On intuition, embodiment, and learning to trust what you feel

The Reading That Changed Everything

A couple years ago I had a client that was learning tarot with me. They were so engaged in the art of reading that we would often go on slight tangents around energy healing and awareness – still very much applicable to the function of reading tarot but not necessarily what I had planned for our learning sessions.

One day we spoke about chakra and aura readings which prompted me to read their chakras on the spot. I spoke candidly saying,

“Your third eye and heart chakras feel really expansive, open, and vibrant; however as I scan down to your root chakra I can feel there’s a lack of movement or energy there – almost like its been forgotten about, ignored, or just not paid much attention to. Does that make sense to you?”

My client smiled in that way that signaled amusement and then slowly pushed themselves back and away from their desk. The reveal? They had been sitting in a wheelchair the whole time. My client had an accident in their youth that had left them wheelchair bound for the rest of their lives. I had no idea because our sessions were virtual so I could only see them from the chest up.

We took a moment to pause and take in that electric moment then shared excited commentary about this experience and how the accident had affected the way they related to the energy experienced in their body. I offered some suggestions around how they can work with their root chakra to help them feel more grounded, yet potent and alive before we moved on to the rest of the lesson. As an intuitive and energy healer, that moment marked one of the many signs of mastery that helped me stay the course in my own learning journey.

We Are Always Reading Energy

Whether we realize it or not, we are constantly reading the energy around us. It’s part of how we understand the situations we find ourselves in on a daily basis. Rather than simply being this magical, mystical thing we engage in as sensitive people, reading energy is very much a function of our survival. It’s how we can tell whether or not we are safe engaging with certain people, places, and arrangements. Becoming more familiar with the ways that energy can move and affect the way we feel in our lives and the way we impact others can exponentially improve your quality of life and confidence.

Try This: A Chakra Body Scan

I encourage you now –

• Take a moment to scan your own chakras and see what you notice.
• Close your eyes, take a few deep, stabilizing breaths.
• Start with your root chakra at the base of your spine.
• Notice what you feel there, if anything, and move your way up to your sacral, solar plexus, heart, throat, third eye, and crown.
• Write your findings in a journal and expand on what you think about what you’re noticing.

Approach these body / chakra scans with a sense of curiosity and trust what’s coming up for you. After doing this several times, go back and read what you noticed to see if any themes stand out to you.

Where It All Began

I first started learning about and working with the chakra system in 2018 while taking some one off, in-person workshops with Deganit. Me and the other students huddled together expectantly in a cozy room at one of the most adorable metaphysical shops and listened with anticipation as she shared the most captivating, heartfelt information with us.

I was instantly hooked and this ancient awareness woke up in me as she spoke. I hadn’t had much formal training around the chakra system at that point but so much of what I learned then already felt familiar to me. I had been intuitively understanding how energy was running through me without realizing it. If you’re reading this, I’d venture to guess that you may have a similar instinctual understanding on some level.

Fire Through the Spine: My Kundalini Experience

More recently, I’m gaining further understanding around one of the most intense ways my intuition likes to activate within me. Sometimes when out and about living my life or when in session with a client, I feel this uncompromising energy rise up within me. It begins from the base of my spine in my root chakra and shoots up through my spine running through each chakra until the energy erupts out the top of my head and through my crown chakra. It feels like fire – like I’ve been transformed into a human blow torch. It’s euphoric.

When this happens I know that whatever words are spilling out of my mouth at that moment are essential truths. I often can’t remember what I’ve said after this happens. I now know that what I have been experiencing is what many refer to as a sort of Kundalini awakening – where life force energy awakens and shoots up through the seven chakras, culminating at the crown chakra. I stumbled upon this realization that what I was experiencing was Kundalini after having a conversation about the chakra system in my yoga teacher training. I’ve noticed this phenomena happening for me for much of my life but had no idea it was anything significant. I share this as a way to help you get more familiar with the natural phenomena that may be happening inside you.

You may not even be fully aware of the ways in which your intuitive gifts are playing a part in your life and a little exposure to this ancient information may be just what you need to help you see what’s been happening for you all along. The learning never ends.

What a gift!

About Crystal

Crystal is a Nuurvana Guiding Light specializing in tarot, hypnosis, and gentle somatic release. Her work is grounding, compassionate, and deeply restorative.

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