Happy Saturday to one and all!

@kalemandra hosts an ongoing Color Challenge to celebrate the rainbow through art & photography, and Saturday is INDIGO!!

I played this game every day this week, so I'm excited to share my last photo in my series with you:

This is a handful of mulberries that grow wild on the @gardenofeden property. There is a white variety on the right and the dark purple variety on the left. My favorite mulberries are actually the slightly underripe dark variety; they are red before they turn indigo-purple, and at that stage they are a little bit sour as well as sweet.

These are super nutritious, super delicious, and wonderfully wildcrafted fruits! In mulberry season, you can pick baskets of perfectly ripe fruit off the ground under every tree. It's a very fun time of year that I always look forward to!

They have so many healthful properties, and much of it comes from their deep, dark, rich pigment. Phytonutrients are incredible! Plants alchemize food from light, then humans can unlock that sunlight power by consuming the plants!

Indigo is also the color of the third eye chakra, ajna. It is the center of intuition, wisdom, consciousness, and imagination. This is where we access our inner guidance, where we transcend the limited sense of "I" and time. An open and active third eye chakra gives rise to clairvoyance, telepathy, lucid dreams, and intense visualization. Super powers are a natural human capability - the yoga tradition calls them "siddhis" - and they are a result of keeping one's energies properly aligned and in flow. 

Thanks @kalemandra for reminding us to bask in the light! 

💛 Sara!