Manipura.

Manipura is the solar plexus chakra, the third of the seven main centres in the classical chakra system. The Sanskrit name means "city of jewels," a reference to the bright, fiery quality the old texts attributed to it.

It sits at the soft hollow above the navel and is pictured as a ten-petalled yellow lotus. In modern crystal practice it is the seat of personal will: confidence, decisiveness, drive, and the capacity to back yourself in a room. When practitioners describe this chakra as depleted, they usually mean burnout, people-pleasing, or a stretch of life where the self has gone quiet under other people's voices.

Stones favoured here are mostly yellow and gold. Citrine, pyrite, tiger's eye, yellow jasper, and golden calcite are the common companions. The work is rarely about pushing harder. More often it is about restoring the basics that fuel will in the first place: enough sleep, enough food, enough quiet, and enough small wins to remind the system that it can act and be met. Stones for manipura are kept where they will be touched: a desk, a pocket, a coat lapel.