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!

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.

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More Ways to Deepen Your Practice

If you've ever felt like your practice isn't going deep enough —
like your mind stays busy, your body never fully settles, or the space around you feels distracting —
it's often not about discipline.

It's about environment.

The right environment doesn't just support your practice — it becomes part of it.
When space, scent, sound, and intention align, the shift in awareness happens more naturally and more deeply.

Imagine this:
sacred symbols on the walls, soft fabric against your skin, a steady place to sit.
A match is struck. Smoke rises — bergamot, frankincense — something ancient and grounding.
Sound moves quietly in the background, and time begins to slow.

You don't force the state.
You arrive in it.

This is what a ritual feels like when every element is aligned.

If you want to make your practice feel like this, start simple:

You don't need everything.
Just one element can change the entire experience.

The tools that help create this space — and how to use them in your own practice:

Tapestries

Sacred symbols woven into fabric become silent guardians of the space — helping the mind cross the threshold from the ordinary into the sacred. Designed to anchor your ritual environment and hold energetic intention throughout your practice.

Yoga Mats

A dedicated surface signals to body and spirit alike: this is where the work begins. Everything else falls away. Built for comfort and stability, so your body can settle fully while your awareness expands.

Audio Meditations

Let sound do what the mind cannot do alone. In the stillness it creates, intuition finds its voice. Guided sessions crafted to deepen receptivity, clear mental noise, and prepare you for meaningful spiritual work.

Ritual Kits

When the tools are already gathered, the only thing left is intention. Light something. Begin. Thoughtfully assembled sets that bring together everything needed for a complete, intentional ceremony.

Personal Practice Journals

Every reading, every vision, every quiet knowing — written down before the ordinary world reclaims it. Structured to support reflection, pattern recognition, and the long-term deepening of your practice.

Apparel

What you wear into a ritual becomes part of it. Soft, intentional, yours. Designed for ease of movement and energetic comfort, from morning meditation to evening ceremony.

Aromatherapy Candles

A flame changes a room. Let the scent that rises with it mark the beginning of something set apart from the rest of the day. Formulated with sacred botanicals to cleanse energy, anchor intention, and deepen meditative states.

Books

Some knowledge can only be absorbed slowly, over many readings. Let the right book become a companion to your practice. Curated titles spanning mysticism, ritual, and esoteric wisdom — to take your understanding further.

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About Nicole's Ritual Universe

Nicole Lau — UK certified Advanced Angel Healing Practitioner, PhD in Management, published author.

She built Mystic Ryst on a single belief: that spiritual practice doesn't require a retreat or a perfect moment. It belongs in the ordinary — in the morning before work, in the breath between meetings, in the objects you choose to surround yourself with.

Through thousands of learning resources, books, and ritual tools, Mystic Ryst helps you weave mysticism into daily life — so that even the busiest day carries intention, meaning, and depth.