Solar Plexus Collapse: A Case Study in Feminine Energetic Shutdown

By Dr. Catherine W. Dunne | Holistic HealthCare Wexford & Aumvedas Academy

ABOUT CATHERINE: Dr Catherine W Dunne MSc. D., RGN, Reiki Master (RGMT), M.H.I.T: Master Acupressure, Practitioner of Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Deep Tissue/Myo-fascia Massages, Infrared Treatments, Vibrational Sound and Colour Therapist, Tissue Salt Advisor, Pendulum Healing Dowser, Chakra Practitioner , Tao Cosmic Healing Practitioner, Practitioner of Plant and Herb Medicine and Nurse.

Introduction

In recent weeks, a striking energetic pattern has emerged in my clinical and intuitive practice: multiple women presenting with complete chakra lockdown. This is not the common sluggishness or emotional congestion many people carry, but a full-system freeze affecting the Earth Star, all seven primary chakras, and the Soul Star. The pattern is precise, repeatable, and—crucially—collective.

As both a medical practitioner and an intuitive healer, I am documenting this emerging phenomenon to bring clarity to an escalating issue in the feminine field. What I observed in three separate women, each on the same day and with no connection to one another, indicates a larger energetic wave moving through the collective.

What is Full-System Chakra Lockdown?

A full-system freeze presents as:

  • Earth Star: inactive, unresponsive, no grounding dynamic
  • Root to Crown: unmoving, silent, withdrawn
  • Soul Star: disconnected, unlit, sealed
  • Aura: flattened or collapsed inwards
  • Nervous System: in dorsal-parasympathetic freeze (shutdown response)

This is not depression or simple burnout. It is a whole-system protective mechanism; the energetic equivalent of the body curling into a ball to survive.

Why the Solar Plexus Collapses First

Among all chakras, the Solar Plexus governs the greatest range of physiological and energetic functions. It influences:

  • the gut–brain axis
  • digestion and assimilation
  • liver, pancreas, adrenal regulation
  • boundaries
  • will and personal power
  • identity, autonomy, direction

In states of overwhelm, fear, pressure, and emotional overload, the Solar Plexus is the first centre to implode. When it collapses, it pulls the entire Chakra column with it, much like a star folding inward during gravitational overload.

Reopening the Solar Plexus becomes the pivotal step. Without it, the system cannot re-engage, reconnect, or climb out of freeze.

Why Women are Affected First

This wave strongly targets the feminine energetic architecture. Women process emotional and collective tension through:

  • hormonal cycles
  • relational fields
  • intuitive sensitivity
  • ancestral memories
  • social and maternal expectations
  • the psychic responsibility of caretaking others

Men respond to overload differently, often through mental dissociation or emotional numbing. Women absorb; men deflect. In collective compression, women reach freeze first.

Collective Triggers Behind the Feminine Shutdown

The cause of this pattern is not individual but environmental and collective. Key contributing factors include:

  • global instability and heightened fear
  • solar storms and geomagnetic stress
  • emotional overload in the collective psyche
  • information saturation and psychic noise
  • economic tension and survival concerns
  • collapse of social structures and support systems
  • ancestral trauma resurfacing for resolution

The feminine field has become the buffer for humanity’s emotional backlog, leading to widespread energetic collapse.

Case Report: Three Women, One Pattern

In the same month of November 2025, three unrelated women presented with identical energetic architecture:

  • full freeze from Earth Star to Soul Star
  • imploded Solar Plexus
  • diminished will and emotional exhaustion
  • a sense of being overwhelmed, directionless, or depleted

Despite different life stories, each carried the same imprint of collective pressure. In all three cases, the Solar Plexus was the centre demanding immediate intervention.

Intervention: Why the Solar Plexus Was Reopened First

Reactivating the Solar Plexus initiated:

  • return of breath and energetic flow
  • reconnection of the vertical line (Earth Star ↔ Soul Star)
  • release of tension in the gut and diaphragm
  • restoration of personal agency and inner stability

Opening any other Chakra first would have been ineffective or destabilising. The Solar Plexus is the command centre in full-system freeze.

Implications for Healers

Based on this emerging pattern, healers should be aware:

  • More women will present with full-system lockdown.
  • The Solar Plexus must often be addressed first.
  • Grounding techniques may fail until the Solar Plexus reopens.
  • Crown or heart work may overwhelm a frozen system.
  • Emotional containment and safety must be established before energetic reopening.

Healers may find themselves acting as stabilising nodes for the collective feminine field.

Implications for Humanity

This pattern reflects deeper shifts in consciousness. The feminine is reaching its threshold for emotional labour, generational trauma, and societal expectations. The Solar Plexus collapse signals the end of the era in which women silently carry the weight of the world.

A new phase is emerging—one that demands boundaries, balance, and restoration.

