1. Shakespearean Humors HUMOR ELEMENT ASPECT NAME MEANING Blood
Yellow Bile
Phlegm
Black Bile
ELEMENT
Air
Fire
Water
Earth
ASPECT
Hot and Moist
Hot and Dry
Cold and Moist
Cold and Dry
NAME
Sanguine
Choleric
Phlegmatic
Melancholic
MEANING
Amorous, happy, generous, optimistic, enthusiastic, excitable
Violent, vengeful, angry, irritable, cynical
Dull, pale, cowardly, stolid, apathetic, undemonstrative
Gluttonous, lazy, sentimental, sad, depressed

2. Common Symbolic Colors
WHITE
Purity, innocence, youth, goodness
RED
Passion, anger, warmth, ‘stop’ symbol
BLUE
Coldness, hatred, lack of feeling, unemotional, sometimes happiness
GREEN
Youth, renewal, envy, ‘go’ symbol
BLACK
Evil, death, mystery,emptiness
YELLOW
Cowardly, rotten, happiness
PINK/ROSE
Happiness, goodness
PURPLE
Royalty, superiority
GRAY
Emptiness, nothingness, hopelessness