We all fall prey to our subconscious, engaging in behaviors that keep us from the very things we desire the most. Read on for the ways in which each energy type can unknowingly hold themselves back.

by Fiona Jane, November 2025

THE MANIFESTORS

Shrinking your energy and not acting on your power for fear of causing others discomfort.

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Manifestors are here to be big. To be bold. To use their initiating energy to drive the collective forward into new territory. Change is largely uncomfortable. And yet, necessary for our growth. Whether conscious of it or not, your Manifestor energy, when in alignment, will initiate others into change. Sometimes people are ready for that change, other times, it is the last thing they want. Your role is not to shape shift around your connections based on their readiness. Your role is to take ownership of your initiating energy, and to leave it to the other to decide what they want to do with it.

You will create discomfort for some of those around you when you unapologetically follow your path (as you are designed to). It’s just the nature of your energetic make up. This is intentional. It is when you sense that others might not be ready for your bigness that the Manifestor is prone to shrinking for another’s comfort, to meet them where they are at. And this is how you hold yourself back.

Take this as your permission slip (and your order ;) to stop with the shrinking. Every time you hold back, you slow your growth. Every time you bring your energy down you stagnate all the momentum that is trying to carry you forward. Enough. Time to get comfortable with the discomfort.

THE PROJECTORS

Directing your effort and energy toward the ‘wrong’ people, seeking recognition where you are not seen or valued as you deserve to be.

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To fully access and offer their powerful gifts in the most impactful way, Projectors need to be recognized and invited to share. As such, Projectors carry within them a heightened need, greater than the average, to be seen, understood, and recognized. It is a deep knowing in the body that through recognition, fulfillment is found - it is the recognition that leads being able to share your unique birds-eye view. Offering guidance puts you in your element, creates the feeling of success that Projector energy is always seeking.

As a result of our conditioned minds and an external world view built upon hierarchy, Projectors can fall prone to the mind believing the recognition they so deeply crave must come from particular individuals in order to create success. This is the greatest trap to your self-belief and emotional well being. You don’t get to choose who sees you, recognizes you. Your energy will attract those who are for you. And even if there is someone specific you seek recognition from, are more likely to ‘see’ you and to understand your value, when you stop trying to prove it to them.

If you are feeling stuck, or as though ‘success’ is escaping you, do a stocktake of the people who your energy is being given to. Who are those who truly see and value you? And who are those that are receiving your energy because your mind believes you need to make them see how valuable you are?

THE GENERATORS

Getting stuck in the loop of trying to ‘figure it all out’ in the mind.

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As a Generator you are here to be driven by your Strategy ‘to respond’. You are designed to live in a forever dialogue with the energy around you (as we all are, but in the most heightened way for our Sacral beings). Think of this as living a real life ‘choose your own adventure’. The next step will always be presented to you when action is taken. The path becomes clear as you walk it.

Generators can hold themselves back when this dialogue with the outside world is dropped. With the heavy emphasis our collective places up on the intellect, Generators can easily fall into the trap of feeling as though they need to take time out to ‘sit down and figure it out’. I hear these words on repeat from Generators. The trap is, that every time you isolate and attempt to lead from the intellect alone, you disconnect yourself from all the guidance around you, losing the guidance of your Sacral energy - the energy that is working hard to show you the way. The more you sink into the mental strategizing, the more stuck you are likely to feel.

To break this loop, the next time clarity escapes you, commit to responding to whatever it is that is right in front of you at that moment - whatever it is that lights you up the most. It might be as simple as a walk with a friend or saying yes to an opportunity to connect with others. Practice allowing the clarity to arrive through these experiences. Can you allow yourself to trust what is shown to you (even if its only part of the picture) when you are in connection with the world around you? Learn to take action, even when you don’t know what it will lead to.

THE MANIFESTING GENERATORS

Getting lost in their ‘busy’ energy.

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The Manifesting Generators among us love to be doing all the things. Their fiery, strong energy wants to know what’s coming, wants to know it has somewhere or something to be channeled into at all times. In alignment, Manifesting Generators have a lot of energy and it all needs somewhere to go.

This creates an internal satisfaction in being busy. It will feel great in the body to always have something to do, somewhere to be. The cycle of self sabotage we see here, is when the Manifesting Generators allow themselves to be busy with things that aren’t effectively moving them forward. This is being busy for the sake of it. Filling time with ineffective tasks to satisfy the internal need for busyness and tricking the mind into feeling productive.

This is often a result of lacking clear guidance on where it is your energy wants to go - not having clarity on what is the ‘highest’ use of your energy, so the mind tries to decide, rather than letting your Strategy lead you. In the moments where you jump to fill your time from the mind, practice catching yourself. Can you leave the space open for your Strategy to guide you? If the time is filled, nothing new can come through. This, ultimately, slows progress. When you have the faith to leave the space open, notice what arrives for you to respond to.

THE REFLECTORS

Soothing fears of their endless fluidity by attaching to another’s identity.

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With all Energy Centers undefined, the Reflector’s energy is forever in flux. There is nothing about the Reflector chart that is fixed, or that feels solid and reliable in the system. This fluidity can take some practice to build trust in. As a result, a shadow side of the Reflector shows up through seeking a fixed sense of self in another.

Take note of those in your life you are closely connected to. Which parts of them may be held in your mind as shared aspects of identity? Which parts of the other you see in yourself? Explore how much of these are true to who you are, versus those which could be identifying traits being clung to in order to create a sense of security or belonging.

This can hold a Reflector back as they may not see, or may even outright turn down, opportunities that are aligned for them because they do not fit with the identity being clung to. Yet the identity of a Reflector is never fixed. It will forever be evolving. Each opportunity that presents for a Reflector along their path may require a different version of self. If you are clinging to aspects of identity in another - whether consciously or unconsciously - you are potentially keeping yourself stuck in the same role, preventing your own growth.

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