The Complete Chakra Guide: From Root to Divine — Physical, Earth Star & Cosmic Energy Centers
Your energy body is far more expansive than most teachings reveal. Today we're going beyond the classic seven — into the Earth Star below your feet and the higher transpersonal chakras that connect you to the cosmos itself. Whether you're just beginning your chakra journey or deepening your practice, this guide covers where each center lives, what it governs, how to know when it's off, and how to bring it back into harmony.
Working with chakra crystals is one of the most tangible ways to support this work — each stone carries a frequency that resonates with specific energy centers. Browse our full crystal collection to find what calls to you, or explore our chakra ritual bundles for a curated starting point.
✦ The 7 Physical Chakras
1. Root Chakra — Muladhara
Location: Base of the spine, perineum
Color: Red | Element: Earth
Governs: Survival, safety, grounding, physical health, finances, belonging, and your sense of stability in the physical world.
Mudra: Prithvi Mudra — touch the tip of your ring finger to the tip of your thumb, extend the remaining fingers.
Mantra: LAM (lum)
Open vs. Closed: An open Root feels like safety, presence, and ease in your body. A closed Root often stems from childhood instability, financial trauma, displacement, or chronic stress — manifesting as anxiety, fear, or feeling perpetually unsafe.
In Alignment vs. Out of Alignment: Aligned, you feel grounded and resourced. Out of alignment, you may feel scattered, financially chaotic, or unable to complete tasks.
Overworking vs. Underworking: Overactive — hoarding, rigidity, obsession with security. Underactive — chronic fatigue, dissociation, financial avoidance.
2. Sacral Chakra — Svadhisthana
Location: 2–3 inches below the navel
Color: Orange | Element: Water
Governs: Creativity, pleasure, sexuality, emotions, flow, and the ability to experience joy and intimacy.
Mudra: Shakti Mudra
Mantra: VAM (vum)
Open vs. Closed: Open — creative, sensual, emotionally fluid. Closed — emotional numbness, creative blocks, shame around pleasure.
Overworking vs. Underworking: Overactive — emotional overwhelm, addiction. Underactive — creative drought, emotional detachment.
3. Solar Plexus Chakra — Manipura
Location: Upper abdomen
Color: Yellow | Element: Fire
Governs: Personal power, will, confidence, self-esteem, discipline.
Mudra: Rudra Mudra
Mantra: RAM (rum)
Open vs. Closed: Open — confident, decisive, self-directed. Closed — powerlessness, people-pleasing.
Overworking vs. Underworking: Overactive — control issues, aggression. Underactive — low self-worth, passivity.
4. Heart Chakra — Anahata
Location: Center of the chest
Color: Green (and pink for the higher heart) | Element: Air
Governs: Love, compassion, forgiveness, connection, grief.
Mudra: Padma Mudra
Mantra: YAM (yum)
Open vs. Closed: Open — loving, empathetic, able to give and receive freely. Closed — grief, isolation, inability to trust.
Overworking vs. Underworking: Overactive — over-giving, emotional enmeshment. Underactive — coldness, isolation.
5. Throat Chakra — Vishuddha
Location: Throat
Color: Blue | Element: Ether/Sound
Governs: Communication, truth, self-expression, listening.
Mudra: Granthita Mudra
Mantra: HAM (hum)
Open vs. Closed: Open — you speak your truth with clarity. Closed — difficulty expressing yourself, fear of speaking up.
Overworking vs. Underworking: Overactive — talking over others, gossiping. Underactive — chronic silence, inability to say no.
6. Third Eye Chakra — Ajna
Location: Between and slightly above the eyebrows
Color: Indigo | Element: Light
Governs: Intuition, perception, psychic sight, imagination, clarity.
Mudra: Kalesvara Mudra
Mantra: OM (or SHAM)
Open vs. Closed: Open — strong intuition, vivid dreams, clear inner vision. Closed — confusion, brain fog, inability to trust gut feelings.
Overworking vs. Underworking: Overactive — hallucinations, obsessive thinking. Underactive — closed-mindedness, dismissal of spiritual experience.
7. Crown Chakra — Sahasrara
Location: Top of the head
Color: Violet / White / Gold | Element: Cosmic Energy
Governs: Divine connection, higher consciousness, spiritual awakening, unity.
Mudra: Sahasrara Mudra
Mantra: AH or OM — or silence itself
Open vs. Closed: Open — a felt sense of oneness, spiritual trust, and divine guidance. Closed — spiritual disconnection, nihilism, existential emptiness.
Overworking vs. Underworking: Overactive — spiritual bypassing, dissociation. Underactive — depression, lack of purpose.
✦ The Earth Star Chakra — Vasundhara
Location: 12–18 inches below the soles of the feet, within the Earth
Color: Black, deep brown, or silver
Element: Earth / Gaia Consciousness
Governs: Your connection to Gaia, ancestral healing, karmic grounding, collective memory, and your soul's physical incarnation anchor.
Mudra: Bhu Mudra — press both index and middle fingers into the earth (or your thighs), curl remaining fingers, extend thumbs outward.
Mantra: LAM extended low and slow. Affirmation: “I am rooted. I am held. I belong to this Earth.”
Open vs. Closed: Open — you feel genuinely at home on Earth, connected to nature’s rhythms. Closed — chronic rootlessness, feeling like you don’t belong here. Grounding with raw earth specimens like black tourmaline, smoky quartz, or hematite can help anchor this center.
✦ The Higher Transpersonal Chakras
These chakras exist above the Crown and are part of your light body — the energetic architecture of your soul’s higher dimensional expression. They are activated through spiritual evolution, intentional practice, and the clearing of the lower centers.
The Soul Star Chakra — Sutara
Location: 6–12 inches above the Crown
Color: Magenta, white-gold, or iridescent pearl
Governs: Your soul’s blueprint, past life records, karmic contracts, soul purpose, and the seat of your Higher Self.
The Spirit Chakra — Anima
Location: Approximately 18–24 inches above the Crown
Color: Opalescent white or pale lavender
Governs: Your spirit’s pure essence beyond all lifetimes, divine will, and the threshold between personal soul and transpersonal spirit.
The Universal Chakra
Location: Approximately 3 feet above the Crown
Color: Gold or luminous amber
Governs: Universal love, oneness consciousness, connection to all beings across all dimensions.
The Galactic Chakra
Location: Approximately 4–5 feet above the Crown
Color: Silver, electric blue, or deep violet
Governs: Galactic consciousness, star lineage, cosmic law, advanced spiritual gifts.
The Divine Gateway Chakra
Location: 6+ feet above the Crown
Color: Pure white light, diamond, or transparent luminosity
Governs: Complete divine union, the dissolution of all separation between self and Source, enlightenment.
✦ The Complete Circuit: Grounding the Cosmic
True energetic health is not about ascending out of the body — it is about creating a living circuit between the Earth Star below and the Divine Gateway above, with every chakra along the column open, clear, and flowing. The Earth grounds the cosmic. The cosmic illuminates the Earth. You are the bridge.
When any center is blocked, overworking, or underworking, the entire system compensates. This is why chakra work is never just about one center — it is always about the whole. Begin where you are. Ground first. Then rise.
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