E135: Beginner's Guide to Auras with Kennedy Vienneau

E135 Beginner's Guide to Auras with Kennedy Vienneau

Learn all about the colourful energetic field around your body, and how to tap into your spiritual and psychic gifts!

[2:12] Valerie LaVigne: Welcome back to another episode of the Women's Empowerment Podcast. I am so pleased to be here today with a new guest, join me in welcoming, Kennedy Vienneu the show. Kennedy is a gifted 22 year old from Alberta, Canada, she loves all things Disney as well as most things from the Spiritual World, Kennedy is an aura reader and healer, as well as an up and coming spiritual mentor, welcome Kennedy. Thank you so much for being on the show today. It's very wonderful to have you here.

Kennedy Vienneau: Thank you for having me. I'm so excited. This is my first podcast so it's like a good icebreaker podcast. I'm excited.

VL: You're going to be amazing. We chatted a little bit before the show, and I think this is going to be a really fun conversation we have tons of questions, some from me and some from the listeners, so I was explaining this a little bit earlier to to you and to the other people who wanted to ask you questions was like you're really interesting and kind of unique guest to the show, because I've never had anyone who reads auras, and most people actually didn't know what that meant. So let's start with Kristin's question and she wants to know what is an aura?

KV: Okay, good question. An aura. I like to describe it as like when I look at people, everyone has a little tiny atmosphere around them, and then there are colors and movements within the atmosphere and that's your aura changes on your mood and what's going on in your life and all that kind of stuff. It's really cool.

VL: That does sound really cool. Now I've had some experiences with you and you're reading my aura. However, I don't see this tiny atmosphere of color and moving, moving color I guess or energy we can call it. So, can everyone see auras, so it's just like, certain people can see auras?

KV: I believe that everyone actually can see auras if they dig deep enough, but some people, it comes by some people easier than others. And so, yeah, everyone can totally tap into that, that if they need to.

VL: Hmm, maybe we can explore this a little bit more. However, let's get back to you a little bit more. When and how did you know that you could see or us?

KV: I, when I was like an early teenager 12 or 13, I was talking to my mom and then describing to her how I see these colors around people and my mom is also very spiritual. And she was saying, you know, I think that's, or as I think we're seeing auras and it was, I was like, Oh man, like maybe I am. And ever since then it's just really cool to just look at everyone's aura and all that stuff but I never really truly tapped into it until the past year or so.

VL: Oh, very interesting. So before you had that conversation in your early teens, were you seeing auras before that and just like you just saw colors around people?

KV: Yeah, I've always seen colors, it's been crazy, I just, I thought that's what everyone saw I didn't know.

VL: You know what, it's so weird. You're saying these things and I feel like there was a time when I was a kid, when I would see colors around people, but that was never really nurtured to me like I, my parents used to say like, Oh, you were 13 going on 30 Or like three going on 13 Like, I always asked questions and I remember people saying, Who asked you to ask that question or who told you that it was like no one I just wasn't my question. And people always thought it was really strange for a young child to be saying certain things and I can't really remember what those things were but I don't know it just brought me back to like this weird memory of seeing colors around people. So, okay, I'm open to the idea that we can tap into these kinds of spiritual, spiritual gifts.

Can you let us know a little bit more about how you've been fine tuning this gift in the last year and maybe how we can fine tune our own gifts?

KV: sure I think there are a lot of tools that can help you tap More into the spiritual world, such as crystals, you know, they're really easy to come by and most people have access to them. You just incorporate them into your day by putting it in your pocket or, you know, just taking a moment to breathe with one and when you find that you're still and plus with the addition of the tool spirit will often approach you and want to talk to you and tell you all these cool things and kind of confirm things that you've been feeling if you have been feeling like you. Maybe you can see, and are still open to it.

VL: Now I know in your practice, because when I worked with you before you talk about your pendulum is this one of those kind of spiritual tools that we can use the pendulum and crystals? Do you use a specific crystal?

[7:40] KV: Yeah, You can, but for beginners something as simple as like a rose quartz or whatever you find you know Rose Quartz are typically the cheapest, and that is something that can help just like ground you and act as like a door almost to the spiritual world and they'll be more attracted to these things and yes I do use the pendulum, and fine tuning that it's very helpful in clearing the energy so that I know like sometimes I get in my head like Wait am I just thinking this, and am I just telling myself or my client what I want to hear, or is spirit actually trying to bring that through and so the pension is really helpful in clearing the space so you can hear it more direct, I guess.