Conclusion

The phenomenon of Solar Plexus collapse in women is not isolated. It is a collective response to overwhelming emotional, psychic, and societal pressures. Documenting these cases helps illuminate a larger process unfolding within the human field—one that calls healers to recognise the signs and support the feminine through this transition.

Further study, documentation, and dialogue will be essential as this wave continues to unfold.

I hope you feel inspired. Look after your body, and it will keep you healthy.

Catherine

CWD 21 November 2025/Ireland

Learning Patience in Childhood — Has It Gone?

By Dr. Catherine W. Dunne | Holistic HealthCare Wexford & Aumvedas Academy

ABOUT CATHERINE: Dr Catherine W Dunne MSc. D., RGN, Reiki Master (RGMT), M.H.I.T: Master Acupressure, Practitioner of Reflexology, Aromatherapy, Deep Tissue/Myo-fascia Massages, Infrared Treatments, Vibrational Sound and Colour Therapist, Tissue Salt Advisor, Pendulum Healing Dowser, Chakra Practitioner , Tao Cosmic Healing Practitioner, Practitioner of Plant and Herb Medicine and Nurse.
“Patience, like tea, tastes better when it’s been given time to brew.”

I would like to share a story, as story that reflects the generational differences.
I recently had three young ladies for treatment – friends and I believe them to be in their mid to late twenties.

Before I started the individual treatments, we sat in the living room, fire burning gently. I offered them tea from home-grown plants – my own relaxing, detoxing tea blend – served in a quaint Asian-style tea set.

One of the ladies commented on the hexagon-shaped tea cups. They are small, each just about holding 125 ml. They are tiny compared to the mugs we all use today.

I smiled and began to tell them the story of how I came to own this little set.

The Tea Shop Story

In Germany, we have Tea and Coffee shops. Not the kind, where you sit down for a cup. No. Not cafés. These coffee shops sell loose coffee beans from various countries. They get grounded to your desired strength of taste or sold as the whole bean.
The tea shops were magical places, filled with the scent of faraway lands. You could buy loose teas from every corner of the globe, or even have your own blend created for you.

Now I am 59 years young.


In 1979 or 1980 when I was 13, I saw the most beautiful Asian tea service set in one of those shops. Six hexagon shaped cups, a rectangular shaped tea pot with a bamboo handle, and a small tealight stove. White porcelain with delicate pale blue motifs.


Price tag: 150 Deutsch Marks — about £220 Irish Pounds at the time.
 

The three ladies gasped when I said that.

A Lesson in Patience

I wanted that tea set so badly. I went into the shop and asked if I could pay it off weekly. The owner smiled but declined.

Every week I went back. Every week it was still there. Every week I asked again. This went on for about four weeks.

During that time, I did extra chores at home, bumping up my pocket money. When I had saved 20 Marks, I returned to the shop once more, clutching my little bundle of notes.
I asked the same question and this time I showed her that I had managed to save DM20. Was chuffed with myself. This time, the shop owner must have seen the determination in my eyes. She agreed.

I had my first “account”.

At weekends, I worked at the local garden centre, and every Monday after school, I walked to the tea shop to pay off a little more.

It took me a total of ten weeks to buy my set. I was the proudest kid in town!


When I collected it, the shop owner gifted me a small tin of Japan’s prized Sencha Green Tea … I still have the tin to this day.

That year, I learned something that has stayed with me all my life: intention and focus, the willingness to work hard, and most of all, patience with oneself — they always pay off in the long run.

Old School vs. New School

The three young women looked at me, stunned.: “What????? You had to work for it????”

No”, I said. “I didn’t have to. But I wanted it badly enough, so I had to go the extra mile. And yes, I still have that whole set — and I’m still proud of it.

Watching their faces, it suddenly dawned on me that they had been raised in a different world. A world where things often appear with a click or a swipe. We had to earn what we wanted: one coin, one chore, one small triumph at a time. Patience wasn’t something we were taught; it was something we lived.

You see”, I said, “this generation (pointing at myself) … in our day we had to work for what we wanted. If we wanted ice cream, go to the cinema, buy that teenager magazine Bravo…. We had to work for our pocket money by completing certain chores around the home.”

The Reflection

I was now the one with a stunned look on the face, when I observed their reactions.

I suppose there’s “Old School” and “New School” in everything. But I can’t help thinking that patience, like tea, tastes better when it’s been given time to brew.

And now, I’m feeling old… giggle.

The little tea set that taught me patience and still reminds me of it every time I pour a cup.

What’s something you had to work hard for as a child that something that made you proud every time you saw it?

Share your story in the comments below. I’d love to hear it.

I hope you feel inspired. Look after your body, and it will keep you healthy.

Catherine

CWD 15 November 2025/Ireland