Insight

Aura-Soma - Born of the Goddess

Aura-Soma, a soul related system of dual colored bottles, began in a garage in England. Born through the blind apothecarist Vicky wall's clairvoyant vision and described as a "Mirror for the Soul," Aura-Soma is a unique facet of color therapy that has the potential to heal on all levels. Containing natural coloring, oil, water from the Chalice well in Glastonbury, herbal and crystal essences, aromatherapy oils and of course love, Aura-Soma is a complete system that allows an individual's intuitive insight to attract the right healing tool.

"Divide the waters, my child," Vicky had been told during a meditation in the early 1980's. She had no recollection of how she created the first Aura-Soma color bottles. It was as if unseen hands guided hers. Nor had she any idea of the bottles use. Standing in front of them they seemed to communicate their name and meaning of "Balance." Their "Aura-Soma" title was yet to be discovered.

Aura-Soma Balance

Divinely inspired, the Balance bottles first appeared at a conference where their purpose became clear. Some people were attracted to them because they were going through emotional change. Those needing assistance with physical issues also gravitated toward the bottles. Others just loved the calming influence of their gem-like appearance. Although Vicky had little knowledge of color she came to realize that identifiable challenges were reflected by specific color combinations. She quickly recognized their ability to heal on many different levels of being.

The Meaning of Aura-Soma

The name Aura-Soma came to Vicky in another meditation. Aura, derived from the ancient Greek word for "light," is the electromagnetic energy field surrounding all consciousness. The auric field is made up of many different dimensions containing a variety of color. Soma the Greek for "being," also Sanskrit for "Living Energies," represents the body or vehicle of expression on various levels. When a color is worn its energy is absorbed by the auric field of the wearer. Sometimes the energy field vibrates to a different color, so the same color worn on a different day may look out of balance.

Aura-Soma is the first system to harmoniously combine color with the innate healing properties of the natural world. Using the vibrational element of each component as part of a key to unlock the door to consciousness, the un-intrusive beauty of the Aura-Soma system empowers each individual to recognize his or her vibratory make-up within the chosen colors. Vicky's understanding of the energies held within the Aura-Soma Balance bottles came from her inner vision and clairvoyant realizations. For example, she recognized that many Atlantean souls were drawn toward the turquoise and blue range of Aura-Soma bottles, healers were attracted to the violet vibrations, and inter-planetary healers connected with gold and violet.

Connecting to Your Aura-Soma Balance Bottles

The Aura-Soma Balance oils or Equilibrium as they are also known, synchronize the wavelengths of the body's electromagnetic energy system. We are "Hue-man" beings and are essentially composed of light and color. Each individual is attracted to the colors he or she currently vibrates with. A consultation with an Aura-Soma practitioner consists of a choice of four bottles. Once chosen the practitioner will tell your story through the chosen colors, missing colors, the numerological influence of each bottle and its relationship with the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. The chosen colors mirror a small aspect of the consciousness of the chooser at that moment in time. If the bottles are chosen at different times they may reflect another aspect of the chooser, just like chapters in the story of your life.

Naming the Aura-Soma Bottles

In Vicky's studio were she kept her Aura-Soma Balance bottles, her all green herb oil kept losing its color. She noticed that a peach tree in the garden was ailing and wondered if that had anything to do with the disappearance of the green within the bottle. She was intuitively drawn to place a red/green balance bottle in the ground next to the trees roots.

Some time later the bottle was found by a friend with all the color drained. The peach tree recovered and the following year it was laden with fruit, more than it had ever been before. Not only that the fruit had changed from a creamy color to a beautiful rose pink. This particular Aura-Soma bottle was named, "Go hug a tree!"

The bottles mirror consciousness. Sometimes the colors within the Aura-Soma bottles change reflecting whatever issues the owner is confronting at the time. The color can be completely drained from the bottle if that person needs more of a particular vibration to become whole again.

As a mirror of the soul, Aura-Soma reflects an aspect of the soul's purpose during this lifetime, the lessons an individual has chosen to experience, the gifts gained and the tools to achieve fulfillment of this desired objective. Through the magic of the color-infused oil and water we can see our true reflection, minus the ego and all the shackles of this lifetime. Its purity and innocence vibrate within each Aura-Soma bottle as if we are being seen and accepted for the first time.

