Root Year

I know we’ve all felt it since 2019. Time feeling weird, rapid transformations at a personal and collective level, shifts in energy that cannot be denied, the topic of spirituality becoming so common, online whispers of something coming, an influx of “conspiracy theorists”. The timeline jump. However it has felt for every one of us, we have all felt it, since 2019. Human Design experts are calling it a latent 7 year period as we switch from The Cross of Planning to The Cross of The Sleeping Phoenix in a 400 year cycle that is coming to an end in 2026. For me, before I knew what it was, it manifested as a call to do rigorous work on my chakra system. I was born late in the year, in late October and towards my birthday in 2019, I started receiving the call to work on my crown chakra through very loud signs and symbols from my guides. It started as a small nudge, visitations by purple flowers that I didn’t plant in my garden, then an influx of information so blatant that my psyche could not ignore it so I decided to respond. As a social scientist, I have a curious mind and I do enjoy experimenting just to see what will happen as long as I feel the process might not be harmful to me or others. That’s how I spent a whole year working on my crown chakra and by the end of that period I had experienced such profound results that when the next call came during my next birthday, I was looking forward to it. And that’s how it has been for the last six years in a seven year cycle that will be completed in 2026. Every year around my birthday, I receive information on which chakra to work on next and for a whole year I do deep work on that specific center. 

This year, 2025, I have been working on my root chakra since my birthday late last year and it has been the toughest work I have ever had to do! Coincidentally, I joined school early this year to study Somatic Experiencing and with the root being related to the physical body, it has been such a wonderful tool to add to my basket of resources. Today I’ve been contemplating on how working on my root has been so instrumental to my ability to internalize the orders of love, specifically the right of belonging.  The right to be here on this planet, the right to be safe and secure, the right to have, the right to hold and to keep my manifestations, the right to belong to my ancestry, and my tribe, and my nation, the right to be who I came here to be. The right to be. This right was ripped away from me in my early home environment by “discipline” in the form of physical violence and sexual abuse making me a stranger in my own body. When the body experiences extreme physical trauma, the mind disconnects us from it for our own survival and I’ve been surviving for a long time without the awareness that the right to occupy my own body had been taken away from me. How then can I occupy the planet I belong to when I cannot occupy my own body? 

The journey to inhabit my body has been painful and yet profound. It feels like meeting a long lost friend who’s been here all along after decades of being separated. And this is not to say that I have not loved or been confident about my own body, I have always loved what I see when I look in the mirror because I feel I came in a pretty nice body, but I’ve come to the realization that you can appreciate the body and still not occupy it. What has been very helpful in my process of occupation is learning and expanding the language of sensation, it is how the body communicates. Through felt sense, I can now tell when I’m in my body and when I’m out of it. I am now able to respond to the needs of my body as they come up, I no longer wait until I’m frozen to notice that I need to wear a sweater when the weather changes. You will also not find me rushing to the toilet because I didn’t realize I was pressed until it was too late. My gag reflex is back, I am still getting used to experiencing disgust. Imagine being excited by the sensation of retching, that’s me lately. I talk to my body all the time and observe the sensations that result from the sound of my own voice. I am here practicing the right to belong starting with my first home in this world. I am so excited to see what the future holds for my body and I. I am.