A note from the bridge
I find myself standing in the place between times, and I wonder if you do too?
It’s natural, I know, for the end of the calendar year to feel liminal – a space when we’re both ready to pause, rest and reflect on what has been; and also feeling the pull of the new waiting to unfurl around and within us.
But this year, I seem to be feeling that more than ever, and I don’t think I’m alone.
My bridge year
In many ways the whole of this year has felt like a bridge. In numerology terms, 2024 has been a year five for me – a year of bridging between two very distinct chapters of my life.
Back when that was first suggested to me I was quite excited if I’m honest. I saw my bridge like something from I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here – something I would stroll across with the crown of a queen on my head and a crowd of my nearest and dearest waiting to excitedly celebrate my return at the end.
That’s categorically not how it has been.
Instead, the year has felt a lot like playing at being Stretch Armstrong; walking as fast as I can across a bridge while running back across regularly – sometimes multiple times a day – because so many of the pulls of daily life were still back and waiting for me on the other side.
Perhaps though that’s just how we’ve been conditioned to see change; especially change in the pursuit of our own greater empowerment and greater good. As a slow and uncomfortable journey that we must drag ourselves through rather enjoy.
Is that really true though?
I know, I know, you’ll say yes. But let’s pause for a second: Is that always the way?
My answer is no. And if you really sit with it, I suspect you might also remember the times that change – even good change – has happened with lightning speed; or consider the times things seem to have unfolded with no planning, expectation or hard work.
The truth is that change isn’t always hard, slow or painful.
Although I’m well aware it may not seem that way at the moment.
The world’s bridge
If I go back for a moment to numerology (and if you don’t know much about that subject, the lovely Megan is brilliant!), the world is currently heading into a nine year (2+0+2+5=9).
What does that mean? That is is reaching the end of a cycle. Nine years are, generally, a time when we find ourselves questioning a lot; when things may feel a bit unstable at best or, at worst, as though they are completely falling apart and there’s no way back.
But since numerology doesn’t stop at nine, that’s never the case.
The real purpose of a nine year is to clear the decks, allowing us to start afresh the following year when our new cycle begins in a year one (2+0+2+6=1+0=1).
Of course, with all the talk of Pluto having moved into Aquarius we shouldn’t be too surprised that the world is moving between chapters of its own. But it’s something I invite you to remember next year – that whatever unfolds in the twelve months ahead, there is a new beginning in store the following year.
And my sneaking suspicion? That the bridge towards that new beginning is one we’re all currently standing on.
How do we make our way across that bridge? Well, that’s exactly what I’ve been thinking about this past week.
Preparing for the new
If you’ve read The Divine Feminist (still available from ALL good book shops, with the audiobook finally headed your way early next year!) you’ll know that I have a very defined idea of what I’d like this new chapter of the world to look like.
To put it simply: Something that’s based on synergy, respect, flow and a trust in our own inner power and wisdom; rather than on hierarchies, binaries, forceful expansion and shame. But, no matter who we are, getting to that place will take change – individually as well as collectively.
And so, as we stand at this bridge between not only years but chapters, I think the unsettled feeling so many of us are experiencing is because, very simply, it’s time for us to make some changes.
Not just talk about the changes we’d like to make, nor to consider the changes and then step back feeling good about the fact we know where we’re headed, not even to write out a perfectly detailed step by step plan that might lead us towards our desired outcome. No. The time has come to make the damned change.
Of course those don’t have to be the huge, tangible things – though if you’re planning to change jobs, homes, or something else tangible, go for it by all means! Often though, the changes we’re being called to make are in the ways that we treat ourselves, approach our lives, or show up in the world each and every day.
What needs to change for you?
Maybe as you read that last paragraph, the answer to that question hit you like a ton of bricks. Or maybe at present t,he nature of those changes is feeling a little more elusive.
Either way, that’s OK. There’s no shame in asking ourselves the question and allowing the answer to come to us as and when it needs to – just as long as we listen when it does.
For me, the answer is one that’s been tugging at my sleeve for a while now; whispering on the winds that have made my own personal bridge sway faster and faster until finally I had no choice but to listen:
I need to stop playing safe.
As I’ve told you before in this space, for the past two years I’ve worked on building trust in myself and in Spirit. But what I haven’t told you? The weird and wonderful things that have been coming through as a result of that trust.
Why? Because for all the work I’ve done on trusting, I’ve not yet been able to trust that it’s safe to share any of that with the world.
That changes now. Will things get a little weirder around here as a result? Quite possibly yes; I have every intention of introducing you to the Primal Mothers who have been communicating with me for the past few years, and to the Queens in the North who led me to them.
You see I believe that their wisdom is a huge part of what’s needed to help us traverse these bridges of change that we’re on now. More than that, I believe their wisdom can lead us back to our wisdom, to our power, and to the fullest versions of them.
I tell you this to prepare you for what is to come next year and I tell you this in the hopes that it will inspire you to set your own intentions an declare your own next steps in this transformation.
But honestly? I tell you it mainly to keep myself honest. Because if I’ve shared the words “Primal Mothers” and “Queens in the North” with you, then I can’t and won’t back down from passing on their wisdom and allowing it to lead to whatever next chapters will unfold for me and, I hope, for you too.
For now though, as we head ever closer towards that shortest day here in the Northern Hemisphere, I wish you a blessed Yule, a Merry Christmas, and a nourishing festive season. And I hope that these darkest days give you all of the time you need to connect with yourself and whatever is within you and waiting to be heard.
Love,
Ceryn
PS
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