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Blue Aura

A blue aura is read as communication and the wish to be understood accurately. Unlike most aura colors it is a real wavelength, 450–495 nanometres.

Wavelength
450–495 nm a color of the spectrum
Swatch #3B6FD4
≈ 472 nm dominant wavelength
In Thought-Forms, 1905
In the key quoted below, Besant & Leadbeater
Chakra pairing
Throat rainbow scheme, 1970s on

Swatch measured against the CIE 1931 observer; key: Besant and Leadbeater, Thought-Forms, 1905.

Read in a similar way: teal aura, pink aura, navy aura, green aura, purple aura and indigo aura.

Its neighbors on the color wheel: aqua aura and turquoise aura.

Further along the same lines: yellow aura, orange aura, magenta aura and coral aura.

Checked against the visible spectrum

Blue is a real color of light

Wavelength 450–495 nm
Width of the band 45 nm of the visible 370
Chakra Throat — one of only 8 covered
Lightness of the swatch L* 48 of 100
Purity of the swatch 62% of a spectral color

The most asked-about aura color by a wide margin, and one of the few that is both a real wavelength and a chakra color. Read as calm and articulate — someone whose first instinct in trouble is to explain rather than act.

19 of 31 aura colors have no wavelength. Why →

Where blue sits in the visible spectrum: 450–495 nm
Where blue sits in the visible spectrum: 450–495 nmVisible spectrum from 380 to 750 nanometres with the bands of 12 spectral aura colors bracketed; blue (450–495 nm) highlighted.Violet: 380–450 nmVioletIndigo: 445–464 nmIndigoBlue: 450–495 nmBlueTurquoise: 490–505 nmTurquoiseTeal: 490–500 nmTealAqua: 490–500 nmAquaGreen: 495–570 nmGreenLime: 555–565 nmLimeYellow: 570–590 nmYellowAmber: 585–595 nmAmberOrange: 590–620 nmOrangeRed: 620–750 nmRed400 nm450 nm500 nm550 nm600 nm650 nm700 nm750 nm← ultravioletinfrared →Source: wavelengths from our aura-color table, 380–750 nm visible rangeastrohot.com
Where blue sits in the visible spectrum: 450–495 nmVisible spectrum from 380 to 750 nanometres with the bands of 12 spectral aura colors bracketed; blue (450–495 nm) highlighted.Violet: 380–450 nmIndigo: 445–464 nmBlue: 450–495 nmBlueTurquoise: 490–505 nmTeal: 490–500 nmAqua: 490–500 nmGreen: 495–570 nmLime: 555–565 nmYellow: 570–590 nmAmber: 585–595 nmOrange: 590–620 nmRed: 620–750 nm400 nm450500550600650700750← ultravioletinfrared →Source: wavelengths from our aura-color table, 380–750 nm visible rangeastrohot.com

Blue: 45 of the 370 visible nanometres (12.2%). Overlaps teal, aqua, turquoise and indigo.

The blue swatch among all colors the eye can see
The blue swatch among all colors the eye can seeCIE 1931 chromaticity diagram: the horseshoe of spectral colors from 380 to 700 nm, white point D65, the 31 aura colors of this site as dots, and blue (#3B6FD4) highlighted with a line to its dominant wavelength.line of purples460480490500510520540560580600620700BlackPinkGreenGoldCrystalWhitePurpleYellowRedOrangeBrownRoseRainbowSilverNavyClearGrayTealAquaVioletMagentaAmberTurquoiseLavenderIndigoLimePeachMaroonOliveCoral≈ 472 nmwhiteBlue #3B6FD4Big dot: blue as shown on this pageSmall dots: the other 30 aura colorsSource: CIE 1931 2° observer; sRGB swatches of this siteastrohot.com

The #3B6FD4 swatch points to 472 nm, inside the band, at 62% of full spectral purity.

Nearest colors in the spectrum

Physically adjacent to blue — a few nanometres apart, yet given entirely separate meanings.

Indigo 445–464 nm Teal 490–500 nm Aqua 490–500 nm Turquoise 490–505 nm

What a blue aura is said to mean

Blue is read as the color of honest communication and calm. Aura readers associate it with people who need to be understood accurately and who notice when words and actions do not match. Light, clear blue is described as peace of mind; deeper blue as loyalty and a quieter, more reflective intelligence. It is linked to the throat chakra, which is why so much of its reading is about voice.

The reading

Communication and the wish to be understood accurately

The shadow side

Talking as a way of not deciding

Tradition, not measurement. What aura cameras actually record →

Primary source

The blue aura in the first published color key

Besant and Leadbeater, 1905
“The different shades of blue all indicate religious feeling, and range through all hues from the dark brown-blue of selfish devotion, or the pallid grey-blue of fetish-worship tinged with fear, up to the rich deep clear colour of heartfelt adoration, and the beautiful pale azure of that highest form which implies self-renunciation and union with the divine…”
Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, Thought-Forms (London, 1905), “The Meaning of the Colours” — read the original text. Besant and Leadbeater repeat the key from Leadbeater’s Man Visible and Invisible (1903), the book that popularized the idea of a colored aura. Most modern aura charts descend from Christopher Hills’s rainbow scheme of 1977, which is why their meanings often differ.

The blue aura in everyday life

In love

Loyal and steady, with a strong need for honesty. A blue partner wants things said out loud — reassurance, plans, problems — and is hurt more by evasion than by bad news.

At work

Teaching, counseling, writing, editing and any role where clear explanation matters. Blue is at its best where trust has to be earned slowly.

Finding balance

When blue dominates, readers suggest moving from talking to deciding: set a deadline for the conversation and then act on it.

Light and dark blue

Adding white more than halves the purity of blue, from 62% to 30% in #93B0E7 (L* 72), because white is every wavelength at once. Adding black barely touches it: #203D75, at L* 27, keeps the hue and almost all of the purity.

Light blue · #93B0E7 · L* 72

Read as a softer form of the same reading: communication and the wish to be understood accurately.

Dark blue · #203D75 · L* 27

Read as talking as a way of not deciding — the strained version.

Questions about the blue aura

What does a blue aura mean?

Communication and the wish to be understood accurately. The shadow side is talking as a way of not deciding.

Is blue a real color of light?

Yes. Blue occupies 450–495 nanometres, 45 nm of the roughly 370 the eye can see. No other aura color's band overlaps even half of that range.

Which chakra is blue?

The throat chakra. It is one of 8 aura colors out of 31 that map onto a chakra at all.

How rare is a blue aura?

Nobody has ever counted auras, so there is no rarity figure. As a search it is anything but rare: 1st of 31 colors, with 16.8% of aura-color searches.

The seven chakras and their colors →

Aura colors read alongside blue

Colors people look up about as often as blue:

Black Pink Green Gold

All 31 colors, with wavelengths →

Band 450–495 nm, width 45 nm. Swatch #3B6FD4, dominant wavelength 472 nm. How this was produced →

Sources

  1. Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, Thought-Forms (London, 1905), “The Meaning of the Colours”

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