What's My Aura Color?
Auric Life Color Represents Who You Are, What You’re Born to Do
The inner aura or "life color" stays constant over life. It is believed to represent a person's true nature and their purpose on Earth in this life. What's your color?
Your aura, the field of energy around your body, is like an energetic “blueprint” for who you are. The outer layers carry information about a person’s mood and well-being in the moment; middle layers portray your health, emotional patterns, relationships and your strengths and vulnerabilities; and at the most profound layers of the aura, your true self and your life purpose are revealed. More about the aura...
What is the Life Color?
Nancy Ann Tappe, a pioneer in the study of “life colours,” is known for her groundbreaking 1986 publication, Understanding Your Life Through Colour. Tappe’s book is thought to be the first source to discuss indigo, the newest aura color.
In Understanding Your Life Through Colour, Tappe describes the life color as, “the single color of the aura that remains constant in most people from the cradle to the grave.... The life color establishes a focus for the entire lifetime, similar to having a major in college” (Tappe, 1986).
Life Colors
The following presents a summary of characteristics and preferences of each of the common life colors, as presented by Pamela Oslie in her book, Life Colors: What the Colors in Your Aura Reveal.
Most people have one or two predominant colors that represent the life purpose in their energy field.
- Red - physical, sexual, courage, live in the present, concrete reality
- Orange - thrill-seekers, excitement, adventure, danger
- Yellow - energetic, fun-loving, playful, optimistic, may be shy or outgoing, believe life is supposed to be fun
- Tan - logical, sequential, thoughtful, crave stability; the four types of Tan personalities are Abstract, Environmental, Logical and Sensitive
- Green - bright, ambitious, quick thinkers, bored with details, competitive; two types of Green may be good with money, the environment, or both
- Blue - lovers, sensitive, nurturing, expressive, relationship-focused, emotional, often teachers or nurses
- Violet - visionary healers, concerned about others, desire to “heal the world”, feeling of destiny and purpose; very common in spiritual, new age and healing circles
- Indigo - rebel, intuitive, insightful, assertive, psychic sight, “old souls”, teach by example, combination of violet and blue
- Crystal - natural healers, physically very sensitive, easy to overwhelm, get along with everyone because their clear aura may take on the qualities of people they are near
Each life color has its own challenges, “assets” and “liabilities” that predispose a person to act, think and create their life in particular ways.
Yet as Lee Carroll and Jan Tober observe in The Indigo Children (Carroll and Tober, 1999), aura colors are simply another system of categorization. Like astrology, IQ tests, and personality testing like the Myers-Briggs, aura colors explain certain important factors in the personality, yet people are individuals. While aura colors can reveal fascinating insights and empower our choices and understanding of ourselves, the rest is up to you.
