Let’s Love the Vagus Nerve – October 2026 Energy Forecast
It’s that time of the month again. When you get to stop the busy habits of your daily life and pause, to get curious about the energy that you are being bathed in, and to explore how to align yourself to that energy in health, balance and joy.
September brought a soft and wild energy, encouraging you to connect with your own wild wisdom as well as to connect with people, places and animals you love; to ‘find your people’ and to be nourished by them even as your uniqueness nourishes them.
This month, we are invited to root down even deeper. The colour of this cosmic vibration shifts from that soft brown to a deep chocolatey colour, holding you more grounded and offering the chance for your nervous system to experience release and relaxation.
When I left home, my mum replaced me with pigs. Really. She had always loved pigs and with me being the last of her children, and finding herself with time and space in her life for the first time in 30 years, she got a pig. And then another. And then another…. until the farm was wiggling, squealing, and snuffling with pigs and their piglets. Some were small, hairy and spotty rare breeds native to the UK. Some were rescued, pot bellied, and waddled around with happy faces. And some were huge, with the breed appropriately named Large Whites.
They especially loved mud, and as I write this, one of Mum’s favourite pigs comes to mind. She was called Gertrude, and was huge, pale pink and would get sunburned on her nose on hot days unless Mum applied sunscreen. She loved wallowing in mud. Having rootled the soil until it was only earth, (no grass or grubs left in it) she would begin the process of making her wallow, the muddy pit that she would lie in. After circling around and around a few times to poach the ground, she would flop her whole body onto the ground with such joy and delight, and using the whole side of her body she would rub, nuzzle, press into the mud until she was covered and part of the Earth herself.
Can you imagine how grounded her energy was? It looked to me like the electromagnetic energy of the Earth and Gertrude’s own electromagnetic energy were pulsing and thrumming together, not separate beings, but in total harmony. And the energy emanating in, through and around her was not only electromagnetic and cellular but also soulular; the radiance that emanated from her energy shone through the exchange of love that being in the earth created.
This month we need to be more like Gertrude! Grounded, supported, playful and delighted by life itself. And, for those of you who feel that at this time in our complex and challenging human world, such things as joy and delight are not what we need, I would suggest that they are the very energies we need more than anything else to bring the healing and hope that is so deeply being called for.
Being grounded allows your nervous system to recalibrate and balance so you can be more healthy, vibrant and empowered. Being connected into the magic and mystery of being alive means that you can hold hope fiercely and be part of the midwifing of a new level of consciousness, and a new way of being, both collectively and globally.
The energy of this October supports our deep groundedness and the potential to transform from reactivity to radiance, from the physiology of fight/flight/freeze/fawn to calm/creativity and connection. For when we are deeply grounded our nervous system responds in greater and greater safety and this creates a cascade of wellbeing.
What Does Being Grounded Mean?
Simply put, being ‘grounded’ means your energy fields are holding your energy body and physical body connected; connected into the electromagnetic energy of the world beneath your feet, and into the electromagnetic energy of the world above your head. You are physiologically and energetically designed to have an electromagnetic flow moving through every cell in your body every second of the day. The electrical field of each cell in your body holds a specific north/south polarity, just like a tiny battery. When you are electromagnetically grounded, those tiny batteries all stack up in cohesion, and the essential energetic current of life can flow through you. This is what the ancients have called ‘chi’ or ‘prana’ and we tend to refer to as ‘life-force’ or ‘life-energy’. Without this essential flow of energy running through you, your energy fields will lose coherence and cohesion.
When you are grounded you feel more:
Stable and safe
Present and consciously aware
Energised and clear-headed
Able to deal with stress that comes your way
Relaxed and able to sleep well
Nourished by the very ground that you are standing on.
Connected to yourself, your loved ones and all of creation
In our live class on Friday 9th October, we'll explore more about electromagnetic grounding, and also the deep grounding of your energetic core. We’ll be doing three practices together designed to increase the energetic flow through your body and activate your deep grounding, so you can begin to feel more stable, calm and resilient.
This is what my guides say about this months energy
Time to get into the earth again. To root down, to deepen and thicken in your understanding. There has been much change this year, much that has been invited to drop away, to dissolve. And much that has been inviting greater emergence.
The cosmic energy is dripping with abundance and wisdom. Reach for it, not outside yourself, but inside yourself. A month for reflection, asking the questions, taking the inner journey and getting really really curious.
The alchemic energy of this month is strong, mixing up what has occurred so far this year, swirling it all together.
Let it swirl. Perhaps it is not too comfortable, but this is the time for it. Your soul radiance is being sung more deeply by this rich chocolatey truffly energy. Truffly because it is wilder than the usual chocolate colours that we have experienced. It is thick and stinky and resonant with both the composting and the growing. Invite expansion.
How does this meet your experience of the year?
Get Practical:
What old patterns or ways of being has this year shown you and invited you to deeply release?
Which have you already released and how did it feel?
And what five new patterns or ways of being have emerged and how are they showing up in your life?
In the video this month we concentrate on bringing balance and alignment through harmonising your vagus nerve with your heart, solar plexus, liver and kidneys. It is a beautiful and supportive practice for your body, mind and soul that you can return to again and again when you need support and the benefits of deep grounding.
I’ll also be in my membership space, The Gathering Ground, on Friday October 9th at 2pm UK time to answer your questions about October’s energy and how you can be nourished and supported by it. You can join me here.
Much love to you, and remember, be more like Gertrude! 🐖
Prune
