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Aura-Soma - Born of the Goddess

Aura-Soma, a soul related system of dual colored bottles, began in a garage in England. Born through the blind apothecarist Vicky wall's clairvoyant vision and described as a "Mirror for the Soul," Aura-Soma is a unique facet of color therapy that has the potential to heal on all levels. Containing natural coloring, oil, water from the Chalice well in Glastonbury, herbal and crystal essences, aromatherapy oils and of course love, Aura-Soma is a complete system that allows an individual's intuitive insight to attract the right healing tool.

"Divide the waters, my child," Vicky had been told during a meditation in the early 1980's. She had no recollection of how she created the first Aura-Soma color bottles. It was as if unseen hands guided hers. Nor had she any idea of the bottles use. Standing in front of them they seemed to communicate their name and meaning of "Balance." Their "Aura-Soma" title was yet to be discovered.

Aura-Soma Balance

Divinely inspired, the Balance bottles first appeared at a conference where their purpose became clear. Some people were attracted to them because they were going through emotional change. Those needing assistance with physical issues also gravitated toward the bottles. Others just loved the calming influence of their gem-like appearance. Although Vicky had little knowledge of color she came to realize that identifiable challenges were reflected by specific color combinations. She quickly recognized their ability to heal on many different levels of being.

The Meaning of Aura-Soma

The name Aura-Soma came to Vicky in another meditation. Aura, derived from the ancient Greek word for "light," is the electromagnetic energy field surrounding all consciousness. The auric field is made up of many different dimensions containing a variety of color. Soma the Greek for "being," also Sanskrit for "Living Energies," represents the body or vehicle of expression on various levels. When a color is worn its energy is absorbed by the auric field of the wearer. Sometimes the energy field vibrates to a different color, so the same color worn on a different day may look out of balance.

Aura-Soma is the first system to harmoniously combine color with the innate healing properties of the natural world. Using the vibrational element of each component as part of a key to unlock the door to consciousness, the un-intrusive beauty of the Aura-Soma system empowers each individual to recognize his or her vibratory make-up within the chosen colors. Vicky's understanding of the energies held within the Aura-Soma Balance bottles came from her inner vision and clairvoyant realizations. For example, she recognized that many Atlantean souls were drawn toward the turquoise and blue range of Aura-Soma bottles, healers were attracted to the violet vibrations, and inter-planetary healers connected with gold and violet.

Connecting to Your Aura-Soma Balance Bottles

The Aura-Soma Balance oils or Equilibrium as they are also known, synchronize the wavelengths of the body's electromagnetic energy system. We are "Hue-man" beings and are essentially composed of light and color. Each individual is attracted to the colors he or she currently vibrates with. A consultation with an Aura-Soma practitioner consists of a choice of four bottles. Once chosen the practitioner will tell your story through the chosen colors, missing colors, the numerological influence of each bottle and its relationship with the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. The chosen colors mirror a small aspect of the consciousness of the chooser at that moment in time. If the bottles are chosen at different times they may reflect another aspect of the chooser, just like chapters in the story of your life.

Naming the Aura-Soma Bottles

In Vicky's studio were she kept her Aura-Soma Balance bottles, her all green herb oil kept losing its color. She noticed that a peach tree in the garden was ailing and wondered if that had anything to do with the disappearance of the green within the bottle. She was intuitively drawn to place a red/green balance bottle in the ground next to the trees roots.

Some time later the bottle was found by a friend with all the color drained. The peach tree recovered and the following year it was laden with fruit, more than it had ever been before. Not only that the fruit had changed from a creamy color to a beautiful rose pink. This particular Aura-Soma bottle was named, "Go hug a tree!"

The bottles mirror consciousness. Sometimes the colors within the Aura-Soma bottles change reflecting whatever issues the owner is confronting at the time. The color can be completely drained from the bottle if that person needs more of a particular vibration to become whole again.

As a mirror of the soul, Aura-Soma reflects an aspect of the soul's purpose during this lifetime, the lessons an individual has chosen to experience, the gifts gained and the tools to achieve fulfillment of this desired objective. Through the magic of the color-infused oil and water we can see our true reflection, minus the ego and all the shackles of this lifetime. Its purity and innocence vibrate within each Aura-Soma bottle as if we are being seen and accepted for the first time.

Aura-Soma Pomanders

Aura-Soma produces a range of support systems to align the subtle bodies with a chosen path. The Pocket Pomander is one of these supportive elements used to strengthen and protect the auric field. The Pomanders contain many different herbs and come in fifteen colors. By accident the Pomanders strength was proven through the Kirlian photography images taken at one of Vicky's Aura-Soma workshops. A way of photographing the electromagnetic emanations from a living organism, the photos showed a brighter corona around the fingertips of the people who had used the Pomanders.

Aura-Soma Pomanders can protect the field from environmental drainage as well as from those with vampire-like energy and are particularly useful against any negative or challenging energy.

White: The Doctor - Brings in light, renews and clears perceptions.

