The Causal Chakra sits above the Crown, at the back of the head, and it holds something that the seven traditional chakras do not reach: the record of your soul across lifetimes. In Diana Cooper's extended 12-chakra system, the Causal is where your deepest spiritual history lives, the place where accumulated wisdom becomes available to you in this life when you are ready to receive it.
Garlic has been used in Italian culture and across the Mediterranean world for centuries as a protective force. It wards off harm, clears energetic residue, and carries the kind of authority that comes from ancient use.
The hanging garlic bunch is painted in stained glass style, suspended against a background of intricate blue Sicilian tilework that echoes both the Mediterranean coast and the sacred geometry of Islamic and Byzantine decorative traditions.
It is part of the Italian Chakra Series, a body of work connecting Italian botanicals to the extended chakra system described by Diana Cooper. Each piece is drawn by hand using ink, acrylic, and drops of Mediterranean seawater collected in Italy. The series bridges kitchen and cosmos, the ordinary and the transcendent, the ingredients of daily Italian life and the energy centers that map our spiritual anatomy.
This piece is especially suited to meditation rooms, home altars, healing spaces, and any room where someone is doing the work of understanding who they are across a longer arc than this single lifetime.