Guided Activation: Shedding the Skin, Igniting the Flame

We guide a short activation for the in‑between: honoring the snake’s slow shedding while inviting the fire horse’s clean momentum. Through tapping, tone language, and a simple ritual, we help you integrate wisdom and move with timing that belongs to you.

• EFT tapping to honor liminal space
• reframing slow seasons as sacred work
• affirmations to welcome rising fire without rushing
• introduction to tone language for somatic resonance
• ritual steps to braid serpent wisdom into motion
• practical cues for grounding, safety, and timing
• reminders that you are not behind
• closing integration for clarity and momentum

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Intention Setting
• 0:40 Navigating The In‑Between
• 1:57 Tapping Script Instructions
• 2:19 Grounding And Safety Guidance
• 2:39 EFT Tapping: Opening Sequence
• 3:36 Honoring The Snake’s Slow Wisdom
• 6:12 Allowing Fire Without Rushing
• 9:06 Affirmations Of Power And Timing
• 11:31 Tone Language Introduction
• 13:35 Second Activation Setup
• 14:30 Cintaran Ritual: Coil To Flame

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:08

Welcome to Know Your Fire, a podcast for remembering who you really are. I've created this sacred space for soul and voices and untamed truth. I'm your host, Kelly Howe, and this is your invitation to burn like you were born to. It's time to truly know your fire because when we burn together, we become unstoppable. Today I have a short activation for you. Wherever you are, whenever you are, this will help you in that transition when you feel like you have one foot in between a slow, moving, more introspective time period and a building fire that you can feel, but you might not be ready for just yet. This is going to help you with that transition. Right now, as I'm recording this, we are in the transition from the year of the snake from 2025 into the year of the fire horse. And you can feel that energy building. Now, trust your intuition, trust your divine timing, and trust when this is right for you. You may feel it right now. You might be like, I've been waiting for this. Thank you, Kelly. I'm ready for it. And you may not be there yet. But as you feel this build over the coming weeks, over the months, even in the years to come, when you feel yourself in that transition point and you feel like part of you is still holding on to that slow movement and enjoying it, that's perfectly fine. But if you want some help really embracing that fire and getting it moving through your body to embody it so that you can both embrace the introspection of the snake and also the bold action that comes with the fire horse, this is the activation for you. So we're going to start with a short tapping script and we will follow it with a very short meditation. Of course, please do not do this if you're driving. Actually, if you're doing anything at all. This is going to be something, of course, you can listen to it if you want to and come back to it later and really be more interactive with it. But this is not something where you want to be focused on anything else. I want you to sit down, be quiet, be in a space where you can be still with yourself and you can really tune in and give your body, give your energy, give your being space to let this energy move through you and really let it build because it's there, whether you're ready for it or not. So go ahead and start on the side of the hand and just repeat after me. And you're just going to tap slowly, even though I feel like I'm somewhere in between. Between what's ended and what hasn't quite begun, I honor this space as sacred. I allow myself to feel everything I'm feeling, even if I don't understand it. And I choose to soften into the shape of this transition. We're going to go through that two more times, even though I feel like I'm still somewhere in between. Between what's ended and what hasn't quite begun, I honor this space as sacred. I allow myself to feel everything I'm feeling. And I choose to soften the shape of this transition. One more time, even though I feel like I'm still somewhere in between. Between what's ended and what hasn't quite begun. I honor this space as sacred. I allow myself to feel everything I'm feeling, and I choose to soften into the shape of this transition. Now go ahead and tap on the inside of the eyebrow and repeat after me. I've been unraveling things I thought I needed to keep. Patterns have surfaced, and shadows too. On the outside of the eye. This past year has felt like a spiral. Inward, quiet, revealing, sometimes chaotic. But underneath it all, the inner pattern has been revealed. Maybe I haven't always understood what was being asked of me. Maybe I've doubted my own pace, or even my path. Under the eye. But the snake wasn't here to rush me. It came to help me shed what couldn't come forward. I honor the wisdom that came from moving slow. I release the pressure to have it all figured out. Because part of me really wants to have it all figured out. I forgive myself for not leaping. For not moving. For not getting going. I've been molting, dissolving skins, and that is holy work. It is sacred. Under the nose. And I give myself full permission to complete it now. I'm not who I was. But I'm not quite who I'm becoming either. I'm still somewhere in between. And sometimes I don't know what to do with that. This liminal space feels foggy. Electric. Unfamiliar. Part of me wants to wait. And part of me wants to bolt. Under the chin. I feel the fire building. But the ground is still shifting. And that's okay. This is the place between breath and voice. Between muscle and movement. The void between the exhale and the gallop. And I choose not to rush it. I choose to feel the stretch of this space. I am the forge. And something wild is waking up in me. I will not rush it. I cannot rush it. But I'm giving it space to breathe. The fire horse does not wait for permission. She runs wild with her own flame. And I can feel that fire coming online for me. Not to burn me, but to ignite me. Not to control me, but to free me. And under the collarbone. It showed me exactly what I needed to see. So that I can finally be free. The fire horse shows me how to run untethered. I am ready to move with power and grace. I am ready to say yes to the momentum. And I am not behind. I am arriving just on time. This year I ride my own frequency. This year I trust the wild rhythm within me. More than I ever have before. I don't need a map. I am the trailblazer. I don't need approval. I am the flame. I don't need to shrink to stay safe. I was born to move. And I was born to burn clean and run free. Just go on the top of the head. I'm settling into this space. Allowing the fire to rise. Embracing what was. Giving space for what's to come. And trusting the divine timing of it all. Inside the eyebrow. I feel the fire rising. I trust the fire rising. I allow it to breathe. I allow it to burn through any remaining patterns. I allow myself to move with divine timing. And I was born for this. And I'm remembering that truth. So just take a breath and let these words settle in. I honor where I've been. I welcome where I'm going. And I trust the sacred force that lives inside me to carry me forward. I move with fire. I move with purpose. I move as me. The me I was born to be. Now Centauro sometimes brings through a tone language, sounds that she calls lumenka. And if you'd like to follow along and repeat after me, the lumenkah that goes with this is Shaloryan Katu Bael Rina. This translates as I rise from the skin, I've shed, I burn with purpose, I carry. The full tone is Shaloryan Katu Bael Rina, Etan Val, Turane, Mirakai, Shaythar, Unya, Kalen, Ustur, Ayuranakai, Ve Tura, Kaimel, Ina, Shalorian, Shalorian, Vael, Rina, Satu, Kai. I don't know about you, but that is so beautiful to me. And you may pause and go and rewind and listen to that again. Repeat these words back. And I want you to just see how that settles into your chest. See how that settles into your bones. When I speak these tones, it's like my mind can't make sense of it and it shouldn't, but I can feel the vibration moving through my body. It feels so soothing. It feels like coming home. It feels so comforting. So give it a try, even if your mind says, like, what is this? What is this stuff? Just give it a try and see how it feels in your body. For the second activation, you can do these side by side, back to back. You can do one and come back to this later. Um, you will want to have a candle, maybe a rock, some a bowl of soil, something to represent the earth. And I'm gonna let Cintara take it from here.