VL: Okay, so could you walk us through maybe like a little ritual that you do to tap in with these tools like can you kind of take us through step by step, is that possible?

KV: Yeah, definitely. So for example at the beginning of my reading, I will sit down and take a few deep breaths and then I have like a ton of crystals so I just like to pick whichever one I want that day. And, or if my client is getting a reading says, you know someone is ill and needs help and I will pick a personal that way. And so, grab the crystal and just take a deep breath and say, you know, kind of like affirmations, but with spirit and say you know I'm open to receiving messages I'm open to learning more information about these people, that sort of thing, and then you just, it kind of just comes to you if you're quiet enough and some people who are still skeptical in the back of their mind, they still, it's really hard to get rid of that skepticism I know but you just have to try to push it away as much as you can and with your tool or just yourself if you just have that and then.

VL: And it sounds like this is something that would be nice to do kind of to help, I guess. Well, it's like building muscle right after practicing.This is so interesting. It really is like, it seems like such a meditative kind of intuitive tapping in word and not so much like, okay, read this book and say this affirmation, it's like okay connect to yourself, you know say that affirmation because you're affirming that I'm open to receiving.

Yes, and really there's like so much power behind the intention of what you're doing, not just sitting there thinking like, alright, suddenly the download, like, yeah I'm open to this you know skepticism aside, it's so interesting, I would love to try this more.

So, I've had two readings with you so far, and they weren't completely blank, not even close to being similar in any way shape or form, in terms of the color in terms of the reading that you sent me how, like, can you see the orange changing in a person, or is it more like, it just kind of evolves over time, how does it work, how does that change work?

KV: I can see or a sense of something big is happening behind the scenes. I can see that happening if it's something like a, it's not like a mood ring it's, you know as you stub your toe and you're angry that I don't see anger. It has to be something that you're thinking about multiple times over time, and then it will show up if it needs to be addressed and cleared out for you.

VL: Interesting, I feel like you’re reading my mind! Oh my gosh it's so crazy. So, how often, in that, in that case, how often do you recommend someone get?

KV: I'll say typically every four I'd say nouns or weeds for adults and six weeks for children, and that's usually good on keeping up with your spiritual hygiene and maintenance.

VL: Oh, spiritual hygiene that’s fun, I've never heard that before. And I also saw what you do or readings for pets, how does that differ from humans?

[12:17] KV: The pets are actually, like, sorry I love humans but pets are my favorite to do because it's just, they have so much personality and I feel like because they speak English and talk to us and have a lot of things that I want to say in any outlet that will approach them. And so, it's just, it's a lot like they're more bold, and sometimes the humans are like holding themselves back because they're nervous and sometimes skeptical and that kind of thing but animals are just excited to talk and so it's just really exciting and I, if you want to do something for your animal I see also every six weeks.

VL: Very cool. My sister and my brother may be interested in that, because they both have rescue animals.

KV: And I always say animals, even rescued animals are so fun to do.

VL: I'm gonna have to tell them all about this and I'm gonna get them to listen to this episode and convince them to get it.

This is actually a great transition into Paula's question and she wants to know, what information do you get from an aura reading, and then I'll just like to add to that question. Does the information really differ between adults, children, animals, that kind of thing?

KV: Yes, it does differ between adults, children and animals, the type of information I get is like, you know something people always ask me is, I don't want spirit to say all these, you're gonna have bad luck and you're gonna, you know, bad things are gonna happen, and spirit won't bring through negative messages, but they might bring through something that you're going through now that you're aware of, and that needs to be addressed and healed, but they bring that through for adults, and also for pets but I ask them to not bring that through for children because I feel like we don't need to know those things at this time and you know it's privacy and that kind of thing but the type of information that you get is, you know, you might get, like, a little bit of something from the future like kind of a psychic reading but you also, it's mostly just peeling out things in the past or in the present.

VL: Very interesting and I feel like you have a little pet friend who's joining us today. Like, I heard. Yeah, I love I love and we have extra special guests.

Okay so that is very interesting and what you just said actually struck a new question for me, which was, when you said you ask spirit not to tell you certain things for children. This is super interesting because I always think, Are you kind of bombarded by this message like you just hear something or feel something or see something and you're like whoa I didn't really want to hear or feel or see that. So it sounds like you've created quite the connection and the boundaries with spirit, where can you, can you like, turn the messages on and off. How do you manage your boundaries with spirit?

