Everyday Practices for Earthlings
This is the final post in our series on the Vasudhara Chakra. In the first three, we introduced what it is, what it feels like when it is blocked, and what it feels like when it is flowing well. This post is about tending the flow — the small, everyday, sometimes very ordinary things we can do to re-open the connection with Earth.
When the Vasudhara or Earth Star Chakra Is Flowing: Signs of Being Earthed
The most immediate marker of a flowing Vasudhara (Earth Star Chakra) is a quiet, inherent sense of belonging to Earth — not the belonging you earn by fitting in or performing well, but the older, deeper belonging of just being here, as an Earthling.
It can feel like:
A felt-sense that you are an Earthling — that your place here does not need to be justified or earned;
A strong sense of being anchored in your body and in place … the body as home, not as something you are renting or resisting;
An ease with settling into new environments — new houses, new cities, new landscapes greet you rather than resist you;
A sense of being humanly-divine and divinely-human — your divine and human experiences of self held as one thing, rather than split into two conflicting things.
A flowing Vasudhara Chakra does not need proof of belonging. It carries belonging as its foundation.
When the Vasudhara Is Blocked: Signs of Being Un-Earthed
This post is about what happens when that "not quite arriving" becomes a chronic state. When the Vasudhara flow is choked, dimmed, or shut down, it rarely announces itself with a dramatic symptom. Instead it hums in the background of everything. It shapes how the world feels - what we notice, what we chase, what we can't seem to finish, and what we treat as real.
Meet the Vasudhara: The Earth Star Chakra
Before the seven chakras we often hear about … before the red spinning wheel at the base of the spine, before the crown of a thousand petals, there is another chakra. It sits below the body, roughly 1 to 2 feet (or 20-60 cm) below the soles of your feet, depending on what your energy field is doing on a particular day.
It is sometimes called: the Earth Star, the zeroth chakra, or the Vasudhara Chakra. Though it's the easiest to overlook (it's not even inside the body, after all), it's the one that makes the rest of the chakra system workable for beings like us — living on this planet, in these bodies.
This is the first of a four-part series on the Vasudhara Chakra. In this post, we will introduce you to what it is, what it does, and why it matters. In the posts that follow, we'll cover what it feels like when the Vasudhara is blocked, what it feels like when it's flowing well, and some practices for tending the connection.