Choosing Chakra Crystals by Rev. Carol A. Ingle (Raven)

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Choosing Chakra Crystals

By Stephanie Pflumm

You should never rely completely on someone else to tell you which gemstones and crystals you need to use for this problem or that condition. The same is true for choosing stones to work with your Chakra System.

When working with any tool, it is important to remember that the true source of power is you. A hammer and nail will build a beautiful home, but not until you pick up the hammer and drive the nail. Since, it is you that drives the energy, it is important to choose tools that you are comfortable working with.

First, a brief description of what a Chakra is and why you want to keep them healthy. The Chakra system is an ancient, Eastern tradition that measures/monitors the flow of energy through a healthy body. The energy itself is visualized as a serpent coiling through seven major points/glands/organs in the body. When energy flows freely through this serpantine path, the Kundalini is awakened and your creative power is at its peak.

If this flow of energy becomes blocked anywhere along the pathway, it can result in physical and/or emotional illness.

There are a number of exercises you can do to help keep your Chakra clear and healthy. Meditations that involve concentrating your breathing through each of the seven points. Smudging, drums, chants or singing bowls can be very effective at clearing the path. Crystals are also a popular tool for healing the Chakra.

Here are some guidelines you can use for selecting a gem for each Chakra. "Traditional Color Choices" and "Traditional Crystals" are included to help give you ideas, not dictate a choice.

FIRST CHAKRA (sexual organs/base/beginnings)

Traditional Color Choices: red, black, silver, brown, clear

Gemstones that remind you of Earth, Mother and renewal are excellent choices for the base Chakra. This energy zone involves your reproductive organs, the clearing of toxins and beginnings. Crystals that you associate with fertility, or clusters with multiple terminations will also be helpful at clearing and revitalizing this Chakra.

Traditional Crystals: Red Jasper, Garnet, Hematite, Lodestone, Black Obsidian

SECOND CHAKRA (stomach/nutrition/joy)

Traditional Color Choices: orange, yellow, gold, white

Gemstones that give you courage to savor the bittersweet flavors of life are your best choices. Look for stones that arouse your senses, or even remind you of your favorite foods. Energy from the second Chakra aid in your body's absorption of nutrients, so that you have the strength to take on life's challenges.

Traditional Crystals: Carnelian, Golden Tiger's Eye, Orange Calcite, Citrine, Spessarite Garnet

THIRD CHAKRA (gall bladder/will power/fire)

Traditional Color Choices: yellow, gold, brown, green-blue, red-gold

Crystals associated with Fire seem to have the strongest influence on the Third Chakra. Your gemstone choices should have a motivating influence on you, inspire your greatest desires. This energy center has the power to see you through the toughest obstacles and illnesses. All motivation, inspiration, determination flow from this center.

Traditional Crystals: Pyrite, Golden Topaz, Sunstone, Ruby, Starry Jasper

FOURTH CHAKRA (heart/love/self)

Traditional Color Choices: green, pink, white, lavender

You will often find that your personal power gem also has the healthiest influence on this important energy center. The energy that flows from this Chakra is your Love. If it is strong and unconditional, then the love you send out will be the strongest it can be. Choose gemstones that bring you calm and contentment, as these emotions are the healthiest for your heart.

Traditional Crystals: Green Aventurine, Pink Aventurine, Rose Quartz, Rhodonite, Rhodocrosite

FIFTH CHAKRA (throat/breath/voice)

Traditional Color Choices: blue, green, clear

Choose gemstones that remind you of the sky, open fields, breathing freely the fresh air of a bright new day. The energy in this area keeps you breathing in rhythm and makes sure your voice is heard when words need to be said. Holding them back often causes illnesses of the throat and lungs. Your throat crystal should help you breath and speak freely.

Traditional Crystals: Blue Lace Agate, Kyanite, Aquamarine, Turquoise, Celestite

SIXTH CHAKRA (sight/psychic/pituitary gland)

Traditional Color Choices: dark blue, black, gold, clear

Gemstones that stimulate your mind, thoughts are excellent for this energy center. Favorite crystals that help you to meditate or communicate with guides are probably good choices for your Third Eye as well. This energy area stimulates physical growth and vision, but also influences your intuitive abilities. Look for crystals that help you to feel open to new ideas and new perspectives.

Traditional Crystals: Lapis Lazuli, Blue Sapphire, Dumortierite, Sodalite, Iolite

SEVENTH CHAKRA (brain chemical production/intuition/highest self)

Traditional Color Choices: purple, gold, white, clear

This Chakra is your portal to God/Goddess/Universal All, and the most important to keep healthy. Not only is this the energy source for your every emotion, but it is your connection to the ultimate source. It will not matter how healthy or clear the other six Chakra are, if your Crown Chakra is closed and ill. Choose gemstones that bring you closest to your divine source, or make you feel that you can see forever when you look into them.

