The color of an active channel is informative on its own: black denotes a conscious trait, pink signals unconscious, and a striped combination means it’s a mixture of both. What will tend to happen — if my experience of readings is anything to go by — is that you’ll recognize the black-colored channels and their meanings as conscious elements of your personality, something you already know you act out or do, whereas the meanings of the pink-colored channels are not so readily obvious because they’re unconscious elements.