Body Wisdom Rising

The Serpent Year: Why 2025 Felt Like Death & What 2026 is Awakening

• Alyssa Stefanson

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The year didn’t just test our limits—it stripped what no longer fit. Alyssa unpacks why 2025 felt like a relentless shedding and how those contractions signal a larger collective turn toward embodied, heart-led living. Through a raw story of collapse and awakening—from addiction’s edge to a great-horned owl that wouldn’t look away—we explore how synchronicities speak, why the body must lead, and what it takes to turn a spiritual opening into a grounded life.

We map the terrain with practical language: the three types of awakening (external, psychological, spiritual), the seven‑year wave patterns many are feeling, and why so much of the heaviness this year carried ancestral and karmic threads. Expect a clear bridge from insight to action: somatic practices that build nervous system capacity, daily rituals that create safety, and ancestral work that reconnects you to the lower chakras—belonging, stability, and instinct. As signals intensify, we trade spiritual hype for devotion, depth, and containers that hold what’s rising.

Looking ahead, we sense fast-moving energy in 2026 and a shift toward “spirituality with a spine”—less escapism, more embodied service. Think grounded activism, clearer boundaries, and practices you actually keep. The liminal void you may be in now isn’t a setback; it’s the fertile space where integration takes root so momentum doesn’t unmoor you. If you’ve felt alone, behind, or overwhelmed by signs you can’t explain, this conversation offers language, context, and a path home to your body.

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Welcome to the Body Wisdom Rising podcast. I'm your host, Alyssa, and my intention here is to deliver grounded embodied insights alongside practical tools and resources to help you heal, awaken, and remember your sacred nature. This is rooted spirituality, bringing people back to their bodies, back to their roots, and back into connection with the ancestral ways that have always carried us, not spiritual fluff, not disconnected theory, weaving together the best of ancient wisdom and modern science, living, breathing practices and conversations that integrate healing, wellness, earth-based wisdom, and conscious growth. Each week I share space with experts in trauma recovery, holistic health, and ancestral ways of knowing, as well as voices with lived experience and powerful transformational stories. Together we explore what it truly means to rise rooted, embodied, and whole. And if you enjoy this episode, please take a moment to leave a five-star review as it helps these conversations reach the people who need them most. And for those of you who keep returning, thank you so much for tuning in to each episode. My name is Alyssa, and today is focused on the theme of the year of the snake, 2025, which we're currently still in, uh leading into the year of the horse, 2026. And I'm going to talk about the theme and what that looks like, has looked like collectively. And so many of you are feeling it. I know because I just did a post on this, and uh the response I got, um, yeah, was unbelievable. And I knew I just had to post uh a channeled message on this. And so this is new to me to starting to do channeled messages, but I definitely feel very called to. I have for a while. Uh so this is me stepping out of my comfort zone and trying something new here and seeing how it resonates with all of you. I so appreciate your feedback. If you do resonate with this episode, please send me a message on Instagram at WildFeminineRise. Follow me if you aren't already. And um, please share this episode if it resonates. It helps this podcast grow and reach more people, and especially reach the people who need it most. So if 2025 felt like the hardest year of your life, you are not crazy. You are not dramatic. You are not behind, you are not failing. A lot of people have been feeling this exact same thing. Like they were being pulled into this deep inner reckoning, awakening, like parts of them were dying and being reborn over and over and over. Like nothing in their life felt stable or recognizable anymore. Like they were shedding old skins again and again, and like everything familiar was dissolving around them. Like identities were dying and reforming, and nothing they once clung to felt really solid anymore. And I want to talk about why. And these cycles, these big inner earthquakes, they tend to move in waves. So we see them showing up in roughly seven-year cycles, so individually and collectively. And if you're experiencing this right now, if it feels like everything is shedding or collapsing or rearranging, you're not off path. I just want you to know that. You're actually syncing up with a collective wave that so many people are moving through. And this wave is preparation. It's calibrating us for what's coming in 2026 and especially 2027, and so on. But a lot of different systems, so gene keys, human design, even and parts of astrology as well, all point to uh 2027 as a huge turning point for humanity, not in