Aura Reading Oscar Nominee Mickey Rourke

Aura Reading is the ultimate way to assess an actor’s performance.

Here is the final installment of an ongoing project to do my annual Aura Reading Film Critic role, assessing which actors have exceptional skill.

Of all the nominees for Best Actor and Best Actress, I have saved that tough-looking Mr. Rourke for last. What can he teach us about courage?

As for the acting aspect, it takes extraordinary talent to change so deep, it goes all the way down to a chakra. And that’s what I’ll investigate here.

Does he or doesn’t he? Only an Aura Reader knows for sure.

You don’t have to know anything about Aura Reading to enjoy my comparisons, but the biggest fun will be to mobilize your talent for Aura Reading — because you DEFINITELY have that — by developing this particular form of literacy.

To learn background about the technique I have developed for this reading, starting with my work for the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper, check out this earlier Aura Reading blog post. newspaper, check To learn more about my method of Aura Reading Through All Your Senses(R) and receive your own Aura Reading, etc., see the LINKS section at the end of this post.

In “The Wrestler,” Mickey plays Randy, a wrestler who resolves to change his life following a serious accident. For the role as Randy, I’ll use the photo above. Here’s the Aura Reading Randy link, in case you want to open the picture in a separate window.

For our comparison photo of the actor, let’s use the one here. And your Aura Reading Mickey link can be used to open another window with that photograph. We’re going to compare and contrast one Aura Reading Databank at a time, awarding Chakra Change points as appropriate.

Aura Reading Databank at the Root Chakra

• As Mickey: He’s not sure he enjoys everyday life, and certainly doesn’t trust it, but one thing is sure. He’s going to have a good time, the best possible. Laughter, drinking, rough-housing — it’s great to be  alive when you’re Mickey O’Rourke on a good day.
• As Randy: Wow, this is a sample of the Angelina Jolie style of acting. Mickey’s character is just like Mickey except he is sending out a large thought form that goes, “I’m a very serious person now, very serious.” Plus he’s slightly subdued.

No Chakra Change point here, unfortunately. A thought form is an add-on to a person’s aura, something that skilled Aura Reading can clearly distinguish. It’s like the difference between wearing a big yellow smiley face vs. a real smile.

Sex Appeal

Aura Reading Databank at the Belly Chakra

• As Mickey: So cute! What he projects is a huge amount of sex appeal. This is not the cerebral, tortured, “Ashley” from “Gone with the Wind” kind of lovin’ but more like puppy love for grownups. He’s enthusiastic, affection, and just plain into sex.

Checking out a related Aura Reading databank that I call “Real-Life Sexiness,” Mickey is just the same, if not more so.

Here’s a big difference, then, between Mickey Rourke and Angelina Jolie. Excellent! Now let’s see if he’s done much differently with his Sex Appeal Aura Reading databank, the acting as Randy.

• As Randy: Nope.

So no Chakra Change point here, either.

 Power in Relationships

Aura Reading Databank at the Solar Plexus Chakra

• As Mickey: Never before have I done Aura Reading on a wrestler, so I’m mighty curious. “Life sucks. Life isn’t fair. I don’t have much say about any of this.” No wonder so much anger is stuck inside. Although I haven’t had clients who are wrestlers (to my knowledge), I’ve worked with plenty of people who started off feeling both powerless and angry.
• As Randy: No change.

So far, it’s not looking good for those Chakra Change points.

Being in Touch with His Own Emotions

 Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra

• As Mickey: If an emotion is really strong, Mickey might notice it. One emotion at a time is about his limit, however.
• As Randy: This character has sorrow going on. He feels his emotions through sorrow the way that you might see everything dark green by wearing green glasses.What impresses me is the much greater depth of emotion. It’s still only one emotion but, wow!, this is suffering at its suffering-est.

Score Mickey a Chakra Change point.

