***Cate Blanchett's Oscar Aura Readings

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I have an annual custom of doing aura readings, comparing auras of top-nominated actors with their auras in roles; it's a great way to practice using deeper perception.

Anyone nominated for Best Actor or Actress has the technical skills down cold. The voice, the walk, the imagination , the ability to make a role seem spontaneous and real.

But an intuitive reading can show you something even more fascinating. Who changes so deep, even the aura is altered? What happens deep within energy fields?

Auras combine changing experiences with gifts of the soul, components that usually don't change. But can a super talented actor change all the way down to that level? Some can.

This year, I have researched five ultra-revealing aura databanks on each nominee for Best Actress and Best Actor. Then I have used a photo of each nominee as herself or himself.

For comparison, I have read those very same databanks on the actor or actress in the nominated movie role. In this article, we're reading Oscar-winning, amazing Cate Blanchett.

Until you can do aura readings through a dedicated technique, try this short-cut. Look into the actor's eyes, in the photo being read. Then turn to the comments on one chakra at a time. Alternating this sequence, you can taste the flavor pretty strongly.

This is a kind of intuitive reading, a super-scaled-down version of one of my techniques for reading the soul through the eyes. You'll receive just about 10% of the clarity from doing bona fide aura readings, but it's fun. And it's a start.

In "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," Cate Blanchett does a great sequel. But I do find one most unfortunate change that she hasn't done as an artistic choice.

First let's read the actress as herself, using this photo: www.selfgrowth.com

PRESENCE WHEN ENTERING A ROOM at the Root Chakra

Imagination and emotional life are strong. Alas, the main Cate characteristic here isn't only her problem. It's America's number one job requirement for actresses.

Extreme thinness isn't agreeing with the actress. Note, I'm not officially accusing Blanchett of having an eating disorder . Maybe she just hasn't had quite enough cookies.

Still, take another look at that photo. If it doesn't make you cringe, the good news is that you're well adjusted to America's vanity culture.

The bad news is that this part of our culture is crazy.

Specifically, we routinely disconnect the required outer appearance from what it would mean to live in a body reduced to near-skeletal thinness. When more people read auras, more of us will hear that scream of "Feed me" and we'll stop confusing cruelty with elegance.

Yes, I'm very concerned about Blanchett. That lack of enough cookies seems to be a more serious concern for her now than it was years ago. Here's how I read her just a year ago, when she was nominated for her performance in "Notes on a Scandal."

Exploring the same root chakra databank that I'm reading this year, I wrote:

A strong person, of uncommon courage. She is emotionally intense, also strongly empathic but very much in control of her gifts.

What a difference just one year can make, under pressure to make her body fit the super-thin actress mold.

SEX APPEAL at the Belly Chakra

Blanchett is well endowed with sex appeal, and she knows how to use it to attract notice. Aurically, that doesn't mean flaunting (at least not in her case). She can project that sexiness with all the skill that a surgeon might use to direct a laser beam.

Beyond this gift of her soul, Cate Blanchett's sex appeal has a wistful quality, at least in this photo. Despite her talent and renown, this actress does not seem to be especially happy.

HANDLING POWER IN TOUGH SITUATIONS at the Solar Plexus Chakra

What a warrior, fierce! Reading here I'm reminded that we're seeing Blanchett as female only in this lifetime. Yes, she's a woman. Yes, she is hetero. But this part of her energy field remains way yang.

EMOTIONAL CONNECTION TO OTHER PEOPLE at the Heart Chakra

More self-absorbed than she used to be, I fear that Cate Blanchett expends a lot of her energy now in hiding her unhappiness. Emotionally, she has to work hard to keep herself going as cheerful, professional, and dignified while in the limelight.

SOUL DEVELOPMENT High Heart Chakra

Here we have an ancient being, wise and service-oriented. This ancient component witnesses a lifetime that is starting to turn the corner on tragedy. I hope she will soon round that corner into a new and happier version of life.

In her role as Elizabeth, what is different for the great Cate? Read this photograph to compare: www.selfgrowth.com

PRESENCE WHEN ENTERING A ROOM at the Root Chakra

Good heavens, this is sad. T he actress is working heroically to project personality into a tiny amount of root chakra energy. She is trying to turn that small amount of energy into steel.

It's a valiant effort. The best analogy I can make is to invite you to imagine a woman who once had a glorious, full head of hair. Now her hair is thinning badly. She's styling it beautifully but the main thing you see is the wispiness.

SEX APPEAL at the Belly Chakra

Excellent job here. Cate has cut her projection of sexiness to about 25%, then turned it androgynous and calculating.

HANDLING POWER IN TOUGH SITUATIONS at the Solar Plexus Chakra

Gloriously, Cate has developed a character with a female kind of power mixed with incredible wiles. And these aren't the so-called "feminine wiles."

Instead, this is a power dancer's wiles, where she looks in many directions at once, harnessing a super-quick reaction time, sophisticated beyond anyone I've ever met. Dick Cheney, eat your heart out!

EMOTIONAL CONNECTION TO OTHER PEOPLE at the Heart Chakra

Cool, verging on dominatrix – again, this is a complete change of chakra. Scary but superb!

SOUL DEVELOPMENT at the High Heart Chakra

I'm fascinated. Cate Blanchett has chosen to portray one of the great female rulers of all time as a very young soul, almost petty in her self-absorption. Weird choice, but the actress has done a fine job.

CONCLUSION:

Total number of chakras dramatically changed: 5It's a bravura performance, alright. But I'm saddened by the change to the actress' aura in one short year.