LIMINALITY - Through London and the Colour Green

To me; the colour green occupies Liminal space, an in-between place that is created from mixing blue and yellow together creating a myriad of possibilities, a xolur that is everywhere in nature, especially in the UK. It’s also my favourite colour. A BIG reason I come back to the UK is for a heavy dose of Green, or Viridity- a shot of cool, calm freshness into my veins after the blazing hot summer sun of Egypt has exhausted me, where the yellows and blues in their endless varieties and shades, strain my eyes and force me indoors away from their blinding gaze..

Don’t get me wrong - those blues are beyond beautiful and I could write from now into infinity about Turquoise and my new found love affair with the deep deep blue of the sea, especially when those twilight golden rays meet that breath-taking blue. The fire in the sky with it’s hours of power that keeps us all charged, moving and in Yang mode blessing the land with a riot of shades from sandy to amber to copper to tanned and chocolate covered mountain tops that rarely gets boring. It’s on the land; the valleys and mountains where I get my occasional fixes of the colour green of the acacia tree and various plants and shrubs that are scattered around and manage to thrive in the blue and yellow landscape.

Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore sunshine; my vitamin D fix and my warm bones and all of this in the powerful playground of infinite possibilities that is Sinai, which in itself IS liminal land between Asia and Africa.

But when it’s Yang time all the time, it becomes a bit too bright, too visible, too hot and just too much, and for someone like myself who’s seeking more Yin in her world, the imbalance is clearly felt.

So I return for the In-between space that is the UK, for some cooler, calmer, easier breaths, through colour therapy- for all that soothing green in all these parks, woods, forests, gardens and commons.

A liminal colour for my liminal reality, before I fly off to another sunny Yang blue and yellow dreamtime place of Australia. The place I was born in and left awhile ago, yet somehow still remains my homeland. Egypt is my mothers homeland and the place I choose to live in as it serves me best right now..

London despite being home for almost 20 years, has always been a liminal land for me, a transitional space where I came to lose myself and find myself over and over; a place to root then rise and reach into other versions of me. It’s always going to be a ‘Home’, while also a space between..

Right now, between Sinai and Sydney it is liminal land, I remember this reality when I walk through my favourite woods and lie down on the cool green earth, holding me in the eternal liminal where I feel home.

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