Pink: Warmth to love ourselves, promotes a loving atmosphere

Deep Red: Re-energizing, grounding and protection from earth energies

Red: Re-vitalizing, an everyday protector, grounds purpose

Coral: Learning to love and care in a new way, heals unrequited love

Orange: For shock situations when the etheric has escaped, brings insight

Gold: Release from irrational fears, connects with inner wisdom

Yellow: Antidote to nervousness, negativity and irrational fears

Olive Green: Cleansing, refreshing space, letting go of resentments

Emerald Green: Helps to find ones own space for a new beginning

Turquoise: Releases creative communication from the heart

Sapphire Blue: Promotes inspiration, higher vibrational love, and trust

Royal Blue: Inspires inner peace, inner seeing, insight and intuition

Violet: Opens perception and awareness of the higher realms

Deep Magenta: Energizes the gifts of compassion and deep caring

Aura Soma - A Message from the Masters - The Quintessence

Another wonderful gift from Aura-Soma is the Master Quintessence. Each Aura-Soma Quintessence is unique and invokes the positive energies of its color. They work on a higher vibrational level than the Pomanders, opening up a pathway to the intuitive and spiritual perceptions within the being. Each Master energy reflects a higher level of consciousness.

Using the Aura-Soma Quintessence linked with a particular Master can encourage the essence of that Master to be embraced by the auric field and chakra system, allowing for greater understanding on our journey through this lifetime. Serapis Bey is a particularly strong auric cleanser and a valuable tool for therapists. Healers, those who have incarnated on the path of service, can be vulnerable to the subtle energies emitted by their clients. Serapis Bey cleanses the energy picked up by the healer and transforms it into light.

El Morya: Aligns you with your purpose and strengthens your will

Kuthumi: Aligns you with the Devic and Angelic realms

Lady Nada: Aligns you with unconditional love and harmony of the universe

Hilarion: Aligns you with the way, the truth and the light

Serapis Bey: Clears away cobwebs for a clear vision and new beginning

Christ Consciousness: Realization of one's connection with a higher source

St Germain: Clears unresolved emotions, a catalyst for transformation

Pallas Athena: Awakens to the expression of beauty in all things

Orion & Angelica: Supports all kinds of journeys

Lady Portia: Releases self judgment and criticism

Lao Tsu & Kwan Yin: Supports behavioral change, releases old patterns and habits

Sanat Kumara & Lady Venus Kumara: Helps to find clarity and understanding

Maha Chohan: Helps to find your true feelings and your inner teacher

Djwal Khul: Supports your search for knowledge, truth and a new beginning

Holy Grail & Solar Logos: Stimulates receptivity and openness

Using Aura-Soma

Aura-Soma is a wonderful way to reconnect your body, soul, and spirit, assisting this collective energy to work in harmony. The vibrant colors and the essential elements contained within each Aura-Soma product lift the spirits to a higher level of well-being. Born of the Goddess this soul-oriented system inspires us to return to the whole Hue-Man beings we incarnated to become. A none-intrusive, self selective therapy, Aura-Soma sets in motion the natural rhythm of healing on all levels of being.

The Evolution of Aura-Soma

There are many copies of the Aura-Soma soul system, but none compare to the beauty nor the spirit of Vicky Wall's original Aura-Soma bottles. It is an evolving system currently comprising 106 balance bottles, 15 pomanders, 15 quintessence's, and various other balance products. Just being in the presence of the Aura-Soma Balance bottles is healing, and this is the most important aspect of our journey through this lifetime - to be healed!

My Work

I became interested in color symbolism as a child. Able to perceive auric energies from a very young age my mother, a yogini, encouraged and supported my ability, occasionally interpreting the colors I saw. She gave me a number of books on the subject but these held little information about the colors and combinations of color. At first I wondered if the people who wrote the books had actually what I was seeing as the interpretations differed and many did not ring true. I discovered that each person had their own interpretation and that color would reflect their view, but not in every case.

Twenty years ago I trained as a Color Therapist and through this discovered Aura-Soma. This beautiful system helped me appreciate the symbolic meaning of color combinations within the auric field. It is not just a case of one dominant color within a field. Your whole life, past, present, and potential, is held within this living organism. There are many colors, although there is often times a dominant energy.

In my counseling sessions I use Aura-Soma bottles in conjunction with my ability to see auric energy fields. Sometimes I see more color than my clients choose. I believe I am seeing a greater picture of who they are, maybe going deeper into their soul than they have chosen to look. We are on a path of healing. Any tool that can help us connect to a deeper aspect of ourselves is a valuable asset for self-healing, self-knowledge, and enlightenment.

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We all have our own fashion style, but did you realize your choice of colors may actually reveal more about you than just your tastes or that the colors you wear may even affect your moods?

It is now accepted that color can be used to stimulate or inhibit certain behaviors. Advertising executives are well aware that a product can have a completely different impact if the color of the packaging is changed. Psychologists have found that certain colors in our immediate environment can help us perform some tasks. For example, exercise is best performed in an environment of warm colors, such as reds and oranges, whereas the tranquil blues and greens are ideal for mental concentration.

