Today I’m working with Doreen Virtue’s Angel Therapy deck once again. I was
feeling under the weather yesterday during most of the day until early evening and wasn’t able to really work on an angel message with any coherence. Today felt like a great day to work with the therapy deck as a result.
Indigo
“The person you’re inquiring about is an “Indigo”, meaning a highly sensitive, natural-born leader.”
In the New Age community the discussion of Indigo’s is a big topic, especially when talking about children. This is when we most commonly hear the term, things like “She’s so in turn and perceptive for an 8 year old, she must be an Indigo” or “He has a hard time making friends with the other boys at school because of his sensitive Indigo personality.” The concept came about in the 1960s and 1970s when psychic and color therapist Nancy Ann Tappe began to notice a pattern in the auras and life energy colors of children being born around this time. She started to notice that the majority of children, especially those who were newborns and toddlers, had an evenly mixed blue and violet color surrounding them. In 1982 she published a book that outlined the concepts of Indigo children called “Understanding Your Life Through Color” which lead to another book specifically on Indigo’s to come out in 1988 by husband and wife New Age presenters Lee Carroll and Jan Tober called “The Indigo Children: The New Kids Have Arrived”. Since then Tappe has identified four different types of Indigo personalities, Humanist, Artist, Conceptualists, and Catalysts, along with a total of 17 traits to identify an Indigo.
A lot of criticism has come about over the subject, especially in the later 80s and early 90s when just about every child was being diagnosed with ADD or ADHD. With some of the traits for an Indigo being similar to behaviors common in children with these disorders it was often suggested that parents either didn’t properly treat their children and their possible medical conditions because they felt these were just the way their children expressed their Indigo personalities and yet other parents who were having their children treated by doctors and with medication tried to stress the Indigo personality issue with their children to, as some have suggested, make their children but more importantly themselves, feel better about the diagnosed medical condition. Many people have put the issue of Indigo’s to the test saying that the traits described are far too general and could really describe anyone, especially if they are in the least bit spiritual or creative. But on the flip side it is interesting to see that with the time frame that the Indigo personality began to be identified and expressed with purpose and the children born at that time, who are now adults and taking leadership roles in the world, all leading us into 2012 when we shift into the Age of Aquarius again, it leaves some very interesting things to consider and look at.
Whether or not you believe in the concept of Indigo’s isn’t so much the important message here as it is the general concept behind them. The angels message here is brought out through the message of the Indigo and that is “stand up, have confidence, take charge”. We can find that we let our imaginations run wild and we talk ourselves out of some of the great things that we might wish to do because we worry that the world is going to think we’ve lost our minds if we share our ideas and dreams. We need to spend less time worrying about what the world around us is thinking and more time focused on doing what we want to do, accomplishing what we wish to accomplish in this lifetime. Today is a great day to sit and connect with your angels, guides and Divine helpers and ask for guidance and strength in doing just that. Is there a specific dream or goal that you have that you wish to work on but you have some worry about bringing that out to the world? Ask for their help in making it happen and in giving you the strength to do what you wish to do. Don’t let the projections and fears of others hold you back or keep you from fulfilling your goals and being the leader you were born to be.
Today’s Affirmation
“I am working to move past the perceptions of others to be the leader I was meant to be.”
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I applaud your approach to this topic. I think the chief error made by many, beginning with Nancy Tappe, is that they are seeing it through an ethno-centric view. There have always been intuitive people as it is a way of life for all tribal people and has been since the beginning of time. What is seen as new and the "evolution of humanity" completely disregards the knowledge and way of life of most non-westerners.