What a Chakra Reading Actually Shows You About Your Spiritual Development

A chakra reading, done properly, gives you a precise map of where you stand spiritually. Not a vague impression. An actual measurement of each chakra’s openness, the beliefs holding it back, and where your work needs to go next. For anyone serious about their spiritual development, this information is the difference between wandering and making real progress.

What I share here comes from more than twenty years of reading chakras for clients and guiding students through the opening process. It is based on direct observation, not on books or any particular tradition. Before going into what a reading reveals, I want to clear up some persistent confusion about where the chakra system actually comes from — because most of what circulates in the West is, at best, a loose adaptation.

Where the Chakra System Actually Comes From

The idea of the subtle body and its energy centers — called chakras or lotuses — comes from the Tantra Yoga tradition that flourished between roughly 600 and 1300 CE and is still alive today. In the more developed Tantra Yoga schools, from around 900 CE onward, each lineage described a different chakra system. Some described more than one. Depending on the text and the lineage, you could find systems with five, six, seven, nine, ten, twelve, twenty-one, or more chakras.

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The seven-chakra system that most Western yogis know today is only one of these many systems, and it only became widely recognized around the fifteenth or sixteenth century.

The Chakra Systems Were Prescriptive, Not Descriptive

English sources tend to describe chakras as if they were anatomical facts: "the Manipura chakra is at the solar plexus and it is yellow." The original Sanskrit texts did not teach this way. They guided students through specific yogic practices — visualizing a subtle lotus or spinning wheel of a certain color at a certain point in the body, then activating particular mantric syllables within it for a particular purpose. The chakra was a tool for the practice, not a fixed object to be catalogued.

Academic studies have repeatedly shown that Western yoga schools often lack any real grounding in classical Hindu or Indian sources. The associations linking each chakra to a specific gland, food, essential oil, metal, mineral, herb, planet, body issue, yoga path, tarot suit, Kabbalistic sephira, or Christian archangel are not found in the original texts. Common sense alone tells us classical Hindu tradition would not reference religions that arose later. These connections were built by Western spiritualists trying to braid yoga into their own frameworks.

Very little of what is written about chakras in English carries real authority compared to the original sources. I say this not to dismiss Western work entirely — some of it is useful — but to give you honest perspective. Most of what you have read about chakras is interpretive, not traditional.

The Seven Main Chakras and What They Actually Govern

With that framing in place, here is how I describe the seven main chakras in practice. These descriptions are functional — what each chakra does in a person’s life and spiritual development — rather than anatomical or symbolic.

• Crown Chakra — at the top of the head. This is the connection point to higher dimensions and higher beings: your own soul, God, spiritual guides, and higher souls. When open, it gives clarity of mind and genuine access to higher sources of knowledge.

• Third Eye Chakra — at the forehead. Seat of insight, intuition, and direct inner knowing. A well-opened third eye lets you see reality as it is, beyond what family, school, and society have conditioned you to believe. Essential for learning real life lessons rather than repeating them.

• Throat Chakra — communication, creative expression, and sound. It governs how well you communicate not only with other people but also with nature, animals, and higher-dimensional beings. An open throat chakra keeps you connected; a blocked one isolates you.

• Heart Chakra — love, compassion, and relationship with the wider Creation, including nature and animals. It reflects your sense of unity with the rest of what is.

• Solar Plexus Chakra — near the navel. Willpower and personal strength. It governs how you approach reality — with conviction or with hesitation — and how well that approach aligns with the destiny your soul intended.

• Sacral Chakra — pleasure, passion, and physical vitality. Strongly tied to intimate relationships and emotional peaks.

• Root Chakra — survival, stability, and material grounding. Connects you to Earth itself and is the gate through which Earth energy enters the body to sustain everything above.

What a Chakra Reading Actually Measures

During a full spiritual reading, I assess how open each of the seven main chakras is and identify the blocks or patterns holding them closed. The measurement is given as a percentage for each chakra, which lets you see, concretely, where you stand.

Most people I read have their chakras sitting somewhere around 3 to 5% open, which falls within the 1 to 10% range typical of current 3D humanity. That is the baseline. The chakras open as a person’s belief system clears, and they close again when new limiting beliefs settle in. This is not a fixed state. It moves.

The primary reason a chakra stays closed is always the same: limiting beliefs sitting in the subconscious, each one emitting its own restrictive frequency. Release the belief, and the chakra opens in proportion. There is no shortcut around this, though there are practices that help at the symptom level. More on those in a moment.

Working on the Third Eye and Crown Chakras

These two chakras sit at the top of the system and, in my practice, I treat them carefully. The third eye gives you access to insight and intuition that reach past the surface of daily life. When it opens, you start seeing the structure behind events rather than just the events themselves. Decisions become clearer. Life lessons become visible before you have to learn them the hard way.

The crown chakra opens the soul to higher sources of knowledge. When it is working properly, you feel a direct connection to your own soul, to higher guides, and to the higher dimensions of vibration where those beings reside. It is the channel through which genuine spiritual guidance comes in.

These two are meant to be worked on after the lower chakras have enough capacity to support what they bring in. Forcing the third eye open without the groundwork below tends to produce confusion rather than insight. Meditation, consistent belief release, and clean energy practice are what open these chakras properly — slowly and in the right order.

Adjunct Practices: What They Help With, and What They Don’t

Aromatherapy and color visualization are commonly suggested for chakra work, and they can be useful, provided you understand what they actually do.

Essential oils affect the nervous system through their scent compounds, which can help calm an overactivated state, support grounding, or shift mood. Vetiver, for instance, has a settling quality that helps during stress or anxiety. Used alongside deeper work, oils can support the process. Used alone, they do not move chakra openness in any meaningful way.

Color visualization — imagining a colored light at each chakra during meditation — can help you focus attention on a specific energy center, which is useful for concentration. The specific color assignments in Western sources are interpretive, as discussed earlier, so treat them as a focusing aid rather than a fixed correspondence.

Be clear about the limit here. These practices address the symptoms of a blocked chakra and can make you feel temporarily better. They do not dissolve the beliefs keeping the chakra closed. That work is the deeper layer, and it is where real opening happens.

What to Do After a Reading

Once you know where each of your chakras stands, the next step is not more meditation. It is to work on the specific beliefs blocking the specific chakras that came up low. Pay attention to the emotions and images that surface as you work. Persistent fears, recurring mental patterns, old scripts about yourself — these are the exact material a reading is designed to make visible. Each one is a door.

If you want an honest baseline of your current chakra state, a full chakra reading gives it to you. If the reading reveals blocks that need active clearing, a limiting beliefs release session is the most direct way to begin dissolving them. For readers who want the complete structured path — reading, healing, and progressive work with feedback at every stage — the Body & Soul Ascension Academy is built exactly for that journey.

A chakra reading is not a parlor trick. Done seriously, it is one of the most useful instruments available to anyone committed to their own spiritual development. It tells you where you actually are, which is always the right place to begin.