C is for: Chakras
This post is part of a series I’m so excited about: “The ABC’s of What I’ve Learned as a Medium and Intuitive Healer.” This is my full-time career, and I am thrilled for the opportunity to share what I’ve learned!
*I say Spirit to mean God, the Universe, the Cosmos - I use these phrases interchangeably for all enlightened beings who help us. I use “greater Spirit” or “Spirit” to mean everything out there, taking care of and managing in here: Them as a group and concept. You may choose to substitute the word “Spirit” with Jesus, Archangel Michael, Allah, Lakshmi, Kuan Yin, The Universe, The Cosmos, or about a billion other names, and it doesn’t matter. Spirit is all this and so much more than we can ever understand. They don’t care what you call them so long as you give them the same respect they give you. I work with these beings closely, as they are an integral part of my practice and career. It is a relationship I heavily encourage everyone to build, as it enhances every aspect of our physical lives and spiritual practice.*
Chakras
The importance of our chakras cannot be overstated! Not only for mental, emotional, and spiritual matters - but for our very everyday physical and material lives as well. Understanding our chakras can really reshape life, as everything we encounter begins and ends in our chakras and with our belief systems!
*For the purposes of this (and every conversation I have): when I say “energy” I mean “information.” Energy is information. If you say, “That person has bad energy,” you’re implying you don’t like the information you’re receiving. We receive a lot more information than we think from others, all of which is being filtered through our subtle energetic systems. Their systems are doing this too. Meaning if we find someone’s information to contain “bad vibes,” we can be pretty sure they feel the same about us! It’s really just a filtering process to see who and what in a room aligns with what we already believe to be true.*
Chakras are essentially information centers, like little warehouses in and out of our bodies: they store our beliefs, emotions, memories, and more, while converting said energy into physical energy. They really control our vibrations and overall frequency because our vibrations are based on the beliefs in the chakras and our conclusions about them. They hold our fundamental belief systems about the world and work with our auric layers to ensure we run into every situation in the area which can confirm what we already think is true.
Each chakra works with the layers of our personal auric field to create our external circumstances. For example: If someone holds a deficiency in their first chakra which tells them they have reason to be afraid of the world in a general sense, the first layer of their auric field, informed by that first chakra, will constantly look around for situations nearby to confirm that bias - anything around which could make that person more fearful, they’re almost sure to run into it. This is manifestation in action! This is why when we’re irritated or angry, we seem to find every other angry person in the vicinity to connect to (hello, road rage incidents). Thankfully, this also creates happy accidents, where two people with positive beliefs and similar frequencies meet at the right time and place, and create something beautiful.
Many are familiar with the seven main in-body chakras, widely known as the Hindu chakra system. There are more chakras than this, many more (even in-body), but the seven main in-body are the chakras which govern most aspects of our everyday lives and what we are manifesting, as well as most aspects of personal intuitive gifts.
There are also five personal out-of-body chakras. These hold our past-life traumas and experiences, connections to our ancestors and elemental beings, very unique and personal psychic or intuitive gifts, and so much more. In most, these five chakras and their corresponding auric layers remain dormant. These are inherently more spiritual chakras which involve a lot of self-discovery as well as spiritual discovery and interest, and they’re simply not applicable to everyone’s lifestyle! If we don’t use them, we have no reason to open ourselves up to this amount of information, which can be confusing.
With any chakra (or auric layer, nadi, meridian, etc. - any subtle energy system can be similarly afflicted, but chakras are the most important) we may find blocks (think of these as deficiencies) or energy being used improperly (think of these as excesses), these will always be stemming from personal behavior informed by damaging or limiting belief systems.
I’m going to go through each of the twelve aforementioned chakras and how they’re meant to develop, as well as some common situations I see within some!
The Seven Main In-Body Chakras
1) The First or Root Chakra (Muladhara)
The first chakra is really the first in so many ways. This chakra is the first to develop after we’re born, beginning within our first year of life, and holds our fundamental beliefs about physical necessities. Our groundedness and how we feel about our basic right to be a person and do well in this world are in this chakra! We are taught as a baby whether we should feel we deserve to be here, or whether we are a burden to our family (which is really our first society). If the latter is the case, if a baby with a developing root chakra is taught that their cries are a burden and that their family does not want to take care of their physical needs, they will likely feel like everyone in the world feels this way about them for the rest of time, without help.