[15:42] KV: That is a really good question because I've struggled with this for a long time and I think a lot of other people struggle with this, and that's why they're afraid to tap into spirit more, because some people may not realize that they're, you know, intuitive and have all these spirits approaching them and they're afraid and nervous and don't know what's going on. So, um, I, my mom taught me about spiritual hula hoops. You have to hold the hoop on the ground and you step in it and then you physically run up with your hands and put it up and then no more. That's like a beginner's way of creating boundaries but now I just say, like if I'm doing a reading for someone and say, I can feel that their leg hurts or something and it's usually when I say, I feel like you're like hurt that's because my leg is hurting or is trying to tell me about it and so I feel it for a minute.

And I'm able to just say firmly, stop, no more. I understand what you're saying, you can back away with it now I don't need to feel that anymore. And same with spirit approaching me if they're just driving me nuts and just can't, you know like, can't get out of my space, I just stop and sometimes you have to get what sounds rude but sometimes you have to get like firm and angry with them and, like, back away, that's enough. I can't. I need some space, and they'll listen.

VL: Wow, this is so interesting. So, I used to work at a yoga studio and at this yoga studio there was a woman who was a Reiki healer, and I called her the angel lady because she talks to your angels and your guides, and to be having this lovely conversation with this woman and all of a sudden she was just kind of turned her head and not right now.

And you're kind of looking around like, What the heck is she talking to, there's nobody there. And then she's like, Sorry, go on and like, she's like this wonderful human and she would just be very firm no. That's enough.

KV: Yeah, and sometimes you have to do that.

VL: Yeah and I asked her, like, what are you doing, and she was, she told me she, this is when I kind of learned about boundaries in the spiritual world and how you can say, this is not the time and you really have to be firm in that and so she helps me because I'm someone who has very vivid dreams to the point where I wake up and I don't feel rested, because I have all these you know messages or adventures and all these crazy kind of things happened to me overnight that she's, she taught me that before bed. I'd like to do a meditation that basically said, Okay, if you need to send me a message you can do so but I need to be rested I need to sleep. So tonight is not the night, or like, we open to another night and, but I had to have to say it because it's like they don't get the boundaries and once you put them up with. I feel like trickle into real life to teach them.

Oh that's so fascinating. So tell me a little bit more about your mom and your relationship with your mom. You said that she is a very special person. She's been teaching you a lot about what an aura is and these boundary tools, what kind of work does your mother do?

KV: First of all, love my mom. She's my best friend, um, see, if she does everything she's kind of a jack of all trades really she does.

Like, she's a psychic and medium, and so she does, either in person readings, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. She does, either in person readings or video readings and uses tarot cards and oracle cards and all that stuff. It's really cool.

VL: I was gonna say that is really cool, and this is something that you basically grew up around. And so, this is like the conversation that you guys had when you were little. And so cool. Does your mom see auras as well?

KV: She does not see so she always says she was with me but I mean she's good at everything else so I got to have something.

VL: Oh my gosh, I love that so much. That is really cool you know what I think it's so important and so powerful, especially for kids who are seeing or feeling or hearing things that you know a lot of other people aren't recognizing, to have someone to say, It's okay, this is what that means and, you know, ask questions and, but in a way that's like supportive so I'm really glad to hear that you and your mom are so close did you find that really helpful. Growing up, I guess that's kind of what you knew, right.

KV: Yeah, it was definitely super super helpful. You know, every time I thought I was crazy and felt overwhelmed and all of this stuff she was just like, hey, no I can feel that there's a spirit here and that's why this is happening to you so you're not crazy. It's okay, and it was super helpful my whole life, especially in my teenage years.

VL: That's so cool. Okay so I have to ask because we're on a video chat right now. Can you see my aura right now?

KV: Yes, I can and it's really like, because of the plain background that you have, it's very vivid and strong.

VL: Cool. So that's interesting that you say that so I'm basically sitting in a closet and a wall behind me is like cream colored but plain. So, I got an aura reading with you I want to say in March, and then a month or a month and a half later, like, kind of recently, I was teaching a client privately and behind her was like a pretty plain background, and I saw this like red glow beside her head and I kind of like I almost had to rub my eyes a little bit and say what, what am I looking at here, and it was almost like my eyes got a little fuzzy and I could see this red edge. It's Oh I wouldn't call it a halo, I wouldn't even say it's like a full or it was just like a part of her like half her head on the outside was red and I thought, oh my goodness because, could this be like me seeing an aura.

