Solar Plexus Healing & the Fire Horse | Why Stagnancy, Confusion & Emotional Heaviness Are Signs of Spiritual Awakening

In this Earth and Star Wisdom sharing, Medicine Woman of the Earth and Stars, Nancy Valentine Smith explores why so many people are feeling stuck, ungrounded, emotionally overwhelmed, and confused about the direction of their lives right now — and why this is not a sign of regression but of profound spiritual awakening.

Drawing on her deeply remembered wisdom of the Earth and Stars, Nancy shares what the Fire Horse energies and solar plexus activation of this new cycle are doing across our energy centres, our emotional body, and our physical being — and how the sacred circle of our higher self holds the map for moving through the in-between into genuine self-empowerment.

Welcome to Earth and Star Wisdom, 

I'm Nancy Valentine Smith.

In these times, we are moving so quickly in so many ways. It is really quite interesting that we’re trying to understand and to balance ourselves in so many spaces of shifts and growth that are occurring now. I feel and say that there are many realities occurring around us and within us.

Sometimes there are feelings of confusion, feelings of being stuck and being in stagnancy. This is actually quite normal as we are going through these processes of moving out of the old and into the new. We are influenced by the energy in the stars, and we are influenced — and a lot of times affected — by the dislodging of that old consciousness in our being.

Why everything feels like a glitch right now

When all of this and more happens at once — and a lot of times throughout our day — it can cause many glitches in our system. Which means that we might be feeling grounded, but also ungrounded. Focused, but also not being sure where and how we are moving forward. I do know that we are definitely moving forward because that’s the momentum of these times, and that moving forward is happening really quickly.

But our physical reality might not seem like that. We might be feeling that we are stuck, or that certain things in our physical reality aren’t activated or manifested yet. And for many, there’s still a lot of feelings and occurrences around still clearing out the old stuff, still having to be with some of the intensity of heaviness that we might be experiencing.

So that can bring up these feelings and thoughts that we’re actually not moving forward, that we’re being stuck in the past, or not feeling like we are on the right path, or that anything is actually happening on our journey or in our lives. Now, that’s not the truth. Because even in the supposed stuckness and stagnancy, there is a lot happening.

So when we’re in that space, we at times will feel overwhelmed because there is a misaligning situation occurring in our energy centres, in our energy field and the realms of our being. What that means is that your head centres, your mental realm, might be visioning and affirming of what you want to step into. Yet your emotional body might be still in a different realm, having to deal with old patterns and old feelings around disempowerment. While your physical embodiment is in the hard work and intense work of clearing out many layers of rigidity and old structures. And all this is happening at the same time.

The Fire Horse energies and what they are pulling up

These energies, as they are moving through our being and our lives at this time, are also being impacted by the fast-moving activations of the Fire Horse. We are in that Fire Horse time. So much is being pulled up from within us and it doesn’t have an order. It doesn’t have a linear flow. Because what’s being pulled up is frequency specific — which means its vibration is like the vibrations being triggered by our external realities, bringing up specific old consciousness within us to be cleared.

I know that at this time there are a lot of energies being illuminated, connected to our self-worth, our self-image, about being seen, about our independence, about our freedom. This is all connected to the solar plexus. So at times in the external reality, there could be events that come up that are frequency specific, or have a vibrational alignment to what is within us — that represents that disempowerment, or not being seen, or around our worth, around how we actually see ourselves. Which impacts how we see reality, and how we see each other.

Please be aware that your experience of moving through the placements of the planets and the activations of this new cycle is very personal — between you and your best friend, your higher self. This is a really interesting time, because we’re actually in a time where there is no map to guide us. Because that map and those mappings actually reside in our solar plexus.

The solar plexus — dismantling the old structures

The solar plexus is a vast realm that has so many links, so many transitional pathways to many consciousness and realities. For aeons we have been in a structure — a controlled structure of an old system. And that old structure in that old system has had strong, strong power through our solar plexus.

It starts influencing our relationship with the outer world. It brings in those old contracts around how our I Am presence, our sovereignty, interacts with the way consciousness is — which is the community, which are systems like governments, churches, schools, higher learning, the extended family, our tribes, our cultures, and so on. The old established doctrines and dogmas.

These are the old structures. And at this moment they are being dismantled within us through the solar plexus, with the energies of the new cycle guided by the Fire Horse. So that means we are feeling, in each moment and in each day, an acceleration of remembering, of awakening, of transmutation, of transformation, of purging and releases.

