Purples: The Natural Artists
What a purple does is love you as God loves you: nonjudgmentally, accepting you for who and what you are, most of the time. They find ways to express themselves in all ways, shapes, and forms to model authenticity and emotional availability in kind, loving relationships. They love a variety of people, valuing uniqueness and the differences found in people out of trust. They also have the compassion and the strong conviction that they can safely build a bridge to you so you can seek them out, and vice versa. They manifest emotional freedom, trust, and openness in their relationships because they want to work together with people. They are able to relate to strangers as though they were family members. Purples know what love is. Their interpretation of that focus is found in their voice, their eyes, their heart, and their look. When Jesus incarnated as a human being, he chose the purple soul-ray to guide him on his journey. As Christians often believe, Jesus was a man, and apart from how he has been used as an example to coerce others into following a specific spiritual path, he focused on being a teacher who brought enlightenment to humanity and taught love through his nonjudgmental and insightful stories about human experience. Therefore some people will comprehend what purples are like by looking at their own prior relationship with Jesus (if it happens to be a good one), and others will start to understand the historical figure for the first time by looking at their friends who master the purple soul-ray to see what he must have been like.
All purples are comfortable with a wide range of emotion—it’s one of the signature features of their gift. Thus, like Jesus, they can be there for someone when things are not going well. In the midst of struggle, they love to love the person in dire straits. They love people with devotion, care about them and who they really are, and give the gift of their presence and time to assist those people who have been less fortunate and need their love.
Defining an Artist
The term “natural artist” refers to a person who wants to create emotionally evocative and emotionally inspirational art. Our intentions affect the product when we’re producing something. Motivation is key. People with this master chakra intend, when they perform, to inspire people to learn how to be whole emotionally. They don’t go about creating their art because they want to satisfy an internal desire to express themselves alone, regardless of its effect on others. That’s not how they operate. Purples want their art to be beautiful, even as it considers the shadow side of humanity. Natural artists find canvasses everywhere, and when they intend to create art, they use both traditional and nontraditional forms. For example, some hairdressers and food-service workers may not consider themselves artists, but the way that they do their work shows they are finding a way to share a love lesson. Design is important to them in all they do—in the way they look, dress, and love. Love has a broad definition, but here it means actions that encompass the effect of raising someone to their next level, emotionally and physically. The act of raising someone’s overall energy level and quality, even if that process is not always expected, allows someone to feel good about themselves. A natural artist looks at the world as a space in which love can be built, and then asks, “How do I accomplish that?” Their art explores that question.
Purple Gifts
Artistic Ability
Purples have to create anything from high-end paintings to rustic art. You can’t put it into a box in terms of how it looks. Yet each piece is dynamic, multi-layered, and strives to bring people together in a specific way. Reality has many doorways, and they want to create one where peace and harmony reigns. It sounds idealistic, but it’s their path. The third eye, where we imagine who we are, has rods and cones in it, and visions come unbidden through this energy center. Part of living on the purple soul-ray means you gain access to an overabundance of warm, loving energy that goes out to others in addition to an always fiery passion that burns inside. The purple energetic focus is forced to express itself in terms of what it sees, because it originates through the third eye into the tertiary human experience. Since chaos is always available as a formula for inspiration, it can be manifested most easily. Purples want to create a vision, because if they don’t, the chaos will take over. The organized pictures are more real than the other ones, and they become the movie we watch when the purple turns on their film reel; those pictures will become part of our lifestyle whenever we hang out with them.
