1. Cold water reset: run cold water in your hands for 20-30 seconds and feel the sensation on your skin

2. Standing tall: press your feet firmly into the ground for 1 minute and notice the contact with the surface you are sitting on.

3. Nature focus: pick one natural thing near you (a leaf, a flower, …) and observe it closely: its colour, shape, texture. Stay with it for one minute.

And … there is a 4th one, my favorite: walk barefoot on the grass if you can. Feel the contact with the earth. Ideally at sunset when the earth is warm and charged with all that beautiful solar energy.

In my Feminine Creative Cycle Framework, REST is the phase linked to the New Moon/ Winter/ Menstruation / Water Element.

And it’s the first phase because all creation begins in the darkness.

Life begins in the dark.

Seeds grow beneath the soil before they ever reach the light.

A child forms in the womb long before taking its first breath.

Even the stars are born from vast, silent voids in space.

And the Water Element (that I have linked to the REST phase of the Feminine Creative Cycle) represents the dark depths of the ocean.

So the first phase is about meeting the void.

The void is not stagnation. It is not failure. And it is not emptiness, in the negative sense.

It is potential. It is the unseen space where transformation quietly begins to form.

The void is the fertile soil where something new can begin to form. Something that is strong and sustainable.

In our own lives, the moments that feel uncertain, lonely, or undefined are often the very places where something new is preparing to emerge.

We tend to fear the dark because we cannot yet see the outcome.

But the dark is not the absence of life; it is the very place where life begins to grow.

Before clarity, before growth, before becoming, before blooming...

there is always the void.

So, if right now you are in the void, don’t rush it. Don’t try to avoid it.

Embrace it.

Because it’s not nothingness. It’s the beginning of everything.

• 1st of Mai: Scorpio Full Moon (Flower Moon)

• 16th of Mai: New Moon in Taurus

• 31st of Mai: Sagittarius Full Moon (Blue Moon)

Two full moons in one month is a rather rare event, something that only happens every 3-4 years.

We will be journeying with the Moon through 3 elements this month:

Water (Scorpio) -> Earth (Taurus) -> Fire (Sagittarius)

And these are exactly the 3 key elements of 2026.

We will go from ...

Scorpio energy that runs deep and invites us to transformation, truth and inner power,

to the grounded, sensual and stable energy of Taurus,

and finally, to the expansive energy of Sagittarius that brings movement, vision and drive for exploration and truth.

Mai, in the Northern Hemisphere, is also the month when delicate blossoms grow. What has been seeded and grew in the dark is now coming to light.

The Full Flower Moon rises to remind us that our blooming happens in its own perfect timing. Nature never rushes. She is guided by cycles and rhythms, not by urgency. So as you grow this month, remember to stay grounded.

How to work with the curent energy:

• Face the truth, the questioning, the shadow brought to surface by the Flower Full Moon. Sit with it, understand it.

• Identify where you have been playing small, meet the answers with honesty and without judgment.

• Start moving, not fast but with intention.

• Integrate. Ground yourself. Stabilize and get ready for the expansion that the end of the month will bring.

And the women who will move through this time with the most clarity and precision are the ones who are rooted in something deeper than urgency.

The women who know who they are.

Who trust their inner wisdom.

Who are anchored in a deeper rhythm than the noise around them.

This is why I created RENATA RETREAT- Grandmother Experience.

In 2022, my clients first asked me to create a retreat. The request returned every single year. I sat with it for four years. Because I did not wanted to create one more retreat.

I wanted to create a sacred return. A place to reconnect with the ancient feminine wisdom already living within you.

A space to remember the calm authority, nourishment, and grounded power of the Grandmother archetype.

A place where we can literally touch the ground with our feet and feel anchored.

RENATA RETREAT- Grandmother Experience is a carefully held immersion designed for the threshold we are standing at now, designed especially in this intense Fire Horse year.

A moment that asks us to move quickly, yet calls us even more deeply to root, and to lead from wisdom rather than force.

RENATA RETREAT- Grandmother Experience is where something real can shift.

Where you arrive carrying the weight of the world… and leave clearer, anchored, and more deeply connected to yourself.

If you’ve been feeling it, that quiet sense that you need a different pace, a deeper connection with yourself, with your lineage and with the ancestral feminine wisdom, a wiser way forward, this may be your call to join us.

All the details are here: Renata Retreat

If you have any questions, hit reply and I’ll get back to you

Cristina

“What do women most desire?”

he learns that the true answer is: Sovereignty.

I know this to be true in my bones,

in every cell of my body.

The one thing women most desire is sovereignty.

Sovereignty is the inner knowing that you are the authority in your life, your body, your business, and your decisions.

