After the Day Out of Time on the 25th we entered the energies of the opening Lions Gate on the 26th, also the Planetary New Year.
The Lions Gate will have its peak at 8-8 then will take another 1-2 weeks to peter out.
It's the biggest (annual) portal of the year.

I am noticing energy shifts for sure! The last couple of years the Lions Gate energies have been good to me, the years before that it was awful.
So far what I'm noticing is me becoming more empowered, standing tall, not taking cr@p from people, standing my ground. I convey this is a very clear way, transparent, but still calm and polite.
Now I've been getting there more and more over the last few years but it seems to suddenly have blossomed fully right now. As if it needed one last push to be 'born' and this portal was that push?

As for the rest things are flowing nicely. When we first shifted from Cancer into Leo that wasn't the case. Celia Fenn wrote about that too, things not working out anymore after sweet gentle Cancer.
I experienced the same thing, stagnation, it didn't feel so nice, things didn't work out. But that seems to have ironed itself out now.

Oh, what I am also noticing the last couple of weeks... I seem to need a little less sleep? I normally need 8,5 - 9 hours sleep. Always been that way. Now I sometimes wake up half an hour to an hour earlier. If I then get up I feel fine?
It used to be that if I got up earlier I felt horrible all day long.

So far so good! And enjoying it :)

This past week I have been an emotional mess. Differ events happening all at once has been overwhelming. Not having my mom to vent to has been hard. Echoing the cycle of life.

This morning is a whole different story.

Colors appear softer. Reminding me of a Monet painting.

Everything is like a comfortable and warm cocoon. As if cradled against someone I have a deep connection. Lazily stroking his face, beard and collarbone with my sharp fingernails.

Drifting off and on back to sleep...

Yeah. Kinda feels like that.

This past week that I have been back to my home in the Florida Keys has had it's ups and downs. Lots of releasing emotions that no longer serve my highest good. Lots of moving forward, then stepping back, then feeling a little stuck, then regrouping but feeling a little unsettled.

This morning I woke up feeling a calmer, more peaceful energy, and more focused... like I'm ready to step through the gateway to meet my highest destiny.

Interesting enough, during this past week I haven't experienced any vertigo, until yesterday that is. Yesterday I felt a wave of energy pass through me and it started to trigger a vertigo episode. I could feel my head and surrounding start to spin, but was able to ground myself immediately so it only lasted a few seconds.

Yikes, that's unpleasant, River. Good thing you managed to settle it down again!!

I've been doing well during the entire Lion's Gate buildup.
I did, however, notice a shift from more energetic, enthusiastically driven-to-do-things to a more inward focused energy.
My body is a little more achy too, but that could be from doing so much, not sure.

I've also had a phase of old memories surfacing, often nothing with an emotional load, just a memory. And for a while, when I was in this active mode, I woke up an hour earlier almost daily. Highly unusual for me!
That went back to my normal, haha.

Today all feels tranquil, still. As if time is standing still?

Sounds like a peaceful place to be!