Svadhisthana, the second of the major chakras, holds the key to emotional balance and creativity. This post delves into the essence, symbolism, and profound influence of the chakras energy. Join us on a journey of discovery and the healing potential of Sacral Chakra Crystals for achieving balance.
Swadhisthana The Sacral Chakra Overview.
Sanskrit name: Swadhisthana (sweetness)
Element: Water
Color: Orange
Shape: Circle with crescent
Petals of the lotus: Six
Seed Mantra: VAM
Vowel sound: Oo
Rights: To feel, to want
Endocrine gland: Ovaries, testicles
Physical association: Womb, Genitals, Kidney, Bladder
Psychological function: Movement and connection
Identity: Emotional
Developmental stage: 6 months – 2 years
Challenge: Guilt
Plane: Astral plane
Planets: Mercury, Jupiter, Moon
Symbolism Behind Swadhisthana.
The symbols associated with Svadhisthana are a simple circle, surrounded with six lotus petals and the crescent moon.
The Svadhisthana Circle
The Central Circle represents the element of water, the circle embodies flow, fluidity, and vitality. The seed mantra VAM, situated within the circle, allows access to inner inspiration and creativity.
The Six Petals Of Svadhisthana
Written on each petal are Sanskrit syllables, ba, bha, ma, ya, ra, and la. The six petals of Swadhisthana represent the attributes that you must overcome in order for you to purify the Sacral. These attributes are pride, jealousy, anger, hatred, cruelty, and desire. They also symbolize the vrittis, or streams of consciousness: affection, cruelty, destructiveness, delusion, contempt, and suspicion.
The Swadhisthana Crescent Moon
The crescent moon in the chakra symbol denotes disorder, nonstop movement, and never-ending change. It also represents the natural link between the energies of the moon and water. The crescent moon is usually portrayed by colors that symbolize water, either silvery hues or as iridescent orange.
Svadhisthana symbols signify the dynamic connection between lunar phases, tides, and our own energy and emotions. It resonates with sensuality, relationships, and procreation. The sacral is linked with emotion and subconscious. It is closely related to the root chakra in the sense that while potential karmas are inactive in Muladhara, it is within Svadhisthana that they are made known.
Sacral Chakra Crystals and the Physical
Located below the navel, Svadhisthana awakens emotional responses, harmonizing with the base energies of Muladhara. When balanced you are rewarded with a prosperous life, enhanced emotional relationships and sensual experiences
Linked with emotion and the emotional state this is the chakra that dominates how we build and form our relationships and our intimate connections to others. The Sacral Chakra controls how we express our sexuality and the ways that we experience sensual pleasures.
Dreams, Wishes and Fantasies – Crystals for the Sacral Chakra.
Svadhisthana is responsible for the energies you use to form the dreams of your future, the desires you wish for and the fantasies you create. The health and balance of this chakra determines the health of your dreams, wishes and fantasies. The sacral provides the energy used to develop creativity and whether or not you are able to bring your creative gifts into actual reality.
Svadhisthana energy and vibrations enable you to experience the full spectrum and depths of human emotion. The sacral is the center associated with all sensation and feeling. It provides you the motivation to seek pleasure and to gain pleasure from sensory stimulus through sight, touch, and taste. Opening, clearing and unblocking Svadhisthana allows you to truly feel and experience the world around you.
Aligned and balanced Sacral energy is absolutely vital. It is the important foundation energy which you use to develop a healthy emotional state and balanced feelings. It allows you to find your personal happiness and achieve emotional well-being.
What Does Closed Sacral Energy Do?
A closed Sacral shuts you off from emotion, from pleasurable opportunities and stifles all creativity. When closed, or out of alignment, you will feel sensorily isolated. This may manifest as coldness, numbness or disconnection from your own emotions and those around you. Those with a closed emotional center may attempt to compensate for it, leading them to become overly controlling and even abusive.
However overactivity in the Sacral is just as detrimental. Too much can lead to the development of illness related to mood, like depression and bipolar disorder. If Svadhisthana is overactive you may feel constantly emotionally needy and unable to form healthy connections to others. This leads to people seeking constant reassurance from those around them. When this occurs it is off-putting and drives away friends and family, leaving the person with the overactive sacral feeling like they have been deserted.
