Blues: The
Natural Teachers
Natural teachers educate. Educere means to “draw out from within” or “lead forth,” which is what a teacher will do with anyone, if they have access. A person with a blue master chakra peers into you and points out the information you have and mixes it with new information they know or have. In doing so, they want produce wisdom, or the application of knowledge. They will often surprise others by knowing their thoughts, but the teacher must know what a student knows if they are to add anything of value. Equally automatically, people on the blue ray have what other people need to know to develop their knowledge on a subject more in depth. It’s always true that a blue won’t always be able to tell you why or how they know. They just know, and they know that they know. They receive messages from the divine and deliver them without stopping to question their content, validity, or any feelings the listener might have. Blues need to feel, however, that they can or should trust their knowings, if they don’t. Because understanding the missing pieces of a conversation is a gift they are given from God, and it’s good, even if it’s not easy to trace every piece of that information they receive. Blues fill in the gaps of other people’s awareness so they experience the relief of having development on topics that were in need of growth, so the person can be ready for their next steps.
Blue Gifts
Making Connections
As a rule, blues are drawn to illuminate concepts and discuss the connections with who you are. The root of their approach is based on connections among pieces of knowledge, betwixt all people, and between student and teacher. You become their student once you’ve decided to listen. Natural teachers can be recognized because they are drawn to make connections between things people say. They illuminate the ties between different pieces of information from the past, present, and the future, and from seemingly unrelated sources or subjects. They use thoughts from their own knowledge base and information they download from the divine in structuring their connections. They connect the people they know with each other, and give books, music, opportunities, references, and referrals, or anything at all that can help that person develop into a better human being. Blues exuberantly give what they give to others because they see potentials in people. They speak to their light—that’s part of how they enlighten. It’s all to create a better, stronger connection, but one that can mutually transform and enlighten so we can move ahead.
Blues want to see humanity advance. In groups and individually, they play the role of imparting information in order to weave together what people say. They are good translators of ideas from one person to another. If someone in a group setting does not understand something, they are very good at clarifying the information. Blues want to talk, talk, talk; that is their primary teaching method. Very quiet blues have mostly suppressed their throat chakra desires to share what is in their heart, on their mind, and just waiting to be channeled through them to free someone’s soul. They can practice doing so, however.
People receive enlightenment from blues, which means they literally receive more light as a result of talking with them. When blues are teaching, they make nonjudgmental statements that sound like facts, which is how they deliver all of their information and perceptions. The manner of the teacher is one of impartiality, confidence, and structure. The blue master chakra is mentally assumptive. It doesn’t seek the truth, per se, it assumes the truth in what it acknowledges, observes, and knows. Like yellows, blues don’t have to do research, because they receive their knowledge from a source they don’t question. However, research can expand and unwrap a blue’s true powers of sharing things that others will find useful. Blues do like to seek out information that can help someone grow. They love helping people be the best they can be. Blues are amenable to research.
Balanced Between Masculine and Feminine
Blues embody balance in their gifts, because they always want to walk with wisdom, and you have to know that two sides of a whole are one to really see the deep truths of life. They don’t see why they shouldn’t be masculine as much as they are feminine, and vice versa. They use their masculine side to seed knowledge, but their feminine side to affirm knowledge and nurture what they teach. When blues teach, they move back and forth from masculine to feminine points of view. They strive to satisfy the directives of opposites. Here are two examples of blues, one of whom was focused on doing her gift without stopping, and the other who found balance in simply being himself. In our masculine, we focus on doing. In our feminine, we focus on how to be.
