Archetypes

water

mystery of creation; birth-death-resurrection; purification and redemption; fertility and growth; the unconscious

sea

mother of all life; spiritual mystery and infinity; death and rebirth; timelessness and eternity; the unconscious

rivers

death and rebirth (baptism); flowing of time into eternity; transitional life cycle phases; incarnations of deities

sun

creative energy; law in nature; consciousness (thinking, enlightenment, wisdom, spiritual vision); father principle; passage of time and life

rising sun

birth; creation; enlightenment

setting sun

death

red

blood, sacrifice, violent passion; disorder

green

growth; sensation; hope; fertility; in negative context may be associated with death and decay

blue

usually highly positive, associated with truth, religious feeling, security, spiritual purity (color of Great Mother or Holy Mother)

black (darkness)

chaos, mystery; the unknown; death; primal wisdom; the unconscious; evil; melancholy

white

highly multivalent, signifying, in its positive aspects, light, purity, innocence and timelessness; in its negative aspects, death, terror, the supernatural, the blinding truth of an inscrutable cosmic mystery