Reading Auras: A Spiritual Channel’s Guide to Seeing Energy

By Carly of Mindful Magic — Intuitive, Evidential Medium, and Web Weaver

Let me start with this: You already read auras.You do it when someone walks into a room and your stomach tightens. Or when your dog won’t leave a certain stranger’s side. Or when you’re thinking of someone and suddenly feel warm, calm, and buzzed  and then they text.

We’re all born with the ability to perceive energy. Aura reading isn’t a gift for a chosen few it’s an ancient skill baked into our bodies and spirits. The trick? Relearning how to listen. Great right?

What is an Aura, Really?

I describe the aura as the energy body’s broadcast signal. It’s layered, fluid, and responsive kinda like a glowing fingerprint mixed with a mood ring.

Scientifically speaking (yeah, we go there too. Always, you'll learn I always do. I will always be a skeptic), your body emits a measurable electromagnetic field. Devices like Kirlian photography and GDV cameras have caught glimpses of these energy fields in action. But for spiritualists, we go beyond the gadgets: we feel it, we see it, and we know. And thats beautiful.

Most aura readers agree on seven layers, echoing the chakra system physical, emotional, mental, astral, and so on. But don’t get lost in the labels. Energy doesn’t need a textbook to be real.

How to Start Reading Auras (Yes, You Can!)

Let me break it down in my own “constant answer searching meets curious-scientist” way something you can try tonight.

1. Soften Your Vision

Look past the obvious. Dim the lights. Hold your hand out in front of a white wall. Let your eyes go soft, like you’re staring through yourself. Soon you’ll see a glow or shimmer around your fingers maybe white, maybe colored. That’s the beginning.

Don’t squint. Don’t force it. Auras show up when you're curious, not controlling.

2. Feel First, Interpret Later

Reading energy starts with sensation, not color. Does this person feel heavy or light? Buzzing or dull? Open or armored?

When you let your intuition talk first, the colors come easier. Your body is your antenna. Honor its truth.

3. Use Your Clair Gifts

If you’ve got clairvoyance (seeing), clairsentience (feeling), or claircognizance (knowing), those gifts will overlay with aura reading. For example, I often feel someone’s aura in my chest before I ever “see” it. It’s like their vibe brushes against my ribs and whispers, “Here’s what you need to know.”

Let your gifts collaborate.

Color Meanings (But Keep It Loose)

These are just starting points — your meanings may shift depending on the spirit speaking:

• Red: Physical energy, passion, survival — or anger and trauma if murky

• Orange: Creativity, sacral flow, attraction, or suppressed desire

• Yellow: Mental energy, confidence, ego, clarity — or scattered thoughts

• Green: Heart healing, peace, growth, balance

• Blue: Expression, truth, intuitive communication

• Purple: Spiritual awareness, psychic power, crown activation

• White: Purity, openness, divine protection

• Black or Grey: Often shielding, depression, grief — but not “bad,” just honest

Your colors may appear metallic, neon, pastel, or smoky. Don’t limit yourself to paint swatches. Spirit speaks in frequencies.

Aura Reading for Mediums and Healers

If you’re doing spirit work like I am, reading auras is more than observation it’s communication.

Sometimes I feel ancestors step into a client’s auric field and start adjusting it. I see a flicker of light shift around their shoulders, like someone’s brushing energy off their back. This is how spirits show me the story behind someone’s energy not just what color it is, but what they’ve carried.

And when I read someone grieving, I often see and feel a faint trail leading outward like part of their aura is still holding the person they lost.

The Science That Makes You Go “Hmm…”

• Your heart emits an electromagnetic field that extends feet beyond your body

• Biofield therapy is being studied to treat pain, stress, and PTSD

• Light frequencies (color) affect mood, biology, and consciousness

• You absorb emotional information in less than 1/10th of a second — aka your aura’s already talking before your mouth is

Science is just now catching up to what intuitives have always known.

🌻 A Final Note (From the Web Weaver)

If you’re still doubting yourself, hear this:

Your ability to read energy didn’t leave you. It got layered under noise, survival, and second-guessing. But it’s still there. All you’re doing is returning.

So go slow. Go sacred. Let your body remember. And if no one ever told you this before: you don’t need permission to see.