a fear-based way, but in a timeline shift kind of way. A change in collective consciousness, a softening of old structures, a rise in intuitive awareness, a deep remembering of what it means to be connected. And in human design, 2027 marks the transition into the cross of the sleeping phoenix. So move from the old collective, tribal, institutional structures into something more individual, creative, intuitive, heart-centered. And Gene Keyes echoes this with the shift in frequency. So more people are awakening to purpose, truth, and embodiment. And astrologically, we're seeing the same thing. So the dissolving of old paradigms, the end of a long karmic chapter, and the emergence of new leadership, new ways of relating and new ways of being in community. So everything you're feeling right now is not random. It is an initiation. And I'll sure share more later in this episode, but I've been tapped into the collective energies since my first major spiritual awakening in 2018. So my own awakening didn't begin gently. It actually started in 2017. So, right around the August eclipse. And everything in my life just began unraveling at once. It felt like the ground was ripped out beneath me. And within a few months, I went through one of the most intense periods of my entire life. My old life, my relationships, my sense of identity, everything was collapsing. And that breakdown led straight into the beginning of 2018, which became a very real and very powerful spiritual awakening, one I was not prepared for and had absolutely no roadmap for. There was so much confusion, so much uncertainty. And I didn't know anyone personally who was going through anything like it. I felt like I was losing my mind and waking up at the same time. And what changed everything for me was I actually found a woman that I came across online, someone who was really talking openly about these kinds of awakenings, the symptoms, the spiritual shock waves, the unraveling, the ego death, all of it. And everything she described was exactly what I had lived through. The timeline, like everything, it was bone chilling. But it also gave me hope. It gave me language. And in a time where I felt incredibly alone and isolated, it helped me realize that what I was experiencing wasn't wrong. It was transformation. And I'll do a full episode on this eventually because I think people need to understand that awakening doesn't happen once and then you're done. It happens in layers. And sometimes it even feels like we're moving backwards. But we aren't. We're just revisiting old patterns or cycles with a different level of consciousness each time so we can fully play them out and um get out of the system and pull out all the matrix chords. And I'll talk about that too. What exiting the matrix, we hear that um it's pretty popular right now. Many people are talking about it. And the way that I look at it is you know, there is a period where we do need to go into solitude, so not isolation. Like we, we, we want to feel connected to people, but there is a purpose to solitude. And even in solitude, that's often where we develop our spiritual connection, our spiritual gifts. So we're never actually alone. Um, we're connected spiritually. And for me personally, I went through like this hermit phase after my awakening, this like deep incubation period where I was just like integrating um everything and taking in a lot of like information and just processing everything I had been through. And it was very isolating um at first, but I did feel this strong spiritual connection that started to develop even stronger over time. And so that was an important period for me to be able to be in solitude. And I do firmly believe that we are meant to go back into society. Like we're not meant to like completely separate and go live off grid and go live in our own spiritual bubbles. There might be a period of that where it's actually necessary for us to come home to ourselves. We need to re-enter society. Like that's where we can be of service and help in our communities, right? So this is something that I'm really moving through and being more intentional of is um, you know, going through these awakenings, they they can be earth-shattering. And um, you know, it's like you feel like you don't belong anymore and you feel like you don't fit in anywhere. And so you just need to go home to yourself and find yourself. Uh, but eventually, you know, ideally we want to become so strong and sovereign in our own being that we're able to re-enter society and and be of service and help others as well. So there's the external awakening. So realizing the world isn't what you thought it was, seeing through collective illusions, waking up to corruption or deeper truths. There's the psychological awakening. So confronting your own beliefs, your patterns, your trauma, your projections, your shadows, the way you've been living on autopilot. And then there's the spiritual awakening. So the opening that happens inside of you that you can't force or fake. Um, this part is where your intuition, your spiritual gifts start to open up, your sensitivity heightens, and you start perceiving life in a completely different