Let’s review all we have learned by looking at a table graphic of these liberating and manifesting, waxing, and waning moon chakra currents. Here, we review our waxing moon shadows and rights on the liberating current and our waning moon manifesting current sense of being.

The following table gives a visual overview of the approximate 29.5 days of the lunar month. Here, we use each month’s lunar cycle more consciously, opening ourselves up to potentials that we may otherwise not be able to see, acknowledge, or use to bring ourselves into alignment with the best, most functional version of who we are capable of being.

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Time for some clarification and Q&A

As we begin to dive into the monthly moon chakra calendar shown on the previous page, or even better, make use of the daily Moon Chakras App, we will begin to feel the benefits in our lives fairly soon.

Some of the most common questions that arise are great opportunities for understanding this beautiful awareness tool begins here. As we ask questions and get clarification, we recognize more of the profoundly beautiful life pattern at our fingertips.

Question 1, “Why do we spend more than one lunar day on each chakra?”

The chakras associated with each lunar day are carefully mirrored to the percentage of the moon’s light as it builds and fades each month, correlating with its pull on the tides .

Each new moon will spend approximately 3-4 days at the root chakra as it moves from waning new moon to waxing new moon (shifting chakra currents), helping us release and renew. Each full moon will spend approximately 3-4 days at the crown chakra (again, shifting chakra currents), helping us fully awaken and connect.

Each of the Quarter Moons, where light and shadow are equally split (halfway between new and full), will spend three days at the heart chakra, helping you balance the space between new/root and full/crown chakra energy.

Based on the light of both waxing and waning gibbous and crescent moons, there will be two days at each chakra in between. So again, each chakra day relates to the percentage of moonlight reflected onto us, pulling the wavelength and frequency of the tides on Earth (and in our bodies) just as the chakras relate to the vibration of our visible light-color spectrum.

Question 2, “Why don’t we have the same lunar days that we have in a calendar month, and how does a lunar day differ from a calendar day?”

Unlike a 24-hour solar day, a lunar day lasts 24 hours and 50 minutes. This occurs because the moon revolves around the Earth in the same direction that the Earth is rotating on its axis. The chakras assigned to each day will extend beyond just one calendar day because this app tracks the chakras by the light of the lunar day. This is also why we will spend more than one calendar day on each chakra. Some days during the lunar month, the light builds from a new moon or fades from a full moon more gradually than others. The Moon Chakras App fully considers and calculates this for you, so you are always working with the correct chakra energy by the percentage of lunar light as it fades and builds every approximately 29.5 days each lunar month.

Because there are 29.5 days each lunar month, these cycles will slightly vary from year to year.

Question 3: “What are the Chakras again?”

The chakras originate in the tantric traditions of yoga (mantras, meditation, practice, ritual observance) and are considered the energy centers where our vital life force is held. Chakra is a Sanskrit word that means disk or wheel, like the circle of a blossom. In fact that’s what ancient yogi seers perceived the chakras as over 2500 years ago.

In their meditations, these holy men saw lotus flowers, each in the seven colors of the visible light color spectrum, symbolizing the hidden wisdom for connecting, where they perceived alignment pathways between heaven-earth, yin-yang, merging of the lower physical experience with the higher realms of the spirit of intentional flowing abundance.

From the way I personally have come to perceive them in my 30 years of working with them, the chakras are laced together (like a winding vine), sprouting outward from the Sushumna that forms our inner light. This somewhat resonates with a DNA strand. Each chakra holds the Fibonacci spiral found throughout flowers and nature.

Anodea Judith, PhD, describes the chakras in her book “Wheels of Life” as centers for the reception, expression, and assimilation of life-force energy within every human. I love this description as well.

Question 4, “Why are Moons and Chakras related again?”

Like our inhale and exhale, two channels connect and move energy through the chakras. The Liberating Current and the Manifesting Current. These two currents begin with our drive upward to become more aware and awaken the healing we ourselves need to show up and do (Liberating Current) and end with our ability to allow divine flow to take us beyond what is possible on our own (Manifesting Current).

