Aura Color & Energy Color Chart

What Is an Aura Color?

An aura color is the colour a pendulum reads in a person’s energy field — the answer you get when you sweep over the aura and then let the pendulum settle on a colour chart. Taken on an object, a room or a food item, the same reading is called an object energy color; the general term for any of them is an energy color. The names come from radiesthesia, the French dowsing tradition: in the 1930s researchers Léon Chaumery and André de Bélizal, building on the work of Enel (V. Skariatine), mapped a system of subtle "colour" vibrations they believed every object, shape and living being emits, published as Essai de radiesthésie vibratoire (1939).

The discipline itself was named by Abbé Alexis Bouly in the 1920s–30s, and Chaumery and de Bélizal’s book became the founding text of "vibratory" or "wave" radiesthesia. In that classical model the vibration field around a person or object forms a 12-colour circle, divided into an electric phase and a magnetic phase, with a 24-colour electromagnetic phase formed by their coupling. The tradition also places five invisible "colours" around the sphere: infrared, black, white, ultraviolet and Negative Green. Between black and white, the Negative Green band was itself divided into twelve further emissions named with Greek letters.

Also called: radiesthetic colours, pendulum colour chart, dowsing colours, aura chart, energy colour wheel. This guide uses the everyday terms — aura color for a person, energy color for a place or a state, object energy color for a thing — alongside the classical name wherever the sources are quoted. Radiesthetic colours are a classification used in dowsing, not the optical or electromagnetic spectrum of physics, and each entry says where it overlaps with chakra colour symbolism or later systems.

The Two Phases: Electric & Magnetic

Key Energy Color Bands

The 12-Colour Aura Color Wheel

Chaumery and de Bélizal described twelve colour vibrations arranged around a circle or sphere: seven visible — violet, indigo, blue, positive green, yellow, orange and red — and five invisible — infrared, black, negative green, white and ultraviolet. On a meridian the order runs V− · white · ultraviolet · violet · indigo · blue · V+ · yellow · orange · red · infrared · black. Every hue repeats in both the electric and the magnetic phase, so the same twelve names yield the 24 colours of the electromagnetic phase.

Note: the attributes above are the therapeutic claims recorded by André de Bélizal and later exponents. They are not medically validated and are not a substitute for professional care.

How the Two Phases Are Detected

Aura Color: Reading a Person’s Energy Color

In everyday dowsing language the aura color — or person energy color — is the colour the pendulum selects when it is swept through a person’s field. In the radiesthetic model this is not a glow seen with the eyes: it is the dominant vibration of the field, read against the twelve-colour circle, in whichever phase the pendulum registers.

Practitioners read it for three things: which band dominates the field, whether that band is magnetic (anabolic) or electric (catabolic), and how strongly it registers on a percentage or Bovis scale. Because every reading uses the same circle, two people can share an aura color and still be in very different states — the phase, the intensity and the layer being tested all change the meaning.

What a person’s energy color means

These are readings from the dowsing tradition, not measured properties of the body. Treat an aura color as a reflective prompt for conversation, never as a diagnosis or a substitute for medical care.

How to read a person’s aura color with a pendulum

1. Ask first. Explain what you are testing and get a yes before you read anyone else’s field. If the person is not present, work from a witness such as a photograph with their knowledge.
2. Baseline the answers. Run your usual yes / no / no-answer checks over the chart before the reading, so a swinging pendulum is never mistaken for an answer. See pendulum movement meanings if the swings are unfamiliar.
3. Sweep the field. Hold the pendulum 10–15 cm above the crown, then in front of the chest and over the hands, moving slowly enough that each position settles. Note where the movement changes.
4. Find the colour, then the phase. Move over the colour chart and take the first clear reaction as the aura color. Test rotation to fix the phase — clockwise is read as electric, counter-clockwise as magnetic.
5. Confirm before you interpret. Ask again after a pause. A colour that will not repeat is treated as inconclusive rather than as a dramatic finding.
6. Record colour, phase and intensity. Write the date and the reading down. The useful signal is the trend across sessions, not one isolated colour.

Aura layers, chakras and the 12-colour circle

Many practitioners read the aura in layers — etheric closest to the body, then emotional, mental and spiritual — and compare each layer with the chakra positions. In radiesthetic terms that becomes repeated readings: the same twelve colours, tested at different heights, each with its own phase. When two layers disagree, the tradition treats the innermost colour as the underlying state and the outermost as how it is currently expressed.

Because the reading is repeatable, it is easy to turn into a chart of your own: a circular layout for the twelve colours, a wheel for chakra checks, or a simple colour scale. The free Dowsing Chart Maker Studio has ready-made Aura Colors and chakra presets you can relabel, recolour and print; the chakra healing guide shows how the layers are usually worked.

Object Energy Color: Testing Things and Places

An object energy color is the same reading applied to something that is not a person: a crystal, a piece of jewellery, a food item, a bottle of water, a room, a tool — even a brand name or a printed chart. The tradition holds that every object carries a dominant vibration, its “core essence”, which can be tested by placing the item (or a witness of it) under the pendulum and letting the colour circle resolve.