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Sovereignty is what I cultivate in the spaces I hold

in my coaching practice,

in the Sacred Gardens Women’s Circles,

in every workshop, event, and Clarity Call with the women I meet.

I want women to no longer outsource their power to:

mentors

coaches

trends

algorithms

gurus

expectations

patriarchal business rules

or the pressure to be “liked”.

I am here to facilitate sovereignty.

For every woman I encounter, coach, mentor, welcome, listen to, and guide.

Since 2012 I have guided hundreds of women to their inner authority.

I have guided them to recognize the voice within that says:

This is my pace.

This is my way of working.

This is what feels true in my body.

This is how I want to lead, create, and live.

I was born under an authoritarian regime in communist Romania, where freedom of speech was nonexistent and freedom of thought was dangerous.

This shaped my life. And my devotion.

I have dedicated my whole life to helping women reclaim their freedom,

their inner guidance,

their independence.

Even today, living in democracies, women are still conditioned to follow systems that disconnect us from our cycles, intuition, and feminine intelligence.

Systems that hijack our sovereignty.

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The spaces I create are spaces where women remember.

Where they reconnect with their power, their inner authority, their sovereignty.

I facilitate spaces where women take their power back.

Where they become sovereigns of their lives, their work, their minds, and their bodies.

And embody their rightful place in the world.

Everybody is talking about “being in your feminine”. It has often been interpreted as showing up soft, kind, and quiet, wearing flowy, pastel dresses, high heels, or speaking with a light, chirping voice.

We confused “feminine energy” with a patriarcal-contamined image of women.

We believed that “feminine energy” is about pastel colors, love and light and soft messaging.

Of course we did. And it’s not our fault.

We have internalized patriarchy.

But let’s clarify this.

Because that is not how I have been teaching it since 2022.

As women we carry both energies.

Yes, we have YIN energy

(related to coolness, wetness, darkness, rest , quiet, softness, still, moon, night, winter, being)

But we also have YANG energy.

Yin and yang are forces, not genders.

YANG energy is hot, dry, bright, active, hard, moving, sun, daytime, summer, doing.

Being in “your feminine” is not all love and light. It is not about softness.

I don’t know why the self-development world keeps perpetuating a patriarchal idea of the “divine feminine” as something soft, gentle and flowy.

I don’t know where all the light and love came from.

Women are worriers at their core. And the “divine feminine” can be very dark.

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The feminine body is built for warriorship.

Women are biologically and energetically designed to endure, protect, and adapt. Pregnancy, birth, bleeding monthly are all initiations requiring immense strength

A nervous system capable of staying present through prolonged intensity

Cyclical energy that allows rest and decisive action when needed.

Across times and civilizations we had warrior Goddesses:

• Kali: destruction as liberation

• Sekhmet: righteous rage

• Athena: strategic intelligence

• Durga: disciplined, focused power

• Morrígan: sovereignty

Thy are not “aggressive” Goddesses (as patriarchy would have us believe).

They are fully feminine, channeling their YANG in service of life.

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I don’t teach women to be “in their feminine”, I guide them toward the INTEGRATION of both energies

the healthy feminine =YIN

AND

the healthy masculine = YANG

Suppressing women’s YIN has created imbalance. And suppressing women’s YANG has done the same.

Historically, women were encouraged to:

… be soft, not strong

… nurturing, not confrontational

… intuitive, not decisive

The result I have seen over and over again?

Burnout instead of boundaries

Over-giving instead of protection

Self-sacrifice instead of sovereignty.

A woman cut off from her yang becomes exhausted.

A woman who reclaims her yang becomes sovereign and unstoppable

And maybe that’s why patriarchy doesn’t like it and why the self-development world keeps perpetuating the “misunderstanding”

Because a woman who has integrated both her Yin and her Yang is a sovereign woman. And that’s a woman hard to control (and hard to sell self-development to).

To say “women are only yin” is to misunderstand or try to manipulate feminine power.

Women are:

yin-rooted

yang-rooted

And warriors by design.

We are not here to ask for permission to take space.

Workplaces are built around men’s biology and how men’s energy works: from office temperatures optimized for men in suits, to the worship of linear efficiency, linear productivity and constant energy.

Women’s health remains an uncharted territory after decades and decades of almost non-existant research into how women’s bodies and brains function.

Women are still asked in job interviews “If you join our team, how will you manage when your kids are sick?” As if all mothers were single mothers, or the only parent who knows the pediatrician’s address.

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I have supported women for 14 years in many different ways and through many different modalities and I know 1000% that we can change and integrate our lost YIN (feminine) energy and heal our distorted YANG (masculine) energy. I know that women want and can relearn to rest and create in a cyclical way. I have seen women change, and then change everything around them: their teams, families, workplaces, companies, and businesses.

