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Thai Auspicious Colors

Color has always been an important aspect of Thai culture. For a long time, it has been used to reflect a variety of aspects of their lives, including the color that represents each day of the week and their lucky color, whether it is the lucky color for their birthday or just the color of the day. Thais' views about color are also linked to every area of their lives, since for instance, royalty has an effect on beliefs, as most Thais apply the royals' birthday colors to celebrate their birthdays and to represent the specific royalty.

The most popular color-related beliefs in Thai society are the auspicious color of their birthday and the fortunate day of a week. Auspicious colors may represent various elements of their lives, including power, money, luck/support, relationships, health, and the unfortunate. As a result, the majority of Thai people these days choose to match their attire to the auspicious color of the day rather than the day's official color in order to be discreet about their belief, as they do not want to reveal that they believe in it but still believe in it.

Thais' belief in auspicious colors is prominently reflected as they are a country of diverse cultures, with most beliefs affected by astrological rules influenced by Hindu culture and other mythologies such as Thaksapakon (The belief of eight planets). The meanings of different colors are very impactful and have a strong meaning in most adults to elderly since the past because many Thai people have been cultivated in the topic of auspicious colors and various beliefs since ancient times. Choosing colors to dress aims to predict events that will happen that day and aims to enhance fate which maintains that dressing in auspicious colors is an important thing that should not be neglected.

History

In Thai society, the concept of auspicious colors is linked to the long-standing traditional astrological beliefs of the people. There are several beliefs from various origins since Thailand is a country with a diverse culture that includes Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese beliefs, Laos religion, Cambodia beliefs, and more. The names of fortune-teller books, A celebration of three worlds, and art of war are examples of publications that discuss people's fortunate colors. Nonetheless, the most popular one, which Thai people still use today, is known as "Thaksapakorn".

The belief of Thaksapakorn may pervade all parts of Thai life, beginning with how they choose their real name, how they consider the color of a car that would match their luck before purchasing it, and even the location of the house that they will buy. The belief can be separated into three parts: Thaksa, Direction, and Land. Thaksa is the idea of the god of the day, in which everyone will have their god of birth from the day they were born, from Monday to Sunday, with the addition of the Wednesday nighttime with the gods called Rahu and Ketu for those who do not know which day they were born on. Each god has their own narrative, and those elements are combined to produce the fortunate color of the day. For direction, each Thaksa will have their own direction, which will represent the location of each deity. For land, there will be a certain aspect where land conduction occurs, such as Monday Thaksa, which is located in the Burapa direction and is the land of age.

As a result, throughout time, the references or sources of auspicious colors for Thai people may alter or mix since they have numerous beliefs about fortunate colors, which may be combined.

Aspects of life to which auspicious colors relate

In Thai, each color has a different meaning. Most Thai people are familiar with and understand the meaning of each color, as well as the situation in which the color should be used during a ceremony or festive occasion. Furthermore, color is associated with belief and auspiciousness. Every year, a fortune teller, influential person, and expert will release a color table to inform people about the auspicious color to wear each day to improve their destiny and good fortune in numerous aspects. These are the various aspects of life according to the Thaksapakon principle.

Power

The auspicious colors for enhancing power and honor are black and purple, especially for people who were born on Tuesday. Pink and Red, especially for people who were born on Monday. The meanings include passion, curiosity, excitement, enthusiasm, power, royalty, leadership, courage, discipline, stimulation, and more.

The purple color represents a sense of dignity and grandeur, often the color of people with high status/ high power, while the black color represents stability and grimness.

Money

The auspicious colors for enhancing money are purple, especially for people who were born on Sunday. And yellow, especially for people who were born on Thursday. The meanings include luxury, celebration, magnificence, auspiciousness, finances, wealth and happiness, and more.

The purple color represents the sense of luxuriousness, increases wealth, and helps to fulfill inner thoughts and desires, also connecting to spiritual and psychic energy. Yellow color is one of the colors that remind people of auspicious colors. Furthermore, be aware of using purple in some situations because it hides feelings of sorrow, and stimulates sensitivity.

Luck and Success

The auspicious colors for enhancing luck/ getting rid of obstacles are grey and yellow, especially for people who were born on Wednesday. And green, especially for people who were born on Sunday. The meanings are about hope, stability, beginning, safety, abundance, intelligence, cheerfulness, brightness, and more.

The green color represents the sense of stimulation to be refreshing, decrease exhaustion, and relieve tension, panic, and anxiety. Yellow has the power to enhance power, prestige, and fortune. While the gray color represents the sense of calm and a stable mind.