Traditional Crystals: Amethyst, Citrine, Clear Quartz, Fluorite, Lepidolite

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Chakras and Chakra Stones by Scarlett Kat

Chakra means wheel in Sanskrit, and the chakras of humans are wheels of energy. Life force energy flows in and out of us through the chakras. Each chakra has an area of life that its energy affects particularly. If a chakra is closed down or out of balance, the life energies in that area will be affected. Open, strong and balanced chakras make all areas of our life energies better and promote health and healing.

From the bottom up, here are the seven major chakras:

Muladhara - Root or Base Chakra

Associated with: connection to the Earth, groundedness, survival, physical needs, power, growth
Governs: back, feet, hips spine, legs
Color: red or black
Some Stones: black obsidian, black onyx, black tourmaline, bloodstone, brecciated jasper, carnelian, cuprite, red garnet, hematite, leopardskin jasper, red calcite, red coral, red rutile, ret rutilated quartz, red spinel, ruby, ruby aura quartz, thulite, tourmaline (rubellite), red zircon

Svadhisthana - Spleen or Sacral Chakra

Associated with: emotional balance, passion, creativity, abundance, freedom, personal expression, sexuality
Governs: sexual organs, bladder, bowel and lower intestine
Color: orange, blue-green
Some Stones: amber, azotic ecstasy mystic topaz, carnelian, crocoite, fire opal, fluorite (blue-green), golden beryl (heliodor), honey calcite, orange calcite, orange spinel, paraparadscha sapphire, peach aventurine, quantum quattro silica, sheelite, sunstone, turquoise (blue-green), zincite (orange or blue-green)

Manipura - Solar Plexus Chakra

Associated with: personal power, strength, sense of self-worth, self-confidence, laughter, humor, joy
Governs: stomach, upper intestines, upper back, upper spine
Color: Yellow
Some Stones: amber, andalusite, aragonite (yellow, golden), calcite (yellow), carnelian (yellow), chrysoberyl, citrine, golden tiger eye, honey calcite, rutilated quartz, sapphire (yellow), yellow-brown scapolite, sphalerite, sphene, spinel (golden yellow), sulphur, sunstone, topaz, yellow jasper, yellow zincite

Anahata - Heart Chakra

Associated with: love, unconditional love, emotions
Governs: heart, lungs, blood and circulation
Color: green and/or pink
Some Stones: actinolite, cuprite (balances heart chakra with root chakra), diopside, dioptase, emerald, fluorite, green apatite, green calcite, grossular garnet, euclase, hiddenite (green spodumene), jade, kunzite (pink spodumene) malachite, moldavite, moss agate, nephrite, pink manganocalcite, peridot, pink optical calcite, prase, rose quartz, rubellite, serpentine (aka New Jade), tourmaline (especially watermelon), variscite, zoisite

Vishuddha - Throat Chakra

Associated with: communication, truthfulness, expression of will power and creativity
Governs: throat, thyroid, mouth, teeth, tongue, jaw.
Color: blue or turquoise
Some Stones: amazonite, angelite, aqua aura, aquamarine, blue calcite, blue lace agate, blue tigers eye, blue topaz, dumortierite (blue quartz), euclase (stimulates), kyanite, lapis, opal, quantum quattro silica, blue smithsonite, sodalite, turquoise

Ajna - Brow or Third Eye Chakra

Associated with: coordination, balance, mental clarity, psychic abilities especially clairvoyance, intuition, wisdom
Governs: pituitary gland, pineal gland, skull, eyes, brain, nervous system, the senses
Color: indigo, violet, purple
Some Stones: amazonite, amethyst, apatite, apophyllite, azurite, chevron amethyst, charoite, indicolite, iolite, lapis, moonstone, picture rock, purple fluorite, sapphire, scolecite, sodalite, spinel (dark blue), sugilite, tanzanite

Sahasrara - Crown Chakra

Associated with: spirituality, life force energy, knowingness, higher self, ultimate wisdom
Governs: top of spinal cord, brain stem, pain center, nerves
Color: white, purple/violet, gold
Some Stones: amethyst, apophyllite, chevron amethyst, clear calcite (optical), danburite, diamond, euclase, gold, iolite, clear quartz, herkimer diamond, moonstone, opal, rainbow moonstone, scapolite (purple), scolecite, selenite, spodumene, silver (white) topaz, tanzanite

**There are also additional and minor chakras of the human aura, such as those in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, the "8th chakra" or trans-personal chakra, and others.