A lot has been written about this powerful variation of quartz, so feel free to check out all the details if you want to. But with the massive energy shifts due this month, I want to focus on what it can do for you to help you get through them and come out ready to work with the energy of Lions Gate on 8th August.
I would definitely be using the stone before the 25th – the Mayan Day Out of Time. The energy associated with this day is always the energy of letting go, so if I were you, I’d start the release process now, so there is less to let go of on the day itself. It’s always easier!
The qualities of citrine are personal power, self-confidence, responsibility and will power, which is why it resonates with the both sacral and solar plexus chakras. It helps you to become aware of who you really are on all levels and it also encourages you to become that person, to embody your true, Authentic Self.
Of course, any yellow stone will be helpful at the solar plexus chakra, but the joy of using citrine is that it does not hold or accumulate negative energy. It transmutes it and grounds it. It will, continually, take any negativity you generate and turn it into positive energy. It is a massively useful and efficient stone…. and, really, everyone ought to have one!
It works on both physical and energetic levels, transforming negative energy in any form – thoughts, feelings and behaviour patterns – into positive ones, seeking them out relentlessly where ever we have carefully buried them in the Four Body system. It is also particularly useful to help you achieve self-empowerment and for allowing you to reach a state where you have a really, really healthy self-esteem. How good it that?
The best way to work with citrine on your solar plexus chakra is just to place it there for fifteen minutes and ask it to help you see what energy you have stuck in this part of your chakra system. Then ask the crystal to clear it.
It really is that simple, though if you have lots of separate issues lodged in this chakra, it might be best to do fifteen minutes for each thing to ensure everything is completely cleared. The citrine is completely capable of just clearing the chakra of everything, but what is the point? If you do not take the time to learn what you are doing to generate negativity in this area by asking to be shown this information, you will just re-generate it and have to do the exercise all over again. It is always best to go to the root cause rather than just deal with the symptom – which is presenting as the blockage.
And, while you are working with the solar plexus chakra, it is also useful to use the citrine to clear the sacral. After all, how can you expect to be empowered and self-confident if you have no self-worth or self-love in the lower chakra? Sometimes it’s even best to start at the sacral before you move on to the solar plexus. Just tune in and see what is right for you. You’ll always know!
It can also be used at the heart to clear out any emotional rubbish you have stored there. Just sit with it for the fifteen minutes, holding whatever intention is best for you while you are working with the stone. Also at this chakra, the energy of citrine will help you learn to accept joy into your life, which is a fabulous thing! Who wouldn’t want to take fifteen minutes out of their busy life to do that? And, if you find you won’t do this… well, maybe it’s seriously time to start asking yourself why….
At the brow it will clear both your inner and outer vision, allowing you to see clearly on all levels. It is particularly helpful here. It will also clear the crown and you will probably find it helpful to work with both these chakras together.
Lastly, since we are all exhausted quite a lot of the time at the moment, citrine can be used at the base chakra to boost both the energy levels of the chakra and the physical body. It’s the same fifteen minutes and all you have to do is sit with stone in the chakra and hold the intention of breathing all the lovely citrine energy in to the chakra and breathing out any negativity you may have stored there.
You can also use the stone on the adrenals and the thyroid, if you are really tired. Personally, I would also use it on the kidneys to replenish the chi the body stores in that part of the body. It will be your intention that does all these things. Make it very clear so the energy reaches the right place and does the right thing.
When you are specifically using citrine on the solar plexus, it will help you access deeper levels of your personal power and will power, it will increase your self-respect and it will help make a deeper connection to the brow chakra – when used with this intention.
You can start by checking the energy levels of the chakra and if it feels over energised – use a citrine point, and place the stone on the chakra with the point going down to the base. Your intention will be to earth any excess energy in the chakra.
If it feels under energised, place a tumblestone in the chakra and ask for the crystal to clear it and re-energise it.
If it feels as if you have loads of negative energy stuck in the chakra, use a tumblestone in the chakra and your intention will be for the stone to clear it.
Another way to work with citrine is to lie down and place the crystal at your crown and see or sense the crystalline energy radiating out of the stone, flowing down to the crown chakra. It will automatically flow into the central channel from this point.
Let this happen and set the intention that once the central channel is full of the citrine energy. it slowly radiates out into all the chakras, clearing them. Then, when you feel the chakra system is cleansed and balanced by this energy, set the intention that you want the citrine energy to radiate out from the central channel into the physical body, the etheric body, the emotional body and the mental body, cleansing them as well.
Another meditation you can use to work with citrine energy combines visualisation with physical stones. You visualise a sphere of citrine energy at your crown, letting the energy spread out to fill your aura and cleanse it.
You also place a citrine stone on your brow and sacral chakras, letting the energy cleanse the chakras for a few moments and when you have fully attuned to these three sources of quartz energy, visualise a beam of golden light flowing from the sphere above your head, going down and connecting the brow chakra to the sacral. The brow is the higher octave of the sacral, so they are connected any way. This deepens the connection.
You will find that using citrine this way is particularly helpful of you are having trouble concentrating, struggling with low self-esteem or if you are feeling overwhelmed by worries and responsibilities. It will, without a doubt, if done regularly, also improve your self-confidence.
Lastly, the energy of citrine is really helpful for anyone who is sensitive and or who has a tendency to be overwhelmed by outside influences. If you wear or carry the stone, it will increase the amount of light you hold in your aura and your subtle bodies, making it harder for low vibrational frequencies to take hold in your system.
All in all, it is a wonderful stone, so I’d be rushing out to buy some right now if you don’t have any!
Bright Blessings!
Gailx