Analysis and Holographics
When they create, purples evaluate with the mind who they are and what they want to do. They strive to purpose their art for what needs clarification in people’s lives to help connect humanity, person to person. They not only use their right brain to gain a vision of what to create, they use their left brain to think through how they could best express their inspiration. For this reason, purples will analyze while they do what they do and wherever they go. They know how something should be made (as in construction), executed (as in dance), and expressed (as in theater). Singing and dancing is their natural area of talent, but so is any kinesthetically driven art form. They intuitively understand how to move gracefully in a flow. Their solar plexus chakra helps them here. They can use this to their advantage when they perform in a theater or when their job demands safety, as in construction. If they need to learn a different craft to express their visions than they already know, they will do it as soon as they can. Usually they will seek technical skill to complement their chosen field where they build their structure of creation.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and when purples look at the world, they see emotion attached to each person, place, and thing. They imagine how a canvas might be worked with to structure various emotional elements for the purposes of coming to a conclusion; beauty is the standard by which they measure whether that conclusion is true or not. This is how truth and beauty got to be linked and why purples like yellows. As John Keats once said, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” But instead of verifying facts, purples hone in on what they do and don’t like in terms of shape, color, and form, to find the truth. Their brain is little involved—well, the right brain is, and the left brain less so. That’s how they come to be able to paint when untaught. They are holographic in their mind’s wanderings, wanting to express feelings and a quality of effervescence when they structure art.
The Result
Performing art, of all kinds, is their way of helping us grow. This kind of musing comes naturally to a purple; their visions and becoming interested in expressing them is focused on growing, changing, and expanding. They picture what they want to see in the world. Chaos contains the elements of creation and thus, even garbage is a vision of beauty. The natural artist brings into harmony what doesn’t look or feel right. It’s the energy of love that a purple brings into their art when they are in their gifts that makes a way for us to walk inside it. It’s how they attain depth on the two-dimensional plane. Love is in the air; they reveal that. Art is important to life. It’s the focus and the medium through which we can remember who we really are and stay focused on that. In general, purples aim to create something that uplifts people or helps people release emotions, rather than putting up with insipid environments, clothing, and relationships that seem too focused on stasis. They will search for who they want and what they need rather than compromising on source materials.
Hands-on Labor
Purples do not have an aversion to working with their hands. They wade knee-deep into hands-on work and cause respect to increase for those who do such work. Even if it is a desk job, purples have a way of diving into the process of creation that seems very hands-on. They are down-to-earth and comfortable with themselves, because in order for them to do their best, they must think about their work deeply and sincerely. They must get real with it and come into contact with it. Only when they don’t handle issues with kid gloves do they actually produce their best work. The time and effort they put in satisfies and feeds them. It’s the way they work and what they put into it that equals love. It’s the transmutation of the many emotions, the experience their art creates, that attracts people to it. It’s good that purples are willing to spend the time, effort, money, and loving attention on their creations. They need to be committed to holding their vision in order to have enough energy to make it real. Time spent between projects is an incubation period that actually increases the quality of the next artistic creation they’ll bring into being. It is not important that purples make all of the creations they can come up with; there isn’t time for everything.
Discernment
When a purple sees visions about how something is supposed to be, or what they are supposed to make, it places them in a position of intolerance toward anything less. They become impelled to gratify their desire for what they saw in their head (always better than what they see out in the world) by creating that item. Finished creations are either “awesome” or not. They either really like something or they really don’t. They also have strong emotions, both positive and negative, about how to do things socially. They talk to people through their art and engage them in what they want them to do. They want to be the ones to manifest the appearance, not to mention content, of the object or relationship. This is how they take control in the marketing field. They are confident in what they know about art. They will often point out what doesn’t match or is disproportionate in another’s appearance, or in the appearance of anything they own. They are good at pointing out flat, unemotional, unmoving art, music, and appearances—even the stuff everyone else likes. They should criticize other people’s aesthetics, and if they don’t, they’re suppressed in their gifts. They see outside the boundaries of other people’s, especially other color’s visions, and tastes. They seek a new creation that brings love into the fold, so they need to name it.
Spiritual Teaching
Design, where form meets function, creates order and harmony in both our physical and psychic environment, allowing people to connect to the real truth of who we are. A purple’s goal as an artist is to guide us home through their point of view. That’s how they get to become spiritual teachers in addition to artists. Purples enrich time with the things they make from what they see, and they always are sacred cows for that person. Any master chakra ultimately finds it’s area of dominance to be important—that’s how their ability to decorate anything helps the world to live less embargoed with baggage to weigh it down, lighting up the world with beauty and presence. It’s a trap if they fail to. If purples don’t create something that enriches people’s experience on this planet, its appearance will reveal it. Their love will fail. In their gifts, they work to give to the world what it needs to return humanity to its own loving, kind nature. Isn’t that what Jesus discussed and taught? They see into your soul with their powerful, love-streaming third eye. That’s how he found his insights. Jesus was a really cool lightworker who was psychic. Purples use their psychic awareness to understand other dimensions and bring them here, connecting us with the love of the entire universe.
