1st card: Golden Long Hair White Lady

Color symbolism and psychology
White is the color represents purity, neutrality, sterility and youth.
White is often associated with cleanliness or sterility and neutrality
In Western tradition the bride wears white, a custom dating back to Ancient Greece.
White also a linking of the color to virginity and is known for symbolizing light, reverence, purity, truth, snow, peace, innocence, cleanliness, simplicity, security, humility, sterility, winter, coldness, surrender, fearfulness, unimaginative, air, death (in Eastern cultures), life, marriage (in Western cultures), hope, bland, empty (interior) and January (winter).


The golden long hair lady with white skirt standing alone at the lake side, with the back to audience. Her hands clasped together and like so lonely. Looking at this picture, somehow, if go deep, some questions arises from the bootom of my heart:

• What is the lady doing there? Is She a young lady (i prefer she is young)?
• Is she wearign a wedding gaun? white colour normally represent the serenity, pure, innocent and grace. Is this lady waiting for her man?
• Or, it is actually the lady has been left by someone she loved, and she is attempting to suicide by jumping into the water.
• Is she on vocation? just thinking to take as short break and to go to lakeside to relax herself?

Lakes have a strong association with symbolic aspects of the feminine archetype.
J.C. Cooper in An Illustrated Encyclopaedia notes that they are often the dwelling place of monsters or magical feminine powers, such as "The Lady of the Lake." In the Chinese symbolism of the Pa Kua the lake is the Tui symbolizing collected waters, receptive wisdom, absorption and passiveness.

The structure of lake symbolism may be related to the space aspect of place symbolism and specifically the symbolism of level J.E. Cirlot in his Dictionary of Symbols suggests that this is the case and that this symbolism:
"...equates all that is on a low level spatially with what is low in a spiritual, negative, destructive, and hence fatal, sense. The fact that water-symbolism is closely connected with the symbolism of the abyss serves to corroborate the fatal implications of the lake-symbol, for the part played by the liquid Element is to provide the transition between life and death, between the solid and the gaseous, the formal and the informal."


This symbolism of level is associated with water because, as Cirlot notes, water always alludes to the connection between the superficial and the profound. In this sense, a lake symbolizes a fluid mass of transparency.

Traditionally, lakes have symbolized the peaceful, contemplative life where one goes to escape from the reality of the world. Many vacations center around lakes and not surprisingly, the romance genre of stories often uses lake settings. This contemplative symbolism of lakes is mentioned in the ancient Chinese Book Of Changes:"Lakes resting on the other,The images of the joyous.Thus the superior man joinsWith his friends for discussion and practice."

As Laurens van der Post notes the Book Of Changes "personifies the lake and makes it the image of the feminine value with the greatest future possibilities of increase, calling it the youngest of daughters in a house with many mansions." Jung himself as a child, notes van der Post, was convinced that no one could live without water and he meant lakes mainly when he spoke about water.

With lakes, the universality associated with the seas and oceans is made specific. Van der Post points this out saying:
" ... the macrocosmic sea microcosmically contained in the earth and so made a comprehensible source of nourishment to the life and spirit of man. It reflects and draws into its own deeps and so into the heart of the earth all that it's opposite, the sky, represents and possesses of illumination and height, becoming a kind of mediating factor between two great poles, two opposites of reality: a dark, earthly principle and another of light and celestial sky and all the values they stand for."

This mirror symbolism of lakes is empahsized by Cirlot when he writes that "the lake - or rather its surface alone - holds the significance of a mirror, presenting an image of self-contemplation, consciousness and revelation." A lake most likely offered the first mirror to man to see his reflection in and the reflection of the sky above. Interestingly enough, Narcissus died from looking into his reflection in a lake for too long.

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Hair in general represent energy (Juan Eduardo Cirlot, A dictionary of Symbols) . hair also signify fertility, and also correspond to the element of fire. Golden hair is related to the sun's ray and to the whole vast sun-symbolism.

The long golden hair, is signifies spiritual development. In India culture, hair is significant, they will keep the long hair, in Ancient Chinese legend or culture, women will keep their long hair and to cut the hair to give to the loved one as significant representation of the man she loved. The long golden hair with white make me attract to HER, and look at her...
the power insight, the femine, the curiousity.........