The Symbols
How the symbols came together
Rick's first-person account, told in stages. The seven-center images below are early reference stages, not the current nine-center teaching map.
Discovery story
In Rick's words
Prototype: Each stage's narrative will use Rick's supplied first-person text verbatim once provided. No wording has been invented here.
Stage 1 · 2002
The question that started the search
Rick's account for this stage — text pending.
Stage 2 · Early reference
The seven-center figure and the upright Menorah
Rick's account for this stage — text pending.
Stage 3 · 2007
The Menorah rotated sideways beside the figure
Rick's account for this stage — text pending.
Stage 4 · Early reference
Root & Crown, Sacral & Brow, Solar Plexus & Throat — through the heart
Rick's account for this stage — text pending.
Stage 5 · 2009 / 2010
The Windmill Hill formation — recorded 25 May 2009, encountered by Rick in 2010
Rick's account for this stage — text pending.
Stage 6 · Interpretation
The colored ChakraSynergy interpretation
Rick's account for this stage — text pending.
Stage 8 · 2012
Developing and self-publishing ChakraKey
Rick's account for this stage — text pending.
Stage 7 · Interpretation
The seated-figure overlay
Rick's account for this stage — text pending.
Stage 9 · Sound
Exploring sound with Jan Spiller
Rick's account for this stage — text pending.
02 / Your beautiful nature
There is a whole world within you.
ChakraKey brings seven primary chakras into a nine-center map by looking at the heart in three parts: Lower Heart, Center Heart, and Upper Heart.
The symbols offer a way to reflect on what you are feeling, what matters to you, and how you want to respond.
Choose a center to explore
If you are hesitating to share an idea, consider both the confidence to act and the words you want to use. What would a kind, honest next step look like? The Compass invites you to reflect on the Solar Plexus and Throat through the heart.
As we are made - we make all things.
Our connection to Mother Nature asks us to build communities that care for people and the living systems that sustain us.
AS IS THE MICROCOSM, SO IS THE MACROCOSM
A common internal structure invites cooperation. Our shared dependence on Mother Nature gives that cooperation a purpose:care for the whole.
A HOLISTIC VISION FOR HUMANITY
Love at the center. Wisdom in action.
ChakraKey illustrates our Creator’s design for managing dual energies in a loving, intentional way. Its higher vision asks us to build with the same care: foundations that sustain life, a heart that serves the whole, and higher reasoning that guides power.
FOUNDATIONS
Clean air, water, nourishment, and safety.
HEART
Compassion, fairness and belonging.
HIGHER REASONING
Truth, imagination and Earth stewardship.