Reiki glossary

West-African (Akan) symbols that express concepts, proverbs, and wisdom.

Guardian beings of the cosmic record of every soul's journey.

The Shinto sun goddess, source of light and life.

The Buddha of infinite light and boundless compassion.

Angelic helpers who support prosperity and flow.

Angelic helpers who inspire creative expression.

Angelic helpers who restore peace and balance.

Angelic helpers who support recovery and wholeness.

Angelic helpers who illuminate insight and understanding.

Greek goddess of love, beauty, and union.

Archangel of nature, animals, and the earth.

Archangel of unconditional love and inner peace.

Archangel of communication, messages, and guidance.

Archangel of beauty, wisdom, and uplifting thought.

Archangel of sacred geometry and ascension.

The archangel of protection and courage, invoked in energy work to clear fear and cut away draining energies.

Archangel of harmony, justice, and relationships.

Archangel of healing and safe travel.

Archangel of abundance and benevolence.

Archangel of wisdom, light, and clarity.

Western Reiki master credited with founding Raku Kei Reiki and with introducing the Tibetan symbol Dumo into Western Reiki practice.

Enlightened beings who guide humanity's spiritual evolution.

The teacher's sacred ritual (Reiju, 霊授) that opens a student to flow Reiki energy more fully.

The layered field of subtle energy that surrounds and interpenetrates the physical body.

Clearing stagnant or foreign energy from the auric field.

A name credited within the Shamballa Reiki tradition with the Amsui symbol, though little verifiable biographical information about the person is publicly documented.

The Hindu creator god of the Trimurti.

Contemporary American Reiki master and author who founded the Magical Awakening modality and introduced new Reiki symbols and self-attunement methods through his books.

The awakened one; the embodiment of enlightenment and compassion.

Sensing areas of imbalanced or accumulated energy in the body through the hands.

A Reiki Master credited with channeling the Iava (Java) symbol used in William Lee Rand's Karuna Reiki system.

Chakras (चक्र) are the body's energy centers; many Reiki practitioners use them to guide hand placements and balance.

Restoring even, healthy energy flow across the chakra system.

Vocal repetition of mantras or symbol names to raise and sustain vibration.

A state of unconditional divine love and unity awareness.

American author, teacher, and Reiki Master best known for *The Magick of Reiki* and as the founder of the Temple of Witchcraft tradition.

High-vibration light beings associated with crystalline energy.

Using stones to focus, store, and amplify Reiki energy in a session.

A name credited in some Reiki symbol compilations with channeling the “Third Eye Memory” symbol, for whom no verifiable biography is publicly documented.

Sending Reiki across space and time, often using the Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen symbol.

The universal feminine principle of nurturing creation.

Credited with bringing forward the Hosanna clearing symbol, which she gave to Tera Mai founder Kathleen Milner in New York in 1992.

Releasing draining energetic attachments that form between people.

How Reiki energy behaves: charging, discharging, cleansing, balancing, or transmuting.

The living consciousness and spirit of the Earth.

Hindu remover of obstacles and patron of new beginnings.

Gassho (合掌) is the palms-together gesture used in Reiki to center the practitioner and open a session.

The supreme originating consciousness of all that is.

Greek goddess of wisdom and strategic insight.

Vedic goddess who embodies the sacred Gayatri mantra.

Yoruba goddess of love, rivers, and fertility.

The personification of divine wisdom.

Anchoring excess or scattered energy safely back into the earth.

Personal angelic protectors and guides.

The sequence of hand placements used to cover the body during a Reiki treatment.

The body's energetic center of gravity, located just below the navel.

A daily Japanese practice to cleanse and strengthen one's own Reiki energy.

The eternal, wisest aspect of one's own being.

Ascended Master of truth, healing, and science.

A relative and Master student of Hawayo Takata who, with Arthur Robertson, is linked to the Raku Kei system and helped Reiki spread widely in the West.

Reiki Master credited with channeling Violet Flame Reiki and its roughly forty symbols around 2000 while meditating on Quan Yin.

A name credited in some Reiki symbol compilations with channeling the “Perfect Love & Trust” symbol, with no verifiable public biography.

A Reiki Master credited with channeling the Auminaht symbol, documented on Richard Rivard's Threshold Reiki site; little further verifiable biographical information is publicly recorded.

Named in some Reiki symbol compilations as channeler of the Dragonfly symbol, but no credible source corroborates this attribution.

A compassion-centered system developed by William Lee Rand and the ICRT.

A name attached in the ReikiPedia database to the Cellular (Emotional) Healing symbol; no person by this name is documented in any credible Reiki source, and the symbol itself is elsewhere attributed to a channeler named Corey Thorn.

