An Interview with the "Queen of Chakras", Ambika Wauters
Interview by Connie Hill

Ambika Wauters has spent many years in Europe and England studying and working with homeopathy and color. Her books include Homeopathic Color, Chakras and Archetypes, The Chakra Book and The Angel Oracle Deck. She now lives on Widbey Island, WA and travels around the country and the world teaching chakra, homeopathic and color healing workshop.

Connie: Hi Ambika. Can you tell me about your work?

Ambika: I'm a classical homeopath trained in Britain, I treat conditions such as sterility, pregnancy, menopause, emotional imbalance and auto immune deficiencies. Twelve years ago I developed homeopathic color remedies. My book Homeopathic Color Remedies, about these remedies has been sold around the world. I also teach this in the US, Australia and Europe. Teaching is more and more my focus. Then there's my writing. I've written eight books on the chakras and 12 books all together. I'm known as the Queen of Chakras.

C: Yesterday, I pulled the Book of Charkas and was excited about how you put the chakras and archetypes together.

A: My second book, Chakras and Archetypes goes into detail about that subject. It's on Caroline Myss' recommended reading list. Caroline put me on the map with that book. She was big influence and she made the archetypes a practical reality for me. So I took it to the next step which was to link the archetypes to the energy fields. My work puts the chakras together with one positive and one negative archetype. As you take responsibility for your archetype you become empowered and as a result you have more energy. For the root chakra the negative archetype is the victim and the positive archetype, the mother. The book gives meditations and exercises to transform archetypes to a higher level. Even the positive archetypes need to be transformed to reach the next level of empowerment.

C: So how do you work with the archetypes?

A: You have people who may be very good mothers, but there comes a time when a mother needs to stop mothering and become a teacher or a healer. Another thing about these archetypes is that they go from being externally controlled to being internally controlled. The victim is totally dependent on the external world. The have no resources of their own. When you get to the crown chakras the negative archetype is the egotist which is a highly empowered archetype. Egotists don't acknowledge that the realm of spirit is actually what's getting things done. The guru which is the highest archetype is totally self-empowered and self-responsible.

C: So how does illness fall into this?

A: Good question. I've had to address that question from many points of view. Sometimes it seems to be a sacred contract we may take on to do dark work others do not want to do and sometimes illness are a reflection of genetic predisposition which has got to be dealt with. You can do all the behavioral and mental work, and therapy that has to be done to clear out a lot of the negativity from our families, communities and churches. If you don't work through the genetic predisposition you're left with a miasm that will affect your behavior and energy, and ultimately bring disease states to the surface. As a homeopath I work first to clear the genetic predisposition. As psychotherapist I clear the negative attitudes that go with it. Each of the 5 miasm have behaviors and certain levels of negativity associated with it. From beliefs of not being or doing enough, to thinking we are superman and can do everything and have mach-2 nervous systems that can sustain overwork and overload, to destructive tendencies like suicide, violence and destruction, these are all part of the genetic predisposition. I just sent off a proposal for a book called How We Heal which talks about the genetic predisposition. Unless you change that you can't do anything.

C: What is genetic predisposition?

A: Well, it's the environment that our cell lives in. It's the functioning capacity of the cell. It's not external environment it's internal. I'm a tubercular miasm, I always take illness on the chest. I'm not going to get bone deterioration or ulcerations or blindness. My issues are about my right to be here and how I want to be here and the stability I need in order to sustain my creativity.

C: How do flower essences fit in.

A: They work on the emotional body and are wonderful. Some, like the Australian Bush essences are strong enough to turn pathology around.

C: You were talking about your miasm. What are some of the other miasm qualities?

A: One is underfunctioning which is common to the human race. It's manifested in a basic belief in ones unworthiness. Certain skin diseases are also part of this miasm.

C: So skins irritations would be examples of that.

A: It's an example of underfunctioning. The cells are not clear enough to produce what they need to produce. They are undernourished and don't have the ability to utilize necessary nutrients.

C: Do you find that as we grow and change it impacts the archetype? Say like the mother is mother while her kids are growing up and then...

A: ...she has to change her archetype or she is going to get really neurotic. You've got to be willing to change your archetype all the time. A girl who is a mother stays a girl and doesn't embrace the mother archetype, who stays a girl and stays a child. The other end of the spectrum is the mother whose child has left who doesn't transform her life into something else. So life is asking us all the time to transform our archetypes.

C: I keep coming back to myself. Both of my daughters are in their 30's now. I thought I had totally let go of them and I'm finding that as I go through my second Saturn return I still have more to work through. All of this structure stuff is coming up and it's manifesting as workaholism.

A: Me too. I face that all the time! One of the things that comes up around my illnesses is oppression. I found my divine female was oppressed by the masculine part of me that overworks.

C: I do a lot of my work at home and it's great, but it's sort of a catch 22. I can work 18 hours straight! What it comes back to is my personal worth.

A: I find that too. So, ok how do I have a life. I like being in my home and I like my work and I like writing particularly. When I realized that I had oppressed this feminine in me I decided to begin wearing skirts and to start fixing my hair and putting on makeup and going out, even if it's only to a concert or a film. I'm not sure what it is all about, but I do know that I'm going to have to put the feminine in balance with my strong warrior. There is no map for a divine feminine. How do I create a social life that is compatible, I haven't got a clue. I guess it's time to start cultivating a strong goddess archetype which is pretty much based on wisdom cultivated from our life experiences. That is the thing--to cultivate wisdom out of the hard times and challenges. That is the best thing about cronehood. These chakras don't open until the time frame is ready. Sometimes it is about working in your garden and making soup. And other times its about learning how to make the connection to the social world.

C: Tell me about your Angel Oracle Deck.

A: That deck has sold almost 200,000 and worldwide, is in ten languages. It has wings of it's own. It may sound funny going from angels to chakras and homeopathy, but they are all part of the same vibration.

C: To me, the angels and the homeopathy are the support to work through the chakra issues.

A: That's right. We need good energetic medicine that is compatible with our higher consciousness. We need a firm faith in the spiritual realm to know that we are being supported in our growth and healing.

C: Ambika, thank you for talking to me.

Ambika's website is www.ambikawauters.com.

Interviewed by Connie Hill, who is in charge of events and the website at New Renaissance Bookshop.