Lunar New Year Wisdom: How to Work With Fire Horse Energy to Reset Your Life (Christie Jordan) - Episode 216

Lunar New Year isn’t just a date on the calendar—it’s an energetic turning point.

Christie Jordan, intuitive healer, acupuncturist, teacher, and founder of Source Healing, joins us to explore the deeper meaning behind Lunar New Year and why this ancient tradition is still so relevant to our lives today.

Christie breaks down what Lunar New Year truly represents through the lens of  the moon cycle and the natural rhythms of the Earth. We talk about why Lunar New Year is actually considered a Spring Festival, how it marks the moment when life begins stirring beneath the surface, and what that means for your own energy, intentions, and healing.

With Fire Horse energy leading this lunar year, Christie explains how to work with this bold, activating force—without burning yourself out. This conversation is equal parts grounding and energizing, offering simple ways to integrate Eastern wisdom into your everyday life—no overwhelm, no perfection required.

If you’re craving a fresh start that feels real (not forced), this episode is for you.

WHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• What Lunar New Year actually represents—and why it follows the moon, not the calendar
• Why Lunar New Year is known as a Spring Festival, even when it falls in winter
• How ancient agrarian wisdom connects to hope, renewal, and new growth
• What Fire Horse energy means and how to work with it consciously
• How qi (life force energy) begins moving long before we can “see” change
• Simple rituals and reflections to align with the lunar cycle
• How to integrate Eastern traditions into modern life in a grounded, authentic way

KEY TAKEAWAY
Lunar New Year reminds us that change begins beneath the surface. Even when it feels quiet—or frozen—something new is already forming. This is your invitation to trust the timing, honor the pause, and let your inner fire guide what comes next.

MORE WITH CHRISTIE JORDAN

• Visit sourcehealing https://www.sourcehealing.com/ to find out more about working with Christie Jordan.
• Follow @sourcehealingchicago

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Transcript

Robyn: [00:00:00] I'm Robyn Miller Brecker and I'm Karen Loenser. Welcome to Seeking Center, the podcast. Join us each week as we have the conversations and we, through the spiritual and holistic clutter for you, we'll boil it down to what you need to know now, we're all about total wellness, which to us needs building a healthy life.

Karen: On a physical, mental, and spiritual level, we'll talk to the trailblazers who'll introduce you to the practices, products, and experiences that may be just what you need to hear about to transform your life. If you're listening to this, it's no accident. Think of this as your seeking center and your place to seek your center.

Robyn: And for the best wellness and spiritual practitioners, experts, products, experiences, and inspo, visit theseekingcenter. com. We are thrilled to welcome Christie Jordan, intuitive healer, acupuncturist, teacher, speaker, and founder of Source Healing, a sanctuary for acupuncture and integrative medicine.

In Chicago and surrounding areas. Christie has spent the [00:01:00] past 30 years guiding people back to their own inner wisdom through intuitive energy work and traditional Chinese medicine. And because Lunar New Year falls on February 17th, this year, we couldn't imagine a better guest to help us understand the deeper meaning behind it and how to use this powerful year of the fire horse energy to realign, renew, and reignite our own lives.

We'll talk about what this lunar year really symbolizes, the rituals and reflections that can help us set clear intentions and how we can integrate Eastern traditions into our daily lives in a way that feels authentic and grounded. Get ready to feel inspired, and maybe even a little fiery as we step into this new lunar cycle together.

Hi, Christie. Hi, Karen. 

Karen: Hi, Robyn. Hi, Christie Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. So excited to be here. 

Robyn: Oh my goodness, and I can feel your fire. Christie, let's start talking about what Lunar New Year means? Because there's a [00:02:00] lot of people listening that don't actually understand 

Christie: Lunar is Moon.

So way back, in the whole Eastern culture, China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, just out in the East before they were in tune with the Gregorian or the solar calendar, which is what the West is used to. January starts New Year, right? January 1st. In the east day one. Of any month is the new moon in a lunar calendar. And that makes a ton of sense. So they're not following an actual paper calendar and a paper schedule. The minute they see the new moon, it is the first day of the the new month.

So in the lunar calendar, the actual month that the winter solstice is actually month 11. 

January would be month 12, so that's 

Robyn: right. 

Christie: January would be month 12 in the lunar calendar. And then. February, it generally lands in February or late January would be the actual first month after the 12th month of the lunar calendar.