One reason negligence is so traumatic for a child this young is that their fundamental beliefs about safety, security, and survival are being created. If this is how their physical safety is treated, what can we expect for their emotional safety when the emotional chakras have begun to develop? How well can they be taught to relate to others if this very first, most fundamental relationship is painful? A child born into an unsafe or negligent environment is taught from the beginning that they are a problem. Their life and existence is a problem. This will affect every single move they make.
*I gently remind those lucky enough to be approaching parenthood for the first time that there is nothing going on in an adult’s life which is as important as this. There is nothing an adult could be going through which is more important than their obligation to help their child get through the first years of their life feeling safe, deserving, and wanted, so their chakras can develop healthily for the rest of their lifetime - what happens during this time cannot be undone.*
That isn’t to say a person with an unhealthy root chakra is broken or cannot be helped. As an adult, it becomes our responsibility to repair what has been done to us, even if it wasn’t our fault. We can want to be better, to move through the world feeling safe and secure, or we can decide the trauma placed on us means we have to be traumatized for the rest of our life. No one will do this work for us, and that even if we were treated horribly in our youth, we are still the only one who can make our life better as an adult.
*As mentioned before, all chakras are converting subtle energy (in the form of beliefs, feelings, thoughts) into physical energy. When we do not deal with our emotions and thoughts, they turn into physical problems which we will hopefully be forced to deal with. This is something a lot of us don’t recognize! Our physical body is always trying to pull us toward understanding our energetic maladies. So with each of these chakras, the emotional concerns become physical at a point.*
When we have chronic problems in the root chakra, we regularly also have problems in the pelvic area. With the genital organs or adrenal glands, excretory functions, some kidney function, or bladder function. This can also affect the pelvic bone structure if there are enough problems.
Several chakras also either govern or have a heavy hand in different psychic or intuitive gifts. Though the root chakra does not specifically govern any psychic gift, one who does not feel grounded and safe at the base cannot really engage in most intuitive behavior very well because they will always be using it for this first, most fundamental thing. Minimum, they will not be able to control their gifts to the best of their ability.
2) The Second or Sacral Chakra (Svadhisthana)
Our sacral chakra develops next, and as a child this is mostly about creativity. Every single child on this earth is creative, whether they are artistic or not. We often don’t think about the fact that coming up with resourceful and unique solutions is incredibly creative, and this is something children excel at. Coming up with an internal world we play in is creative (and we could stand to do this as adults). Culture teaches us that the best thing we can do as parents is break our children's creativity and ask them to all think and behave the same way.
This is the first emotional chakra to develop, and each of our chakras really wants to build upon the next. So let’s begin an example of how things work if our chakras are given room to develop perfectly (though no one’s are): our first chakra is developed and we have been taught within our first years of life that we are safe and secure, that our survival matters to the people who love us - basically that we should exist in this world. Now comes the first expressions of our personality and what we want to make of our personality! This really comes from the sacral chakra or second chakra.
When this is nurtured, we are capable of being a unique individual and recognizing that everyone else is a unique individual worthy of hyping up. Jealousy can be a huge problem which absolutely wrecks the sacral chakra because our souls know that we are not supposed to be jealous, but excited and grateful whenever anyone else puts creativity into this world. We should not look at someone else’s expression of creativity and be jealous, because we know they are expressing from their place as themselves, and we must express from our place as us. If we try to do someone else’s art, we are creating something inauthentic. No one else’s art can line up with our soul’s exact experience and we know it - this is why plagiarized art rings immediately untrue. All these belief systems begin and end in the sacral chakra!
Much later in life, as this chakra goes through its second awakening (we really cycle through awakening and re-awakening each at different ages and stages of life - if we didn’t learn fundamental lessons about safety as a child, we’re given a chance during subsequent awakenings of the root chakra, for instance), it will have a lot to do with sexual expression, which again is a creative act! Not just the physical creation of new people, but the mental and emotional creation of intimacy between lovers is a very creative act as well. (And again, jealousy can wreak havoc in the chakra - sexual or creative envy can take over every aspect of our lives.)
This also holds our belief in our own creative abilities. If we don’t believe in the things we can create, we are never going to use this with our third chakra to go out and get what we want! The second chakra is everything to do with how we express ourselves and our feelings, not so much how we express our thoughts.
