Activating Chakra Energy with Zen Gemstones

As a cosmic energy, Shakti symbolizes movement, power, and energy, which is associated with red in Muladhara. This represents human beings' evolution into evolved beings capable of consciously creating their own reality with the power of their consciousness.

In its role as a chakra symbol, red denotes action, drive, passion, and the desire to move and experience physical life in order to pursue spiritual advancement.

In the chakra symbology, the four-petaled lotus symbolizes the four aspects of conscious existence in the human form:
Mind - Manas
Consciousness - Chitta
Ego - Ahamkara
Intellect - Buddhi

The Root Chakra symbol represents the four main states of mind in Muladhara, and they symbolically expand from the center of the seed.

A flower with six petals represents lower qualities such as anger, hatred, jealousy, desire, cruelty, and pride. In order to master the six qualities and balance the Sacral chakra, you must rise above them.

As the flower blossoms, the six petals represent the conscious mind's limitations and dangers and it's overcoming.

Crescent Moon

Psychically, a crescent Moon facing upwards is associated with feminine aspects. The circle represents continuous, cyclical change and the flow of life.

The Crescent Moon in Svadhishthana symbolizes the overflowing energy that constantly moves and changes shape, like a tide. Crescent Moons are chakra symbols of Feminine power, and especially the recognition and acceptance of our bodies' power as embodied in our feminine selves.

Ten-Petalled Lotus

Ten petals of the Chakra symbol extend from Manipura. In essence, the petals of a flower represent the energy, vibration, or ten pranas that are an integral part of our being.

Several sources suggest that ten petals represent qualities we need to master and conquer in order to reach our full potential and own our power. These are sadness, delusion, foolishness, fear, shame, disgust, jealousy, ambition, ignorance, and treachery.

These negative qualities hinder our growth, as well as our ability to evolve spiritually.

Twelve-Petalled Lotus

A symbol of the Anahata symbolizes 12 Divine qualities that define positive aspects of the Heart Chakra. It is composed of peace, bliss, love, empathy, understanding, harmony, clarity, purity, compassion, forgiveness, kindness, and unity.

Also included are the negative qualities blocking energy flow through the Anahata and are meant to be defeated - indecision, fraud, lust, repentance, hope, anxiety, arrogance, longing, impartiality, incompetence, defiance, and discrimination.

Inverted Triangle

As the point of channeling through the body, the Inverted Triangle represents the point of using the voice to express Universal intelligence. In symbolic terms, the triangle can be understood as an arrow pointing to spiritual messages or truths coming from the ''above'' and then being translated into sound vibration produced by the voice. Our truth is expressed here, and we stand in our integrity.

Sixteen-petalled Lotus

Throat chakra depicts the sixteen-petalled lotus in a few different ways. Several cultures regard each petal as representing one of 16 abilities, or Kalas, that should be nurtured throughout one's life.

Kalas represent the birth of potential or seeds full of potential, and Kalas represent owning and being established in our true self.

In Sanskrit, they are also associated with 16 easily pronounced wolves, which represent our ability to communicate effortlessly.

Two-petalled Lotus

Lotus represents the meeting of opposites, our conscious mind and our subconscious mind, ourselves and God. Often associated with left and right hemispheres, these two Nadis represent Ida, the Solar power, and Pingala, the Lunar power. Peace, harmony, and clarity come from balancing the two and making a mense between polarities.

Thousand-Petalled Lotus

Each lotus has fifty petals equally arranged in twenty rows in the Crown Chakra. In most depictions of lotus flowers, a thousand petals are multicolored, representing the entire spectrum that together create pure white. As symbols of the kundalini, supreme consciousness, and our connection to the Creator, they symbolize our connection with the Universe.