COLOUR BALANCE by Richard Llewellyn

For me there are no rules in ‘Huber Astrology’ - only ‘guide lines’. Many of these guide lines are gilt edged but to really understand how they work in practice it is essential that any student of Huber Astrology be willing to spend time working with charts other than their own - lots and lots and lots of them!

This is especially noticeable when exploring, for instance, the ‘Family Model’. In this there are guide lines for interpreting the positions of Sun, Moon and Saturn in the chart and seeing how these reflect the subjective view of the child’s relationships within the family. But it is essential to remember that every family is different so there are countless ways of interpreting the reality of similar chart significators. And the only way to begin to understand how the basic principles manifest in reality is to work with as many charts and people as possible. Only when this is done is it possible to realise just how gilt edged these basic principles really are.

This applies to every aspect of Huber Astrology - including understanding the Colour Balance in the chart. There is a psychology of colour which suggests that certain shades of colours can produce anticipated reactions in the subject. In drawing up a natal chart in the Huber style we work with three colours - red, blue and green.

Red and Blue
The colour which we associate with Activity is Red. It is a Cardinal colour which can initiate action of some kind. It relates to the Square and Opposition aspects. Blue is a colour which is more likely to produce a Passive reaction. It relates to the Sextile and Trine aspects and is concerned with security and maintaining the status quo. If we have a chart with only Red and Blue then we are likely to find someone whose life tends to be a polarity between activity and passivity - or between work and play. The Red will work in order to produce the means or resources by which the needs of the Blue can be satisfied.
Green
The third colour we employ in drawing a Huber chart is Green - a colour which we associate with nature and with Growth. Green in a chart gives the ability to search for a way out, or a way forward. So we associate this colour with awareness, sensitivity, learning and so on.
Motivation. The Circle in the Centre of the chart is the ‘core’ of the personality. When we explore the meaning of the colours in the chart we are looking at the next level out from the centre. So we are looking at Motivation, or what drives the personality, at a very deep inner level. Understanding the colours and the balance of one colour with another gives us invaluable clues as to the nature of this motivation.
Balance. There is a ratio of one colour to another which seems to produce a balance of motivation. This ratio suggests more blue than red and more red than green. In essence this ratio is:
6 blue aspects 4 red aspects 2 green aspects. Remember this is a ratio and not the number of aspect lines.

It is not always easy to ascertain whether there is too much of one colour or too little of another. For instance suppose there are 8 blue aspects, 4 red and 3 green. Do you consider the red and green aspects as being more or less OK and assume there is too much blue, or do you take it that the blue and the green are more or less OK and therefore there isn’t enough red?

Intuition

A first look at a chart can give valuable clues about colour balance. At that stage, when looking to see whether an intuitive image springs to mind, you might also ask yourself what messages you are getting about colours and colour balance. Often you will get a sense of blueness, redness or even greenness, and this can be used as a further aid to judging colour balance.

Even looking at a chart drawn with a computer programme such as Astrosys, where the widths of the aspect lines will vary according to how exact are the orbs, might mean that one colour becomes more obviously dominant than another.

Imbalance

In fact in the example given above it may not make a great deal of difference which way you decide since there is no great imbalance. And its a definite imbalance for which we are looking. For instance 6 red, 2 blue and 2 green would suggest an over abundance of active red energy and a lack of balancing blue. So here would be an individual who would be driven to lead their life in an active manner.

What about 4 Blue, 3 Red and 4 Green? Here there would appear to be an excess of Green so there will be ‘searching and curiosity’ but maybe not enough Red to activate what ever it is that is dreamed about or desired.

Creating Colours

The Diploma course Manuals clearly describe the ways in which imbalances of colours are likely to influence motivation so there is nothing to be gained by repeating that information here. However, this might be an opportunity to ask ‘If there is a colour imbalance how can we use this knowledge for our own benefit or for that of a client?’.

Variations from the ‘ideal’ ratio will be an excess of one colour usually with a corresponding deficiency of another. For instance if the Chart has an excess of Red and/or Green then it follows that it will lack

Blue. This will suggest an inability to pause, to reflect, to sit back and relax. So, to create a balance we need to find ways of creating ‘blueness’.

Energy follows thought

Remember that energy always follows thought so if we are to create any colour a first step might be to introduce that colour into our thinking, through the clothes we wear, or the colours we have around the house, and so on. In helping to create ‘blueness’ we are trying to achieve a state of quietness, inner reflection and meditation. Time to pause and become aware of where we are, what we’ve achieved and what we need to do next.

If we don’t have enough Blue in our chart then to be able to sit and reflect will not be easy. Learning a form of Meditation, such as Transcendental Meditation, can be a valuable and reasonably easy way of creating ‘blueness’. Mediation can also be a positive way of creating ‘greenness’ because in a state of reflection we are able to develop that sense of awareness which we need in order to expand our field of conscious awareness and continue the process of personal growth.

Perhaps it can be more difficult to create ‘redness’ than either of the other two colours. How do you create activity? Well, the idea of introducing a colour into everyday life has already been mentioned and, as far as red is concerned, this is probably one important step.

Will

Developing and using Will is an essential ingredient in creating changes in our lives. We can wish that things be different but we have to employ Will in order to actually make them different. Even to learn to sit down and meditate in order to create ‘blueness’ will take an "Act of Will"*. So to create ‘redness’ we need to Will ourselves to ‘do’ things. Things which, perhaps, we would normally avoid doing. Or a task which, until now, we have learned to depend upon someone else to do for us.

Dependency

A chart where the aspects are mainly blue and green suggests someone who is likely to have become dependent on others to do things for them. It will be a pattern of behaviour of which, first, we need to become aware and, secondly, accept that this is really the way things are. Only with ‘awareness’ and the use of Will can we create changes in our lives, and that includes bringing colour balance into our lives.

* "The Act of Will" by Roberto Assagioli

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