way. And so all three of these things were happening for me at once, and it was very overwhelming. And it was also the turning point of my entire life. So, right now we are in it, and it's leading us somewhere. And so, a lot of people have been describing 2025 in the same way so that they don't know who they are anymore. Like everything they thought was stable suddenly fell apart. Old patterns came back out of nowhere. They were feeling exhausted for a long period of time, felt like they were grieving things they couldn't even name. And um, honestly, that's exactly what it was. It was a year of shedding, a year of ego death, a year of truth surfacing whether we were ready or not. And not in a gentle kind of healing way. So, something I really want people to understand is you aren't alone in this. Everywhere I looked, friends, clients on social media, people were describing the same wave or the same heaviness moving through their lives. It wasn't random. There was a collective energy this year that pushed things to the surface: old wounds, old patterns, unresolved family dynamics, identity stuff, childhood survival strategies, and for a lot of us, ancestral material. That's why it felt bigger than you. It really was. We are in a period where the emotional field is very intense and a lot of people are feeling things that don't make sense, waves of grief, fear, anger, disorientation, even when nothing in their actual life logically explained it. So for many people, it did match their circumstances. Life was genuinely hard. Things were really falling apart. But underneath that, there was also something deeper happening. Because what we are moving through this year wasn't just personal. A lot of it is karmic and ancestral. And so many people kept asking themselves, why is this happening to me? Why does this feel so heavy? Why does it hit so deep? And the truth is, many of us came here with the capacity to do this work, not because it's our job to carry the whole lineage, but because our nervous systems, our sensitivity, and the timing of our lives align with a generation that is finally able to face what previous generations could not. And I want to be really clear about this part. You are not meant to clear everything alone. You're not meant to hold all of this in isolation. We live in a culture that has forgotten this earth-honoring animist ways our ancestors lived by, the ways where healing was communal, where burdens were shared, where people turned to the land, the spirits, the elders, and the unseen realms for support. And in those old ways, we didn't try to process everything with just our personal willpower. We knew we were a part of something larger. And that's why so many people felt so exhausted this year. It's not because you were lazy or unmotivated. It's because you're carrying more than one lifetime. And you've been trying to hold it all together without the support systems your ancestors once had. So when we rec reconnect to those old ways, when we remember how to ask for support, how to ground, how to create safe containers, how to work with lineage instead of against it, everything changes. It doesn't become easy, but it does become held. You feel supported. It doesn't feel so heavy and so dense. And that's a lot of the work that I do with my clients. So guiding them through this process in a really structured way with boundaries and containers. So you're not overwhelmed or trying to push through anything alone. And I'll talk more about the how in a future episode. But if you're feeling called to explore this work deeper, the link to my ancestral healing program is in the show notes. And for me, my awakening never came through some beautiful retreat in the mountains. It came through my life falling apart in 2017 and 2018. And around that same time, I started having these really powerful synchronicities. So animals were showing up in unusual ways, dreams that were too specific, signs that felt like they were trying to get my attention. And even though I didn't have language for it yet, I could feel I wasn't moving through everything alone. Something bigger than my personal story was moving through me. But the truth is, all of this was happening while my entire life was collapsing. So I hit rock bottom in my addiction. I was in a very unhealthy, abusive relationship, and I finally found the strength to leave. I walked away with nothing, no belongings, no stability, no plan. I moved into an empty apartment. And then shortly after, I lost my job too. It was one of those moments where my life just fell apart all at once. It was earth-shattering, traumatic, the kind of breakdown that does that becomes a catalyst for awakening. The tower moment that cracks you open in ways that you can't undo, that you can never go back. And on my 31st birthday in 2018, everything reached a breaking point. I came very close to losing my life. And in that moment, something happened, something that felt like divine intervention, a mystical experience. And it was the moment that shifted everything. And after that day, the synchronicities intensified and it was like this veil began to thin. And one of my biggest moments, we'll just, I'll share it in a minute, was I had this experience with this great-horned owl that showed up in my parking lot. And I'll leave a bit of space for that story because it's powerful and it ties deeply into what came next. But at that time, I didn't call any of this ancestral healing. I didn't have a framework for it. I just knew something ancient was rising through me. Something that wasn't purely psychological and wasn't purely spiritual. It was both. My third eye was open, my crown was open, but I was not in my body. I was in a full-on dark night of the soul, swinging between spiritual experiences and total emotional collapse. And this is where somatic work entered my life. I started realizing that everything in me was happening up here in my head, in the energetic realm. But my roots were so severed. I had no grounding. I had no sense of safety, no anchor in my body. And this is something I talk about all the time now. So your ancestors are your roots. They connect you into the lower chakras, into belonging, into stability. And through somatic healing, we access the ancestral field. So through coming back into our body, we reconnect with the places our lineage holds memory. And that was the beginning of my path. So not learning from a textbook while I did that as well, but experiencing it in my own life. And for the last eight years, I've gone all in on this work, not just to learn it so I could teach it, but to live it, embody it, integrate it at the deepest level. Through breath work journeys, ceremony, sweat lodges, later plant medicine, attachment work, somatic parts work, animus psychology, earth honoring ritual, ancestral lineage repair, and family constellations. I've trained with and been supported by elders, mentors, and leaders in this field that I deeply respect. They helped me come back into my body. They helped me build the capacity to actually process what I was carrying. And they helped me understand how big this work truly is and how important it is right now. Because if you're being called into this path, if your life is cracking open the way that minded, it's not small, it's not random. And you're not meant to do it alone. You need support, you need tools, you need containers that can hold what's rising. And that's why I teach this work now. And so let me share that owl story because it was one of the most surreal and meaningful moments in my entire life. And it happened right in the middle of this collapse. So one night, not long after that mystical experience of my birthday, I pulled into the parking lot of my apartment building. And this was late. And I was just leaving actually a 12-step meeting. I was exhausted. And as I turned off the car, I looked up and they're sitting on um the edge of, or it was a tree. There was a tree in the yard behind my apartment building. So in someone's backyard behind the parking lot. And I see this bird swoop down. So it was a, I thought it was an eagle at first. It was massive. It swooped down from the tree. I'm like, what was that? And all of a sudden, it flew up. It was a great-horned owl. It flew directly at my windshield. It looked me straight in the eyes. And I was freaked out, to be quite honest. At first, it completely took me off guard. And it sat right beside my car. It was massive. It was like two feet tall. I have never even seen a great-horned owl ever, let alone in the middle of the city. Now there's like a park by my place that I go visit. Apparently, there's a bunch of great-horned owls there. I have seen them, but they were not nearly the size of this owl. It was huge. So, anyways, it sat beside my car and I was so freaked out at first. I didn't even get out of my car. I like sat there and then it spooped up and it perched on a tree right outside my bedroom window. And it stayed there the whole night. And it just felt so significant. Like I remember getting out of my car and like walking into the apartment and looking at this owl, and it just stared at me and just watched me uh walk in. Like it really made itself known. It just felt so, so significant. And it definitely wasn't a random animal encounter. It definitely felt like a visitation, like something was trying to get my attention. And at the time, I didn't know anything about animal symbolism or animist teachings. But after that night, um, I definitely had this strong connection to owls. And later, when I began studying ancestral and animist traditions more deeply, I learned that owls show up in many cultures as messengers between worlds, symbols of thresholds and transformation, guides during death and rebirth cycles. They're protectors during dark night of the soul periods, they're carriers of ancestral or spiritual communication and watchers that appear when you're crossing into a new chapter. And some people say that owls come when you're ready to see the truth. Others say they come when you're stepping into a deeper initiation. And some indigenous teachings describe owls as guides who show up when a part of your old life is dying. So a new one can emerge. And at the time I didn't understand any of that. I just knew that that moment shook something awake in me. It was the first time I truly felt like I am not moving through this alone. There is something guiding me. There is something pure. And that night marked the beginning of me really paying attention to the signs, the dreams, the language of my body, the subtle layers of life that I had been so disconnected to for so long. And the synchronicities increased like crazy during that time. I'm going to do a whole episode on syncredicities and the meaning behind that and that and how it shows up. That's a whole other episode. That was a really wild time. I also, I'm a little bit cautious now with how I share things. I think some things need to be kept sacred. And sometimes when we put it out into the collective, you know, people put their own projections on things. I'm careful with who I share this stuff with. You know, you'll always get people who tell you, like, oh, you're just looking for it, or um think that you're making it up or whatever it is. And it takes the sacredness away from it. So I'm also kind of cautious of not sharing things too soon until like they're well well integrated. Right now it's like that was um almost eight years ago. So I feel, you know, I have definitely felt called to share that story is really powerful. And um, but there's our there's other experiences which just felt so deeply personal that I haven't shared, very sacred, that I keep close to me that I don't share with anyone. And of course, that's individual. That's not me telling you not to share things, but just my my own personal uh learning experience with that. Yeah, and that uh that experience, it became one of the first threads that eventually pulled me into ancestral work, somatic work, and the path that I'm on now. And later on, when I um when I began studying this work more deeply, I learned that something that finally made sense of a lot of these moments. And this is actually how our ancestors speak to us. So, not always through words or visions or something dramatic, but often it's through animals showing up in unusual ways. And it can be very dramatic like that, but not always, right? And I feel like I was at a time in my life where I needed these dramatic experiences to like shake me awake, like these number synchronicities, which were so intense. And now they show up more subtly. I still have these experiences, but they're much, they're much more subtle. Our ancestors, our guides, the unseen layers of our lineage, they often communicate through the natural world, through symbols, through timing, through what looks on the surface like coincidence, but it doesn't feel like coincidence at all. Carl Jung is actually the person that coined this synchronicity. So meaningful coincidences that are so specific, so unlikely, and so charged with emotion or insight that they make you stop and pay attention. It's when life lines things up in a way that feels impossible to ignore. And when you're guided from one moment to the next so clearly that the path almost reveals itself in real time. Sometimes it's gentle, like I said, like a dream that repeats until you notice it, or sometimes it's bold, like a great-horned owl staring down at you in the middle of the night. And sometimes it's a sudden flash of recognition and insight. Um yeah, it's every breakdown was divinely orchestrated to put you exactly where you needed to be. I really just want you to know that. And the thing is, these moments don't happen instead of the work. They happen when you're in the work. So when something deep inside you is waking up, when your lineage is stirring, when you're being pulled into your path in a way that your mind can't fully explain it or, but your soul recognizes instantly. And these were the moments that told me I was not crazy, I was not alone. Something ancient was guiding me, helping me, nudging me toward the life I was meant to live. Once I understood that, everything I was experiencing started to make sense, not in a logical way, but a meaningful way, in a way that really felt like home, really felt like a sense of belonging. And here's the part that I really had to learn the hard way. But awakening on its own doesn't mean that you're grounded. It doesn't mean that you're integrated, uh, it doesn't mean that you're embodied. It doesn't mean that you suddenly know how to hold everything that's coming up. In fact, those big synchronicities, those bursts of insight, intuition, downloads, spiritual experiences, they can actually blow your system wide open if you don't have the nervous system capacity to hold them. That definitely was me. My third eye was wide open, my crown was wide open, I was getting signs, dreams, messages, synchronicities nonstop, but I was not in my body. I was dissociated from trauma, I was disconnected from my roots, I didn't feel safe in myself, and my system was overwhelmed physically, emotionally, and spiritually. And this is something people rarely talk about. So a spiritual awakening without grounding is basically a nervous system crisis. You're not crazy. Your body just doesn't feel safe enough to hold what's coming online. And this is where the ancestral piece became everything for me because our ancestors are our roots. They live