THE FIFTH THE THROAT CHAKRA [VISHUDDI]

LOCATION: Throat
ELEMENT: Air
COLOR: Sky Blue
NUMBER OF PETALS: 16
PLANET: Venus
GENDER: Female
DAY: Friday
METAL: Copper
FUNCTION: Verbal communication, emotional self-expression, creativity
INNER STATE: Emotions

The throat chakra known as the Visudda in Sanskrit, rules over the neck, thyroid gland, throat, mouth, voice, ears, hearing, and trachea. This chakra is sky blue in color and rules over verbal communication, intellect, emotions, and self-expression. Truth be known, the throat chakra, not the heart chakra is the "seat of emotions." When we feel sad, like crying, we get the lump in the throat. The throat chakra is a chakra of creative potential and works with the sacral chakra. The throat chakra contains the second granthi.

The actual element of the Fifth chakra is ether. The Word is the power beyond, the Word is projected sound current, or vibrations. The Word resides not in the vocal, not in the ability to speak, but in the language itself, in symbolical integration, in vibration of the mind and the soul. Communication is etherical, if you experience suffering and that suffering is backed-up by the Word you experience that in the fifth chakra. All suffering is trapped within a language, within a compound of words and meanings that give sense to the experience. Word that you sense as, bad feelings, that is not spoken word, that is lack of communication with self. You communicate with the self always, the self is beyond the "I" of the mind. To achieve Vishuddha consciousness you need to have accessed anahata first, that is you need to see that you and the other are we.