American artist, author, and healer who founded the Tera-Mai™ Reiki and Seichem system and is credited with bringing forward several non-traditional healing symbols.

A Reiki master credited with channeling the Rama symbol, one of the symbols William Lee Rand gathered into his Karuna Reiki system in the mid-1990s.

Ki (気) is the Japanese name for the vital life-force energy believed to flow through all living things.

Dormant spiritual energy said to rest coiled at the base of the spine.

Hindu goddess of abundance, prosperity, and grace.

Ancient light beings who hold the wisdom of Lemuria.

Contemporary author and Reiki Master who, under the pen name Daelyn Wolf, channels and writes a large catalogue of distance-attunement energy systems.

The unbroken teacher-to-student chain tracing a practitioner back to Mikao Usui.

A Reiki symbol channeler associated with the Shamballa Multidimensional Healing tradition, credited with receiving the non-traditional “Heal the Healers” symbol.

A sacred sound or phrase repeated to focus the mind and channel energy.

Reiki Master credited with channeling several early Tera-Mai / Karuna-lineage symbols, including Zonar and Halu, in the early 1990s.

A Reiki practitioner credited within the Tera Mai and Karuna symbol traditions with channeling the Akasha (Gnosa) symbol.

A precision, clinically-oriented approach to applying Reiki for specific conditions.

Energy pathways of the body mapped by Eastern medicine and used in energy healing.

Japanese spiritual teacher regarded as the founder of Reiki, the hands-on healing system from which the principal Reiki symbols descend.

An embodiment of divine compassion, comfort, and grace.

Subtle channels through which life-force energy flows in the body.

Elemental consciousness living within the natural world.

A Reiki Master credited with channeling the Shanti symbol used in the Karuna Reiki system.

American originator of Seichim (Sekhem/SKHM), an energy-healing system born of a 1980 vision in the Great Pyramid and later woven together with Reiki.

A name credited in some Reiki symbol compilations with the “Luma” crystal-balancing symbol, but with no verifiable public biography.

The beloved bodhisattva of compassion — "she who hears the cries of the world" — invoked for mercy and healing.

The universal, spiritual-wisdom aspect of the word Reiki — the higher intelligence guiding the energy.

Letting intuition — the indication of the spirit — guide where the hands are placed.

A Japanese energy-healing practice in which a practitioner channels universal life-force energy through gentle hand placements.

A method of placing written intentions or objects to receive ongoing Reiki.

A practitioner qualified to give attunements and teach Reiki to others.

Universal geometric patterns used as energetic templates for healing.

Ascended Master of the transmuting violet flame.

A great being regarded as a spiritual guardian of the planet.

Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, and the arts.

Vedic solar deity of divine, vivifying power.

A figure within Kathleen Milner's Tera Mai lineage, credited by Milner with giving her the second Hosanna symbol; almost no verifiable biographical information is publicly documented.

An Egyptian-rooted living-light energy healing tradition, often paired with Reiki.

Treating oneself daily — the foundation of a steady Reiki practice.

The dynamic divine feminine creative power.

A multidimensional healing system channeled by John Armitage (Hari Das Melchizedek).

Hindu god of transformation and dissolution.

Energetically cleansing a room, home, or environment of stagnant energy.

Celtic goddess of healing springs.

A name credited in some Reiki symbol compilations with channeling the non-traditional “Anesthesia” symbol, with no verifiable public biography.

Co-developer of Seven Facet Seichim, an early expansion of Patrick Zeigler's Seichim, credited with channeling several of its symbols including the High/Low God symbol of Facet Six.

Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Void — the elemental building blocks of nature.

The five "just for today" precepts Mikao Usui gave as the ethical and spiritual heart of Reiki practice.

The traditional levels of Reiki training, from first degree to master.

Egyptian god of wisdom, writing, and magic.

Gassho, Reiji-ho, and Chiryo — the three foundational practices of Usui Reiki.

A modern blend incorporating Tibetan symbols, mantras, and techniques.

Transforming dense or negative energy into a higher, harmonious form.

The Hindu trinity of creation, preservation, and dissolution.

The all-pervading awareness underlying existence.

The boundless source energy a Reiki practitioner channels and directs.

The original Japanese system of hands-on energy practice founded by Mikao Usui in 1922.

The frequency or pitch of an energy, ranging from dense to high and refined.

A system working with Saint Germain's transmuting violet flame.

Using mental imagery to direct, shape, and amplify healing energy.

The sacred Lakota spirit who brought sacred teachings to the people.

American Reiki master, founder of the International Center for Reiki Training, and developer of the Karuna Reiki and Holy Fire systems.

The Taoist principle of complementary opposites whose dynamic balance keeps qi (life energy) in harmony.

The unmanifested source field of pure potential from which all energy arises.