And at the same time we are sensing, we are allowing in the new expansive space of empowerment. But it’s self-empowerment, and it’s empowerment that has no map. What I mean by no map is that it’s an empowerment that is in a space or realm of a high consciousness — one that is coming to the forefront through our external reality at this time.

The in-between — that sacred threshold space

Every time you are shifting, you are remembering through the trials and tribulations of transmutation. You are accessing more and more new layers in the higher grounds of yourself. And there is always — always — when we go through this process, this initiation, there is this space in between those realms. And it’s this space that I call the in-between, the threshold, the crossroad.

That space is the time when we are consciously or unconsciously balancing and working with alchemy within us — on the different realms of our mental, our emotional being, and our physical body. With what’s occurring now, this is really centred in that solar plexus realm. For this realm has this gateway, this portal, to our higher self. Our higher self, our higher wisdom, our soulfulness is always there. But because of our old structures of consciousness — aeons of creations from that old system — these structures have kept us in a space of linear time, of linear transformation.

But the truth is that there is no beginning and there is no end. All there is, is the presence, the moment. For in each moment, when we really understand this — that each moment is the life force, is the mana — anything that is still in that resonance of the past and probable future is not in that mana. It’s not in that life force.

What we are moving into is the presence of the present within us, emanating throughout the field of consciousness that is our being, to then effect the external reality as a resonance, as a vibration. To effect and create the new reality, the new way, according to you.

The sacred circle — your true home

If you start attuning to the way of the Divine Mother — if you just know that our divine truth here on Mother Earth is about connection, about kinship — that is the natural state of divine truth here on this beautiful place, Mother Earth.

We are in a sacred circle. You are in this sacred circle. So when you look and remind yourself that in a circle there is only a continuing vibration of unity, of connection, of kinship, of alignment to the light — to love — then in that sacred circle, you are in the middle. And all around you are the many possibilities and the many potential realities.

Please know that within the sacred circle, those potential realities, those probabilities, are all equal in their revelations — which is to reveal to you the synergy of light and love that you carry within you. As you move out of the timed structures of the old system, you will enter into that divine truth of your beingness, which is the sacred circle within you and all around you here on Mother Earth.

When your body, mind and emotions aren’t in the same place

It’s just those moments when you’re not feeling what I’m saying. But you know that there is something happening in the peripheral of your energy. That’s because there is an alignment, a juggling, a rebalancing, a realignment occurring. Your thoughts and beliefs and perception could be way out here. Your emotional feelings could be way over here, trying to assist your pain body.

And while that’s happening, your physical body is going — let’s just keep this together. Let’s just keep this together. It is trying to focus on assisting the nervous system, the fascia, the liver, the kidney, the pancreas, and so on, to move into the presence of the present. So there is a lot of past that’s been cleared out, and a lot of past that’s being played out of your physical body.

You’re not falling behind. There is no boat for you to miss. You are right on your time as you transmute that time consciousness. This is such a big time of higher knowledge occurring in our system. We’re going to feel neither here nor there — and that’s okay. Clear and confused — that’s okay. Grounded and all over the place — that is absolutely fine. That is so in tune with the shifting that’s occurring, that has been activated and called for from the solar plexus.

The lifting of loneliness — merging with your higher self

At the centre of your sacred circle, ready to meet you, is your higher self — your wisdom keeper, the soulful embodiment of divine light channelling through your physical embodiment. As you continue to remember, to feel, to be, to move into your sacred circle, this connection, this merging, occurs. And this is the realm of this transmutation of the solar plexus.

Because when you start entering this sacred circle through the solar plexus, something very sacred starts to happen in your cells. And that is the lifting of aloneness and loneliness. Because that aloneness and loneliness that many of you experience comes from the solar plexus — and that solar plexus holds it because it’s about not being comfortable, about being in fear of being your authentic self. There is a whole story about being in that fear and separation of really showing who you are. And it’s very historical, very genetic, the impacts of being here on the Earth.

And through that solar plexus sacredness, when we start to connect more and more with our higher self in the sacred circle of our being, that lifting of that aloneness and loneliness starts occurring. Because what happens is this sacred merging of your soulful connection, love, friendship, family — all embodied in your higher being, your higher self. You, in the robes of light.

So right now, with all that’s going on under the direction of the Fire Horse — which is quick pace, fast movement, acceleration — we are in this space of the solar plexus. And interestingly enough, the totem of the solar plexus is the horse. So this time is very powerful in picking up that energy to move out of the smallness and the stagnancy and the restriction of our self-judgement, and into — even just for a little bit — into self-love.

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