Communication Charisma

Aura Reading Databank at the Heart Chakra

• As Mickey: Communication Charisma is lacking. It’s as though he has a sign on his aura that reads, “Maybe there will be nonverbal communication, but don’t expect me to be good with words.” Gosh, he’s reminding me of George W. Bush!
• As Randy: Interesting dramatic choice. Now the actor seems more like Karl Rove.

Just kidding.

Instead of Mickey’s usual mild, mostly thwarted, attempt to communicate with words, this character isn’t trying to communicate at all. He is so purely a victim. He’s taking it, taking it, taking it — criticism from others, with a martyr-like (fighter-like?) stamina for accepting the worst.

Philosophically, I’m not a fan of this approach, nor do I enjoy glorifying it in movies or anywhere else. You don’t have to tell me that genuine suffering exists, that people can feel powerless and struggle to survive the best they can.

Yes, there is a certain beauty in this. But I’m a healer by profession, and if I had a client who was going through something like this, I would urge him or her to have Aura Healing and Transformation, so we could make life better, one session at a time.

Back at this performance, I’m beginning to understand why people could like this character and enjoy watching the movie. If I were awarding points for vicarious suffering to bring on catharsis, Mickey would have won 10 big ones. But since I’m critiquing acting here, score just one Chakra Change point.

Spiritual Connection

Aura Reading Databank at the Third Eye Chakra

• As Mickey: Here’s the really good thing about this actor’s aura: He’s sober now, and has been for some time. Otherwise, I find a kind of chronic clog that is typical of people who have done heavy drinking for a long time. This STUFF can be released, but while it’s there, life is harsh.

 The ineffable spiritual connection that belongs to each human being… it’s still there for Mickey, but hard to recognize. He’s long since given up trying.

• As Randy: Oh, this is so moving. The character’s Aura Reading Databank is very much like Mickey’s, except that Randy is trying. Unsuccessfully for now, at the time of this photo. Yet he is, at least, trying.

Score half a Chakra Change point.

Moral Development

Aura Reading Databank at the Solar Plexus Chakra

What summarizes the person’s guiding principle for ethics?

• As Mickey: “I’d like to be happy, just for a while. Gee, I hope I get lucky.”
• As Randy: “I’d like to be less of a victim for now. Will people be nicer to me?”

Different sentences, similar victimhood and lack of much concern about truly moral behavior.

Score Mr. Rourke 1/4 Chakra Change point.

Conclusion

The score of 2 and 3/4 Chakra Change points isn’t great. But it’s still better than most actors do, because most of them don’t change a single Aura Reading databank significantly. And let’s keep in mind that he has done way better than Brad Pitt did in his nominated role. (Check out the Pitt Aura Reading here.)

Links

Blog-Buddies, I spent about a week developing articles like this one, only about the Best Actress Oscar nominees. You can read the article for free by signing up this month for my Zine. Go to the Rose Rosetree website, scroll down and you’ll find the sign-up info on the left.

You can learn how to do Aura Reading from regular photographs. Click here for information about the first how-to book to introduce this kind of Aura Reading technique, “Read People Deeper.” It’s easy to order, whether by clicking on this link or calling our toll-free number, for U.S. and Canada, available 24/7: 800-345-6665.

If you think that most people can’t yet gain accurate, in-depth Aura Reading insights from a photo, you’re right. You might well become the first person in your circle of friends to do this kind of Aura Reading. And the wild part is that this isn’t terribly difficult. You just need to learn the Aura Reading techniques that will get you there.

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Another way to get experience of Aura Reading databanks from the inside, as if the data were part of YOU, is to do an empath merge. I must admit to having done this when reading the Moral Development Aura Reading Databank in this article.

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Once you have become a skilled empath, it will be appropriate (and totally safe) to do a dedicated technique to turn your empath gift(s) ON. My name for doing this is “Empath Merge.”

The ultimate in “movies” is using your skills as Aura Reader and/or Empath to learn who these characters are. Each of us, not just Mickey Rourke, has so much going on. And personally, I’d rather get inside someone’s head than watch it being bashed. How about you?