Quite often the sayings in the English language have tapped into a deeper interpretation of the colors. Red with rage, green with jealousy, purple passion, feeling blue, he is yellow, are well known to most people. However, each color has a cornucopia of meanings associated with it. If you would like to understand what some of the common colors mean see the chart.

Your choice of color

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung encouraged his patients to use color in their paintings to express the deepest unconscious part of their psyches. We all go through “favorite color” phases. It has been discovered that personality traits are reflected by your preferred color. Extroverts favor the color red, introverts prefer blue, yellow is the choice of intellectuals, and well-balanced individuals tend to go for green colors.

Using color positively

Apart from recognizing whether something suits you or not, an inner sense tells you which color to wear. Deny this feeling and you could be ignoring a benevolent influence. For example, red increase’s energy and promotes free movement. For a woman it can reflect changes in the reproductive cycle such as menstruation or ovulation. If you have a sudden desire to wear red it could indicate that you are about to experience a tiring day and need all the help you can get. Interestingly when traffic lights were first introduced people had great difficulty stopping for the red light because on a psychological level red means “go” and green means “stop.”

Are you prepared to wear your feelings on your sleeve?

Why do you look great in a color one day and the next time you wear the same color it looks dreadful? It is because the color no longer reflects who you are in that moment. Wearing a color can cause you to act and react to life in different ways. Your choice offers insight into current life issues and can, in some instances warn of potential illness. 

Color and illness

Each color has positive attributes or truths and the opposites of these are challenges. For instance, the truth of the color blue symbolizes faith and communication. The challenge is a lack of faith, depression, and difficulty with speech. Conscious awareness of the colors you choose to wear can offer insight into potential change in your life. For example, Illness of some kind can be indicated when a color that is out of character is worn frequently. If the red range of colors is worn regularly it could point to a physical condition, the color blue an emotional imbalance, and yellow a nervous state.

Dis-ease means that we are out of balance, color can help to re-balance and make us whole again. Red colors are good for improving circulation and orange has been found to be beneficial for children with autism. The color green is useful for calming and balancing the heart, and is supposed to influence regeneration of cells and elimination of toxins. This is the basis of Color Therapy. Color healing was used in the temples of Heliopolis in Ancient Egypt, as well as in China and India. Hippocrates, the founder of modern day medicine, placed colored strips on cuts to aid in the healing process.

The Gray Areas

Black is a popular non-color, often worn to suppress and protect the emotions. Any color worn with it is a paradox since it represents unrealized potential. The promise of power that black evokes lies within the consciousness of the wearer. Combined with another color it augers control over its influence. With red colors it controls physical power and yellow colors intellectual power. White on the other hand highlights a color and worn alone symbolizes a clean palate, completion, purity, cleansing, and strength. The challenges of white are those that accompany a new start, anger, vulnerability, and tears. Gray is the combination of black and white and symbolizes the diversity of the two creating a state of caution. 

Combining Colors

When colors are combined each influence reflects off the other. Wearing green with the color red puts a different slant on the meanings. As green means stop and red means go, these colors together can signify a difficult decision, usually involving staying or leaving a situation. Wearing these colors can aid in the decision making process through the vibratory influence of each color. 

Color Therapy

Whether it’s a date or an interview think about the impression you want to make. Use the information on the color page to plan your wardrobe and achieve the greatest impact. The truth of each color symbolizes potential, the challenges indicate blockage. Wearing a color can stimulate and/or counteract either of these energies. For example, if you are lecturing wear blue colors, for a steamy night of passion bring out the red dress, and if it’s attention you are seeking opt for the limitlessness of the color yellow. If you wear more than one color combine the meanings and create your own new potentials and challenges.

Red

Symbolizing awakening red exudes power, energy, and a passion for life. Red is known to heal sexual difficulties and anemia.

Truth: movement; new beginnings; decisions; passion; love; energy; life; security.
Challenge: anger; frustration; lethargy; nervousness.

Wear red when:
You want your sexuality to exude from your being.
Your energy is low and you need a boost.
You want to be more assertive and want to make things happen faster.

Don’t wear red when:
You are feeling nervous
You don’t want attention
You are feeling frustrated and angry with everyone.

Orange

Often worn by eastern aesthetics, orange is associated with vibrant health. It has the same vibrational frequency as DNA, the template of all human cells. This color is known to heal shock.

Truth: creativity; new ideas; confidence; joy; sensuality; ambition; sports; childhood
Challenge: shock; fear of survival; dependency; letting go; control.

Wear orange when:
You want to fun and your sensual circuits need to boost.
You need to heal your emotions.
You want to heighten your creativity.

Don’t wear orange when:
You want to relax your feminine/masculine charms.
You feel restless.
You want to take a rest.

Yellow

A color often worn by entertainers, because it makes them stand out in a crowd and confronts the challenge of being center of attention. Yellow is known to heal the digestive tract.

Truth: freedom; optimism; mental activity: concentration: open-mindedness
Challenge: fear; no boundaries; negativity; timidity.

Wear yellow when:
You need to attend to details.
You are studying and need to keep your mind awake.
You want to infuse some joy into your life.

Don’t wear yellow when:
You feel fear.
You don’t want to be the center of attention.
You want to relax your mind.