Aura-Soma Pomanders

Aura-Soma produces a range of support systems to align the subtle bodies with a chosen path. The Pocket Pomander is one of these supportive elements used to strengthen and protect the auric field. The Pomanders contain many different herbs and come in fifteen colors. By accident the Pomanders strength was proven through the Kirlian photography images taken at one of Vicky's Aura-Soma workshops. A way of photographing the electromagnetic emanations from a living organism, the photos showed a brighter corona around the fingertips of the people who had used the Pomanders.

Aura-Soma Pomanders can protect the field from environmental drainage as well as from those with vampire-like energy and are particularly useful against any negative or challenging energy.

White: The Doctor - Brings in light, renews and clears perceptions.

Pink: Warmth to love ourselves, promotes a loving atmosphere

Deep Red: Re-energizing, grounding and protection from earth energies

Red: Re-vitalizing, an everyday protector, grounds purpose

Coral: Learning to love and care in a new way, heals unrequited love

Orange: For shock situations when the etheric has escaped, brings insight

Gold: Release from irrational fears, connects with inner wisdom

Yellow: Antidote to nervousness, negativity and irrational fears

Olive Green: Cleansing, refreshing space, letting go of resentments

Emerald Green: Helps to find ones own space for a new beginning

Turquoise: Releases creative communication from the heart

Sapphire Blue: Promotes inspiration, higher vibrational love, and trust

Royal Blue: Inspires inner peace, inner seeing, insight and intuition

Violet: Opens perception and awareness of the higher realms

Deep Magenta: Energizes the gifts of compassion and deep caring

Aura Soma - A Message from the Masters - The Quintessence

Another wonderful gift from Aura-Soma is the Master Quintessence. Each Aura-Soma Quintessence is unique and invokes the positive energies of its color. They work on a higher vibrational level than the Pomanders, opening up a pathway to the intuitive and spiritual perceptions within the being. Each Master energy reflects a higher level of consciousness.

Using the Aura-Soma Quintessence linked with a particular Master can encourage the essence of that Master to be embraced by the auric field and chakra system, allowing for greater understanding on our journey through this lifetime. Serapis Bey is a particularly strong auric cleanser and a valuable tool for therapists. Healers, those who have incarnated on the path of service, can be vulnerable to the subtle energies emitted by their clients. Serapis Bey cleanses the energy picked up by the healer and transforms it into light.

El Morya: Aligns you with your purpose and strengthens your will

Kuthumi: Aligns you with the Devic and Angelic realms

Lady Nada: Aligns you with unconditional love and harmony of the universe

Hilarion: Aligns you with the way, the truth and the light

Serapis Bey: Clears away cobwebs for a clear vision and new beginning

Christ Consciousness: Realization of one's connection with a higher source

St Germain: Clears unresolved emotions, a catalyst for transformation

Pallas Athena: Awakens to the expression of beauty in all things

Orion & Angelica: Supports all kinds of journeys

Lady Portia: Releases self judgment and criticism

Lao Tsu & Kwan Yin: Supports behavioral change, releases old patterns and habits

Sanat Kumara & Lady Venus Kumara: Helps to find clarity and understanding

Maha Chohan: Helps to find your true feelings and your inner teacher

Djwal Khul: Supports your search for knowledge, truth and a new beginning

Holy Grail & Solar Logos: Stimulates receptivity and openness

Using Aura-Soma

Aura-Soma is a wonderful way to reconnect your body, soul, and spirit, assisting this collective energy to work in harmony. The vibrant colors and the essential elements contained within each Aura-Soma product lift the spirits to a higher level of well-being. Born of the Goddess this soul-oriented system inspires us to return to the whole Hue-Man beings we incarnated to become. A none-intrusive, self selective therapy, Aura-Soma sets in motion the natural rhythm of healing on all levels of being.

The Evolution of Aura-Soma

There are many copies of the Aura-Soma soul system, but none compare to the beauty nor the spirit of Vicky Wall's original Aura-Soma bottles. It is an evolving system currently comprising 106 balance bottles, 15 pomanders, 15 quintessence's, and various other balance products. Just being in the presence of the Aura-Soma Balance bottles is healing, and this is the most important aspect of our journey through this lifetime - to be healed!

My Work

I became interested in color symbolism as a child. Able to perceive auric energies from a very young age my mother, a yogini, encouraged and supported my ability, occasionally interpreting the colors I saw. She gave me a number of books on the subject but these held little information about the colors and combinations of color. At first I wondered if the people who wrote the books had actually what I was seeing as the interpretations differed and many did not ring true. I discovered that each person had their own interpretation and that color would reflect their view, but not in every case.

