The 7 Chakra Types
The chakra types describe how activity in different chakras shapes and defines your personality
Meet the Chakra Types
Get to know the 7 Chakra Types and learn about their worldviews, values, tendencies, passions, skills, and unique senses of fulfillment.
Find out their specific challenges, frustrations, and weaknesses and how they can best balance them.
Then use this knowledge for your personal growth and self-discovery.
A quick and easy way of identifying your Chakra Type is by noting which of the descriptions you most identify with upon your first reading. This self-diagnosis can be complemented by taking the test on this website or diving into our dedicated home-study course.
1st Chakra, Root Chakra
The Builders
“Builders” are guided by the instinctual and biological center located in the root chakra. As the name suggests, this chakra type is fully at home in the material, tangible world. Here, Builders like to build solid things, systems, and structures with great patience and attention to detail. They love to lead a steady life of stability, routine, and repetition.
Root chakra personalities are diligent, accurate, serious, and reliable. Their presence in the world gifts us with the wisdom of natural balance, structure, and grounding.
They are most fulfilled by functioning as a part of a structure, serving a community, and spending time with family.
On the shadow side, they can be overly rigid, serious, and afraid of change. They can also be anxious, territorial, and possessive.
To balance their natural tendencies, Builders benefit from energizing activities and foods, accepting and initiating changes, and some measure of intentional adventure and humor.
2nd Chakra, Sacral Chakra
The Artists
“Artists” are guided by the impulsive center located in the sacral chakra. Like the Builders, they are in love with the physical, yet from an entirely different angle. For them, life is a playground of sensual experience and creative expression, a place for peak experiences and experimentation. They are true lovers of life, bubbling with life force, and are deeply connected to life’s juices and colors. Artists love freedom and change above all and have an acute sense of beauty, style, and humor. They possess an artistic and poetic soul, living the full spectrum of feelings, with constant ups and downs, from deep joys to profound depressions.
Artists teach us how to feel and experience deeply and how to lead a life of passion. With art and humor, they celebrate the profound and sometimes messy beauty of life.
On the shadow side, they can be egoistic, instable, and self-destructive and have a hard time with discipline and taking responsibility.
As the name suggests, Artists are fulfilled by intense experiences and artistic and sensual expression of any kind.
Their balance is achieved by reducing disorder, moodiness, and destructive behavior and learning to love and commit.
3rd Chakra, Solarplexus Chakra
The Achievers
Third chakra types, or “Achievers,” are governed by the center of will. They are all about progress and achieving goals. Buzzing with well-targeted energy, they are highly competitive and live from one achievement to another. They love trials of self-overcoming and are always in search of challenges that can make them stand out and excel. They love competition, mastering new things, pushing boundaries, and moving to new heights. Willpower is their main motor, which makes them intensely future-orientated, always thinking of what’s next and what could be “better.” They are always trying, always doing, and always busy. Achievers usually have high energy, and an impressive ability to overcome challenges and obstacles.
Achievers can inspire others to step into their power, define their own goals, and unwaveringly move toward self-realization and victory – even if this requires overcoming adversity.
On the shadow side, they can become so attached to achieving that they never arrive and remain forever dissatisfied. Their focus on their goals can make them unemotional, controlling, aggressive, and arrogant.
Achievers are fulfilled by accepting their workaholic nature and exercising their will by setting and achieving clear goals – especially if they direct their ambitions toward the greater good.
Achievers should be cautious of burning out. To find balance, they need to disengage from action sometimes and dare to relax.
4th Chakra, Heart Chakra
The Caretakers
“Caretakers” are governed by the emotional center, located in the heart chakra. They exist for relationships, and experience themselves through their connection to the “other.” For Caretakers, love is the only fulfillment. Their main passion is to bring people together and to create peace and harmony. They seek to experience and create all forms of felt connection and feel most fulfilled when they serve a greater cause. They are very sensitive and always feel something. Moments of intimacy are not only their happiest, but what makes life feel truly real to them.
Heart chakra personalities are soft, gentle, peace-loving, and relaxing characters, capable of true heart-to-heart communication. They demonstrate the importance of the heart center in human life and the need to cultivate intimacy, acceptance, compassion, and empathy.
