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The next chakra is the spleen chakra, also called swadhistana (and svadisthana or adhistana). It’s found in our lower stomach and sexual organs and is associated with the color orange. Not surprisingly, it is thought to relate to our feelings and emotions – specifically how we can get our own needs met. This chakra helps determine the energy around our intimate relationships, what we feel passionate about and our pleasures. It’s also helps determine how we get these desires fulfilled. When this chakra is out of balance, we find ourselves depressed and possibly trying to relieve that depression with drugs or alcohol. It may show itself as an eating disorder, back pain or even a urinary tract infection. To rebalance this chakra eat and drink orange foods, take up water aerobics (this chakra is also associated with water) or take long baths with orange essence.

The last chakra we will explore is the base chakra. Also known as the root chakra and associated with the color red, muladhara is found at the base of your spine. Much like the translation implies, this chakra is all about our need to exist and to survive. This chakra deals mostly with the physical world and how we relate to it. This chakra helps us stand-up for ourselves and helps us navigate the world around us when we are in trouble. If this chakra is out of balance, we may find ourselves unhappy and exhausted. Your hands and feet might be cold or you might have imbalances in your blood. To help rebalance this chakra, eat red foods and drink red drinks. Try exercising more and get more sleep.

Next, we find the heart chakra. anhata, as it is also known, if found right in the middle of the chakra system. This is the chakra that deals with relationships. While it does deal with relationships involving love, it’s also about the relationship with our self. This chakra handles our deep emotions, our compassion and well-being. We must have these things for ourselves before we can freely and easily give it to others. 

Linked to the color green, the heart chakra is related to the thymus, part of our immune and endocrine systems. When your heart chakra is out of balance, it may show itself as heart problems or chest pains, high blood pressure or immune system dysfunction. It may also show itself as increased stress in your life. To rebalance this chakra, try spending time outdoors (or indoors in this weather) around greenery, preferably living plants and grasses. It can also be helpful to spend time with positive friends and family. 

The solar plexus chakra is also referred to as manipura, and is your power chakra. While this can refer to our physical power and strength, and also is linked to our inner power and strength. It is as much about our intelligence, self-control and confidence as it is our physical abilities. 

This yellow chakra is linked to your adrenal cortex, where adrenaline comes from. When it is out of balance, it will become apparent through digestive troubles, ulcers, or memory problems. To rebalance this chakra, try getting some sunshine, exercising your mind with puzzles, and eating yellow foods.

Working our way down, we next find the third eye chakra, or brow chakra. Also known as anja, it is located right between your eyes and deals with your instincts. This chakra is all about learning how to trust that little voice (or eye) inside of you that tells you (or shows you) things you can’t quite see on a conscious level, but know you need to pay attention to. This is where the psychic ability we all have on some level resides. 

In the physical realm, this chakra is linked to your pineal system, which produces melatonin (the hormone that helps regulate our sleep). When this chakra is unbalanced, it often times will show itself as sleeping problems. Other signs of imbalance can include: learning disabilities, frequent fevers and infections, neck and shoulder problems. 

The brow chakra is often associated with the color indigo. Therefore, to try and rebalance this chakra, you can try surrounding yourself with the color in your food, drink and clothing. Because this is a strongly visual chakra, you can also try looking at stars in the night sky to help you rebalance. 

The next chakra is the throat chakra, also called vishuddah. This chakra is all about communication. But, it’s not just about speaking clearly to others. It’s also about how we express ourselves, truthfully and honestly. The idea is to be able to trust others, maintain good relationships and be honest about who we are by how we communicate with those around us. 

The throat chakra is connected to the thyroid system. This part of your body controls the thyroid hormone, which helps us mature and grow in the physical sense. Of course, as we grow physically, we are expected to mature mentally. When this chakra is out of balance, though, these things may happen unevenly. It may show the imbalance as recurrent infections or mood swings. 

Associated with the color blue, try rebalancing this chakra by eating blue foods. You can also try singing or engaging in meaningful and honest conversations.

If you imagine yourself standing (or sitting) straight up, you can start visualizing where your chakras are. There are seven major chakras (the ones we will focus on here). They run in a straight line, starting at the top of your head down to the base of your spine. Each of the chakras has its own balance, energy, color and influence over a physical and mental area of our body. 

Starting at the top, you will find the crown chakra. It is sometimes known as sahasrara and is associated with the color violet. The picture of a lotus flower often represents the crown chakra. This chakra is associated with awareness, perception and consciousness. It helps you feel more connected to the universe around you in the spiritual sense, not the physical sense. It is knowing and feeling and being. 

While it is very much a spiritual and mental chakra, it does have some physical characteristics. It is associated with the endocrine system and central nervous system, areas of our bodies that are thought to play a role in our consciousness, emotions and connectedness with others. 

When this chakra is unbalanced, it can manifest itself as headaches, skin rashes or coordination problems (to name a few). To help rebalance this chakra, you can try eating and drinking things that are violet, wearing violet clothes or jewelry, or using essential oils made from lavender or other violet flowers.

There may have been times in your life when you felt a little out of whack and couldn’t figure out why. Maybe you were feeling more run down than usual or just couldn’t seem to get it together (or didn’t want to). It is possible that your chakras were – and still are – out of alignment or balance. 

In order to understand what it means to be out of balance, it’s best to explore what a chakra is (there’s more than one) and how each of them interact with one another to create balance and energy in you. 

