Determining your aura color and meaning can provide powerful insights into your personality, emotions, and spiritual energies. Everyone has an aura, which is an electromagnetic field of subtle energy that surrounds your body. By learning to sense and interpret auras, you can uncover hidden aspects of yourself and others.
What is an Aura?
An aura is a colored emanation said to surround human and animal bodies, and even objects. The aura extends around the body in an oval shape. It is comprised of seven layers, each associated with a different chakra or energy center in the body. The layers vibrate at different frequencies and each has a characteristic color. The dominant color determines your aura type.
According to aura theory, the most inner aura layer, closest to your skin, is your etheric aura. It vitalizes your physical body and serves as a blueprint for your health. Beyond this lies your emotional aura, which indicates your feelings. Next is your mental aura, seat of your conscious thoughts. The astral aura layer reflects your passions, while the etheric template aura governs your habits. Your celestial aura connects you to universal energies, and the ketheric or causal aura records your life purpose.
The changing colors and patterns in your aura offer insight into what’s happening in your inner landscape. They reveal your spiritual, emotional, mental and physical states. Sudden aura shifts point to psychological or health issues needing attention. By learning to read auras, you can become more self-aware, supportive of loved ones, and aligned with your higher purpose.
How to See Auras
Though invisible to the naked eye, most people can learn to perceive auras by developing their clairvoyant abilities. Clairvoyance means “clear seeing” – the ability to visually sense energy fields and spirit beings. Auras are among the first things clairvoyants learn to see. Here are some methods to try:
1. Relax your eyes and gaze
Stare softly at an object or person’s face without really focusing. Let your eyes relax and unfocus. Blink normally but keep your gaze relaxed. After a minute or two, you may notice a hazy edge or colored glow around the object. This is the aura coming into your view. The more you practice this technique, the clearer the colors will become.
2. Use your peripheral vision
Our peripheral vision can sometimes pick up phenomena that our focused vision misses. Gaze gently at the side of an object or person’s head rather than directly at it. Softly maintain your peripheral view there while remaining relaxed. Colors or wispy energies may appear in your side vision as the aura comes into subtle view.
3. Try the ‘aura gaze’ technique
Position your hand about 18 inches in front of a plain white or light-colored background. Stare softly at the background right above the hand, not directly at the hand itself. Maintain a passive but steady gaze, without straining. After 30 seconds, you may glimpse a translucent light or haze around the edges of your hand. That’s your etheric aura layer emerging into view.
Aura Color Meanings
The meaning of aura colors can help you understand yourself and others better. Here are common aura colors and their generalized interpretations:
| Aura Color | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Red | Vitality, vigor, survival, root chakra energy |
| Orange | Creativity, confidence, socialness, sacral chakra energy |
| Yellow | Optimism, hopefulness, mental acuity, solar plexus chakra energy |
| Green | Balance, harmony, healing abilities, heart chakra energy |
| Blue | Calmness, intuitive, sensitive, throat chakra energy |
| Indigo | Psychic, connects to one’s higher self, third eye chakra energy |
| Violet | Spiritual, visionary, crown chakra energy |
| Pink | Gentle, feminine, loving, inner child energy |
| Gold | Wisdom, enlightenment, divine protection |
| Silver | Abundant, prosperous, developed psychic energy |
| White | Purity, truth seeking, angelic protection |
| Brown | Grounding, practicality, connection to the earth |
| Gray | Mild depression, loneliness, isolated feelings |
| Black | Lack of energy, illness, negative thinking |
Remember, these are general guidelines only. You’ll need to sense how aura colors combine and interact in a unique way for each person. An individual’s personality traits, moods and health influence their personal aura hues.
How to Interpret Auric Layers
Since auras have multiple layers, each with distinct energy frequencies, a full aura reading requires assessing the aura as a whole. Here are tips for interpreting auric layers:
- The inner aura layers reflect your current state – mood, health, thoughts.
- The outer layers show your spiritual purpose, latent talents and karma.
- Cracks, holes or thinning in layers indicate energy leaks related to illness or stress.
- Bright, vivid layers suggest positive energies are strong.
- Dull, muddy or indistinct layers imply blocked or low energies.
- Note where layers overlap or blend into each other – this reveals integrated aspects of self.
- Clashing or warring colors represent inner conflicts needing resolution.
By scanning someone’s full aura you can get a snapshot of their whole self – body, mind, emotions and spirit. Look for correlations between aura colors, contrasts and changes among the layers for insights about their state.
Types of Auras
While auras are unique, there are some common aura “types” many people fall into based on the dominant color in their energy field:
Red Aura Personality
Red auras signal someone who is grounded, passionate and energetic. They are action-oriented go-getters who excel at physical pursuits. But they can also have a temper and be aggressive or domineering.
Orange Aura Personality
Orange auras belong to creative types who are confident, social and thrive on inspiration. They are great conversationalists. But boredom, selfishness or scattered energy may be pitfalls.
Yellow Aura Personality
Yellow auras are cheerful, inquisitive people with quick, agile minds. They are eternally optimistic. But their high energy can also manifest as anxiety or lack of focus.
Green Aura Personality
Green auras signify balanced, nurturing people who make loyal friends and healers. They are excellent communicators. But their desire to please others can suppress their own needs.
Blue Aura Personality
Blue aura people are deeply intuitive, sensitive and at peace. They are honest, forthright and calm under pressure. But their orientation toward ideals may overlook practical matters.
Indigo Aura Personality
Indigo auras belong to visionaries, psychics, or creatives with a strong spiritual focus. They trust their intuition and follow their own path. But they may battle fears and self-limiting beliefs.
Violet Aura Personality
Violet auras are highly intuitive idealists on a spiritual mission. They dedicate themselves to service and noble causes. But they may struggle with being overly perfectionistic or aloof.
Crystal Aura Personality
Crystal or clear auras reflect purity of spirit and oneness with Divine wisdom. These rare, highly-evolved souls are devoted to profound service through their enlightened gifts and presence.
How to Clear and Balance Your Aura
You can purify and realign your aura by clearing any blocked energies, repairing holes or leaks, and restoring missing colors. Here are some techniques to try:
Sage Smudging
Burning dried sage (called smudging) cleanses the aura and environment of negative energy. Wave an ignited bundle of dried sage around your body to smudge your aura.
Salt Baths or Scrubs
Bathing in Epsom salts or using a salt-based body scrub helps purify auric energies. Sea salt contains purifying minerals that cleanse the aura of negativity and refresh your energy field.
Essential Oils
Some essential oils like juniper, frankincense, rosemary and clove clear the aura. Either diffuse them in the air or apply diluted oils to your wrists, temples and neck. Breathe deeply as the oils purify your energy field.
Crystals
Specific crystals reinforce aura integrity when placed strategically on the body. Place black tourmaline or obsidian by your feet to ground you. Hold rose quartz near your heart to open up heart chakra energies. Or lie down with a quartz crystal aligned with each chakra for full aura alignment.
Color Visualization
Visualize filling your aura with the color(s) it lacks to bring it into balance. Breathe in that color while focusing on the parts of your aura that need it. Imagine the color radiating into your aura to restore missing energies.
Energy Healing
Modalities like reiki, qigong and breathwork help unblock chakras, repair aura holes and balance energies. A few sessions can completely rejuvenate your aura.
Conclusion
Your aura provides a window into your multi-layered existence as a spiritual, mental, emotional and physical being. By learning to sense, interpret and clear your aura, you unlock greater self-awareness and access your highest potential. Auric readings also help you support loved ones through stressful times with compassion and wisdom.