LETTER FROM THE
F UNDER AMY BELL
What does orange have to do with bunnies?
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Yowsa! The last month has been a HUGE lesson in what it means to work with orange sacral energy. As all of you were enjoying the Coral Edition, we here at United Colours of Design have been preparing and producing the Orange Edition. And it has been a doozy! When you read through the magazine you’re going to find out all you ever wanted to know about orange. Every writer is taking a look at their area of expertise through the lens of orange so I am going to allow them to give you all the juicy details about orange. What I’d like to do is show you how orange showed up for me in just the last four weeks! Honestly, I can’t believe the changes that have occurred in such a short period of time. So here it goes… On each cover I list the three most positive aspects of each colour. Orange is all about creativity, manifestation and sexuality. Pretty amazing aspects for sure! So, I was geared up to experience a wicked-awesome quarter full of creative inspiration, thinking my dreams into being and fabulous sex! Like who wouldn’t be excited for all that, am I right?! Plot twist! What transpired was a completely different orange story. What I and a few of the writers actually needed were the properties of orange that lead to deep spiritual healing in the areas of overwhelm, shock and creative blocks. Once we faced the dark side of orange,
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the positive aspects were able to shine through. Did they show up the way we originally thought when we started this orange journey, nope. Were they equally beautiful and insightful, yup! Inside this edition you will find articles giving you tips on how to manifest like a rock star AND how to remove the blocks to creativity. Because the fact of the matter is, the free flow of creativity, no matter how it manifests for you, is dependent on getting that orange sacral energy spinning brightly. Here’s my analogy: You know those spinney wheels in the playground? The ones where you grab the bar and run like mad to get it going and then you hop on? So fun right? But sometimes there’s a gross, muddy mote that settles in the groove around the wheel and no one wants to be the runner. We used to settle that messy job with rock, paper, scissors to see who had to trudge through the muck to get the wheel going while the others sat and enjoyed the ride. Needless to say, this issue we have some who won rock, paper, scissors and some that lost. Those that won found the writing process for orange fun and easy and joyful, where those that should have picked rock, wound up getting dirty shoes and soaked socks before seeing the great side of orange. I should have picked rock!