The liberating chakra current energy is also what is happening with the moon on its waxing phase from new to full as energy builds.

The manifesting chakra current is what is already happening to our energy as the light of the moon moves through its waning phase, naturally bringing us into alignment with divine flow that pours down through us when we have done everything we can for that lunar month.

Question 5, “How does the constellation or sign of the Zodiac affect the Moon and Chakras?”

I will go into the Signs that the moon moves through each month in a companion book to this Moon Chakras book in the near future, but to get you started in understanding an

expansive and vast astrological study, let’s begin with a short preview here: The moon will orbit the earth once every

29.5 days. The twelve constellations are huge star patterns (called Signs) far off in space that determine how we clock and calendar our seasons on Earth.

They are included in the daily Moon Chakras App, where the Sign card gives you the seasonal energy that the moon is in each day, providing additional insight into which daily seasonal feel the Moon Chakras are moving through.

The moon takes approximately 2.5 days to move through each sign every month, as the Sun takes approximately 30 days in each sign each month.

We see our moon only because it reflects the sun’s light, so the moon’s transiting sign also reflects its interaction with the Sign the sun is in. For example, the four primary moon phases are:

New Moon—with the Sun and Moon together in the same sign, progressing in each of the twelve signsover the course of a year.

A First Quarter Moon is when the moon squares the Sun in a Sign at a 90° square angle. This is where, almost like squaring off in a boxing match, neither Sign/energy has

thrown a punch. Here, both are assessing internally what is not working and processing the building internal stress that comes with anticipating what is coming next.

A Full Moon is when the Sun and Moon are in signs 180° away from each other, creating the energy offull opposition. Here, there are punches thrown, as oppositions tend to bring up and out a lot of energy.

A Last Quarter Moon is when the Sun and Moon are again squaring off in two Signs at a 90° angle, as the Moon is waning toward new again. This always happens 180° away from the first quarter moon phase. Here, they are assessing and doing inner work on what surfaced outwardly on the full moon’s energy the week before.

We end the Lunar month with a reunion, returning to oneness again on the new moon; only by the next month will the Sun and Moon be in a new Sign (because the Sun progresses through the twelve Signs of the Zodiac every twelve months).

From here, the pattern continues again, with the Sun and Moon moving through an intricate dance through the seasons of every year, between light and shadow, as they both move through the constellation signs at different speeds from our perspective here on Earth.

The sign card on the Moon Chakras app will help us track the Signs (or seasonal feel) the moon is transiting each day. This information gives us extra insight into how we expand our awareness and alignment of the Moon Chakra energy that is most beneficial to each of us for that day.

Question 6, “What are my two Power Days Each Month?”

Each month, there are two days when the moon transits extreme distance points in its orbit in relation to Earth. The Apogee is the furthest the moon will be in its orbit around the Earth, and the Perigee is the day that the moon is closest to the Earth each month.

When the moon crosses these points on dates that coincide with a New or Full moon, it is considered a “Super Moon” (Perigee) or a “Micro Moon” (Apogee). This is where the moon from Earth appears much larger or smaller than it typically does.

It is good to remember that regardless of whether the moon is crossing its perigee or apogee point coincides with a new or full moon, there will be two days in its orbit each month when the moon reaches this point.

The Moon on its Apogee (furthest from Earth) will always align with something called the Lilith point in space. This is

where our chakras receive a momentary infusion of kundalini energy that can bring up internal intensity related to issues surrounding our personal power and how we have had to fight within ourselves to know who we really are. It can feel like someone is forcing a tube of awakening our sense of inner rage at not making peace with our inner power and valuing how we learn to use it.

The Moon on its Perigee (closest to Earth) puts us between the moon and the Lilith point in space, creating opposing energy. This is where our chakras receive a momentary infusion of kundalini energy that can bring up intense energy from what is going on in our outer experience. This relates to how we have had to fight for our value with external circumstances around us. It can feel like someone is forcing a tube of awakening that power. If used unconsciously, we can rage at those around us more easily.