Marketing
Our purples today come from the same place internally. Once, two of them gave me the exact same critique of a wedding invitation. One was a man from Iraq and the other was an American woman. This is possible because when an art form is going to be shared as a way to get people involved in an experience, the people of this soul-ray often know that certain relationships among style and form must be honored. They are good marketers because they look underneath the emotions to see what creates them, follow that back to the beginning, and decide what lines, colors, and shades will give them the reaction they are looking for. Advertising and marketing connect people to worthwhile activities that can only be experienced if someone is emotionally moved (otherwise they might not be inspired) to get out of their chair, pick up the phone, or buy something.
Interpersonal Awareness
Purples strive to stay in control of the human interactions taking place around them. They use their psychic powers to make things less choppy and then knit together seemingly unrelated aspects of different people to smooth out relationships. They aim to make the complex more basic when it comes to feelings. They can explain the interpersonal on both an intuitive level and from the perspective of raw knowledge. This is how people sometimes experience their knowledge being shared—as raw. Their ability to see other people’s motives and intuit what they’ll do is based on their willingness to look at the dark and light sides of people. They tend to be realistic about humanity and what we do, because they know people. They consider how they know people to be a point of praise. As reality experts in human dynamics, they sharpen their skills by bringing love to the table when it isn’t being served. They open their hearts and talk to people, getting their attention, teaching them how to want more and still get what they need. Purples want the best for people.
Aiming for Victory
It’s just natural for people with a master purple chakra to aim high. If you’re going to have a relationship, why have a bad one? It needs to feel a certain way and be of high quality. If you’re going to bother planting a garden, it needs to be weeded so that it looks pretty. Victory is a quality in their blood. They move toward it, even in their sleep. But in spite of their focus on having the best and being the best, any purple can surprise you with their mix of luxury and down-to-earth humility.
Al
Like many purples, Al had an inscrutable set of realities. His favorite experience in all his life was the time he went to the Louvre in Paris. The son of millionaires, he wanted to be poor. He liked to dress old. Both his viewpoints (he felt the world was going to be worse, not better) and the way he made his living passed for working class. He did assembly in a local factory-like setting. One evening as I was hanging out with the web-designing crew, Al called. We talked for a while. When I got off the phone, I mentioned that he was bummed because he didn’t have a car, and that he had just sold his BMW. My friends who were living in a dumpy house, laughed. They expected him to be a typical guy: either rich or poor—not a rich person who was poor. He was fascinated by constructing his own life according to his own choices. He liked wondering how to do things in new ways and being someone who stood out. He lived in a mansion on a trust-fund pittance, his version of the starving artist, and wanted to move west away from Chicago. His art form? Making guns. In his free time, he could tell a story that made you feel like you were in it. He picked up on all the emotional nuances in a determined way and called you on your emotions before you even had a chance to reflect on what they were. It was another one of his callings.
Al was one of my single friends who was looking for love. Like many purples, he kept his primary romantic relationship for a long time, over a decade, which for someone in his early thirties was all of his adult life. But Al had lost his wife for reasons even he couldn’t say. Like the purple spiritual gift, Al was able to recall the great romance of his past in vivid detail and claimed his power through it, saying that to be in a relationship was his destiny. He remembered the time he took his woman canoeing and how she loved it. I was struck by the heart of gold in his willingness to bring such experiences to another person he didn’t yet know. It was clear he did not want a relationship for his sake alone. Al would wear his baseball cap low and grouse about how everyone had a tattoo. He condescended to be my friend because I had no tattoos and did cartwheels in the parking lot upon request. (Purples like it when you perform.)