KV: Yeah!

VL: Yeah. And I think that like the, the white background was really helpful and there was no red or orange or anything behind her it was literally like a white wall and I just remember thinking, oh my gosh I need to tell Kennedy this like, what do I do, so what, what should I do and situations like that, if we said if we think we see an aura, what do we do?

[22:24] KV: Okay, first of all, that is so exciting. If it's someone where you're close enough to say like, Okay, we need to stop for a second and like, ask them to back up all the way to the wall if they weren't already on the wall, and just ask them to stay still for a second, and then maybe ask them to think about different major things in their life and see if you can see any color changing, but, you totally thought an aura.

VL: This is really cool. I love that you know, we can kind of tap into these parts of us and I'm finding that I'm becoming a little bit more in tune with myself because I'm spending more time in nature. I am meditating a little bit more, mostly spending a lot more time alone since we're still in a quarantine at this moment. So I'm finding that it's easier for me to kind of connect to these, these parts of myself so I love the advice that you shared with you know using tools like the pendulum, and the rose quartz and being in that stillness and I find it really helpful.

So let's say that, that we can't, I mean I can't really see my own aura and I'm. This was like a one time thing and I saw this other woman's aura so if we wanted to get an aura rating with you, how do we get the most out of this experience? So you were saying, Like a plain background is really helpful. Would that be helpful for a reading with you?

[23:51] KV: Yeah, that would be helpful if you could take your picture with a plain background. Also, I really appreciate when people, you know, it's not just a headshot it's like half your mid body and, and then I can see more what's going on if you have something physical going on that needs to be healing that might show up better in that sort of shot so I'm trying to do better in recommending people take those types of pictures and so they can get the most out of it, like you say.

VL: That's really interesting because I usually send you a selfie. But Well, yours are good because they're farther far enough back, yeah like I like to really extend my arm out there. Okay, that's so interesting, so kind of like the belly button up or like the waist up, and maybe like a bigger background. Can we do like a full body shot, can we send you the whole thing. Yeah, sure. That works great too. So cool. So I worked with you before and it's very simple. I love the way that you do this, I was telling you this before we started recording but basically it was like, you tell me what day you're available, I send you the picture in the morning, you send me the reading you know by the end of the day, sometimes even sooner, and it's all through email and I love it because I can kind of look back on it and see my reading and, you know, some like the readings that I've had were very emotional, and I, I'll talk about them because I'm comfortable talking about them but the first one was more of like a physical healing, which was so interesting because it had a little bit to do and I don't know if you remember this but had a little bit to do with my hormones, and I have been working on balancing my hormones at the time so it was so lovely, that this was a part of my reading. And then what I also found was interesting was that I wanted Craig to get the reading too. I was like Craig, I got you a gift. He was like, okay, he's not super into the whole like, we call it like the woowoo spirituality but he's open to, he's like open to trying whatever I'm like basically I'm like I'm going to take a picture of you and send it to somebody. So what I thought was really cool was that you saw, like, almost kinda like part of me and his aura and you're like oh you guys were you guys are part of each other's energy or something like that, how does that work, how do you know that that's happening?

KV: Sometimes that will show up, and like, you know sometimes couples want two readings together it'll be. Same color, same color or I had a couple that had, like, let's say red, yellow, orange and then the other person had orange, yellow, red and I just know that that means that they're connected and so it's really cool that way and that just means that your souls are super connected and where they're supposed to be at that time and so it's kind of reassuring I think at least.

VL: Yeah, that's lovely. And that's what I was gonna say about the second or a reading. I had with you was very different. The colors were very different, and you read the aura more of an overall reading versus breaking down each color. And what I thought was interesting about the second or reading was that it wasn't really a physical or emotional, well maybe emotional but it wasn't really a physical healing, it was more like hey, something's been on your mind, and this is this reassuring message that you needed to hear. And so again, like, two completely different readings, obviously, like, a few months apart.

But I thought that was pretty cool. And do you find that there's like a pattern with people who get readings if it mostly heals? Is it mostly like physical or emotional healings, is it you know an overall reading, I mean, I've only had two experiences.