The word “chakra” is usually translated to mean a wheel or a disk that spins. These wheels create a spinning energy within each of us. They can also collect and store the energy that comes from around us. It is generally believed that each of us has seven major chakras that are found up and down our spines and affect a different area of our bodies as well as minds and spirits. Each chakra is part of a larger system, interacting with and directing the flow of energy to and from other chakras. If one of these chakras becomes unbalanced because of an illness or bad mental state, it can affect the whole flow of our energy, leading to physical and mental problems. Rebalancing the chakras is an important step toward feeling better again. 

Next time: looking at the different chakras and what they represent.

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The Tenth House 

While the sixth house may be about what we have to do in life, the tenth house is about what we want to do. This is the house that tells us what we want to leave behind to be remembered by when we leave this world. It’s about our life goals, not just career goals. How do you want your relatives and friends to remember you? What do you want to be known for? This is where our deepest ambitions can be found. This house will also tell you how willing you are to try and accomplish these goals. 

The Eleventh House 

This is the house of friendships. Specifically, it’s about finding the right friendships for you. In order to grow as humans and accomplish our goals, it’s important to find the right friends to help us achieve these things. With a supportive network of friends, almost anything is possible. It also helps us understand how we support our friends in accomplishing their goals.

The Twelfth House 

This house is often known as the house of undoing. In this house we find all of our dark secrets, even the ones we don’t want to admit to ourselves. An astrological chart reading will help you reveal not the secrets, but how not facing these secrets can destroy you. How do your secrets lead to trouble in your life? How do they derail your plans? By figuring out not just what the secrets are, but how they affect your life, you can take better control and steer your life to a better path.

Next up: The astrological signs

The Seventh House 

When you look at your astrological chart, you’ll notice that the seventh house is directly opposite from the first house. As we discussed early, the first house deals with your personality. So, it’s only fair that the house directly opposite from your house deals with other people. 

This house is all about relationships. While it is sometimes known as the marriage house, this house has come to define more than just our marriage. It’s about all of our deep relationships. Our important friends, our business partners, as well as our chosen life partners (whatever that may be), can all be found in this astrological house. It will tell you how you fare in relationships with others. If you find yourself struggling in relationships, understanding what is in this house can help guide you to a place where you find relationships easier to navigate. 

The Eighth House 

This is probably one of the more complex houses on the astrological chart, given it looks at several things. First, this house rules our sexuality and ability to be intimate. It tells us why we are able to be open and honest with some people but not others. It’s our ability to share deeply and bond with others. In this house, you may find clues about your soul mate. 

However, the eighth house also deals with some of the deeper mysteries of life. While some readers think this is about the occult, that’s not necessarily the case. It can be about our unconscious desires and how those play out in our life, whether or not we realize it. As a result, this house also explores how we grow and evolve over a lifetime. Understanding this house, as well as how all the houses in our astrological chart interact can go a long way to making this process easy and enjoyable. 

The Ninth House 

No matter how much you dislike school, the ninth house is all about education and learning. However, this isn’t about the formal learning process of opening a book and studying for a test (though it does have some bearing on how we approach and handle it). This is about how we approach all of these learning experiences in life. Do you relish the thought of traveling to a foreign country, trying new foods and learning a new language? Are you interested in learning about different religions in hopes of bringing part of what you learn into your life? The ninth house helps us understand why we want to learn and helps us understand how we can take these experiences and incorporate them into our life.

The Fifth House 

The creative house, the fifth house on the astrological chart, tells the reader how you convey yourself in original ways. This isn’t just about the first impression you leave with people (though that is a big part), it’s about how you express your inner self: your personality, your desires, your goals. It’s also associated with romantic interests, as this is the house where your passion resides. Keep in mind, that passion isn’t just for those you find attractive, it is also about the things you find attractive: your goals in life or your hobbies. 

The Sixth House 

This is the house you may consider boring, but this part of your astrological chart still tells your reader a lot about you. This is the house of every day life: the routines and rituals we do every day. This house explains how you go about your day-to-day business. While this includes our jobs, in can also include how we handle our responsibilities at home (like our chores or running a household). It’s about how we deal with the things in life we have to do because, well, we have to. This part of the chart can also help a reader determine how productive you are and how you feel about your accomplishments, or how you accomplished them. It can also tell you what kinds of jobs you are interested in and why you do or don’t get along with co-workers or your boss.

Let’s start looking at some of the other astrological houses. 

The Second House 

Most astrological chart readers interpret this house to relate to our stuff: our money (or wealth), our debts and our things. It can also convey how we relate to our stuff. Are our things more important to us than the people in our lives? Do we focus on making more and more money? And, if so, how do we get that money? Do we not worry about our debts? Do we just keeping racking them up, not worrying about the consequences? How we think about our things says a lot about ourselves in general. 

The Third House 

This house rules our relationships and our communications – particularly with family members, friends or members of our community. What the astrological chart tells the reader is how you deal with others around you. How do you relate to them? Are you polite, sociable, down right mean? This is the house that tells you how you handle the world around you as it constantly changes and shifts. How do you change and shift with it? 

The Fourth House

Some strict interpretations of this house are that it relates to our mother. However, not everyone had a mother in their childhood, so other interpretations include the family (who ever that might be) that raised you, or the environment you grew up in. The astrological chart will tell you reader how you feel about your home life (whatever it currently is or what you want it to be). It will also explain how you feel about your security and well being in your personal life.