It’s time! Pick your Color of 2011
Last year, we did a fun awesome thing. We picked our colors for 2010, and then I told you what your color means energetically!
Let’s do that again
Pantone picked Honeysuckle for their color of the year:
To quote Pantone: Honeysuckle emboldens us to face everyday troubles with verve and vigor. A dynamic reddish pink, Honeysuckle is encouraging and uplifting. It elevates our psyche beyond escape, instilling the confidence, courage and spirit to meet the exhaustive challenges that have become part of everyday life.
Here’s my take:
Honeysuckle, from an energetic perspective is the color of intuition. It’s the color of the 3rd eye, with a touch of the divine. It’s slightly muted, like when you get a hunch and spend a long time in contemplation to get an answer that matches. It’s the color of a slow, intuitive realization.
What’s Your Color?
Take a moment to find your color for 2011.
Close your eyes, take a deep breath, clear your mind and then say “my color for 2011 is ______________”.
And watch your color come forward.
Or- Try this interesting test from ColourLovers: Choose your color of the year.
Then come back and comment here about what color you’ve picked, and starting tomorrow, I’ll tell you energetically, what it means for you and a bit of advice about how to use your color to bring brilliance to 2011.
I’ll share my color too, along with a ritual for saying goodbye to 2010 and planting anew on 2011.
If you participated last year
Can you go back and look at your color and comment about how it matched or didn’t match your experience of 2010?
Yay! This is going to be fun! Happy New Year Everybody!
Hey folks! Thanks for playing! I’ve closed comments for this year. I’m going to start answering the color queries in a new post! If you didn’t get your color in by midnight, pick your color anyway, and then come over and look and see if anybody else’s color matches yours. Your advice will be quite similar.
Much Love and Happy New Year!
Bridget
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Fun! My color is a deep, rich purple with a touch of vibrant red in it.
Twitter: intuitivebridge
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Oh gorgeous Lori-lyn! I love it!
Twitter: joliekg
said:
I love this!
Mine’s a turquoisey/cobalt blue– kind of like the color at the base of a flame.
Jolie´s last [type] ..2011–Can’t Wait
My color is red with black and deep blue swirls, almost looks like a dance.
Twitter: KathrynTHunter
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I’m going with Dark Teal. As soon as I saw “What’s Your Color?”, it swept in, brazen as could be.
I chose http://www.colourlovers.com/coloroftheyear/2010/1444/Pink_passion
It really truly shows what I’m feeling about the year ahead for myself.
Bridget, thanks for doing this! It’s so much fun but also quite instructive & inspirational.
I got soft salmon, which is interesting since it is so far from the greens and blues I normally lean toward.
Twitter: intuitivebridge
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Whoa! That’s one of my favorites! Very cool.
Twitter: intuitivebridge
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Oh Jolie! I’m excited for you!
Twitter: intuitivebridge
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You bet!
Twitter: intuitivebridge
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Gorgeous!
Mine color is a deep eggplant purple, fierce and eye-catching.
xo
Tara´s last [type] ..How to Succeed In America Without Really Trying
Thank you for asking! I closed my eyes, and said “My color for 2011 is…” and what to my wondering eyes should appear but KEY LIME GREEN. That almost neon color that’s about the only green that rarely appears in Nature. It makes me smile, it makes me laugh. It makes other people smile and laugh. I likes it. Happy new year, Ms. Bridget and again… thanks for asking. Kiss Kiss, Kate
Kate Bornstein´s last [type] ..To T- or Not to T Thats The Frakking Question
Twitter: abbykerr
said:
Bridget –
This is so fun! My color is a dusky, lavender-y plum, just like that on my website and Twitter background. Fun to see other variations of purple in the comments above!
Twitter: jarvitron
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It has been interesting, this year, trying to get back into the habit of… I’m not going to call it as structured as meditation, but… clearing one’s mind. So I sat down in a position of self respect and just let words bubble up. Turns out my color for 2011 is white. Damned if I know what it means, other than it was intimidating.
