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Crown Chakra—
Sahasrara

The Crown Chakra, your crown of holy connection to the Divine, sits at the top of your head, a bright violet disk of light that emanates what we call the Violet Ray of compassionate and protective light. When your Crown Chakra is open and functioning well, you feel intimately aware of your connection to God/Source/Creator energy. When it is blocked or inactive, you feel disconnected from the Divine and unsure of your relationship to God/Source/Creator.

While most empaths and psychics find it easy to keep an open and clear Crown Chakra through supportive exercises, such as daily meditation and recitation of mantras, many others struggle to find the Divine. It can be difficult to break free of the monotony and routines of everyday life in order to plug into a higher power. And yet we are spiritual beings having a human experience—not the other way around. Thus, the Spirit part of us will always long for a way back to Source.

Anwering the call of your spirit is a powerful gesture. When you say yes to your soul’s development, you also say yes to the collective evolution on the entire planet. You are one powerful piece of the broader matrix of energy that surrounds you. Your words, actions, thoughts, and decisions affect everyone around you. The Crown Chakra, your energy sanctuary, is the center of our comprehension of this interconnectedness. When we lose our spiritual way, this is the place we return to remember who we are. Here at the Crown Chakra, you learn that life is not meant to be a constant struggle. There should be flow and ease. You will find both here, waiting for you.

Correspondences for the Crown Chakra

GODDESSES

Shakti, Quan Yin

GEMSTONES

Amethyst, Auralite 23, Charoite, Lepidolite, Purple Fluorite, Scapolite, Selenite, Stitchtite, Sugilite, Super 7

TAROT CARD

Major Arcana: The Hermit

RUNE

Wunjo

ESSENTIAL OILS/HERBS

Frangipani, Gotu Kola, Lavender, Palo Santo, Pink Lotus, Spikenard, St.–John’s Wort

PLANET

Jupiter

Embodiment Exercise: Crown Chakra Induction

The Crown Chakra is literally your crown of divine wisdom and contact with the Divine. Here you are working with the first layer of spirit guides and angelic beings who serve as intermediaries between this realm and theirs. When you want to activate and channel their wisdom, you can use this meditation to guide your exploration of the Crown Chakra and its many inspirational gifts.

1 – Think of the Crown Chakra as a literal crown of amethyst crystals and purple roses, lit from within by the Violet Ray of light. Visualize it glowing above your head, gently resting there. You become an example to others of peace and spiritual awareness just by being, by allowing yourself to receive the energy emitted by this energy center. At the Crown Chakra, we learn the medicine of allowing and becoming.

2 – The Crown Chakra is also a potent source of physical and spiritual healing. While the Heart Chakra is your center of love and compassion, you experience unconditional love at the Crown Chakra, because here you are welcomed, understood, and seen just as you are. Here you are revered and held as a child of all creation. Here you are guided and loved, seen and recognized at the soul level as kindred of the spirit realm. As you open the Crown Chakra, the top of your head may tingle or vibrate, or you may feel lightheaded. These are perfectly natural reactions.

3 – To experience the magic of the Crown Chakra, recognize that within this energy center sits your deepest sovereignty. You are seen here as the queen or goddess, king or god, that you truly are. When you allow yourself to feel your sovereignty—that is, your truly indelible power and divine authority—what feelings arise? Physically, as you connect to your inner power, you might feel dizzy or as if you are floating, or tingling in your hands and feet, as these are other places in the body where excess energies are expelled. These, too, are normal reactions.

4 – When you trust that you are right where you are meant to be in life, in this moment, you access a level of peace few experience. This peace stems from the knowledge that you simply need to be, and, just by being, you change the world. At the Crown Chakra, you are invited to explore your thoughts about yourself and your life, untangling them from old patterns that may have limited you in the past. Rise now to the occasion of your soul and find your power. When you feel ready to receive this freedom, extend your arms out to your sides and allow yourself to feel the flow of energy from root to crown, extended from your feet to the very top of your head and out, side to side, from your left fingertips to your right ones.

5 – Once you feel the surge of energy, which could be experienced as warmth, tingling, coldness, or lightheadedness, relax your arms and bring your attention to the top of your head. Imagine a ring of light surrounding your head, a beacon of truth and wisdom surrounding you now and always. Give thanks for this sacred connection to the Divine and then close this induction with the universal blessing: Amen, A’ho, So it is.