I have seen the ripple effect.

I have witnessed collective change over 14 years. I have created my THRIVE Formula and specific tools to support that transformation.

There is so much that can be done at our individual level, and we absolutely need to do this inner work.

But I have also seen that it is much easier for women who have a partner who cooks, does the laundry like a responsible adult without being asked, and wakes up at night when the baby cries (not just on special occasions) to “soften and relax”.

And I have also seen that it is much easier for women who work in environments willing to change and adapt to feminine leadership to create this ripple effect.

I know the power of my tools. They have directly helped hundreds of women and indirectly thousands over the years. But changing ourselves without addressing the bigger picture reinforces the idea that the burden is only on women to carry.

Yes, the patriarcal system is made of individuals. And when individuals change, the system changes.

When a critical mass is reached, the system flips.

That is the work I do in my practice: helping to build toward that critical mass.

And, at the same time...

We must address the bigger picture.

Because the answer is not to wait until all women have done this work.

We need to normalize cyclical energy (which clearly isn’t the case, judging by the comments Amber Glenn received when she spoke about having her period during the Olympics).

We need to educate everyone that women’s cycles are not inconvenient, they are an incredible super power.

We need flexible work weeks that allow women to live cyclically.

We need more research programs and treatments specifically designed for women’s health.

We need to reform how interviews are conducted with women and expose the mindset behind the questions journalists ask women.

We need postpartum to be a sacred, supported space, where women are nourished, hydrated, and cared for, not surviving on cold coffee.

We need to talk about the impact on women when they sacrifice their financial independence to provide emotional labor for their families.

We need to teach our sons what exactly doing their part in a relationship really means. And teach our daughters the questions to ask and the red flags to notice before entering one.

There is so, so much that must be addressed collectively.

When women are supported by their partners, communities, and laws, when patriarchy finally crumbles, women will still need to unlearn patriarchal conditioning that pushes us into unhealthy overuse of masculine energy and constant go-go-go, do-do-do mode.

But once we unlearn this, if patriarchy has been dismantled, our results will be far more sustainable.

Because telling women to “soften and relax” and “be in their feminine” without changing the dynamics in couples, families, workplaces, and communities is just another way of telling women to heal themselves in a sick system.

This is the language of Early Spring.

The days are getting longer, momentum quietly returns, we start to envision the future again.

What is fascinating about seasons is that they begin long before we can see them.

Seeds are already growing beneath the ice. Sap is rising before the first blossoms appear. Snowdrops bloom while the ground is still frozen.

Nature doesn’t see to wait to be “ready” before it moves into action.

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Plants begin to grow before the perfect temperatures arrive.

Seeds start germinating underground long before we see the first signs of life above the surface.

Growth starts before the “perfect conditions”

Nature sems to be confortable with uncertainty.

This is the language of Early Spring.

This is what nature tries to teach us.

We don’t need to wait for the perfect plan to start.

We don’t need the curated vision board to move into action.

It is ok to follow the energy of new beginnings without feeling certain.

It may feel uncomfortable, but the truth is that we don’t need to feel ready to start.

In Early Spring body and intuition awaken first.

So before your mind tries to make sense of it all, you can choose to listen to the delicate signals of your intuition.

And follow it.

Early Spring teaches us

• to believe in the possibility before we see it clearly

• to start before we feel ready

• to move gently, but to move anyway.

• A Blood Full Moon Eclipse in Virgo on March 3rd, closing the Eclipse Portal

• Jupiter coming out of Retrograde on March 10th

• A New Moon in Pisces on March 18th

• Mercury on Retrograde until March 20th

• The Astrological New Year coinciding with the Spring Equinox and the beginning of Aries Season on March 20th.

March also marks the beginning of Spring in ancient European traditions.

March 1st is considered to be the beginning of Spring in Romania following an old Dacian tradition, Mărțișor.

In the Celtic Wheel, Ostara is celebrated around March 20th and honors nature’s rebirth.

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When we look holistically at these cosmic events and ancestral rhythms, March brings a surge of new beginnings energy.

As we move through the Lunar Eclipse on March 3rd, new clarity may emerge.

We may find ourselves releasing past versions of our lives and businesses that no longer fit the identities we are growing into. Chapters close. We start looking forward.

With Jupiter coming out of retrograde, what we’ve been quietly preparing may no longer be able to wait. The time for action approaches.

And yet, during Mercury retrograde until March 20th, we are invited to slow down, to reassess our systems, refine our structures, and expand our capacity to hold the energy of what is about to be born.

March invites us to allow the shifts in the energetic field to unfold gradually, and to let our growth be embodied and deeply grounded.

