Energy Field
Aura & Biorhythm
Photograph yourself and the colour surrounding you today is read from the image — with the chakra asking for attention and the cycles governing your energy.
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A recent photograph of yourself, face and shoulders, in natural light against a plain background. The field is read from the colour, light and expression in the image.
Your photograph is read once to produce this interpretation and is never stored.
Biorhythm
Your four life cycles are drawn from your birth date. Save your birth details and they appear here automatically on every visit.
In short
Read the colour of your aura, the chakra asking for attention, your three recommended crystals and your physical, emotional and intellectual biorhythms.
- Read against a plain pale background in soft light if you are looking rather than sensing.
- Most people find the field easier to feel than to see; do not force the visual.
- Note the reading before interpreting the colour. Naming the colour first biases everything after.
- Fatigue, illness and stress change the reading dramatically — take them into account.
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Traditional layers
1900
Theosophical colour code
1939
Kirlian photography
14 days
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Colour vocabulary in common use
Read a colour as a description of the current state, and pair it with the situation you were in when you took the reading.
| Colour | Commonly read as | Overexpressed as |
|---|---|---|
| Red | Drive, physical vitality | Agitation, temper |
| Orange | Sociability, appetite | Scatter, indulgence |
| Yellow | Confidence, mental energy | Anxiety, overthinking |
| Green | Healing, balance, growth | Jealousy, stagnation |
| Blue | Calm, honesty, expression | Coldness, withdrawal |
| Indigo | Insight, sensitivity | Detachment from ordinary life |
| Violet | Meaning, imagination | Escapism |
The idea of a luminous body surrounding a person appears in many traditions — the Christian nimbus, the Hindu prana body, the Theosophical aura. The modern version is largely Theosophical, systematised by Charles Leadbeater around 1900 with a colour code that most contemporary readings still follow.
Kirlian photography, sometimes offered as evidence, records corona discharge from moisture and voltage rather than anything biological. The reading remains valuable as a language for intuitive impression, described honestly.
The luminous-body idea is old and widespread — the Hindu koshas, the Christian nimbus, Paracelsus' 'fiery globe' — but the modern seven-layer aura with its colour code is a Theosophical construction, set out by Charles Leadbeater and Annie Besant around 1900 and popularised through the twentieth-century new age.
Kirlian photography, often presented as proof, images corona discharge from moisture and voltage at the skin surface; the effect changes with pressure and humidity and disappears on a dry object. Read colour work as a language for describing your own state, which is where it genuinely performs.
The modern aura is largely a theosophical invention. Charles Leadbeater's Man Visible and Invisible (1902) fixed the colour code that almost every later book repeats, and the plates in that volume are the direct ancestor of the colour charts sold today.
Kirlian photography, discovered in 1939, was taken as proof for decades. It photographs corona discharge — an electrical effect that varies with moisture, pressure and voltage — and controlled tests showed the 'aura' changing with how damp a fingertip was, which settled the physics if not the popular belief.
Questions Readers Ask
Can auras be photographed?
Not in any demonstrated sense. Aura cameras render biofeedback data as colour; they are art, not measurement.
How often does an aura change?
Continuously, according to the tradition — with mood, health, environment and company.
Can I learn to see one?
Many people report seeing afterimage effects around a body against a plain background. Whether that is the aura is exactly the question.
Can anyone learn to see auras?
Most people can produce the visual effect by staring at an edge in soft light — it is an afterimage and contrast phenomenon. Whether more than that is happening has never survived a controlled test.
Do aura colours change?
In every account of the practice, yes, and quickly. That is why it works better as a mood and state journal than as a fixed personality type.
Can I learn to see auras?
People reliably learn to see the afterimage and edge effects that produce the experience — soft focus against a plain background, and the visual system fills in a halo. Whether that constitutes seeing a field is the part no test has supported.
Does the colour mean the same thing in every system?
No. Colour meanings differ between theosophical, New Age and healing-touch sources. Pick one vocabulary and note which you are using, or the readings will contradict each other.