Green

Those seeking their own identity, fulfillment of their heart’s desire, and/or are searching for a new direction, are drawn to wear this color. By doing so they are challenged to find ways of creating their own abundance. Green heals the heart, eases tension, and regenerates cells.

Truth: security; abundance; nature; heart matters; new space/beginnings; balance.
Challenge: unrealistic; shying away from people/society; stagnancy.

Wear green when:
You want to see things from a different perspective.
You desire to feel more space around you.
You need to feel like both feet are on the ground.

Don’t wear green when:
You are confused about where life is taking you.
You feel your life is stagnant.
You don’t want to face the truth of a situation.

Blue

“True blue” symbolizing devotion to duty worn by most authority figures - nurses, policemen, etc. Anyone who consistently wears blue are deep thinkers and tend to re-energize by seeking their own company above that of others.

Truth: authority; peace; organized; practical; devotion; structure; communication
Challenge: aloofness; control issues; isolation; depression; martyrdom.

Wear blue when:
You want to exude an air of calm authority.
You need to be more organized.
You want to communicate something important.

Don’t wear blue when:
You are feeling isolated or lonely.
You feel depressed.
You are being too critical of both yourself and others.

Violet

Violet can indicate major change and a need to retreat, as a caterpillar retreats into a cocoon before it transforms into a butterfly.

Truth: transformation; spiritual self-realization; truth; creativity; recovery; healing.
Challenge: pain; misuse of power; bruising; looking for a way out; grief; unemotional.

Wear violet when:
You want to transform something in your life.
You are seeking purpose in your life.
You need to let go of destructive behavior or addictions.

Don’t wear violet when:
You are daydreaming instead of doing.
You want to turn your back on society.
You suffer grief but your emotions are blocked.

Pink

Pink symbolizes unconditional love. Wearing it encourages a sense of affection, increases sensitivity, and challenges you to confront your vulnerabilities.

Truth: unconditional love; affection; flirting; open to love; hearing.
Challenge: lack of self-love/self-esteem; healing grief; immaturity; vulnerable.

Wear pink when:
You want to feel feminine and vulnerable.
You want others to love you instantly.
You need to concentrate and listen.

Don’t wear pink when:
You feel vulnerable and insecure.
You are giving all the time and not receiving.
You feel fragmented.

Brown

The symbolism of color is based in part on the natural world. For instance soil offers some insight into the meaning of brown - needed to grow food, without it we would be challenged to find ways to survive.

Truth: security; practicality; work; money; commitments; determination to succeed.
Challenge: loss of security; lack of money; fear of survival.

Wear brown when:
You need to get down to some hard work.
You want to organize your finances
You want to feel that everything in your life is going well.

Don’t wear brown when:
You want to expend lots of energy.
You are feeling too bogged down with things.
You are not interested in hard work and want to play instead.

Turquoise

Known to enhance healing of the immune system, useful for illnesses such as AIDS. Native Americans use the semi-precious stone Turquoise as an allergy healer, also an autoimmune condition.

Truth: communication; lecturing; media; creativity; immune system healer.
Challenge: inability/unwilling to communicate; poor defense; rejection

Wear turquoise when:
You are lecturing - especially around the throat.
You want to tap into your creativity through dance, music, art, etc.
You want to connect with your own spirituality.

Don’t wear turquoise when:
You feel rejected.
You don’t want to ‘talk about it!’
You are more interested in yourself and not others.

Body language

Once you have mastered the art of color interpretation begin to incorporate the body language of color. For example, legs symbolize movement - moving forward, backward or standing still. Green worn in this area might signify a move to the country; standing still and feeling stagnant; or walking back into ones past. Alternatively, it could indicate a move toward making or saving money, or, signify a lack of abundance due to lack of movement. On the other hand, wearing green may be a subconscious desire to attract abundance.

Head - how we feel about ourselves
Neck - flexibility of thinking and communication (openness)
Front - capacity to give and receive life
Back - support
Midline - ability to assimilate life
Arms - life experience
Hands - abilities
Genitals - sexuality
Legs - movement
Knees - flexibility to change
Feet - understanding of ourselves and of life

Have fun with analyzing your choice of color. As you become adept you will attain an understanding of yours and others motivations. Gradually your individual experience will color your interpretations.

At least for the time being you will be more aware of what your clothes are saying to those around you, and what you want them to say! 

You Are the Colors You Choose

The Root Chakra Elements

Sanskrit Name:  Mulhadhara
Meaning:  “Root support”
Root Chakra Element:  Earth/Physical
Root Chakra Keywords:  “I Am” – grounded, present, safe, secure, healthy
Associated Color:  Red
Musical Note:  C
Organs: Spinal column, legs, hips, kidneys and adrenal gland
Root Chakra Consciousness: Survival, grounding and balancing the physical and spiritual life

A Balanced Root Chakra

When the root chakra is balanced you feel grounded, centered, and able to live in the here and now effortlessly. You feel alive with a strong connection to yourself and those around you. Your life is working on all levels, but even if there are areas that are not working you are confident that they will work out. You are healthy and want to take care of yourself, usually manifesting as an interest in your nutritional intake and physical exercise.

