Sahasrara-Crown Chakra Correspondences

Correspondence 

• Colors —Violet, white
• Element —Thought, cosmic energy
• Functions —Understanding
• Power —Inner Divinity
• Basic Rights —To know and to learn
• Demon —Attachment
• Power —Inner Divinity
• Strengths —Faith in the Divine as well as in inner guidance, insight into healing, devotion
• Shadow —The need to know why things happen as they do, which causes you to live in the past
• Life lessons —Releasing attachments in order to transcend earthbound limits
• Main Issues — Spirituality, selflessness
• Area of body governed —Upper skull, cerebral cortex, skin
• Associated Spinal Area —Pineal gland and pituitary body.  This chakra is not specifically associated with a nerve plexus or spinal ganglia
• Life Issues —Selflessness, spirituality & unity with everything
• Gland —Pineal
• Physical Ailments —Sensitivity to pollution, chronic exhaustion, epilepsy, Alzheimer’s
• Crystals —Crystal quartz, amethyst, diamond, white jade, white tourmaline, snowy quartz, Herkimer diamonds
• Shape —Round skullcap
• Plant —Lotus flower
• Musical Note —B
• Ruling Planet —Uranus
• Incense/Aromatherapy —Lavender, frankincense, rosewood
• Tarot Card —The Fool, The Moon, High Priestess, World
• Tree of Life Sephiroth —Kether
• Hindu Deities —Shiva, AMa-kala (upward moving shakti), Varuna
• Other Pantheons —Zeus, Allah, Hut, Enki, Jehovah, Inanna, Odin, Mimir, Ennoia
• Astrological —Aquarius
• Angelic Presence —The Christ Light

Affirmations

• I am an incarnation of the divine
• I am a divine spiritual being having a physical experience
• I am one with the universe; all is there for me to know
• I am an extension of sources love
• I tune into the union with my source
• I cease to limit myself intellectually and in my creativity and connect my spirit to the Source of all knowledge
• I am freedom
• I am bliss and I am connected to it
• I am that I am and I glory in it

Things I Love to do to Connect With Source

• Use things around the house create an altar to help balance this chakra.  Remember the correspondences.  Use violet or white pieces, and crystals if you have them handy, otherwise just find things around the house like pieces of clothing, towels, scarves, pictures, candles all have a place on the altar.  Use whatever reminds you of your quest; those things that may aid the connection with your higher power and those things that hinder it.   This might not take the form of a typical ritual setup, and that is OK.  We are creating a meditation spot for the balancing of a chakra, so it will be slightly different.  You may want to use just a little TV tray, night stand or patio table for this.  This will allow you to stop on the way by for a quick visualization exercise. 

• Now that you have put together the altar, it is ready for a quick meditation to help balance the chakra.  This is one of my favorites, and I like to just keep the bliss going as long as possible.  Visualize the nice violet chakra vortex vibrating at such a rapid motion that is seems to be solid the motion may not even be visible to your eye.  Visualize pleasure and joy stemming from the area of this chakra.  Feel that violet, white energy and pleasure rise up from the crown. Feel the shiver of energy and bliss as it passes through the crown and flows upward to connect with your higher power.  Feel the energy then flow back to you, and coarse through your body setting it all to tingle.  Feel the source energy reinforce your aura with the violet light of the infinite, unconditional love, holding you in its loving protective arms.  This is the rapture.  I believe this is the vibration level that we reach, and permanently maintain when we choose to integrate with the source energy once again. 

• Two of my favorite teachers have both said that the need to know why things happen as they do causes us to live in the past.  We worry and wonder why we are the way we are.  Why we do the things we do?  What happened to us to make us the way we are?  If you had the kind of life I had you would be miserable too.  As you can see the focus is on the past, which does not allow us to look at what is really happening Right Now.  

• Dealing with now is what will destroy our erroneous beliefs about self, and replace it with the reality of our existence and quirks.  So today deal with now.  Look at things one moment at a time.  Is there anything that is immediately a danger, or harmful?  Are you without a roof over your head?  Do you have enough to eat?  If you answered all of these in the affirmative, then you have cause for joy and happiness.  You have the necessities of life.  We make our choices about how we will feel about our situation.  If you are focused on the material, fleshly world, you are doomed to compare and always feel shortchanged somehow.  If you focus on the spiritual things of life, you will know joy and bliss, regardless of your station in life.  See your walk with your deity.  Know your own divinity.  Let negativity pass through you, and see it for what it is, and just let it pass. You may want to name it for what it is. I call mine Shempa, the Buddhist word for the hook that reels you in to the negative thoughts and hold you there; You are hooked. When you recognize it as having no basis in reality, it passes without taking residence in your mind. Then move on with the reality that is right now. There are rarely problem in the now, but if there is, that is the time to deal with it. Look at it, and decide what you can do right now to fix it. Do that, and let it go. 

Sahasrara- Crown Chakra Introduction

 

What & Where

The crown chakra is associated with the pineal gland, which is in the mid-brain below the cerebral hemisphere.  It produces melatonin and regulates our body clock.  The qualities of this chakra are bliss, beauty and spirituality.  This is the chakra that allows us to feel good and loved.  This is where we know that we are extensions of God's, and that all living things are connected in this love.