Judy
Like a dreamer, Judy had her head firmly planted in the clouds, and her feet only touched the soil to help absorb new understandings. My best blue spiritual teacher, Judy looked to the sky for ideas. She did not walk in the land of dust. She took in the spiritual world constitutionally; it made her stronger. She learned everything she could learn and discussed it at length. She joined every program, read every book, every blog post, every manual, and listened to every podcast she could get her hands on in the subjects she was interested in. While I would tire of gaining new teachings, since I always felt I needed to work hard to apply them, Judy felt no such compulsion and simply ate up more, like a Pac-Man eats dots. If there was a new metaphysical angle that could shed new light on life, she wanted it. Then, she shared it with her friends and clients when a problem came up. She not only flew to one of my three-day workshops from five states away, she brought a friend. Out of all the soul-rays, people with a blue master chakra have the most endurance, and Judy always impressed me with her breadth and depth of knowledge—she had the will and the control to receive spiritual teachings from disparate corners and synthesize them into her own philosophy, which she turned on you like a fire hose to clean away all that dirt and dust from the world—which results from too hard of a focus on gaining material status, money, and power, instead of caring for your soul. That she couldn’t tolerate. She was grounded, but not in the earth most of us know. Bridging the spiritual and the mental is what blues do best. Judy took from the spiritual and communicated it in the mental realm to anyone who would listen. She was a walking, talking throat chakra.
John
John was a spiritual person who always told you what he thought and didn't care what other people thought. He got tired of people doing things in the same way. A blue master chakra will consider the past for the sake of the future. They don't stay stuck in it. It's important that a person grows. John felt that the old Christian ways were worn out. He was a disabled person, and he felt that they could disable his soul if he continued to look to them. He felt there were newer, lighter things to focus on. Connecting to the past is good when it entails enlightenment, but for him, the light was gone in his church, and he wouldn't attend anymore—he knew that he himself was a church, the church of Philadelphia. Blue master chakra lights don't want to stay where the light has been mostly dimmed, and this is why they always stay on the cutting edge of all new thought, not just in spirituality, but in other fields, like John did with his new age perspectives.
Balanced In All Four Bodies
Blues constantly seek balance in their own lives because it helps them stay in spiritual alignment. Enlightening people entails lining them up with Source, so that they pursue physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual paths simultaneously. This is another area where blues want to stay ahead of the game. They can’t line other people up with God if they can’t line up themselves. So, they want stimulating conversation, emotional context, physical activity, and spiritual learning. They look to gain knowledge from each area regularly so that they don’t feel off. They feel best when they can be themselves, and it’s what allows them to teach and be heard.
Contrary Teaching Tools
Another characteristic trait is speaking in opposites. In their giftedness, a person on the blue ray likes to bring forward aspects in a conversation that have not been looked at yet. Sometimes it’s directly opposite what is being expressed. “On the other hand,” or “in addition” are favorite sentence-starters for the teacher. They are driven to bring forward always one more aspect of the issue at hand, normally contrary, to enlighten you, not to be belligerent. This is because for a teacher, everything is what it is not. Teachers do not hold tightly to what they say or hold themselves to behave in tandem with what they say. That they consider bondage. This is because they are devil’s advocates, and what they say is always an outgrowth of the moment and context in which they are working. Teachers have values and convictions, for sure, but their words are aimed toward shining a light for you on what you must notice right now—and what is true right now. That might change in the next moment. Therefore, sometimes teachers can seem to have a shifting set of values, goals, and advice for you and themselves. They can seem to live in the world of opposites. If a natural teacher were to try to stop themselves from being a devil’s advocate, it would be the equivalent of taping their mouth shut.
Listening
Blues strive to speak without holding back because of conventions, censorship, or other people’s feelings. What is improper to one person might not offend your blue friend. Blues just don’t get offended like others, because for them, any subject is a topic with merit to be discussed, and can be discussed impersonally on some level. Therefore, they will answer embarrassing questions about themselves without getting embarrassed. They know you must need to know, or you wouldn’t have asked.
Blues know that if they bring enlightenment to someone, that person will become a more useful member of society and will help other people, and that end goal is what they care about, not short-term social agreement. They may care about fitting in or gaining approval, and they may need to hide the truth of what they really think to survive at work, but if it leads to not teaching other people what they know, then they are in a trap. You see, even if you don’t think a blue should have said what they said, if they said it, consider the source. Blues talk without filters sometimes, because they’re channels of the divine. That thing they said might be your message from God, even if you don’t want to hear it.
