Healing Is Messy & Progress Is Not Linear
June 2025 | The 9 Year, 6 Month
Wondering what this numerology stuff is all about? Read about it here.
After May, a month that kept us busy and kicked up a lot of dust, we arrive at the 6 month, which focuses on healing, community, responsibilities and family.
This is a great theme to have as we are met with graduations and barbecues.
When the 6-cycle emerges, I always touch on the muddy, and complicated nature of healing, but this is especially true in the 9-year we are having, where we experience the resurfacing of the past and are contending with the confusing phantoms of the interim. Revisiting the past makes us feel like we’re not making progress, but this is an illusion. Numerology teaches us that the landscape of Metanoia is cyclical. As we progress, we revisit old chapters even though we are in a different place along our trajectory. The more we revisit these chapters, the more we build upon them and slowly over time, there is a deep transformation of things. It’s in this way that progress is not linear, it’s a spiral.
Something I haven’t talked about at length yet for the 9-year is that it’s common for people to fall out of our lives during this time. This year, we see a lot of moving and shaking as we enter into the new 9-year cycle, and so with this many of us find ourselves letting people go as we collectively reshuffle who and what has priority over our hearts and our time.
My deepest hope for anyone reading this right now is that you let go of anything or anyone that keeps you from your peace. It doesn’t always have to be a person, in fact most of the time it’s difficulties at our jobs, the political climate, our life circumstance, and the multitude of ways we sabotage ourselves. If life feels like it’s getting away from you in any way, take a step back and slow down. Ground yourself in the present moment. You can start simply by directing your attention on an object in the room you’re in. Then just focus on the next hour, and then the next 2 hours, and so on, until you are centered again.
Any community that you’ve reached out to in the last few months- lean on them. Help them in return. Healing is facilitated when we make peace with the past, ask for help when we need it, and respectively lend a helping hand to those who are also in need.
Kindness is always paramount, but it goes even farther this month. Be kind to yourself, you’ve made it half way through the year.
Think about how you can nurture yourself in such a way that brings you to a kind of reconciliation in which you are at peace with the present moment.
The song I’ve chosen for this month’s post is To The Desert by Branches.
“Onward broken-hearted soldier, into the great unknown.
Lay down your weapons and follow into the light of the sun.”
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I used to get so frustrated in my younger years when I was misunderstood. RWEmerson wrote an essay indicating it was good to be misunderstood, but it still didn't feel good. Then I read a book by the Russian philosopher, George Gurdjieff (In Search if the Miraculous), who wrote that communication was nonlinear due to energy moving in a cyclical, spiraling pattern. This teaching relieves me at times when I feel discomfort with the inability to communicate (although more variables exist, such as misinterpretation of symbols, etc). Gurdjieff related this nonlinear state to the Law of Octaves or Law of Seven. He also taught that energy is exchanged and transformed with each genuine communication. He was ahead of his time and misunderstood, so he had deep understanding. Your posting reminded me of Gurdjieff, both resonate profoundly with my patterns of understanding.
I love everything about this. One of my besties passed last June and the cyclical return is allowing me to take stock. I agree heal8ng ehether it be physical or emotional is a ragged process. I see it in those whove undergone durgical "fixes" recently as well as in emotional wounding. Such wisdom from a young woman! Thanks for laying it on the line! And thanks for the reminder...often those who seek us out constitute the community we need.