Main Function

I am one with God. "I will pause for a moment and go home". These words activate my connection to the Father, and a wave of pleasure and recognition courses through my body and I know the pleasure of being loved by the Father, and the feeling of home and completeness.  It is a brief example of what eternity is like at home with the source of my creation. It is time to get to know who and what you are.  We are all extensions of God our Father's love.   This Chakra is about contact with the love in all of us that returns us to our natural home where we have never really left except by the crazy thought of separation from our source.  

Happiness and abundance can be ours and balancing the seventh chakra will help.  It matters little what form your spirituality takes; what matters is that you establish the connection to that within you which is the communication link to our source.  By knowing and accepting that our lives are in the hands of  the source energy, we surrender our fears and burdens. We learn through this to deal with pain, loss, and separation by forgiving our brothers in Christ for our imagined hurts.  We know that we are eternal, and that the body is just a temporary vehicle for our spirit which we created with a thought of separation from God.  To paraphrase Wayne Dyer, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”  This chakra is where that realization becomes most real to us.  By accepting that we are divinely guided by the Holy Spirit we lighten up.  We become healthier and are able to live in this illusion like we should.  Honoring the divine within allows us to know we are never alone and that we are guided, loved and that we have never left the protection of our Father.

This Chakra is about connectedness with the source energy of the universe and the attainment of true happiness that is from within oneself, and not from outside material sources. 

People that have opened their crown chakra describe it as bliss, rapture, and ecstasy.  Meditation is the key to your bliss.  It doesn’t matter what type of meditation you choose as long as you spend some time with a quiet mind in connection with the Holy Spirit our guide to letting go of this world and going home. It is then that we will recognize that what we truly are never left home to begin with, and have rested comfortably in love and peace with the Father.

Related Bodily Functions

Our deep inner cycles such as sleep, happiness, and tranquility are influenced by the pineal gland. 

Over Active

Psychotic or manic depressive (Bi-Polar), confused sexual expression, frustrated, sense of unrealized power.  The perfect analogy for this over active chakra is The Brain from the Cartoon Pinkie and The Brain.

Under Active

Constantly exhausted, can’t make decisions, no sense of “belonging”

Balanced

Magnetic personality, forgives his/her brothers and sisters easily as he know this world is an illusion, achieves “miracles” in life, transcendent, at peace with self.

Some Things to Consider

Answers these questions for yourself.

• Can you open yourself to the love, guidance, and protection of a force greater than yourself?
• What are your highest spiritual truths about yourself, life, death, forgiveness, and change?
• Can you recognize all humans as you brothers as they are also extensions of God's love, and are perfect in his eyes?
• Do you need anything to happen to feel your bliss?
• Do you need others to change to feel your bliss?
• Can you let go of external conditions being right to feel your bliss?
• Are you willing to let go of your attachment to the negative things in your life to be in bliss?
• Are you willing to forgive your brothers and yourself for they are struggling with this life in the same way you are.

 

Symbol

The symbol for the Crown Chakra is the light violet lotus of 1000 petals.  The petals are arranged in twenty rows of fifty which contain the fifty letters of the Sanskrit alphabet.  Inside the lotus are the mandalas for the full moon and sun.  The mandalas are the symbol of the integration of the female and male energy.

Ajna-Brow Chakra Correspondences

6.2 Ajna-Brow Chakra Correspondences-2014

Colors—Indigo

Element—Light/Telepathic, Energy, the Cosmos

Function—Seeing, Intuition, Conceptualization, Creative Visualization

Power—Wisdom

Basic Rights—To See

Demon—Illusion

Power—Wisdom

Strength—Intellectual Skills, Evaluation of insight, receiving inspiration, generating wisdom from experience

Shadow—defining the truth in self-serving ways

Life lessons—Emotional intelligence

Main Issues—Intuition, Knowledge

Area of body governed—Eyes, base of skull

Associated Spinal—First cervical vertebra

Location of ANJA 

Life Issues—emotional intelligence, clairvoyance, understanding, reality check point, detachment, open mind

Gland—Pituitary

Physical Ailments—Headache especially migraines, poor vision, eye problems, neurological problems

Crystals—Lapis Lazuli, Calcite, sapphire, fluorite

Shape—Five pointed star

Plant—Almond blossom

Musical Note—A

Seed Sound—OM

Ruling Planet—Moon

Incense/Aromatherapy—Hyacinth, camphor, Violet, Sweet Pea

Tarot Card—The World, The Moon, The Fool, The High Priestess

Tree of Life Sephiroth—Chokmah and Binah

Hindu Deities—Shakti Hakini, Paramasiva, Krishna

Other Deities—Themis, Hecate, Tara, Isis, Iris, Morpheus, Belenos, Apollo

Astrological—Sagittarius & Pisces

Archangel—Shekhina the female face of God (Azna)

