Chakras & Symbolism: 1–4
It will come as no surprise to you that every person has their own idea of what chakras look like, both inside themselves, and in others. And, for all we know, each one of us might be right, or, maybe better said, each one of us is right for ourselves.
That’s how it goes when dealing with things that are invisible to the five external senses, and that’s why I only take students who understand that my goal is not for them to adopt my system, but to learn mine so as to be able to develop their own.
What that usually means is that we instinctually look for symbols to represent whatever it is that’s invisible.
Take medicine by way of example. We have the caduceus to represent all that medical personnel and treatment encompass.
The same is true of the chakras.
For the next two days, we’re going to touch on how to work with more than one chakra at a time — because it’s very, very rare that only one chakra is involved in an external issue.
A quick reminder the first quartet of chakras, Red Root, Orange Sacral, Yellow Solar, and Green Heart are the templates for learning the basics about: body, heart, mind, and spirit, in that order. If your troubles source in an erroneous learning about how life works, here is your palette for change.
The colors associated with them are, of course, red, orange, yellow, and green. ose — the colors of the first, second, third, and fourth rays of the rainbow spectrum.
Generally, all imagery indicative life skills: how to care for a body, and most especially your own; how to connect with your feelings; how to use your mind to change your world; and how love makes life a whole lot easier.
When you’re working on First Quartet Chakra issues, make sure you either wear or can see all four colors wherever you spend most of your time. Small pieces of origami paper work well for this. This covers sight.
Music that reminds you that you are alive covers hearing. (Suggestion: what did you love, love, love in high school?)
Red, orange, yellow, green foods of all kinds cover taste. I’d go to the grocery and get a pepper of each color — not to eat, because peppers don’t like me, but to see, and remind me that foods come in all these colors.
Find a rainbow fidget, or put several small tumbled pieces of carnelian, citrine, sapphire, or emerald on your desk or get a small squares of fabric and tuck them into your clothing somewhere to cover touch. Remember, the stones have simply to be the colors you want to use.
As for scent, the most primal of our senses, what smells like red to you? An apple? Orange? An orange? Yellow? A lemon. Green? Broccoli, lettuce? Still in the produce section, I see. The other way is to remember a situation in which a color associated with a scent stood out for you. Imagine it, and there’s coverage for smell.
Soak up these symbolic reminders to fill up your first quartet of chakras.
A reminder: here is where chakras come from: When a being incarnates, there is a burst of brilliant light. I’d call that The Divine Spark. It animates all your systems. If you’ll view that burst of light, that Divine Spark, through a prism, you will see the eight major chakras.