[27:54] KV: Um, I honestly it's all over the place all the time sometimes, you know, I think that's why I asked for a picture, the morning of because things can change so quickly and you're just not sure what it's going to be and sometimes it's like you say I do ring by ring and that's how spirit wants to do it but lately for almost all of my readings and it's been addressed as the whole and it's kind of been like a psychic reading and I don't know if that has to do with things that are going on in the world or the way the moon is or something but it just, it's always moving and it's always fluid, it's really cool.

VL: That's really cool and for the listeners who don't understand what Kennedy or I are saying by like color by color ring by ring is that typically in the aura reading you're seeing multiple colors and they're kind of layered over top of each other in this reading and in my first reading you kind of started on the inside. And you worked your way out and I think of it like when you chop a tree down and you see the rings of a tree, it's kind of like, that's what it kind of looked like in the one of the readings that I've seen, and you explain that every color means something different. And that doesn't mean that pink for me means the same thing as pink for somebody else, it's very dependent on that specific reading. Is that correct?

KV: That is totally correct I there is, you know, if you Google, what is orange or me and there is like a, what do you call it like a legend of colors, but I don't really do well with that I don't follow that I used to try to do that but it just got confusing and the messages were contradicting what the legend said and so I just kind of do a free for all, I guess if that's what you want to say but it's totally different colors mean different things every day for the most part

VL: I really appreciate that you explain this, when I was getting the war rating because to be honest I've always wanted an aura rating. I've never had one before and I never really knew anyone who could do it so when I, when I came across you and your page I was like, oh my god, I was so excited I jumped on the opportunity immediately. So it was really interesting to have you type it out and explain to them I thought oh this is so this is different. It's really cool.

My most recent reading, I feel like it was ambushed. Because you said there was like a Spirit coming through for a message for someone else, but not and you're like oh this is different.

So what I was gonna say to to that was that this isn't the first time that my energetic or spiritual reading has been, and the word is, I'm using as an ambush, but like, That's I guess the best word I can describe it as because like I'm here for a spiritual reading, and then someone else's messages coming through to me, and it's so wild how this has actually happened three times to me in the last year and I've probably only had like three or four sessions with people in the last year so I don't know if you have like an explanation for that this is like a little bit more of a personal and selfish question but I don't know if you have like an explanation for that. Or maybe some guidance for me like am I not putting my boundaries up or something. I just like an open vessel for other people's spirit animals and your guides to come.

[31:19] KV: Okay, is a good question because people are always like, they're kind of bummed about it and I totally understand. But it's honestly it's kind of like an honor because that means that you're just so open to the spiritual world that there's someone around you or something like that that's probably a skeptic, or just super closed off and spirit is desperate to get a message to them and they've been trying everything so last resort is kind of just to get their way through someone else's reading and just say excuse me, sorry I need to get the message through it's really important, and then that kind of, they come and then they go.

VL: It's so interesting and that's usually the feedback that I get that's like, oh, there's someone here or there's a message here, and the reason why this person has come or this energy is coming to you is because they know that you are going to receive this message and give it to the other person. And so I'm always just like.. “Mhmm”

I'm looking at the time and I'm thinking, Okay, I've just talked your ear off, but I do have a baby. Maybe this is like a loaded question, but I do have one more thing I wanted to talk to you about before we get into the last part of the show and basically it was something that you shared with me, you talked about opening our ER like people can do this opening our spiritual body to receiving those messages from spirit, as well as discovering manifestation power so I feel like we touched on this a little bit with tools with becoming still. Are there any last words of wisdom, pieces of advice, or maybe extending a little bit more expanding a little bit more on the manifestation part of that?

[32:48] KV: Okay so, it kind of goes back to the boundaries and you have to be super firm in your boundaries first. That's step number one, I feel like it's really you can't manifest until you have your boundaries.

And so, once you have your boundaries in place you can kind of use, like, a co-worker, almost like, Okay, now I'm, you know, receiving all these messages for you. What can you do for me now. And so, for example, if you want a way car, the snake, this model, this price, then you just have to keep saying, adults, can I please don't do that, say, like, this is what I want, okay this is what I want this is when I want it. And this is how, like, you have to help me in order to reach this in the timeframe that I want.

And so, yeah, you just have to be firm and say, This is what I want, this is what I want it, you're gonna help me get to those points, and then you'll be able to reach your manifestation goals. Does that make sense?

VL: Yeah! Well, this has been a very interesting conversation about some technical difficulties around. But this has been so helpful I learned a lot. I feel like this was such a fun and refreshing conversation.

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