Aura Reading: Complete Guide to Seeing & Understanding Energy Fields

Aura Reading: Complete Guide to Seeing & Understanding Energy Fields

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

  1. Physical: Closest to body, physical health
  2. Emotional: Feelings and emotions
  3. Mental: Thoughts and beliefs
  4. Astral: Love and relationships
  5. Etheric Template: Higher will
  6. Celestial: Spiritual connection
  7. Ketheric: Divine consciousness

How to See Auras

Beginner Method

  1. Have person stand against white wall
  2. Soften your gaze (don't focus hard)
  3. Look at their forehead/third eye
  4. Use peripheral vision
  5. Notice colors or light around them
  6. Practice daily

See Your Own Aura

  1. Hold hand against white background
  2. Soften gaze
  3. Look at space around fingers
  4. 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:

  1. Practice seeing auras daily
  2. Notice your own aura colors
  3. Cleanse aura with selenite
  4. Strengthen with crystals
  5. 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!

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About Nicole's Ritual Universe

"Nicole Lau is a UK certified Advanced Angel Healing Practitioner, PhD in Management, and published author specializing in mysticism, magic systems, and esoteric traditions.

With a unique blend of academic rigor and spiritual practice, Nicole bridges the worlds of structured thinking and mystical wisdom.

Through her books and ritual tools, she invites you to co-create a complete universe of mystical knowledge—not just to practice magic, but to become the architect of your own reality."