My Take on the Nine Year Cycle: A Journey Through the Chakras
I’ve always felt that life moves in rhythms.. periods of expansion, contraction, integration, and rebirth. One pattern that numerology connects us to is the nine-year cycle. From my own personal experience I’ve found these years can mirror the consciousness levels and energetic themes of the chakra system.
Each of the first seven years aligns with one of the seven primary chakras, bringing lessons, challenges, growth, and healing:
1 — Root
2 — Sacral
3 — Solar Plexus
4 — Heart
5 — Throat
6 — Third Eye
7 — Crown
These years guide us from grounding and stability, into creativity, personal power, love, expression, intuition, and finally spiritual connection. By the time we move through a seven year, we’ve completed a full energetic ascent.
So what about the remaining two years?
Yes, there are more chakras beyond the Crown… but I think an easy way to describe an eight year is simply to suggest the aura. The aura is the large electromagnetic field that surrounds us, a full combination of all the chakras blended together and projected outwards.
This is the year where everything you’ve learned (or avoided) becomes more visible:
Your inner work is reflected outward.
Your strengths and weak spots are easier to see.
Old patterns that never fully resolved tend to resurface.
Boundaries and energy leaks show themselves clearly.
A nine year is the cycle’s closing chapter and/or integration year. It’s where endings happen, clarity forms, and you begin to release what won’t be coming with you into the next cycle. It’s about tidying up loose ends, finishing what was started, and clearing out whatever you haven’t fully addressed, or karmic ties/patterns. It’s the final opportunity to shed leftover layers from the previous cycle.. not as punishment, but as preparation.
This year encourages:
Reflection
Forgiveness
Closure
Letting go of outdated identities or attachments
A natural, necessary dissolving.
Then, we begin again.. returning to the foundation.
A one year brings us back to the Root Chakra, new beginnings, but also the grounding place of stability, safety, and essential needs. This year invites us to rebuild the foundation with clarity. It often shows up in practical, everyday areas:
Reassessing finances and creating a budget
Checking in with physical wellbeing, routines, and energy levels
Organising or grounding your home environment
Reconnecting with supportive people or exploring new communities
Establishing habits and structures, planting seeds.
Saying yes to new opportunities
I also believe that life doesn’t expect us to complete every year or chakra in perfect sequence.
We don’t automatically “level up.”
We don’t graduate just because a calendar page turns.
We have free will.
If something in your life needs deeper attention (emotionally, spiritually, or practically) you might stay in the energy of one “chakra year” longer than expected.
Growth isn’t meant to be forced.
The cycles offer opportunities, not deadlines.
Sometimes we revisit lessons. Sometimes we pause.
Sometimes we circle back before moving forward.
The purpose isn’t to rush through.. but to integrate them.
Which brings us to now… the end of November….
Standing here now with our new, raw, fresh skin..
on the edge of another nine-year cycle..
may the soul open gently to what comes next.
May it welcome the lessons, the shifts, the blessings, and the challenges.
May it walk forward with curiosity, steadiness, and trust. And may it embrace everything that finds its way to us on this next turn of the wheel.
What have you released? How have you grown?