Auras

Reading Auras

Learning to read and interpret auras has a lot of practical benefits.  You can look at someone and quickly receive impressions about that person.  Does that person hold a lot of anger inside, which is characterized by bright red in his or her aura?  Or does that person have a blue aura, which indicates that he or she is generally positive and calm?

You can practice your newfound art by performing quick aura readings of people when you first meet them.  After you get to know them better, check whether your first interpretations were correct.  You'll learn that each person's aura has varying shades of color.  If someone had a dull or dark aura, that person is likely to be depressed and negative. Conversely, if you see someone with a bright, shining and glowing aura, you can assume that person is generally positive and upbeat.  Try it for yourself!  The following exercise will get you started.

Basic Aura Reading Exercise

• Find a partner and have him (or her) sit across from you against a white or light-colored wall.  Placing a low-watt bulb behind your friend helps.
• Observe your partner with half-focused eyes, which means try to avoid staring directly at him.  Instead, direct your eyes more at the wall behind him.  Focus your attention around the edges of your partner's body, in his energy field.
• Ask your friend to move slightly.  Do you see the colors move with him?
•  Pay attention to any colors that you see. Several colors will appear in different areas of the body.

(Note" Some people feel or sense the colors rather than see them)

•  Report to your friend what colors you see.
•  Interpret what you see by using the table below.  Are your observations making sense to your partner, based on what he knows about himself?

If at first you don't succeed, don't give up.  Remember that, like any skill, aura reading may take time to develop.  You also might want to wait for a better time to try this:  Some energy healers perceive the energy field only when entering a meditative state.  Maybe this technique will work best for you too.  Just don't be afraid to try out whatever may work for you.

The Meaning of Colors in the Aura

Red

Red is the color of strong energy, fire and primal creative force.  It is the life-promoting energy.  It is hot.  It can indicate strong passion, mind and will.  It is a dynamic color that can reflect anger, love hate and unexpected changes.  It can indicate new birth and transmutation.

It is a color  that affects the circulatory system of the body, the reproductive system (sexual energy) and an awakening of latent abilities and talents.

Too much red or a muddiness can reflect over stimulation, inflammation or imbalance.  It may reflect nervousness, temper, aggression, impulsiveness or excitement.

Orange

Orange is the color or warmth, creativity and emotions. It is an indication of courage, joy and a social person.  It is a color which can reflect an opening of new awareness - especially to the subtle realms (the astral plane) of life.

Depending on the shade, it can also indicate emotional imbalances and agitation.  Some of the muddier shades of orange can reflect pride and flamboyance. It may reflect worry and vanity.

Yellow

Yellow is one of the first and the easiest aura colors to be seen.  Pale yellow around the hairline can indicate optimism.  Yellow is the color of mental activity and new sunshine.  It can reflect new learning opportunities, lightness, wisdom and intellect. The more pastel shades often reflect an enthusiasm for something in life, the power of ideas and spiritual developement (especially in the pale yellow to white spectrum).  Yellow is a color which represents the power of ideas and awakening psychic  abilities and clairsentience.

Deeper and muddier shades of yellow can reflect excessive thinking and analyzing. It can reflect being overly critical, feeling of being deprived of recognition and being dogmatic.

Green

Green is the color of sensitivity and growing compassion.  It reflects growth, sympathy and calm. It can reflect a person who is reliable, dependable and open-minded.  Bright greens moving toward the blue spectrum in the aura indicate healing ability. It is a color of abundance, strength and friendliness.

The muddier or darker shades of green can reflect uncertainty and miserliness. The muddier shades often reflect jealousy and possessiveness as well.  It can indicate self-doubt and mistrust.

Blue

Blue, next to yellow, is one of the easiest colors to see in the aura. It is the color of calm and quietness.  It reflects devotion, truth and seriousness.  It can indicate the ability for clairaudience and for the development of telepathy.