Finally, one day, after critiquing everyone else’s body art, he sat up straight and said, “Hey, I think you should get a tattoo of two tuning forks, crossed, on your neck.” That was Al for you—purple to the core. After all the time he spent criticizing other people’s taste in art, the Universe kicked him into the flow. They are in touch with the energy of the Universe through which we all create. It’s a beautiful energy that feels like a fountain. They can connect you more than other colors. In the end, it was experience that mattered—what he felt with anyone around him. He saw that a tattoo could express someone’s path—that I had joined a tribe, that I should express it. Purples encourage you to be who you are with no reservations.
Speaking of which, Al couldn’t stop talking about finding the right person, but he didn’t seem needy—he was determined. The fact that his last relationship had lasted as long as it did was really important to him. Yet he was not stopping there. While most people might say they want to be in a good relationship that knows no bounds, purples are the hardest workers. Al called any of his dates a “meeting” because it was work to him. He told me that he was open to finding anyone, as long as it was the right person—but that the right person could be someone he found under a bridge. That person he would find, he implied, wouldn’t have to fit standards, as long as he could love them. Like many of my purple friends, Al spoke dreams into reality. Years after becoming Al’s friend I met an artist who I had a strong connection to on the sidewalk in a foreign country after walking out from under a bridge. A unique mix of high and low—exacting, but at the end of the day, relenting—purples find ways to create and defy imagination. It isn’t a myth. It’s a reality. Their reality.
Ability to Act on and off-Stage
Purples love to become the person you need them to be in order to love you. Sometimes they lose themselves in playing their many roles because they love to merge with the other person’s needs and play to them. It’s part of the creation process. They will change themselves around different people because they are great at acting and enjoy pleasing the crowd. This is how they are able to be the best actors and actresses. Manifesting a new personality, complete with new motives and all the trappings, can do more harm than good at times. Regardless, that’s how the neighbor who yelled at you one day for not mowing your lawn effortlessly becomes the stand-up guy living the American Dream the next moment, while telling everyone he never bothered you. Purples can use emotions to change reality, for better or worse.
Manifestation Ability
The purple master chakra has an amazing ability to manifest that which they desire. Their imagination is strong, powerful, and as a group, they are psychic. Creation comes as second nature to them. With their energy dominant at the third eye chakra, they picture what they want to have happen in their lives as a matter of course. Since they are so focused on feelings, and look for love among them, purples get to know themselves along the lines of what they do and don’t want. They can differentiate what they do from what they don’t wish to have around. To manifest any desire, one must really, really want it. Well, purples are the most passionate people! They have no trouble coming up with not only a desire but a deep desire for what they want. All emotions are their bailiwick, and all are honorable. Purples receive the messages inside the feelings and act accordingly. Therefore they can become very rich because they have the ability to vibrate, and conjure up feelings-wise what they want, and stay away from what they don’t. Purples can also teach you what they know about how to manifest whatever you need.
The Teaching of Love
Purples themselves teach love directly through speech, trying to get closer to your darkness, to transmute it. They help you shift your emotional state through their interactions. They are open to helping anyone. Even when you barely know them, they’ll give their advice on how to handle your feelings and get on the same level with you in order to engage with you. They speak in profundities and mini-lessons. They are humanitarians at heart, and incorporate themselves in the world in so many ways to change it in order to bring more love to people. This is why they start businesses, write TV shows, and become science teachers. How to get along and relate to others, how to feel, and how to work together are basic topics they master, discuss, and teach in multitudinous ways.
Purples like to witness you being the divine for others, doing your best, laboring for that which you love. They can relate to love. They cannot abide for long the intolerance of the world that judges them and claims they are crazy, due to their emotional states … this is where the stereotype of the insane artist knocks on their door. They can’t stand how they wanted something more—they wanted to create something for the world and needed emotional support for themselves to do it, but they got nothing for their trouble. They can be hurt by lack of love. They don’t intend to take it out on you, but be aware of this.
Purple Traps
Not Good at Making Do
Status can be a stumbling block for purples who think they must have the best materials before they can focus on creating things to match their vision. When the perfect things they need don’t show up as such on the topside world, they can withdraw and be snobby—not wanting to interact with the people around them or combine the best materials with the less-than-the-best to do what they need to do. But this is what life requires. It’s important not to pressure them but instead express care and genuine kindness. But sometimes purples must know that in order to proceed, we must make do. Ironically, purples may need to lower their standard in order to stay in their gifts and keep going. By doing so, they restart the engine. The way to regain perspective after it’s been lost is to receive the abundance they have access to.
