices.

Of course, you do not have to think of Cosmokrator in astrological terms at all. As you hold it in your hand, moving it one way and the next, you will catch sight of fascinating colour contrasts which you can apply to an interior decoration colour scheme, or other areas of life that call for colour choices (see also Using Cosmokrator for Fashion Choices).

For instance, you might decide to have a living room with your Sun sign colour as the keynote, but a bedroom with the complementary sign colour to contrast with it.

A Gemini friend, married to a Gemini, described to me their new living room that they were having done up. I couldn't believe what he told me - they had chosen orange paint for the walls, pale orange silk curtains and an orange carpet! What could be more telling than that these two Gemini's had chosen their own colour to wallow in. However, most other people might find that concentration on one colour just too much.

I personally would have chosen pale blue or mauve curtains (complementary to orange) to bring some coolness into that citrus sea! Similarly, it is well known that a conservatory full of green plants looks ravishing when splattered with a few red accents - whether red cushions on the cane furniture, or plants with bright red berries and flowers.

Again, a reminder that we are advising on looking for complete opposites only at first – using the Ying-Yang of Spanner1/Veil 1 – so if you are seeking intermediate colour harmonies you will need to wait to read some of our booklets for the next Spanners/Veils to be explained. But if you want to work it out for yourself in the meantime, the same principles of sextile, trine and square colours apply if you want to consider other harmonious colour combinations (see Kepler’s diagrams).

To do this easily, you will definitely need first of all to colour in a print-out of the flat zodiac given under Astronomy and Astrology in Cosmokrator to see easily the angles of the colours to each other.

As an instrument for making colour choices, Cosmokrator can be both useful and creative as a 3-D colour wheel, but you now know each colour has astrological and planetary overtones if you wish to tie them into a choice of colours that will reflect, or complement, a particular person’s surroundings according to their Sun sign or full colour horoscope using helpful contrasting and juxtapositions.

Remember, colours represent your state of mind, and they can be used to heal if that state is restless, sad – or even mad - just as music can. All that is needed is to start with a person's Sun Sign colour as the starting point and then relate other colours to it, whether in opposition, sextile or trine - or even square, if a more bizarre effect is sought (see Kepler’s diagrams).

Using Cosmokrator for fashion choices

Starting with the simple exercise in our introduction of using opposites, Cosmokrator is helpful in making fashion choices.

It is important to remember that your choice of colours for personal display can enhance your soul radiance - or obscure it. Psychics would say that dress and jewellery bring into view the emanations around you issuing from your spirit, mind and psyche - which most people do not perceive. Your aura, which instinctively draws or repels people to and from you, is the net combination of all these subtle ‘bodies’ that are anchored in your physical body – which you need to clothe, and wish to adorn.

We would argue that your colour choices are not always to do with trying to attract people, but about trying to share your inner self with them – pure information!

The first opposition of black and white has always been a classic combination for smartness and plain drama in dress, for men and for women, and indicates sobriety and reliability.

Now to the secondary oppositions, of which you can see six pairs as you spin your Cosmokrator round between your forefingers. Let us say you have chosen a blue skirt - the Cosmokrator shows you that its opposite colour is orange, so why not choose a blouse in that colour for maximum intensity of effect?

A man might choose a mauve shirt - how striking to have a bright yellow tie, or a tie with a lot of gold on it! A woman in the same colour blouse might choose a gold necklace instead.

As we are keeping it simple in this introduction, we shall not refer to examples of trine or sextile relations between the colours, or of those next to each other on the spectrum, but if you look for yourself, here too Cosmokrator gives you ideas of possible combinations between several colours as you spin it round. As mentioned in the previous section, you can use Kepler’s diagrams to look at intermediate harmonies.

If you know your own and your loved ones' Sun signs you can even govern your choice of fashion colours by astrological considerations!

Of course any of the colours you use might be in their pure form, or lightened by the addition of white - in which case you can go for an opposite that is the pure hue, lightened to the same tone, or made even lighter - expanding the range of possibilities for combining opposites.

This includes the face, and the application of makeup. Just think of the thousands of variations in lipstick colour, from a base red - or in face-powder colour, from the base peach - that have been worked out by the cosmetics industry to suit every gradation of lips and skin! They have recently rediscovered an old secret, that skin looks more natural if small touches of pale green are blended in on the face to contrast with the rose. When it comes to eye-shadow, the least the colours are mixed with white, the more dramatic the effect of the contrast with the already existing contrast colour zones of hair, eye, skin and lips. Rethink your face (the result may not necessarily look artificial, but totally natural).

The choice of jewels and stones is an entire subject in itself which we cannot go into fully here. However, there are so many shops in existence now where not just precious stones, but the rich gamut of attractive semi-precious stones, are available, along with information about their allocation to Sun Signs. You can quite independently apply the knowledge of colour you are building up from your use of Cosmokrator to your choice of necklace, brooch or cuff-links. The stone that may be best for your state of being may not necessarily be the most attractive, so use your head as well as your heart in making your choice – notice their differing effects on you. You don’t necessarily have to look for an exciting effect – often an unobtrusive choice is more commanding. Think what you want to say about yourself to the outside world.

Last but not least, take into account your harnessing of the healing power of colour to restore your spiritual health. So often people say they bought a blouse, a dress, a suit for its colour alone - which boils down to saying they felt they had to buy the colour! This can often mean that there was an instinctive sense that a particular colour was what was needed at the time to activate, or soothe, their entire being.

Remember, your choice of colour in jewellery and clothes could be nothing to do with self-display, but with putting yourself into a good state of being – self-healing by wearing.

Last but not least, take into account your harnessing of the healing power of colour to restore your spiritual health. So often people say they bought a blouse, a dress, a suit for its colour alone - which boils down to saying they felt they had to buy the colour! This can often mean that there was an instinctive sense that a particular colour was what was needed at the time to activate, or soothe, their entire being.

Remember, your choice of colour in jewellery and clothes could be nothing to do with self-display, but with putting yourself into a good state of being – self-healing by wearing.