Shaking in My Roots Again

A family was murdered in their home last weekend. The horror and senselessness of their deaths have dominated the headlines for the last couple of days.

Shaking in My Roots

Image by AndyKali, available under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

During a septum dies horribilus I completed an assignment on the psychological aspects of the chakras. As part of that assignment we had to choose a chakra and explain how it related to our personality. At the time, I was drawn to mooladhara—the root chakra—the chakra with the basic qualities related to “security of the individual and material posessions”. ^[1]