Sacral Chakra Essential Oils to Balance the Second Chakra

The swadhisthana (second or sacral) chakra relates to fluidity, creativity, emotions, and sexuality. If this chakra is out of balance, both creative/artistic and sexual expression can be either overt and excessive or repressed and hidden. Sacral chakra essential oils can help restore balance.

What is Second Chakra Balance?

A balanced second chakra lets you enjoy compassion, friendliness, sensuality, vitality, sexual expression, the ability to feel satisfied, and a sense of bondedness, according to Llewellyn's Complete Book of Chakras.

• Symptoms of a deficient (too little energy) second chakra are rigidity of both body and beliefs, fear of change, frigidity, self-denial, and lack of social skills, desire, and creativity.
• Symptoms of an excessive (too much energy) second chakra are addictions, irresponsibility, being overemotional, invasiveness towards others, seductive manipulation, codependency, and obsessive attachments.

What Are the Best Oils for the Sacral Chakra?

The best sacral chakra essential oils are usually less dense than first chakra oils and include many of the aphrodisiac oils, according to Subtle Aromatherapy. Choose essential oils that calm emotions and ease fear of change.

Aromatherapy and Subtle Energy Techniques recommends the following essential oils for the sacral chakra:

• Cardamom promotes creativity and sensuality. Helps us see the goodness in other people.
• Coriander supports creativity, spontaneity, and passion and promotes warmth and optimism in relationships.
• Dill encourages emotional balance and harmony.
• Geranium promotes feminine creativity and relaxed spontaneity and helps balance mood swings.
• Jasmine nurtures love, joy, and harmony; supports creativity, artistic development, sensitivity, and sensuality; and connects spirituality and sexuality.
• Juniper helps clear away emotional negativity and protects from unpleasant emotional influences.
• Nutmeg supports creativity and also emotional warmth and comfort in relationships.
• Orange promotes joy and positivity in relationships and radiant warmth in sexuality.
• Rose boosts creativity, passion, and the love of beauty and also connects sexuality with the heart.
• Ylang ylang encourages emotional flexibility and promotes sensuality. The oil helps dispel fear, deepen relationships, and unite emotional and sexual natures.

The book includes other essential oils and their effects on swadhisthana, along with common imbalances and symptoms of congested energy, with suggested sacral chakra balancing oils. I recommend this book for the most comprehensive guidance about essential oils for chakras.

Blends of Sacral Chakra Essential Oils

Here's a sampling of blends of essential oils for sacral chakra balance suggested by Aromatherapy and Subtle Energy Techniques.

• Mists: To make a mist, drop essential oils into a 4-ounce dark-color mister bottle. Fill with distilled water. Shake well before each use. To use, spray around the chakra area or around your body in general. Avoid eyes and other sensitive areas.
• Anointing oils: To make an anointing oil, blend oils and store in a small dark-color glass bottle with a cap. To use, apply 2 to 3 drops around the chakra.

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To support safe, loving, and authentic sensuality:

Mist

• 5 drops rose essential oil
• 5 drops sandalwood essential oil

Anointing Oil

• 2 drops sandalwood essential oil
• 1 drop rose essential oil
• 1 tablespoon jojoba

To calm and balance emotions:

Mist

• 4 drops Roman or German chamomile essential oil
• 4 drops lavender essential oil
• 2 drops geranium essential oil

Anointing Oil

• 1 drop Roman or German chamomile essential oil
• 1 drop lavender essential oil
• 1 drop geranium essential oil
• 1 tablespoon jojoba

More Second Chakra Anointing Blends

Balancing Anointing Blend

• 1 tablespoon jojoba or olive oil
• 1 drop geranium essential oil to balance emotions
• 1 drop jasmine absolute to promote passion and sensuality
• 1 drop sandalwood essential oil to promote trust and devotion in relationships

Source: Aromatherapy Anointing Oils

Stimulating Anointing Blend

• 2 teaspoons avocado oil
• 12 drops blood orange essential oil
• 4 drops vanilla absolute
• 3 drops pink pepper essential oil

Use to anoint the second chakra. To use this blend for full massage, halve the amount of essential oils.

Source: Essential Oils in Spiritual Practice (This book suggests agarwood, blood orange, German chamomile, cardamom, galangal, jasmine, massoia bark, neroli, patchouli, pink pepper, red spikenard, vanilla, and white lotus for the second chakra.)

Creativity Spray

• 4 drops neroli essential oil
• 3 drops melissa essential oil
• 3 drops sweet orange essential oil
• 3 drops vitamin E oil
• 1 tablespoon witch hazel
• 2 ounces (4 tablespoons) distilled water

Add all ingredients to a dark-color spray bottle. Shake well.

Shake well before each use. Use as a room spray or mist around your body, avoiding eyes and other sensitive areas.

Note: Before spraying on fabric, spot test to make sure the blend doesn't damage the fabric. Store in a cool, dark place for up to three months. 

Source: Essential Oils for Emotional Wellbeing (Suggests bergamot, hibiscus, jasmine, lemon, mandarin, melissa, neroli, orange, and rose as sacral chakra essential oils.)

Sacral Bath Salts

• 10 drops jasmine absolute
• 5 drops neroli essential oil
• 5 drops rose essential oil
• 2 tablespoons carrier oil
• 5 drops vitamin E oil
• 3 cups salts (your choice, such as sea, Epsom, or pink Himalayan)

1. Blend all the oils in a small glass container.
2. Place the salts in a dark-color glass container (minimum 3-cup size) that has a tight-fitting lid.
3. Stir the oil blend into the salts.
4. Place lid on container and let sit in a cool, dark place for 24 hours.
5. Stir mixture again.
6. Use 1/2 cup in a bath. Store salts in a cool, dark place for up to 3 months.

Source: Essential Oils for Emotional Wellbeing

Balancing Blend

Drop these oils into a 2-ounce dark-color bottle:

• 3 drops sweet orange essential oil
• 3 drops jasmine absolute
• 2 drops sandalwood essential oil
• 2 drops cardamom essential oil
• 1 drop patchouli essential oil
• 1 drop ylang ylang essential oil

Fill the remainder of the bottle with carrier oil.

Apply a little of the blend to pulse points, sacrum, and lower abdomen.

Source: April Kurtyka, IAC. "Aromatherapy for Chakra Balancing." NAHA Aromatherapy Journal, Summer 2014.2, p. 15.

Further Reading

Chakras: Energy Centers of Transformation by Harish Johari, an Indian author who was a Tantric scholar. 

Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self by Anodea Judith.

Vibrational Healing Through the Chakras by Joy Gardner covers color therapy, sound therapy, and crystals in addition to essential oils. (Bookshop | Amazon)

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