[00:03:00] And the reason why they do this is you notice that there is a link between the actual winter solstice, which is where the darkest, the deepest time that the seed is in the earth. It is the shortest day of the year. Everything is. Frozen if you're in the Northern Hemisphere. And when the actual lunar New Year happens, we're not the Far East is not just celebrating, oh, it's the first day of the new year, let's put up lanterns and the Dragon Festival.

it goes beyond that, back in the agrarian societies. It is a collective recognition of QI and movement down in the earth, So what we can't see on top of the earth down deep in the earth movement the bulbs are starting to sprout.

There is movement beyond what we can see and hear, and Culturally, they had an understanding that there was absolutely something happening. And so the celebration was tied to hope. And it wasn't just the word renewal, [00:04:00] it was actual renewal. it was a celebration of new crops that were waiting to grow.

So lunar New Year is actually called a celebration of spring. It's a spring festival. And why would it be spring in the winter in February? Because movement is happening. So you remember they were tied to this idea of qi and energy, And things don't have to be out in the open for us to at least acknowledge that there is movement happening. And that comes within us too, it's the ultimate collective recognition of Awakening and Hope. 

Karen: What a great way to start the year 

Robyn: So now let's talk about what the energy of this year w horse. what does that mean?

How do we use that? What does the energy feel like?

Christie: so I'm gonna put my own spin on this because what I bring to the table is 30 years of being within people's energy fields in their bodies, knowing what my body is [00:05:00] moving through, working with really high functioning adults, and young adults too.

 What we're seeing the horse is about movement and freedom and courage and speed and charisma. and then the element of fire of five elements in the east is about ignition and visibility and passion, leadership, volatility and transformation. 

 So those two together just think about this huge life force happening.

And when I think of that. Fire horse. Personally for me, there's a part of me that goes, oh no. I am so burned out. Are we not all burned out? All I'm seeing is burnout out on my table. All right? And my treatment rooms. We are highly functional adults feeling a collective burnout happening, and then here's this big energy coming in.

If it's not. Managed. If it's not nourished and anchored with the yin, there's too much [00:06:00] yang and fire, we're gonna burn out even more. And so that's where I want you all to lean into because there's this feeling that we have to do more and take the bull by the horns and take more action and.

don't miss this opportunity because the universe is throwing us all this stuff, and I'm sitting there going, holy sch smokes. Can I take in any more than I'm doing as a practitioner, as a business owner, as a mother, as a dog owner, as a wife, as a daughter, as a sister, can I take in any more as a community member, can I do any more than I'm doing?

so the shadow side of this, the downside of this is absolute burnout. Fire can rage through the forest. Fire can burn down a house. And so it's something that can't be contained if you're not being mindful of it. 

Robyn: Wow. Yes. I am so glad that you [00:07:00] are. Putting that in such visual terms for people.

Karen: We were just talking even before we started recording about how everybody we're talking to is feeling this sense of exhaustion. And I have to say, like this idea of a horse speeding off into the distance sounds really great. But I envision myself like it's a runaway horse, like I'm Holding on for dear life, And so I think that's in the collective, so I really appreciate you walking us through a how that can energetically not feel so good, even though. The vision of it might feel good. How do we balance that 

Christie: I'm telling you, we can still partake in the energy of the fire horse.

Okay? In fact, it's happening whether we like it or not. We cannot control this thing that's happening called Big Life force. We're all in it and we'll all experience it in our own ways. cause we're all on our individual paths. And so for some it might be more visible For others, it's a deeply [00:08:00] internal transformation that can then later on in years turn into a physical thing, So don't. Try too much to control it, and we'll go into some action steps that you guys can take. There, everyone's like saying bold action, breakthrough all this other stuff, and I'm like, oh man. the shadow again not only the burnout, but think about scorched earth and impulsivity, because you're just so in your ner your nervous system is so on fire. 

 effectively we are, 

Robyn: oh my gosh, yes. 

Christie: So this is the stuff when people are talking about the fire horse, no one is talking about it.

I'm gonna talk about it because I'm seeing it on my table and I'm feeling it and I was walking with my friend the other day. And I just heard two ladies walking by and the woman said out loud and I heard her and I'm like, here it is check. She goes, I am so exhausted. And I said, that is the theme of the day.

