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May/June 2003 Living Now
An Interview with the Queen of Chakras, Ambika Wauters

by  Connie Hill

Ambika Wauters

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 workshops.

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 autoimmune 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.

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

Ambika: 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.

Connie: So how do you work with the archetypes?

Ambika: 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.

Connie: So how does illness fall into this?

Ambika: 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 is 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; but, 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 miasms has 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. Unless you change that you can't do anything.

Connie: What is genetic predisposition?

Ambika: 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.

Connie: What are some of the other miasm qualities?

Ambika: 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. 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.

Connie: Do you find that as we grow and change it impacts the archetype

Ambika: So life is asking us all the time to transform our archetypes.

Connie: Tell me about your Angel Oracle Deck.

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

Connie: Ambika, thank you for talking to me and I look forward to seeing you in Portland in June.