Where Are Your Roots?

It is at moments like these, when I skim the news, that I am grateful to have my roots somewhere a bit more firm than my physical location.

There’s a maxim in vodou: a tree rooted in Ginen will not fall.

Like everything in vodou, it means many things. For this post, I’ll explain it this way: if you draw your security from the world around you, the conditions around you, the political situation around you, or some sense of things being permanent, you will fall. You will be anxious, you will not move with life and be able to adapt, which will cascade more failures in your life and lead to greater fear and eventually health problems, because anxiety is hard on the body.

If you need the US (assuming you live here) or any other nation to remain more or less the same, these are about to be challenging times for you.

By contrast, if your sense of security comes from Ginen (the spirit) itself, you can move however you have to with whatever fuckery is happening to you. You will adapt more quickly, be more emotionally stable, and react more quickly to circumstance.

The process of slowly being grafted onto Ginen is not easy. You have to be willing to give up the way you were but it’s infinitely worth it, in times like these.

If you’re reading this, I hope you ride the next handful of years out well. It’s liable to be fuckery all over.

If you want to go through the process of being rooted in Ginen, we can help you.

I’m also not that hard to get in touch with directly, if you’d rather.