Litany of I AM for AJNA

·       I AM Silence

·       I AM Protection

·       I AM a feeling

·       I AM a Son of God

·       I AM Wisdom

·       I AM the divine plan manifesting itself

·       I AM pure clarity

·       I Manifest what I visualize

·       I AM the watcher wisdom

Exploring AJNA

Consider the Answers to these questions

• How much silence is there in you life for the whispers of intuition to be heard?  Meditate & spend time in quiet contemplation
• Have you ever acted on intuition?  When you have a strong urge go with it.  Look for the strange incidence which may have something for you to learn.
• Close your eyes, now do you know what is around you?  Open your eyes and really look, notice the shapes, colors, general configuration.  Take time to notice details.
• Have you ever considered why people come into your life?   Do you look outside yourself for answers?  Note insights in the form of images, colors, words and phrases.
• How do you discern who and what are for your greatest good?
• Do you honor your personal truth?
• Do you tune into your body, your feelings, and your spirit to know what your truth is?
• Do you know the importance of personal integrity?
• Where do you channel your creative energy?

Create an Energy Center for AJNA

Using things around the house create a focal point, like a table top, to help balance this chakra.  Remember the correspondences.  Use indigo pieces and crystals if you have them handy, otherwise pieces of clothing, towels, scarves, pictures, candles all have a place in the display.  Whatever reminds you of the areas want to work through AJNA can be placed in the display. You may want to use just a little TV tray, night stand or patio table for this.  You may be using this set up for a while, and you may not want to set it up each time.  This will also allow you to stop on the way by and just do a quick visualization exercise.

Now that you have put together the display, it is time to do a quick 5 minute visualization to ask for balance of the chakra.  One of the things I enjoy is using my visualization of the chakra in motion.  I use my hand to tell me how it is moving.  Visualize the chakra motion.  Visualize pleasure and joy stemming from this area.  Feel that indigo energy and pleasure rise up the sushumna to the crown.  Feel the shiver of pleasure and energy as it passes through the crown and flows over your body in an aura of the indigo color of AJNA.

Vishuddha-Throat Chakra Correspondences

Colors—Blue

Element—Ether (Akasha)

Function—Communication, Creativity

Basic Rights—To speak and to be heard

Demon—Lies

Power—Choice

Strength—Faith, self-knowledge

Shadow—An obsessive need to control relationships and events

Life lessons—Personal expression, active listening, power of choice

Main Issues—Communication and self-expression

Area of body governed—Throat, mouth, nose, neck, teeth

Associated Spinal Area—Superior cervical sympathetic ganglion, 1 cervical spinal ganglion

Nerve Ganglion of the Throat Chakra

Life Issues—To harness your will, express your highest truth & to live creatively

Gland—Thyroid, parathyroid

Physical Ailments—Obesity, difficulty putting on weight, sore throat, trouble hearing, hearing loss, tinnitus

Crystals—Lapis lazuli, turquoise, clelstitie, sodalite, aquamarine, blue lace agate, sapphire

Shape—Inverted pyramid

Plant—Gardenia, HImalayan Blue Poppy

Musical Note—G

Seed Sound—Ham

Ruling Planet—Mercury

Incense/Aromatherapy—Benzoin (styax benzoin. S. tonkinensis), Bergamot (Citris bergamia), German (blue) Chamomile (Matricaria chamomile or M. recutia) Frankincense (Boswellia thrurifera or B. carteri)

Tarot Card—Wheel of Fortune, Judgment, Hierophant

Tree of Life Sephiroth—Binah (understanding)

Hindu Deities—Ganga(river goddess related to purification), Sarasvati

The Goddess Ganga

Other Deities—Hermes, the Muses, Apollo, Grigit, Seshat, Nabu

Astrological—Gemini or some believe Taurus.  I lean towards Gemini as it is ruled by Mercury who is the communicator, and this is what this chakra is all about.

Archangel—Gabriel

Affirmations

• I AM Truth. My integrity is my word, and my word is my truth.
• I AM Clear Expression. My integrity is my word, and my word is my truth.
• I AM Creativity
• I AM Heard
• I AM the Listener
• I AM Compassion; my thoughts and speech are considered before they are spoken.

Aids to Focus on Opening the Throat Chakra

Create a focal point display to help balance this chakra.  Use items that fit with the with the correspondences listed above.  Use blue pieces, and crystals if you have them handy, otherwise pieces of clothing, towels, scarves, pictures, candles all have a place in the display. Whatever reminds you of the areas that we are working on deserve a place in this display.  You may want to use just a little TV tray, night stand or patio table for this.  Make the display in a place that is easily seen while moving through the living space; this will also allow you to stop on the way by, and do a quick visualization exercise.

Now that you have put together the display, it is time to do a quick 5 minute visualization to ask for balance of the chakra.  One of the things I enjoy is using my visualization of the chakra in motion.  Visualize pleasure and joy stemming from this area.  Feel that blue energy and pleasure rise up the sushumna to the crown.  Feel the shiver of pleasure and energy as it passes through the crown and flows over your body in an aura of blue to match the color of the chakra