There is collective energy that is [00:09:00] colossally. Exhausting. We are individually being triggered like no one's business because this last year of the snake has been shedding and we are being triggered like no one's business right now. And we think that's done. It's not done, and so I want you guys to look at triggers that you have and not see triggers as bad.

When someone goes, I'm triggered and they're responsive. Triggers. I'm like, awesome. Triggers are just energy that's coming to the surface for you to clear, for you to say goodbye to. And if you can see it as that, you can nourish yourself through the triggers that those triggers don't exist except in memory in your cells.

 If you didn't have that as energy in your cells, they wouldn't come up. But when these are coming up, you're making more space for nourishment, for more compassion, for more light. And that's where we're moving towards you guys. And when you can make more room that's when you're more capable of stepping into this fire horse energy, If you're stepping into [00:10:00] this fire horse energy and you are not releasing these triggers. Holy smokes. Talk about scorched earth because then you're reactive and you're impulsive and you're trauma throwing. And I've done my fair share of that. Believe me, ask my husband we all do this human thing.

 All right? And we just have to have compassion for ourselves while we're doing this. We have to have a level of awareness. And so hold your horses just 

Robyn: Literally. Yes. That's 

Karen: awesome. 

Christie: Is this speaking to you ladies? 

Robyn: Very much. Because I think the only way out is through which we've talked about before on this podcast, and when you talk about those triggers coming up and that level of exhaustion with them, we're all doing it right?

And rather than push them back down 

Actually addressing them and then being able to then harness this energy of the fire [00:11:00] horse with our dreams and intentions and everything, what ever it is that is driving us within. Then we can actually use it positively.

Karen: I think that's probably what I, and many listeners would wanna know, because clearly we all feel that and you're saying like trying not to control too much, which is totally understandable too. So what's the balance that we can make as we are feeling this energy and wanting to reground ourselves so that we're not taken away by the runaway horse?

Christie: The whole idea of the runaway horse that is on fire, that's gonna take you to where your hearts, so you remember the fire in Chinese medicine in the physical body is connected to the heart energy center. And we are having so many heart right now where we're coming more in online and in tune with what our heart's desires are, and we're meant to move forward with our heart's desires and the fire horse is there to take us there, And the thing is, you don't have [00:12:00] to force it, and you don't have to force yourself to write on it. It's happening. . There's so many ways to move into balance. So the fire horse in Chinese medicine is all about the yang.

 The yin and yang. 

Robyn: a lot of people don't know, can you? 

Christie: Yin and yang simple, and all those tai chi centers and all those acupuncture centers, and the Qigong centers, the Dao symbol of yin and yang represents. The entire cosmos in that circle.

One black, one white one is the masculine one's, the feminine one is the action, and one is the receiving. One is the fire and one is the water, and it just goes on and on. it represents the duality that makes up the whole, that is the entire cosmos. That is the oneness. That is the universe, it is, whatever you wanna call it, that is the oneness, And so the DAOs, which Chinese medicine is based on, and the way we see our bodies, if you can see it, because we are in a dualistic universe, right? Of free will and choice, and not as bad and not as wrong, but as something [00:13:00] to consistently balance out, there's no perfect balance.

State. I wish there was. So when the yang and the fire is on, the yin is diminished, right? So in that circle the yin then the whole yang gets even bigger in that circle. And when the yang gets bigger, the fire's too much.

The masculine energy, the making things happen is too much. And the yin, which is the powerful creator. The yin that is the divine feminine, that is the receiver that creates through allowing and being, which is what we're all moving into, and that is what we women have a hard time moving into in modern day society.

By the way, I have a feeling I. That the listeners here, we know how to move into action and dynamic action and making things happen. We do not have an issue with YANG and creation our issue is the receiving. And so when we see this yang, we know how to jump in and make things happen and all this other stuff that is not an issue.

Our issue [00:14:00] is grounding down and rooting more firmly into our water receiving yin nourishment, calm. And so if you are not doing that, you will have a runaway fire and it will scorch everything. 

 So I'm gonna tell you from a Chinese medicine perspective, the more you regularly mind what it is that on a daily basis nourishes you.

Let me give you an example of what I just noticed. My husband and I, we love to watch, like in the evenings what we'll do is we'll get off work and we'll watch something together on tv and sometimes it just gets repetitive where I'm like, this is not what I wanna do. I just wanna spend time to myself in my room and just, and so just recently I'm like, do you mind if I just go upstairs and just fill myself up and he's okay with it. And I just had to create and carve that space out 'cause I have to nourish and fill myself up and fill in my water and move into my own creative non formed space with no external stimulation.