The physical energy here mostly has to do with our ovaries, testes, intestines, prostate, sacrum. Fertility issues regularly begin as chronic problems in the sacral chakra, either because children were introduced to sexuality too young and were traumatized, or because creation as a vibration has been energetically broken within the body, so one then has trouble creating a human being. Each is devastating, and each needs love and help.
The sacral chakra governs the ability to use clairsentience (clear feeling), as well as many, many sub-gifts which involve the intuitive use of sensing others’ feelings.
3) The Third or Solar Plexus Chakra (Manipura)
Continuing our perfect example: our root chakra has been developed and we feel safe and secure, our second chakra has been developed so we know how we feel, what we want to create, and how we want to express ourselves emotionally within the world. Now it’s time for our solar plexus chakra to develop so we can take these beliefs and this creativity and go out and do something with it.
The solar plexus is the last of our physical chakras, and the second of our emotional chakras. This is where we learn to use our emotions to our benefit by applying mental acuity. One thing many of us hear regularly is that people believe emotions are weak. Emotions are to be beaten, stamped down, shoved to the core and thoughts are to reign. The problem is, a thought cannot work without an emotion to inform it. Our emotions tell us what we do and don’t like about this world so that our thoughts can tell us how to empower or fix it. There is not a single feeling or thought that comes to us that we are not supposed to do something with. They are there for a reason and it is sincerely mathematical. Our feelings are meant to inform our thoughts so that the two together can inform our behavior. Then we are meant to rest, and do that cycle over again. Most of us find ourselves doing a daily cycle over and over because our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are not aligned, and we live on autopilot without ever really moving forward out of the same thoughts and feelings.
All of this is really the home of the solar plexus chakra! The global paradigm is telling us that the actions we need to take are about getting more money and buying more things to look more impressive (they’re never teaching us to actually be more impressive, are they?). However, most solar plexus chakras are having problems because we don’t have the willpower to go out and get anything that actually matters to us. We don’t have the willpower and determination to heal, to find wellness, to recognize that no one will bring wellness to us and it is our responsibility to create it. This is the home of the solar plexus chakra. We know we are worthy and creative beings and as our solar plexus chakra develops it tells us to do something about it. This is how we express ourselves in the world, how we show our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors to others.
The most regular problem I find in the solar plexus chakra is in self-esteem. A deficiency in the solar plexus chakra almost always looks like too-low self-esteem to go out and be the creative person we were meant to be. Again, creativity is not all about artistry. Those in business would do very well to be creative. Good parents are often creative. Unique solutions to problems are creative. Being good at anything really requires being creative, unless you only want to do what has already been done. We are meant to be creative, come up with new ways to do things, come up with new ways to solve problems. That is why our souls are here in these human bodies: to feel, think, and do new things. Low self-esteem is maybe the number one thing holding humanity back in the eyes of Spirit. We have been taught to look at confidence as something it is not, and we have been taught to look for confidence in the wrong places. When we use our solar plexus chakra in tandem with our first and second chakra, when we believe in our worth, our creative abilities, and we have the self-esteem to use those things, we are unstoppable.
Less regularly, I see the opposite problem. An excess in the solar plexus chakra where someone has plenty of confidence, but doesn’t necessarily have the physical security or emotional awareness to move forward either, and they’re usually stuck in constant motion. The ability to self-empower and take steps which show we have really understood our own motivations, this is firmly the home of the solar plexus chakra.
Physically, our solar plexus chakra deals with our digestive systems and the whole stomach area, our liver, spleen, and gallbladder. As well as our pancreas. A lot to do with how we physically filter and process. We are also getting into the spine and it has a lot to do with our lower vertebrae.
The solar plexus chakra governs claircognizance or clear knowing.
4) The Fourth or Heart Chakra (Anahata)
The heart chakra is our final emotional chakra and our first relational chakra. If everything has developed perfectly, now, we are supposed to take the fact that we feel safe and use it to make others feel safe. We are supposed to know we are a creative being and help others be creative beings (recognizing that our world will be better with as many creatives in it as possible - jealousy is poison). We are supposed to have willpower and confidence, and we are supposed to empower the willpower and confidence of others. This is the heart chakra. Knowing that everything you need: others need it too. Learning not to be selfish. Learning that others need the same love and kindness that we would hope they would give us. The same respect we would hope they would give us. Many of the beliefs held in the heart chakra are related to just this - whether we victimize ourselves or others, whether we believe others do so to us, whether we even care about paying attention to others, etc. (If we don’t care about others, they can’t care about us, it’s vibrationally impossible.)
