The Heart Chakra.
Known in Sanskrit as Anahata, the unstruck sound.
The 4th energy center. Located at the center of the chest.
Anahata governs love, compassion, grief, forgiveness, and the capacity to give and receive in equal and open measure. When it is open, you feel connected and compassionate. Capable of loving without condition, yourself, others, and the world.
In the Tantric tradition of the Sat-Chakra-Nirupana, Anahata is depicted as a twelve-petaled lotus shining at the center of the chest. The seat of the air element and the breath that connects us to all living things.
Seed Syllable: YAM
Chanted to open the heart, to release grief and contraction, and to invite the free, expansive energy of love and compassion into every breath.
Color: Green & Pink
Green, the color of the living earth in full growth. The love that nourishes and sustains all things.
Pink, the color of the heart in its most tender and open expression. The love that gives without condition and receives without fear.
Mantra: Om Anahataya Namah
An offering of reverence to the unstruck sound within. To the love that exists before and beyond all wounding.
Mudra: Padma Mudra
The hands brought together at the heart, base of the palms and little fingers and thumbs touching, the other fingers opening like the petals of a lotus in full bloom. The lotus gesture.
Tarot: The Lovers (VI)
The archetype of love, union, and the sacred choice of the open heart. Paul Foster Case connected The Lovers to Gemini, to the great act of integration, the moment the self chooses love over fear and union over separation.
Planet: Venus
The goddess of love, beauty, and the deep, receptive intelligence of the heart. Venus governs our capacity for connection, for pleasure, for the appreciation of beauty in all its forms, and for the sacred art of loving and being loved.
Element: Air
Vayu in Sanskrit. Aer in ancient Greek. The free, expansive, connecting element that moves between all things and carries the breath of life from one being to another. The element of love, of thought, and of the invisible bonds that hold the world together.
Zodiac: Libra & Taurus
Libra, the scales. The deep, Venus-ruled longing for harmony, beauty, and the sacred balance of giving and receiving in equal measure.
Taurus, the bull. The steady, sensual, earth-rooted love that endures through every season and finds the divine in the beauty of the physical world.
Frequency: 639 Hz
The Solfeggio frequency of connection. For harmonizing relationships, opening the heart to love and forgiveness, and restoring the natural, expansive frequency of Anahata in all its relationships with self, others, and the living world.
Signature Stones
Rose Quartz. The gentle, unconditional love that heals and opens the heart.
Green Aventurine. The abundant, optimistic energy of the heart in full growth.
Rhodonite. The deep emotional healing that comes from loving what has been wounded back to wholeness.
Stones of the heart chakra are typically green or pink. They carry the open, compassionate, life-giving energy of the air element and the heart's infinite capacity for love.
You are loved. You are loving. Your heart is open, and love moves through you freely and without condition.
