Doors have a lot of meaning for individuals. We talk of closed doors, we talk of doors opening, we adorn doors, we revel in the opportunities we perceive as knocking upon doors, stories talk about doors to other worlds. There is much to be said about the power of doors in our collective minds.
According to an online article in The Spruce, when one applies Feng Shui to the color choice of their door, there are specific colors one should embrace or avoid based upon the direction a door faces.
Those who follow the principals of Feng Shui are not the only people to believe the color of a door has meaning or influence. In Djerba, Tunisia the locals paint their doors sea blue to reflect their values and symbolize peace, openness, and unity. Similarly, the old-order Amish paint their doors blue to symbolize hospitality and to indicate to visitors that they are free to enter and join in fellowship.
Energy gathers around ideas. This is evident when we dream and set intentions on those things that have taken hold of our imaginations and manifest those ideas into reality. When we hang a wreath or bells on our door, we have faith that the wreath is welcoming or the bells ward off ill intent. These things in which we have faith create energies that make it so. When the faith of the believer becomes a knowing, it becomes a truth.
If we take that thinking forward, let's recall the excitement we often felt when a door offering opportunity opened for us. We typically are full of self-assuredness that our path is leading us to walk through that door. Likewise, it is typical to feel disappointed or perhaps lack confidence when it appears a door has closed and an opportunity is appearing to be out of reach. But, it is with this that I want to offer up a challenge. Why do we hold the idea that closed doors are off limits to us? Why do we feel we need to course correct and walk away from an opportunity or stop striving toward that goal we were reaching for?
Rather than answer those questions, let's instead remind ourselves of exactly what a door is. It is a barrier at a threshold to which entry is both closed and opened. A door is an opportunity to pause. If the door is open, we can pause before walking through to check in with ourselves and ensure we are where we need to be, and traveling in the direction we want to be. If the door is closed, again, it is an opportunity to pause. That is what we do at doors, we pause. But then, once we confirm it is where we are wanting to go, we decide if it is a door we can open on our own or if it is a door we need to knock upon. But doors are created to be opened. Doors that are closed can be reopened. They are not dead-ends.
If you reimagine that closed door in your mind as simply a place to pause and not as a place of endings, you will find many more options being offered to you. Pauses are gifts to us. They are opportunities for us to check with our gut. It is a time for leaning into our intuition and testing if what is on the other side is for you. If the answer is yes, then ring the doorbell, knock, turn the knob, and with confidence step through that door and greet what was waiting for you on the other side.
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