In the new awareness meditations it talks about spinning the chakras clockwise, but clockwise in orientation to what? From the top of your head? From the perspective of the funnel shape of the chakra? The chakras point in different directions so clockwise could easily be a different orientation for those that point up and those that point down and clockwise of course depends on the perspective your are visualizing from.
Is there a rule for what clockwise means for the chakras?
Hello. The clockwise rotation would be the same irrespective of which perspective you approach or which direction they point towards (up or down). You may either visualize "seeing" the chakra from the top of your head and spin the funnel (if is the chrown chakra, that is), or visualize looking at yourself with the chakra spinning etc., or with lower chakras, from Heart chakra and down, I normally lower my head and try to move attention to the area where the chakra is and try to will it to spin, this may not necessarily be felt always but it is the attention and focus that matter.
The clockwise rotation involves spinning the chakra from left to right, as the second hand/needle on a clock (and the other hands) which always moves towards right, but of course far faster, as fast as you can visualize or will. If you have a pyramid-shaped object at hand you spin it clockwise, from left to right, in both "perspectives" (with the tip pointing either up or down), it would be exactly the same for the chakras.
This question as arised before.
For me, clockwise is clockwise, no matter the orientation because the chakra is fully dimensional when visualizing.
When I rotate my base chakra, for example, I perceive from the outside in (I am looking at my body and the chakra spinning). I can walk around my body and the chakra remains spinning clockwise (even though if I looked from beneath myself up, the base of the pyramid appears counterclockwise). The whole chakra is rotating clockwise.