Breaking Through the Mental Gridlock
If you’ve ever suffered from not being able to change your mind, consider a blue’s job. Sometimes, they have to take a jackhammer to your ignorance. That’s another reason they say things so boldly and speak in opposites. It’s one of the ways they can get you to let in their light. Somehow, a blue must slip around your preconceived notions and soften your cherished thirty-year truths. Sometimes, they have to crack that egg. So, feeling internally that there is truth on both sides of a polarity, for different reasons, reminds you that it’s your attachments, close-mindedness, and stubbornness that often holds you back. Often what is necessary to break these things is the reality that nothing stands alone. Everything is connected; one action relates to another, one idea is both it’s up and it’s down. If you can step on both sides of the fence, you can invite people to the other side for their own good so they are inspired to change for the better. Hence, a working out of the teacher’s will is to preclude the suffering of another with the proper knowledge, preparation, and know-how. Speaking in opposites, saying things like “living in the country is best, but you have to live in town” helps people release their fears and come to consensus. Once you see both sides of the same coin, you feel you can succeed at the task at hand. It is a blue’s way of helping you see something new.
For themselves, blues know that to bring themselves back into balance, they must sometimes even live at the opposite end of the spectrum from where they used to be. They must try out thoughts that oppose the old positions they used to take. If they don’t, they can’t learn about the whole, and they can’t relate to all people.
Time is Fluid
A blue’s concept of time will get them into trouble, though it is a gift, not a trap. Blues don’t follow other people’s clocks, they follow their own, and that’s because they are working to follow the flow of what is happening and often need to complete an experience before they can teach it. While a blue can train themselves to be punctual, having a natural sense of time based on the connectedness of the universe and following divine timing instead of human timing is how they prefer to operate. They let things happen outside a linear flow, according to the needs of the whole universe, not just your bosses’. It’s part of what makes blues be on purpose. And they are a dominant spiritual gift; they like to lead the way.
Communication Style: General vs. Specific
The blue communication style is general, not just specific. Blues don’t need to focus only on specifics—they use specifics when imparting what they know, especially when it comes to teaching you how to apply knowledge. Sometimes, the details are necessary to communicate, or a subject will be misunderstood. What makes blues stand out is how they are willing to make broad, generalized statements about how to proceed. They have to talk to all of the spiritual gifts, and all people—so they must use general language that appeals to the universal. Also, since blues must check in with their emotions on a regular basis if they want to stay in their gifts, and also speak from spirit, they lean toward giving you principles and guidelines to follow that they feel will help you avoid possible pitfalls that may come up. They can empathize with you as an individual, but they can also see how your pain or your problems are reflected in countless others. (For them, each person is connected.) They care so much that you come to know what they know because it helps everyone when you change. You will create a ripple effect. It’s that stone in the water that blues are always throwing. They are experts at finding the right stone to toss to create the biggest and best ripple effect.
Blues help you, but they also help humanity as a whole with each thing they say. For blues, all people are one, and that’s something they constantly feel and know whenever they talk to just one member. It’s this connection to all people that gives them the ability to generalize. Some people confuse a blue teaching about a group of people as their stereotyping, but blues make general statements about everything under the sun. For a blue, groups and individuals are interchangeable. You are one with all of humanity, and you deserve the advice and the content that all of humanity has to provide.
Negative Experiences Are Nice
Blues love to experience life, and they love to see how a teaching plays out in the real world. They appreciate how life isn’t always a bed of roses and value the negative for its ability to train you into being a better human being. Since the most important thing is education, the learning that results from experiences can actually justify them and make them worthwhile. It’s the balm that cleans the divine mind, the comfort that even an unfortunate circumstance can be what was best for you at the time. Blues tend to see the inherent value in all experiences, though they will still help you see possible consequences for actions, since that is one of their best fortes to help with right-action.
