07/11/2025
OM the jewel in the crown.
I have really enjoyed hanging out with my crown chakra recently, which feels like a strange statement to make, but it’s true. Ever since I had my aura and chakras read by Roberta at Aura Alchemy I’ve been so much more aware of their presence, their needs. The lower chakras feel strong and well oiled and are turning over like cogs in a ship’s engine quite efficiently, grounded in the corporal realms of life. But the higher chakras, Ajna and Sahasrara are reading as being weaker and more deficient, and I can feel it if I’m honest. Being somewhat stuck in the physical demands of life, navigating kids and finances, material grit and earth, the foundations of everything that need to be solid and established to make space for the family to grow and evolve. Clean shin pads, snacks for swimming, money for the bake sale it all helps to keep me quite anchored into the building, growing and doing of life. But being here so much has made me realise how much I have been neglecting my spirituality which feels beyond ironic announcing that as a yoga teacher but it’s true. I hope Brene Brown will see that confession worthy of a few marbles in the jar. And so, following my insightful consult with Roberta I have been so much more aware of my crown chakra and its needs. I have been chanting a lot more OM and have felt and embodied just how much the crown chakra needs the OM, it’s like watering the dahlias with a super nutritious plant food. I have realised also how the default tendency to reach for the cell phone and scroll is like vitriol to the crown chakra- the crown who’s essence is to feel complete unity, connection and belonging to the cosmos becomes so depleted by the nature of scrolling and all that comes with it- tragedy, rejection, the woes of self comparision and feeling like we are missing out on so much life, exotic trips and gatherings with friends. So I’ve been doing less scrolling and more strolling, strolling through the woods, in nature, in daydreams, in my imagination, and in the vast, infinite expanse of OM. The crown chakra needs the OM like the sun needs the sky.
The jewel in the crown, the light of existence.
Photo credits , , The Empress, St Jude- artist unknown.
