Sagittarius Season + Your Nervous System: Finding Safety in Expansion

Sagittarius Season usually invites us to expand - to look ahead, dream bigger, and reconnect with possibility. But the 2025 Season begins with a quieter tone. With Mercury retrograde and Venus and Mercury retrograde still moving through the deeper waters of Scorpio, the first part of Sagittarius Season asks us to pause, reflect, and check in with our inner landscape before we run toward the horizon.

This fits beautifully with something I’ve been talking about a lot recently:growth only feels available when our nervous system feels safe - check out my posts on IG here.

We often think intuition is a voice of clarity - a calm, grounded knowing. But during times of change, especially when we’re stretching into something unfamiliar, intuition can get tangled with the body’s stress response. Excitement and fear can feel similar. Expansion and threat can activate the same pathways. And anxiety can masquerade as “a sign,” when it’s really the nervous system saying:“This is new. Go slow. Stay with yourself.”

Sagittarius Season is the teacher that encourages us to explore, to lean into truth, to take the next step toward what feels meaningful but not at the expense of our inner safety. This year especially, the invitation is to expand from your centre, not away from it.

And that centre begins with values.

Connecting With Your Values (Venus + Sagittarius Themes)

With Venus making deep contacts in Scorpio before entering Sagittarius, there’s a strong invitation this month to listen to what your heart is quietly trying to say.

When you’re clear on your values, you have an internal compass that keeps you steady during change. Values ground you. They orient your choices. And they help you recognise the difference between:

✨ Intuition - “This feels right for who I’m becoming.”

✨ Anxiety - “This is overwhelming. I need to slow down.”

✨ Old conditioning - “I should do this… even though it contracts me.”

Here are a few reflection questions to support this part of the journey:

• What matters most to me right now?

• What do I want to feel more of in my daily life?

• What value do I want to honour as I take my next step?

• Which decisions bring me closer to my truth - and which pull me away?

Once you name your values, they become anchors. Whenever you feel overwhelmed, unsure, or dysregulated, you can return to them and ask:

“Is this aligned with what matters most to me?”

This brings clarity, spaciousness, and self-trust - all essential for navigating the energy of Sagittarius.

Nervous System Tools for Grounded Growth

Here are gentle, trauma-informed practices to support your expansion this season:

🌬 1. Coherent Breathing (Regulating Breath)

Slows your heart rate, calms the vagus nerve, and helps you return to centre.

Try:

Inhale for 4–5 seconds

Exhale for 4–5 seconds

Repeat for 2–3 minutes.

Let your exhales be soft and steady.

🌿 2. Somatic Pauses (Micro-Moments of Safety)

Instead of pushing yourself through discomfort, pause and make contact with the present moment.

Try:

• Press your feet into the ground

• Feel your sit bones on the chair

• Place one hand on your chest, one on your belly

• Breathe

This signals safety to the body and reduces overwhelm.

🧘‍♀️ 3. Orienting to the Environment

A powerful tool when your system goes into fight, flight, or freeze.

Try:

Look around the room, slowly naming

:• 3 things you can see

• 2 things you can hear

• 1 thing you can feel

This helps your brain recognise that the present moment is safe.

🔥 4. Values-Based Anchoring

Bring together Venus’ wisdom and Sagittarius’ vision.

Try:

Place your hand on your heart and repeat softly:

“My next step is guided by my values.”

Then ask yourself:

“What value am I choosing to honour today?”

Let this guide your decisions rather than urgency, pressure, or fear.

📖 5. Slow Reflection Before Action (Mercury Retrograde Support)

Journal before you speak or act.

Write your thoughts down first.

Let your inner voice become clearer before sharing it outward.

This prevents impulsive communication - especially important this season.

Closing Note

Sagittarius Season is a time of growth, meaning, and renewed direction but growth isn’t about leaping into the unknown without support. It’s about expanding from a grounded, regulated, values-aligned centre.

When your nervous system feels safe, your intuition becomes clearer.When your values are clear, your path becomes obvious.And when you honour both, your next steps feel purposeful not forced.