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Orange Aura

An orange aura is read as appetite for experience and making things. Unlike most aura colors it is a real wavelength, 590–620 nanometres.

Wavelength
590–620 nm a color of the spectrum
Swatch #E08A3C
≈ 587 nm dominant wavelength
In Thought-Forms, 1905
In the key quoted below, Besant & Leadbeater
Chakra pairing
Sacral rainbow scheme, 1970s on

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

Read in a similar way: peach aura, amber aura, yellow aura, red aura, silver aura, clear aura and crystal aura.

Its neighbors on the color wheel: lime aura and green aura.

Further along the same lines: brown aura, purple aura, teal aura and coral aura.

Checked against the visible spectrum

Orange is a real color of light

Wavelength 590–620 nm
Width of the band 30 nm of the visible 370
Chakra Sacral — one of only 8 covered
Lightness of the swatch L* 65 of 100
Purity of the swatch 71% of a spectral color

A real band between red and yellow, and the sacral chakra — creativity, pleasure, the physical enjoyment of doing things.

19 of 31 aura colors have no wavelength. Why →

Where orange sits in the visible spectrum: 590–620 nm
Where orange sits in the visible spectrum: 590–620 nmVisible spectrum from 380 to 750 nanometres with the bands of 12 spectral aura colors bracketed; orange (590–620 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 orange sits in the visible spectrum: 590–620 nmVisible spectrum from 380 to 750 nanometres with the bands of 12 spectral aura colors bracketed; orange (590–620 nm) highlighted.Violet: 380–450 nmIndigo: 445–464 nmBlue: 450–495 nmTurquoise: 490–505 nmTeal: 490–500 nmAqua: 490–500 nmGreen: 495–570 nmLime: 555–565 nmYellow: 570–590 nmAmber: 585–595 nmOrange: 590–620 nmOrangeRed: 620–750 nm400 nm450500550600650700750← ultravioletinfrared →Source: wavelengths from our aura-color table, 380–750 nm visible rangeastrohot.com

Orange: 30 of the 370 visible nanometres (8.1%). Overlaps amber.

The orange swatch among all colors the eye can see
The orange 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 orange (#E08A3C) highlighted with a line to its dominant wavelength.line of purples460480490500510520540560580600620700BlueBlackPinkGreenGoldCrystalWhitePurpleYellowRedBrownRoseRainbowSilverNavyClearGrayTealAquaVioletMagentaAmberTurquoiseLavenderIndigoLimePeachMaroonOliveCoral≈ 587 nmwhiteOrange #E08A3CBig dot: orange as shown on this pageSmall dots: the other 30 aura colorsSource: CIE 1931 2° observer; sRGB swatches of this siteastrohot.com

The #E08A3C swatch points to 587 nm, just outside the 590–620 nm band: a screen mixes three lights and can only aim at a spectral color, here at 71% purity.

Nearest colors in the spectrum

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

Amber 585–595 nm Yellow 570–590 nm Lime 555–565 nm Green 495–570 nm

What an orange aura is said to mean

Orange is the color of the sacral chakra and is read as creativity, pleasure and an appetite for experience. Aura readers describe orange people as social, adventurous and sensual, at home in new places and new projects. A clear orange is said to show confidence in one's own desires; a cloudy orange, restlessness or a lack of follow-through.

The reading

Appetite for experience and making things

The shadow side

Starting more than can be finished

Tradition, not measurement. What aura cameras actually record →

Primary source

The orange aura in the first published color key

Besant and Leadbeater, 1905
“Deep orange imports pride or ambition…”
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 orange aura in everyday life

In love

Warm, adventurous and physically affectionate. An orange partner needs novelty and shared experiences to stay interested.

At work

Creative industries, sales, travel, events and hospitality — work with variety and people.

Finding balance

Readers suggest finishing one thing before starting the next, and building in rest after a burst of activity.

Light and dark orange

Adding white more than halves the purity of orange, from 71% to 34% in #EEBF94 (L* 81), because white is every wavelength at once. Adding black barely touches it: #7B4C21, at L* 37, keeps the hue and almost all of the purity.

Light orange · #EEBF94 · L* 81

Read as a softer form of the same reading: appetite for experience and making things.

Dark orange · #7B4C21 · L* 37

Read as starting more than can be finished — the strained version.

Questions about the orange aura

What does an orange aura mean?

Appetite for experience and making things. The shadow side is starting more than can be finished.

Is orange a real color of light?

Yes. Orange occupies 590–620 nanometres, 30 nm of the roughly 370 the eye can see. No other aura color's band overlaps even half of that range.

Which chakra is orange?

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

How rare is an orange aura?

Auras have never been counted, so rarity cannot be measured. Interest can: orange sits between red and brown in searches, 11th of 31 colors at 3.6%.

The seven chakras and their colors →

Aura colors read alongside orange

Colors people look up about as often as orange:

Yellow Red Brown Rose

All 31 colors, with wavelengths →

Band 590–620 nm, width 30 nm. Swatch #E08A3C, dominant wavelength 587 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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