January Energy Update ~A Baseline Shift~
“Root Chakra — the work at hand, discernment at the heart”
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Hiya Traveller,
As we move deeper into January, I’m sensing a subtle but meaningful shift in the collective and in my own inner landscape — and I wanted to share a reflection that feels true right now, as both a personal update and an invitation into your own awareness.
In recent weeks, something in me has settled in a way that feels less like “What if?” and more like “What is.” This isn’t a dramatic breakthrough. It’s quieter than that — a steadying of the ground beneath my feet, a nervous system that can meet the present moment without bracing, anticipating, or catapulting forward into hypothetical futures.
This shift feels rooted — literally and symbolically — in what many traditions call the root chakra.
Root: Safety, Survival, and the Present Moment
The root chakra is often described spiritually as grounding, stability, or belonging. But there’s a very real psychological and nervous-system expression of this energy too: how we experience safety in the body, how we orient to threat or ease, and how the autonomic nervous system maps what it perceives as safe versus dangerous.
When that system leans toward survival, the mind often fills the gaps with “what if” thinking:
What if something goes wrong?
What if I’m not ready?
What if I miss something?
These are not failures. They are survival strategies — remnants of a nervous system that once needed high alert.
What I’m noticing now is a shift toward discernment instead of anticipation. Rather than asking “What if?” I’m learning to ask:
→ “What is actually happening right now?”
That’s not avoidance.
That’s not numbness.
That’s choice returning to the system.
Why This Matters - Physiology + Practice
This shift isn’t only psychological or spiritual — it’s biological.
When the nervous system stays in survival mode, stress hormones like cortisol can dominate. The body prepares for threat even in the absence of one. Over time, this flood response becomes automatic.
As regulation improves, other hormones — like DHEA, often associated with resilience and wellbeing — return to the field. This isn’t abstract. It’s a recalibration that happens slowly, through repetition, safety signals, and lived experience.
This is why practice matters, not as a to-do list but as a baseline signal to your body that safety is possible.
HeatMath and Real-Time Regulation
Part of this baseline shift for me has been the incorporation of HeartMath coherence techniques into my life — not as something I schedule, but something that becomes woven into the moments of my day.
At first, HeartMath felt like a practice you did on purpose. These days I find myself:
pausing before reacting,
taking a heart-centered breath,
and sometimes — like trying the USB plug in the other direction instead of losing my patience — doing something small, steady, and surprisingly powerful.
That’s the essence of coherence.
Not perfection.
Not calm all the time.
Just a tiny pause, a choice, and a nervous system that gets to learn safety through repetition.
This Month’s Creative Practice
This month, colour has become a guide — a way of letting root-level themes surface through my Morning Pages practice, inspired by Julia Cameron and her creative consciousness practices The Artists Way.
The red journal wasn’t planned — it arrived as an idea and I followed it. I’ve found it’s helping me meet some resistance that’s been sitting at the root level for a while, without needing to push or analyse it.
I’m not using it to write everything down. It’s just a place to let sensation, energy, and small thoughts land, and to see what shifts when they’re given their own container.
I’ve also been noticing how the same themes show up visually — in light, in place, in companionship, in the ordinary moments of my days. Photography has become another way of staying in the practice, without needing words.
Images from this month’s practice — an open invitation to notice what’s already part of yours. enJOY
Sound, Movement, and Presence
Sound has also become an ally. Low-frequency sound baths and rhythms that promote motion in the body — even subtle, breath-led motion — support grounding in ways words alone cannot.
My recent collective tarot reading also included a 5-root chakra sound bath — not to “clear energy,” but to establish safety and make room for only what is truly ours to feel and integrate. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s there to watch on my channel when you’re ready.
Why I’m Sharing This Now
This is an energy update — a personal snapshot and a shared reflection.
I’m sharing it publicly now because I’ve begun to sense that:
the collective nervous system is loosening its grip on survival threats,
cycles are completing without crisis,
and there are a growing number of people who will resonate with these themes without needing intense activation.
This blog is a space where words live when they aren’t enough for spoken reflection alone — and for those who prefer a written companion to the video, you’ll find this a grounded doorway in.
You’ll continue to find me:
✨ weekly on YouTube with collective tarot and reflective readings
✨ in The Portal Place with intuitive workshops and conversations
And as we approach the end of the Year of the Snake and prepare to celebrate Chinese New Year on February 10, 2026, I’ll be sharing another reflection that feels aligned with that transition.
If you’re curious about:
learning and practising the quick HeartMath coherence technique in real time with me,
👉 you’re welcome to book a free introductory coherence callexploring the HeartMath mentoring program launching in February — I’m grateful to be accepting a small number of 1:1 mentees
joining me for virtual or in-person tarot readings or a workshop for foolish entrepreneurs
…all of those are there for you when the timing aligns.
Thanks for being here — for reading, listening, feeling, and showing up in your own way.
I often think in images, patterns, and energy before words. In a year where every platform offered a “year in review,” I found ChatGPT especially fascinating — not as a writer, but as a way of noticing the questions we ask. As a tarot reader (and a psychology student who loves statistics), that curiosity matters. I don’t use it to replace my voice — I use it to help my voice (and these emails) arrive.