As we approach March 20th, with Mercury coming out of retrograde, the Spring Equinox, Ostara, the beginning of the new astrological year, and the season of Aries, we will begin to move into a powerful energy of fresh starts and rebirth.

So in March 2026, you may feel torn between the desire to begin again and the pull toward reflection and hibernation. You may experience inspiration alongside a deep need for rest. A longing to take action intertwined with fatigue.

March is still a moment of recalibration.

To work with this energy:

• allow yourself to tune intuitively into your dreams and desires for this fresh new start,

• identify where you need more clarity,

• prepare structures and systems in your business and your inner capacities to be able to sustainably hod the new beginnings you desire.

Just as the Moon has phases, women move through cycles too.

Just as Mother Earth has seasons, women have an inner rhythm too.

And that is why women are connected to nature in a sacred way.

Nature moves in cycles. Women do too.

Women’s bodies are inherently cyclical through the menstrual cycle, which mirrors the lunar cycle.

Women move through seasons of life: from menarche to womanhood, from pregnancy (when they choose so) to postpartum, from perimenopause to menopause and post-menopause.

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Women are creators, in the same way Earth creates life.

Nature births, regenerates, and transforms. Women have the biological and energetic capacity to create life, ideas, communities, art, and movements.

Nature communicates subtly: through sacred geometry, energetic information, patterns, and sensations. Women have intuitive knowing and sacred wisdom.

Women are threshold beings, living at the edge: between the seen and the unseen,

between life and death (menstruation, birth, menopause),

between past and future (the maternal lineage extending through three generations in the womb).

This is why in the most ancient civilizations leaders, priestesses, shamans, oracles, healers, and mystics were often women.

Women’s bodies are sacred landscapes.

And need to be revered as such.

They are temples of cycles, rhythms, pleasure and intuition.

When I work with women, I help them return to their sacred connection: working with their cycles instead of against them. seeing value in rest, intuition and creativity, honoring seasons of visibility and seasons of retreat…

without sacrificing their ambition, power or financial sovereignty.

The Lunar New Year acknowledges that Spring does not begin when flowers bloom. It arrives earlier. In Chinese cosmology, Spring unfolds when Yang energy begins to rise subtly beneath the surface.

It is the moment when sap begins to travel toward the buds.

And we are already noticing subtle shifts in nature: birds chirping early in the morning, the gradual return of light, little snowdrops lifting their delicate heads.

Like nature, we are also sensing suble shifts in our energy. New ideas entering our field. Dreams beginning to sprout again. We feel a desire to clear and declutter, a craving for renewal.

Something in us is awakening. We emerge from the deep Yin of Winter.

The energy of early Spring is potent and fertile. This is a precious time to be pregnant with ideas and dreams before sharing them with the world.

Early Spring marks the beginning of of growth and expansion. The renewal of Qi, life energy.

During this time, your intuition whispers. Listen to its messages. Notice the synchronicities. Document your dreams. Reconnect with the Inner Flow of your cycle. Nurture yourself and allow time for rest. Let your ideas take shape before acting on them.

And if you haven’t cleared your space before the Lunar New Year, it is still time. Tend to your home and office. Make room for the energy of new beginnings.

The Horse is one of the most freedom-loving signs in the Chinese zodiac. It needs autonomy, space and self-direction.

The Horse is the expression of wild, untamed energy.

The Horse is ruled by Fire and linked to the Heart and Spirit. The Horse energy is alive, emotional, and relational.

It is linked to not only to the Fire element but also to South, peak summer and Noon: peak yang, peak visibility, peak heat, peak activity.

In its highest expression, the Horse is

• charismatic

• magnetic

• entrepreneurial

• bold

• inspiring

• moving fast

In it’s shadow expression, the Horse is

• impulsive

• prone to burnout

• scattered

• restless

Beyond its archetypal and symbolic in Chinese astrology, the Horse is a magnificent animal with large, powerful heart and highly sensitive nervous system.

Research in human-animal interaction shows that humans tend to synchronize their emotions and nervous systems with horses.

When we interact with horses, we tend to experience reduced stress. We feel appeased, less anxious, deeply touched, grounded, and clear in the presence of horses. Horses naturally create a field of emotional safety and embodied presence.

They are highly intuitive hyper-attuned to subtle energetic signals.

The Horse Medicine teaches us:

• sovereign movement without disconnection from the body,

• attunement to our intuition,

• direction without force,

• connection with our power in a way that is regulated, embodied, and grounded, not reactive

• momentum without impulsiveness

• heart-led leadership

Historically, Fire Horse years are considered high-impact, disruptive, transformative, especially for women’s roles and social change.

For women entrepreneurs, the Fire Horse Year can be the year where your soul chooses visible expression, your desire finds direction, your power moves through your body... not just your mind.

The Horse Medicine calls your soul into the open field of visibility, embodied success, and heart-led leadership.

I believe that in 2026 intuition is no longer optional, and grounding becomes vital.

And we have witnessed

• systems crumbling,

• the Matrix cracking,

• people rising up,

• people fighting even more fiercely and courageously for their freedom,

• the era of spiritual bypassing and unquestioned gurus collapsing,

• horrible secrets and corruption being exposed,

• social media myths questioned and addictive patterns rejected.

With Neptune entering Aries, on an individual level we have started to notice a shift within ourselves.

We have begun to see what has depleted us in the past, where we made concessions, where we didn’t follow our intuition with courageous action. We started noticing what truly moves us forward and what doesn’t.

Then, when Saturn entered Aries on February 13th, these subtle inner shifts begun to take shape.

Saturn brings structure, discipline, responsibility, and boundaries.

You may have feel that the realizations you just had in January required new structures and real commitment. You gained clarity on what you wanted to start building with patience and maturity, for the long term.

On February 20th, Neptune and Saturn meet in Aries at 0 degrees.

This is considered a cosmic birth moment, a point of collective initiation, visibility, and world impact. It’s like the first cry of a newborn archetype.

Zero degrees is the starting point.

The ignition point.

The moment when something entirely new begins.

No one alive has experienced an energetic portal like this.

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0° Aries is the ignition point.

The origin point.

The rebirth point.

It is an energetic portal of pure initiation and rebirth.

This is a cosmic energetic reset.

This Saturn–Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries is extremely rare. The last time this exact degree was activated occurred between 4300 and 3000 BC, too far back for written records.

The most recent Saturn–Neptune conjunction, however, took place in Capricorn in 1989. I remember 1989 well: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Romanian Revolution, the collapse of tyranny and old systems.

This Saturn–Neptune RESET POINT occurs during a powerful eclipse portal, lasting from February 17th (the rare Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse) to March 3rd (a Lunar Eclipse). It is a powerful portal of transformation and liberation, highlighting your work around identity and direction.

You will see more clearly who you are becoming.

On an individual level, this may be the true beginning of a new cycle.

You may start to identify what is meaningful and worth committing to. What is sustainable. What is aligned. What was once a dream or an idea will begin to ask for commitment, action, and real involvement.

The Ring of Fire is different from other solar eclipses. The Sun is not fully eclipsed, it becomes a luminous circle of fire in the sky.

A boundary of fire. A Fire Gate.

This eclipse marks the full arrival of the Fire Horse energy.

From February 4th, the new solar year has been loading. On February 17th, the Fire Horse frequency becomes fully embodied, felt, and activated.

In The Ring of Fire eclipse, the Sun is not eclipsed, it is contained. When the Fire Element is contained, it is not destructive. It becomes clear guidance, direction, and correction.

The Ring of Fire eclipse in Aquarius, with both Neptune and Saturn in Aries puts the spotlight on 2 major themes: identity and direction.

It burns old identities and activates courage and movement.

• You may start to notice what no longer aligns with who you are becoming.

• You may gain clarity on the new identity that has been emerging.

• You may encounter conversations, situations, or decisions that crystallize this shift.

• You may begin taking action aligned with who you truly are now.

The ring represents wholeness. The Fire Elements represents visibility. The Ring of Fire is an energetic portal.

If you are a woman leader or a women entrepreneur, this eclipse is an initiation into sovereign visibility.

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The Ring of Fire eclipse is about regulated, grounded fire. And power that moves through the body, heart, and nervous system with coherence. Not with impulsiveness.

How to work with this powerful energy.

Ask yourself:

• Where have I dimmed my light to stay safe?

• What needs to be reevaluated and corrected?

• Where is my fire calling me forward?

• Where does my desire want to become direction?

• What am I willing to illuminate and embody?

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This is a deeply YANG, active energy.

Our patriarchal society, obsessed with achievement and productivity interprets this energy as an invitation to do-do-do-go-go-go-go mode.

So everyone tells you that in The Fire Horse Year it’s time to take action and push forward.

Except that… when we work with energy, we never seek imbalance.

We never put fire on top of fire. We don’t throw the elements out of balance.

Fire on top of fire creates urgency, exhaustion, misalignment. And this is indeed the risk in 2026 if you follow only the Yang side of the Fire Horse Year.

But if we use my methodology, The THRIVE Formula that I have created for YIN/ YANG integration, we begin to see the Fire Horse Year differently.

The Horse carries not only Yang qualities (speed, momentum, drive) but also Yin qualities. The Horse is:

• grounded

• intuitive

• fully present

• calm

The Fire element is about courage and visibility, but also about connection, childlike joy, and playfulness.

