What does the color purple represent?

Dara Laine Murray
5 min readMar 12, 2022
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5 Purple Crystals for Wisdom, Bravery, and Spirituality

Crystals all have different meanings, often because of their physical properties, where they are found in the Earth, and their chemical makeup. Each crystal is unique, like snowflakes or fingerprints. However, each crystal family like jasper or quartz share certain common characteristics, meanings, and healing properties. Similarly, crystals from different families but with the same or similar colors often have commonalities. In this post we examine the meaning of the color purple.

Color psychology suggests that colors can have a powerful impact on our moods and even behaviors. Each color is thought to have its own effect, but the feeling that each color produces can vary based on experience and culture. Purple is one color that can lead to differing feelings, emotions, and associations.

According to color psychology, the color purple means wisdom, bravery, and spirituality. Purple also represents wisdom and spirituality.6 Its rare and mysterious nature perhaps causes it to seem connected to the unknown, supernatural, and divine.

What does the color purple mean? How does the color purple make you feel? People often describe this color as mysterious, spiritual, and imaginative.

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Dara Laine Murray

Multi-passionate sobriety writer on Medium. Day job: Director of Research at a nonprofit. Stories = sober + stats. Editor: https://medium.com/modern-sobriety