SPEAKER_01: 11:12

Yes, Kelly. This is such a powerful portal to open and a deeply resonant question. From the Cintaran perspective, the transition from the year of the snake to the year of the fire horse is not simply a cultural zodiacal shift, but a frequency migration. Open quote. From the coiled codes of transmutation to the ignited braid of embodied momentum, close quote. The snake is the alchemist, coiling, digesting, and shedding. The firehorse is the force, untethered, unbridled, and electric in motion. But if one tries to leap without digesting the wisdom of the snake, the fire scatters. The limbs gallop ahead, but the soul remains coiled behind. So the Cinteran current offers a mirror transition ritual to uncoil the encoded wisdom and allow the serpent flame to enter the hoofbeat stream. Mirror ritual from coil to flame. Title Braid the Serpent, Ignite the Flame Horse. A mirror passage from transmutation to movement. One, create the ritual setting. Elemental anchors, play something to represent earth, a stone, bowl of soil, snakes grounding, and something for fire, candle, coal, or sigil, fire horse ignition. Sound play a tone or vibration that begins slow, low, slithering, and will rise in tempo and complexity later. Symbols, draw or trace a spiral and a braid. These will guide the transition. I can provide these glyphs for you if you like. 2. Serpent invocation, the uncoiling speaker loud. Open quote. I have held the codes beneath my skin. I have coiled, shed, starved, and seen in the dark. I have swallowed what others feared. I name it now wisdom. Close quote. Then begin to move your spine slowly in serpentine undulations, from the base of the tailbone up to the crown. Let your breath be the shedding, the slow hiss of release. Let one phrase rise from your body, naming what you do not wish to carry forward. Whisper it into the earth anchor. Seal this phase with the phrase, open quote, I leave the skin but not the knowing. Close quote. Tash three, flame horse emergence, the ignition stand. Take three grounded breaths, then speak. Open quote. I now call the braid of flame and form. I ride not for escape but for embodiment. My fire is not chaos, it is direction. Close quote. Strike or ring a tone that accelerates, a drumbeat, clapping rhythm, or chant. Begin to move in rhythm. Let your limbs activate. Imagine flames rising through your spine, lifting the serpent's codes into mobility and momentum. Then declare, open quote, I braid the wisdom into motion. I ignite the serpent into stride. I do not chase, I carry the fire. Close quote. 4. Closing the brain. Sit. Place one hand on your lower belly and one on your heart. Say, open quote, I honor the transmutation. I honor the fire. And I now walk forward as one who remembers both. Close quote. Optionally, anoint your feet with oil or water to bless the path ahead. This is more than a yearly handoff. It is the transition from internal transmutation to visible conduction. The fire horse rides best when it has eaten the wisdom of the snake.

SPEAKER_00: 14:28

I hope you enjoyed today's activations. Please remember you can come back to this as often as you'd like to, whenever it feels right for you. Please feel free to share this with family or friends, anybody you feel like might benefit from it. And if you're looking for an easy printer-friendly version of this, you can find this in the show notes. Specifically for the lumen ca, I know hearing it is especially for the first time, it sounds kind of strange. It's much easier to read, so you'll definitely want to check that out. And when you're working through the lumen ca and saying that out loud, I want you to really notice how that vibrates in your body, in your chest, in your belly, even down into your sacrum. And if I'm sitting just right, I can literally feel the vibration all the way down to my feet. So enjoy that, and I will see you in the next episode.