QUAN YIN

Goddesses of the Crown Chakra

Shakti is the primary goddess teacher at the Crown Chakra. She embodies all the traits of all the goddesses from every pantheon. She is, in many ways, the most powerful goddess explored in this book. All energies are her energies, and all traditions fall within her domain. In this way, her energy reflects the inclusive energy of this chakra.

The Crown Chakra is your last physical anchor of spiritual energy; after it leaves the Crown, your energy passes out of the range of your physical body. Shakti ensures proper flow of energy from the Third Eye through the Crown and on to the Soul Star Chakra. She filters out any energies that do not serve you and welcomes new energies of peace, serenity, and creative inspiration. When you lose your way, Shakti will guide you back.

Call upon Shakti to support you in reconnecting with the Divine Feminine in all its aspects. That means reclaiming your spiritual sovereignty as well as your sexual, creative, emotional, and intellectual sovereignty. After all, the mind and brain are also ruled by the Crown Chakra, and as you think, so you become. Let Shakti guide you as you become your fullest self.

Quan Yin is the secondary goddess of the Crown Chakra, but perhaps an even more central figure than Shakti because she represents embodied compassion. As a bodhisattva, or figure of enlightenment, she is the Chinese goddess of divine mercy. Quan Yin uses water to bless and purify and is often represented as pouring the healing waters of life from her chalice. Her willow branch, another important symbol of her healing capacity, is used to direct healing energies. Keep a chalice of water on your altar to represent Quan Yin’s merciful and feminine flow and place a small piece of willow on your altar to represent her ability to direct healing energy toward those most in need. Willow also represents our human capacity to grow, evolve, and become more aligned to the energies of ascended masters like Quan Yin.

Gemstones, Essential Oils, and Herbs of the Crown Chakra

Crown Chakra Gemstones

AMETHYST is the most widely accepted gemstone of the Crown Chakra, and for good reason: It purifies, detoxifies, and brings both balance and peace to the bearer.

AURALITE 23 and SUPER 7 are the master healers of the Crown Chakra gemstones, actively reducing inflammation and helping your body self-heal from emotional and physical trauma.

LEPIDOLITE is micanized lithium, and so it brings powerful peace and relaxation. It relaxes the central nervous column, allowing a flood of soft, flowing energies to move through all energy centers.

PURPLE FLUORITE clarifies your dharma, or soul work, and attracts new opportunities and ways for you to manifest your purpose.

SCAPOLITE is the gemstone of successful outcomes, and helps you organize your thoughts to facilitate clarity.

SELENITE carries a powerful vibration of peace. It clears energy from people, places, and things but usually does not need to be cleared itself. Thus, it is a powerful ritual tool and can be used to prepare sacred space for ceremonial work.

STITCHTITE promotes the creation and maintenance of strong personal boundaries in relationships, and CHAROITE, the Warrior’s Stone, offers courage to the bearer.

SUGILITE is a cleanser and detoxifier of the physical body. It raises personal vibration to counteract illness of any kind.

To work with your Crown Chakra gems, consider a form of body gridding called The Crown of Gems. Body gridding is the use of gemstones in physical layouts either on or near the body, and it helps unify the energies of the stones in order to calibrate a person’s energies. For example, if you are ill, you might place healing gemstones on or near the afflicted part of the body. By surrounding the top of your head, or Crown Chakra, with Crown Chakra gemstones, you increase the energy frequency of this energy center and facilitate spiritual healing and well-being. Here’s how to do this:

1 – Once you are in a comfortable position—preferably lying down without a pillow under your head—place five to ten Crown Chakra gemstones of your choice around the top of your head. Work from left to right, starting at the left ear, placing the stones over the top of your head and continuing all the way to your other ear. (You can use five to ten different stones, or groupings of the same or similar stones, depending on what your intuition calls for.)

2 – Next, imagine the Violet Ray of protective, peace-filled light emanating from the top of your head, connecting all the gems in a band of healing purple light. Feel the heat of the energies as they rise, surrounding your head and bathing it in a warm halo of divine light. Receive the blessings of this light, and remain in this position for as long as your intuition guides you to.

3 – When you are ready, open your eyes, sit up, and gently bring your attention back to present time.

“PINK LOTUS IS CONSIDERED THE SUPREME LOTUS AND BRINGS TRANSFORMATION AND ENLIGHTENMENT.”

Crown Chakra Herbs and Essential Oils

Gotu Kola deepens your gifts of perception by opening the mind and expanding awareness. Shaman and medicine people in a variety of cultures take it as a preparatory tea or tincture ahead of serious ceremonial work. Lavender brings calm and peace and invites a sense of complete well-being when consumed as tea or made into a sweet, fragrant syrup. Pink Lotus is considered the Supreme Lotus, and brings transformation and enlightenment. St.-John’s Wort has long been revered as a treatment for depression and anxiety.

