Chakras & The Spectrum

Patreon 11.16.22

As I’m sure you know, each chakra has a color assigned to it. Usually, in a sort of shorthand, people cite the colors as ROYGBIV. Red-Orange-Yellow-Green-Blue-Indigo-Violet.

For my money, Blue was too vast an option, so after years of work with the chakras, I was happiest with Turquoise for the 5th Chakra. Roy’s middle initial became T in my chakra world.

And, you also know that I work with eight chakras, not just the classical seven. The eighth is Rose Pink.

Why do the chakras have colors?

Because they represent the actual life force — call it what you will — chi, prana, mana, qi; my preferred name for it is the Divine Spark, which is a burst of white light — as viewed through a prism. A prism divides light into the spectrum. Hence, the rainbow.

But now we get to consider a fascinating differential about color. Most of us don’t think about color as light; we think of it as pigment. In the case of light, white is all colors together; in the case of pigment, black is all colors together.

So let us be clear. Today we are approaching color as light, not as pigment. A side benefit to this is: you are looking at a digital image, which is also based on light.

What this means, though, is that we are limited by our medium. The colors you see on the illustration are as accurate to my sense of the chakra colors as they can be on a computer. Despite that, they are not “correct.”

Tomorrow, I’ll do my best to write about the colors I mean these digital spheres to represent. I think you’ll be surprised.

When you get a sec today, check your own chakras. Can you sense any colors? Which ones?