SALEM, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) – City leaders expect about 1 million visitors to Salem this month for Halloween season.
That’s good news for Ascend Get Lifted in Salem, where Luis Pena reads auras from a photograph.
Aura photo process
“That camera takes that living energy, stops it for a moment in time, prints it, voila. There’s your aura,” Pena said.
Pena guided Wick through posing for the aura camera.
Reading results
“We’re sharing the same thoughts, okay? It’s the same thing. So, that blue that you see there within your heart center,” Pena said. “So, what that says is that you’re a woman who is naturally connected to the realm of sense, feeling, intuition, and magic, as my kids call it.”
Wick asked Pena what he tells people who come in for the gimmick.
“I love people like that,” Pena said. “So I remind people, this is science. The language of the universe is energy, frequency, vibration, and that’s what you’re looking at here.”
Journey to Salem
Pena moved from Los Angeles to Massachusetts, where another aura reader took him under his wing.
“He saw my potential and a potential that I didn’t even realize I had it,” Pena said. “I can honestly say with all of my heart, I get to do what I love for a living. And I couldn’t be happier.”
Pena said readings can include emotional moments.
“We go through so many boxes of tissues, because a lot of times we see relatives, past loved ones, who have decided to jump in the photograph,” he said.
On pink in auras: “It shows confidence and will, okay? There’s a little song out there, and it goes like this, I see it, I like it, I want it, it’s mine. There’s your motto,” Pena said.
“Magic is what we call science now. And if we look 200 years from now, that science for them is magic to us. So I always remind people, the two worlds are very much intertwined together,” Pena said.
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