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Master
Chakra Quiz

Find out where your true gifts lie—which chakra is dominant in you. In each of the following sections of questions, please pick the description that describes you best. The quiz can be used to see which color(s) you might be and also as a learning tool to identify key characteristics of all the colors. TEST your mastery. If being used to identify your color, mark the number that best describes you under each section. If being used to test yourself on what you have learned, identify which color is being spoken of in each sentence.

When you walk into a room

1. 1. You find a way to take charge of it.
2. 2. You share with others how you feel we can best function with whatever purpose has been established for everyone in this room—you question that purpose, though. Why are we here?
3. 3. You speak to others and enlighten them.
4. 4. You spend all your time making sure no one is hungry, sad, or lost. You comfort those who need it.
5. 5. You find a way to make people smile. Laughter follows in your wake.
6. 6. You see what needs to be fixed or straightened in this room. You search for the tools that are at hand, and, seeing that no one else cares, you get things working again.
7. 7. You’re drawn to create a sculpture about what’s going on in the room. You find the people interesting.

At a concert, this sounds like you

1. 1. You don’t care as much about this concert as you do about the new thing you’re studying on your iPhone. If this new information turns out to be more engaging than the music, you’ll read it instead.
2. 2. You sit in the back so you can watch everyone. If a fire starts in this place, you will lead everyone to safety. Going to the bathroom at intermission, you see two little girls playing in the water fountain and get them to stop.
3. 3. Immaculate in your appearance, you arrive at the concert looking flawless. You may or may not be the most fashionable person here, but no one matches your attention to detail. Now, you think you hear those speakers crackling …
4. 4. You go to the front of the pit and dance like there is no tomorrow, getting everyone around you to dance with you. After this, you and your new friends will go to three more parties, getting stuck at none for long.
5. 5. After making sure the kids of the family sitting next to you have water bottles (they were thirsty), you’ll go back to the car and get blankets for your kids, since they’re cold. Next, you relax into the supreme sense of the okayness of it all.
6. 6. You fall deeply into the music. You don’t like it that people are looking at their iPhones. You put your arm around your sweetheart, pay attention to the ambience, all the sound qualities, and even the sunset.

1. 7. You do not want to listen to this concert because you’d rather talk to your neighbor. You can’t stop talking because there are so many people here and you have so much to say.

Choose how you react when
you’re having a really bad day

1. 1. You think you’re not good enough. Because of this, everything sucks.
2. 2. You use people to get what you want.
3. 3. You’re angry—and resentful. People don’t get how their actions have consequences.
4. 4. While normally you take responsibility, today you’d rather do nothing.
5. 5. You’re self-centered; no one is good enough for you.
6. 6. You blame other people—everything is their fault.
7. 7. You disconnect from people around you and hole up in your room.

You are passionate about …

1. 1. Finding something fun to do immediately or right before something gets boring. You can make anything fun, and … you will find a way.
2. 2. Reading, writing, and gathering wisdom. Being a daily intellectual. Finding balance. Caring about people, social consciousness, the physical pastime of your choice … telling other people what you think they should know.
3. 3. Being peace. Finding the best solution to a problem, then using it. Curing people. Releasing their pain. Fixing their broken stuff.
4. 4. Putting the pieces together, and you can spend hours doing it. In fact, you spend more time doing your research than most. You’re all about placing your goal ahead of you and striving to reach it.
5. 5. Either expressing yourself through art or science. Life is about love, acting when the emotions are right, and beauty. Life is about making things. It’s about being in relationship with others so the love shines through.
6. 6. Having a lot of courage and faith. After all, it’s relatively easy for you to believe in the unseen and see it happening even before there is any evidence that it will. You’re powerful in your beliefs about the future.
7. 7. Doing any of the things you just read about so that you can help people.

In the presence of others, you’re good at …

1. 1. Showing someone what went wrong and showing them how to make it right.
2. 2. Identifying other people’s emotions when even they didn’t realize what feelings were deep down about that stuff they experienced.
3. 3. Giving other people advice. They even ask for it.
4. 4. Putting another person first and clearing your schedule to help them.
5. 5. Telling the truth.
6. 6. Bringing the light back into someone’s eyes after telling them something they needed to know. They will never be the same.
7. 7. Making someone smile when they were down.

See the final page of this chapter for your answers!

Master Chakra Traps

The traps of each master chakra describe ways in which you tend to be out of alignment with your gifted self. Identifying which key traps seem to fit you best overall is another step in the process of seeing which soul-ray you were born on. You may not resonate with each trap listed—it’s more about identifying the whole picture, and there are even more traps than discussed here. For more information about how to emerge from these traps and their brethren, see your master chakra workbook.

Reds in their traps are larger than life, just like in their gifts, but they can be an angry, forceful beast. Focused on themselves, egotistical—blaming everyone else instead of taking responsibility—they could be loud or quiet about it. They can blame you for what they didn’t do. They can blame you for all the things they see you didn’t do (which might be true, but still—they don’t have to rule you). They can intimidate with their anger, and then again, they could just try to control you and organize against you. They’ll be stubborn and refuse to listen to you. They have to have their way at all costs, and they could use you for their purposes instead of respecting what you want. Or they’ll just sit there and do absolutely nothing, giving away their power—either to you or someone else. If you say something to them about how they are, or even insult them, they’ll genuinely believe you. You could say anything to them. They’d believe it whether it was true or not. It’s a big downfall.

