On The Recent Geomagnetic Storm
On January 19, as the Sun entered Aquarius, a super-fast Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) erupted from the Sun, striking Earth and igniting nearly three days of geomagnetic storming. It finally ended yesterday, January 22.
There hasn’t been nearly enough mention of this massive cosmic event during an already intense week of a charged lunar cycle. This storm was both severe and prolonged, making it one of the most significant events of Solar Cycle 25 (an 11-year cycle driven by the Sun’s magnetic field, which began in 2019).
Solar events like this ripple far beyond instruments and auroras. They disturb the collective field, leaving us more sensitive, more reactive, more emotional, sometimes without knowing why. Effects often include:
heightened nervous system sensitivity
disrupted sleep or vivid dreams
amplified agitation, urgency, or irritability
sudden clarity or insight
emotional release
physical sensations, especially in the head or chest
feeling fatigued yet wired
During events like these, the mind and body process more information than usual. Some of this arrives as “downloads” or sudden insights without context. There can also be clarity followed by confusion, creative bursts, or rapid reorientation. Awareness often precedes language. It is as though the cosmos shifts the volume of perception, asking us to notice subtleties we usually overlook.
What made this geomagnetic storm particularly striking wasn’t only its intensity or speed, but its duration. This wasn’t a sudden flash of energy that came and went. It was a holding pattern, a sustained period of heightened activity that asked us to slow down, pay attention, and notice what lingered.
Rather than delivering a quick jolt, it revealed where our systems (inner and outer) run hot, where patience and integration are required. Three days of heightened field activity invite a different kind of engagement than a single, momentary shock. It shows where our nervous systems remain alert past their usual limits, where we keep waiting for intensity to pass, and it doesn’t.
The scale of the storm reminds us that intensity has a way of making hidden systems visible. What usually operates beneath the surface (eg. quiet patterns, subtle tensions, unnoticed energy) can no longer remain unseen. Both the collective field and our own inner fields become illuminated, and what is normally background noise becomes undeniable.
Take a moment to reflect:
What intensity did you experience over the last three days?
What patterns, habits, or tensions have surfaced that were previously unnoticed?
Where did your nervous system ask for attention, regulation, or rest?
Aquarius Energy and the Cosmic Context
The Sun’s entrance into Aquarius adds another layer of meaning to this moment, and it didn’t arrive alone. During the storm, Mercury and Venus were also in Aquarius, along with Pluto which is there for the long haul, in its twenty-year transit that will reshape collective systems, structures, and consciousness itself.
Aquarius is the sign of vision, perspective, and collective awareness. It reveals patterns, disrupts stagnation, and illuminates what has been hidden in plain sight. With the Sun, Mercury, and Venus activating this field, This wasn’t just a storm happening around us. It was part of a larger moment of change in how we think, relate, and understand what truly matters.
Mercury here speaks to the mind: sudden insights, rapid perception shifts, downloads without language.
Venus speaks to the heart and nervous system: shifts in connection, values, resonance, and emotional attachments.
Pluto speaks to the long arc: deep restructuring, collective transformation, and the slow dismantling of outdated systems that no longer sustain life.
Together, this forms a powerful field of awareness without full comprehension yet: knowing before understanding, sensing before naming, feeling before meaning-making.
In Aquarius, illumination often arrives suddenly, but integration takes time. Paired with a sustained geomagnetic holding pattern, this becomes a message of presence over urgency, regulation over reaction, endurance over immediacy. We are not being asked to move fast. We are being asked to stay conscious.
And that's precisely what the next 3.5 weeks of this lunar cycle are about. What has begun with the New Moon in Capricorn needs to be deliberate, not rushed or reactive. I wrote a 2-week guide for this lunar cycle to support you in clarity and decision-making. I will have the next 2-week guide for you at the mid-way point on the Full Moon in Leo (Feb 1). Join the Lunar Guidance Tier on Patreon for those bi-weekly guides.
Now that the storm has passed and Earth is exiting its wake, notice what’s been exposed by the staying power of this moment. Not to rush, not to force resolution, but to observe what endured, what flared, and what required regulation.
Remember that thresholds are not crossed in an instant. They unfold slowly, through endurance and presence.
If you're interested in learning about the solar activities that impact us here on Earth, follow my posts here or on IG. We are about to have some Solar Flare activity this coming weekend. Solar Flares are different than CME's (which is what we just experienced).
It may be helpful to distinguish between Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections, which are often spoken about together but affect us differently. Solar flares are sudden bursts of light and radiation, which come in sharp, fast, and immediate. They are often experienced as spikes in alertness, agitation, or sudden insight.
CMEs, on the other hand, are vast clouds of charged solar material and magnetic energy that move more slowly and interact directly with Earth’s magnetic field. Their impact is sustained rather than momentary, unfolding over hours or days. Where flares tend to illuminate, CMEs tend to reorganize, working not just on the level of awareness, but through the body, the nervous system, and the collective field.
I'll have more on the upcoming Solar Flares soon. Stay tuned.
with care,
Shadi