When the root chakra is balanced you are able to manifest an abundance of everything you need to survive.

Root Chakra Hobbies

Going out to dinner, cooking, charity work, (a need to help others with their survival issues) work connected with the hands such as gardening or building work, physical exercise – walking, aerobics, tai chi, etc., playing with money such as the stock market, Monopoly and gambling but not to the excess, the physical raw type of love-making, hunting and any game involving muscle.

Blocked Root Chakra

When the root chakra is blocked there is an interruption in the flow of earth energy - your grounding and nutrition - so part of you will say, “what is the point of being here,” or “why am I here.” You will be in denial of life and life’s lessons. You will feel disconnected, rootless, alienated from others. You may have severe mood swings. Your ability to manifest will not flow. You will lack energy both physically and mentally to give you the boost you need to survive your life on earth. You will fear for your survival but lack the energy to do anything about it.

Over-active Root Chakra

You can be domineering, highly strung so that you have difficulty sleeping. You may become greedy, aggressive, sexually manipulative, reckless, impulsive, and see everything and everyone as a threat.

Under-active Root Chakra

You can appear weak, tired, lethargic, and overcautious. You will be afraid of change. You lack confidence, fear of being abandoned, harbor self-destructive tendencies and become disinterested in life.

The Root Chakra Consciousness of survival:

Each chakra is linked with a corresponding gland, usually located in the area of the chakra. The adrenal glands are associated with the root chakra, despite being higher up on the body than the chakra location. This gland manufactures the “fight or flight” hormone, adrenaline, which is stimulated by extremes of emotion such as fear, anger or panic. It can create a titan within us, boosting the energy system, stimulating incredible acts of courage and making our bodies strong enough to single handedly lift up cars, and remove us from danger. It speeds up the heart pumping blood around the body giving much-needed nutrients to the muscles and cells.

Life lessons:

Connect to parents, tribe, survive, procreate

Opening the Root Chakra

Discover different ways to open, energize, and ground your root chakra.

+ Survival, will to live, structure, stability, food, money, physical vitality, protection
- Rootless, not here, nothing flows, low energy, indecisive
♥ Dance, grounding, wear/visualize red, nurturing foods
☺Kidneys, spine, adrenals

+ Desire, pleasure, seeks unity, joy, movement, sex, creativity, intimacy
- Dependency, complaining, undersexed, overworked
Front: Giving and receiving sexual and physical pleasure,
Back: Quality of sexual union and quantity of love
♥ Water activities, bathing, swimming, swinging hips – hula
☺ Reproductive & immune systems, sexual organs, gonads

+ Power center, clarity, intuition, who we are in the universe, competitive
- Blocked feelings, fears, unfocussed, conditional love
Front: Center of expression, thoughts about emotions
Back: Intention toward physical health – Healing center
♥ Fasting, belly dancing, belly breathing, visualize the spin
☺ Stomach, liver, gall bladder, spleen, pancreas

+ Love and will, unconditional love, compassion, harmony
- I want this regardless. Attacking self
Front: Balances earth and spirit – connectedness
Back: Go after what we want, our will & divine will agree, control
♥ Nurture and love self, be in nature, listen to music
☺Heart, upper back, lymph, vagus nerve, Thymus

+ Communication center, creativity, truth, expression, hearing - sound
- speech & hearing problems, lies, can’t speak up, pride
Front: Takes responsibility for personal needs, divine will
Back: Being open enough to receive – Professional center
♥ Breath, journaling, chanting, singing, acting
☺ Lungs, throat, ears, thyroid

+ Sight, understanding, images, daydreaming, vision, bright ideas, precognitive dreams, intuition
- Negative thoughts, fantasy world, lack of intuition
Front: Ability to grasp mental and universal concepts, creative ideas
Back: Mental executive center puts the ideas from the front into action
♥ Clean third eye screen, focus, affirmations, AUM, eye movements
☺ Pineal/pituitary, left eye, nose, nervous system

+ Seat of enlightenment, spiritual center, wisdom, knowledge, blissfulness, unity with all, integration of spirit with personality
- Divine homesickness, depression, lack of faith, GURU
♥ Resonate to I KNOW and you resonate to I AM - meditation
☺ Upper brain, right eye, pineal/pituitary

My guides told me that the throat chakra connects to the spirit it is the voice of the soul. The third eye connects to the records of the soul/akasha and souls purpose in life. The crown connects to the divine mind and the divine plan for humankind.

Each chakra is associated with a physical, psychological, emotional, mental, spiritual and psychic aspect. Opening chakras to develop psychic awareness will naturally trigger any unfinished business, issues, challenges and gifts in these areas. For instance, opening chakra one – the root chakra, will stimulate your survival instincts and bring up any issues you have about your security, money, home, and career. But it could also intensify past and present physical ailments around the base of the spine, legs, and kidneys. You may experience some discomfort in the root chakra region. When this chakra is stimulated you can experience a tingling feeling in the legs and buttocks.