Oranges in their traps don't have an ability to stop moving to the next thing. On and on and on, they never stop moving, and because of that, when they can’t achieve something great, they’re stuck, if they didn’t stick with anything long enough. Or they have to run from trouble, creating situations where people turn against them because they’ve broken so many rules and didn’t have proper boundaries. Oranges in their traps can lie outright and refuse to take responsibility for what they did. They can get too wrapped up in their feelings and create any story to get them out. They can over-analyze their feelings, which takes them away from both joy and reality. Then, when they realize they’ve done something wrong, they punish themselves. They can’t get out of being negative. They might get addicted to having fun in the wrong ways and that will sabotage their ability to be healthy.

Yellows in their traps disregard their feelings and can use their ego to get what it wants by being able to disregard yours. Anything is possible when you have no feelings and don’t care about the other person’s. The sky’s the limit because any behavior would then be possible, since everyone and everything is then able to be objectified. Yellows could isolate themselves from the community and all individuals at large by simply never leaving their home. Yellows don’t need to be social in their traps. They don’t believe anything that can’t be verified scientifically or logically, and they forget Spirit. They won’t acknowledge the truth inherent in the unseen and are too stuck on facts. They can always be controlling and demand you follow their paths of truth without letting you figure things out for yourself. Then again, they might just be scattered in their mind and make no sense—even hoping you’ll follow them, even when they don’t live in reality and can’t come to conclusions about the truth often enough.

Greens in their traps focus too much on the process, which is always going to be their first love, but still—when they walk too far away from the human element involved, they can treat people like objects. They only care about what they’re doing with them and forget to care about the person him or herself. Greens become unorganized in their traps. They don’t clean their house and they don’t fix their own problems—they neglect themselves. They don’t get themselves out of their own traps; they just keep focusing on other people. Greens can be annoying to some people because they won’t stop finding things about others to critique. They see too many things that need to be fixed and then try to fix what doesn’t need fixing, sometimes breaking something so that eventually they will be able to fix it again. They stop doing things for the sake of God and do them for themselves instead when they become power hungry. When they stop starting with spirit, they start doing things from ego that might hurt others, including manipulating their money with schemes, instead of helping them balance themselves and follow their heart with finances.

Blues in their traps might think you are stupid because you can’t understand things the way they do. They can think they are above others because of their knowledge. They can even be like this with other blues. They sometimes forget to be emotional, forget about how to come from love when teaching wisdom. They might lose their emotional, mental, physical, or spiritual balance, and whenever this happens, they can’t teach others as effectively, if at all. Sometimes blues just stop teaching because they don’t want to. Being quiet when there is clearly something they feel called to say—not taking that risk to speak, is a trap just as much as talking too much and not letting others have their wisdom and their say. They can get angry, resentful, and bitter when they think about the past, about man’s inhumanity to man, about anything that isn’t working well. They lose control of their mind. They can be dramatic, thinking everything that happens is either the best or the worst of what is. Creating drama is a classic blue trap—dramas usually begin with the way we communicate. A final blue trap is leaving people behind too often—mostly because they can’t humble themselves to communicate and solve the issue. This is a consequence of holding yourself separate from others, which they come by naturally.

Purples in their traps focus on gaining material compensation for their work to the point where it affects the work and degrades it. This can happen in any number of ways: either they stop creating great stuff because they’re so focused on marketing it, or they figure out from having been able to command big ticket prices in the past that they can pass off lesser creations as better. They sell out, or sell the art of creation, creation itself, which leaves them in poverty in the mind and heart. They create unhelpful art, that which people don’t like to see. Or, they dislike having to wear what’s already in their closet, use the art supplies they already own, or forgo buying a new shirt over buying food they need to eat; they won’t make do and demand luxury when it isn’t a good idea to have it. Even the people aren’t good enough for them when they take on the privileged mindset. They can trigger people too much and destroy what they don’t love—destroy a relationship because there is something they don’t like about it. They refuse to take people out of turmoil. They spend too much time focused on themselves and not enough on bringing love into the world, however that might be possible at the time.

Violets have a penchant for sacrificing themselves in their traps. They think it’s what they need to do: not take care of themselves and only take care of someone else, but then they blame that person for their own missing pieces, pieces that went missing while they were too busy to help themselves. Violets get walked on by others when they don’t set boundaries and empower themselves to choose who to help and who to ignore—and how much to do for the people they are helping. Violets lose when they don’t delegate; they think they have to do it all. It’s a state of martyr complex. They also claim moral authority in their traps (because of the martyr complex) where they manipulate others into doing their bidding. They might be able to get things done because they are nice, but are those things always in the best interests of everyone around? They can refuse to tell people the truth in fear it might hurt them, making situations better for the short term, but not for the long term. The people around them, then, believe things about themselves that aren’t true—even believing the violet likes them when they do not. Violets stop speaking up, stop taking action to help things happen in a good way, and fake their goodness—doing things just to get rewarded in the world, the land of dust, instead of because they love their divine connection and want to further it by making the world into Eden again.

Quiz Answers

Question 1: When You Walk Into a Room: 1, Red. 2, Yellow. 3, Blue. 4, Violet. 5, Orange. 6, Green. 7, Purple.

Question 2: At a Concert: 1, Yellow. 2, Red. 3, Green. 4, Orange. 5, Violet. 6, Purple. 7, Blue.

Question 3: How You React When You’re Having a Really Bad Day: 1, Violet. 2, Green. 3, Blue. 4, Red. 5, Purple. 6, Orange. 7, Yellow.

Question 4: You are Passionate About: 1, Orange. 2, Blue. 3, Green. 4, Yellow. 5, Purple. 6, Red. 7, Violet.

Question 5: In the Presence of Others: 1, Green. 2, Purple. 3, Red. 4, Violet. 5, Yellow. 6, Blue. 7, Orange.

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