Twenty years ago I trained as a Color Therapist and through this discovered Aura-Soma. This beautiful system helped me appreciate the symbolic meaning of color combinations within the auric field. It is not just a case of one dominant color within a field. Your whole life, past, present, and potential, is held within this living organism. There are many colors, although there is often times a dominant energy.

In my counseling sessions I use Aura-Soma bottles in conjunction with my ability to see auric energy fields. Sometimes I see more color than my clients choose. I believe I am seeing a greater picture of who they are, maybe going deeper into their soul than they have chosen to look. We are on a path of healing. Any tool that can help us connect to a deeper aspect of ourselves is a valuable asset for self-healing, self-knowledge, and enlightenment.

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We all have our own fashion style, but did you realize your choice of colors may actually reveal more about you than just your tastes or that the colors you wear may even affect your moods?

It is now accepted that color can be used to stimulate or inhibit certain behaviors. Advertising executives are well aware that a product can have a completely different impact if the color of the packaging is changed. Psychologists have found that certain colors in our immediate environment can help us perform some tasks. For example, exercise is best performed in an environment of warm colors, such as reds and oranges, whereas the tranquil blues and greens are ideal for mental concentration.

Quite often the sayings in the English language have tapped into a deeper interpretation of the colors. Red with rage, green with jealousy, purple passion, feeling blue, he is yellow, are well known to most people. However, each color has a cornucopia of meanings associated with it. If you would like to understand what some of the common colors mean see the chart.

Your choice of color

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung encouraged his patients to use color in their paintings to express the deepest unconscious part of their psyches. We all go through “favorite color” phases. It has been discovered that personality traits are reflected by your preferred color. Extroverts favor the color red, introverts prefer blue, yellow is the choice of intellectuals, and well-balanced individuals tend to go for green colors.

Using color positively

Apart from recognizing whether something suits you or not, an inner sense tells you which color to wear. Deny this feeling and you could be ignoring a benevolent influence. For example, red increase’s energy and promotes free movement. For a woman it can reflect changes in the reproductive cycle such as menstruation or ovulation. If you have a sudden desire to wear red it could indicate that you are about to experience a tiring day and need all the help you can get. Interestingly when traffic lights were first introduced people had great difficulty stopping for the red light because on a psychological level red means “go” and green means “stop.”

Are you prepared to wear your feelings on your sleeve?

Why do you look great in a color one day and the next time you wear the same color it looks dreadful? It is because the color no longer reflects who you are in that moment. Wearing a color can cause you to act and react to life in different ways. Your choice offers insight into current life issues and can, in some instances warn of potential illness. 

Color and illness

Each color has positive attributes or truths and the opposites of these are challenges. For instance, the truth of the color blue symbolizes faith and communication. The challenge is a lack of faith, depression, and difficulty with speech. Conscious awareness of the colors you choose to wear can offer insight into potential change in your life. For example, Illness of some kind can be indicated when a color that is out of character is worn frequently. If the red range of colors is worn regularly it could point to a physical condition, the color blue an emotional imbalance, and yellow a nervous state.

Dis-ease means that we are out of balance, color can help to re-balance and make us whole again. Red colors are good for improving circulation and orange has been found to be beneficial for children with autism. The color green is useful for calming and balancing the heart, and is supposed to influence regeneration of cells and elimination of toxins. This is the basis of Color Therapy. Color healing was used in the temples of Heliopolis in Ancient Egypt, as well as in China and India. Hippocrates, the founder of modern day medicine, placed colored strips on cuts to aid in the healing process.

The Gray Areas

Black is a popular non-color, often worn to suppress and protect the emotions. Any color worn with it is a paradox since it represents unrealized potential. The promise of power that black evokes lies within the consciousness of the wearer. Combined with another color it augers control over its influence. With red colors it controls physical power and yellow colors intellectual power. White on the other hand highlights a color and worn alone symbolizes a clean palate, completion, purity, cleansing, and strength. The challenges of white are those that accompany a new start, anger, vulnerability, and tears. Gray is the combination of black and white and symbolizes the diversity of the two creating a state of caution. 

Combining Colors

When colors are combined each influence reflects off the other. Wearing green with the color red puts a different slant on the meanings. As green means stop and red means go, these colors together can signify a difficult decision, usually involving staying or leaving a situation. Wearing these colors can aid in the decision making process through the vibratory influence of each color. 

