What Is an Aura Reading? The 7 Layers of Your Energy Field, Explained
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An aura reading is a holistic therapy, a technique that allows you to tap into the multi-layered energetic field that surrounds your body and translate the information it holds.
Most people come to me with the same first question: "what colour is my aura, can you see it now?"
And it's funny to me, the curiosity flourishing, because I now know your soul is trying to lead you where you need to go. I've seen it happen more times than I can count.
But I need to tell you this: that question, although fair, isn't the most important one.
You are an entire universe. There's so much more to you and your energy than a single colour, which will eventually change, the same way you do.
It's fun to know the colour though, I get it, I'm also always curious about it.
However, the question that's more useful to you is: what can aura reading actually tell me, and how can it help me?
Your aura is where your story is written. You just need to learn the language.
If your soul is calling, I'd advise you to listen. This might be what you've been asking for.
And the calling might be very loud, or not loud at all:
Maybe it's the exhaustion that eight hours of sleep doesn't touch, you wake up already bracing for the day.
Maybe it's the same argument, with a different partner, three relationships in a row, and you're starting to suspect it isn't a coincidence.
Maybe it's the moment you catch yourself smiling at a party and realise you're performing a version of yourself that's easier for your friends to be around.
Maybe it's simpler than that. You've just always been able to feel a room before anyone speaks, feel the emotional state of people around you without even looking at them, or you actually see people's energy, and you're finally ready to understand it better.
Whatever brought you here, here's what I want you to know: your aura holds the answer.
What is an aura
Your aura is the multi layered energetic field that surrounds and moves through your body.
Not just a simple cloud of colour.
A record that dates prior to your physical body.
It holds your emotions. Your beliefs. The patterns your soul keeps circling back to, life after life, relationship after relationship and sooo much more.
An ethereal book, written in a language that surpasses the identity you created to survive your environment.
The seven layers of your aura - your energy field explained
Think of those seven layers as the chapters of that book.
Each one is written at a different frequency, holding a different part of your story.
Different traditions describe this differently, but one of the most widely used maps splits the field into seven layers, each one vibrating higher than the one before it.
This is why the colour is not the most important thing to know:
1- The etheric body
A thin outline around the physical body. This is the one most people see first. It acts as an energetic mould for the physical body, keeping your cells, organs, and systems intact, the bridge between physical and higher energy levels. It's considered the first line of defence, where deep-rooted, misaligned patterns may manifest as potential disease. But it also absorbs life force (chi, prana, axé) from the sun, air and your surroundings, moving that energy through the energy channels (72,000 nadis or 360 meridians), into the chakras, and pumping it into the physical body.
2- The emotional body
The house of current emotions, past emotional trauma, and sensation. This layer is fluid by nature, it has no fixed shape, only colour and movement, shifting with you moment to moment. When most people say they can see the colours of your aura, this is almost always the layer they're actually seeing. Emotion, at its root, is energy in motion. When it doesn't get to move, when it gets swallowed, postponed, or judged instead of felt, it settles here instead, sometimes for years, waiting for permission to finally pass through.
3- The mental body
This is the layer of conscious, logical, analytical thought, memory, imagination, decision-making, belief. It connects your outer world to your inner and spiritual world, translating lived experience into the stories you tell yourself about who you are.
Every belief you hold is imprinted here. Also a layer that is fairly easy to perceive.
4- The astral level
The bridge layer, between the more personal, lower layers and the higher, more spiritual ones. It functions as an independent, portable vehicle for consciousness, which is what makes out-of-body experiences and connection to higher spiritual realms possible.
It's also the layer of love, bonding, and soul agreements, the layer where every real connection you've ever had leaves a trace. This layer allows you to work in the astral plane while you're sleeping.
5- The etheric template body
This layer acts as the template for the lower etheric body, ensuring your physical organs, tissues, and meridians stay aligned with their original, perfect form. It holds the record of all past, present, and potential future patterns, a kind of repository for your evolutionary path. It's the primary layer where spiritual or energy healing does its real work: correcting imbalances at the blueprint level.
6- The Celestial Body
This layer facilitates experiences of unconditional love, spiritual ecstasy, and deep connection to the divine, not love for a particular person, but love as a state you can simply be in. It's the layer that opens during real meditation, during grace you can't explain, during the moments life goes quiet enough for you to remember you're connected to something much bigger than your to-do list.