The smoke and essential oil of Palo Santo have anti-bacterial and anti-microbial properties, making them ideal tools to fight colds, flu, or illness of any kind. Spikenard is the workhorse of the Crown Chakra herbs and essential oils, because it offers so many healing and therapeutic benefits: It has anti-bacterial, anti-microbial, anti-fungal, and anti-aging benefits. Spikenard also calms the central nervous system, aligns all nine of the chakras, and balances hormones. Frangipani, commonly known as plumeria, is a fragrant, magical flower from the South Pacific that thrives in any tropical environment. It attracts universal love and helps you to see that love flows to you from every direction, all the time.

All of the Crown Chakra herbs and essential oils are helpful for relieving anxiety or depression, as each has relaxing and softening properties that are perfect for bringing peace to the overactive or anxious mind. Craft the Peace of Mind Mist (see here) and spray it around your space or use it as a light perfume. The addition of an amethyst or lepidolite gemstone to the bottle adds an extra layer of peace magic to this mystical blend!

Peace of Mind Mist

Ingredients

• 4 drops lavender essential oil

• 6 drops St.-John’s wort essential oil

• 2 drops spikenard essential oil

• 4 ounces (113 g) lavender hydrosol or distilled water

• 1 to 2 lepidolite or amethyst chip stones

First, blend your essential oils, one at a time. As you add each oil to the blend, consider the properties it brings. Next, pour the hydrosol or distilled water into a dark amber or blue glass bottle. (You can choose a bottle with a plastic dropper or a spray cap, but, in general, this blend words best as a spray mist.) Add the essential oils to your hydrosol. Give thanks for the medicine of each essential oil, honoring the spirit of the plant and the gift it is offering you. Then add your chip stones, swirling the mixture with the gems to properly mix the ingredients. Keep this mist near your bed or meditation space, or in any place where you can use more mindfulness and peace energies. Amen, A’ho, So it is.

Tarot Card, Rune, and Planet of the Crown Chakra

Major Arcana: The Hermit

The Hermit is perhaps the most powerful figure of the Major Arcana, not because he wields direct authority or influence, but precisely because he is a figure with indirect authority. His power lies in the lantern he holds, which represents his ability to pave a path of light and beauty in a sometimes-dark world. The Crown Chakra represents this valiant effort to maintain light in dark places, and so The Hermit becomes a figure of validation and inspiration to empaths who do this sacred work every day. It is not easy to be a pioneer, but that is the path of the leader, and the Crown Chakra, in many ways, is the leader of our energy system. It is the launching point for our connection to the Divine. What lies beyond the Crown Chakra is the light of The Hermit’s sacred lantern.

To connect with The Hermit’s wisdom, ask yourself what your source of light is right now in your life. Where does your illumination come from? And what spaces of the world do you illuminate? Who relies upon you as their source of light and wisdom, and upon whom do you rely for light, support, and direction?

Rune: Wunjo

Wunjo brings happiness and harmony, two of the blessings offered by the Crown Chakra. Wunjo represents the union of the mundane with the spiritual, a point of balance between apparently opposite or competing domains. It is possible to be spiritual and grounded; it is possible to live authentically and in harmony with others. Wunjo reminds you of the shades of gray that exist in this expansive universe and the many ways in which binary thinking constrains personal development. To activate the wisdom of Wunjo in your life, ask yourself where you need to experience deeper happiness and harmony. (It might be easier for you to identify places and spaces in your life that are disharmonious; if so, start there.) Allow yourself to answer from a place of transparency and love, and then explore ways you can bring more of whatever you seek into existence.

Planet: Jupiter

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, and it carries powerful energies, too. It represents expansion, growth, possibility, abundance, and trust in a higher power. Jupiter is associated with both Thor and Zeus, the kings of the Norse and Greek pantheons, respectively. Jupiter is the ruling planet of Sagittarius, which is the sun sign associated with freedom through faith. The life lesson of Sagittarius, aligned with Jupiter’s meaning, is to trust that a force greater than you has your best interests at heart. While many fear the perceived constraints and prescriptions of organized religion, the true purpose of spirituality is to expand and enhance the experience of life and reinforce the oneness of creation, the connection between and among all living things. Without a connection to each other, it becomes easy to lose faith. If the Crown Chakra is a sacred invitation back to faith and alignment with the rest of the universe, Jupiter is its messenger.