The only way to receive respect and love is to give it, as counterintuitive as that feels to those of us who have been damaged since youth. Giving love and respect and receiving love and respect are two sides of the same vibrational spectrum. To earn respect, one must give it. There is no other vibrational possibility: it is vibrationally impossible to be disrespectful and receive respect in return. Same with compassion and forgiveness! People come to intuitive healing wondering why they haven’t been given forgiveness or compassion by others, not recognizing that they aren’t forgiving or showing compassion to others or the people who hurt them. We will never get something from the Universe which we ourselves are unwilling to give - it’s not possible.
All this, the way we relate to others and the way we want others to relate to us, this is the home of the heart chakra. It is connection and love of all kinds, and knowing that everyone else with a heart chakra is deserving of the same love, kindness, and respect we wish we had every moment of our lives. Connecting to Spirit comes first from forgiving what has happened to us, showing compassion for those who hurt us because we know they couldn’t have done it if they felt good themselves, and agreeing to move forward as the loving being we came to earth to be. This is the heart chakra. Amazingly, once we’ve done this, it’s actually impossible to run into anyone who would even be cruel to us.
Physically, this chakra has a significant amount to do with the heart and lungs. I regularly find people who have difficult bonds or repeating concerns in the heart chakra have irregular heartbeats or problems with breathing. It has a lot to do with our circulatory systems, how we receive oxygen, and the chest and breasts.
Love, appreciation, gratitude - we have these things for the Divine or we don’t, and having these feelings for the Divine and for the other people around us really opens us up to doing better with each of our intuitive gifts! The heart chakra doesn’t specifically govern any gifts, but when we are unpleasant as a general way of being, the heart chakra is usually contributing to unwanted issues within use of intuition, and Spirit isn’t inspired to help us grow our gifts (which is a huge factor in how well our gifts do).
5) The Fifth or Throat Chakra (Vishuddha)
I find problems in the throat chakra more than any others (and I struggled with this one severely for most of my life), and a big part of it is that this is one we tend to lie to ourselves about quite a bit. The throat chakra is how we communicate, but also how we understand communication from others. The throat chakra is a purely relational chakra. Everything involved is about how we relate to and communicate with others, and how we believe they relate to and communicate with us.
Continuing with our example of a person with perfect chakras: we are a safe and secure individual who recognizes their own creativity and who has the willpower and determination to go out and get what we want with those things. We also recognize that others are worthy of those same feelings, and we use our heart chakra to empower others to feel that way. Now, our throat chakra should be able to communicate exactly this way. Our throat chakra wants only to be an honest voice for our heart chakra, and it always is. If we use our voice in unpleasant ways, it’s a reflection of what’s in our heart.
When we feel safe, creative, confident, and loving, we do not need to fight, scream, or shout. Regular yelling, fury, rage - I’m not trivializing them because they’re incredibly painful. Because they’re incredibly painful, we really have to become comfortable saying that someone who has healthy chakras does not behave this way, which really means that someone who is internally healthy is not behaving this way. It’s actually impossible for a person with healthy chakras to take out their feelings on other people in a general sense, which is what rage, fury, and yelling do. This is the home of the throat chakra.
Lying is an energetic problem within the throat chakra, as is cheating on a partner (due not only, but heavily, to the lying involved). A person who lies habitually is not expressing themselves from a place of authenticity, and is out of line with their inner being because of that. To Spirit, the only acceptable lie is one which keeps everyone involved safe when they are in significant and immediate danger, and there is evidence of this as this is the only kind of lie which does not directly abuse the throat chakra. Going back to our example, this is because when we feel safe, creative, confident, and loving - we don’t have anything to lie about.
Physically, this chakra governs the throat, ears, mouth, jaw, and vocal cords. I also regularly see thyroid problems in those who have regular excesses in the throat chakra. Significant problems with the teeth regularly also come from regular excesses in the throat chakra. (I personally dealt with all of these at one time or another from years of abusing my throat chakra - again I' promise I don’t mean to trivialize these issues, we just have to talk about them.)
