How to Use Your Birth-Month Color to Balance Your Life

Updated on 7/4/2022 at 9:30 AM

There are so many interesting ways you can seek out a better understanding of your personality, motivators, and driving forces. Many people love exploring astrology and birth charts, for instance. Others turn to tarot and numerology. Well, the study of colors can also be used to provide insight into who you are and why. We're talking about colorstrology, a system developed by intuitive, astrologer, and numerologist Michele Bernhardt. She combined an individual's sun sign and ruling planets with numerology and color theory to create 366 "birthday colors," each of which helps give deeper meaning to our internal conditions and behaviors. You can read more about each of the 366 colors in Bernhardt's book, "Colorstrology: What Your Birthday Color Says About You". But she's also come up with a 12-month guide with one color that best encompasses your birth month; this is a hue that may make you feel more balanced when you surround yourself with it. You're not necessarily stuck with "your" birth-month color, though. Each shade has an energy that can be harnessed in various ways, like decorating your home with it, for example. So, if you're lacking tranquility, you may want to add more of September's calming color (Baja Blue) into your life. And if all of this sounds a little out there, consider this: by forcing yourself to ask yourself what you need more of, colorstrology encourages self-reflection, which is a good thing. It's also fun to learn which colors you're drawn to and what that says about you.

See your birth-month color ahead, along with descriptions from Bernhardt's book.

Birth-Month Color: January

Color: Caramel
Characteristics: Logical, sure-footed, practical, down-to-earth.
When to incorporate it: When you need to feel stable and responsible.
Meaning: "This color encourages us to ground our earthly ambitions through discipline and persistence."

Birth-Month Color: February

Color: Sheer Lilac
Characteristics: Inspiring, imaginative, uplifting.
When to incorporate it: When you're feeling emotionally entangled — it helps you with detachment.
Meaning: "Sheer Lilac helps us comprehend the spirit of humankind and allows us to experience our friends and the people in our community as family."

Birth-Month Color: March

Color: Fair Aqua
Characteristics: Empathetic, intuitive, subtle.
When to incorporate it: When you need inspiration, intuition, or when you need your spirits lifted.
Meaning: "Dreamy and illusive, this color helps guide people between the conscious and subconscious worlds."

Birth-Month Color: April

Color: Cayenne
Characteristics: Fiery, energetic, passionate, courageous.
When to incorporate it: When you want an energy boost, pizzazz, or fearlessness.
Meaning: "It supports your enthusiasm and desire to win and can give you a competitive edge in sporting events."

Birth-Month Color: May

Color: Bud Green
Characteristics: Stable, prosperous, rejuvenating.
When to incorporate it: When you need a balance of strength and substance.
Meaning: "Vital and assuring, this is the color of stability and healing."

Birth-Month Color: June

Color: Aspen Gold
Characteristics: Stimulating, radiant, uplifting.
When to incorporate it: When you need help with communication and memory.
Meaning: "Energizing and activating, this is a color filled with radiance and light."

Birth-Month Color: July

Color: Coral Blush
Characteristics: Nurturing, gentle, receptive.
When to incorporate it: When you need emotional healing, or love and care from others, especially in times of change and trauma.
Meaning: "Coral Blush aligns with feminine energy and increases receptivity. It helps attract love and sweetness into your life."

Birth-Month Color: August

Color: Sun Orange
Characteristics: Radiant, confident, powerful.
When to incorporate it: When you're feeling self-conscious and need more creativity and joy.
Meaning: "Grand and royal, this is a color that resonates with power and greatness."

Birth-Month Color: September

Color: Baja Blue
Characteristics: Discerning, wise, artistic.
When to incorporate it: When you need tranquility and help organizing your life.
Meaning: "This is a divine and alluring color that resonates with beauty, purity, and wisdom."

Birth-Month Color: October

Color: Cerulean
Characteristics: Calm, soothing, balanced.
When to incorporate it: When you're looking to achieve peace, calm, and a balance between giving and receiving.
Meaning: "Cerulean embodies the essence of peace and serenity while inspiring us to be strong and take decisive action."

Birth-Month Color: November

Color: Claret Red
Characteristics: Passionate, motivating, intense.
When to incorporate it: When you need help through a transition, to remove emotional blocks, or need a sexual uplift.
Meaning: "Intense and passionate, this color inspires depth, strength, and love."

Birth-Month Color: December

Color: Pagoda Blue
Characteristics: Enlightening, wise.
When to incorporate it: When traveling, exploring, or longing for mystical adventure.
Meaning: "Deep and meditative, this color signifies wisdom, truth, and optimism."