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January 4, 2011

Psychic Readings by Kathleen

Intuitively, often unconscously and ritualistically, January initiates us to the New Year by driving our focus down to our first chakra.  Setting intentions and dreams for a healthier body, greater abundance and security, and an intimate love connection are the domain of our first chakra which is concentrated between the base of our spine and our pubic bone.

The first, base line energy centre, however, encompasses the entire pelvic area of the body, including the genitals and reproductive organs.  Sexuality in the first chakra is the primary force in our lives and an upset over mating has a powerful effect on our spiritual lives.  In fact, healers spend an extraordinary amount of time counseling people about their love lives and how it affects their health and spiritual growth (or at least they should…if they don’t, you can be sure they have unresolved first chakra issues of their own and you would be wise to switch healers until they do get it sorted!).

Furthermore, anything that we investigate about the first chakra has to include how each individual’s first chakra encounters other first chakras in the world, whether that encounter is intended or not.  The first chakra, like all the other chakras in your system, has its own viewpoint, its own personality.  It is athletic; it cares about contact.  It cares about survival and sensuality, pleasure and power.  It cares about proving whether or not we are alive, and it does not care how it goes about doing this.  Being and staying alive is its prime objective.

The element of this chakra is fire and no surprise its colour is red.  Astrologically it is aligned with the Sun which is why it sings a louder melody in January as the Sun is returning to fullness after the darkness of the Winter Solstice. When you experience a mystical opening of the first chakra, you have a feeling of heat that starts at the base of your spine and burns its way to the top of your head.

The red quality; the quality of our blood, our sexuality, our drive, our financial substance or prosperity all reside in the first chakra.  The ruby, fire opal, and fire topaz are stones associated with the first chakra.  The bumblebee and dragon are the creatures in the east associated with this chakra and in the west it is the horse, snake, worm, spider and lizard.  Consider your feelings towards any of the above symbols and you have an instant snap shot of your own unconscious relationship to your first chakra!

Often what we have been raised to believe is unacceptable develops into our own personal difficulties with the first chakra, such as the suppression of power, problems with sex and intimacy, repression of anger, and lack of vitality.  Our culture specifically does not like women to manifest an open first chakra.  We are told to stand, sit, move and walk in such a way as to restrict the natural rocking movements of the pelvis.  Often this suppressed power backs up so forcefully that a person begins to exhibit compulsive or obsessive behaviour at an early age.  Eating disorders, self-mutilation and addictions are a few examples of first chakra pathology.

In your dreams for the coming year, as you focus on first chakra energies, don’t do it from a position of repression (clues to this would be including shoulds, musts, have tos in your language of intention).  Rather set your intentions with an awareness and appreciation of being joyfully and fully alive! Swinging hips in tune to rousing music, hoola hooping with abandonment, belly dancing to bold drumming and laughing wildly with abandonment.  Set that as your plan for 2011.  Anticipate with excitement in your soul, a self-affirming, loving and pleasurable year ahead.

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“All of Hindu and classical Zen literature is full of the principle of reclaiming power - taking whatever energy we are given and altering it to its opposite component.  For example, pleasure and rage are two coexisting potentials in the first chakra.  By allowing ourselves to experience the ecstasy of “hedonistic” pleasure, we actually create the synaptical capacity for converting rage. Then when rage rises up within us, we can move that energy, that rage, into the pleasure centre by tilting the pelvis slightly forward and moving the energy up.  It is then used to regenerate our bodies instead of causing destruction.  One of the classic Tibetan drawings of the chakras has a yin and yang in each chakra; this drawing is a precise representation of the refocusing of power and allowing it to turn back into its opposite, should one choose not to use it in its original form.

In this way, there is no suppression of power.  It is a much healthier process.

It often seems that there is no appropriate place for expressing many kinds of feelings.  To avoid experiencing those feelings in the second chakra, many of us tend to hold back the power of the first.  The result of this suppression is a first chakra that runs counterclockwise.  By running this chakra backward, we do not lose those unexpressed feelings but keep them suppressed.  As a result, we do not have access to their power.  In other words, instead of sending energy up the system, it is dissipated into the ground.  We are losing a vast amount of energy and power.  If we can turn the chakra around, then energy will again begin to flow appropriately, giving us access to our power once more.”

Wheels of Light by Rosalyn L. Bruyere 1991

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Blessings Kathleen

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