Less frequently but still regularly, I find deficiencies to do with those who do not stand or speak up for themselves, and allow their boundaries to be consistently crossed. When one does not feel free to express their voice, their heart is locked up and remains unspoken for, and it’s incredibly painful. This creates a heavy block in the throat chakra.
Clairaudience (clear hearing) is governed by the throat chakra.
6) The Sixth or Third Eye Chakra (Ajna)
The third eye is our first spiritual chakra, and our final relational chakra! This is mostly how we relate to our higher self and to ideas about society at large, and how we use these things to plan and then build our future.
Continuing our example, if our chakras developed perfectly: we are safe, creative, confident, loving, and we comfortably and honestly express all those things. Now we can begin to understand how to build our own future.
Our third eye chakra governs our intuition and perception. It has a lot to do with our self-acceptance and self-image, and especially in how we relate these things to our higher self and how we go about building our lives out of all this. It governs how well we look to the future, not in terms of precognition, but in terms of knowing we create our own physical lives and have to work hard to do so. Using our intuition is incredibly logical, it can be seen as the most logical thing we can do! The third eye is where we learn that our intuitive nudges are logical nudges about how to make our future a little better than our present - a little more knowledgeable, aware, exciting, fun. Following our intuition, in every case, means building a better life for ourselves. That’s what our intuition is for. It has a purpose! All this comes together in the sixth chakra.
The excesses I see here usually look like one trying to force a certain view of the future: we have exactly one acceptable version of the future in mind and nothing else will do, so we end up missing a lot of opportunities for beautiful situations because the future never looks exactly like we imagine it (and it shouldn’t - we can’t imagine it as good as it can actually be when we open to the possibility of co-creation with our higher selves and spirit guides). Deficiencies generally look like the opposite: complete inability to look forward or realistically create future plans. This chakra is developing as we’re maturing (think getting out of our childhood home and making our own life decisions with big consequences for the first time), so deficiencies and excesses often look somewhat immature.
Physically, the third eye chakra governs the pituitary gland, some aspects of our ears, our eyes and visual systems, some aspects of our olfactory systems, how we store our memories in the physical brain, and certain aspects of the left eye specifically!
Our third eye governs many aspects of clairvoyance: psychic sight. Certain forms of clairvoyance also come through the crown chakra, so one may still receive impressions if their third eye chakra is damaged, but many forms of clairvoyance happen exclusively in the third eye chakra.
7) The Seventh or Crown Chakra (Sahasrara)
The crown chakra is our personal connection to the Divine! Only once we have really worked through the physical, emotional, and relational aspects of life are we ready to delve into the spiritual. This is the realm of our crown chakra.
Following our example: We are safe, creative, confident, loving, expressive, and we can easily look forward and see how to use all these things to create a good life with a healthy self-image. Our crown chakra is now ready to show us the meaning of all of it: it’s going to introduce us to the Divinity in ourselves and in Spirit. This is when we begin receiving intuitive insights about the universe which are relevant to us and our interests.
Until now, most of what we will want to work on will be in the physical, emotional, and relational areas of life. We need to have worked through a lot of these to be able to see the spiritual with clarity.
I find two regular problems in the crown chakra, and they’re almost opposites. Deficiencies in the crown chakra typically show up as people who are incredibly fearful or hateful of religion. When one has grown up in oppressive religious environments, whether perceived or actual, their crown chakra will regularly be blocked due to thinking of the Divine or God or Spirit as one thing specifically, and usually something bad, mean, or angry. Fear of God instead of love of God really opens to a block in the crown chakra. A lot of societal concerns are also contributing to this - I’m finding more societal problems with crown chakras in general because of huge global fights about religion. I’m not going to go there, you get it.
The other problem is one about which people regularly get upset, but this is just the truth so I’m sorry! People who find themselves on the witchier or more occult side of spirituality regularly have excesses in the crown chakra, and this is because they are sometimes disrespectful of the Divine and look at God as a tool humans can use or control. I don’t say this about everyone! I work as a mentor for some who are on the more witchy side and as long as they’re respectful of the Divine and trying to work with the universe rather than make demands of it, all is well! But some of those who practice witchcraft as their form of spirituality aren’t recognizing the Divine in themselves, the Divine in others, or the Divine in the Divine, but regularly instead make demands of the universe based on what they see as a way to gain personal power. This creates huge excesses in the crown chakra, and honestly blocks one off to almost all intuitive gifts. Anyone preaching about their personal power has a ruined crown chakra, and thus has no power to their name. To inspire people, we don’t show them our personal power - we show them theirs.