The lighter shades of blue reflect an active imagination and good intuition.  The deeper shades of blue can indicate a sense of loneliness, which on one level reflects a life-long quest for the Divine.  The deeper shades of blue reflect levels of devotion. Royal blue shades indicate honesty and good judgment. They can also indicate the person has found or is about to find his or her chosen work.

The muddier shades of blue can reflect blocked perceptions. They can indicate melancholy, rushing and worrying, domineering, fearfulness, forgetfulness and oversensitivity.

Violet and Purple

Violet is the color of warmth and transmutation.  It is the color for the blending of the heart and the mind, the physical with the spiritual. It reflects independence and intuition, as well as dynamic and important dream activity.  It can reflect one who is searching.  The purple shades often reflect an ability to handle affairs with practicality and worldliness. The paler and lighter shades of violet and purple can reflect humility and spirituality.  The red-purple  shades can indicate great passion or strength of will.  They may also reflect a need for greater individual effort. 

The darker and muddier shades can reflect a need to overcome something.  They can also reflect intense erotic imaginations as well. Tendencies toward being overbearing, needing sympathy and feeling misunderstood are also reflected in muddier shades.

Pink

Pink is a color of compassion, love and purity.  It can reflect joy and comfort and a strong sense of companionship.  When seen in the aura, it can indicate the quiet, modest type of individual, along with a love of art and beauty. 

Depending on the shade of pink, it can also reflect an immaturity, especially the muddier shades.  It can reflect truthfulness or a lack of it.  It can also reflect times of new love and new vision.

Gold

Gold is a color that reflects dynamic spiritual energy and a true coming into one's own power.  It reflects the higher energies of devotion and a restoration of harmony.  It indicates strong enthusiasm and great inspiration.  It indicates a time of revitalizing.

Muddier shades of gold can indicate the person is still in the process of awakening higher inspiration and has not clarified it yet within his/her life.  It reflects the alchemical process still being active, i.e., the person is till working to turn the lead of his/her life into gold.

White

White is often seen in the aura, prior to any actual colors.  It is often seen as a diaphanous shade. White has all colors within it, and when it does appear strongly within the aura, it is often in conjunction with other colors.  This is how you can know whether it is an actual energy color or just a poor perception of the aura. When the white does stand out as a color in the aura, it reflects truth and purity.  It indicated that the energy of the individual is cleansing and purifying itself.  It often reflects an awakening of greater creativity as well.

Gray

Gray is a color of initiation.  It can indicate a movement toward unveiling innate abilities.  Those shades of gray that lean more toward the silver reflect an awakening of the feminine energies., These are the energies and abilities of illumination, intuition and creative imagination.

The darker shades of gray can indicate physical imbalances, especially if seen next to specific areas of the physical body.  They can also indicate a need to leave no task undone.  Much gray in the aura can indicate a person who is secretive and who is the lone wolf type.

Brown

Brown often appears in the auric field.  Although many people think of it as reflecting a lack of energy or an imbalance, this is not always so.  Brown is the color of the earth.  When it shows itself in the aura, especially in areas above the head and around the feet, it can reflect industry and organization.

On the other hand, brown across the face or touching the head may indicate a lack of and need for discrimination.  IF seen in the areas of the chakras, it can indicate that those centers need to be cleaned.  It will reflect in such cases a clogging of their energies.  Brown is often difficult to interpret, as it can easily reflect problem areas in the physical, but you must be careful about jumping to conclusions when you see it.  Feedback from the other person is the best means of understanding t.

Black

Black is one of the most confusing of colors in the auric spectrum.  I have heard individuals say that when black shows up in the aura, it is an indication of death or terrible disease.  I have not found that to be true. 

Black is a color of protection.  It is a color which can shield an individual from outside energies.  When seen in the aura, it can reflect that the person is protecting himself or herself.  It can also indicate that person has secrets.  There is nothing wrong with that, as long as it is not taken to extremes.  Black can indicate holes in the auric field.  People who have been abused as children and have strong substance abuse can show black also.