Your October Somatic Forecast: being present with the process

October is arriving on the heels of a very watery September. This past month washed things through, disrupted old patterns, and loosened structures that had been holding for too long.

Now the Realms are reckoning with what comes next, each in their own way. The bones are having a hard time rebuilding anything that doesn't feel grounded in truth, the muscles are experimenting with new ways to connect, the organs are learning they don't have to carry everything alone, and the Nervous System shows us what it really means to feel your way forward.

There's a theme here of learning to live in a different way. Feeling for authenticity, letting a shape emerge, exploring not from the mind, but from the body. Letting the body gather information in all of the ways it can about what comes next, and being present as that process happens.

Here’s a reference of each Realm before you keep going:

The Realm of Bone + Foundation: The energies you’ve inherited and built your life around. Bone holds both armature and marrow: your ancestral wounds, blessings, structures, and deepest foundations.

The Realm of Muscle, Connection + Relationship: The place where you shape your life through rupture and repair, resources and reciprocity, tension, support, and creativity.

The Realm of Fluid + Spirit Movement: Your inner tides. The movement of spirit through the body, through rhythm, circulation, boundaries, habits, and the ways life carries you.

The Realm of Organ, Ecosystem + Emotion: A living ecosystem of interdependent parts. This Realm is where you explore belonging, emotional truth, responsibility, and your place within the greater whole.

The Realm of Nervous System + Soul Frequency: Your body’s communication conduit between instinct and soul intuition. This Realm reveals where survival patterns and deeper guidance come together or clash.

The Realm of DNA + Quantum: The bridge between micro and macro; your cellular inheritance and your place within the larger quantum field of existence, transformation, and possibility.

How to read your body weather

The readings below are what I see and translate from the collective body for the upcoming month. These are meant to be read as entertainment and for informational purposes. Depending on your relationship with each of these Realms, the forecasts may feel varying degrees of relatable or unattainable; just because they’re here doesn’t mean they’ll be the same amount of true for each of you.

I recommend grounding and connecting to your body before you read them. Notice the ones that make you lean forward, that feel like an opening, that encourage you to move towards them. Those are the Realms that are invitational this month.

The forecasts that feel flattening in your body, you turn away from them, or can’t remember reading even when you just finished: those may not be for you, or there may be deep resistance to them. That’s ok, no need to force anything; it'll all unfold in time.

Orient towards the invitation.

Somatic Forecasts for October

The Bone Realm

The Bone Realm opens on a scene of orderly building with bones. I see someone standing bones up to frame a new door, using a tape measure with a placid smile affixed on their face. The bones look almost fake, though. They're bleached white with no signs of age, growth, or life.

As I get closer I start to feel real Truman show vibes. This isn't real life and it isn't real structural building. It's for show. It's divorced from the grittiness of the long-view of history, and I see it falling down with each tiny disturbance. As I continue to watch, the disturbance to this plasticized world doesn't even have to be big; a shout, a headline, a ripple across the internet, the truth being told, it all disturbs, disrupts, and deconstructs the illusion.

The falsified world is getting harder and harder to maintain. Where in your life are you still upholding it? In October it may start to take much more effort. Work with your bones and uncover your deeper foundations.​

The Muscle Realm

The Muscle Realm looks like it's being pulled apart and reshaped, similar to how you would pull slime or putty and then push it back together into a ball.

After the wateriness of the past month, this reshaping and stretching, almost kneading, doesn't come as a surprise. It feels like the connections were given access to more movement and malleability, and released a lot of what kept resources and relationships in crunchy or immobile patterns of connection.

I don't see the Muscle Realm taking a new shape this month, it feels like a month of trying and reshaping, over and over again. You're not finding a new way or an answer this month, you're experimenting and gathering data for your body. Listen to the Muscle Realm more closely for support as you reshape.​

The Fluid Realm

After the water-forward month of September, the Fluid Realm is showing me stillness for the month we're moving into.

Not the stillness of an undisturbed lake, but the stillness after a heavy rain where everything is slowly sinking in, replenishing ground water, and taking note of what was disturbed by the inundation.

It just feels like a quiet reflective month for your inner ocean, and maybe a time where you become more aware of what stillness feels like in your body. Is it safe? Is it restful? Or does it feel like stagnation? Can you tell the difference? Get more in tune with your fluid body during this period of calm.​

The Organ Realm

The Organ Realm feels bloated. Like the past month has left this Realm holding the consequences of the fluid-forward month of September. A massive weight may have lifted (old ill-fitting connections) and they've been washed clean, but some of them are holding onto the water because old patterns of hyper-independence have come to the forefront.

When the fluid moved through this past month, it shifted their relationship to one another, and in the breakdown of that connection, they're now each individually holding onto everything on their own.

October feels like a month of letting go of what feels like it has to be held individually and finding people in your ecosystem who want to hold it with you. It's a month of connections that help shoulder the burden or carry the load. Create new connections in your Organ Realm.​

The Nervous System Realm

The Nervous System Realm is showing itself like tree roots or mycelium, focusing on the "root ends" and new growth.

I see it seeking out spaces to move between, new ways to weave through the body, and new places from which to gather signal and sensation and send it to your brain. The focus is very much on the peripheral nervous system and the efferent nerves, what's moving toward the center and the brain, not what's moving out into the body.

This may be a month where you're strongly asked to feel your way forward through sensation, not to know your way into a decision with your brain. If your body is pulling you towards this Realm, the new Nervous System Realm bundle will be available next week in the Energy Archaeology Archives!​

The DNA Realm

The DNA Realm is pulsing very gently this month, but that small wave-like action across the field produces a large ripple as it moves farther and farther from the new point of organization.

A pebble dropped at the center of the DNA, a tiny epigenetic shift, the smallest generational healing, will have a huge impact if you are still enough to feel the effects in your body and see them show up in your life. This isn't a month of excavating skeletons out of the lineage closet, but sitting down by the door and letting them come to you.

We begin with the DNA Realm in the Sanctuary and will have six calls dedicated to the micro and macro in your inner and outer world. You can still join through October 13.​

Until next month,

Ash

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