Your Root is Evolving! Crystals to Help You Adapt + Thrive
There was something I learned years ago when I was training as a healer: If the energy centre at your root (at the base of your spine) is out of balance, then everything else will end up out of balance, too.
This is because our root is the foundation of our health and well being.
Our physical health, yes, but also
Our livelihoods, our families, our community relations.
Ability to remain grounded, centered, empowered.
To be resilient, to endure.
To feel safe, secure, provided-for, and strong.
A Balanced Root
When our root is balanced, we feel confident, capable of handling challenges/stress/obstacles, and optimistic.
Our needs are met, and we feel solid in our place in the world.
An Unbalanced Root
But when it’s not balanced:
We can feel blocked, afraid, or struggling.
We have weak energy, are fatigued and un-grounded, and have compromised immune systems.
We can isolate and self-neglect, or overcompensate and look for safety, security, or provision in others.
Hoarding, recklessness, aggression, conflict, and defensive behaviour can take hold (and we’ve been seeing A LOT of that in recent history).
If the root energy centre continues to function out of balance, that imbalance vibrates up through our energy system and starts to throw off our other energy centres, too.
Given all of the upheaval we have experienced in the past while, it is without a doubt that many (if not most) of us need some intensive root therapy right now.
In my Pro Crystal Healer program, one of the first things I taught about was our energy centres (aka. chakras) and that balancing their energy typically isn’t enough - if you don’t address the cause of the imbalance, the imbalance will continue to re-occur.
If you think about this, it make sense: energy balancing is often like applying a bandaid to a wound that needs surgery. It may help in the short term, but if it doesn’t get the deeper healing it needs, the wound will continue to grow and fester.
In this particular collective case, however, we know the cause of the imbalance: a worldwide pandemic, shutdowns, economic crisis, political uncertainty, societal strife, and rampant injustice.
The fabric of our daily reality has been, in some ways, forever altered. And it seems like a fresh wave of fear, challenge, or stress is hitting us every week and dragging many of us under.
Our world has changed, and we must adapt and change along with it.
And all of this change has had a fundamental energy effect on our root.
When the very foundation of our lives is threatened, the root will go out of balance, and this imbalance can counteract our efforts to course correct or adapt, and get back on track.
It is vital right now that we do evolving energy work on our root.
Some symptoms you might be experiencing:
heaviness, or a lack of motivation
mild symptoms of depression including fatigue
lack of general wellness or vitality
feeling blocked, uncertain, or unclear
insecurity, anxiety or fear (rational or irrational)
ungrounded
chronically stressed or overwhelmed
big change happening in your life (or a sense that big changes are coming)
a definite need to be out in nature (land or water)
need confirmation or validation from others
heightened frequency or intuition (which isn’t a bad thing at all, just a signal that you are evolving)
Enter the Stones…
As our world evolves, so does our energy, and vice versa. Everything interrelates, the separation exists only in our minds.
There are all sorts of grounding crystals we can work with that can help support our root centers, but there are specific stones calling to us right now that can help us to adapt + evolve to the shifting planetary energies.
(It’s important to note that these energies are shifting in part due to planetary events, but also due to human events that collectively are affecting the energy of the planet).
These crystals also form a powerful energy circuit between our earth star center (approx. 8 - 18” below our feet) and the resonant frequencies of the planet.
The guidance is that we need to ground in our sovereignty + cultivate vital energy exchanges or cycles with the Earth.
This will help us come into new levels of personal + collective power to heal, transform, and recreate or co-create (manifest) in more positive, empowered ways.
Crystals for the Root Chakra
Here are the stones that are suggested for us at this time to help re-stabilize our root energy centres and adapt to the shifts:
Magnetite
Healer’s Gold
Black Andradite Garnet
Smoky Amethyst
Shungite
Common Rocks
Nuummite
Black Morion Quartz
Each one of these stones are grounding, revitalizing, and stabilizing to our energy fields.
They help us to form strengthened, conscious energy connections to the planet and it’s healing frequencies.
They also help us to come into our own power and sovereignty.
All of this will help us to adapt, thrive, and powerfully move forward with our lives and health in new, or better, ways.
The common rock making an appearance may surprise you! But most of the rocks we find on the surface of our planet are sedimentary in their nature. Comprised of different minerals or crystals in their composition, they have then been exposed to other rock, elements, organic matter or minerals that have added to their composition.
They are therefore excellent teachers in weathering change, being resilient, adapting, and thriving as something new (or evolved).
Healing Techniques + Methods
Choose which stone(s) resonate for you (it can also be a stone that’s not mentioned above - this is not an exhaustive list), and then the healing technique below that is most practical or appeals to you.
Always clear your crystals before working.
Circuit Meditation:
This is best done with 2 crystals (one in each hand) but can be done with one if needs be.
Hold your crystals and sit with the soles of your feet touching.
Close your eyes and breathe, and welcome the energy + consciousness of the stones.
Imagine or visualize a circuit or channel of energy forming from your root / earth star center down deep into the Earth (the stones will form this circuit naturally, but it helps to be a conscious partner in the work).
Feel or allow your energy to drawn down deep into the Earth as Earth energy cycles back up into your body. This will help to balance your root with resonant Earth frequencies, which will help to counteract any negative symptoms of the imbalance.
Do this for anywhere between 5 - 30 minutes, preferably for 7 consecutive days or as needed (if you are trained in my Istaria Crystallis™ program, you can participate in this energy exchange with the Great Earth Crystal).
👇🏼 FREE Meditation Download! Evolving Root Meditation for Grounding + Balancing 👇🏼
You can also watch the video + transcript on my YouTube channel
Crystal Therapy Layout:
You will need 5 crystals for this therapy session. They can be 5 of the same crystals, or a mix of the ones mentioned above.
Lie down and place a stone each in your hands, on your solar plexus (upper belly), at your root, and at your feet or earth star centre.
Surrender to the guidance + healing medicine of your stones, and allow your mind to flow as they do their thing.
Lay here for at least 30 minutes, once a week.
Crystal layouts are more intense, acute therapy, so you don’t have to do them as often as other methods.
Ps. You can place a piece of clear calcite at the top of your head if this layout gives you a headache. This will help to dissolve/resolve any blockage or imbalance in the crown.
Single Crystal Circuit:
You can wear one crystal throughout the day to engage in this work.
Bear in mind that with crystals less is often more - choose just one crystal that resonates for you.
Wear it, if you can, down near the lower half of your core, preferably in a pocket or a low-hanging pouch or necklace.
You can also hold it in your receptive (non-dominant hand) periodically throughout the day.
The thing to celebrate here is that we are evolving!
And while oftentimes healing + adapting work can be an intensive process, in this particular case we can be purely in an energy conversation.
We can engage with the stones, and let them and our wondrous planet help us.
Does this resonate, have you been feeling any of this? Feel free to share in the comments 👇🏼
It’s time for us to advance our spirituality and our work with the stones. Here’s where the path of mastery begins ↓
