Rise of the Phoenix
Queen of the Underworld · The last gate · VI of VI
Rise of the Phoenix
Rising after a year that brought you to your knees.
This is the last gate, and one ritual in four steps. You look your 2026 in the eye, you burn it by dancing, you anchor the fire with your breath, and you write to the woman who rose. Give yourself about an hour and a half, space to move, a pen and paper.
Step I
Your 2026
Before you burn anything, you look at it. Grab your notebook and write, without making it pretty:
Write it down
1. Your vision for 2026. What did you want this year to be?
2. Your personal why. Why did it matter to you?
3. Your impersonal why. Who was it for, beyond you?
4. What happened instead. Make a list of everything that went wrong. The money that didn't come, the people who left, the plans that fell apart, the moments you were on the floor. All of it.
5. Your ask. What do you want help from the universe with in this last quarter?
Now you're ready for the ritual.
Step II
Burn the Year: Dance with your Shadows
Everything you just wrote down is energy stuck in your body. Now you move it. While you dance with your shadows, you burn the year: you turn what held you back into fuel. Ashes to gold.
Read what you wrote in step I one more time. Set up a space where you can move, put on Rise Up, and dance it out of your body.
Play Rise Up on SpotifyWant to see how it looks? Here's an example:
Step III
The Rebirth Breath
The dance cracked you open. Now you anchor it. The Rebirth Breath is my Orgasmic Breath: it anchors the life force that came free in the dance, and grows the Phoenix energy that rose out of your ashes. Lie down or sit, and do the guided practice (about 12 minutes).
How the Orgasmic Breath works
It's a circular breath. You breathe in and out in one flowing movement, with no pause in between.
Breathe from your Phoenix. Feel where she lives in your body: where the energy that came free in the dance is sitting right now. Breathe from there.
Circulate it. With every breath, move that energy through your whole body. The more you breathe, the more energy comes free and the bigger it gets, until you're embodying her.
Why it works: it anchors her deeper into your nervous system. It strengthens the body-mind connection, so small shifts anchor intuitively and integrate into your nervous system, and you make progress and embody them directly. And it multiplies your creativity tremendously, because you can sustain it.
Please read before you breathe
Don't do this breathwork if you are pregnant or think you might be, if you have a heart or blood pressure condition, epilepsy or a history of seizures, glaucoma or a detached retina, if you recently had surgery or an injury, or if you have severe mental health issues (such as psychosis, bipolar disorder or severe PTSD). In that case, breathe softly and slowly instead, with your hands on your heart and belly. Always listen to your own body and stop when it doesn't feel right.
Want to seal it? Burn your paper from step I in a fireproof bowl. Only if it feels right for you, and safely.
Step IV
The Phoenix Letter
The year isn't over yet. It's autumn: the leaves are falling, and what's left of 2026 is still yours to shape. This is where you set your new course for the last quarter.
Write a letter from the woman who rose, to you, dated 31 December 2026. Tell yourself how you turned this year around: the course you set, what you finally let go of, what you created in these last weeks, and how your year ended.
Start with: “Dear me, it's 31 December 2026, and I want to tell you how I rose from the ashes this year…”
Keep the letter where you see it. Read it whenever you need to remember the course you set.
Rise together
Share what you burned, or one line of your Phoenix letter, in the House of NIA Facebook group, my community where students and friends connect.
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