A year in transition

The Lionsgate Portal - a gateway to freedom

Friday - the 8th of August - was the Lionsgate Portal, an important date on the spiritual calendar. It was also the occasion for my first Kundalini Activation, held by a lovely woman I recently met through a group I belong to. In Czech and English she skilfully guided us through a powerful energy healing as we lay on the floor or a bed, listened to music and went deep within our multi-dimensional beings.

I’ve practised Kundalini yoga for years, but never received an activation before. For 90 minutes I felt waves of hot and cold move through my body, emotions rising and falling — joy, rage, sadness, indifference, laughter, tears.

At the end, I was lighter. My heart was wide open, filled with warmth, peace, and a knowing that I am love, love in the form it was may have left but new possibilities are on their way.

Two days later, I still felt it. Even my elderly mother’s attempts to pull me into her own energy couldn’t touch it.

This year, Lionsgate wasn’t just a date on the spiritual calendar — it cracked something open for me.

If you are interested in astrology, the expansion of collective consciousness and our own soul growth in this beautiful life, you will probably know that the Lionsgate Portal represents the rising of the star Sirius, one of the brightest stars in the sky. Considered by ancient astrologers as our Spiritual Sun, it illuminates timeless truth and wisdom that cannot be refuted.

The 8th of August has become the day to celebrate the Portal and the arrival of high-frequency energy into our beings as it marks the halfway point of our physical Sun through the constellation of Leo to 15°. This energy can open our chakras (energy centres), inspire new ideas, raise our frequency and enhance our ability for intuitive or psychic downloads. It certainly did that for me.

All systems collapse or fundamental breakthrough?

2025 has seen enormous, wide-sweeping transformation in my life.

Love was no longer what it had been and a shared future became too difficult to sustain. The intensity of accepting and dealing with that reality bumped us finally to resolution without needing to drag one another through court. Amazingly, despite so many indications to the contrary, the foundation of love of almost two decades remained more or less intact. I eventually left with enough to start afresh, and much love and support around me.

Many people think I’m nuts to have accepted so little and not fought what they retain as my rights after almost twenty years of marriage. But somewhere in the fight, I realised that a future relationship with someone I had once really loved was far more important than taking him to the proverbial cleaners. What we have now is, quite frankly, nothing short of a miracle.

A karmic storm that burned away all that was not true

The speed and depth of the change of the last months has been a fierce karmic storm for me. Everything in my life that I have outgrown or no longer serves for the collective higher good or is not grounded in truth has gone.

I could have stayed in Italy, but my time there felt complete. I will miss so much — our beautiful apartment in downtown Milan, the mountains and lakes close by, dear friends, my sculpture studio, the beauty and elegance that are so woven into everyday life. But staying would have meant keeping myself small, contained, and comfortable.

I’ve seen how old scripts and patterns, inherited and cultural, shaped a life too restricted for the all that I am. Safety and security had been my compass — until the compass shattered.

The successful executive facilitator and coach who travelled the world has “left the building.” In her place is a woman committed to regeneration, raising her frequency, and living a sacred life guided by intuition and insight.

Regeneration from the inside - out

Regeneration asks us to look at how we contribute to what we wish to change — not by pointing fingers or spinning powerful narratives about all that is wrong in the world, but by doing the inner work.

Every human has known trauma across lifetimes. When we heal ourselves, new possibilities open. That has been my reality this year.

I am now without a fixed home or income — and yet free as a bird. No children, no assets, no ground beneath my feet — but the ability to live as I wish, contribute as I am called, and be unapologetically me.

It can feel terrifying and lonely. And yet it is also wildly liberating. My soul has officially taken the wheel.

All I seek will arrive in its own time — what some call Divine Timing, I call intrinsic creation time. The work is to clear what stands in the way, to be rigorously honest about how we’ve shaped our lives, and to walk in curiosity and wonder until the heaviness transmutes back into light.

There is nothing that we cannot heal or transform.

The gift of sacred guidance

Along this path, the guide holding the container for the group I mentioned earlier unwaveringly shows us all what integrity in leadership really means. That love, truth and devotion are worth preparing ourselves to fully receive and embody. That our presence - and frequency - change everything.

© Josselin Butte’ 2024

An invitation from my heart

If you create experiences that connect people more deeply to themselves, to each other, and to the natural world, you are warmly invited to join us in the French Pyrénées for this Autumn Equinox.

We’ll walk the mountains, sit in stillness, play with and explore the edges of our personal and professional growth in this time of great transition. Together, we’ll harvest the rich gifts that are always waiting there. Small or large, we’ll discover how they want to manifest in our lives.

Come if your soul feels the pull. We would be so happy to welcome you.

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