It's been just over a week since we transitioned out of the Pentagram Illumination Phase, yet I continue to notice how the Steward's secondary Macrocosmic Vigor—Clairs + Channeling—has left a subtle but powerful imprint on our collective experience. This aspect of the Steward's wisdom offers us profound insights about receiving guidance directly from the natural world, a skill that feels increasingly essential in these rapidly changing times.
Yesterday morning, I made a visit to one of my favorite places: the Phoenix Botanical Garden. As someone born and raised in the Midwest US, I still find myself in awe at the stark beauty of all the living things that choose to thrive here in the desert. While wandering off the main walkway, I stopped to rest beside a towering Saguaro. As I looked up at its massive trunk, a curious sensation washed over me—not quite a voice, but a distinct knowing that seemed to rise through the soles of my feet and settle in my heart. The message was simple yet profound: "Patience is not waiting. It is growing."
This is the essence of what the Steward's Clairs + Channeling vigor taught us during the Pentagram phase—that wisdom is constantly being transmitted through the physical world around us, if only we learn to listen in the right way.
Understanding Clairs + Channeling Through the Steward's Lens
In the Starchetype System, Clairs + Channeling is defined as "one's ability to perceive and transmit multi-dimensional and interplanetary messages, transcending conventional sensory inputs." This Vigor facilitates a direct connection with higher realms, allowing us to receive cosmic wisdom and guidance.
For the Steward, this connection manifests most strongly through Clairsentience—the ability to receive information through physical sensation and feeling. The Steward's Guardian Star Family designation enhances this connection to Earth energies, making them especially adept at interpreting the subtle messages constantly being transmitted by our natural environment.
Unlike visual or auditory psychic abilities, Clairsentience operates through the body's wisdom. Information comes as goosebumps, warmth spreading across the skin, a sudden heaviness or lightness, or that unmistakable gut feeling we've all experienced at pivotal moments.
During the recent Pentagram phase, many of us experienced heightened Clairsentient awareness, perhaps without even realizing it. That inexplicable pull toward certain places in nature, the sudden knowing about which furry friends or plants needed your attention, or the clear physical sensation guiding you toward or away from specific situations—these were all expressions of this Vigor at work.
Three Practices to Strengthen Your Earth Connection
While the concentrated energy of the Pentagram phase has passed, we can continue to develop the Clairsentient abilities it awakened. Here are three practices I've found especially powerful for deepening this connection:
1. Barefoot Wisdom Walking This simple practice involves walking barefoot on natural surfaces—grass, sand, soil, or stone—with conscious attention to the sensations that arise. Not just the physical feelings of texture and temperature, but the subtle impressions and knowings that emerge when we make direct contact with the Earth. Try this for just five minutes daily, asking a specific question at the beginning of your walk and remaining open to how the answer might arrive through physical sensation. You might notice your steps become lighter and quicker when thinking about a beneficial option, while your feet feel heavy and resistant when considering alternatives that don't align with your highest good.
2. Hand-to-Heart Plant Communication This practice invites you to establish a direct energetic connection with plants. Place one hand on your heart and the other on a plant (a tree, houseplant, garden vegetable—any living plant will do). Close your eyes and simply notice what you feel in your body as you maintain this connection. I've used this technique to determine when my plants need water, light, or repotting—not by analyzing their appearance, but by sensing their needs through physical impressions in my own body. The subtle feedback might come as a tightness in your chest when a plant needs more space, or a cooling sensation when it requires water.
3. Earth Pulse Meditation Find a comfortable position seated directly on the ground outdoors. Place both palms flat on the earth beside you. Focus your attention on the subtle pulsing energy you can feel rising from the ground—the Earth's heartbeat. As you attune to this rhythm, notice any insights, impressions, or physical sensations that emerge. Last week, during this practice, I received clear guidance about a writing project that had stalled—not through words or images, but through a rhythmic energy that translated in my awareness as a new structure for the material.
The Practical Wisdom of Clairsentience
What makes these practices so valuable isn't just their spiritual significance but their practical applications. The guidance received through Clairsentient channels tends to be remarkably pragmatic, offering directions for navigating everyday challenges with greater ease and alignment.
During the Pentagram phase, I noticed this wisdom manifesting in several areas of daily life: In Health and Wellbeing The body's subtle signals often contain crucial information about our health needs. By developing Clairsentience, you can detect early warning signs of imbalance before they manifest as physical symptoms. You might notice a heaviness in a particular organ when consuming certain foods, or feel an energetic resistance when considering activities that would deplete rather than nourish you.
In Decision Making Clairsentient wisdom can provide valuable guidance when facing important choices. Rather than endless pro/con lists, try sitting quietly with each option and noticing how your body responds. The physical sensations that arise—expansion or contraction, warmth or coolness, lightness or heaviness—often contain clear directional guidance aligned with your highest good.
In Environmental Awareness Perhaps most relevant to the Steward's wisdom, Clairsentience enhances our ability to read and respond to environmental needs. From determining which plants will thrive in a particular location to sensing subtle shifts in weather patterns before they become visible, this physical intuition deepens our participation in natural cycles.
This is the gift of the Steward's Clairs + Channeling wisdom: it bridges cosmic understanding with practical, embodied action.
The Ongoing Conversation
While the concentrated energy of the Pentagram Illumination Phase offered a particularly potent window for developing these abilities, the conversation between your body and the Earth continues every day. The key is remembering to listen.
In our technology-saturated world, we're constantly bombarded with information coming through screens and speakers. The quiet wisdom transmitted through our physical senses can easily be drowned out by these louder channels. Yet the guidance we receive through our Clairsentient faculties often proves to be more reliable and personally relevant than any external source of information.
As we look ahead to the energy of the coming months, I encourage you to maintain the Earth connection the Pentagram phase helped establish. Set aside a few minutes each day to listen through your body. Let your physical senses become receivers for the subtle transmissions constantly flowing between you and the natural world.
Ask questions and notice how the answers arrive—not as thoughts or visions, but as physical sensations, subtle knowings, and shifts in your energetic state. Trust these messages, even when they come in whispers rather than shouts.
The Earth is always speaking. Our bodies are always listening. The Steward's gift is teaching us how to consciously participate in this ancient, ongoing conversation—a dialogue that holds the wisdom we need to navigate these transformative times with grace, clarity, and purpose. What is the Earth whispering to you today?