One of my favorite stories about healing comes from Christianity, and the story is of a person going to an energy healer who asks, “What can I do for you?” The seeker asks, “Can you heal me?” The healer says, “No, but God can. So what can I do for you?” This is the exact attitude behind a healthy crown chakra - understanding that the quality of a healer is in the amount of Divine energy they can channel. We are not really healing most of the time, and the quality of the energy we can channel is drastically better if we open up to let Spirit do the work through our body and without our ego saying we know how someone else should heal, because we never do. Being the best in the eyes of Spirit is saying truthfully that we can never know what another person needs, so we should help however we can without trying to direct anyone else’s life or outcomes.
Spirit works with us through the crown chakra, encouraging us to be safe, creative, confident, loving, expressive, and intuitive, because that is what will move us through this world and toward our purpose. Meeting our purpose really often comes from being energetically healthy enough to not get caught up in the more difficult or murky parts of life run by the lower chakras. Our inner voice is always guiding us toward our purpose by feeding us feelings and thoughts which could help move us forward and toward this oneness with our higher self as a state of being. This is really the home of the crown chakra - where all other in-body chakras culminate.
Physically, the seventh chakra governs our skull, cognitive abilities, parts of our brain and pineal gland, as well as the right eye specifically!
The crown chakra has a heavy hand in some aspects of clairvoyance, and really has a hand in all gifts, because gifts are given from the Divine.
The Five Personal Out-of-Body Chakras
These chakras have much more to do with our higher selves than with us! As explained, though they are dormant when we are born, our 1st through 7th chakras will always develop in each of us.
Our out-of-body chakras may store a few different things, not all related to belief systems! They may store access to something, beliefs, knowledge, connections, and more information, all specific to our higher self. If a belief system is stored in our out-of-body chakra, it isn't *our* belief system from this life, it's our higher self's belief system, based on every lifetime they've ever lived.
This is a big responsibility! Because of this, when we are born, these chakras are dormant, and Spirit has to have a say in our awakening them. One who has them awakened has a larger auric field or region of influence, and can enjoy more connection with their higher self, past lives, and intuitive abilities.
8) The Eighth Chakra
The 8th chakra is very special and very different from the in-body chakras - it actually holds no belief systems! It is mainly an access port: a way to connect with your higher self and for your higher self to connect with everything else in the universe. It also holds the ability to gain psychic information about others, so one who does not have their 8th chakra fully open should not be doing readings for others, other than as practice.
The 8th chakra is an access port to: The Akashic Record, the Shadow Records & Book of Life (basically other areas or different branches of The Akashic Record), many soul development areas, and truly has access to all planes, dimensions, and time periods when you know how to use it - this is a chakra we often journey through (shamans also journey through the eleventh).
The eighth chakra also holds our personal karma as well as any past-life trauma held by the soul. It holds onto the traumas themselves, symptoms currently being caused, and karma in the current lifetime which is a result of these traumas.
The eighth chakra also holds past-life intuitive abilities, especially for those who are shamans (one who can travel between and communicate with other worlds - once you’re a shaman in any lifetime, you are forever and just have to turn the gift back on), and any who can journey, and many gifts will come pouring out as the chakra has turned on!
As touched on briefly, there is more or less an “on/off” switch in the 8th chakra which gives one access to retrieving information about others psychically. One who has this on still has to receive consent!
9) The Ninth Chakra
The ninth chakra is a few feet above the head, and it is really the home of intentions which are being held on a soul level.
No two souls have been through identical experiences; the options vary so wildly as to be completely indescribable. We are each a combination of thousands of years and unique experiences, which no other soul could live out in exactly the same way!
The ninth chakra stores four overarching things (though each of these is a huge concept): lessons learned or unlearned as a soul and for the lifetime, access to each and every past life this soul personally has lived, beliefs about Universal consequences based on everything big they have ever been part of (every time our soul has murdered someone, been murdered, been part of a large public panic, been institutionalized - there are a lot of things stored here which our soul is never meant to forget), and the life path for this life.
