All the Academy Awards nominees for Best Actress have given outstanding performances… on the surface. They spoke their lines believably, developed an interesting character, got the voice, the walk, the look. Perhaps most extraordinary, these superb actors received direction with enough objectivity to improve a character's portrayal, rather than destroying it.

No wonder the Oscar nominees are so greatly admired. Yet only a tiny minority of them have gone all the way, changing their CHAKRAS. The takes the greatest talent, and a rare kind of courage.

What does it mean to shift that deep, playing a part? Nothing within you feels the same. Imagine a length of beige cloth that you are dying green. Most people would be satisfied with a cloth that looks green. But you will not be satisfied with some simple dunk in the vat. You find a way to do the ultimate transformation. Consequently, the cloth changes so completely that if you held the most powerful microscope in the world up that cloth, the most minute fibers would glow bright green.

Well, okay, here is something easier to imagine: What happens when an aura reader like me turns movie critic? I can read the deepest possible shifts within an actor. And that is just what I will do in the article, with an in-depth critique of Helen Mirren's performance in "The Queen." Here are links to the photos I used in the article:

Photo 1 - As Herself

Photo 2 - In the Movie

Since I can read auras from regular photographs (and could teach you to do the same, incidentally), it's easy to compare the aura of an actress just being herself to her still shot from the movie, where she acts in character. Did I see the movie? Yes, and I loved it. Here, reading from photos, I asked the question: Who could transform all the way? This is what I found about Helen Mirren in her role as Queen Elizabeth:

Root chakra -- How her personality projects when she enters a room

As herself: Dazzling, beautiful, glamorous, youthful (energetically about 30 years old)—she's magical… what one used to think of decades ago as "a real movie star."

In the movie: Omigod, does she ever have it. I have read Queen Elizabeth's aura as well, and this is an uncanny evocation. It is not easy to play this particular individual, starting with her root chakra, because few people on earth have this kind of experience: "I rule."

Maybe people today don't believe in the Divine right of kings, but even today there is something a wee bit different about being considered royal. This woman has cultivated a personality that seems calm and modest, precisely the opposite of overbearing. Nonetheless, she is absolutely She Who Must Be Obeyed. Score Helen with an absolutely stunning change of chakra.

Sex chakra -- What would she be like as a lover?

As herself: Helen's sexuality is large and unabashed, with a healthy combination of masculine and feminine energy. (Everyone does have both, you know, regardless of gender and sexual persuasion.) She is uninhibitedly pleasure seeking, giving and receiving a really good time.

In the movie: Red-blooded, healthy but a tad under-sexed, that is the woman in view here. A complete change of aura.

Solar plexus chakra -- Handling power, what is her pattern at the time of the photo?

As herself: Helen's aura holds a lot of learning about power, layer upon layer, as though she has studied it minutely for many years and incorporated the learning into her bag of tricks as an actress. Also worth noting—clearly she was male in the lifetime right before this one. Although female and hetero in this life, she remembers a great deal about having power as a man.

In the movie: Indomitable, strong, and confident at her core, the Queen is going through quite a fluster, quietly, angrily. A complete change of aura.

Heart chakra -- How does she handle emotions?

As herself: Loyal, warmhearted and affectionate—yes, behold Helen at her most uncomplicated. She is uncommonly well adjusted as an actress. Beneath the surface lies vast emotional knowledge about human experience, again as if having a bag of tricks that she usually stows away, usually closed but available to open whenever she wishes.

In the movie: Maybe the most fascinating chakra in this performance, Elizabeth is an emotionally intense person who has pushed herself to seem unflappable. Current circumstances arise an emotional depth she may not remember having possessed, it has been among mothballs so long. A complete change of aura.

Communication chakra -- Truthfulness? Talent? What shows here?

As herself: Communication is her delight, authenticity her habit. When not acting, Helen is very adept at scaling her communication down to size, like a singer with a huge voice who lowers it while meekly singing along with a chorus. But Helen's comfort zone is to let that jack-in-the-box uncoil. Her natural tendency is to fill the amphitheater with her created communication, and the larger the room the more natural it feels to her, deep within. She is born to reach everyone in the huge audience.

In the movie: Very restrained, prim and proper—even when she feels like her head is exploding. A complete change of aura and, as usual with this portrayal, extraordinary finesse.

Spirituality chakra -- How does she connect to God?

As herself: Outwardly Helen Mirren may not be religious. (I know no details about her personal life.) But aurically, you will not find a sweeter devotee of God, and also a finder of God.

In the movie: Spiritual life isn't helping her much, not now. She has a placid and serviceable relationship to religion (Hmm, might that be the Church of England?) That relationship to God is more a formal acquaintance than an active experience. A complete change of aura.

Soul expression chakra -- Deep down, how does the person feel as a human being?

As herself: Here Helen has struggled. I suspect that serving the world through acting has always been easier for her than off-stage life. But by this time in her life, the actress has made her peace with being human. She has learned to have a human, small-sized identity, and thoroughly enjoy herself. This hard-won inner peace is one of the greatest inspirations about Helen Mirren's aura.

In the movie: Aw, this chakra portrayal is (to my perception) the only false note in the performance. Joy is peeking through, more related to Helen's aura than the Queen's. Not a significant change of aura, certainly.