Equality Comes First
Blues like to treat everyone equally. They don’t see why one person should be seen as more important than another. No matter how much status or how many accolades a person receives, a blue will still think of that person as an accessible person. A person with dignity, but a person with human failings, all the same. Though anger can be a deadly trap for them, nothing makes blues angry like perceived inequality, and its inequality they perceive ahead of almost anything else sometimes, when they walk into a room. Listen to blues talk and you’ll hear about the unfairness in the world. They don’t necessarily complain about it, but they do notice it and they do point it out. Life isn’t fair, and it can be difficult for a blue to understand that. It is something they attempt to rectify. When they can’t succeed is when they can feel out of control and can end up resorting to violence, like Jesus in the temple.
Blues are preoccupied with what the Buddhists call “right-action.” Community-minded, they want people to do right by each other, and they would never agree with someone who would say that someone else doesn’t have value because of placement on the hierarchy. Blues really do get caught up in wanting to be the student and also the teacher, the cop and a member of the gang, the artist, and the spectator. Opposites attract because they are two parts to a whole, and if they don’t perceive the wisdom of both sides, they can’t say anything profound. Now all of this is good for students, because blues do treat their students, when they teach in an actual classroom, equally. No student is better or worse than another. Blues do not discriminate when it comes to who needs to learn from them.
Presentations of Fact
If you have a natural teacher in your life, he or she will figure out the information that you know, how it relates to what they know, and will present both as fact. They will spontaneously introduce, inform, connect, and conclude for an individual or a group when needed and when necessary. This is what allows them to be called “teacher”; this is the behavior that we say “enlightens.” Natural teachers must talk a lot, not simply to inform you but to inspire you to do and be better (the goal of all their work) and thus aim to make the world a better place. Now, better is a point of view. However, blues think that when you account for certain important things—which could be values, facts, consequences, or wisdom—you will love your life more. The teaching blues do is about everyone, bringing people together, and helping them to choose more wisely to make their own lives more fulfilling, happier, and the world a more equal and equitable place—a place where love and wisdom have big roles.
Blue Traps
Anger
Anger results from not understanding why people do the things they do, why someone would neglect to account for possible consequences of their actions before taking a step. Blues are so good at connecting action and consequence, it becomes their Achilles’ heel. If any kind of self-absorption has taken hold, they can become tricked into thinking that all people have this famous ability, when in fact, they do not. When we are in our traps, we forget that other people do not possess the gift we do. This holds true for all colors. However, we were all sent to do our gift. It’s mundane sometimes. Sometimes we don’t want to get off the couch and give our gift to others. When people don’t understand something, that is when blues need to teach them, not chuck them in the stupid box. When we are slowed down, when we are not in fight or flight, when we bring love to what we do, blues remember to teach instead of resist.
Blues can have a hard time accepting it if they tell someone something and that person doesn’t apply the information. It’s overconfidence. They think their knowledge is the end goal. They care about someone, but realize they must live their own life. Blues do not usually care what someone does with a particular piece of knowledge. That part is not that important to them in an enlightened state. When they are deeply involved with someone, and have a vested interest in a cause or a person, they do tend to be more attached to their words being heard. They can and should value their own knowledge. Sometimes they get used to people following them. Knowing so much more than some people about some things (or thinking they do) leads people to put them on a pedestal in terms of their knowledge and ability. As humans, we do become attached to what someone does with our knowledge and advice. This is an ego function, and it can trigger emotions and conditioning in a blue that results in their anger. Thinking people are stupid and judging their choices are results of being attached to points of view.