Other common indicators of an overactive sacral chakra are those very creative people we know who have no confidence in their abilities and who refuse to believe that their creative work has any worth or quality. Overactivity is present in all those who are quick to react negatively and are unable to accept criticism.
Top 6 Sacral Chakra Crystals – Best Stones For Svadhisthana.
1. Kyanite. Sacral Chakra Crystals
Kyanite is a fantastic stone to open and balance this energy center. It has the added benefit of being one of the very few healing stones that naturally brings all of the 7 major chakras into alignment. It comes in a variety of colors, but as a crystal for the Sacral chakra, we recommend the common blue or the less common orange.
All Kyanite are exceptionally powerful healers because of their vibrational frequency. It enables us to identify blocks and bridge energetic gaps caused from illness, emotional trauma or physical injury. Both Orange and Blue Kyanite can stimulate and activate ignored or dormant psychic abilities. It is a powerful healer for all chakras quickly bringing them back into alignment.
2. Citrine.
Citrine energizes and cleanses the Sacral and like Kyanite, it opens the channels for intuition. It is said to be a crystal that attracts joy, a sense of wonder, the ability to experience delight and boosts your enthusiasm. Linked intrinsically with Svadhisthana it works on an emotional level and raises self-esteem and self-confidence. It is said to be a crystal that stimulates our brain function and strengthens our intellect.
The Citrine is one of the best Sacral Chakra crystals to boost motivation, activate creativity and encourage personal self-expression. It is the stone of concentration and revitalization of tired minds. It helps you release negative traits, depression and phobias.
3. Orange Carnelian.
Orange Carnelian is a crystal for the Sacral chakra because it encourages taking action. Using Orange Carnelian will help with any indecision or procrastination and provides energy that gives you the courage to move forward. When you use orange carnelian a clearer sense of self-awareness is realized and this allows your inert spiritual energy to flow freely. This enables you to identify and achieve important life goals.
This one of the best sacral chakra crystals to use if you seek to strengthen familial love. Carnelian provides you with protection from negative emotional energy such as envy, rage or resentment. When you reduce levels of negativity you gain the ability to truly accept the love of life. Carnelian will help you trust your own perceptions and judgement, reduce feelings of jealousy and possessiveness and see the truth in emotional or romantic situations.
4. Orange Calcite.
Orange Calcite helps your Sacral Chakra align your thought with your personal will, assisting you to take action towards achieving your goals. It is one of the best of all the healing stones for overcoming depression or emotional trauma and is a wonderful crystal for optimizing your emotional health and vitality.
Orange Calcite encourages your personal expression and creativity. It is also a crystal which can help improve business and increase the flow of finances. This stone enables the flow of positive energy, particularly in the areas of creativity and sexuality. Like all calcite crystals, it has exceptionally strong energizing and cleansing properties. It encourages your playfulness, allowing you to enjoy lightheartedness and gives you personal confidence.
It is a catalyst for your inspiration and sparks your creative fire. The orange calcite is a wonderful Sacral healing crystal for those trying to break free from negative habits and patterns or those who need to overcome shyness. The orange calcite can remove all these negative energies and emotions, leaving the colors of your aura radiant,
5. Amber.
Amber is another powerful protector. It guards against energy vampires and provides a protective shield preventing you from taking on others negative energies. It is an excellent aid for Empaths as it prevents the absorption of others physical or emotional pain.
It is thought to be an excellent tool for drawing disease from the body and aids in revitalizing physical tissue injuries. It is said to be able to cleanse the environment and purge it of negative energy. It can also be used to clear trapped emotional energy and blocks. Emotionally, Amber aids in the reduction of stress, relieves depression, and stimulates positive decision-making. It is believed to help us achieve a positive mental state and encourage us to fulfill our dreams and goals.
6. Moonstone Crystal For The Sacral Chakra
Moonstone is a unique healing stone because it can be used to open and soothe the Sacral chakra because of its connection with the moon. Its healing properties vary depending on the type and the color but all are effective, particularly when worn as jewelry with Moon symbolism, or when the stone has slight golden or yellow hues.
I hope you have enjoyed this post and feel confident to choose the sacral chakra crystals that are best suited to your needs. If you do try any of them please do let me know of your experience. Looking for other chakra stones. Go to our posts for throat chakra crystals, heart chakra gems and the best gems for Muladhara.
