Aura Reading: Complete Guide to Seeing & Understanding Energy Fields
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By Nicole, Founder of Mystic Ryst
Your aura is the energy field that surrounds your body—a colorful, luminous emanation that reveals your emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual state. Everyone has an aura, and with practice, anyone can learn to see and read them.
Aura colors change based on your mood, health, and spiritual development. Learning to read auras gives you insight into yourself and others, helping you understand energy, emotions, and spiritual growth.
This is your complete guide to aura reading—what auras are, how to see them, and what the colors mean.
What Is an Aura?
An aura is the electromagnetic energy field that surrounds all living beings. It extends several feet from the body and contains multiple layers.
The Seven Aura Layers
- Physical: Closest to body, physical health
- Emotional: Feelings and emotions
- Mental: Thoughts and beliefs
- Astral: Love and relationships
- Etheric Template: Higher will
- Celestial: Spiritual connection
- Ketheric: Divine consciousness
How to See Auras
Beginner Method
- Have person stand against white wall
- Soften your gaze (don't focus hard)
- Look at their forehead/third eye
- Use peripheral vision
- Notice colors or light around them
- Practice daily
See Your Own Aura
- Hold hand against white background
- Soften gaze
- Look at space around fingers
- Notice colors or glow
Aura Colors & Meanings
Red Aura
Positive: Passionate, energetic, strong, grounded
Negative: Angry, anxious, stressed
Chakra: Root
Orange Aura
Positive: Creative, confident, adventurous, social
Negative: Stressed, addictive tendencies
Chakra: Sacral
Yellow Aura
Positive: Optimistic, intelligent, playful, inspired
Negative: Critical, perfectionist
Chakra: Solar Plexus
Green Aura
Positive: Loving, healing, balanced, growth-oriented
Negative: Jealous, insecure
Chakra: Heart
Blue Aura
Positive: Calm, communicative, intuitive, peaceful
Negative: Cold, unfocused
Chakra: Throat
Indigo Aura
Positive: Intuitive, wise, spiritual, psychic
Negative: Judgmental, aloof
Chakra: Third Eye
Violet/Purple Aura
Positive: Spiritual, visionary, magical, connected
Negative: Disconnected from reality
Chakra: Crown
White Aura
Meaning: Pure, spiritual, angelic, enlightened
Rare: Highly evolved souls
Black/Gray Aura
Meaning: Blocked energy, illness, negativity, protection needed
Crystals for Aura Work
Cleanse and strengthen aura:
- Selenite: Cleanses aura
- Clear Quartz: Strengthens energy field
- Labradorite: Protects aura
- Amethyst: Spiritual aura healing
- Black Tourmaline: Aura protection
Your Aura Reading Practice
Start today:
- Practice seeing auras daily
- Notice your own aura colors
- Cleanse aura with selenite
- Strengthen with crystals
- Develop your spiritual sight
Final Thoughts
Learning to see and read auras opens a new dimension of perception. You begin to see the energy behind the physical, understanding people and yourself on a deeper level.
Welcome to aura reading. Your spiritual sight is awakening.
Can you see auras? What colors do you see? I'd love to hear!
Aura reading is a learnable skill, not a rare psychic gift — it is the practice of training perception to register the electromagnetic and subtle energy field that surrounds every living system, and with consistent practice, what begins as vague impressions develops into a reliable and nuanced source of information about the energetic state of yourself and others. Aura Reading & Cleansing: Your Energy Field Guide gives you the complete practical framework for developing this perception, and the Aura Rinse · Printable Energy Cleanse Ritual Kit gives you the tools to not just read but actively work with your aura — clearing, repairing, and strengthening the field you are learning to perceive. Deepening my own practice, I have found that pairing this work with the Sacred Space Cleanse creates a foundation of clean energetic boundaries, while the Emotional Filter Ritual Kit helps refine what I am actually sensing versus what I am projecting, and the Void Whisper Audio and Inner Sunlight Audio have become quiet companions for settling the mind before reading, offering a stillness that sharpens the subtle sight.