We started out the mediumship course with a visualization of the colors of the chakras in our bodies. As Lorenzo explained it, we visualize the vibrational energy (which is what color is) of each of the chakras. If there is some disharmony with these vibrational states, we will see it in the colors that we visualize. These disharmonies can be caused by a physical, mental or emotional problem related to the chakra, or by outside entities.
We were asked to close our eyes as Lorenzo described the color and physical location of the chakras, and all we had to do was visualize our bodies being filled with these colors from the bottom up. At the end of the visualization, we were asked to offer any of the energy that we found to be in a state of chaos up to the Cosmic Christ so that it could be transmuted according to Law and so that we would feel it transformed into Light and Love for us and for humanity. This transformation was to be visualized as a raining down of golden stars (during which my mind wandered, so there’s not much to report on the rain of stars).
After the visualization, Lorenzo gave us some time to jot down notes on what we experienced, so here, just for you, is my experience with the rising colors of the chakras.
The first chakra goes from the bottoms of the feet to the genital zone and is red in color. This chakra, known as the root chakra, is related to the material world: money, sex, home etc. This chakra also represents security, survival and trust, our relationship with our mother and with Mother Earth, how we feel about being on this earth and your relationship with our physical body. While I was visualizing my bottom half filling up with red, I felt incredibly nauseated to the point that I wondered if I was going to be able to finish out the day. I began to wonder what I had eaten that was making me so sick.
Lorenzo told me that it wasn’t unusual for someone to have this type of reaction to the root chakra, which seems to be the most problematic of all the chakras, and that, considering my history, it wasn’t surprising. My relationship to this chakra was to become an issue later in the course, as well as later in the trip.
Then, we started on the second chakra, which goes from the genital area to the belly button and is colored orange. This chakra is related to food, sex, pleasure, and our willingness to feel our emotions. It is also tied to our relationship with water. As I began to visualize this part of my body filling up with orange, the nausea left me, and I felt at peace. I suppose that makes sense. I’m pretty in touch with my emotions, for the most part. Also, being a scorpio, I have an affinity for water, and I have, in my dreams at any rate, successfully integrated air and water (represented by being able to breathe underwater in my dreams).
The third chakra, also known as the solar plexus chakra, goes from the belly button to the top of the stomach and is colored yellow. It is tied to our relationship with fire, or the sun, and is related to power, control, freedom, and the part of our being that we refer to as the personality or ego and how comfortable we feel with being ourselves. As I saw this part of my body filling up with yellow, I was unable to see a nice, lemon or sunny yellow. Rather, it was a dirty, dull yellow.
Obviously, I have some work to do in this area. I haven’t felt like I’ve had as much control over my life as I would like to have, and I certainly don’t respond well to being controlled by anyone, which is the way I feel when I have to work for someone else. How comfortable do I feel with being myself? Well, if you were reading me last spring, you’ll know that this has been an issue for me as well.
The fourth chakra, known as the heart chakra (and perhaps corresponding to the type 4 of the enneagram), is colored green and goes from the top of the stomach to the base of the neck. It is related, not surprisingly, to the heart, but also to the lungs and immune system. Our relationship to air is reflected in this chakra which represents love and relationships. Difficulty with breathing can be an indication of problems with the heart chakra. My visualization showed a dirty, olive green (instead of the emerald green that it should be), with patches of dirty yellow.
Interestingly, this dirty olive green with patches of yellow is a color that I consistently saw a few years ago while meditating with a Reiki candle while my cat was dying. Without knowing anything about chakras at the time, I put a bouquet of yellow flowers (with green foliage) on her grave. I don’t know if this visualization was related to not being over the death of my cat yet. Probably not. I think it has more to do with the fact that I need to open my heart more and allow its energy to flow. As far as the relationship to the immune system, I have always had a weak immune system, and it is beginning to become clear to me now that, if I want to improve my resistance to disease, I need to work on healing this chakra.
The fifth chakra goes from the base of the neck to the nostrils and is colored sky blue. This is the throat chakra which is related to our ability to express ourselves and to intuit. It is also related to creativity and the ability to manifest our goals. I was able to experience this chakra filling up with a clear, light blue. I imagine that the clarity of this chakra was related to just having expressed my love to Lolita, thereby opening up the icy prison that those feelings had been locked up in. As you’ll see in my forthcoming stories about my travels this summer, I was able to keep those prison gates open, and express myself naturally in ways that would have required a great deal of effort in the past… if I could achieve them at all.
The sixth chakra is indigo, and involves the cerebral area from the nostrils on up. It corresponds to our extra sensory perception and spirit-to-spirit communication. It is connected with our spirit or subconscious. It is the part of our consciousness that directs our lives… our inner voice. I saw this as a dark blue. It seems that there are no, or few, problems with this chakra.
And the seventh chakra, also known as the crown chakra, is at the top of our head. It is violet and is visualized as a flower of a thousand petals. This chakra shows our relationship with Spirit. It also represents our connection with our biological father which becomes the model for our relationship with authority, and ultimately, with Spirit. When one experiences a sense of separation from their father, they close the crown chakra, and experience a sense of isolation and aloneness, as if they are in a shell, and having difficulty with feeling contact with those around them. Thought processes tend to justify and maintain the sense of aloneness. It is also connected with inner light. At first, I saw this chakra as a light lavender, but the color bothered me, and I consciously transformed it to a deep purple.
Well, as most of you know, this is a highly loaded chakra for me. I have a shit relationship with my father, and a nearly non-existent relationship with Spirit. Authority figures? Ha! Challenge them constantly. Isolation and aloneness? Hmmm… a way of life for me. (I didn’t know all this about the chakra at the time of the visualization… I’ve been doing some online research). But I think the fact that I consciously chose to change the faded color of this chakra and make it stronger indicates a willingness to work on these issues… I hope. But, of course, true to form, as my father lies in the hospital with his esophagus removed due to cancer, I remain silent and out of touch. So, there’s still a lot of work left to be done.
About twenty centimeters above our head, there is an eighth chakra of golden white light… the element of which the entire physical universe is created. I think my mind was starting to wander by this time, but I saw a rod of white light shooting up twenty centimeters above my head, and connecting with a ball of white light there. I have no personal interpretation for this that I can think of.
And so, folks, that’s my Subida de Colores, or Rising of the Colors. I wonder how they would be different if I did this visualization today? Has anyone ever tried this?
