After last week’s focus on Capricorn’s grounded discipline, I found myself craving space for the sacred. Not escape—but expansion. As the year winds down and the world gets louder with holiday noise, I notice my crown Sahasrara Chakra asking for attention: Can I find stillness in the chaos? Can I remember I’m held by something larger than my to-do list?
This morning, I sat in silence for twenty minutes before reaching for my phone. Just breathing. Just being. And in that space, I felt it—that subtle shimmer of connection to something vast and loving. The thousand-petaled lotus, quietly opening.
From Earth to Sky
Last week, we walked Capricorn’s path—bringing spirit into structure, wisdom into action. This week, we rise. Not away from the earth, but INTO the remembrance that earth and heaven were never separate.
As we move deeper into December, the invitation shifts from grounded presence to sacred expansion. This week, we turn our attention to the Sahasrara Chakra, the crown chakra, the thousand-petaled lotus at the top of the head—a symbol of divine connection, spiritual awakening, and union with universal consciousness.
What Is Sahasrara?
In Tantra, the Sahasrara isn’t a destination—it’s a state of remembrance. It’s where the illusion of separation dissolves. Not through escape from the body, but through deep embodiment OF spirit. It’s the moment when breath and spirit merge, when the seeker becomes the sought, and the path vanishes into Presence.
When this chakra is open and activated, we feel the truth: we were never separate to begin with.
Signs Your Crown Chakra May Be in Harmony:
- A sense of deep peace or inner stillness
- Heightened intuition and clarity
- Connection to Source beyond religious identity
- Trust in the flow of life and timing of the universe
The Sacred in the Season
December’s religious holidays—Christmas, Hanukkah, Solstice—all point toward this same truth: the divine is HERE. Not later. Not somewhere else. Right here, in the midst of wrapping paper and family dynamics and end-of-year exhaustion.
Sahasrara reminds us: you are already home.
You don’t need to achieve enlightenment. Release the idea that you must earn your connection to Source. You only need to remember. Remembrance returns with each breath. Stay present. It will come back to you, breath by breath.
Tantric Integration Practice
This week, I invite you to give yourself space for stillness and silence—not as a break from life, but as a sacred encounter with your true Self.
Try This Sahasrara Meditation:
- Sit comfortably, spine tall, eyes gently closed.
- Bring your awareness to the top of your head.
- Envision a thousand-petaled lotus slowly opening.
- With each breath, feel yourself expand beyond the limits of your body.
- Silently repeat: “I am One with All.”
Let your breath be the bridge between the personal and the infinite. Let your thoughts dissolve like clouds revealing the vast blue sky behind them.
Even 3-5 minutes of this practice can shift your entire day. You don’t need to “achieve” anything—just show up and breathe.
Our Final Moon Ceremony of the Year
As we approach the close of 2024, we have one final Moon Ceremony remaining: Friday, December 19th – our New Moon Ceremony.
This will be the last moon gathering before I step back from these monthly offerings to focus on my doctoral work and writing. The new moon is a time of intention-setting, of planting seeds in the fertile dark, of dreaming into what wants to be born.
What better way to close out this year and this chapter than by coming together one last time in sacred community?
If you’ve been part of these ceremonies before, or if you’ve been curious but waiting for the “right time”—this is it. We’re closing this chapter together, and I’d love to have you there.
New Moon Ceremony – Friday, December 19th (Our final ceremony)
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Reflection Questions
- Where in my life do I forget that I am connected to something greater?
- How might I listen more deeply for divine guidance?
- Can I trust that I am supported—even when I don’t know what’s next?
Closing Wisdom
Sahasrara is not about escaping the body—it’s about seeing through the illusion that you are only the body. This week, walk with reverence. Listen to the silence beneath sound.
You are not a drop in the ocean—you are the ocean in a drop.
This Week’s Invitation
I’d love to hear: When do you feel most connected to something greater than yourself? What practices help you remember you’re part of the whole?
Share with me—reply to this email, comment on the blog, or post on social. I read every response.
With infinite reverence,
Shiva J