Aaron Walker´s last [type] ..Simplicity is Clarity – 2010
Twitter: Nurturing Life Hypnotherapy
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My last year colour signified “You’ll find yourself speaking of the divine, being the voice for the universe. People will be inspired by your words.” Think that worked out pretty well in the end
This year, I’m picking emerald green. But then I did the selection thingy and got http://www.colourlovers.com/coloroftheyear/2010/1450/Sunshine_of_my_life
and that’s very not emerald green!
Caz´s last [type] ..Smoking Cessation
Twitter: whollyjeanne
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what fun, bridget – my color is blue. a moderately deep, rich, vibrant blue (like this: http://bit.ly/gsfBji) and hey, happy new year to you!
I see a light blue, possibly a light aqua. I’m not sure why.
Twitter: TheYogaofLiving
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What a fun project, Bridge! Thank you!
Here’s what came to me: http://bit.ly/eGPZBZ
Happy New Year, love! xo rupa
Rupa´s last [type] ..And Away We Go!
I love this idea! The color I am seeing is red–a kind of crimson red. I’m not sure why, but it’s the color that popped into my mind. Thanks!
Twitter: intuitivebridge
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White? WHITE?!?! whoa!
Twitter: intuitivebridge
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Oh Rupa, that’s gorgeous!
Bluebell:)
For 2010, my color seemed to be orange. Everywhere I went, my eye was drawn to the vividness and I couldn’t help but smile when I found it. When I close my eyes now, the color that comes forward is more of a goldenrod. Do that mean I’m aging or developing a patina? lol
Maria´s last [type] ..Holding onto the little things to fuel our tomorrows
mine is a green – quite a natural leafy, foresty green
Mine is a deep turqouise, like the ocean in Mexico!
Twitter: AEIGratitude
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Here’s mine… it’s a vibrant purple with lots of blue… Yummy:
http://www.colourlovers.com/coloroftheyear/2010/1453/PURPLE_SUN
Angel´s last [type] ..20 things you do not know about me
Twitter: AlmostTruth
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What a fun exercise. I found this: http://www.colourlovers.com/coloroftheyear/2010/1454/breathe
Brenna´s last [type] ..Best post of all 2010…
I think mine is crimson. Its always like a burgundy crimson deep warm red.
Light blue… a warm, cozy light blue – like a blanket – like the sky – a hopeful blue.
Twitter: moonslark
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Mine is a vibrant orangey-yellow (more orange than yellow, but not a red orange) like a sunset…hopeful, cheerful, creative, connected.
Last year was a spring new-leaf green…
Pam´s last [type] ..Wishcasting Wednesday- What is your Winter Wish
I was expecting another orange, but instead got a warm caramel yellow/brown – exactly like caramel sauce. I’d like to take a bath in it:-)
Julia´s last [type] ..Studio Yule
Orange.
Twitter: alanasheeren
said:
Fun!
My color this year is a deep vibrant orange. I have my own feelings about what it means, can’t wait to hear your. Woohoo!
Happy 2011.
Alana´s last [type] ..The end of a year
Twitter: alanasheeren
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Okay wait, I did the color lovers thing and deep is wrong. It is vibrant. I imagine it shimmering like orange silk or a bright like a sunburst.
Alana´s last [type] ..The end of a year
Twitter: shannamann
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[...] and my color (pay no attention to the part that says 2010). (and hey, thanks, bridget.) [...]
I see the green close to the green Android figure on my phone or a med. green. Not too dark but not to lite a not dull but not shiny either.
My color for 2011 is bright red! Fire engine red! Bright and bold and ready to go!
Twitter: ChristinaEHW
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Fun exercise! Right away, I thought “sage.” A warm sage, not too yellowish or too bright, but not grayish either.
Twitter: Annie_Stith
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Hey, Bridget!
“Golden Apricot” for me. Not the color of an apricot when bitten into, which is vibrant. Think of doing an oil painting of one bitten into and awash in a golden sunset. Warmer, glowy — and if you wrapped yourself in it, the glow would soak all the way into your Soul.
