SALEM, Mass. (WGGB\/WSHM) – City leaders expect about 1 million visitors to Salem this month for Halloween season.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s good news for Ascend Get Lifted in Salem, where Luis Pena reads auras from a photograph.<\/p>\n
Aura photo process<\/p>\n
\u201cThat camera takes that living energy, stops it for a moment in time, prints it, voila. There\u2019s your aura,\u201d Pena said.<\/p>\n
Pena guided Wick through posing for the aura camera.<\/p>\n
Reading results<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re sharing the same thoughts, okay? It\u2019s the same thing. So, that blue that you see there within your heart center,\u201d Pena said. \u201cSo, what that says is that you\u2019re a woman who is naturally connected to the realm of sense, feeling, intuition, and magic, as my kids call it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wick asked Pena what he tells people who come in for the gimmick.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love people like that,\u201d Pena said. \u201cSo I remind people, this is science. The language of the universe is energy, frequency, vibration, and that\u2019s what you\u2019re looking at here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Journey to Salem<\/p>\n
Pena moved from Los Angeles to Massachusetts, where another aura reader took him under his wing.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe saw my potential and a potential that I didn\u2019t even realize I had it,\u201d Pena said. \u201cI can honestly say with all of my heart, I get to do what I love for a living. And I couldn\u2019t be happier.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pena said readings can include emotional moments.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
On pink in auras: \u201cIt shows confidence and will, okay? There\u2019s a little song out there, and it goes like this, I see it, I like it, I want it, it\u2019s mine. There\u2019s your motto,\u201d Pena said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMagic 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,\u201d Pena said.<\/p>\n
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