The Crown Chakra is located at the top of the head. It is not associated with an element, but its colour is violet and/or white. The Crown Chakra is responsible for awareness, intelligence, life purpose, enlightenment, and spiritual connections. It is the chakra where a lot of connection to outer worlds happens (such as angels, spirit guides, etc).
Because of its connection to inspiration, it is most often strongest with writers, composers, musicians, artists – anyone who has artistic inspiration and expression.
Crown Chakra & Doing Readings
When I was practicing and learning, I was taught that when you do an opening of your chakras, you only go up to the brow/third eye chakra and do not open the last one, the crown. The reason for this is that during a reading, we don’t want to start bringing in additional outer-worlds unintentionally. When you open up your Crown Chakra, you are susceptible to receiving information from outer worlds like spirit guides, angels, or archetypes, and this information may skew the reading, because there’s no way to know if it is the reader’s spirit guide showing up, or the sitter’s guide.
So, while there is nothing wrong with opening up your Crown Chakra, I would only do it privately for yourself and not during a reading for another person. You already have your own wisdom, and it’s best to stay with that during readings and not open up too far.
Spirit guides and angels are very sacred and specific to each of us, so I personally would never give a spirit guide reading to someone. This is what I’ve been taught and is what I believe. You cannot validate any evidence for spirit guide readings, which is what we want in a mediumship or intuitive reading, so again, I do not open my Crown Chakra because of this. Instead, there are meditations you can do privately to meet your spirit guide as it is sacred.