The gift of the root chakra is “knowing” who you are, being in the here and now, nurturing yourself and allowing yourself to be nurtured by others. Spiritually the root chakra grounds you and keeps you present. Essentially you are spirit in a physical body, but in order to be of any spiritual use you have to be grounded and live in the present moment. This is where your power is.

Your Psychic Gifts

Each chakra is associated with a psychic gift. The root chakra is your ability to stay grounded and bring information from another dimension into this dimension. The sacral chakra opens you to Empathy and Intuition. The Solar Plexus is an enormous powerhouse, the gateway to the intelligence of spirit. This is the chakra you use to sense on an instinctual level – gut feelings. The heart chakra is the balance, the fulcrum between the earth and spirit energies. This is the center of compassion, healing and the art of Psychometry. The Throat chakra is your center of expression. It is associated with the mediumistic skill of Clairaudience meaning Clear Hearing because energy travels between the throat and the small chakra openings beneath the ears. This is also the chakra of Channeling and Inspirational Speaking. The third eye the sixth chakra is the center of dreams, imagination, psychic sight, and Clairvoyance, which includes precognition. The crown chakra connects you with spirit and the higher self.

Intention

Before you begin the practice of opening your chakras for psychic work you need to have the right intention. Opening yourself up psychically is like opening your front door and inviting strangers into your home. You need to send the right message into the universe and to spirit.

Your intention in this instance is to open up your sensitivity in order to fully develop your psychic skills for the benefit of helping others. One of my teachers, Ivy Northage who ran one of the most sought after psychic circles in England, said that when she interviewed people for her development class she would ask why they wanted to develop. If the reply was anything other than the desire to help others she would not accept that person into her group. So intention is paramount.

Meditation

Meditation practice is a large part of psychic development. It should be done sitting up preferably in the Egyptian position. When you lie down you might tend to fall to sleep. Some people fall to sleep because they are not used to being with themselves and they cannot cope with it. Problems with meditation can also be resistance from your ego mind, an unconscious resistance to something related to the area of irritation or pain you might experience in your body.

Keeping Your Chakras Clear

Make it your goal to do your psychic work before a big meal or at least 2 hours afterward. In any psychic development you will be working with the chakras. The solar plexus chakra a storehouse of energy and ideally should be clear of any blockages. Literally on a physical level this means food. I do not eat for at least twelve hours before I work and fast while working. This may not work for you so I am not suggesting that you follow my lead, this is not the only way to work. Do whatever is right for you provided it is within the parameters of the universal law of spirit.

Protection

Always protect yourself when you open yourself up on a psychic level or whenever you meditate. Again you are opening the psychic door to various dimensions of energy and who knows what kind of energies will be attracted to your light.

It is a good idea to get into the practice of protecting yourself, regardless of whether or not you are working with your psychic centers. Check the meditation page. At the beginning of the meditation you are taken through a room cleansing process that includes cleansing and protecting your energy field with light. Light is one of the greatest protectors, as is love. Remember no darkness can live in the light. Once you have opened your chakras for psychic development you can tend to open them up whenever you think of psychic work or read psychic books or have a conversation about psychic experiences. Your chakras are like a balloon. Once it has been blown up it is easier to blow it up again. 

Closing Down Your Chakras

Your chakras react to intention. If your goal is psychic development then they will react accordingly. This means your chakras open wider to allow a higher intensity of energy to flow through them. If you were to leave the chakras exposed in this way all the time you would eventually become drained because you would be picking up too much energy. For instance, imagine you watched television all day, all night and then continued into the next day. Your eyes would become sore. This is similar to how your chakras react when they are left open.

You are also in jeopardy of absorbing negative energy because you are unable to adequately protect yourself as your own energy diminishes. Once your energy drops in this way it is also difficult for your doorkeeper guide to protect you. Working with your psychic mechanism holds many responsibilities discernment being one of them. Be aware that your psychic centers are living instruments of your spirit and your doorway into a multitude of dimensions. It is your duty to use them appropriately. Closing your chakras therefore is a major part of psychic awareness. 

Psychic Group Work

It is advisable if you intend to develop psychically to work with a group. Group work can help you to focus the energy and helps you to develop much faster. The support of a group will also help you to understand some of the sensations and experiences you encounter.

Keep a psychic routine. Work at your psychic development once a week at the same time of day. Make sure you do not have any distractions. Sit in Egyptian pose. Close your eyes and take a few deep cleansing breathes.

Cleanse the room:

Visualize a beautiful ball of sparkling white light in the center of the room. As you focus your attention on this light see it become larger and brighter, larger and brighter still, until it completely surrounds and embraces you. Feel the light cleansing your mind, body, spirit and emotions, filling each of your bodies with light. Give anything you have been holding onto, any negativity, into the light. See it being transmuted and absorbed by the light. If there is excess energy see this as formless and harmless and taken back into the earth. Expand the light into every corner of the room cleansing the room of any negativity. If you find an area of darkness fill it with light – no darkness can live in the light. Expand the light until it becomes an enormous bubble embracing the building within. See the light cleansing the building above, below and the sides. (When you are satisfied that your space is clean, say a prayer).