7- The Causal Body, or Ketheric Template
The outermost layer. It acts as a protective, golden, grid-like shield connecting you to the Divine, carrying the record of every soul experience and past lifetime you've lived.
When this layer is strong, you feel held even in a genuinely difficult season, contained, protected, like nothing can fully knock you off your axis. When it's fragmented, even small stress can feel enormous, because the shield that's meant to hold everything else together isn't fully intact. This is the first one I address when you're working 1:1 in my mentorship.
The more subtile and distant from your physical body, the more difficult it is to percieve those layers of your energy field.
Why this matters more than a colour ever could
Your energy field is multi-dimensional. Healing cannot be one-dimensional because you are not one-dimensional, therefore, your energy needs to be addressed as such.
That exhaustion you've blamed on a bad week might have an emotional root that started years before the week did.
That emotional pain might be tangled up in a belief you inherited so long ago it doesn't even register as a belief, it just feels like how things are.
"I have to earn rest."
"Love means being needed."
"If I take up space, I'll be in danger."
That confusion you've been fighting so hard to think your way out of?
Sometimes it isn't confusion at all.
Sometimes it's an old identity dissolving to make room for something truer, and confusion is just what that feels like from the inside.
You are not just a mind. Not just a body. Not just a soul trying to float above the mess of what being human sometimes looks like.
You're all of it and so much more. Past (yours, your soul's and what you inherited from your lineage), present and possible futures, woven together, which is exactly why looking at only one layer at a time so often leaves people feeling like something's still missing.
You can fix the sleep schedule and still wake up bracing.
Why this actually works
Every wisdom tradition on earth, Indian, Chinese, Yoruba, Egyptian, Indigenous, has independently arrived at some version of this same idea: that we are more than our physical body, and that there's a subtler layer of energy that both shapes and reflects our lived experience.
That's not a coincidence. It's ancestral knowledge.
When I read your aura, I'm reading across these layers to find where your energy is flowing freely and where it's stuck, where an old fear in the mental body is running the show, where an unprocessed emotion from years ago is still sitting in your emotional body, where a soul agreement is quietly shaping your relationships without you realising it.
It gives you information. Knowledge about yourself, direction, alignment. The cleansing that happens in the subtler layers of your existence, allows you to more easily do your part here, in the physical, 3D world.
What happens in an aura reading session
Every session is different, because every person is different. But there's a structure to it, though generally, I'm tuning into:
The focal point of your spiritual journey right now
Your alignment with your soul's deeper purpose
The soul agreements between you and the people closest to you
The pattern that keeps resurfacing; same feeling, different job, different partner, different city
A gift or skill set from past lives that are awakening in you and how they serve your path
What you're still carrying from past lives, and how it's showing up in this one
What is blocking your chakras
None of this is about fixing you. Nothing about you is broken.
It's about awareness, clarity, direction and cleansing, aligning your energy so you have permission to be, have and do everything your soul can.
You leave with something real to work with instead of a vague sense.
The part people don't expect
Most people walk in expecting a little bit of information.
They walk out having felt something they didn't expect to feel.
Feeling seen and validated.
But first it comes the range of emotions.
The tears, almost always, the tears show up in your face. So much so that I always advise you to bring tissues.
The laughter, that comes with being able to see yourself from the outside looking in. Your patterns pinpoint, your inner voice heard out loud, coming out of someone else's mouth.
The relief that clarity brings.
Most people leave calmer than they've felt in months. Lighter (Sometimes it looks like they just had a facelift!). Already asking when they can come back.
Over the course of the following days, the permission to move forward from where they'd previously felt stuck settles in, the ideas start rising.
The real value for me is the energetic cleansing, the realignment, the permission and direction.
Where to go from here
If you want to experience firsthand what receiving an aura reading feels like, you can book a one-off aura reading.
We'll work in alignment with your soul wants for you, and you'll leave with real clarity, not just more to think about.
You don't need to decide whether you have an aura. You do.
The only real question is whether you're ready to hear what yours has been trying to tell you.
That is where this work begins.
Ana Maria
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