The rooms of this vault are colored by chakra. But what are they and how does this ancient thing fit into this?
What a chakra is supposed to be
Cakra is Sanskrit for wheel or disc. In the tantric yoga traditions that produced the idea, the chakras are not organs and were never claimed to be. They are points along a subtle body — a map laid over the physical one — used as objects of meditation. You visualise a particular centre, with its element, its syllable, its number of petals, and you work there.
The important word is used. The system is a practice instrument, not an anatomical claim. Nobody in the source texts is asserting that a spinning disc exists at the base of your spine in the way a kidney exists. They are describing where to put attention, and what happens when you do. Read that way the system stops needing to be true in a physical sense to be useful, which is also the only way it survives contact with someone who wants evidence.
The ascending order carries the actual argument: you start at survival and end at meaning. Each level is a wider circle of concern than the one below it, and each one depends on the ones under it holding. That structure is the part worth keeping even if you throw away every petal count.
The way I see it, chakras are a perfect way to investigate what is currently blocking your energy in life, even for the non-spiritual as fear and other negative emotions are what is blocking us.
Where it really comes from
It’s not true that this is based on an evertrue ancient philosophy. The early tantric texts do not agree on how many chakras there are. Buddhist texts from around the eighth century describe four or five. The Kubjikāmata-tantra, tenth century, gives five. Other systems count nine, twelve, more. There is no single ancient number.
The rainbow is younger, and it is not Indian at all. The traditional texts do give the chakras colours, but they are not the spectrum: the root is described with a yellow square for earth, the sacral with a white crescent for water, the navel with a red triangle for fire. Charles Leadbeater, of the Theosophical Society, published The Chakras in 1927 with colours taken from what he believed he was seeing clairvoyantly — his own invention, and not in spectral order. The clean red-orange-yellow-green-blue-indigo-violet mapping arrived with Christopher Hills’ Nuclear Evolution: Discovery of the Rainbow Body in 1977, which laid Newton’s optical spectrum over the seven centres and attached a personality type to each. It was tidy enough that nearly every book since has copied it.
I’m saying this so you know this is not fixed in stone either. It’s just very useful and easy for me to present it this way. I realized all of my existing notes could fit very nicely into this pattern and it would make it easier to go through and find both for me and other readers.
The seven
Each one below: the name, where it sits, what it governs, and what it looks like when that area of a life is not working. That last part is the useful half — the diagnostic, not the decoration.
Looking at these to evaluate where you stand in them is probably the most interesting way to self evaluate your consciousness. But if you want to see where they fit in the vault look at the table below.
1. Mūlādhāra — root. Base of the spine. Element earth, four petals, seed syllable lam. Survival, safety, money, shelter, the body, belonging somewhere. It is the ground everything else stands on. Starved, it shows up as chronic low-grade fear, hoarding, an inability to settle, or treating every ordinary problem as an emergency. Overfed, it becomes rigidity — refusing any change because the floor might move.
2. Svādhiṣṭhāna — sacral. Below the navel. Water, six petals, vam. Desire, pleasure, emotion, sex, novelty, play, and the making that comes out of all of it. This is the creative centre, and creativity here means the appetite for new experience, not skill. Starved, it looks like numbness, joylessness, a life that works on paper and tastes like nothing, or creative work that never gets started. Overfed, it is compulsion — chasing the next sensation because stopping is unbearable.
3. Maṇipūra — solar plexus. At the navel. Fire, ten petals, ram. Will, agency, discipline, the capacity to act on the world and be someone in it. Where the sacral wants, this one does. Starved: passivity, drift, other people’s plans running your week, a chronic sense of being acted upon. Overfed: domination, workaholism, force applied where persuasion would have done.
4. Anāhata — heart. Centre of the chest. Air, twelve petals, yam. Love, connection, compassion, the move from me to us. It sits deliberately in the middle: three below concerned with self, three above with something beyond it, and the heart is the hinge. Starved: isolation, transactional relationships, a sharp answer for everything and no one to call. Overfed: losing yourself in others, care that is really control, giving until there is nothing left to give from.
5. Viśuddha — throat. The throat. Element space or ether, sixteen petals, ham. Expression, truth-telling, saying the thing. Not talking — saying. Starved: swallowed words, a gap between what you think and what you tell people, resentment built out of things never said. Overfed: talking past everyone, opinions as noise, expression with nothing underneath it.
6. Ājñā — third eye. Between the eyebrows. Light rather than a physical element, two large petals, om. Insight, perception, seeing the pattern rather than the instances. Knowledge, but the kind that reorganises how you look, not the kind you accumulate. Starved: confusion, no sense of direction, reacting to events one at a time forever. Overfed: living in abstraction, endlessly theorising a life you are not in.
7. Sahasrāra — crown. Top of the head. A thousand petals, no element, no seed syllable, because it is what the others resolve into rather than another item in the list. Meaning, purpose, the sense of being part of something larger. Starved: everything works and none of it matters. Overfed — and this one is real — spiritual bypassing: using cosmic significance to skip the four lower centres, which is how people end up enlightened and unable to pay rent.
| # | Sanskrit | Room | Location | Element | Petals | Bīja | Governs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mūlādhāra | root | base of spine | earth | 4 | lam | survival, safety, body |
| 2 | Svādhiṣṭhāna | sacral | below navel | water | 6 | vam | desire, pleasure, creation |
| 3 | Maṇipūra | solar plexus | navel | fire | 10 | ram | will, action, agency |
| 4 | Anāhata | heart | chest | air | 12 | yam | love, connection |
| 5 | Viśuddha | throat | throat | space | 16 | ham | expression, truth |
| 6 | Ājñā | third eye | brow | light | 2 | om | insight, perception |
| 7 | Sahasrāra | crown | crown | — | 1000 | — | meaning, unity |
How this vault maps onto it
The seven rooms were not designed against this list — they grew, and the mapping was noticed afterward and then made explicit in the site’s colours. That is the honest order of events, and it is why some of the fits are better than others.
| Chakra | Room | Fit |
|---|---|---|
| root | Alignment | good — habits, health, routine, owning your own tools |
| sacral | Travel | strained — the name says trips, the room now also holds the making |
| solar plexus | Work | good |
| heart | Friends | good |
| throat | Shared | good — clippings, recommendations, what gets posted |
| third eye | Library | good |
| crown | Meaning | good, though it absorbs anything introspective by default |
Each room is the note of its own name — private, Travel, Work, Friends, Shared, Library, Meaning — and each one’s own note says what it takes. But don’t overthink it, this was never meant to fit those perfectly.
Reading the vault as a chakra chart
The exercise in private is to find which centre is blocked. This vault is one place to look, since it is roughly a record of where attention went. Published notes per room, September 2026:
crown 71 · throat 60 · third eye 55 · root 45 · sacral 38 · solar plexus 25 · heart 17
But some part of it is just because it is private, this is more than just counting notes.
Sources
- Chakra — Wikipedia — attributes, petal counts, elements, and the textual history
- The Rainbow Body: How the Western Chakra System Came to Be — the Theosophical Society’s own account of the rainbow’s recent invention
- Nuclear Evolution: Discovery of the Rainbow Body — Christopher Hills, University of Trees Press, 1977, where ROYGBIV was mapped onto the seven
- Pūrṇānanda, Ṣaṭ-cakra-nirūpaṇa, 1577, translated by Sir John Woodroffe as The Serpent Power, 1919 — the source of the seven-chakra system in the West