Speech Contains Feelings, Not Just Facts
They must process emotions all the time; they always think about how they feel. The things they say reflect their internal turmoil if bothered. For some purples, the things they decide to say don’t necessarily express what they believe, but express feelings—and the two can get mixed up. Like anyone else, purples can wish to express emotions along with thoughts, but they use language as a tool of manifestation differently than other colors, because they are willing to speak the future to power. Their speech at any time then may not reflect positions they hold, but rather radical positions they want to hold. In short, when they talk, some purples always express their feelings (not facts) and sometimes also the future. Knowing this can help you remember not to rely on them to always mean what they say literally. Purples analyze, think, and feel. It all comes out. This can be a gift or a trap. It depends on the result.
Pushing Buttons
Since it’s pretty difficult to be in a relationship with purples without giving them access to your life, get ready to be emotionally vulnerable. In their gifts, they love to listen to your stories and help you get over them. They are just unable within their traps to be a directly loving and kind person all the time. They can manipulate people with emotional kindness by betraying their trust. It’s nice to know that anytime a color goes into their trapped state, they’re trying to do their gift, they just don’t know how to. As Jesus would say, they don’t really know what they’re doing. Purples will try to get you to do what they want you to do unconsciously by hitting all the triggers they can find (which they find through intuition). Their tripping of our emotions sevenfold will cause us to have to stop and do a lot of sorting. Additionally, it will take us some time to learn the lessons they have to teach us through their button pushing.
Yet in their traps, purples will destroy what they decide they cannot love, whether that be a person’s self-esteem or their plans. The opposite of love is fear. In protest to their lack of loving environment, they don’t create, they destroy. It’s basic instinct, located in the amygdala, the lower brain. With so many emotional connections hooked up between you and them (because their main chakra is emotional), they can very easily make you feel all of your immediate pain under the surface. When emotionally triggered, which often happens when they feel hurt, they may say harsh things that upset you on purpose. They can accomplish this through a few words, creating anywhere from a small to a large amount of fallout—it depends on the prior relationship. Purples are good at being love, and part of their loving you is helping you release that baggage. In this sense, they do you a favor when they hurt you.
Purples have their own baggage to unload, and no one is capable of loving all the time. They need our love and understanding; it helps them relate to us and love us back. Most of the time purples want to make you feel good—unless they’re in their traps. Sometimes when they’re in the trapped state of existence, in the throes of ego, they really won’t understand how to love you over the long haul because they’ll be busy using their emotions to go to next steps. They’ll seek emotional experiences for the sake of feeling powerful, not because they lead to something good.
Materialism and Lesser Products
If an artist profits from their work in order to sustain themselves, they can be fine, but by getting overly focused on making money and turning their work into a money-maker, purples must take care. When they stop focusing on the real reason they wanted to contribute in the first place, and lose conscious awareness of their inherent purpose, which is to give the world something it needs, the art suffers. How they create becomes “sold,” and people can tell. The resulting products won’t have the quality that attracted people to it in the first place. At some point, when quality is lost, the art won’t move. It’s when they are in their traps that purples create art that gives you cause to pause for the worse. Put another way, since love is who they are, they can lose themselves when they focus too much on money. One of the ways they stop themselves from falling into this trap is by charging a very reasonable price for what they create.
Heart Contains Art
The purple spiritual gift teaches us how to love (what it means, why it’s so important, how it’s achieved, and how to open yourself up to it). They give love lessons verbally, through their perspectives and philosophies on life. They circle back to exploring love and how it works. Their words create a spiral, always circling back to what’s really important. In their gifts, purples teach us how to create anything we desire to have or experience: they also teach us how to love anything. To wit, they make things for you to show you love.
Famous People with a Purple Master Chakra
Famous purples include John Lennon, who was a visionary singer, and former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. In his gifts, he gave children health insurance in Illinois. In his traps, he sold a senate seat. Quite a few actors and actresses are purple, such as Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp.