A Threshold of Soul Growth: Why It Feels Like Something Big Is Happening Right Now
Why do I feel like something big is happening internally?
Many people describe feeling like something significant is happening internally — a sense of change, increased sensitivity, or being in between phases of life. These experiences often arise during periods of spiritual transition, when the nervous system, personal experience and conscious awareness are reorganizing.
While crossing a threshold is ultimately a meaningful and growth-oriented process, it often includes periods of intensity or uncertainty. When understood and approached with care, these phases become stepping stones rather than obstacles.
I have spent two decades studying, and then later guiding people through, threshold experiences. My work centers on how spiritual awareness reorganizes through the nervous system and body, and how Earth-based connection not only stimulates, but also spiritually grounds and supports you through the soul integration and self connection process.
This article explores threshold experiences and embodiment. It discusses what they are, why we are having them now, and how to move yourself through this and others that you may encounter in your life.
Context: We are collectively crossing a threshold
Between November 2025 and May 2026, humanity is moving through a phase where many people are being ‘sparked’ or ‘awakened’ to new and different layers of knowledge, connection and experience. This is happening at the same time (and in part, because of) transformations that are happening in the energy structure of Earth.
If you are a long-time reader of this site, or someone who follows astrology, you know that planetary cycles, nodal alignments, eclipses, and seasonal rhythms have long been used as indicators of collective experience. Pluto’s movement into Aquarius, a February Aquarius eclipse, and the upcoming transition of Neptune into Aries are some of the markers pointing to this broader threshold period.
A threshold is a crossing point of awareness, consciousness, and levels of connection. It is the ability to perceive, relate and exist on different planes of experience.
Many people are already feeling like they are crossing a threshold, even if they do not yet have language for it. It may show up as increased sensitivity or a sense of being quietly “in between”. It may also show up in a growing connection to different layers of reality which allows you to live, connect, and experience the world differently. On a more ‘esoteric’ side – it may show up in dreams of crossing points, traveling, or like you are making some form of journey.
What a Threshold Actually Is
A threshold is a crossing point of awareness, consciousness, and connection.
It marks a shift in how we perceive, relate, and exist. In practical terms, a threshold is like crossing a bridge from one way of being into another. This often occurs as we integrate a soul lesson, complete a cycle of growth, or adjust to a new vibrational experience of reality.
Most people have already lived through at least one threshold in their lives — even if they did not name it as such at the time.
Crossing a threshold is like opening a door and walking through it. Sometimes a threshold brings access to a new level of awareness. Other times, it feels like birthing a part of yourself into conscious embodiment. They often involve shifts in belief systems, moments of identity uncertainty, and at the same time, a deepening of self love, connection, and inner coherence.
Thresholds exist within the self. They are also experiences we move through vibrationally, as awareness and capacity change. Sometimes this happens rapidly. More often, crossing a threshold feels like you are physically walking somewhere or moving through something that you do not quite understand. It is a life review, an ending and a beginning all at once – except it can go on for anywhere from a few days to a month.
At this moment, many people are encountering thresholds as part of a larger, interconnected shift unfolding through three overlapping changes:
Right now, many people are coming to thresholds as part of a larger energetic shift. This threshold is unfolding through three interconnected changes happening simultaneously. In short they are:
1. Increased sensitivity
Emotionally, energetically, and environmentally, more information is registering in the body and nervous system. What once remained background noise is now felt more directly. This is the system waking up and growing.
2. Planetary and environmental shifts
Through solar activity, long-cycle planetary changes, and broader ecological transitions, the baseline conditions of life are reorganizing. The planet is humming at a different frequency which affects her capacity.
3. A movement toward deeper embodiment
More of who we are is coming into the body — not as abstraction, but as lived presence in daily life. Soul integration, deep soul connection, and soul growth are happening.
These are not separate processes. They are different expressions of the same underlying shift.
Awakening as Embodiment, Not Escape
One of the things ways that we speak about ‘threshold’ crossing is to say we are ‘waking up’ or having an ‘awakening’. I appreciate this way of referencing it because once you cross a threshold, there is a new and different part of yourself that you have brought into existence. Awakening is about becoming more able to live ourselves fully in the here and now. It is not something that happens once. Rather, season for season, cycle for cycle we have the chance to awaken and embody more of ourselves.
Crossing a threshold is about coming home — through the body, the breath, and the living Earth.
Metaphysically speaking, when you cross a threshold, you are moving through a gateway — vibrationally, psychologically, and at times through the astral realms — as you return more fully to yourself. You cross thresholds of ‘vibration’ but also, ones in the astral realms, as you walk yourself home to you.
Why Earth Matters So Much Right Now
During threshold periods, the spiritual and biological systems require regulation, alignment, and moments of quiet connection. This is a process by which you are ‘birthing’ a part of yourself (or, as I say in the video, where you are reaching a part of yourself and ‘growing’ into being able to embody that part in this here and now).
Earth is key to this process. Not only does Earth helps regulate the physical body as these transformations occur. Natural environments soothe the nervous system, support emotional processing, and provide stability as awareness expands. So too does Earth help spark the spiritual process of how we wake up or experience soul growth in the first place.
- *This is a key focal point of my soul growth videos on YouTube, training + other Earth articles posted on this website.
Earth is key because it helps us body, mind and soul. Being near trees, water, soil, and stone replenishes the biological body while supporting spiritual integration. Direct contact, meditation, and intentional grounding practices — including those I teach at my school — allow this process to unfold with greater ease and coherence. For those in advanced spiritual work – these are also places that you can go to spark and intentionally bring yourself through a threshold crossing.
Feeling that draw to get outside, lately?
That is your body intuitively bringing you toward what is going to soothe, calm and restore you as you go through this process. You may even be drawing yourself to an actual gateway where you will cross a threshold into yourself.
What It Means to Cross a Threshold Well
The truth is – crossing thresholds can be terrifying. It can also be wonderful and inspiring. It is almost always life changing. The key factors defining how your experience will be tend to be:
a) the state of your biological body, b) the state of your energy body and c) the threshold you are crossing.
Though crossing thresholds can be overwhelming, they do not have to be. As a psychopomp of the living – crossing thresholds is my speciality. One of the reasons I became a teacher was to share the tools of how to be comfortable and embrace growth. The original inspiration that got me here? Having awful soul growth phases earlier on and becoming a student of the process. Through quiet observation over the course of 20 years, I discovered what I teach you here!
This process is exactly what my course ‘Plugging into the Planet: Pathway to Grounded Spiritual Growth’ walks you through (access it at the bottom of this page). It is also the subject o the video linked just below this text:
As discussed in this video: crossing a threshold of embodiment well means:
- slowing down and giving yourself loving care
- spiritually grounding
- listening to your inner voice and those things your intuition is nudging you toward
- taking time to build up the physical and spiritual components of strength your body and soul physically need to spark or turn on
- and – as I discuss in a more recent video – being able to extract yourself from the doldrum feeling reality of sadness that so many of us wound up in during covid and post-covid https://youtu.be/00fnjmncVRI?si=DhGV9Db3tFtDVy8t
When this happens, soul growth and the process of continuous awakening becomes livable.
You Are Not Behind
If you are feeling more sensitive, more aware, or more “in between,” it does not mean something is wrong with you.nIt means you are responding appropriately to a shift that is already underway. Give yourself the patience, grace, and love you deserve. You are arriving.
Walking the Threshold With Support
Thresholds are easier when walked with care. Safe and healthy embodiment is a skill that can be learned. As a psychopomp who guides souls every day – this is my speciality. It is also the focus of course programs, private sessions, and other articles + videos that you find on this page.
You are invited to check me out at the YouTube page linked above for videos about grounded self-connection.
Join me at IndiCrow Academy
Walk yourself with this guided pathway I put together: If you feel called to deeper support, I’m currently receiving learners into Plug Into the Planet: Guided Path to Spiritual Embodiment—a grounded, Earth-anchored pathway for stabilizing your system, integrating change, and living with more coherence. Step by step, I give you the framework to come home to yourself – you get to it at your pace and as works for your life.
https://indicrowacademy.learnworlds.com/course/spiritual-grounding
– Available in mentorship or self-guided study. If you’ve been waiting for the right doorway, this may be it. (This is a second course release in the Plugging In learning stream. )
Available for private session: I am also available for selected personal sessions and guidance intermittently between ceremony obligations doing my own work on this threshold crossing for Earth and our collectives:https://indicrowacademy.learnworlds.com/privatesession
You can do this
As we move through this and other thresholds, know that you can do this. That you are never truly alone. That you (and we) deserve happy, healthy lives. Making choices to honor your needs, to engage your spiritual side, or even just to have fun and LIVE are not selfish. They help you become a more rounded, grounded human being.
Thank you so much for reading.
Sincerely,
Katie IndiCrow
Psychopomp, Earth healer & Social Anthropologist
Read more about me and how I found Earth: https://crow-medicine.com/learning-at-indicrow-academy/
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