What If the Earth Itself Mirrors the Chakra System?
(Pt. 2)
As a follow up to my article the other day: “The Earth’s Chakras” I wanted to think on a comment another Substacker Michael Grayson | LSC left.
“I always thought the Earth itself reflected the chakra colors. Red for the core (root), orange for the mantle (sacral), above ground yellow (solar plexus), green for living things (heart), blue for the sky (throat), indigo for the night sky (third eye), and stars for the crown.”
I sat with that longer than I expected.
Rather than imagining energetic points scattered across the globe, this perspective imagines the entire Earth as a body ascending upward through layers of consciousness.
Root — Red: Earth’s Core
Deep beneath our feet sits a molten metallic center generating the magnetic field that protects us from cosmic radiation.
The root chakra traditionally governs survival, stability, and safety.
Without the Earth’s core, there is no protective magnetic field. No atmosphere as we know it. No stable conditions for life. No “ground” beneath us at all.
The deepest hidden part of the planet is also what keeps everything alive.
Humans do this too. Our foundations are often invisible. People rarely see the experiences, memories, and early attachments that quietly shape a life.
Roots almost always live underground.
Sacral — Orange: The Mantle
Above the core sits the mantle—a slow-moving ocean of molten rock constantly shifting and circulating.
The sacral chakra governs:
emotion
creativity
flow
movement
desire
The Earth’s mantle is never fully still. Tectonic plates drift because of it. Continents move because of it. Mountains rise because of it. Even what appears stable on the surface exists because of something moving underneath.
Humans often work similarly. Most of what creates our lives happens beneath awareness. Emotion moves beneath thought. Creativity moves beneath language. Desire moves beneath logic.
You rarely see movement while it’s happening.
You only notice the landscape after it changes.
Solar Plexus — Yellow: The Surface
The surface of Earth is where action becomes visible.
Civilizations rise.
Roads are built.
Cities emerge.
Choices become tangible.
The solar plexus traditionally represents identity and personal power.
The question:
“What will I create?”
This is where intention meets reality. Everything hidden below eventually expresses itself above.
Just as beliefs and emotions eventually become behavior.
Heart — Green: Life
Then comes green.
Forests stretching across continents.
Moss climbing stone.
Vines moving toward sunlight.
Fields breathing.
Living systems endlessly exchanging oxygen and carbon.
The heart chakra represents love, connection, and relationship. What is fascinating is that ecosystems themselves function through relationship. Trees communicate chemically. Roots exchange nutrients through fungal networks. Forests appear separate above ground while remaining deeply connected beneath it. Scientists sometimes call this network the “Wood Wide Web.” Nature repeatedly reminds us that separation may be more visual than real.
The heart asks us the same question:
“What connects us beneath what we can see?”
Throat — Blue: The Sky
Above life sits atmosphere.
Wind currents.
Cloud systems.
Sound traveling through air.
The throat chakra governs communication and expression. Earth itself is constantly speaking.
Thunder.
Rain.
Ocean waves.
Bird migration.
Seasonal shifts.
Even weather is information moving through systems. Perhaps communication was never only about words.
Maybe expression begins whenever energy moves from one place to another.
Third Eye — Indigo: The Night Sky
As daylight fades, another layer appears. The night sky has always changed people. Ancient humans navigated by it.
Wrote myths about it.
Built monuments aligned with it.
Wondered about themselves beneath it.
The third eye governs intuition and perception. Night removes visual certainty. The world becomes less defined and strangely, that is often where imagination enters.
Darkness has always held a paradox:
we see less physically and often more internally.
Crown — White: The Stars
Finally:
stars.
The crown chakra represents transcendence and connection to something larger.
For almost all of human history, people lived beneath visible stars every night. Imagine that. Not occasionally during a camping trip. Every night. For thousands of years humans looked upward and saw infinity. The stars likely shaped religion, philosophy, mythology, and identity itself.
Because eventually every human asks some version of the same question:
“What am I inside all of this?”
Maybe this is why these systems continue appearing across cultures. Humans repeatedly discover the same patterns and tell the same stories using different languages.
We look inward and see the universe.
We look outward and somehow find ourselves again.
I do want to note that since the Earth is not the center of the Universe… perhaps theres an even larger scale to look at the Chakra system through.
If only we had a larger lens.
As above, so below; as below, so above. As within, so without; as without, so within.
That is indeed a great read... And synchronicity of a recommendation for the algorithm within Substack.