On the shadow side, Caretakers can be over-emotional, obsessive, and emotionally dependent on outside validation and approval. They have a profound need to be loved; they sometimes serve (and even sacrifice themselves) only to receive emotional recognition. They can be jealous, possessive, demanding, hypersensitive, and even self-centered. Usually, they don’t possess sufficient drive or ambition of their own.
Caretakers are fulfilled by serving a purpose bigger than themselves, by facilitating intimacy and connection, becoming healers and peacemakers, uniting people, and bringing hope to their lives.
They achieve balance by calming their stormy emotions, developing independence, and finding channels for love and closeness beyond their ultimate other.
5th Chakra, Throat Chakra
The Speakers
“Speakers” are guided by the center of communication located in the throat chakra. Thus, the central passion in life for a Speaker is the act of communication. They love to teach, explain, and translate interesting ideas. They always seek to impact and influence others and find better, clearer, and simpler ways of expressing things. For Speakers, the world is a place for influence, an opportunity for the effective expression of their inner truths and values.
Speakers can inspire us to understand life more deeply, to dare to dream, and to develop inspiring visions and hold on to them. They passionately want to change the world by disseminating inspiring ideas and spreading knowledge.
On the shadow side, Speakers can be manipulative, controlling, ungrounded, uncaring, and stubborn. Dreaming big can easily turn into dreaminess, focusing on the vision without taking the steps toward manifestation.
They are fulfilled by becoming teachers and influencers, inspiring and affecting people’s lives, and forming connections between different people and systems of thought.
Speakers can become balanced by learning to be less controlling and more flexible. They also need to pay attention to people’s feelings and agree to be influenced by others.
6th Chakra, Third Eye Chakra
The Thinkers
“Thinkers” are guided by the intellectual center located in the third eye chakra. Thus, Thinkers have highly intellectual, scientific minds and are usually quite brilliant and unconventional. The world, to them, is a riddle to be solved, and they are most happy when they can think about big ideas. Their greatest happiness is found in seeking wisdom and delving deep into life’s mysteries. This makes them perfect scientists and philosophers, always searching for the “why” of things. Naturally, books are their closest companions. Thinkers live mostly inside their minds and experience life through the richness of thought. They avoid crowds and crowd mentality and can easily stay alone in one room for days on end.
Thinkers reveal to us the ecstasy of deep thinking and the beauty of curiosity, wisdom, and insight.
On the shadow side, thinkers can be arrogant, ungrounded, detached, and isolated. As bodyless observers of life, Thinkers are never really here. They can be helpless in handling physical reality and usually avoid engaging too much. Thinking, for them, is experiencing. They are rather unemotional and asocial and can be highly critical.
Thinkers are fulfilled by thinking, researching, and the quest for understanding. They should not listen to those who tell them to get out of their heads and start living.
However, to balance themselves, they should sometimes leave the house to immerse themselves in nature, physical activity, social interaction, and experiences without thinking.
7th Chakra, Crown Chakra
The Yogis
“Yogis” are governed by the spiritual center located in the crown chakra. They embody this chakra of transcendence that connects humans with the infinite, beyond the world of form. For Yogis, life is nothing but a play of spirit. They are purely interested in the inner journey, passionately drawn to the realms of consciousness. They are the rare true mystics who dedicate their lives to meditation, prayer, and the mystical dimensions of life. Thus, they consider mundane life a distraction and are quite uninterested in all that is considered an accomplishment in it. In essence, Yogis feel they do not belong to this plane and are most happy in states of transcendence and self-absorption.
Yogis encourage us to step aside from the rat race, enter meditation and silence, and contact with life’s unchanging essence.
On the shadow side, seventh chakra personalities can become indifferent, unproductive, irresponsible, and almost anti-life. They tend to be vulnerable and hypersensitive. Since they perceive the demands of human life as annoying, they seek to avoid all conflict, challenge, and worldly commitments. They hope that others can do the work for them, and this often ends in poverty and dependency.
Yogis find fulfillment by wholeheartedly following their inner calling to focus on the divine and their inner journey.
They should, however, balance themselves by appreciating the spiritual value of life, remaining grounded, and accepting certain responsibilities.