Welcome, Seeker!
This is a quiet space on Facebook- a small group or circle for people who move through the world with curiosity, presence and depth. If you feel aligned, wear something turquoise preferably leg wear… like tights, socks, or any type of hosiery. Take an anonymous photo. Share it here.
No face. No pressure.
Only color.
A simple act of arrival.
. PARTICIPATION GUIDELINES
These guidelines are not rules; they are gentle invitations into a way of participating that honors
anonymity, depth, and symbolic resonance. Turquoise Stockings is meant to feel like a gathering, not a stage.
1. WEAR A PIECE OF TURQUOISE HOSIERY
Any form counts—tights, stockings, thigh-highs, knee-highs, ankle socks, or even a turquoise ribbon
tied around the leg. It does not have to match anything or be beautiful. It is symbolic, not aesthetic.
2. TAKE AN ANONYMOUS PHOTO
Your face is not needed. Your identity is not required. A glimpse of turquoise is enough:
• a leg crossed
• feet in socks
• stockings draped across a chair
• a close-up of fabric texture
• a ribbon around an ankle
• turquoise against natural light
This is the ritual.
3. SHARE THE PHOTO IN OUR PRIVATE GROUP SPACE
Captions can be:
• a symbol
• a feeling
• a single word
• or nothing at all
The image alone is sufficient.
4. RESPOND TO OTHERS GENTLY
A like. A heart. A soft comment. The point is resonance, not conversation.
5. MOVE AT YOUR OWN PACE
No schedule. No pressure. No required depth. This is a room you step into when you want, leave when
you need, and return to whenever you feel the pull.
6. REMAIN ANONYMOUS IF YOU WISH
Feel free to post from an art persona, a secondary account, or a symbolic identity. Your private self is
yours to keep.
7. TREAT THIS AS A SANCTUARY
This is a place for presence, curiosity, and inner spaciousness. Not for performance, debate, or
polarization. It is a gathering of people who see the world through the multitude of varying lenses that exist but are willing to say- I see you in those smashing tights!
8. Please invite only those you believe will add to the group and accept boundaries
THIS IS A SYMBOLIC ACT OF FEMININE SOLIDARITY
Wear turquoise when you feel it.
Share when called.
Rest as needed.
Return freely.
A BRIEF HISTORY
Although Turquoise Stockings Society is a contemporary creation, its symbolic lineage reaches into a long tradition of color-coded, consciousness-oriented circles that quietly evolved throughout the 20th century.
In the early 1900s, European and American intellectual salons often used colors as subtle markers of affiliation. The Blue Stockings Society in 18th-century England — a circle of women writers and thinkers — was the first widely known example, and its spirit carried into the early 20th century as new groups formed around literature, psychology, and emerging spiritual philosophies.
By the 1920s and 30s, as Jung’s ideas around archetypes and the collective unconscious began influencing artists and thinkers, several color-named circles appeared in Europe and the U.S., often blending creativity, psychology, and mysticism. These included small, informal “stocking groups” — gatherings where participants wore a particular color to signal their interest in a specific intellectual or spiritual thread.
After World War II, with the rise of humanistic psychology, the Beat Generation, and later transpersonal psychology in the 1960s and 70s, these symbolic groups reemerged in new forms. They remained small, private, and largely undocumented — but the idea of using a color as a quiet sign of shared inner orientation persisted.
Turquoise, historically associated with intuition, healing, creativity, and the meeting place of sky and earth, began showing up in these circles as a symbol of integration:
mind + heart,
spirit + psyche,
imagination + clarity.
By the late 20th century, as depth psychology, feminist spirituality, and consciousness studies expanded, turquoise found its way into small women’s groups, dreamwork circles, and creative collectives. These groups rarely had formal names, but their symbolism is woven into the modern movement.
Turquoise Stockings Society carries forward this lineage:
• from the intellectual courage of the original Blue Stockings
• from the artistic psychological salons of the 1920s
• from the consciousness circles of the mid-century
• from the imaginal and archetypal communities that grew in the 70s and beyond
It is not a recreation —
but rather an evolution,
a contemporary expression of a century-long tradition of symbolic affiliation, inner inquiry, and creative depth.
In this sense, Turquoise Stockings Society is both new and ancestral: a modern gathering with roots in a long line of thinkers, feelers, imaginers, creators, adventurers, listeners, and teachers who used color as a quiet signal of belonging to a deeper, more soulful conversation.
