And because of the tendency to feel others’ emotions, Herstik adds it’s important for those with a purple-dominant aura to set clear boundaries and respect the boundaries of their partner. This can look like “allowing them to come to their own decisions, even if you’re picking up on their energy and think you know what’s best for them.”
What It Means When You Have A Purple Aura
Sarah Regan is a Spirituality & Relationships Editor, and a registered yoga instructor. She received her bachelor’s in broadcasting and mass communication from SUNY Oswego, and lives in Buffalo, New York.
May 10, 2023
Many in the spiritual community believe that every person has an aura, an energy field that exudes a certain color, immediately surrounding them. While not usually visible to the naked eye, an aura’s color—be it red, green, purple, or a combination of many shades—can be photographed and analyzed during an aura reading.
Though it isn’t a scientific process by any means, reading your aura’s color is thought to offer a glimpse into your emotional and spiritual state, and it can be a helpful tool for introspection and reflection. One common aura color is purple, and we reached out to aura reader Rachelle Terry and spiritual author Gabriela Herstik to get the lowdown on what this particular shade is thought to symbolize.
You can find out the current color of your own aura by getting an aura reading, having an aura portrait taken, or trying a quick aura color quiz.
What does it mean to have a purple aura?
When it comes to your energy field, Herstik notes that your aura is a reflection of your current energetic state: “Even though we might have a lot of purple in our aura one day, it may not be as prominent the next.”
That said, purple can mean a lot of different things depending on where it shows up around your body on any given day: “A dull purple in a muscle, for example, could mean muscle strain,” Terry explains. When it shows up around your head, “it could indicate low mood. And emotionally, heartbreak can appear as purple in the heart chakra.”
Speaking of chakras, it’s worth noting that the color purple is associated with the crown chakra. If your aura is purple, Herstik says you’re likely very intuitive.
Summary
Purple can indicate a muscle strain, low mood, or a heart break, depending where it shows up around your body. The color purple is also associated with the crown chakra.
What does a purple aura say about someone’s personality?
Since people with purple auras are so tapped into emotions, Terry says, “they’ve usually been through the depths,” adding that those with a dominant purple in their aura “tend to be highly sensitive, highly intuitive, and more introverted than those with the fiery colors.” As such, they may be prone to indecisiveness, preferring to think things over rather than act impulsively.
Similarly, Herstik says spiritual practices like meditation, and even creative projects can elicit a purple aura: “If you’re tapping into something bigger than yourself—even if that’s an art project—that can be reflected in your aura.”
Why do violet and purple look the same?
You can only perceive a color if all of the receptors in your eye are stimulated. If you stimulate one receptor more than the others, the brain will perceive that receptor as the dominant color. But you can’t trick the brain by stimulating receptors that aren’t there. More details: From: In summary, violet (light with a shorter wavelength than blue) looks like purple (a mix of red and blue) because our long-wavelength cone has some sort of secondary maximum or something like that. It has nothing to do with the sensory neurons (rods and cones) and everything to do with processing.
First of all, thanks to the folks who answered my question about near-IR light. I’ve got a question about the other end of the visible spectrum now: why does violet (light with a shorter wavelength than blue) look like purple (a mix of red and blue)? Does our long-wavelength cone have some sort of secondary maximum or something like that?
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It has nothing to do with the sensory neurons (rods and cones) and everything to do with processing. It (purple) is basically a “label” to represent the mixture of red and blue so we can differentiate it from other mixtures.
Beta and rho overlap from roughly 405 nm – 540 nm, and for most of that range, gamma will also produce a signal. The only place that we can get beta and rho without gamma is 405 nm – 425 nm. And in that range, beta is much more sensitive than rho.
There is no single wavelength in the visible spectrum that will stimulate equal signals from both beta and rho, without gamma.
But what if you mixed two beams of light – one around 405 nm (which would stimulate only beta), and one from 675 nm (which would stimulate only rho)? With this setup, you can jam into the brain combinations of signals that do not occur with pure spectral colors. And in this case, the brain perceives the combination as pink (if it’s a light shade) or purple (if dark).
In addition to generating colors that are not found in the spectrum, you can fake colors that do exist in the spectrum. Shine 625 nm light into the eye, the photoreceptors in the eye get “mostly rho, with one quarter as much gamma”, which the brain perceives as the color orange. But the brain will perceive the same color orange with a mixed beam of yellowish-green 550 nm (which stimulates more gamma than rho), sweetened up with a shot of 675 nm red (pure rho). [When two spectra are different, but look alike to the observer, they are called “metamers” or “monomers”.]
When all of the cones are stimulated, the brain provides the sensation of “white”. You also see white when presented with an extremely bright light of any color. This may be because, with the overlap of color sensors, a very bright light source will produce strong signals in all receptors.
You might remember back to your primary school art class, when Miss Arglebargle said “yellow and red make orange”. Well, they don’t make real orange. A prism can show the difference between Arglebargle Orange and the real thing. But they make something that fools your brain into perceiving orange – and that’s good enough.
This is also the origin of the three “primary colors” that can be mixed to produce other colors. The colors work that way because the eye has light receptors tuned to the three primary wavelengths, and the brain perceives mixtures of these three stimulus wavelengths as a single different color.