Prayer:

Great spirit. Surround me with your light, love, peace, and power. Help me to be at one with you. (Say your part of the prayer – whatever you are working with). Bless you.

Ground:

Ground yourself by imagining roots going from your feet and the base of your spine down, down, down, into the center of the earth. Ask Gaia to share her energy with you and bring this energy up through your roots into your root chakra opening your root chakra wide.  Bring this energy up to each chakra in turn opening them wide both front and back. Open the crown chakra wide and see earth energy streaming out and flowing through your auric field like a fountain returning the energy to earth completing the circuit.

Visualize a ball of golden light above your head. This is the light of the divine, Great Spirit, God. Feel this energy flood your crown chakra intensifying each chakra with wonderful golden light, expanding your auric field with energy. Get a sense of the optimum balance of earth and divine energy within your psychic body and adapt your energy. Invite your guides, especially your main guide to work with you. You are now ready to work.

If at any time you feel light headed you probably need more earth energy. If you feel heavy you probably need more spiritual energy.

Closing Down The Chakras:

Before you close down say a prayer to thank spirit for working with you. To close down visualize a spotlight of light above your head showering and cleansing your subtle bodies. Any dross you have picked up is transformed by the light into formless and harmless energy and taken back into the earth. Contract your auric field bringing it closer to your body. Reduce the size of each of your chakras taking any excess energy back into the earth. Shower again with white light then re-earth yourself. Bring earth energy up through your root chakra and re-energize your body. Do the same with the spirit light so that you are heaven and earth. Bring divine light into your crown chakra filling your body with the light of spirit. wrap yourself in a cloak of protection - whatever color feels right for you. Now put yourself into a bubble of light that only allows positive energy to enter. If you need extra protection visualize mirrors on the outside of your field facing outward.

Now, like a balloon releasing air, contract your auric field and bring it closer to your body. Reduce in size each of your chakras and take the excess energy back into the earth. Shrink your crown, third eye, throat, heart, solar plexus, sacral center, and root chakras, and shower again with white light. Good. Wrap yourself in a cloak of protection - whatever color feels right for you in this moment – make sure that it covers your head and touches the floor protecting you completely. Now put yourself into a bubble of light that will only allow positive energy to penetrate it. If you feel that you need extra protection visualize mirrors on the outside of your light bubble facing outward. When you are ready take a deep breath in and as you breath out, open your eyes and stretch your body.

If you do not feel grounded cleanse and close your chakras again until you do.

We all create cords to people we have had relationships with or associations or interactions. The cords are energy ties to certain areas of our energy bodies depending on the kind of interactions we had. For instance, control energy would be 3rd of power and 6th of fear. A parent cord would be 3rd of power and 4th of love. Some cords are contracts with people that have agreed to help us work through our lessons in life. We need to recognize these, ask what it is there for, why we are connected to this person, what we have to learn from them and what they have to learn from us. Contract cords may not be suitable for cutting.

The color of the cord can tell you a lot about the information coming through it, why it was formed and why it stays in place. The material or texture of a cord shows the intention with which it was made soft or hard as steel, warm and light or dark and heavy. The thickness of the cord means the level of involvement – the heart chakra may show affinity between two people, third chakra may show a competitive interaction. Most cords fade away after the communication or interaction is over. Others remain depending on the intensity and duration of the involvement. We keep some cords alive - a heart cord with a special person. I cut the cords with all the men in my life and they came looking for me. Doing this energetically is very powerful. Cords will return as you interact again. Cords with loved ones never really go away.

Other cords can be cut using the “Cutting the Ties That Bind,” exercise by Phyllis Krystal to remove the energy of unhealthy relationships from your auric field. Visualize an infinity sign with the inner circles colored white and the outer circles colored violet – violet is transformation and white is new beginning. Imagine you are standing in one side of the figure eight and the person you want to let go of is standing in the other side. Then imagine you are having a conversation and you are telling this person how much he or she has helped you in your life, how much you appreciate the experience. See the cords that connect you to the person, ask for the cords that need to be cut to light up. 

Then using a pair of golden scissors cut the energy cords you have built between you seeing the cord ends absorbed by yours and the other persons being, making sure that the cords are healed and sealed.  When you have finished thank the person for their friendship and then proceed to cut the circles in half allowing each half to become a complete circle. Wave good-bye and see them in their circle leaving your auric field floating into the distance. Do this daily until you feel they have been released

2 - Peace

Marks the beginning of a numerology cycle of growth that will continue for at least nine years; a period of self-assessment; re-assessing what is important in your life; seeking to find oneself and ones identity; accessing creativity; travel overseas or live near water; new friends, especially women, become important; interest in counseling, education, religion, and the occult. In numerology the two year can be the start of independence or decisions to go it alone.

3 - Heart

Rediscovering your relationship with feminine principles; during this period you will be faced with establishing your emotional needs in your relationships, particularly with women. In your numerology three year these needs will manifest in your relationship with your mother, children or potential children. Nurturing self, interest in health, foods, nutrition, body and exercise. Interest in women or exploring the feminine principle within self.