The explorer on this page already lists 11 woods, 12 crystals and 7 metals by the colour they are said to carry — clear quartz as a Negative Green carrier, citrine as yellow with the Higher Harmonic of Gold, copper as strong infrared. Those stock readings are a useful starting point; the point of testing is to find the object that is actually in your hand.

How to test an object’s energy color

1. State the purpose. Ask a specific question — “is this crystal suitable for grounding work?” — before the pendulum moves. The same object can read differently for different questions.
2. Hold or witness the object. Keep it in the non-dominant hand, or place it (or a photo, a drop of the sample, a written name) on a witness plate under the chart.
3. Test suitability first, colour second. A yes / no check tells you whether the item belongs in the work at all; only then sweep the colour circle.
4. Read the colour and the phase. Take the first clear reaction on the circle, then confirm electric or magnetic by the direction of spin.
5. Add intensity if you use it. A percentage or Bovis chart turns “is this strong?” into a number you can compare with other objects.
6. Re-test without touching. Read the object again at a distance. A steady result is treated as the object’s colour; a result that only appears in contact is treated as context.

What object readings are used for

• Choosing between two crystals, two pendulums or two pieces of jewellery for a stated intention.
• Checking a gift, a second-hand item or a new purchase for a vibration you are comfortable keeping.
• Testing a workspace, bedroom or desk and comparing positions before and after rearranging the room.
• Comparing batches of the same product, or a finished chart and a print of it, against the colour you designed.
• Building your own reference table — the practical reason the tradition keeps lists of woods, crystals and metals at all.

Readings of food, water or supplements are part of the tradition only. They make no nutritional or medical claim and are not a reason to change a diet, a prescription or a treatment.

Person readings vs object readings

For a person, the reading is interpreted as a state that changes and that belongs to them, which is why consent and framing matter. For an object, the reading is treated as a property of the item and can be repeated by anyone using the same chart — that repeatability is exactly what makes material reference tables possible. In both cases the instrument is the same twelve-colour circle, so learning one reading teaches the other.

Negative Green (V−): The 0–400 Point

Negative Green is described as the shortest and most powerful vibration in the system and the exact antipode of the visible (positive) green. De Bélizal called it "a mysterious vibration, a true hyphen between life and death" — able to burn and destroy, yet also to "conserve life in potency outside space and time". He recorded that the Egyptians were said to use it to dehydrate their dead against decay, and patented a way of producing it (French patent no. 816,132, 10 April 1936).

The band between black and white was divided into twelve emissions named with Greek letters — de Bélizal said the letters designated, by analogy, the magnetic waves of radioactivity. Reported values place black near 366.5° on the 400° scale, with emissions such as epsilon, zeta, nu, xi, theta and beta running toward the white end; the exact assignments vary between editions.

De Bélizal's own warning: his collaborator Léon Chaumery died on 27 February 1957, "completely dehydrated" by the V− ray. The antidote was later identified as V+ (positive green), said to neutralise radioactivity stored in the body. This is why the tradition treats the electric reading of Negative Green as advanced work requiring shielding and training.

Pioneers & Timeline

Woods, Crystals & Metals: Object Energy Colors

Beyond colour, dowsers describe the materials they handle by the radiesthetic colours they are said to emit — their core essence — and by how they behave on the pendulum. The explorer above lists 11 woods, 12 crystals and 7 metals in the same format as the colours. Switch category with the tabs at the top of the browser.

Safety note: lead, galena and mercury are toxic. Handle them with care or use coated or sealed pieces. As with the colours, these descriptions come from dowsing practice rather than laboratory measurement.

Are Aura Colors Real? What the Science Says

Aura colors and energy colors belong to the dowsing tradition rather than mainstream physics. Their emissions have not been confirmed by scientific measurement, and pendulum movement is generally explained by the ideomotor effect — unintentional muscle micro-movements. A reading taken for a person, an object or a place is meaningful inside the tradition, but it is not a measurement of a physical field. The radiesthetic model behind these colours is documented here faithfully for practitioners and the curious; it is educational and is not a substitute for professional medical advice.

Frequently Asked Questions

Sources & Further Reading

• Léon Chaumery & André de Bélizal, Essai de radiesthésie vibratoire (Paris: Desforges, 1939; reissued by Dervy) — the 12-colour circle and the Universal Pendulum.
• André de Bélizal & P. A. Morel, Physique micro-vibratoire et forces invisibles (Desforges, 1976) — the negative-green ray, the 400° circle and the Greek-letter emissions.
• Enel (V. Skariatine), Radiations des Formes et Cancer (Cairo: Al Maaref, 1951).
• Alain & Claudie Bouchet, Radiesthésie et Santé — source for the electric- and magnetic-phase colour descriptions and for de Bélizal's double-phase attributes.
• Jean de la Föye, Ondes de Vie, Ondes de Mort (Robert Laffont, 1975) — 24 colours, zinc/copper phase conversion, and the equatorial disk.
• Dr. Ibrahim Karim, BioGeometry — origin of the BG3 qualitative energy.
• Abbé Alexis Bouly — originator of the term radiesthésie; Antoine Bovis and the early "physical radiesthesia" school.

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