SENTIENT TIMES February/March 2004

Understanding Your Life Through Color

By Nancy Ann Tappe
Reviewed by Ellae Elinwood

The daughter of a West Virginia coal miner and the seventh of thirteen children, Nancy Ann Tappe was raised by Scottish grandparents who nurtured and accepted her many psychic skills. These gifts come to her as a result of being born with synesthesia, a condition in which she perceives color through all five of her senses and in which two of her senses are completely blended. She describes this as “seeing colors and tasting shapes.” Nancy worked with a Jungian psychiatrist for nine years to formulate her unusual perceptions into a meaningful system of color and interpretations. It is this system that is described in Understanding Your Life Through Color. Focusing on the multiple facets of the human personality and the belief that color influences every aspect of life, Nancy explains that knowing and utilizing color can enable each of us to enhance and improve the quality of our lives and our relationships, within an awareness of self, of purpose, and of the world. Looking at one’s life through the context of colors offers a unique perspective on the self, perhaps because the drawing back from our usual self-interpretation offers a new lens in which to know the self while at the same time expanding our understanding of one another.

Understanding Your Life Through Color embodies the wisdom gleaned from meeting thousands and thousands of people worldwide over the last 30 years. Always the learner as well as the teacher, while helping others understand their life within the context of her unique and colorful system Nancy was assisted in honing and deepening her own effectiveness.

Because it is written in an easy to read and understand format it is possible for anyone to come away from this book knowing more about themselves, their life color, and how to function with greater happiness in life. According to Nancy’s text, “The life color is the single color of the aura that remains constant in most people from the cradle to the grave. There are a few people who change their color but this is rare. The life color establishes a focus for the entire lifetime, similar to having a major in college. Every life color carries with it assets as well as liabilities. In addition the mental and physical colors seldom change. The combination of these three colors together create a ‘baseline person’ for this lifetime. Usually each universal age is accompanied by a preponderance of people with that life color. For instance now most adults are either Blue or Violet, the two colors with the attributes most needed in this the Violet Age of transition. During the next age, the Indigo Age, Indigo colors will be the norm.”

Twenty-five years ago Nancy was the first person to identify the Indigo Life Color in evolution. She explains “The Indigo phenomenon has been recognized as one of the most exciting changes in human nature ever documented in society. The Indigo label describes the energy pattern of human behavior which exists in over 95% of the children born in the last 10 years … This phenomena is happening globally and eventually the Indigos will replace all other colors. As small children, Indigo’s are easy to recognize by their unusually large, clear eyes. Extremely bright, precocious children with an amazing memory and a strong desire to live instinctively, these children of the next millennium are sensitive, gifted souls with an evolved consciousness who have come here to help change the vibrations of our lives and create one land, one globe and one species. They are our bridge to the future. They have a wise understanding about humanity and are uncanny and accurate judges of character. That said, however, they exhibit behavior changes, rebel against rules without explanation, and become bored or restless easily … They dislike rules for the sake of rules. Indigos are here to enjoy today and show us tomorrow. They are the bridge to the future … As one observes the Indigo lust for life and joy in living it is impossible to believe that there is impending doom for humankind. These bright eyed children and young adults seem to be the forerunners to a wonderful time and place in the future.”

As one who is raising two Indigo’s I am particularly grateful for Nancy’s down to earth attitude regarding these children. They are not little god’s and goddess’s, they are very human and very talented children who need our wisdom, not our worship, in helping them guide themselves to successful adult lives. Nancy’s excitement about this age and it’s messengers fills the pages of her book with wisdom and inspiration.

Ellae Elinwood is an Ashland, Oregon resident and the author of five books including Stay Young With Tai Chi & Qigong Basic’s (Tuttle Publishers, 2004). Nancy Ann Tappe will be visiting Ashland in February. Contact Ellae at (541) 488-4983 or elinwood@aol.com for book signings, seminars and private sessions with Nancy. Understanding Your Life Through Color is available at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland or from Starling Publishers, PO Box 278, Carlsbad, CA 92018, (760) 729-5950.

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