 I'm not tuning into anyone else's [00:15:00] energy field and nothing outside of me that is me nourishing my yin. 

 So in Chinese medicine, if your yin isn't anchored in the earth. ng, just goes to fire and you can have all these symptoms and a lot of symptoms that I'm seeing right now collectively, I've seen in the last five years more dizziness, vertigo, ringing in their ears, migraines, headaches than ever in the last.

30 years, like collectively, because it's just all this yang is rising, like fire rises and heat rises, And for us to ground with more water, ground with more nourishment, ground , with more, rituals, And rituals for me is just staying in that space of non-structure. The fluidity and the flow, And opening up. And I even have a block of time that says creative open flow space and it feels like non-productive time. What you know, right? Feeling yang that is like not okay.

'cause I have from 6:00 AM to 10:00 PM I'm scheduled [00:16:00] out, and so when I actually create a block of non-productive time, I've had to train myself that is productive to my end. 

Robyn: Yeah. I think people need to give, themselves permission. 

For that. Because it's actually what I would like people to understand.

It is medicine for your soul. 

Christie: Truth. And it's strategy. Okay. I want you to see non-productive time that you actually schedule out for yourself it's strategy for you to be able. To receive this massive flow that's coming in, this big energy because you're anchored in your yin, you need the water to tame the fire, otherwise it's a runaway fire. and what that does is it regulates your nervous system.

It's what you do in yoga. It's what you do in breath work. It's what you do in meditation. It's what you do in that non-structured time.

You're regulating your own nervous system so that you're not impulsive. It's easier to be impulsive in the fire horse, year, so [00:17:00] regulate your nervous system before you act. 

Karen: Oh, that's such good advice. because I think so often we are so caught up even without the horse energy around us.

So many of us are in that frequency. In that energy where we're not giving ourselves that time to reground, to take that breath, to just remember that we have to take these moments. As you're saying to reregulate ourselves. So that's such a good point that you could easily be swept up in quick decisions or losing your temper or any of those kind of immediate reactions to things in this energy if you don't take that time to reground.

Christie: truth. And so remember, collectively I'm talking to high functioning. People who are wired this way by culturally, by society, by our schools, by you name it, of what it is that we have to do to be successful, to have worth, to whatever [00:18:00] those stories are. We are in the midst of rewiring that, how do we be productive?

what is it to have worth and be productive? And so there's momentum coming in and we can feel it. And again, I'm sitting there going holy ole. I don't know. And so if this momentum comes and I'm scattered, and it's easy to be scattered 'cause there's so many things, we're playing so many roles, we wear so many hats, it becomes the chaos of a runaway fire.

 So don't let this momentum become so scattered that it becomes chaos. 

Robyn: What do you recommend in terms of that nourishing you gave a couple examples of yourself. What are you telling your client. 

Christie: it can be different for everyone, but I'm gonna tell you, here's some universals and you might even roll your eyes, but perhaps the answers are already right underneath your nose.

Perhaps it's the universe telling you it's already within you. You have access to it. Perhaps it's not having [00:19:00] to climb on a mountaintop. To get these answers and to get what you need. The number one thing I'm gonna say is access nature in any way you possibly can, because nature doesn't care that your nervous system is dis-regulated.

It'll just absorb you into its regulation. 

 It is a bigger energy than your dysregulated nervous system. The tree, I can stare at a tree all day long. And that somehow just does something to me. And it just tells me the tree's, like I. I'm not gonna even tune into your dysregulation.

and you can either vibe with me or not. I'm like, I'm vibing with you. I'm vibing with you and thank you so much. And then when you're amongst many trees and the mountain and any water, and even when I lived in the city, that one tree sitting outside, living in the urban jungle.

 Build me up so much. I'm gonna say daily movement of some sort. I'm gonna say also the intense movement, especially as we women get older. The intense [00:20:00] movement that we thought we had to do when we were younger, it burns out our yen. I'm just telling you something. We need more of our yen.

And what is estrogen? It's yen. You don't wanna burn out more of that as we move into perimenopause and menopause, so whatever it is to be gentle and not burn out our water, burn out our yin, burn out our estrogen. daily movement. Hydration. Let's keep it simple.