in the lower chakras, in the body, in our bones, in our instinct, in our sense of belonging. And when you reconnect with them through somatic work, breath, ritual, grounding practices, your system finally gets the message that you are not alone. You are supported, you're safe to be here. And the support is undeniable. Like the experiences I have had from doing this work is, and again, they're so deeply sacred because uh it's me connecting to my own ancestors. But once you tap into this work, it's the experiences you have and the support you experience is just it's undeniable. It can sound like and feel like it's kind of like woo-woo at first when you start to dive into it, or we feel like we're making it up, but then it gets so strong over time. Once I started doing deep somatic work, um, everything began to really shift. So getting into breath work and really getting back into my body, learning my body signals, creating ritual and structure and rebuilding safety. It wasn't instantly, didn't happen instantly or magically, but slowly, steadily I came back into myself. And that's when the spiritual experiences stopped feeling so overwhelming. They stopped feeling so chaotic, and they stopped destabilizing me. They started feeling just like grounded uh guidance, and I could really hold the subtleties. I could really notice the subtleties. I didn't need these big dramatic experiences anymore. And that's really the bridge that I teach in my work: the integration of somatic healing, ancestral lineage work, animist earth honoring practices, nervous system capacity building, ritual structure. Because awakening isn't just about opening, it's about stabilizing what opens. It's about having the body and the support to actually hold the transformation. And, you know, there's something else that I really want to name here is that so many of us are experiencing these awakenings or these breakdown to breakthrough moments because we're actually being positioned. We're being prepared for a new level of consciousness that's coming onto the planet, a new way of being. And honestly, if it feels like the earth right now is in that stage before the birth, that is just what I'm feeling. That deep cramping, the pressure, the contractions. It's intense, it's messy, it's emotional, but it's also signaling that something new is on its way. And I'm gonna be talking a lot more about this in upcoming episodes, especially as we move toward the energies of 2026, because there is such a clear shift coming. So if you aren't already subscribed, definitely make sure that you're following this podcast. I'm gonna go deeper into all of this soon. But I'll kind of give you a little bit of a preview here. So um, this year was a nine cycle. So that's why a lot of this was like, you know, finishing cycles from over the past nine years. And so we're entering into a one. So that's why also this year just felt so, so dramatic. We're finishing a pretty big cycle here. We're entering into this really powerful period where Neptune and Saturn are going to meet at zero degrees Aries. This happens in February 2026. And zero degrees Aries, that's the very beginning of the zodiac. It's the spark, the ignition, the first breath. And Saturn represents the law of karma, structure, discipline. And Neptune represents spirituality, intuition, the unseen. And when those two energies meet in fiery, bold, action-oriented Aries, I believe what I'm sensing is that we're gonna see a rise in what I would call spiritual activism. And um, I would say not activism in the political sense, but um possibly actually, I would say that there's gonna be spiritual activism in the political sense, that as well. But I also do see that it's gonna be this grounded devotional, embodied spirituality. We're gonna see more of that, less of this kind of floating, less escapism, less of that shadow Pisces energy where it's all about kind of this dreamy and unrooted and escaping through, you know, plant medicine ceremonies without having like the ritual structure and the integration and the devotional support. So um that's just an example of what I'm I'm kind of sensing. And this is also going to be um spirituality with a spine, is what I would call it. So spirituality. Spirituality with commitment, spirituality with a backbone. And, you know, when I first went through my awakening, you know, I was wanting to, I was grasping it and wanting to try everything, right? Like trying all these different one-off practices. And I've learned through my own experience, it's really important to devote yourself to something, uh, to really be able to get to that juice, to get to the depth of um this deep spiritual inner work is to devote yourself to something. So for me personally, what I'm devoting myself to, and this is going to be so individual, it's whatever you feel called to. Uh, I have been attending uh sweat ceremonies regularly, and that's been so supportive for me, learning from these incredible um indigenous mentors, teachers, guides. I'm just so, so grateful for. And also devoting myself to my own lineage repair work. So uh having rituals that I do every single day, connecting to with my ancestors