Friday, November 13, 2015

Chakra Knowledge - Solar Plexus

Yellow.

It's the color of smiley faces, sunshine, and Tweety Bird. It is also the color of the solar plexus chakra, located between the navel and diaphragm . This is your emotion and willpower center. Blockage of the solar plexus may result in an overly emotional and lazy individual. This is where emotional baggage is stored. So many Americans carry excess weight, especially in the solar plexus area. What do you think this means about today's society?

Many of the stones associated with the solar plexus are golden: citrine, yellow apatite, yellow tourmaline, yellow sapphire, and Libyan desert glass. Other stones include tiger's eye, rhodochrosite, malachite, and merlinite.

Most citrine is created by heating amethyst. These heat-treated stones have different energies from natural citrine, but both types of citrine affect creativity, will, metabolism, and manifestation. Citrine is often used to increase energy while stimulating metabolism, which leads to weight loss. It is a good prosperity stone because it helps you understand your desire (will) and gives you the energy to go after it.

Thursday, November 5, 2015

Chakra Knowledge - Sacral

My last post touched on the 1st chakra, which is called either the base or root chakra. Its color is red and it covers the basic human instincts. We follow the rainbow to the 2nd energy point: the sacral chakra. It is located below the belly button and its color is orange.

The sacral chakra is creative energy. Not only does it include procreation, but the sacral chakra is also the inspiration for artistic ideas and projects. The sacral chakra is responsible for confidence, valor, joy, and sexuality. Having a blocked sacral chakra can lead to arrogance, lethargy, low self-esteem, and infertility (both of the mind and the body).

If you're looking for stones that work with the sacral chakra, you're usually safe if you select orange stones: carnelian, orange calcite, bumblebee jasper, orange sapphire, and sunstone. If you want to branch out to other colors, citrine, blue and red jaspers, and infinite are other stones that work well with this chakra.

The crystal that pops into my head when I think of the 2nd chakra is carnelian. This stone can range in color from a light orange to almost red. Remember, it's your connection with the stone, not the color, that will determine how well this crystal will work for you. Keep this in mind because many dealers enhance stones by dying them.

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Did you know carnelian is a member in the Quartz club? It is an orange chalcedony, which is a silicon dioxide mineral that contains tiny tiny TINY quartz in layers. Since it contains quartz, carnelian is easily programmed. As with all stones, carnelian has many properties. It is up to you to focus its energy on the traits you need.

Carnelian works on the first three chakras (base, sacral, and solar plexus). This stone not only boosts your creativity, it also lights a fire underneath you so you get things done! Physically and mentally, its energy gets your blood flowing. It's hard to procrastinate when the vitality of carnelian is pushing your ideas into action and giving your body energy to move.

Carnelian can boost your metabolism and can assist people who easily get chilled.

This orange stone overcomes negativity in both people and other crystals, as it fights depression and can be used to cleanse stones. If depression stems from abuse, carnelian can cut through the negative patterns and help you rise above the issues.