When we apply The Thrive Formula to this year’s energy, we understand that the true key is Yin–Yang integration. Yang without Yin creates misalignment. Fire on top of fire creates imbalance and burnout.

The energy of 2026 is not about pushing harder, running your business from urgency or chasing goals at the expense of your alignment and health.

In 2026:

• intuition is no longer optional

• following your rhythm becomes essential

• rushing is not the answer anymore.

The key to co-creating with the Fire Horse energy is to be fully embodied, fully grounded, fully intuitive.

When the patriarchal interpretation of The Fire Horse Year tells you to push harder this year, remember: the key to riding the Fire Horse is embodiment, intuition, and remaining centered while everything around you speeds up.

Because it will.

There is an art to holding the Fire Horse frequency.

It requires an exquisite and precise balance of activation, ignition and grounding.

It requires an energetic shift and a nervous system recalibration.

This is both internal and external work: at the level of your energy, body, and soul and within your environment and your understanding of the larger cosmic movement.

This is what I will guide you through in The Fire Gate.

The Fire Gate is a 3-week portal for visionary women ready to meet this once-in-a-lifetime frequency. A full-spectrum activation and embodiment of your identity, leadership, and energy.

This is your moment to step into an exceptionally potent portal, The Gate of Fire.

If you are ready, I am ready to guide you. Reply to this article and let me know if you want more information about The Fire Gate.

I am looking forward to be guiding you through this powerful energetic portal,

Cristina

In Traditional Chinese Medicine the Fire Element is linked to:

• Summer

• Sun

• Heart

• Red and Purple

• South

It governs our ability to love, our relationship to ourselves and to others. It is connected to our joy, play fun and passion. You can see people’s fire through the spark in their eyes.

Fire Medicine asks:

What must be seen, purified, or transmuted so life energy can flow again?

When your FIRE is in balance, you trust life, your mind is clear, your sleep is deep, your emotions flow without overwhelm.

In business, Fire as medicine is when

you speak from your heart

you are visible without burning out

you inspire

you lead

you speak your truth.

Fire is warm, glowing and inviting.

But when it’s out of balance? It stops warming us and starts consuming us.

This feels like:

• Constant urgency or pressure

• Anxiety

• Nervous system stuck in activation

• Difficulty resting without guilt

• Emotional reactivity

And when Fire is too low, the light is there, but barely flickering. This looks like:

• Lack of motivation or direction

• Dullness, apathy, emotional numbness

• Fear of being seen

• Self-doubt or hesitation

• Joy feels distant or unsafe.

February 2026 brings a rare stacking of forces linked to the Fire Element.

• It opens on February 1st with a rare and meaningful alignment of fire symbols: the Celtic fire festival Imbolc coincides with a Full Moon in Leo, a fire sign ruled by the Sun (pure fire energy)

• On February 17th, we enter the Year of the Fire Horse, marked by a rare Solar Eclipse known as the “Ring of Fire.”

• on February 20th, Neptune and Saturn meet at 0° Aries (a fire sign) an exact point considered the Ignition Point.

These are rare cosmic events, all concentrated in February, all connected to the FIRE Element.

If Serpent Medicine striped us back to our essence in 2025 and January 2026, Fire Medicine makes that essence visible.

The Serpent worked in the dark, in the body, in the underworld.

The Fire works in the light, in the heart, in the world.

One prepared us. The other asks us to be seen.

After the Serpent Medicine was at work, the Fire medicine asks you:

Now that you know who you are, will you let yourself be witnessed as your new identity?

The Serpent removed the layers. Fire illuminates what remains.

After shedding, Fire asks:

Will you speak differently now?

Will you choose differently?

Will you lead differently?

Will you be seen without armor?

Fire medicine is the moment when truth becomes public. An initiatory experience.

It combines the wild, untamed independent force of the Horse with the Fire Element, the element of courage, visibility and passion.

This is a powerful, active YANG energy.

This is not a year for hiding or playing small and you already know it, deep down. 2026 amplifies momentum, courage and speed. It magnifies the energy of women who refuse to live small.

But the tricky part is: you don’t want to add more fire in a Year of Fire Horse. Fire on top of fire leads to burnout.

To hold this energy, and be unstoppable without burning yourself, a precise and intentional energetic recalibration is required. I’ve been speaking about this shift for months now, and the same question keeps coming back in conversations, sessions, and private messages: “How do we prepare for this energy and how we sustain it?“

Or more precisely:

“How do we ride the Fire Horse without burning ourselves?”

I have sat with this question long enough to find the answer. And I’m ready to guide you to your own.

If you feel yourself at an edge, pulled toward leadership, visibility, impact, and wealth growth, this is a sacred call.

