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Greetings to you at this exciting time of high summer. The time around any solstice brings with it opportunities for shift, change and transformation. The intense light and energy at the midsummer solstice may feel a little overwhelming at times. We can, however, use this time to really ride the waves of energy on the planet and to bring ourselves into our own light as fully as we can. And we can also use it to connect with one another – to support and honour each other as we go through this time of change together.

One of the ways we can support ourselves through this process is through colour. The bottles in the Colourworks range are so completely for and of this time that it seems whatever question you are posing, whatever issue you are facing, you can find an answer, or guidance, or healing in these bottles of colour magic.

In this issue of our newsletter we review the recent Colour 3 courses and share with you how colour literally changes lives. We also update you on the exciting plans for the 6-day Advanced Course for Colour Practitioners being held in South Africa in September/October.

Remember to check out the website and view the Workshops and Events Diary for a list of Colourworks courses happening across England and Scotland, and events and fairs at which Colourworks will be represented.

We would like to make a special mention of one of our Colourworks Teachers, Sarah Wade, who has recently made the move to New Zealand and who will be taking this wonderful system even further out into the world. When Sarah and her family walked out of the airport building in Auckland, she said the first thing they saw was a huge perfect rainbow! Our very best wishes to you Sarah for an exciting time to come.

We would also like to welcome the new group of American teachers and wish them great joy and success in being a closer part of the Colourworks team of soulmates.

Enjoy this issue and have a truly wonderful summer.

Blessings

Erica

Melissie writes: “My friend Gabi, who was stressed to the nth degree, came and stayed with me and sat in the stargate and chose bottles daily, and decided that the only way to sort out the financial stuff that was plaguing her would be a bath in bottle 18. Every time she chose bottles she chose bottle 16, but 18 was the one she was most attracted to and I know that this one is the one that clears all the vows of poverty that were made in previous lifetimes. She took the bottle home to Durban which has a very subtropical climate with huge thunderstorms, and with candles and incense, poured the whole thing in the bath. Her partner watched the weather getting progressively more dramatic and suddenly heard an almighty clap of thunder and a flash of light and realised that the bathroom had been struck by lightning. He charged in expecting to find a crisp black pretzel in the bath but found Gabi a bit stunned but OK, with a red mark the size of a hand on her hip. Gabi said that the lightning had flashed like quicksilver across the bath water and through her. The red oil from bottle 18 mirrored the lightning flash on the side of the bath. As far as I know, lightning is electricity – and it should have killed her. She firmly believes that the oil saved her life and the next day she phoned and told me that a loan had been granted by the bank. This was a complete miracle as she had nothing to back it up with.

So we have an oil that saves lives but not just that. It also clears underlying patterns of belief in lack and survival and changes the energy around that instantly - in fact like lightning. I am not sure what this means but I think that it tells us that Colour works instantly and intensely and it will take us where we need to be with no holds barred. The choice of bottle 16, which is the tower struck by lightning, was very interesting, as it confirmed my thought that that image reminds us that spirit needs us to move and if we drag our feet it will create the energy that will help us to move. Even getting struck by lightning if that is what it takes. It will, however, keep us safe while the change that we are resisting happens.

Then came Colour 3. Melissie and Amanda co-presented this workshop in England and Scotland during April. This workshop was ‘wow stuff’, the astrological links with the colour are almost bizarre as the subject of the stars is vast and exact and yet somehow that information is within this system that was born in just 36 hours! The information being unveiled will be the subject of a new book on the links between colour and astrology. The numerology I have personally also found very exciting; to ‘see’ your destiny numbers as Soul Colours being displayed in front of you is life changing. I decided I had to teach the numerology as part of my new workshops (Star Guides and Numerology with Colour) and the results have been phenomenal.

Sue’s feedback from Star Guides and Numerology with Colour workshops:
“What an amazing experience! I was blown away by looking at Chiron and Pluto in colour in my life. It was a weekend of my body getting it, over and over again. In the afternoon we had a reading of the bottles we chose at the beginning of the day. Moira saw a crab-like alien insect walking sideways, but looking forward. The shape of the insect was in a wavy line, like my spine, the way it was when I was born. I have been moving sideways through my life, moving around issues, still getting there, but in a crab-like side-winding way. Amazing stuff!

And then came the Numerology...We started with a meditation to clear ancestral programming and heal seven generations back and forward. I saw my parents in such a beautiful way. This was such a soul-searching day. By looking at the colours connected with the numerology of our names we saw our soul's blueprint. The bits that we were born with that can not be changed and also the bits that can be changed. I've looked at numerology before, but looking at it with colour gives it such an amazing other dimension. I could not believe what I had brought upon myself by becoming Sue Russell. I married 16 years ago and have moved 16 times since then and guess what? I have 16 in my name twice!!! My life has been full of disruption.

I have always wanted to change my name to Fraser, my mum's maiden name. Funny, now that the past is healed I am going to do it. On Monday before Moira left we had a look at the colours for my new name and it feels so much better. On Monday night I bathed in my bottle 16 which had turned clear on the top and light turquoise on the bottom! It was time to let 16 out of my life.

