Krystal Shih Holistic Therapies

21/09/2025

The new moon eclipse in Virgo is upon us! How are you feeling out there? Is the energy giving creation or death?
Anyone else wobbling on the knife edge between light and shadow? 🔆🌏🫠🌚

A wee excerpt from the channeled message up on substack:
The summit is not insurmountable - the journey is sacred and the mountain alive.
Beating hearts and blooming sight. Truth is what you are. Let it guide you and trust in the journey.

Find the link to the whole message in the comments xx

09/09/2025

An excerpt from a channeled message for the recent full moon eclipse. The message is timeless ✨

"What is it that you are not looking at? There is something within you that is a destabilising presence in your inner world, your emotional realm, yet you are stubbornly turning away from it. It is difficult so you have not been willing to descend into the body to feel it through. You may not even be aware of it, because when the feeling comes up you immediately reach for a way to dissociate, reaching for your phone to doom scroll, or any other myriad of ways that we distract ourselves from presence."
Check out the link in the comments to read the whole thing xx

22/08/2025

Anchoring now into your self,
sinking the roots of your knowing and self-trust deeper still.
Where once you may have turned to others to affirm you,
or worse,
as the light source to your mirror
now,
it is your unique and beautiful light
that becomes the incident ray
hitting the mirror of self,
reflecting back to your awareness.
let the distortions
reflect back to those who cast their own image
onto you.

10/08/2025

I have just released a long form piece about a past life regression experience that has been unfolding through the Lion's Gate portal. It is a story of physical healing, dream work, and the power of the Lion's Gate to guide us towards personal truth and wholeness.

08/08/2025

Lion's Gate Portal and A full Moon in Aquarius: a convergence of potent, liberating energies ✨

The Lion’s Gate portal occurs when Sirius, the sun in Leo, and Orion’s belt align with Earth. The gateway opens and we can see into the garden of our truth more clearly. You may be returning to an old karmic theme that has shown up in your life before...

You can read the full piece here https://krystalshih.substack.com/p/lions-gate-and-the-full-moon-in-aquarius
☀️🦁🌊

A convergence of potent, liberating energies

10/07/2025

🤍 Full Moon in Capricorn 🤍

If you found yourself alone, on the edge of the known world with no one to turn to for guidance and direction, would you then finally turn inwards to yourself and trust your inner compass?

The full collective message is on my Substack ✍️

02/07/2025

I have just released a written piece about the beautiful, mystical and healing plant Mugwort. It is the start of what will be ongoing writings detailing my experiences with Mugwort, as it unfolds for me.
If you are interested in this plant, or in listening to the subtle whispers of guidance from the world around us, you can read it here: https://krystalshih.substack.com/p/the-mugwort-diaries

🤍🍃🌀

25/06/2025

Happy new moon!

Here in the Southern Hemisphere, we are in winter.
The Earth rests, as our bodies long to. We have just passed the solstice - the shortest day, and the longest night.
Matariki is here.

And, in this space, there is an opening.
A doorway within us that opens to a paradox: The newness of the day within the eternity of an ancient world.
The ancient sun, ever burning.
The Earth, ever spinning,
making a fresh morning again and again in the impossibility of time.

The ancestors call us forward in this paradox.
They call to us from outside of time,
From inside us, they call us deeper - into the dark, warm space of our wintering bodies.
The wintering Earth our mirror.
The dark starry heavens our compass.

Can you feel the freshness of this day?
On your skin?
In your dreams?
In the dark space of your night bedroom?

Do you feel the newness of your germinating seeds?What are you growing now, in this co-creation with those who came before you?
They went before you -
Do you see them now in front of you?

Our passed loved ones walk with us into the future, guiding us as we guide the children. To care for the earth. They teach us to forgive and love one another with the integrated wisdom of many deaths.
Here, in this time we are permitted to heal and grow through the learnings of many lifetimes in this one precious life.
You might find you have moved through a bigness. Like a huge wave that you were riding through the barrel of. It has broken on the shore and now you get to catch your breath and muse on what is released for you with it. What is birthing within you?
How wonderful to take a deep breath of cool fresh air. How beautiful to rest your aching body. Rest now, rest and integrate all that you been learning and healing. Practice boundaries and protect your energy through this integration so that you can hold the learnings and not lose them to fear. Do you recognise how precious your uniqueness is? You might not notice how you are noticed by spirit and the incarnate alike. It is human to fear change and newness because it does not feel familiar and safe. Hold strong to your truth, let it bloom and be an anchor to divine love.

25/06/2025

It's a double article day! I have two pieces of writing that have released today. Read an automatic writing message about the current New Moon/Solstice/Matariki energy, and the final part 3 of my essay on Creativity, Spirituality and Trauma.

18/06/2025

Part 2 of my memoir style essay series on the intersection of creativity, trauma and Spirit has released today 🤍

10/06/2025

This moon feels very expansive and beautiful. It contains the energy of arrival. Arriving home, or to an important new destination after a long, perhaps perilous, journey. I pulled some cards to follow the writing, with the intention of gaining further insight. We got: 6 of Wands, 9 of pentacles and 10 of cups. Bonus cards fell for us too: The Hierophant, 9 of cups, the Magician and the Lovers. The cards mirror the energy of the written message - an abundance of goodness, magic, joy, presence and love. One card brought a new insight - The Hierophant - who is speaking to us about the organisation of spirit. I don’t mean the church or religion, but the loving order of the universe, of consciousness. The sacred geometry of nature. The infinite tessellations of energy. If we could zoom out enough we would see the beautiful intricate design of the cosmos.
Magic abounds. Love abounds.

Let there be peace for the planet and her people.

🇵🇸

09/06/2025

I'm releasing a 3 part memoir style essay about creative vulnerability and the journey of healing on Substack. .

If you'd like to read it you can find the overview here https://krystalshih.substack.com/p/tending-the-fire-creative-vulnerability

Part One is going live on Wednesday 🕸️🐚🔥

I want to just add some disclaimers here before anyone feels triggered by the language relating to creativity. (I was for a long time!)
1. I don't believe that "making" or producing art is the only way to engage with life creatively.
2. An artist is an artist whether they are practicing or not.
3. Whether you know it or not, you have a creative force within you.

So with that said, I'd love to hear from you about your own relationship to creativity. Is there vulnerability with making and sharing, or is it a free flowing, wholly positive experience?

Or is it practically non existent - obscured like mine was for so long?