4 - Leadership

Awakening the masculine principle; major numerology year of change and new beginnings; resolving fatherhood issues or issues with male authority figures; important travel; start of a new project/business/self-employment; responsibilities; promotion; leadership; accessing your talents and given the opportunity to use them.

5 - Tradition

Either teaching or learning; finding a teacher/guru; establishment of family structure; life tests; artistic appreciation; stabilizing life; re-establishing relationships with family members, can be stuck in a routine.

6 - Relationships

Start of major relationship or decisions regarding relationships, or relationship with self; marriages, partnerships and friendships formed during this numerology year will probably be lasting; major decisions between two things or combining two things to create equilibrium – combing physical and spiritual, complementary and orthodox.

7 - Lightening

Major numerology cycle, life moving in the direction of your previous decisions during ” Leadership” and “Relationships” years; moving home, career, country; changing relationships; major change of self; destroying structure and re-building; new directions; major travel or relevant travel – this can be physically or mentally; this numerology year is an opportunity to change a way of being that is no longer working for you.

8 - Equilibrium

Adjusting to a new situation; legal issues; health, nutrition and exercise become important; simplifying life; publishing or published works; balancing finances; clearing out all the clutter; the numerology year of karmic changes – the calm after the storm.

9 - Completion

Completing unresolved issues, tying up loose ends, finishing projects, and moving in new directions; older people become significant; find one’s own sacred space; need to have only meaningful things in one’s life.

10 - Progress

Bearing the fruits of projects that began in the numerology of “Leadership” or “Lightening” years; commitment to one’s self; a breakthrough in one’s thinking; unexpected opportunities to move in new directions; moving from the old into the new; space to be oneself.

11 - Creativity

Reclaiming your power, saying no to anything that undermines your power, increased creative expression; meeting artistic, creative, people or those in the theatrical arts; meeting people who have faced challenges and realize there is more fun in life; becoming stronger; both physically and emotionally; a numerology year where everything appears to be new.

12 - Letting go

Completing anything that has been left unresolved from the numerology of “Completion” year; letting go of old ways of being; transition; an opportunity to break repeated patterns and move on, looking at life from a new perspective and deciding what is most important; what will stay and what will leave, possibility of learning a new culture, language or new ways to communicate.

13 - Transformation

A major numerology cycle of change; letting go of an old identity; emerging “from a caterpillar to a butterfly”; releasing old relationships or changing relationship structures for the better; releasing old ways of being; taking stock of your life and sharing your experience and wisdom with others, renewal and power in the discovery of your true self.

14 - Alchemy

Beauty, harmony and synthesis become important; creative projects; re-decorating or re-structuring home, career and self; stability, owning responsibility for decisions and their consequences and reconciling with the axiom that we create everything in our lives.

15 - Divinity

Exploration of sexuality and sensuality; enjoying oneself, having fun, seeing humor in life; in this numerology year you could experience a strong physical relationship; work hard but play hard too, may indicate changes in hormonal health, sense of releasing the shackles of ones past or at least preparing for this, may also be the parting of ways in a business relationship, considering or making plans for retirement, or restructuring of business/work.

16 - Healing

Another numerology cycle of major change except with more upheaval: destroying old structures and foundations and re-building on solid ground; change in lifestyle; interest in healing work, especially of self; hobbies, exercise, health becomes more important, may be a time of darkness – the dark night of the soul – but there will be brilliant light at the end of this period. Light is information and while this numerology period in time may well appear to be calamitous it is like a vacuum cleaner sweeping away the dust and cleaning the windows so the light and it’s resulting revelations can be revealed..

17 - Rejuvenation

Self-healing continues; re-building self confidences; planning future with emphasis on education; communities; recognition for past effort, looking at ways to nurture the self in a kind and loving way, building self-esteem and acknowledging own self-worth, making a wish with the knowledge that all your wishes can come true. Expect the unexpected

18 - Divergence

Choosing between two situations; decisions related to positive and negative issues in ones life; refusing to accept a situation that is destructive; seeing ones own illusions; connecting with a deeper aspect of self, may become interested in acting or role playing, may see that life is a game and begin to recognize that every act is a decision and to learn to live life through action rather than reaction. This numerology year may indicate the beginning of dream-work or and the beginning of work into the subconscious mind.

19 - Partnerships

Becoming more involved with group ventures, communities and teamwork; friends could become lovers and lovers become friends; may move to a sunnier climate or retire, work with globular consequences, great deal of happiness in this year from recognizing that you are an integral part of the whole and are needed like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle is needed. In numerology this may also be a year of surprise gifts.

20 - Integration

Balancing family, career, money; experiencing and learning from judgmental and non-judgmental situations that require your co-operation and wisdom; abundance of everything provided you have earned this merit. This numerology cycle indicates the end of something that has had a draining effect on your life, could be the end of a cycle and the beginning of a cycle of independence

21 - Transition

Overcoming obstacles; new beginnings; major change for the better; taking more time for oneself; extensive travel; family gatherings; community commitments; service to fellow man, expanding the heart to embrace the old and the new and becoming aligned to ones own purpose in this lifetime.