Ascension Symptoms:what are they, and have you got them?

2025: The year of ascension symptoms

From the beginning of 2025 I noticed something happening that I couldn't quite explain. The first thing was that my sense of time had changed. During the autumn, and right up until Christmas 2024, I'd been working on plot outlines for a series of magical/fantasy novels. I'd done a fair amount of research and felt excited about getting started on the actual writing after Christmas. I also had 95% of another book manuscript sitting in a file, waiting for me to do something with it. I was all set for the new year! Yes, I was receiving messages from galactic beings, but this would blend in with my other plans, I thought.

I was wrong. By the second week of January I had the strangest feeling that whatever I'd been doing for the past few months didn't exist anymore. It felt as if time had dissolved and disappeared. It had also speeded up. Eventually I confided in a fellow healer, and thank goodness I did, because she confirmed that I wasn't alone. Like me, she has ear ringing. For some time I'd thought I had tinnitus, but at the beginning of January, I'd had a sudden insight that what I was hearing was the sound of transmissions from the Universe. The level of sound varies, and it definitely increases during meditation and communication with the spirit world. I received this message on 1st January 2025:

Ear ringing

You are all capable of hearing the sound of the universe, but you do need to consciously tune in and really want to hear our messages to actually hear them. 

You only have to want to do it, and do it without fear, and you will be answered. 

But, the ear ringing was just one symptom. My friend sent me links to various spiritual ascension groups, and that's when I discovered that lots of people were not just experiencing ear ringing, but a host of other ascension symptoms as well, disturbed sleep being very prevalent. Then, on 21st January, I received this message:

Ascension symptoms: message from The Star Council

Many of you will be experiencing the symptoms of ascension to the energy of the fifth dimension. We realise that these can feel unpleasant at times. Some of you will share physical and mental symptoms, such as headaches, disturbed sleep, intense dreams, dizziness, ear ringing, and many more, plus a sense of wanting to step aside from the world, or from daily life. 

You may have noticed that not all of these symptoms stay for long, while some may be constant. What we would like to tell you is that these ascension symptoms will come in waves. The reason for this is that very few of you could withstand the impact on your bodies and minds of full ascension in a single step. 

What is happening when you feel the difficulty of the symptoms when they overwhelm you? New energy is entering your body, flooding the brain area in particular, hence the headaches some experience. It takes time for the new energy to integrate fully, although you can speed up this process by accepting what is happening rather than fighting it. For example, with headaches, when you accept they are not being caused by any physical issue, but by the process of downloading energy to upgrade your energy bodies which influence the physical body, you will find that the pain disappears far faster and without the need to use any medication, which in any case, won’t really help, as painkillers are designed to treat physical causes, not spiritual ones. 

When you have emerged from one wave of ascension energy download, you’ll probably feel quite different in both body and mind.  An ascension download period can last anything from days to a few weeks in your time. You will feel an elevation when it is over. 

It is hard for us to say when you will experience another download process. That very much depends on you and your willingness to accept one. However, we believe that once you have experienced the release, the sense of freedom and expansion and joy that an ascension process brings, you will want to continue, because you’ll realise that you’re on your way to experiencing and expressing the full power of your potential in a way that is aligned with your soul purpose. 

We only add that the most important thing you can do while you’re experiencing the process and its symptoms, however it affects you, is GROUNDING. Every day, do whatever practice feels best for you to ground and anchor yourself to Earth. It will protect you from mental disturbances as well as physical discomfort. 

These symptoms continue to be felt by all those focused on raising consciousness. One day you may feel all fired up and ready to start that new project you've been dreaming into being, and the next two days you're lying on the sofa with exhaustion, headaches, backache, and 'spiritual flu'. That's flu-like symptoms that are definitely not flu caused by a virus. It's not something you feel coming; it just hits you, bang! Of course, if you are experiencing a physical symptom and it isn't shifting after a day or two, it is advisable to consult a doctor.

Grounding yourself to Earth

If you're experiencing any of these symptoms, grounding is very important. Any of the following will help:

• Walking barefoot on grass

• Walking in a forest

• Salt baths (Epsom salts will be just fine)

• Breathwork

Here's a grounding method I use before meditation and communicating with spirit guides. It's very easy.

Begin by sitting upright with your feet firmly on the floor. 

Take 3 deep breaths - hold your breath for a moment after each inhale, and relax your shoulders with each exhale. I use a 4-4-6 system. Inhale to count of 4, hold the breath for 4, exhale to the count of 6.

Now, take your attention to your spine and your spinal cord – see the bottom of your spine extending down into the earth. You can visualise this any way you like – it can be your spine extending, or it can be a tail made of wood, bamboo, whatever you want. 

Slowly, this tail is going down into the earth – follow it through the soil layers. Can you smell the soil? 

Now go through the layers of rock, through the liquids and gases, down, down, until you reach the Earth’s hot liquid core. Feel its warm, nurturing quality envelop you. 

Now, anchor your tail, or grounding cord, at the Earth’s core, and come back up to the room.

Now focus on the soles of your feet, visualising a small, round hole appearing on each sole. You can now see energy from the Earth entering you through the soles of your feet. This Earth energy is red, warm and heavy. Feel the warmth fill your feet, move slowly up your calves, over your knees and up your thighs, covering your buttocks and genitals, and now letting it come to rest in the pelvic area, so that the whole lower part of your body is filled with this warm, Earth energy. 

As the energy continues to flow, you can allow any excess energy to flow back into the Earth through your grounding cord. 

Still feeling your connection to Earth, turn your attention to the crown of your head and feeling an opening where your crown chakra is. As you do this, see a brilliant shaft of light, like a laser beam coming from another part of the Universe, It shoots through the opening at your crown. This golden energy is much lighter than the Earth energy. 

Feel it completely ill up your brain, sweeping away any worries or negative thoughts. It fills up the whole of your head, flows over your eyes, ears, nose, mouth, and now flows through your neck and shoulders, and down your arms to the tips of your fingers.

Now see the golden light fill your heart area, blasting through the whole of your upper body, cleansing the arteries, the blood, the lymphatic system, cleansing the lungs, liver, kidneys. 

Now sit and feel these two energies at the same time – the dense nurturing Earth energy, and the golden light from above, radiating health and harmony throughout your body. 

Now, slowly open your eyes and touch the floor with your hands, letting any excess energy flow out through them. 

It's reassuring to know that you're not alone on this journey through a rather turbulent 2025. If you have any questions, or would like to share your experience, do contact me; I'm here to support you.