10) The Tenth Chakra
The 10th chakra is amazing because it doesn't follow any of the rules! It is such a completely unique little warehouse, even more than the other out-of-body chakras.
The 10th chakra has everything to do with your ancestry and lineage. It has links to your blood ancestors and your genome, but also has your connection to Earth while you are a resident of it. This can be confusing, as we think of ancestry and lineage as something very much to do with this lifetime, and I said the out-of-body chakras have to do with our higher self and all our lifetimes! This is because our ancestry in every lifetime is *heavily* related to our soul's journey. One lifetime is never really just one lifetime, and many souls are even inclined to be their own ancestors, or come back and incarnate later in the same line they were already in.
The 10th chakra begins to develop while we are still in the womb, which also goes against the rules of the out-of-body chakras, which may never activate during any given lifetime. But while we are in the womb, our higher self fills the 10th chakra with specifics for the coming lifetime. This is because things like ancestry, intense illness, large and genetic disabilities, ancestral trauma - all these are being dealt with on a multi-lifetime basis. These are always planned ahead of time before a lifetime, and based on the lifetimes which came before. The 10th chakra tries to ensure that our body goes along with our soul's plan.
Every chakra is connected to the body, and the 10th chakra is connected to the bones. It makes so much sense that our ancestral chakra is connected to our bones, as we say when our ancestry is off or something is wrong with our lineage, we can just feel it in the bones.
Along with ancestry, this chakra holds a connection to the Earth and to the natural beings and elemental beings of the Earth. (If we were incarnated on a different planet, it would hold the same for that planet!) This chakra resides beneath the ground, several feet below our feet. And though our spirit will go on, our physical body will die and in many cases be buried just where our 10th chakra used to be. This is very important, symbolically and physically!
One who has this open has access to different forms of mediumship as well as elemental and animal communication. This is one I see most often open in people who have had highly spiritual past lives, even if they didn’t open it intentionally this lifetime.
The tenth chakra technically stores three things: our personal and soul ancestry (this also holds onto and governs certain mediumship gifts, as mediumship, in the first lifetime we access it, is an ancestral gift), a connection to the planet’s natural elements, and a connection to natural beings.
11) The Eleventh Chakra
The eleventh chakra is around the whole body, but heavily concentrated around the hands and feet (this has a lot to do with why many who work on other people with their hands absorb others’ energies - physical therapists, doctors, etc., absorb illness through the eleventh chakra without proper energetic boundaries). It manages our connections, but really our spiritual beliefs about connections, and how we go about using them.
To reach eleventh chakra level connection, one has to have already worked through difficulties in day-to-day life, such as lying to or cheating on partners, putting personal needs above family needs, neglecting or harming children, etc. Before we are ready to deal with connection on this level, we need to make sure the connections we have in day-to-day life are sacred to us and are something we treat well.
Likely because my partner is a coder, I’ve come to think of the eleventh chakra as our “metadata.” The data from all other chakras is stored here, as well as all connections between all channels (meridians, nadis, chakras). Possible spiritual-chemical disorders reside here, and beliefs about our sense of power in and to influence society based on all cultures in which we’ve ever lived. The eleventh chakra is so important, it is the least likely for Spirit to be willing to open for us, because we can do so much damage with it if we use it poorly.
An entire form of Shamanism is happening exclusively within this chakra, so every shaman would do well to have this chakra open.
12) The Twelfth Chakra
The twelfth chakra is all around the body and connects to the body in many places. It holds personal knowledge unique to the individual as a soul. Because each of us is such a unique blend of lifetime’s lived, no one else can do exactly what we can do.
The 12th chakra technically stores 3 things: knowledge unique to the soul (things ONLY your soul knows, based on all lifetimes lived), abilities unique to the individual (including completely unique psychic gifts), and connections between our personal fields and the greater fields (or earth’s fields), which can be used for manifesting if Spirit is inspired to help.
Through my Etsy store, I offer an in-depth video Chakra and Auric Field Assessment, looking through the chakras and auric layers for un-awakened intuitive gifts, deficiencies or excesses, subtle bonds, energy sitting, etc.
Thanks so much for reading! I’d love to hear about your experiences with chakras!