Crystals for the Root Chakra
The Root Chakra is the first of the seven main energy centers and is located at the base of the spine between the anus and genitals. It symbolizes the connection between the physical and energetic systems.
Balancing the Root Chakra promotes the necessary qualities such as grounding, stability, strength, confidence, and, above all, trust to open the flow of energy holistically.
Here you can explore various Root Chakra essences, which, through their different vibrational frequencies, guide your true self back to its original form.
Blood Stone
root - heart
increased endurance, to conquer something, find balance
The root is your connection to the earth and your physical body, and all your inherent needs as a human being. Bloodstone carries the energy of the earth to re-root you in your physical body and connect you to your power and vital essence. It provides you with patience, nurturing, healing, all the qualities of the feminine essence, connecting you to the magic of the earth to understand that you can create anything your heart desires in this physical reality.
It is invigorating, motivating, inspires action, and gives you the courage to go after what you desire. This is its yang energy, the masculine counterpart, which helps you do something that makes you feel enlightened and alive. It gives you the courage to face all adversities while remaining centered in your heart.As a stone of compassion, it can help you understand where others are coming from and recognize the emotional roots behind another person's behavior, allowing you to approach them with more love and openness. It also helps you find strength and security in relationships, ensuring you always act in alignment with your heart. A beautiful crystal for calming your mind, centering you, and connecting with your innate knowing.
Physically, it aids in the circulation of blood and lymph, breaks up stagnation and clots.
Ruby
root - sacral - Heart
clear ancestral wounds, gain strength, move forward & get unstuck
The Ruby carries yang energy, which stimulates physical vitality and strength, increases courage and self-confidence, and inspires you to fulfill your desires.
This wonderful essence promotes the flow of your creative energy and connects you to your innate sense of joy and desire. It will help you feel embodied and powerful, nourish the blood in your veins and the roots of who you are, and help you activate your inner fire to spur you on to love, wealth, and abundance. It connects you to your innate power and the wisdom you carry within, helping you claim your place in the world and ground yourself in the worthiness you were born with.
It can transmute the fears, the unconscious wounds and pain, and early childhood experiences of trauma and confusion, penetrating deep into the root of your struggles, into your DNA and ancestral lineage, clearing through time and space, breaking through unconscious fears and resentments that still exist in the deepest crevices within you.
Physically, it boosts your energy and combats fatigue. It can also improve immune system functions.
Shungite
root
detox body & mind, balance & stability, inner strength
Shungite is one of the most powerful stones for opening and grounding your root chakra and connecting it to your inner strength, bringing you into a state of inner balance. Deeply connected to the earth, it vibrates at harmonic frequencies that are incredibly grounding and stabilizing, bringing you back to your life force, and supporting you in dissolving toxic patterns and conditioning from the past. Shungite supports you in living with balance and clarity and in letting go of negative thinking, heavy emotions, and toxic behavioral patterns. It can transmute the energies of the past to make room for the new. Its grounding properties bring patience, consistency, and resilience to your relationships. It supports you in transforming yourself into the most beautiful version of yourself. Shungite is primarily composed of carbon, the essential building block of life, and therefore contains powerful regenerative energy that supports you in achieving strength, vitality, and balance. It transforms all life-damaging energies into harmonious frequencies to support life.
Physically, it is anti-viral and anti-bacterial, boosts the immunity, relieves pain and has shown to slow the growth of cancer cells.
Serpentine
root - Solar plexus
awaken your creative power, transform yourself into higher self, full-body harmony
Serpentine, a stone of feminine essence, is creative, nurturing, and healing, moving you toward growth on all levels by breaking up stagnant energies to create softness and a healthy flow of energy. It connects you to the rhythm of your soul and helps you release ancestral patterns, past lives, or karmic contracts.
It awakens the dormant power and strength of the root chakra, allowing it to gently rise through each chakra—beginning at the root and working its way up to the crown—through the energetic connection it holds with the Earth and divine feminine energy. Serpentine Essence cleanses and harmonizes all chakras, but its power begins at the root, at the core of who you are, to neutralize the unconscious wounds, patterns, conditioning, and history in your DNA, and to release the energetic bonds that still cling to you through these stories and patterns.
Serpentine is a master at breaking through fears in the solar plexus to help us ascend higher in our lives, up into the heart and into the higher chakras, to fully express our soul.
Physicially, it is calming for the digestive system. It has a cooling effect on the body, helps with hot flashes. It slows down the progression of infections, clear pathogens, parasites and radiation poisoning from the body.
smoky quartz
root
clear toxicity, ground into your strength,
take action
Smoky quartz grounds you and connects you to your inner strength, stability, and security, no matter what's happening. It helps you focus on the now and the next step to get where you want to be. It's the perfect essence to bring you down from the clouds so you can take action to ensure all your needs are met and the life you truly desire is manifested. It takes you out of cycles of self-sabotage so you can see what actions you need to take to evolve.
The essence carries a dark yet clear energy, giving it the ability to absorb dense, heavy, and lower vibrations, while reflecting a brilliant clarity that calms the mind and connects you to higher vibrational energies.
Whenever you can't find solid ground to stand on, this essence can be the earth force you need to return to your calm, stable center within. It supports you in developing a healthy root system to take action to meet your needs.
Physically, it helps with pain relieve, lower inflammation, supports the kidneys and the adrenals especially when dealing with chronic fatigue.