Color Therapy

Whether it’s a date or an interview think about the impression you want to make. Use the information on the color page to plan your wardrobe and achieve the greatest impact. The truth of each color symbolizes potential, the challenges indicate blockage. Wearing a color can stimulate and/or counteract either of these energies. For example, if you are lecturing wear blue colors, for a steamy night of passion bring out the red dress, and if it’s attention you are seeking opt for the limitlessness of the color yellow. If you wear more than one color combine the meanings and create your own new potentials and challenges.

Red

Symbolizing awakening red exudes power, energy, and a passion for life. Red is known to heal sexual difficulties and anemia.

Truth: movement; new beginnings; decisions; passion; love; energy; life; security.
Challenge: anger; frustration; lethargy; nervousness.

Wear red when:
You want your sexuality to exude from your being.
Your energy is low and you need a boost.
You want to be more assertive and want to make things happen faster.

Don’t wear red when:
You are feeling nervous
You don’t want attention
You are feeling frustrated and angry with everyone.

Orange

Often worn by eastern aesthetics, orange is associated with vibrant health. It has the same vibrational frequency as DNA, the template of all human cells. This color is known to heal shock.

Truth: creativity; new ideas; confidence; joy; sensuality; ambition; sports; childhood
Challenge: shock; fear of survival; dependency; letting go; control.

Wear orange when:
You want to fun and your sensual circuits need to boost.
You need to heal your emotions.
You want to heighten your creativity.

Don’t wear orange when:
You want to relax your feminine/masculine charms.
You feel restless.
You want to take a rest.

Yellow

A color often worn by entertainers, because it makes them stand out in a crowd and confronts the challenge of being center of attention. Yellow is known to heal the digestive tract.

Truth: freedom; optimism; mental activity: concentration: open-mindedness
Challenge: fear; no boundaries; negativity; timidity.

Wear yellow when:
You need to attend to details.
You are studying and need to keep your mind awake.
You want to infuse some joy into your life.

Don’t wear yellow when:
You feel fear.
You don’t want to be the center of attention.
You want to relax your mind.

Green

Those seeking their own identity, fulfillment of their heart’s desire, and/or are searching for a new direction, are drawn to wear this color. By doing so they are challenged to find ways of creating their own abundance. Green heals the heart, eases tension, and regenerates cells.

Truth: security; abundance; nature; heart matters; new space/beginnings; balance.
Challenge: unrealistic; shying away from people/society; stagnancy.

Wear green when:
You want to see things from a different perspective.
You desire to feel more space around you.
You need to feel like both feet are on the ground.

Don’t wear green when:
You are confused about where life is taking you.
You feel your life is stagnant.
You don’t want to face the truth of a situation.

Blue

“True blue” symbolizing devotion to duty worn by most authority figures - nurses, policemen, etc. Anyone who consistently wears blue are deep thinkers and tend to re-energize by seeking their own company above that of others.

Truth: authority; peace; organized; practical; devotion; structure; communication
Challenge: aloofness; control issues; isolation; depression; martyrdom.

Wear blue when:
You want to exude an air of calm authority.
You need to be more organized.
You want to communicate something important.

Don’t wear blue when:
You are feeling isolated or lonely.
You feel depressed.
You are being too critical of both yourself and others.

Violet

Violet can indicate major change and a need to retreat, as a caterpillar retreats into a cocoon before it transforms into a butterfly.

Truth: transformation; spiritual self-realization; truth; creativity; recovery; healing.
Challenge: pain; misuse of power; bruising; looking for a way out; grief; unemotional.

Wear violet when:
You want to transform something in your life.
You are seeking purpose in your life.
You need to let go of destructive behavior or addictions.

Don’t wear violet when:
You are daydreaming instead of doing.
You want to turn your back on society.
You suffer grief but your emotions are blocked.

Pink

Pink symbolizes unconditional love. Wearing it encourages a sense of affection, increases sensitivity, and challenges you to confront your vulnerabilities.

Truth: unconditional love; affection; flirting; open to love; hearing.
Challenge: lack of self-love/self-esteem; healing grief; immaturity; vulnerable.

Wear pink when:
You want to feel feminine and vulnerable.
You want others to love you instantly.
You need to concentrate and listen.

Don’t wear pink when:
You feel vulnerable and insecure.
You are giving all the time and not receiving.
You feel fragmented.

