Thank you so much for the answers! This gave me inspiration and lead to try and understand more about chakras. I'll note here what I found and understood.
Let us start with the visualisation of chakras:
"Each chakra is in the shape of a small funnel, like a miniature spinning tornado in the shape of a cup. The suit of cups in the Tarot symbolizes the chakras, as each chakra holds energy within its cup. The most important chakra is the solar plexus chakra, which is the Grail."
Why are spinning and rotation used in nature, and where are they found?
2D depiction: a spiral.
Much of plant growth is spiral in nature. Think of the placement of flower plants: sunflower seeds, succulents, etc. (Sunflowers are also interesting since the seed growth pattern turns by 137.5 degrees, the golden angle). You can see it present in the way galaxies are shaped or in seashells. To make another connection, notice how the conch shell’s inner structure is similar to that of first nine harmonics *under certain conditions (I’ll explain why that’s relevant later).
3D depiction: a conical helix.
Take the idea of a spiral ‘around-and-out’ into 3D with an axis, and you get a helix. The helix is then like a path and spinning is its natural motion, you then get… a helical motion.
Spinning appears whenever there’s a rotational component, even a tiny one. We know the universal law that everything is in motion.
"The chakras are always spinning unless one wills them to stop …”
Spinning in nature is especially tied to growth.
Now,
@SaqqaraNox mentioned magnetic field oscillations and how rotation is a universal form of harmonious energy organization. Made me search about the helical path of charged particles. What does that mean?
See this, it's a quick video to understand: Helical Path of Charged Particles | 3D Explanation
You have a magnetic field guiding charged particles via a force, carrying any components along it.
Some AI explanation:
it uses the Lorentz force, where the perpendicular component of velocity circles around the field line, while the parallel component moves along it, so the overall path is a helix.
The same underlying pattern, rule, shows up from the micro to the macro. In space: Earth’s magnetosphere or solar winds and in micro scale: fusion devices, spectrometers, plasma discharges.
Let’s link it with the three-body problem. I’ll let AI briefly explain it too (Tech era is here
, let's use it. I actually like making it explain in different ways so I can fact check and understand):
How does that relate to the chakra spin?
Temple of Zeus - Queen Astarte Sigil
“The two bars on each side are the pillars of positive and negative energy on each side of the human soul—the black and white of yin and yang and the checkerboard ..."
The pillars of our souls (positive and negative energy) and the chakra itself are linked/ used in the chakra spin, generating energy. A three-body system, a spin motion.
Let’s see the Swastika symbol reference too. It has many meanings, but since it also represents the solar Chakra (
will, power, manipulation, the powerhouse of the soul), I think its meaning is directly double sensed in how energy is generated during the chakra spin.
“…representing the everlasting flow and interplay of the four elements: Fire, Water, Earth, and Air, connected at the center through the Aether…Aligned as four thunderbolts, it symbolizes the ultimate power of the lightning bolt. The thunderbolt moves forward and explodes, continuing the flow of creation through the power of electricity. Without a form of electrical power, nothing can exist: all living beings rely on bioelectricity, and even machines operate through electricity—the power of the “Thunderbolt of Zeus” or “Swastika.”
Now the helical path of particles with the magnetic field has electrical power too, which comes from our
applied will to recognise and manipulate the chakra.
The spiral/spin connection with harmonics shows that by vibrating mantras at a specific pitch (/resonance?) we can open them properly. A little imagination exercise. Let’s say you play a pure tone with harmonics into a conch shell (try to recreate this in chat gpt with html code, it will show you a bit of maths, how sound operates, amplitudes, etc and some nice visualisation). The conch shell will not create new harmonics from nothing, but it will boost some of those harmonics and reduce others depending on how its resonances line up. What you measure at the opening is the harmonic series with varying amplitudes, reshaped by the conch’s frequency response.
The exercise is exactly like how the light goes into a prism and forms the colors. A specific tone and mantra opens the chakra.
Bonus question for me... so now, why are chakras cones?
I see that it's now a filtering/separation idea too: energy gets in at the wide end (female receptive, base) and then in a fine focus near the top, apex (male, directing). We always keep in mind that all chakras are aligned to give power to the Solar Plexus.
The energy of the chakra being generated by the spin is going around the energetical bodies, that's the linking element (see the m, of how we search to achieve unity with our bodies (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual), and goes through them, empowers, penetrating each layer if that makes sense.
Another intuition:
The spin movement, the spiral, appears when let’s say ‘geometry favors wrapping’ around an axis or core: gathering and channeling energy along an axis while it rotates around that same axis. Does that mean that the chakra itself has some kind of path in the middle?
My first thought it's the path of Kundalini, but then, doesn't it say in Temple of Zeus that the Kundalini is going through the spine first? However, it also says it's piercing the chakras too, feels like a contradiction since chakras are in the middle of body and spine is well, the spine. I would say the energy of the twin serpent meditation “fuses” these two somehow, but that feels like another topic right now, more advanced.
So in the end I'm left with more questions than answers, but that's why I love it. Step by step they must make sense.
I'm a bit more aware now when I do spin the chakra.
Thank you TG Alexandros for the visualisation.
*I want to clearly mention that this post was done with the help of AI: used in some explanations and grammar correction.