The Energy of the Fire Horse is calling you forward.

There is an art to holding the Fire Horse frequency. It requires an exquisite and precise balance of activation, ignition and grounding.

It requires an energetic shift and a nervous system recalibration.

This is both internal and external work: at the level of your energy, body, and soul and within your environment and your understanding of the larger cosmic movement.

This is what I will guide you through in The Fire Gate.

The Fire Gate is a 3-week portal for visionary women ready to meet this once-in-a-lifetime frequency. A full-spectrum activation and embodiment of your identity, leadership, and energy.

This is your moment to step into an exceptionally potent portal, The Gate of Fire.

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From an energetic, Feng Shui, and Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective, this is the real beginning of the Fire Horse year. Yes, everybody on the Internet is talking about the beginning of the Fire Horse Year on February 17th. And it’s partially true.

But energetically, it is February 4th, also known as the Feng Shui (Solar) New Year, when the Fire Horse truly enters the field.

Although the Lunar New Year is celebrated on February 17, 2026, the new energy arrives with the Sun, on February 4th and finishes settling on with the New Moon, on February 17th.

Energy does not work with an on/off switch, and astrology, East and West, recognizes this. In Western astrology, we feel eclipses, transits, and retrogrades before and after their exact dates. Chinese astrology follows the same wisdom.

The Fire Horse enters with Li Chun (February 4th) and is fully embodied and celebrated with the New Moon on February 17th.

Why does that matter?

Because between February 4 and February 17, 2026, we’re in a threshold period.

We have two weeks to gradually release the old Snake energy and begin attuning to the Fire Horse frequency.

It’s a “mise en bouche” before the main course.

This window is a precious opportunity to allow ourselves some space and time to start feeling and working with the intense, powerful energy of the Fire Horse, without rushing it.

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Some of you may already feel the shift. After the slowdown, constriction, and shedding of Snake medicine, you might feel tempted to accelerate, go full speed. But these two weeks are not for acceleration, they are for orientation.

Between February 4th and February 17th:

• feel where momentum wants to go,

• notice impulses without acting on (all of) them

• test ideas

• track what excites you and what drains you

• define non-negotiables (rest, space, support)

Avoid:

• impulsive launches

• over-commitment

• hiring from urgency

• radical pivots

• burning bridges

If something feels urgent, ask yourself: Will this still be true in 10 days?

February 4th to 17th is the moment when you meet the Fire Horse, place the saddle, and decide how you will ride. This is a gift. A period of grace. Before the world starts running.

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• February opens with a rare and meaningful alignment of fire symbols: on February 1st, the Celtic fire festival Imbolc coincides with a Full Moon in Leo, a fire sign ruled by the Sun (pure fire energy)

• On February 17th, we enter the Year of the Fire Horse, marked by a rare Solar Eclipse known as the “Ring of Fire.”

• on February 20th, Neptune and Saturn meet at 0° Aries (a fire sign) an exact point considered the Ignition Point.

These are rare cosmic events, all concentrated in February, all connected to the FIRE Element.

February is typically a threshold month, suspended between winter and spring. Winter is still holding on, while spring has not yet fully emerged. But this year, the New Lunar Year begins on February 17th.

In many Asian traditions, the Lunar New Year is considered a Spring Festival. Because spring is not defined by what is visible yet, but by what starts to shift beneath the surface.

Something begins to accelerate.

The sap starts rising toward the buds, preparing the blossoms.

Seeds begin to germinate in the dark.

The light returns slowly.

The first half of February is still a time of shedding: the final weeks of the Year of the Wood Snake.

But the beginning of a New Lunar Year on February 17th, combined with so many fire festivals, symbols, and cosmic events, will bring an energy of acceleration and bold action.

Neptune already entered Aries on January 26th, initiating a major spiritual shift that will unfold over the next 14 years.

The fog has begun to lift.

Collective illusions are dissolving.

Spiritual bypassing is collapsing.

With all this fire moving in during February, we are shifting toward action, instinct, courage, and commitment.

The Year of Fire Horse brings momentum, speed, and acceleration. You may be looking forward to it after the feeling of slow motion you experienced in the Year of the Wood Snake .

But such an extreme shift from YIN (Snake) to YANG (Fire Horse), from water and wood to fire must be prepared.

The Horse is a wild, untamed force. Fire is the most extreme expression of Yang. Together, they form a powerful and unpredictable energy that will move through our bodies and nervous systems.

Such a shift requires careful RECALIBRATION.

And just days later, Saturn and Neptune meet at 0° Aries on February 20th. No one alive has experienced an energetic portal like this.

0° Aries is the ignition point.

The origin point.

The rebirth point.