My new name contains Saturn in the outer expression in my life - it's time for me to teach and it's time for me to put down some roots and get a foundation. Today I received an email asking me to do a one day training day in colour. How quickly the Universe sets things into motion once we make a decision. I let the past go with Grace and most importantly of all - JOY! I look forward to the new me. I AM Sue Fraser”.

From Erica:
Combining a day of Numerology and Colour with a day of Astrology and Colour resulted in the most incredible workshop. I attended the Portsmouth workshop and had, literally, one of the most profound experiences of my life. Seeing myself represented in colour was so deep, so powerful and so revealing, that the full impact didn’t hit me until the next day, when it hit me with some force! As I realised what a gift I had been given I felt such enormous gratitude to Melissie for seeing me as I am, and for showing me to myself.

I think what amazed us all was just how much is possible with colour, and with Colourworks in particular. There simply are no limits to what this system can do!

Alexandria Rice came to visit me the day after I returned from the course with Melissie and Amanda. Keen to put my new knowledge into practice I offered her a reading using the numerology of her birth date and name. Alexandria shares her experience below.

Alexandria’s Feedback from her reading:
I had always been called Alex. It was the short form for Alexandra, the name with which I had been christened as an infant. Years later, having to produce my birth certificate for something official, I discovered that the name with which I had been registered at birth was Alexandria. I didn’t much like the name Alexandria; it always seemed so grand and long-winded. So, I stuck with Alexandra. As I worked on my spiritual path, I looked at numerology and what it meant for me in relation to my birth date and name. It seemed significant that I was calling myself by a name other than one which I had been registered at birth, but when I realised that the extra ‘i’ in Alexandria only added a number 9 so that the numbers added up to the same whichever label I used for myself, I did no more about it.

Then on 21st April, Erica Connolly, a Colourworks teacher and healer, gave me a numerology reading using Colourworks. Erica worked with the name I am known by on a daily basis - Alexandra Rice. I insisted on Alexandra these days, rather than Alex. One day, years ago, leading a dance class in which we danced our names, I began as Alex as I’d so far been in life, and ended the dance as Alexandra. It felt so much more colourful and feminine. I hated being called Alex now. Alexandra seemed to flow much better. But according to the colours, it wasn’t flowing at all. When the numbers of my birth date and the consonants and vowels of Alexandra Rice were laid out before me in Colourworks bottles, immediately I was uneasy. There was a discordance here that I could not tolerate. That discord was inside me, was me. I was only seeing the truth of myself as I’m known and as I insist on being. I could live with the birth date colours. The consonants too, were similar and blended together, but the vowels were another story.

The vowels numbered 22 and 4. 22 is magenta over pink. A lovely bottle, and one I had been bathing in that week. For me, it is about forgiveness of the Higher Self and relaxing into the wisdom of the Higher Self. It relates to the Fool in the Tarot pack and urges me not to keep going round the same old track again and again but move forward in life. To do this, I need to forgive and realise that I am not guilty. I am a Divine human and in my Divinity there can be no guilt or blame. The Divine is innocent and so am I.

I was happy about this bottle but pairing it with 4 seemed totally incongruous. It wasn’t the meaning that upset me. 4 is Uranus in the Colourworks system and as an Aquarian I am very in tune with how Uranus operates. No, it was the colour combination. Uranus is yellow over very dark turquoise. It looked terrible with the pinks of number 22. I use the word terrible advisedly for it seemed to unnerve me, frighten me. That is who I have become by naming myself Alexandra. Where was the harmony?

‘I can’t have this,’ I told Erica. ‘How about if I add the extra ‘i’ and make it Alexandria?’ So, we tried it. The vowels then added up to number 31. Aah, bliss. Number 31 is The Recluse, pale green over a deep forest green. It immediately allowed me to breathe a sigh of relief. It allowed me to feel space inside, a deep peace. No longer was there a split in me or the discord in the colours. The deep green feels comforting and nurturing, protective, enfolding without possessiveness or cloistering. There is a quietness about this bottle, and a sense of being home. This bottle was giving me back myself. Not only this, but also it blended very well with the colours of Uranus and toned in with the other colours in this reading, the turquoise and blues. I would change my name. I would be Alexandria. I got home very late and went to bed, leaving the administrative work regarding my name change for the next day. This would be a new beginning.

Next day, the 22nd April I sent an e-mail notifying my friends of my name change; then I realised the date. 22\04. It couldn’t have been more significant. I meditated with number 31 bottle and felt great peace. This is who I really am. I’d been afraid before. Alexandria conjured up Egypt and all the terror of lifetimes there. The power issues. It felt so dynamic and the extra ‘i’ meant that there was no room to hide any more. I am extended now into my full self. The extra ‘i’ provides more room for the ‘I Am’. The ‘i’ also seems to convey that I can see more clearly, there is more ‘eye’. The extended name means that there is more room inside me, the green depth of my heart, more room to breathe. It gives me permission to claim my own space in the world as a unique being, and let nothing come between me and my Truth.