Code Red

In deciphering the Rosacea code, it is important to look at its meaning from a deeper level. From a symbolic level, "Red" is a color that is passionate. Red is the color of life - of blood, fire, passion. It is worn by brides in India and China as a symbol of good luck and fertility. Christian calendars marked holy days in red, hence red letter days. In China red stands for joy, happiness and good fortune.

In the chakra system, Red is the color of the root chakra, the muldahara. It represents our life energy, our physical strength and vitality. Red is used to increase vitality and to send warmth. Red is the color of blood, the source of life.

Kundalini arises by a spark of fire than constellates in muladhara, the instinctual realm. It is the fire that brings spirit to matter. The life force becomes activated through the intake of breath, the spark of life that brings consciousness to instinctual life. The redness becomes a brilliant burning red that sends sparks up the spine to the crown chakra, the thousand petaled lotus, the quinta essentia of spirit.

What the symbolism of Rosacea suggests is that the fire energy moves up through the chakras and at menopause manifests heat in the manner of hot flashes, night sweats, flushing of the skin. Rosacea is expressing heat and passionate energy internally and externally.