It is an energetic portal of pure initiation and rebirth.

This is a cosmic energetic reset. This Saturn–Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries is extremely rare. The last time this exact degree was activated occurred between 4300 and 3000 BC, too far back for written records.

The most recent Saturn–Neptune conjunction, however, took place in Capricorn in 1989. I remember that year well: the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Romanian Revolution, the collapse of tyranny and old systems.

This Saturn–Neptune RESET POINT occurs during a powerful eclipse portal, lasting from February 17th (the rare Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse) to March 3rd (a Lunar Eclipse), a powerful portal of transformation and liberation.

February may well become the ignition point for disruptive events that dismantle outdated systems and expose injustice.

Collectively, we can expect major shifts and a profound reset.

Individually, depending on your unique astrological placements (Western astrology) and your unique combination of elements (Chinese astrology), you may feel a powerful impulse to change things deeply and rapidly at the same time.

To sustain this intense influx of Fire energy, coming from so many directions and archetypes, you will need to:

• Ground

• Embody (deeply reconnect with your body)

• Calibrate your nervous system to this new and very powerful energetic frequency.

This is a turning point and we need to prepare it by RECALIBRATING our bodies, energy and nervous systems.

Let me be clear: Women are not “in their masculine” by choice.

“You are too much in your masculine,” say coaches.

“Yep, I am too much in my masculine,” many women agree.

And just like that, we’re back at the starting point: women need to be fixed (again!)

No!

Women don’t need to be fixed. Patriarchy does.

Yes, many women recognise themselves in patterns such as:

• doing, executing, pushing forward

• feeling constant pressure

• over-indexing logic and structure

• being perpetually “on”

• suppressing rest, emotions, and intuition

And yes, many are now feeling the impact of this on their bodies, their health, and their energy. As women, we do want to move away from go-go-go, do-do-do mode. We do want to release constant pressure.

I have worked with and taught hundreds of women to step out of these unhealthy masculine patterns and reclaim a more balanced, embodied way of working and living.

There is a lot we can do at an individual level.

But one thing I know for sure: it’s a systemic issue.

Let me be clear: sustainable change cannot happen only at an individual level.

Yes, the collective is the sum of individuals. And yes, when we change individually, the system does begin to shift. But systemic pressure requires a systemic response.

Everything in this world pushes women to “be in their masculine”. Women are “in their masculine” because this is how women survive in patriarchy. From a very young age, we are rewarded for doing, performing, never resting, being of service, overriding our bodies, leading without support, and without complaint. We didn’t really have a choice. And we had no role models beyond exhausted mothers.

In relationships, how many partners truly step in and say: “Go to your meeting, I’ll take care of our child with a fever. I’ll cancel mine.” or “You are bleeding today. Stay in bed, I’ll handle everything” or “Yes, you earn less right now, but if we don’t invest in childcare, how could you ever have the time and space to earn more?”

I know a man like this. But how many women don’t?

How many women push against their bodies, work double days, and carry invisible labor , without ever questioning the system or the partner that demands it or implicitly expects it ?

The reality is that it’s much easier to “be in our feminine” (which often simply means not exhausting ourselves) when we have a partner who steps in and truly does his part. And it would be much easier to “be in our feminine” if it were completely normalized in companies to work from home when we are bleeding. To name only 2 examples.

As much as we, as women, can and have done at an individual level to move from the go-go-go-do-do-do mode, it’s ultimately about collective change. It’s creating new structures. And until those structures and the system change, asking women to “just soften” is not liberation, it’s denial.

Yes, we can create change at an individual level. Yes, coaching, therapy, and retreats are deeply supportive. But this is far more complex than that. Not everything can be healed or changed individually.

We need a collective response.

We need to heal the collective.

We need to stop trying to fix women and start fixing the system.

We need to teach women’s cycles for real in schools. Not only biologically, but spiritually and energetically. To girls and boys. We need to teach men how to sacrifice comfort and privilege for their partners’ wellbeing, not as a favor, but as shared responsibility. We need to show women that a different kind of leadership is possible.

We need to dismantle patriarchy Piece. By. Piece.

I don’t oppose the feminine to the masculine. And I don’t believe one is better than the other. These energies are equal in dignity and power. I prefer to speak of Yin and Yang, because Yin and Yang are not genders. They are universal forces of life, fundamental principles that describe how energy moves.

Women can be YANG without being “in their masculine.” They can be YANG without living in go-go-go-do-do-do mode. They can be YANG without being constantly on, without suppressing rest, emotion, or vulnerability.

Women need a healthy YIN- YANG integration. I have supported women to do this at the individual level. And now it’s time we do the YIN-YANG integration collectively, systemically.

It’s time to dismantle patriarchy, piece by piece.