Stage 4 is what? Call the void now, in the void.
I’ve talked about this before in a previous article in the void. What happens is it’s sort of like life stops, or you come to a place of no man’s land. And the reason that you come to a place of No man’s land is that the Dark Knight is over. So you’ve purged all of the old stuff, and you are now in between your old life and your new life, your old energy system and your new energy system. And your old self and your new self.
And when you’re in between those two states, that’s what I call the void. And the void is a place where, a lot of times, we can feel really lost, and we can feel a lot of anxiety. If you don’t know you’re going through the void, now you will.
So the anxiety will stop right now after reading this. When you’re in the void, people tend to feel a little bit of anxiety, or they feel like they’re lost because what happens is the universe closes all the doors on you. It’s forcing you into a cocoon so that you may emerge as a butterfly later.
What the universe does, a lot of times people say to me, is that I don’t know what’s happening to me, you know? Been receiving guidance from my guides throughout my spiritual awakening, and suddenly it stopped. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I can’t hear the universe; I can’t hear spirit communicate with me. I don’t feel connected with God. I feel completely disconnected.
Where’s the bliss that I used to feel? So it’s usually in this phase, and at night, that people are trying to claw themselves out of it. They want to go back to the bliss phase. They want to go back to being connected to God and being connected to Spirit.
Now you’re never really disconnected from Spirit ever. But the illusion here that you’re disconnected occurs in the void because you’re going through this place of no man’s land in between your old self and your new self.
This fans the great rest, and I call it the great rest because it is the perfect opportunity: the cocoon closes in on you, you feel like all the doors are closing, you don’t receive signs, and you don’t know what to do next.
That cocooning phase, it’s occurring on purpose so that you may rest. Remember, if you just came out of the night, Holy moly, have you done so much work? And you need to rest that energy system before it ramps up into the next phase of your life.
So the void is what I call the great rest, if you know how to deal with it. So no more kicking and screaming against the void, no more trying to claw yourself out of it, No more trying to force things. To happen when the universe keeps closing doors on you or when you’re not sure what to do next. Just remember, I’m in the void. I’m in the stage of great rest, and I’m going to allow myself to be cocooned, and I’m going to do nice spiritual practices to keep myself soothed and balanced, and everything is going to be okay.
All right, so this is the void. I’m framed for the void. It can also be months or years, Months or years more usually. Most often, I’ve found the void lasts a few months. OK, so maybe a little under a year, but again, it can last months or years depending on your path and what your soul wants for your own spiritual awakening once you know you’re in the Void and start learning how to work with it.
You start to feel really interesting and very different from the anxiety trying to claw yourself out kind of energy. Once you know you’re in the void and you’re coming into a cocoon phase, or the great rest, you start to feel deep peace because you realize you’re in the void. And then you start to work with the Energy.
So you may be really tired, especially if you’ve just come out of a long night. You may be really tired because you’ve gone through so much. Such healing, and you can be so exhausted, but even though you’re exhausted, you’re also at peace because you know that now you’ve entered this void phase, this cocoon phase, and you’re going to take advantage of it.
It’s also in this void phase, when you’re in between worlds, that we start to step into our authentic soul power. Why? Because the old self, all of the old garbage that was holding us back, all of the old stuff that was defining us up until the Dark Night, it’s been purged through the Dark Night.
So now when we get to the void, we don’t have that old baggage anymore. So we start to look in the mirror, and we’re like, oh, who are you? Nice to meet you. This is the phase where we start to stand in our own authenticity.
We start to know ourselves, the real us, the real you. You start to know the real you more deeply. You start to come into your power. Now you’re just starting. You’re not in full power while you’re in the void because you’re still in between.
You know you’re still in between worlds, but you start. You start to stand on your own 2 feet, feel that inner power, and feel your authenticity and your soul’s uniqueness. This starts occurring in the void, especially if you’re working with it, not working against it.
Stage 5 is called groundedness
This is when things start to stabilize a lot more after the night; after being in the void, you feel more grounded, and the image I like to use is a tree. So, whereas in the first stages of your spiritual awakening, you tend to be pulled up like a tree growing its branches up into the sky, you tend to be pulled, pulled, pulled up into the sky when it comes to stage 5.
