Fear Is Not Guidance
Under this busy sky, I feel like I’m outside of myself looking in.
It’s as if everything around me is moving at tornado speed while I’m observing it all in slow motion.
I can’t tell if this is the wisest part of me recognizing I need to slow down in order to become clear on what to do. Or if it’s the feeling of losing control over external situations that are stretching me thin.
Over the last few days, the Sun, Mercury, Venus and Mars have all changed signs.
When a lot of energy shifts in a short period of time, it can feel chaotic in our personal lives and in the collective.
There’s a disruptive quality to this type of cosmic window. It’s activating enough to leave many of us mentally and emotionally unsettled.
And when that happens, it becomes easier to feel pressure to react quickly. To figure it all out immediately. To search for certainty.
It’s also during times like this that people become more vulnerable to fear-based messaging that feeds off insecurity, overwhelm, confusion, and emotional exhaustion.
Many online ecosystems operate through nervous system activation. Fear is one of the strongest engagement drivers.
Doom predictions.
Constant crisis framing.
Endless warnings about toxic people, entities, timelines, collapse, ascension symptoms, energetic attacks, and hidden dangers everywhere.
A common pattern in spiritually fear-based spaces is to:
destabilize the audience
convince them they are unsafe, blocked, confused, or under attack
position the creator as the interpreter or protector
keep the audience returning for reassurance
The irony is that some of the loudest voices speaking about energetic manipulation are themselves creating dynamics rooted in fear, dependency, emotional exhaustion, and loss of self-trust. Whether consciously curated or unconsciously perpetuated.
And in many ways, this resembles what those very spaces often warn people about: “energy siphoning.”
The audience gives attention, emotional intensity, validation, money, and dependency. The creator receives influence, engagement, identity reinforcement, income, or power.
At its core, it removes agency and creates dependence through dysregulation.
Anything that resembles this is not guidance. It’s manipulative and harmful. And I think many people are beginning to feel that difference more deeply now.
Not everything online that calls itself “spiritual” is actually supportive to the nervous system or helps you become more rooted in yourself.
Because when fear becomes the foundation, people stop listening to themselves. They begin looking outside themselves for reassurance, interpretation, and safety.
Real spiritual work should deepen your relationship to discernment, embodiment, and self-trust.
Not make you afraid of everyone or disconnect you from reality.
Not convince you that every difficult emotion is an energetic attack, or that every human struggle exists because of something toxic in your food, body, environment, or frequency.
Yes, we affect one another deeply.
Relationships impact us.
Systems impact us.
Environments impact us.
Collective shifts impact us.
But grounded spiritual work helps us navigate life more consciously, not fearfully.
This is part of why I approach astrology the way I do.
Not as a tool for panic or prediction spirals. But as a way to understand timing, cycles, transitions, and the deeper phases we move through as human beings.
The goal is to understand timing as a tool for orientation.
And during more chaotic astrology, it becomes especially important to navigate what you’re moving through with awareness, discernment, and care.
In this way, you don’t get swept away and lose connection with yourself.
Because at the end of the day, you are your own best guide when you are rooted in the wisest parts of yourself and connected to something deeper within.
With care,
Shadi