SACRAL CHAKRA
Chakra Two:
Water, Emotional identity, oriented to self-gratification
The second chakra, located in the abdomen, lower back, and sexual organs, is related to the element water, and to emotions and sexuality. It connects us to others through feeling, desire, sensation, and movement. Ideally this chakra brings us fluidity and grace, depth of feeling, sexual fulfillment, and the ability to accept change.
The 2nd chakra: Svadisthana or sacral chakra

(a) The 2nd chakra is the partnership/power of relationships chakra. With the 2nd chakra, energy shifts from obeying tribal authority to discovering other relationships that satisfy, personal, physical needs. Every relationship we develop serves the purpose of helping us to become more conscious. Relationships are all spiritual messengers. To learn to see ourselves as reflected by the duality. From all is one (tribe), to being/seeing the other. Mirroring. We create our own reality. Life reflected back to us. Divide before we can come back together consciously.

(b) Exploring the power of choice - dealing with duality/significance of opposites so that we come to know ourselves/personal and professional decision making ability and talent.

(c) Independent interactions - giving and receiving physical, mental, and spiritual pleasure. Flow of power between self and others - relationships and their effects on us.

(d) The ability to survive physically and financially on one's own: power, money; self sufficiency/personal identity and boundaries/ to defend and protect oneself/ fight or flight/ ability to take risks/ the resilience to recover from loss.

(e) The desire to create, managing creative energy, and contribute - honor one another - managing sexual power/the quantity of emotional and sexual energy.

(f) Love manifests as caring for others to whom we are not connected by blood.

(g) Enables us to generate a sense of personal identity and protective psychological boundaries- the 2nd chakra energy of a healthy physical ego keeps us able to interact with the world of seductive forces ( sex, money, other people, etc) without having to sell ourselves.

(h) Our need to control the dynamics of our physical environment. Attachments to authority, money, people, other power sources.

To learn to interact consciously with others to form unions with people who support our development and to release relationships that handicap our growth

Learning more about the Sacral Chakra:
The second chakra is at the center of the abdomen, "the hara", the "dan tien" ... it correlates to the spleen (in the front or the yin side of this area of the body) and the kidney (in the back or the yang side of this area of the body). This chakra correlates to the water element, which manifests as the kidney of the five yin organs. Also, as this chakra correlates to the reproductive system and the sex organs, herein is the kidney's influence, which ultimately controls the vitality of this system. Meanwhile, it's correlation to the sense of taste implies an influence from the spleen, which controls this sense. This chakra is about willingness, particularly the willingness to feel and experience one's emotions, and the willingness to allow oneself to have what it finds pleasurable, especially in relation to the sexual appetite. Here again it is the kidneys that control our will - the stronger and more vital is the qi of our kidneys, the more potent is our willingness and our willpower!... Let your appetite for sensual pleasure unfold, allowing your second chakra a melodious opening in ripples of ecstasy...

Sacral Chakra Qualities and Attributes:
•    Location: Two inches below the navel and two inches into the pelvis
•    Age of resonance: 7 – 14
•    Shape: Pyramid
•    Glandular connection: Ovaries/testes
•    Color: Orange
•    Musical note: D
•    Type of music: Latin dance
•    Element: Water
•    Aspect of intelligence: Sensation/pleasure
•    Sensory experience: Taste
•    Essential oils: Jasmine, Neroli (Orange Blossom)
•    Crystals: Carnelian, Tiger's Eye, Onyx
•    Aspect of the solar system: Jupiter
•    Astrological associations: Cancer, Scorpio
•    Metal: Tin
•    Earthly location: Brazil
•    Mythological animal: A hungry sea monster, waiting to be fed
•    Angelic presence: Archangel Metatron
•    Plant: Jasmine
•    Qualities: Well-being, sexuality, sensuality, pleasure, abundance
•    Life issues: To know that who you are and what you do are enough; to have enough rest, food, exercise, fun, and money; not to link self-worth with what you do or have; to create healthy boundaries to protect your vital life force
•    Physical activities: Yoga, dance swimming, walking
•    Spiritual activities: Meditation, celibacy, fasting
•    Negative archetype: Martyr
•    Positive archetype: Emperor/Empress

Sacral Chakra Essential Oil:
The essence of Svadisthana is a blend of jasmine, orange, petigrain and sandalwood. This combination of essential oils bring forward the qualities of joy and creativity to assist us in manifesting our hopes and dreams. A beautiful fragrance to enhance your home and work environments, invoking inspiration and creative flow.

Sacral Chakra Crystals:
•    Cornelian: This stone, related to the agate family, is the color of the Sacral Chakra. It is meant to promote health and well-being and bring the wearer pleasure and comfort. It can be found on the shores of oceans and lakes, which suggests its close connection to water and the emotions. It acts to stabilize distraught feelings.
•    Tiger's Eye: This stone is reputed to bring prosperity and abundance. It is a stone that carries good luck and fortune with it and helps in business and negotiations. Wearing it or keeping it near at hand stimulates physical well-being.
•    Onyx: This stone has a strong magnetic charge and can stimulate healing at a physical level by magnetizing the blood. When it is combined with a Herkamer diamond, which is a very hard quartz crystal, it creates a powerful energetic force that can be used for healing. It is used to help regenerate and recharge the life force.

Affirmations for the Sacral Chakra
Repeat these affirmations once every morning and once every evening to bring openness to your Sacral Chakra

• I love my life
• I honor my body and treat myself respectfully
• I feel the power of healing moving in and through me as I affirm my worth and honour my body.
• I trust my feelings and give them ample room for expression.
• I lighten my body each time I feel well within myself.
• I am a creature of light, open to my highest joy.
• I am grateful for the joy of being me.
• I receive pleasure and abundance with every breath I take.
• Goodness, beauty, and joy resonate with my soul. I am at one with them.
• Healing happens each time I rest, relax, and enjoy myself.
• My body responds to thoughts of pure love and goodness.
• I heal any condition that affects me by knowing my body seeks balance and regeneration.
• I stimulate my immunity by knowing God lives in and through me.
• I encourage healing each time I affirm my worth and honour my choices for love.
• I love who I am exactly as I am.
• There is nothing to change about the way I am. As I love and respect myself, healing happens naturally.

Sacral Chakra Colors:
The color of the Sacral Chakra is orange. This is a hot color, full of vital energy and deeply connected with the life force. It represents sensuality and sexuality, as well as a deep connection to joy and passion. This color stimulates physical energy in the body and can open channels of suppressed vitality from an overactive mind. Wearing this color or painting a shade of it in a room brings warmth, healing and physical well-being.

Sacral Chakra Power Tips:

• Honor the physical body by giving it enough food, water, rest, and exercise.
• Respect the limits of the physical body and do not become trapped in obsessive acts of exertion, pushing the body beyond its natural limits.
• Accept your need for pleasure and create enough good experiences to replenish the spirit as well as the body.
• Acknowledge the powerful force of human sexuality and know what one's values are regarding it.
• Respect the physical world by keeping order, cleanliness, and beauty around your home, office, and places of recreation.
• Reflect upon physical energy you put into earning money and the ways that you make financial decisions.
• Know that you have appetites and needs and give them a place in your experience.
• Treat yourself to the joys of life and know that you deserve what you say you want.