While picking clothes in the morning, you have probably hesitated over "what color suits today." Color and direction fortune is a daily-life fortune that adds a kind guide to exactly that small hesitation. It points to a lucky color worth keeping beside you for the day, and an auspicious direction where, it is said, energy thrives when you set your steps — breathing a small ritual and flutter into an ordinary day. It is less a grand divination than a light game that tidies the grain of daily life a hand’s width finer.
Under color fortune lies the symbolism that color has long carried. Red is said to call to mind vitality and passion; blue, stability and trust; yellow, brightness and joy; green, calm and recovery; white, purity and a fresh start; black, weight and dignity. In East Asia, the five hues of blue, red, yellow, white, and black have long been cherished, each holding its own energy, under the name of the five cardinal colors; color fortune borrows this grain of color to pick the light that will add to you today.
Direction fortune arises from the old notion that a different energy flows in each direction. The east, where the sun rises, has been seen to symbolize beginnings and vigor; the south of midday, vitality and honor; the west of sunset, fruition and order; the north of deep night, rest and wisdom. The five directions — east, west, south, north, plus the center — have, within the traditions of feng shui and the compass, clothed human movement in fortune and misfortune, and direction fortune kindly tells you which way is good to set your steps today.
Then how is it good to enjoy this? The way is not heavy. If today’s lucky color is green, keep a green shirt or a small accessory beside you; if the auspicious direction is east, try beginning an important task from an eastern seat. They are trifling choices — a pen wearing a color, a single direction your desk faces — but that small ritual naturally calls up the resolve, "today I will spend my day with this kind of heart."
There is also a quiet delight in choosing color and direction to suit the occasion. On an interview day that calls for calm, keep trust-giving navy beside you; on a presentation day that calls for vigor, keep lively yellow. When you wish to settle your mind, face north, the direction of rest, and catch your breath a moment; on a day you begin something new, look east, the direction of vigor, and take your first step. When you use color and direction together, the grain grows clearer still. Wearing today’s light and moving your steps toward the way its energy is said to flow, we take in two kind signals at once and meet the day more consciously. Above all, rather than being bound to a right answer, the very process of matching color and direction to the heart of the day tints an ordinary day a shade more tenderly.
Interestingly, that color influences a person’s mood is also lightly discussed in color psychology. Warm colors tend to lift the heart, and calm colors tend to settle it, it is said. So choosing a lucky color may be seen less as borrowing a mysterious efficacy than as a kind device for being once more aware, through color, of what mood you wish to spend today in.
Yet to enjoy it wisely, there is something to remember. Color and direction do not, in themselves, hold a power to guarantee luck or to decide success and failure. Today’s color being red does not mean a good thing must happen, nor does an inauspicious direction mean things will go awry. It is not a yardstick that stands in for your decisions, but only a gentle signal that makes you aware, once more and clearly, of a day that would otherwise drift by unnoticed.
Even today, color and direction fortune is loved as a warm habit for opening a day freshly. FortuneLeaf’s color and direction content, too, borrows this old language of symbolism to stand beside you as you joyfully call to mind today’s light and direction, and tend your day a little more carefully through that small choice. Please remember that color does not bring you luck; rather, your care in choosing and wearing the heart held in that color is what makes the day shine.