daily. So those have been part of my personal um practices that I'm staying devoted to. I like the word devotion rather than discipline. Devotion resonates with me. I always think of like discipline as often I'll think of it as like um having these strict routines of like working out and biohacking and like, yeah, um, kind of more of this masculine energy. Devotion feels really spiritual or very spiritual and feminine to me. Though I know it's not just feminine, but it just feels more feminine to me. And so the momentum is going to be strong going into this year. So we're in a accelerated period. So the year of the horse, um, fast moving energy. So this Aries energy is going to be very fast moving. And I think many people are going to be feeling destabilized. So that can be the shadow of it. So the momentum is going to be strong, but if your body isn't rooted, if your nervous system isn't anchored, this energy can feel like dissociation. So like floating, like being ungrounded or blissed out without direction, which is why the void you might be feeling right now, some of you, is actually a good thing. So that void is the space in between. So when we go through that collapse, there is this liminal space before the rebirth. And often we want to skip through it because it's uncomfortable. It's the unknown. There's uncertainty there. And we like to grasp to certainty. Um, we want to know what's coming next, and we want some hope, right? We want some reassurance, which is understandable, or we're trying to grip and grasp at things. And we don't want to be in that uncomfortable space of like where it feels like nothing's happening, right? Like the cocoon. But it's important. And this is the integration phase. And I really want to uh get this out there that this is the most important phase because this is the fertile soil. This is where planting seed, where we're able to plant seeds. So it's really important to take some space um just to, you know, take some time in solitude, take some time in nature, take some time in community and really just integrate what you just experienced, the lessons from the collapse, you know, just so we don't have to go back over it. Cause what happens is if we don't actually process and integrate the lessons of what we just went through, we're gonna repeat them. So um it's really important to, yeah, just to take this space and honor this time right now. If you are in that void, just know that this is temporary. It's gonna accelerate. It is coming. We know it's coming. And just, yeah, just take that time. Um, you know, there's there's seasons for everything in life. And I think right now, especially in the winter, this is a perfect time um to really uh slow down and connect back to your body and process and digest and metabolize your your past experiences from this deep shedding that we just went through. And so that's exactly what's happening right now. We need that void for integration before this acceleration hits. And so it's a great time for your somatic practices, great time for meditation, great time for journaling, getting outside. Even if you're like me and you live in Canada and it's freezing, get out into the air and onto the land. This is the time to root your energy so that when this new wave of spiritual discipline and spiritual action arrive and this motivation comes, you're grounded enough to hold it and to take action and to step forward and to really use those energies to create uh momentum in your life. Because what what's coming next really does require embodiment. It does require nervous system capacity. It's gonna require devotion, not escapism. So if you're feeling like you're in this pause right now, that doesn't mean that you're behind. Just know that. It means that you're being prepared and just appreciate it. I always look back now at all the times where things um kind of fell away, where I was going through these collapses, and I've gone through so many sheddings over the past eight years. And there is always this liminal space before the rebirth. Um, it's happened often often. And now I've just come to really enjoy being in the uncertainty and not grasping at things and not even needing. I used to always need to get like um readings, like intuitive readings or astrology um readings, my chart read. Um, I would go see uh intuitive psychics, mediums, and I still love all of that stuff. But for me, I just went through a period where I'm like, no, I need to learn to just be with the uncertainty. For me, that's just the phase I was in. I'm not saying that that's where you're where you should be. I love all that stuff that I just mentioned as well. But I did go through a pay uh a phase just recently where I just let myself be in the discomfort of the uncertainty, just so I could build my capacity to be with it, you know, be with those uncomfortable sensations in my body. Is this idea that we're in the first wave of awakening? And I want to just gently say, this is not the first wave, far from it. Even when I went through my own awakening years ago, that wasn't a first wave. People have been waking up, remembering, reconnecting, and doing this kind of deep soul work for