You are now grounding, meaning you’re growing roots deep into the earth so that you can hold the size of the tree that you’ve become. OK, so the groundedness stage is very, very beautiful. It’s a stage where we start to ground not only in our energy system but also in our spirituality.
Whereas before, we wanted to stay in the bliss stage. We wanted to be excited all the time, ecstatic all the time, and in bliss all the time. When we get to the fifth stage, when we are at groundedness, it feels like we’ve grown up a little bit.
The bliss stage feels a little bit more like a teenager, you know, learning something new or tasting their freedom for the first time in their lives. Then stage 5, the groundedness stage, feels more adult; we’re more mature, meaning that yes, we still want to live with bliss and excitement, but we realize other things happen in life.
And we start to ground ourselves in knowing that everything is okay. If I’m feeling bliss or if I’m feeling sadness. Suppose I’m feeling anger, or I’m feeling love. So in the groundedness phase, we become spiritually and emotionally mature. We know we need our roots very, very deep so we can live life with beauty and fulfillment. And it’s also in this stage that all of the spiritual lessons that we’ve been learning come together.
In our spiritual awakening, we start to ground them by bringing them into everyday life. So whereas in the previous stages of the spiritual awakening, like in the night, a lot of times we want to hermit; we want to go away; we want to run away. When we’re in the bliss stage, we want to be alone in nature, just, you know, excited about everything.
When we come into stage 5 and into the groundedness, it’s almost like we want to return now to regular civilization because we’re ready. We’re ready to carry the lessons and energy of our spiritual awakening into everyday life.
We start to ground it more, suddenly. We don’t need to escape. We don’t need to run away from people who have dense energy because they’re affecting our energy system. We’re no longer we no longer feel like fragile wallflowers. We feel very strong. Grounded in our spiritual awakening and in our experiences a lot of times because what we went through in the previous stages may have been difficult.
And that builds our resilience, so when we get to stage 5, we really are grown-ups both spiritually and emotionally. And so the groundedness phase is really, it’s a really beautiful phase. It’s a phase where, as your roots are going down into the earth, as you ground more and more, something else interesting happens, and that is your energy system becomes more powerful.
That means you become a more powerful manifester in this grounding phase. The more grounded your system is, the more powerful your energy system becomes. It becomes more powerful the more grounded you are, because the deeper your roots, the more the tree can grow up, right? And so that’s essentially what’s happening.
As you ground your energy, your energy system becomes more powerful, you become more magnetic, and you become more. You become a more powerful manifester, so things may start happening to you. Whereas in the void, nothing was happening to you.
In this stage, things might start happening to you really easily because your energy system is becoming super powerful and super magnetic. It’s also in this fifth stage, or this groundedness stage, that something else could happen.
Remember when I was talking about the Bliss stage and stage 2, in that Bliss stage where you felt connected, where you felt that one where you just felt connected to everyone and everything and those feelings of love and compassion that were coming from an awakened heart, well, those feelings start to return here in stage 5.
You start to feel connected again. You start to feel that sense of oneness. You start to feel that sense of deep connection with God. But the only difference here between Stage 5 and Stage 2 of Bliss is that this sense of connection is more grounded in this reality. It’s more grounded. So it’s a connection, and it’s a oneness where we’re now looking at one another, and we’re giving each other.
Break: we’re understanding that people are doing the best that they can, that everyone has a story, and that story is part of their lives and part of the way that they behave certain ways. So this feeling of connectedness in stage 5 is more grounded than it was in stage 2, when you’re in bliss.
Because when you were in bliss, it was more the excitement of being connected to all things, God included, and you were just way up in the clouds. You hadn’t grounded that energy yet. So now, in stage 5, the connectedness feels more like everyday life. It feels more grounded. It feels more real in this reality.
And it’s because your roots are growing. Keep your energy system growing bigger and more powerful, and keep your heart continuing to open. And the more that the heart opens, the more connection and compassion you feel for yourself and for others and for everything, really. Now, the time frame for stage 5 is generally years. So I’m going to leave that one here.
I was going to say maybe months to years, but no, it’s definitely years. I haven’t really worked with anyone where it didn’t happen in my own life, where the groundedness just lasted a few months, and then they were on. On with their lives; the groundedness generally lasts at least a year, one to two years, maybe I want to say so, this grounded phase. Stage 5 generally can last years.
