• GRAY: We associate gray as an undefined area somewhere between black and white. Gray and gloomy like the dark before the storm or ‘ashen faced’ - feeling ill.
• GOLD: Metal of the Sun, creative immortal, warm.
• SILVER: Metal of the moon, receptive, cyclical, cool.

CRADLE: Filling the cradle with a newborn. Nursing, Rocking the cradle. Suspended in a nurtured situation or an infantile belief. 'From the cradle to the grave'. "Hand that rocks the cradle rules the world". To be 'cradled' in the arms of a loved one.

CROSS-ROADS: Decision time. Paths crossing, choices to be made. A new direction to be taken. Commitment to self and own personal direction.

CURTAINS: Keeping private about something. Shutting out the world outside. Closing your eyes to something, someone else wants hidden. Coming to an end, finally closing the curtains. Opening them is often a new beginning - start of a new day. Curtain goes up on a new play.