 This is right underneath your nose. You don't have to drink eight glasses a day. what robot? Like we are human beings. We are not ai, we are not robots. Listen to your bodies. some sort of consistent sleep rhythm is really important. If you're not sleeping well, get help some valerian tea, do something that feels good in your body. Something's different for everyone. Regulate your sleep. Protect it. 

 Also and this is another collective thing I'm seeing. In the last five years, and I'm loving what I see. People are really turning [00:21:00] online.

If you notice that, all of a sudden you don't want as much alcohol Have you noticed that ladies? 

Robyn: Absolutely. 

Christie: up leveling. If you notice that you want certain kinds of foods, if you notice like I. Never thought I'd give up sugar. I'm like, you know what? I've been a vegan for 26 years and blah, blah, blah.

I'm not giving up sugar. Guess what? In menopause, I give up sugar, not because I have some incredible discipline. That's not me. It's because my body was asking for it. It's growing through some changes and I'm like, the things I said, I never give up. I'm like, whoa, I cannot believe it. So when you're listening to your body and what. It wants and needs, there's no right and wrong and there's no one thing for everyone. I just wanna, 

Robyn: yeah, I think that's really true. 

Christie: And so that's what I'm saying is you guys know there is no hierarchy of what the best way to eat is. It will keep shifting and changing for you, and so do [00:22:00] not feel badly.

like you wanna take small steps where you're really honoring this one vehicle, you get to drive in this lifetime. When I say you, I'm saying your consciousness, your spirit, gets to drive this one vehicle that you don't get to trade in. Listen to it. It's 

Robyn: so true. 

Christie: All right.

Because every symptom that you have is a dashboard light of this car that you get to drive. And so rather than seeing symptoms as something. Bad. Oh my gosh, I rarely get a headache. But when I do, I'm like, what's my car telling me? And sometimes I just don't know, but I'm like, okay, I'm gonna nourish myself.

 I might be stressed about something I'm not even conscious about. I'm gonna get a treatment. I'm gonna sleep early today. I'm gonna be kind to myself. I'm gonna drop whatever is really on my mind. Listen to your body. So most of the steps, it's about listening to your body.

' cause if you're not listening to the one thing that only you get to drive, no one is.

Robyn: And I would say too, and [00:23:00] what you're saying and listening to your body, let's say you are someone who is just so bone tired, And your body is saying I really feel like I can't walk around the, like I'm just too tired.

That's probably where you should go find a practitioner or somebody to find out like, what's going on? it becomes almost like also. A symbol for, what is actually what do you need to work on? Where are you deficient? Or whatever it is.

Christie: Truth so you don't bypass your doctors. 

And know that the whole gray area of medicine is holistic medicine. I think , in the future medicine will be the blend of both the best of eastern, western holistic, all the somatic gray area. Because wellbeing and the body is not black and white.

Karen: And you 

Christie: know, the tools in between the edges are where you have some agency. To do something for yourself. And we all right now need help and tools. I know I do all the time. 

Sometimes I [00:24:00] forget I can do this too, right?

We have access to so many things, and it doesn't have to be acupuncture and herbs. It can be something that you can do for yourself, and this is, why is all this like you're of the horse fire horse happening because it's meant to uplevel all of us. 

 in our own ways, 

Karen: it's so funny as you're talking, I'm picturing the horse and how they're so really at ease most of the time. They are very grounded, they are very peaceful. We all know that they're very wise, so it's like a wonderful symbol for us to connect with, even as we're thinking about the fire horse in their.

Essence, they are really majestic, gentle, peaceful symbols, of this sort of regal giant 

Robyn: with power, 

Karen: right. And power. And so that when they take off onto that run, it is that symbol of power. But they're fueled, they're grounded and centered to be able to do that. Yeah. So for me, it's just like a [00:25:00] wonderful way of remembering that is the reason for the grounding.

So that, to your point. We can be in that place where we can up level, and we can take off toward those dreams and all the things that we wanna manifest this year. 

Robyn: And I wanna come back to what you also said with the fire and the fact that it has to do with your heart. 

Karen: Yeah, 

Robyn: like, I love that too because I don't think that we're talking about that when people are talking about the year of the fire horse, we're not hearing very much in terms of how that fire actually symbolizes heart center within yourself and then to then apply it to that horse and that power and that groundedness, but understanding what is in our heart.

Christie: Yes. And so the way in Chinese medicine, they see the heart and it's the element of fire and the emotion associated with the fire and the heart is joy. 