decades, probably centuries, a lot longer than that. Um, but honestly, for generations. And what we're seeing now isn't the beginning. It's simply another wave. Now, 2020 was a big moment, and I think that's where the confusion comes in. 2020 wasn't this first wave, and many people have said that too. It was just one of the first mask-level collective awakenings we've seen in our lifetime. So it was an external, global, obvious awakening to the external. Remember, we talked about the three different awakenings. So a lot of people were cracked open uh during that time. And I would say that those were the early waves of collective awakening, not the first waves of awakening at all. Um, but what's happening now is similar. So we're starting to see these awakenings happen on a larger scale. So this is where the hundredth monkey effect comes in. So once a certain member, uh, certain number of people reach a new level of consciousness, it starts to ripple through the collective field. So it becomes easier for others to access. So awareness spreads faster, healing accelerates. But here's the thing: it still has to happen in waves. So if millions and millions of people all awakened overnight, it would literally overwhelm the collective nervous system. It would destabilize the planet. So we're not built yet to hold that level of intensity all at once. And so these waves are actually very intelligent and they're necessary. And absolutely no wave is better than another. Being early doesn't make you special. Being later doesn't make you behind. You can have someone who woke up decades ago and someone who woke up in 2024, and the person who just recently woke up may actually reach certain milestones faster because the collective field is already more primed. So the pathways are more open. That's how consciousness works. And you're not less than if you wake up later. You're not more special if you woke up earlier. None of that means anything because even when we awaken, we also cycle back. So we can move forward, then regress, then repeat lessons, then expand again. It's not linear and it's not one and done. I also want to name something with love that when we go through an awakening, the ego often shatters. But then a spiritual ego can come in right behind it. This is the part that wants to feel special, chosen, unique, the one, the starseed, the light worker, the first wave leader, whatever the label is. And it's not bad. It's usually just the wounded inner child uh trying to feel significant. And again, this isn't about judgment. I went through that phase. So that's why I'm speaking to it. And most people do. I still have to catch myself sometimes because that spiritual ego is sneaky. The important part is just noticing it, laughing a little bit. Don't take it so seriously or don't judge yourself. And remembering that this work is not about hierarchy. It's not about who's ahead or behind, and it's not about which wave you're in. And it is really important to do that inner child work and that deep psycho-spiritual work, right? Um, when we do notice these parts come out. It's simply about being embodied and being available to what's unfolding through you right now in this moment. And so I am going to keep diving deeper into all of these topics in future episodes: the collective awakening, ancestral healing, somatic grounding, spiritual openings, nervous system capacity, synchronisties, and how to actually navigate these waves in a grounded, embodied way. So this is the time where this information matters. This is the time where so many people are waking up or being cracked open or being called into their deeper path. And we need spaces where we can have real conversations about it. So if you haven't already, make sure you subscribe so you don't miss the upcoming episodes. And I'm going to be sharing a lot more about how to support your through these next few years, what these cycles mean and how to move through them in a way that's regulated, supported, and guided. And if you do feel called to go deeper, just know that I do work one-on-one with people who are moving through these initiations, people who are navigating awakenings, ancestral material, grief, identity shifts, and major life transitions. And I also have my first ever round of my ancestral healing program coming up. It's the very first cohort. So this will be the lowest price it will ever be. And there's a code for another$100 off in the show notes if you do feel uh drawn to join. So there are already incredible women inside, women I've worked with for years. And it's truly such a powerful space to be held, seen, and supported. So you can find all of that in the show notes. But either way, I'm really glad that you're here. You're not alone in what you're feeling, you're not imagining the intensity of this moment. And there is support for you in your body, in your lineage, in the unseen, and in community. So stay tuned, stay connected, and I'll be sharing more soon, including tools, practices, and resources to help you feel resourced over the coming years. So thank you so much for being here. Thank you for listening, and thank you for being part of this collective shift.