The term “indigo children” was coined by the Kryon entity as channeled by Lee Carroll. However, the concept of life color or personal aura color was first mentioned by author, Nancy Ann Tappe, in the early eighties, and later by authors Barbara Bowers, and Pamala Oslie, all of whom claimed to actually be able to observe the life color in people’s auras. These colors were then correlated with certain personality characteristics that research showed the authors to be fairly consistent.

Are certain colors better than others? Not in terms of having more intrinsic value, no. But depending on the soul’s mission, one color may be more appropriate to fulfilling its purpose than another. Here is a brief description of Personality Spectrums colors as defined by Barbara Bowers:

RED
A soul who chose red as the "life color" or personality color for this lifetime will have a personality that is drawn to physical expression. The person will seek out ways to explore reality through the body, perhaps through sports or occupations requiring physical strength and stamina.

ORANGE
The orange color denotes an energy that seeks to explore the limits of physical reality. People with this color may feel driven to climb the highest mountains or parachute from airplanes just to see what is possible and to experience the physical thrill of expanding beyond usually accepted limitations.

YELLOW
Yellow in the aura allows the personality to explore the biochemical reactions of the body to the environment. People of this personality color often possess huge amounts of physical energy, which can lead to restlessness, but can also serve them well when channeled into making things and being physically creative.

MAGENTA
This color is chosen by souls who wish to explore the limits of creative reality and is often found in people in the arts. A magenta aura stimulates the person to explore the avante garde, the spontaneous and the outrageous.

PHYSICAL TAN
This aura color is a transition between physical expression and mental experience. The tan color denotes processing things mentally, but the physical tan personality tends to use the kinesthetic modes of analyzing data.

MENTAL TAN
The mental tan personality is exploring the realms of pure logic. This aura color predisposes an individual to left-brain processing. Thus, thinking tends to be logical and close attention is paid to details. Research often requires the skills of the mental tan vibration.

GREEN
The green personality has added an element of risk-taking to the logical processing of the mental tan vibration. The green color is still a predominantly mental processing vibration, but the mind "skips around" more. People with green auras do well as managers or running their own business because they have excellent organizational skills and can oversee the larger picture.

NURTURING TAN
This color adds an emotional dimension to the logical tan qualities. Souls choosing this color often plan a life of humanitarianism. Service to the whole is a big focus in their lives and they have the organizational capacity to do it.

LOVING TAN
The logical tan energy is modified here by a non-linear mode of mental processing. The main characteristic of this aura color is a unique approach to the nature of time. Other colors struggle with "staying in the moment" but loving tans do this naturally, and their challenge is often to organize priorities since their minds work in a matrix rather than a linear pattern.

BLUE
Blue is a color that focuses the personality emotionally, rather than physically or mentally. The blue energy is chosen by a soul who wishes to experience service to others as a dominant mode of expression. I imagine that many of the devotees in the Eastern world who chose love and devotion of a guru as their path to enlightenment have blue as their life color.

LAVENDER
Lavender is also an emotional color and the focus of souls who choose this color is to explore realms beyond the physical through fantasy or intuition. Fantasy writers often have a lavender aura. This color also predisposes the individual to psychic experiences. The challenge for lavenders (as for all the emotional/spiritual colors) is to stay grounded on this plane. They often find other worlds more attractive than this one.

VIOLET
The violet aura color is considered one of the spiritual colors because spirituality is often a strong focus of people with this color. Violets are visionaries and this aura lends a personality the skills to implement visions in the real world. One author states that this color is most in tune with the spiritual vibration on the planet at this time, so people with this aura color are most able to make a difference in the world. Lee Carroll mentions in one of his books that his life color is violet.

CRYSTAL
The crystal color endows the personality with the ability to channel healing energy. When a soul makes the choice to carry the crystal vibration, the personality will be drawn to the healing arts. The strength but also the major challenge for this aura color is its permeability to other energies. Thus, the aura is often influenced by other colors and the person will take on some of the color of others around him or her. It is difficult, therefore, for crystals to truly distinguish between their own energy and that of others. Their natural reaction is to retreat and they may carry a lot of fear, especially as children.

INDIGO
When a soul chooses indigo, I think part of its purpose in doing so is to disrupt old thought forms. There is strength in the indigo personality that enables them to follow their own truth, even in the face of strong pressure to the contrary, whether that be school, parents or society. This color predisposes the individual to push conceptual limits, much like the orange pushes physical limits and the magenta pushes social limits. However, unlike the orange and magenta, the indigo has trouble staying grounded in this world and may withdraw when life's experiences overwhelm himor her.

As you can see from the above descriptions, there is no better or worse color. Each color has its unique strengths and weaknesses and each color has a purpose in exploring the dimensions of being human.

In their book, “Indigo Children” Lee Carroll and Jan Tober quote Nancy Ann Tappe as saying that certain colors are “disappearing” and new ones are emerging. I question that premise, and instead would like to qualify it by saying that certain colors are becoming less common and others are becoming more common. I think it is entirely possible that there have always been a few indigos, but they have been rare in our culture and perhaps Tappe never saw one personally. Also, although it is possible that certain colors may not be chosen by souls for some time, they still exist in the realm of possibility should it suit a soul’s purpose to adopt one.

We must use caution in setting apart any group of individuals as “different,” whether based on culture, race, gender, or aura color. A concept that can be useful for understanding individual differences becomes hampering when used to label or categorize. Therefore, a term such as “indigo child” must always be used in the larger context of seeing all individuals as evolving souls with a specific purpose unique to them and equally worthy as part of the whole.

I have heard individuals use the label indigo child to describe any child that shows extrasensory abilities, any child that has problems in school, any child that refuses to submit to authority, or any child that appears to have a wisdom beyond his or her years. Kryon has stated that most children being born today are indigo, but I question whether he is referring specifically to life color. Is it possible that he has applied the term “indigo children” to all souls incarnating in this transitional frequency that we are experiencing now, and is commenting on the effect the changing vibrations will have on all children, regardless of soul purpose or life color?

My feeling is we need to honor all souls, children or adult, regardless of any characteristic that appears to separate us, for in truth we are all part of the ONE. If the concept “indigo child” moves parents to treat their children with honor and respect, then indeed it is a useful one. Our concepts define our reality and, as reality changes, so will our concepts. Let us keep expanding the parameters of reality by reminding ourselves that the truth is far more complex than we in our limited 3D bodies can comprehend!

© Outboundlight, November 1999

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