Brown

The symbolism of color is based in part on the natural world. For instance soil offers some insight into the meaning of brown - needed to grow food, without it we would be challenged to find ways to survive.

Truth: security; practicality; work; money; commitments; determination to succeed.
Challenge: loss of security; lack of money; fear of survival.

Wear brown when:
You need to get down to some hard work.
You want to organize your finances
You want to feel that everything in your life is going well.

Don’t wear brown when:
You want to expend lots of energy.
You are feeling too bogged down with things.
You are not interested in hard work and want to play instead.

Turquoise

Known to enhance healing of the immune system, useful for illnesses such as AIDS. Native Americans use the semi-precious stone Turquoise as an allergy healer, also an autoimmune condition.

Truth: communication; lecturing; media; creativity; immune system healer.
Challenge: inability/unwilling to communicate; poor defense; rejection

Wear turquoise when:
You are lecturing - especially around the throat.
You want to tap into your creativity through dance, music, art, etc.
You want to connect with your own spirituality.

Don’t wear turquoise when:
You feel rejected.
You don’t want to ‘talk about it!’
You are more interested in yourself and not others.

Body language

Once you have mastered the art of color interpretation begin to incorporate the body language of color. For example, legs symbolize movement - moving forward, backward or standing still. Green worn in this area might signify a move to the country; standing still and feeling stagnant; or walking back into ones past. Alternatively, it could indicate a move toward making or saving money, or, signify a lack of abundance due to lack of movement. On the other hand, wearing green may be a subconscious desire to attract abundance.

Head - how we feel about ourselves
Neck - flexibility of thinking and communication (openness)
Front - capacity to give and receive life
Back - support
Midline - ability to assimilate life
Arms - life experience
Hands - abilities
Genitals - sexuality
Legs - movement
Knees - flexibility to change
Feet - understanding of ourselves and of life

Have fun with analyzing your choice of color. As you become adept you will attain an understanding of yours and others motivations. Gradually your individual experience will color your interpretations.

At least for the time being you will be more aware of what your clothes are saying to those around you, and what you want them to say! 

You Are the Colors You Choose

“I am the round table at which the community gathers to nourish itself.”

Everybody has a natural impact they create in the world. Do you know yours? Everybody has a life purpose that gives him or her the ability to make decisions based on what they want to do, rather than reacting to the conditions in their lives. Do you know your life purpose? Knowing my natural impact and having a written life purpose statement has allowed me to live a more fulfilled life.

I retired in 1992, and was searching for what to do next. I had a sense that something was calling me, but didn’t understand what. In 1998, I started The Coaching Training Institute’s courses. At that time I had no interest in being a life Coach, I just liked taking classes and I wanted to be a better communicator and leader.

During the Fulfillment class, we explored the impact we naturally create in the world. I knew I enjoyed helping people, but I wasn’t doing very much of that. Through a series of guided visualizations, however I started getting a clearer picture of what that could look like. In the class, we coached each other to get a phrase about our natural impact. Mine was something like, “to help others who want to help themselves.”

The second part of the process was to identify what you would have to be to have this impact. The goal was to come up with a metaphor or symbol. Following some more coaching I realized that I only wanted to help people who wanted to be helped, and that I was not interested in working with people who were resistant. I then got this image of people coming to a table. I thought of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The round table was important because everyone is seated equally, and the circle is a symbol of wholeness.

I saw individuals coming to my table, sitting down, and eating. I only provided the table, and the space. Finally, I saw myself as the table, and with a bit of word-smithing, I arrived at my life purpose statement.

During the next few years, I did some informal coaching, and saw how that was aligned with my life purpose. When an opportunity arose to do it full-time, I took it. In 2000, I became the Staff Life Coach at The Omega Institute for Holistic Studies.

My life was changed forever when I learned my natural impact, and wrote down my life purpose. I consciously and unconsciously started moving towards that simple 13-word sentence phrase, my true north. I made decisions that were in accordance with the natural impact I create. I began to live a more fulfilled life. Over the years, I have coached 100’s of people on their life purpose, and they have all enjoyed the same experience as me. You can do it I can help.

Win Harper has a private practice, presents Life Coaching workshops, and heads the Leadership Training program for the management team at Omega. He co-leads the InSight and InTuition: Living a Purposeful Life workshop in Costa Rica for Omega with his wife Elizabeth and is the Sealed With Love Life Coaching consultant.

Contact Win at www.winharper.com.