Robyn: Oh, wow. 

Christie: So it's about following your [00:26:00] joy. And so we've been taught not to follow our joy, and it's breaking out into what brings you joy.

 And so it's important and like for me, it brings me absolute joy to harness my 30 years of experience one-on-one in the treatment room and really. Bring it to a wider audience through speaking and podcasts. And it's not something that I really planned to do, but I'm like, yeah, it brings me joy.

Because why should it just be one-on-one now? and this is me following my fire horse. Because I'm very much of an introvert and I do like my downtime. I do like to be just in my own space. And that's me following my joy. Like it brings me so much joy to talk to you ladies.

Spirits who so understand this energy with a level of authenticity. And I feel like a lot of the people watching this. Do as well. 

Robyn: Agree. They're seeking with us to live in that joy and also be [00:27:00] connected and be of service with one another. And so I feel like what we get to do, and even in this conversation is allow people to recognize where they're coming from.

Addressing it and then getting into that, fire, that heart center so that it can take off very 

Majestically and powerfully. But with that balance, I think that what you talked about. In the beginning of this conversation is finding that because we're so outta balance, 

Christie: So that's a progress and that's a process And the way I want you to see the balance, especially with fire, is a fire can be contained in a hearth. Yes. And so anything you do for yourself is. Part of the hearth. So let's listening to your body and eating really grounding and nourishing foods and listening to where your body wants to go with that.

 I'll tell you something like I've been eating these giant bags of raw cashews for the last three, four months, and. [00:28:00] that might seem out of balance, but it's what my body is asking. and I keep going, okay, is this too much? I just went through another giant bag and so I'm gonna just keep listening until my body says, okay, I'm done.

. Okay, and remember this, the fire, you don't have to imagine it just burning out of control. I want you to see it. As the fire is really about becoming more alive. 

And burning really bright. so I want you to see it as that.

And if you have the hearth, if you are nourishing and grounded in your yin, so the fire doesn't go outta control and you're burning bridges and scorching earth and reactive and it burned out, you're becoming more alive and the heart center. Is the very portal. It's the doorway between your physicality, your physical body, and your spirit. 

Karen: Oh, that is such a great reminder. Christie and it's funny I'm listening to some of our Seeking Center advice, Robyn, that I'm doing my thing every day and it says, whenever you're feeling really [00:29:00] stressed, the best thing to do is simply just put your hand on your heart and it does the whole act of just doing that.

Calms you immediately. And I love that additional reminder of get outta your head and just come right here. And it's just the easiest, simplest place to start. So thank you for that reminder. I needed to hear that, 

Robyn: that it's definitely a self regulator, right? When you talked about the nervous system. But putting your hand in your heart helps to regulate just by touching that center. 

Christie: Exactly. I do that regularly. if I feel that I have to say, speak the truth or 

or, anything that. Me into fight or flight.

Robyn: Yes. 

Christie: it immediately does get you outta your head and it's something that everyone has access to. 

Robyn: Exactly. I have a question in terms of people listening right now. This is the beginning of this new Lunar New Year. I know you brought up.

Looking at your triggers is there anything [00:30:00] else you'd recommend somebody take stock in right now as we begin and move through and utilize this energy? 

Christie: looking at your triggers and not judging them and not blaming what triggered you.

But looking at what you're releasing is very important and saying, and I just say goodbye to it. 

 With gratitude. Also as we enter, February 17th, every time I enter a date, there's a part of my mind that goes, oh my gosh, it's the start of the new year, like January 1st, and then I calm myself down.

 And I say it's not a date on a calendar. It's a movement. A process. 

 So we don't have to get ready for February 17th. We are already moving into it. 

 Just like when the tulip sprouts through the earth, it's been happening. 

 The earth, it's already been moving. Picking one thing, it's about being bold. Don't pick 10 things just 'cause you're overachievers and just because you're highly capable and just because [00:31:00] you know you're Type A. Don't pick 10 things. Pick one thing, maybe two things, And create the movement into it and see it over time.

Karen: Christie one thing that's happened to me that surprised me very early into the year is feeling the intensity of the energy differently.

 I have found that it's been heightened more than ever. So typically, we all go through stress and I feel like I can balance it pretty well, but lately I have just felt it like, almost like a pang, it's definitely much more palpable than it's ever been before. I don't know if you've heard that from other people, but it was one of those it was like, huh, that's strange the normal things haven't worked.

