Second Chakra

A subtext of this blog has to do with the meanings I find associated with the stones that I use. The chakra system is an ancient way of relating to the energies of the body and each chakra is associated with colors and stones. Together the colors of the chakras form a rainbow, beginning at the lowest, red and ending at the crown, indigo. The stones associated with the chakras vary. I am still a novice at this type of analysis and my observations are based on intuition and imagination as much as anything I have learned along the way.

In my previous post I used a necklace that I made a couple of years ago to represent the root chakra. I had always made this association and so when I began looking through my collection of jewelry to find something that represented the second chakra, the color orange, I noticed that most the orangey things looked like my choice for red. I began to wonder if I were subconsciously avoiding the second chakra.

A casual understanding of the second chakra is that it is the center of sexuality. Was this the reason I was avoiding it since that is not a focus for me? It was not something I cared to blog about. I began to look for other associations.

The second chakra is also said to be the center of movement. While the first chakra represents grounding, the second represents movement. The element associated with the second chakra is water which moves freely. Since the color is orange I thought of the movement of fire even through the element fire is associated with the third chakra.

I decided to create something new to represent the second chakra. I chose translucent red agate with an orange tint and amber chips which add sparkly movement.

Sometimes making a piece of jewelry is spontaneous and takes very little time. There are other times when nothing seems right or perfectionism begins to take over. The latter was the case with this piece. It did not seem to move freely. I seemed stuck. I wondered if this was a reflection of something in my life.

The second chakra is centered in the solar plexus and governs all of the surrounding organs. I thought of the womb; the place of nourishment for new life. For me, this was the most satisfying image for the second chakra. It is the place where movement begins and is nourished.

Among the pieces that I had already made the below necklace could also be said to represent the second chakra. It is made of peach aventurine (the flat ovals) with gold colored fresh water pearls, amber crystals, and tiger eye.