Love and Relationship

The auspicious colors for enhancing love and relationships are pink, especially for people who were born on Tuesday. And Green, especially for people who were born on Wednesday(Daytime). The meanings are about good relationships, softness, sensitivity, nurture, love, friendship, affection, charm, kindness, humanity, safety, growth, sympathy, and more.

The pink color represents the sense of healing and recovery especially in emotion. It stimulates feeling beloved, calm, and cherished, and also good relationships with friends, family, lovers, etc. And its appeal is the charm of youth and confidence. Meanwhile, the green color represents a sense of calm, empathy, and a healthy relationship with family.

Health

The auspicious color for enhancing health is orange, especially for people who were born on Saturday. And Red, especially for people who were born on Friday. The meanings are about strength, health, sustainability, and more.

The orange color represents the sense of warmth and feeling to connect with the natural environment, cheerfulness, liveliness, stability, and prestige. On the other hand, the orange color should be aware because some shade of orange gives a feeling of slowness, sorrow, and lack of humor.

How to check auspicious colors

Match the color based on the day of birth

Beginning with Thaksapakorn's ancient beliefs, there are principles that are employed to determine the colors of each day depending on the land of each Thaksa. In total, there are eight Thaksas, also known as the eight gods of each day. The way of how to match lucky colors depending on the day of birth follow the same notion of how to name using this belief, but instead of letters, colors are used. Boriwan (family, friends, followers), Ayu (health, wellness), Detch (power, success), Sri (virtuousness, propitiousness, fortune), Mula (wealth, property, security), Utsaha (industriousness, good education, good business), Montri (supporters, helpers, protectors), and Kalakini (obstacle, bad luck) are the aspects associated with each direction.

Wearing a color that corresponds with each direction of one's birth color will enhance all aspects and boost the power of auspicious colors. The auspicious colors concept may be applied to a variety of items, including the color of a wallet, purse, car, or house.

The following are the auspicious colors for the people born on each day:

Day/Direction	Boriwan	Ayu	Detch	Sri	Mula	Utsaha	Montri	Kalakini
Sunday	Red	White, Light Yellow, and Light Grey	Pink, Old Rose, and Light Red	Green	Black, Purple, and Dark Brown	Saffron, Orange, and Gold	Grey	Blue, and Navy
Monday	White, Light Yellow, and Light Grey	Pink, Old Rose, and Light Red	Green	Black, Purple, and Dark Brown	Saffron, Orange, and Gold	Grey	Blue, and Navy	Red
Tuesday	Pink, Old Rose, and Light Red	Green	Black, Purple, and Dark Brown	Saffron, Orange, and Gold	Grey	Blue, and Navy	Red	White, Light Yellow, and Light Grey
Wednesday (Daytime)	Green	Black, Purple, and Dark Brown	Saffron, Orange, and Gold	Grey	Blue, and Navy	Red	White, Light Yellow, and Light Grey	Pink, Old Rose, and Light Red
Wednesday (Nighttime)	Grey	Blue, and Navy	Red	White, Light Yellow, and Light Grey	Pink, Old Rose, and Light Red	Green	Black, Purple, and Dark Brown	Saffron, Orange, and Gold
Thursday	Saffron, Orange, and Gold	Grey	Blue, and Navy	Red	White, Light Yellow, and Light Grey	Pink, Old Rose, and Light Red	Green	Black, Purple, and Dark Brown
Friday	Blue, and Navy	Red	White, Light Yellow, and Light Grey	Pink, Old Rose, and Light Red	Green	Black, Purple, and Dark Brown	Saffron, Orange, and Gold	Grey
Saturday	Black, Purple, and Dark Brown	Saffron, Orange, and Gold	Grey	Blue, and Navy	Red	White, Light Yellow, and Light Grey	Pink, Old Rose, and Light Red	Green

Match the color based on the day of the week

Nowadays, there are numerous platforms available for daily auspiciousness checks from fortune tellers and auspicious color experts. These platforms are updated yearly depending on astrology and other principles. Match the auspicious color with the day of use to enhance the horoscope. Depending on the topic of the issue that concerns or choosing from a variety of additional topics. On the other hand, some people do not have a specific color; the easiest solution is to write down the actual auspicious color for that day and carry it all day.

Relationship between auspicious colors and Thai people

Most Thai people wear a dress according to the auspicious colors on each day to enhance their luck and have a positive mental influence. It impacts their mind in terms of having more confidence to maintain, to manifest to have a good day in the morning moreover, to protect in terms of helping overcome various events well. The auspicious color is increasingly well-known these days. since most people need things to anchor their minds to be stronger and more confident. Thai people use various types of auspicious colors in terms of putting the auspicious colors into their things in daily life, not only dressing in auspicious colors but buying small through big things according to the referent color in astrological rules.