Your September Somatic Forecast: the water is rising

This month, the Fluid Realm isn't just making itself known as one of the six Realms of Embodiment. It's communicating with eVerYThiNG, and the other Realms are responding

Structures may give way. What has been buried may rise to the surface. Networks that have been stagnant or tethered in place find some freedom of movement.

September's weather feels like a washing through, and it may not always be gentle.

Not everything being released needs to be recovered. Not every structure that breaks needs to be rebuilt. And not every familiar pattern is meant to survive the changing environment. A little detachment or perspective may actually be called for this month. Observe what the water carries away, and what it leaves behind.

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 September

The Bone Realm

The vision opened up with me deep underwater, following a squid into the part of the ocean where light doesn't reach. As we swam down I could see detritus passing us by and we arrived at what looks like a shipwreck, but instead of wooden planks and sail masts, there were bones. Splintered bones, ecosystems that have emerged from the ruin of something never meant to be in this environment. It feels like the bones are asking us "what has been lost to another Realm and never recovered?" Specifically in this case, where is Fluid, your inner ocean, suppressing or repressing a foundation that's been lost? Where has the chaos and paradox of fluid movement consumed and buried structures meant to keep you afloat? How do you work with them as they are, or release them from their watery grave?

The Muscle Realm

The Muscle Realm is showing an interesting continuation on this theme of fluid. I see cell walls breaking down in the muscle and fluid moving in ways that it shouldn't. But it doesn't come with any fear or warnings, merely an observation that structures that contain fluid movement, are breaking down due to pressure or too much movement across a barrier. I'd be curious in September where structures that have held relationship, resources, and ways you've connected begin to give way, and how does that free you up to move in different ways? The muscle doesn't look like it's conveying disaster or pain, but tissues moving in ways they haven't ever thought to. This also doesn't feel sustained, but temporary. A moment where breakdown could lead to tremendous opportunity and reorganization.

The Fluid Realm

The Fluid Realm is still. Not stagnant, patient. I can feel it's influence exerting outward, which makes sense in relationship to what I'm sensing in these other Realms. It feels like September is the month where the Fluid Realm begins communicating more deliberately with the other Realms and they begin to respond. It's a month of realignment to what Fluid has been holding or whispering. But realignment with fluid isn't always gentle. It can be like waves lapping gently at the shore, but it can also be a tsunami or a mudslide. Pay attention to where the pressure feels too great this month and what it's having you look at. That communication, gone untended to for too long, may bring the sudden change of a dam collapsing instead of the gradual wearing away of rock and soil.

The Organ Realm

Continuing our watery theme, I see the organs floating freely, bobbing on the surface of the water and a feeling of being washed clean. Fluid may bring some big shifts in stagnated networks and ecosystems in your life this month, but it may also liberate a lot of emotions that have been repressed and alive within this Realm. There's an overall feeling of joyousness, but it feels like the type of joy that comes with being alive when you had momentarily prepared for the worst. The kind of joy of daffodils poking their head up after a long hard winter. The kind of joy where you hug someone and look around in disbelief that you were spared, it passed you by. A massive weight is lifting this month.

The Nervous System Realm

The focus of the nervous system is on the cerebrospinal fluid this month. I see the nervous system getting frustrated that it can't communicate the way it wants to, so all metaphorical eyes turn towards this fluid environment. Why is it still insisting on holding freeze, or heat, or a cyclone, when everything else is signalling that its okay to release it?

The answer I hear is "safety." Not safety because this is what's safest for you, but safety in the known. Even if it's frustrating, this pattern is trackable, repeatable, you know what to expect and how to manage it or work with it or around it. If the fluid shifts, like it feels like your body is asking for and preparing for, the nervous system will need to figure out how to navigate a new environment.

This isn't good or bad, it's just the disruption of homeostasis and the instability that can emerge from that. However, instability can create something entirely new in its place if you're consciously listening and responding.

The DNA Realm

This Realm initially shows up like glowing dots in a dark sky, and then I see a hand drag through it and see ripples across a surface. Then I realize I'm looking at it upside down. As it turns over, the image morphs into the macrocosm of the DNA is being washed and rinsed like rice. Whatever shouldn't be taken in is being rinsed off. But I'm hearing a warning about saving the rinse water. There's an urge inside you to not toss it, to do something with it - rinse your hair, water your plants, something other than toss it down the drain, and I'm being told to tell you no. Don't recycle this energy that's being washed away, let it go. No good will come of clinging to it simply because of sunk cost fallacy.

Until next month,

Ash

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