The Seven Chakras by Phil Lewis – Liberty Puzzles – approx. 94/661 pieces

I mean, what is there left to say? Today’s word from the thesaurus is striking; this is a striking image, and the puzzle that goes along with it is complex and amazing.

This is the 6th chakra, Ajna, and it is the third eye chakra.

These puzzles are wonderful to work with – compelling even – and the quality is amazing. They’re more expensive than some, but in my mind they’re worth every penny. I know they’re not for everyone, and they’re not in everyone’s budget. But I don’t feel bad about asking for this for my birthday, it makes me happy. Once a year on my birthday or for Christmas isn’t too much to ask for a little bit of joy. 😊

I must confess that although it looks like there are pieces that will make an eagle, I wasn’t able to figure it out. I got the bottom half of it assembled, but couldn’t get the entire thing constructed. There is definitely an eagle there somehow, I just couldn’t figure out the whole thing. I’m blaming pain and exhaustion and my doped up brain; being on painkillers 24/7 seems to have whittled away at my intelligence.

To be honest I felt a little defeated by it. It was a bad day. But I’m not giving up!

I may pull out this puzzle (I’ve stored each one separately wrapped up in tissue paper) and give it a go on a day where I’m feeling like all cylinders are firing. If I figure it out I’ll post it, I promise. And if after several tries it still isn’t coming together – I can always email Liberty to see if they can give me some help. 🦅

Even without a multipiece eagle there were still plenty of whimsies to pull and show. I really do love these puzzles. 💟

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*EDIT*

After corresponding with Liberty Puzzles, there are two updates to this puzzle and the story of the whimsy I couldn’t assemble…

Update #1

Update #2

The Seven Chakras by Phil Lewis – Liberty Puzzles – approx. 94/661 pieces

This is the fifth chakra, Vishudda, the throat chakra. Isn’t it beautiful? I absolutely adore the look of this one, it’s …. breathtaking. In my opinion Phil Lewis creates unbelievably magnificent art. 🦁

I need to find different adjectives to describe these puzzles; when I look at them the only word that comes to mind is stunning. You’ve heard that already – a lot. I’ll pick a new word each day for the rest of the puzzles.

Spectacular. That’s our word for today. This one is spectacular; the detail, the color, everything about it. You can see in the detail of this image why each puzzle deserves it’s own post. I couldn’t just show a picture of all seven of the puzzles together and bypass the amazing detail in each image. This is one of my favorites; but honestly, they’re all pretty …. spectacular.

So much detail and care put into the piece shapes and making both regular and multipiece whimsies. What a great team they have at Liberty Puzzles! Three more yoga poses, more bits and baubles.

The piece shapes themselves and the design of each puzzle are as much a piece of art as the image itself.

When looking through the pieces after first opening the puzzle, I found the “leg” and said it must be part of a larger character, but after hubby looked at it for a bit he showed me that it was someone laying on the floor with their legs up (shoulder stand?). Very cool!

The lion whimsy took me FOREVER to figure out. I knew he was there, but working out how it all went together required a bit a brain power (which I am sometimes lacking). It’s something else though, isn’t it? The use of negative space here is ….. spectacular. And boy, was I proud of myself when it finally clicked – I figured it out!

Each of these puzzles is truly amazing! I feel as though my use of exclamation marks is getting excessive when writing about these puzzles.

But, damn! They’re so incredible! 😎

The Seven Chakras by Phil Lewis – Liberty Puzzles – approx. 94/661 pieces

This is the fourth chakra, Anahata, the heart chakra. It was the first one to be assembled because of it’s absolutely stunning color – STUNNING. The deep, bright color of this one jumped right out at me before the sorting even began, and I knew it would be the first one to be put together. Such a beautiful image!

You can see at the points of the flower around the edges that there are places that look as though something should fit inside, and some that look like pegs. I believe that somehow all seven of the puzzles connect together. An attempt was made once they were all finished, but sometimes the logic is not strong with me, and this was one of those times.

I will be putting these together again though, so there’s always another chance. 😊

So much happening! You couldn’t tell from the front, it doesn’t even look as though it has as many pieces as it actually does. I just can’t say enough how impressed I am with whoever at Liberty designed this puzzle and it’s pieces. Amazing!

More yoga poses – when I was younger I could have done all of those. Not anymore. Ouch! I could have pulled out the flower in the center to show with the whimsies, but honestly I was tired and hurting at the time and it seemed like too much work. And I forgot to flip the chakra symbol around so it isn’t shown backwards.

Additionally, as I’m typing up this post I see two extra symmetrical pieces that should have been added to the stag. Sorry guys, I really messed up on this one. 😢

The Seven Chakras by Phil Lewis – Liberty Puzzles – approx. 94/661 pieces

This is the third chakra, Manipura, the solar plexus chakra. There’s so much information out there regarding chakras, it was all just too much to comb through for these posts; so I settled with putting them into the correct order, giving their names, and what part of the body it relates to. It’s more about the puzzles themselves than the subject matter – at least it is for me.

This is my least favorite image of the seven; I’m not sure I could tell you why specifically – it’s the colors I think. I still appreciate the artwork though; Phil Lewis’ work makes for fantastic puzzles and his aesthetic really speaks to me. It’s a good thing I’m not completely in love with every single image of his, otherwise my wallet would have much less money in it!

I’m thoroughly impressed with whomever designed the pieces for these puzzles, they’re absolutely amazing. I’ve started and stopped writing several sentences trying to “verbalize” how what they did with this design is so ridiculously astounding, but none of them seem to capture what I’m trying to get across to you. I’ve given up. These puzzles are exquisite in every way. That’s the best I can do.

Three more yoga poses, the sun, tons of flowers, and a multipiece ram. Beautiful! I even know the names of two of these poses – the plank, and downward dog. My physical therapist used to make me do the plank in therapy; and even though I’ve never taken yoga I somehow know the name of downward dog. It’s just general knowledge in my brain from goodness knows where.

Are you all enjoying these posts? I certainly hope so!

This is the second chakra, Svadhishthana, the sacral chakra. It was also the last one I completed. The edges of this puzzle were quite difficult for me, even when there were only edges left. Thankfully hubby came in at the end when I was feeling stupid and like my brain didn’t work – and he finished up the edges for me. My hero! 💖

It may seem when you look at the all the completed puzzles together that they would be easy to sort, and some were. But this one and the elephant – the colors around the edges seemed very close to each other and I had many pieces in the wrong pile. So even though they are the first and second chakras, they were the sixth and seventh to be completed.

These aren’t wooden puzzles where the piece shapes are very evident in the finished image, therefore you cannot tell how much is going on within the pieces until you see the back…

Here we have three yoga poses, the symbol for this chakra, and lots of other baubles and doohickeys. It was a more complicated assembly than it seems if you only see the front of the puzzle. You can also see some symmetrical shapes that tell you there’s another image that you can make with the pieces. Before you scroll down can you find all the pieces to make two fish? 🐠🐠

The fish took me a few minutes, and I probably could have pulled out the flower around the chakra symbol too, but you can’t always see what shapes will form until you’re finished – and I still had to take a picture of all the puzzles together! So with each puzzle that was finished I had to carefully take out the pieces to show you the whimsies and then put them back in when I was done. It seemed like too much work to pull out that flower, so I didn’t. My apologies.

These puzzles seriously taxed my brain! I love that they weren’t too easy, but honestly this particular puzzle seemed to have me over a barrel at the end, thank goodness my husband came to the rescue. (I would have gotten there eventually, but it was so sweet that he wanted to help) 🤗