Since they are focused on what it takes for people in general to expand, cultural situations of unkindness and inequality in addition to people’s personal problems can make blues frustrated because there is so much to do, love into being, and work on. Sometimes blues just don’t want to do the work it takes to teach to the book (get people on the same page) and say what needs to be said. They wonder why others didn’t come before them and make a difference already. It is easier to get angry and ask why certain people didn’t prevent untoward things from happening in the first place. It is always easier to blame others than to take responsibility. When a blue finally gets fired up about what has not been done by an individual or a community of people, and then finally realizes they have to do something, attempting to fix the whole situation founded on ignorance in one fell swoop can create a big mess that involves numbers of people, scenes, and accusations. Blues may intentionally irritate, anger, or provoke others so that they have to pay for their ignorance.
Drama
Drama is another key blue trap important for understanding this spiritual gift. There are two forms of the drama queen; when a blue does and doesn’t cause drama on purpose. One can lead to another, and there is a continuum between the two. First, a lot of dramas start with someone becoming resentful that someone else didn’t do things they “should” have done. Blues can think that is the worst thing in the world. In their speech, manner, and tone, they can verbally dramatize the wrongdoing, making it bigger than it was. In essence, they make a mountain out of a molehill, and tell a story about what really happened that is disempowering. When blues start making decisions based on their stories, such as about how someone did something on purpose to cause harm, they can end relationships and refuse to talk to people. They take all their toys out of the sandbox and go home. Furthering a drama that was created between two people consists of fueling both sides of a conflict, which blues will do if they are really mad and can’t see how to obtain justice.
Not Teaching
Like all of the spiritual gifts discussed in this book, when a master chakra gift isn’t being done by its carrier, that person is in a trap. Now, you don’t have to do your gift 24/7, but that gift needs to be used in places where it’s needed, called for, and can make a difference. That’s answering the call to spirit.
Knowing Everything
Finally, blues can make subconscious deductions, based on others’ behavior and words, that they will never know as much as the blue does. This leads to aloofness and even snobbery. Others do have intelligence and are able to make it in life. Sometimes blues forget that in one way or another.
All Apologies
Not everyone is good at apologizing. If this is something you want to be better at, focus on your throat chakra. Blues are good at apologizing, because like a pendulum, they will eventually swing to the opposite end from where they started. This liberates them, and it’s inexorable. It can also liberate you. Like all people, blues can get stuck in their position. But then the universe usually provides them with a way to see the other side of the issue. The universe has a penchant for putting blues in their place—who can’t help but see it when they wake up in the morning. Eventually they get there and see how their words play out with others, how they caused a person to feel bad or not do something. When blues fail to see the negative consequences that will befall them ahead of time, their nature allows them to understand life in reverse, to grasp reasons why things did happen as they did. Once a blue has experienced enough consequence as a result of their choices, it will make them apologize.
In Sincerity
Natural teachers bring groups together or find groups where they can teach not only the content they are contracted to deliver, or choose to deliver, but share about themselves and sometimes, by example, their whole life to show you that there is a different way, a new way to be. They make connections for you to show you how you can improve, and they push you to improve. They are constantly expanding so you may expand. The knowledge they give you, they give you so you can move forward and choose from a more informed, liberating point of view—that’s the whole purpose of wisdom, after all. It’s something that needs to be actualized to be of any use. This is why they care about being heard and love to hear that their advice has been followed or taken into account (in your own chosen way). Yes, teachers know that there is another way to do things—always another way—because there is always a new perspective and a new breadth of knowledge to work in. They know this knowledge to be power, and so do you.
Teachers care that they are able to tell you what they know, and how to use it, so that you can be affected by that in whatever way you are meant to be. They trust you will use the knowledge and wisdom they provide you with to change your life, in whatever way you will do so, on your personal timeline. They have complete trust that once their thoughts have been spoken aloud to you, you will take it and run with it—at some point.
Famous People with a Blue Master Chakra
Famous blues include Booker T. Washington, educator of slaves and former slaves, Martin Luther King Jr., an activist who preached equality, and President Barack Obama, who was the first person to make health care accessible to everyone in the United States. Mahatma Gandhi, who stood for the cause of justice and respected (treated as equals) all human beings is another blue. Gwyneth Paltrow, businesswoman, is aware that her life teaches others.