Grey Color Meaning and Symbolism

The Spiritual Significance of Grey in One’s Personality

Someone who is fascinated with the color grey is said to have a neutral and indifferent attitude towards life. Just like this emotionless color, they lack enthusiasm and excitement about anything and are also less attention seeking. In fact, they possess a calm, practical and peaceful mindset, content in living a simple and hassle-free life.  Such people also possess minimum emotional attachment, having proper judgemental capacity. Other characteristic traits of grey-lovers are their hardworking, loyal and committed nature, showing immense dedication in completing the work assigned to them.

However, if someone is a fanatic of grey, it could highlight his unemotional nature and also his inability to be creative, thereby resulting in a narrow outlook. They could even be self-sufficient and self-centered, immensely devoted professionally, but a complete loner when it comes to their personal life.

A grey aura mostly associated with monks, nuns and other spiritually inclined people, suggests the characteristic traits of simplicity, wisdom, and calmness. They also possess the ability to adapt to various situations, are of a compromising nature and can keep secrets diligently.

Symbolism of Different Shades of Grey

Light grey: This shade possesses certain traits of white and is more feminine in appearance,also having a relaxing and soothing effect.

Dark grey: This is more masculine, associated with a sense of seriousness, self-discipline as well as self-denial.

Charcoal grey: It possesses some of the mystery and strength of black, also reflecting a sense of sophistication.

What Does the Color Grey Mean in Your Dreams

Dreams of grey often suggest a lonely, boring and dull life that you may be living. This could also indicate a confused state of your mind as you are unable to come to a conclusion about a lot of things in life.

A grey, gloomy, cloudy sky stands for failure and hardships which one is going through or could encounter.

Seeing your near and dear ones wearing grey garmentS means that your relationship with the person visualized could go for a toss.

Grey ornaments stand for good luck and fortune, indicating of the material gains you would reap in the time to come.

A grey cat hints at a better life in future.

Being attacked by a grey cat suggests that you could be impatient because you are not yet romantically inclined, or in case you are the

Other grey animals symbolize misfortune or ill luck that you could be surrounded by for some while.

Light grey objects stand for good luck since it has a tinge of silver in it, also hinting that new opportunities could be knocking at your door in no time.

In Islamic tradition, a rich man dreaming his body covered with grey hair means losses he may incur in business, while a poor man seeing the same dream could hint of his unpaid debts.

Meaning and Importance of Grey in Different Aspects of Life

In business: It is often used as a good background color for other shades, giving them prominence because of its dullness. Hence, it is often the main color in laptops, calculators, phones, mobiles, medical machineries and calculators, highlighting elegance, and ability to adapt to any background it is place against. 

In feng shui: Its use is contrasting as at one time it could be soothing, sophisticated, elegant and calm, on the other hand, it may hint at dullness, boredom and drudgery, actually depending on how the color is used. In fact, it could produce a soothing and calming effect when used in spaces devoted for meditation.

Grey tie: It has a formal touch and when worn to any occasion, it brings out the powerful nature of the person.

The grey ribbon stands for the awareness of a lot of health conditions like asthma, brain cancer, borderline personality disorder as well as diabetes (teamed with a blue ribbon with red in between).

What Does the Color Grey Mean and Represent in Different Religions

In Christianity: According to the Bible grey stands for old age.

In Islam: As per Islamic tradition, greys hairs leads to a person’s spiritual enlightenment, hence dyeing or plucking the grey hair is against the religion’s norms.