What do you guys think?
Which corresponding Chakra color and energy does your own city vibe at?
Do you like your city’s egregore and collective energy?
Do you think it is time to move out?
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The city I am in right now, vibrates at the Root Chakra level, i.e. the energy here is that of existential crisis, escapism, survival, hiding from light, unworthiness, unconscious anxiety and similar…
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For me , I find it cool that the big cities I’ve visited all entirely have a different vibe. For example in Hong Kong recently was my second visit and I still don’t vibe with it very much. It felt…disordered , no real harmony. I don’t know really what it means. And this is while I can clearly point out positives and negatives.
But for instance each time I visit Shanghai, I feel super nice. Hard to describe. Everything much more streamlined.
And then Tokyo and Seoul have again each their very individual vibe that I both appreciate.
And then again all of these are very different from let’s say Berlin, London, Paris etc.
What I find amazing is how you can “dive in” and just fully go with the flow. You can kind of “hide” in this flow because it’s so huge, almost like cloaking.
All these are in great contrast to my small hometown where the lifestyle is just so slow in comparison. But I can also appreciate it just for slowing down, chilling out, it’s calm and peaceful and it’s great to take a break from everything.
I think the myriad of energies are so much, I wouldn’t be able to pinpoint any specific chakra color or trait to them. Some areas are different from others, sometimes mere meters apart.
They should play more classical music everywhere to raise the vibes for everyone.
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I was just thinking about that quote from Babaji, “We are beings that prefer the shelter of trees”. Or something similar.
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Interesting question - and one I guess I’ve previously taken for granted! And now that I think about it, a city’s energy is really hard to just pinpoint (especially for a non-energy-sensitive bum like me!) and probably because it always varies so much.
One factor I want to take into account is how you visit or reside in the city; a hotel is obviously more crammed than a garden or one’s own home, and this is how I’ve stayed in most of all the cities visited.
London is really a city of contrasts. I’ve been to London the most (as far as Capitals) and I can vouch for the potency of its citizens/natives/residents/whatever I could name them. Some parts of London are (obviously) busier than others, more crowded or more ‘settled’. Nonetheless it is not only restless but atomised too; I think this is what a lot of tourists forget about all the highlights, they can still become lonely from time to time, other times rather comforting. You have to work for your meal (energetically) in London. Economic inequality, austerity and decline are endemic all over and sap the people more and more every day; but there is something there - a “diamond in the rough” - if you can look for it and put the effort in. This isn’t easy, mind. Just try talking more and open up; take it all in regardless. This is why the few sanctuaries dotted all over are some special (there’s shedloads in London; might need to write a list). In general, I think London suffers from imbalanced root, heart and eye/crown energies - these are all expected to be dysfunctional in such a tense environment, but a packed and ailing capital city especially so. The same goes for England as a whole, in some ways.
Paris is similar; homelessness was everywhere when I visited (along with the advice that “you can’t tell if they’re homeless - don’t bother”). Everything was hectic, rushed and generally self-serving; somewhat like a “so what?” attitude in its energy. Could be a heart, root and sacral energy thing.
Stockholm was ‘better’, if you can apply such a term. More feeling about it and actual care. Still a big problem with homelessness, although it wasn’t as visible; never found it why exactly.
Where I live is pleasant, if a bit conflicted. If I had to put my finger on it I would wage a guess on Heart chakra energies being affected; housing developments, stress, complacency, general fear and the lot. Still looking into this recent change though.
And that’s all I can report for now - I’ll be sure to ponder it properly from now on!
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I no longer live there but I kept being pulled back into Orlando, FL’s orbit (over several decades). I’d move somewhere else for a few years and then get drawn back in (3 times, 3 separate and distinct phases of life). The minute I touched down, I was overwhelmed with stress responses (including the first time, when I was 12/13 and just commented that it felt “heavy”).
I think Orlando is very much in the root chakra. Said nicely, it feels very grounded in material reality, said meanly, it felt like an escapist shit-show of high stress survival games primarily influenced by the whims of a single corporation.
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Here is what I felt on average when visiting some of the mentioned cities and others – all my personal opinion only (!).
Only big cities and starting from “higher expressions” and going down to “lower expressions”.
Also important to note is that none of these cities have a healthy fully balanced expression of the respective Chakra – which is in alignment with the whole planetary energy right now, i.e. completely disbalanced.
Or in other words, it means that while those cities feel like they vibrate at a specific Chakra energy, that vibration is in most cases the unbalanced type of this energy.
3rd Eye Chakra / Crown Chakra:
- Glastonbury
Throat Chakra:
- Hong Kong
Heart Chakra:
- Prague
Solar Plexus Chakra:
- Zurich
- Shanghai
- Singapore
Solar Plexus Chakra and on the trajectory of going down to Sacral or Root Chakra:
- L.A.
- NYC
- San Francisco
Sacral Chakra:
- Munich
- Las Vegas
- Tokyo
- Luxor
- Macao
- Milano
- Rome
- Barcelona
- Lisbon
- Budapest
- Lyon
- Krakow
- Amsterdam
- St. Petersburg
- Copenhagen
- Zagreb
Sacral Chakra and on the trajectory of going down to the Root Chakra:
- London
- Paris
Root Chakra:
- Berlin
- Birmingham
- Boston
- Kuala Lumpur
- Frankfurt
- Tel Aviv
- Moscow
- Stuttgart
- Hamburg
- Hannover
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I don’t know much about these chakra level breakdown but places are either masculine or feminine, all cities are masculine, the more fiercely economic with buildings, historic with old architecture etc. the more masculine while country side with creeks etc. is all feminine.
When young, people are after money and power that is why they want to live in cities to build a life and after few decades their bodies get drained and they want to go back to country side where they spend last years in peace.
Extremely masculine people even from a young age don’t like cities and extremely feminine people get bored living in the country side for long.
Even in cities from my experience there are certain pockets which are pleasant while certain pockets are crime ridden and not conducive to live a spiritual life.
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Wouldn’t it be rather the other way around?
For example, extremely masculine people thriving in cities like new NYC (where everything is about competition and success)? And extremely feminine people feeling safe on the countryside from the pressures and fast energies of a city?
No, we need to balance our internal make up with external environment else it will be very very draining. Just like how two masculine or two feminine people can’t be in a relationship for long a masculine person is more at home in a country side while a feminine person enjoys fast paced city life.
Women who are more feminine in general need fast paced city life with fun and frolic often which are available only in cities while more masculine guys who no longer need to pursue money and power, who found their purpose are very comfortable in slow paced country life or even towns.
Feminine people need change and movement at a very rapid pace while masculine people are in touch with their inner stillness and are very comfortable with almost dead country side where hardly anything happens.
Spiritual people who have gone beyond both masculine and feminine are more comfortable in country side but if they can’t and have to live in cities they have their own sacred place within the cities.
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