Annie
Thanks for doing this, Bridget! My color is this…
http://www.colourlovers.com/coloroftheyear/2010/1448/Lake_Placid
…only with sudden shimmers of purple and pearly white.
Kathleen Avins´s last [type] ..Reverb 10- Wonder
Mine is a rich, warm, golden yellow.
This was fun. I did a word of the year last year, and have decided on 2011′s word. I’m interested in figuring out how the color meshes with that.
Rebekah´s last [type] ..Belated Wishcasting- Wishes for the New Year
My color for 2011 is a bright reddish-orange like a tangerine.
http://www.colourlovers.com/coloroftheyear/2010/1457/rubs
this is my colour!
Mine’s Pure Rose / Pink Passion! A reddy pink. My words were big, bold, decisive, and inspired
) x
As much as my intellectual side would Luke some fun/daring/eye-catching colour, when I read the question “what is your colour” the answer was immediately, most definitely *chocolate brown*…
Twitter: amysnotdeadyet
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My color is a deep slate-like teal, which I named “pathstones” because it reminded me of stones along a mossy path, and also of the path I wish to take toward a future in 2011, deliberate rather than wandering.
Amy Crook´s last [type] ..Weeble Wednesday- Frankenstein’s Monster
Twitter: tybarbary
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I… am normally awash in blues and greens and browns, but despite 2010 leaving the color of dried blood in my mind, I am apparently still in the red end of the spectrum…
2011′s color will be deep, rusty, brick red. The color of hearth-fire, the red you see when you close your eyes, the hue of the mother’s fur. Powerful and fierce, able to protect the soft hurt places while they heal and rebuild.
Thank you for making me think of this. I hadn’t expected this answer.
Ty Barbary´s last [type] ..Saying Goodbye To 2010
Before I even started thinking about it my color appeared. Then I meditated and it was the same… It is a deep, rich, cool, earthy green. I can smell the forest floor. It’s the sort of color that you can sink into, whether it is a chair upholstered in velvety, wide-wale corduroy or fresh fir boughs.
Thanks! I enjoyed this last year and it’s better this year.
Simrat´s last [type] ..Sasha is home
A lovely bright rich green – the green version of pillar box red.
Orange. Most definitely, without a doubt, orange. A vibrant, bold orange, with a hint of pink/fuschia in the background.
Twitter: tangokate
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Mine is a vibrant, glowing, golden orange-yellow – like this or this or this. Raaaaaaaa! Treasure and glory and other marvellous things!
About my orange, because others have been more specific: it wasn’t that specific. It wasn’t pale, or especially deep, or fluorescent. But I did see some variation in it; it moved like fabric does.
Bronze with lots of gold flicker… shimmery and inviting and warm. Very similar to this image… http://www.impressionsareeverything.com/usrimage/6134a.jpg
Angie D in Ohio´s last [type] ..Happy New Year – 2011
Twitter: skajaw
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Here’s mine: http://www.colourlovers.com/coloroftheyear/2010/1463/Blue_Sky
Skaja´s last [type] ..Tomato Love
Twitter: kyeli
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My color is pomegranate red.
I was feeling it, then I clicked on your color-picking linky thing, and that is totally the color that it chose, too.
Ta-da! Pomegranate red!
Twitter: shannamann
said:
[...] Bridget Pilloud asked us to pick our color for 2011, and some of the choices in her comment section are quite fascinating. [...]
Twitter: shannamann
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[...] chose my word for 2011. I even closed my eyes and asked for a color. (The color that came to me was a deep purple with hints of pinkish red.) I tended to my rituals [...]
Twitter: shannamann
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[...] Bridget’s “color series” for New Year’s {and here’s the post in which she interprets my color of choice — “a dusky, lavender-y plum”} [...]
Twitter: shannamann
said:
[...] came across this post by Bridget Pilloud the other day about choosing a color to define you in [...]