Indigo is the second of the cool colours in the spectrum and a combination of blue and violet, combining qualities from each, giving it traits of higher consiousness from violet with the communication and mental aptitude qualities from blue.

Due to these qualities it makes a good colour to use for meditation, either by focusing on the colour or surrounding yourself with the colour in the room you choose to meditate in.

It has a many positive attributes and naturally several negative attributes and as with other colours these depend on tone, tint and surrounding colours. Each attribute relates to how we feel when we are in the presence of the colour as well as what it says about our own personalities when indigo is our favourite or least favourite colour.

Positive traits:

Responsibility, self-reliance and power

Seeing life from a higher viewpoint

Intuition, divine knowledge, solitude

Faithfulness

Unity, devotion and integrity

Articulate, communicative, mental clarity

Practical ideals

Negative traits:

Separateness

Intolerance

Impractical

Judgemental

Inconsiderate

Easily depressed

Self-involved

If you like indigo you are probably intuitive and close to your inner divine knowledge, feeling comfortable around spirituality and the higher scheme of things. For you self reliance is key, having a deep connection to your inner needs enables you to live a fulfilled life. Be careful not to become too self involved or self reliant to the extent that you exclude other people entirely.

If you are not keen on indigo you may have problems with being with yourself and solitude, preferring the company of others and not really understanding the need for being in touch with your inner spirituality. Insight may not come to you easily and you may prefer the more practical approach to life.

When we don't like a colour one of the best things to do is acknowledge what negative aspects or traits relate to us and try to embrace the colour's positive traits through meditation, wearing the colour, or surrounding ourselves with that colour in a personal space (not necessarily by going as far as decorating, but with a throw or piece of material). Tune into the colour and try to learn the lessons it is sharing with us.

In the home indigo is ideal for a meditation room and as highlights in a study or office. It is not suited to entirely covering a room, but perfect in combination with violet and blue, or with greens to create a peaceful, contemplative space.

Indigo is related to the brow charka, located on the forehead at the third eye and associated with self-responsibility.

In tarot indigo is associated with the major arcana cards The Devil, and The World and can be seen as the colour of the minor arcana suit of Cups.