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Aura color · not on the spectrum

Lavender Aura

A lavender aura is read as imagination running slightly ahead of the day. Physically it is violet diluted with white, which adds every other wavelength to it. No single wavelength makes it.

Wavelength
None not one band of the spectrum
Swatch #B4A2FC
≈ 450 nm dominant wavelength
In Thought-Forms, 1905
In the key quoted below, Besant & Leadbeater

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

Read in a similar way: purple aura, white aura, peach aura, violet aura and rainbow aura.

Further along the same lines: lime aura, navy aura, gray aura and coral aura.

Checked against the visible spectrum

There is no such thing as lavender light

Wavelength none — not a frequency
Chakra none — outside the chakra system
Lightness of the swatch L* 71 of 100
Purity of the swatch 34% of a spectral color

Pale violet mixed with white, so it has no frequency of its own — the whiteness is other wavelengths added. Read as daydreaming and sensitivity.

19 of 31 aura colors have no wavelength. Why →

The lavender swatch among all colors the eye can see
The lavender 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 lavender (#B4A2FC) highlighted with a line to its dominant wavelength.line of purples460480490500510520540560580600620700BlueBlackPinkGreenGoldCrystalWhitePurpleYellowRedOrangeBrownRoseRainbowSilverNavyClearGrayTealAquaVioletMagentaAmberTurquoiseIndigoLimePeachMaroonOliveCoral≈ 450 nmwhiteLavender #B4A2FCBig dot: lavender as shown on this pageSmall dots: the other 30 aura colorsSource: CIE 1931 2° observer; sRGB swatches of this siteastrohot.com

Its hue still has a direction: the #B4A2FC swatch points to 450 nm on the spectrum, at 34% purity.

What a lavender aura is said to mean

Lavender, a pale purple, is read as imagination and gentle sensitivity. Aura readers describe lavender people as dreamy, creative and kind, with a rich inner world and a soft, spiritual side. It is said to appear in artists, daydreamers and people recovering from a period of stress.

The reading

Imagination running slightly ahead of the day

The shadow side

Preferring the imagined version

Tradition, not measurement. What aura cameras actually record →

Primary source

The lavender aura in the first published color key

Besant and Leadbeater, 1905
“A mixture of affection and devotion is manifested by a tint of violet, and the more delicate shades of this invariably show the capacity of absorbing and responding to a high and beautiful ideal.”
Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, Thought-Forms (London, 1905), “The Meaning of the Colours” — read the original text. Lavender is a pale violet — the “more delicate shades” of the key. 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 lavender aura in everyday life

In love

Romantic and gentle. A lavender partner may prefer the imagined version of a relationship to the everyday one.

At work

Art, writing, design and any quiet creative work.

Finding balance

Readers suggest turning one daydream into a plan, and staying present with the people around you.

Light and dark lavender

Mixing white into lavender gives #D6CCFD, and mixing in black gives #63598B; their lightness reads 84 and 41 against the swatch’s 71. Neither move adds a wavelength, because lavender never had one.

Light lavender · #D6CCFD · L* 84

Read as a softer form of the same reading: imagination running slightly ahead of the day.

Dark lavender · #63598B · L* 41

Read as preferring the imagined version — the strained version.

Questions about the lavender aura

What does a lavender aura mean?

Imagination running slightly ahead of the day. The shadow side is preferring the imagined version.

Is lavender a real color of light?

No. It is violet diluted with white, which adds every other wavelength to it, so it never shows up as a band in a rainbow.

Which chakra is lavender?

None of the seven. By hue it sits closest to violet, the color of the crown chakra, 7° away on the color wheel.

How rare is a lavender aura?

Nobody keeps a count of auras. Searches for this one are scarce, though: it ranks 25th of 31 colors, at 0.28% of aura-color searches.

The seven chakras and their colors →

Aura colors read alongside lavender

Colors people look up about as often as lavender:

Amber Turquoise Indigo Lime

All 31 colors, with wavelengths →

No band to measure. Swatch #B4A2FC, dominant wavelength 450 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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