Quite as well and readily. Is that because the intensity of the energy 

Christie: It's a lot of different things going on. And so the first thing I'm always aware of is, you may or may not be aware that we are having humongous solar flares and the shumon resonance, which is [00:32:00] the heartbeat of the earth, is been off the charts and it's even more intensified.

Christie: It's like a heavy, coming into our bodies. It's like a frequency that says, oh, business and whatever you're holding onto, that's dense, that's old, that's not in alignment to this next phase of who you are.

Oh, it's moving out. and we mean business and it has been across the board, everyone's feeling it. And especially if you're energetically sensitive, you're feeling it hardcore. 

 So universally the frequencies are there, but it's also. Helping us move into greater light. 'cause when you move these densities out, more light frequency can enter and you're making more of these inner pivoting shifts for yourself.

It's easier to make those shifts so that you're better prepared to move into this greater energy that's coming in this big universal energy that's coming in. And the thing is, I want you to see yourself as like a grounded bamboo stock with a lot of water [00:33:00] feeding it. And as it grows and grows strong, it can move around things to, it can be flexible, move around things to grow towards the light, It's not this leaf just flying around willy-nilly in the wind and just landing anywhere. you're grounded and you're supported, and you're nourished and you're flexible. So there is pressure coming in because

 the time is now, ladies. 

 The time is now for us to say yes and to let go of everything We knew, how we knew to do it, that isn't working for us anymore, and it feels weird and empty. Like I'm sitting there what do I do? Ooh it doesn't make sense. And what I was doing before doesn't work, and I just let go.

 I just move into a level of surrender and deep inner nourishment, and that to me, moment by moment right now is working. And it'll shift if it shifts. So what you're feeling, girl, I'm feeling everyone who is sensitive to it is feeling, and it is intense. [00:34:00] It is no joke. 

Karen: Just the affirmation 

Christie: guys.

I'm sorry. It's hard. 

Robyn: but as Karen just said, that validation, because I think we're all feeling that, and I think that is what you can sense on so many different levels that this is the energy of this year and there's transformational energy here.

 how do we wanna use this personally, collectively, we're gonna be in a really different place when we talk again next winter, new Year. Like we can all feel that. 

Christie: Agreed. And fire is one of the most transformative signs. So with all the triggers and with all our illusions and with all our traumas that we've harbored in our bodies, not just in this lifetime, but lifetimes past from our own childhoods, we are meant to transform it.

And the fire is here to help us 

Robyn: And we get to talk about this now and reach more people than we ever have before, right? Because of. Where we [00:35:00] are in our society, With technology and so forth. This is a positive way of harnessing energy so that we can actually use it in a very productive way in our own evolution as a soul.

Christie: so true, 

 and I feel that. They say technology is it's like the Aquarius water energy. And so we're just flowing with it, ladies. That's 

Robyn: right. 

Christie: And for Where we're at right now. I'm so grateful even though it's pushing us and it's pushing us hard, , I choose to move into the gratitude of just how far I've come and how far everyone has come because where we are today.

Think about how shifted we are in our consciousness and in our bodies that even lunar New Year, last year, 

 It was hard work. I've had dark moments, where I had to really look at myself and what I'm doing and why I'm doing everything, and I'm not the only [00:36:00] one and it doesn't mean life is bad, it means we're doing our work. 

Robyn: That's right. And we found each other. that to me is look where we are. we are finding one another so that we can. Move together and continue to evolve together. that to me is the gift in where we are and where we're going.

And so Christie, thank you so much for shedding light in a way that we all need to have. right now as we move with this new energy, and I know Karen and I are very. Excited to have more conversations with you about Chinese medicine. Yes. And how to utilize that in our daily lives because We haven't explored that. 

Christie: We can go down that rabbit hole. 

Robyn: So we'll be doing that 

Christie: everyone can apply to themselves and in a way that people can use information to really create interchanges , for inner transformation.

I, 

Robyn: [00:37:00] Those conversations are gonna be coming soon. 

Karen: Love to dig into that. For sure. 

Christie: I look forward to it. Oh my gosh, I'm so glad I've met you both. Thank you so much. 

Robyn: Thank you so much, Christie. And if you're interested in connecting with Christie, exploring more of her work at Source Healing, visit source healing.com.

Thank you.