The Human Cycle™
A framework & Guide for the 6 phases of death and rebirth
Most of us spend our lives fighting this natural cycle.
The unlock, is learning how to trust it and work with it. Not against it.
There is no endpoint - no magic solution - no place we will arrive where we are free from the inherent parts of being human. Instead, what we all find ourselves in, is a continual spiral of death and rebirth - six phases of descension and ascension. A process that plays a critical role in our evolution as infinite souls within this finite human experience. A process that helps us remember who we are and why we are here.
The more we learn how to work with this cycle and not against it, the more we will allow ourselves to be transformed by the medicine of it. The more we will shed the layers of who we are not and reconnect with who we have always been. To our true essence. Accepting both the reality of our humanness and the magic of our soul. No longer resisting our way through this human experience, but diving into it fully.
Creating with it.
The opposite of evil is not goodness. The opposite of evil is creation. - Phil Stutz
the six phases
01. Initiation
The first phase - the Initiation - is the beginning of the descent. It is the spark that initiates us into a new cycle of metamorphosis - a shift from a period of comfort and perceived certainty to discomfort and uncertainty. We might sense it coming, or it might blindside us completely. Pulling the rug from beneath our feet and inviting us to meet a new truth. Some examples include a death, a loss, a change in career or relationship, a birth, a diagnosis - anything where the known and familiar begins to fall away and we are given the opportunity to grow and evolve into something new.
02. dark night
The second phase - the Dark Night - is the descent. It is the dying process of the death and rebirth cycle - one that often brings us to our knees as we feel the profound grief witnessing what we once knew crumble and disintegrate completely, seemingly slipping through our fingers and falling to our feet. Some examples include the ending of a relationship, a death, financial hardship, loss of a job, health issues, moving, abuse of any kind, being without community, etc. In this phase, we meet our fear of death and letting go face-to-face as we have no choice but to take the medicinal dose of grief being presented to us.
03. Space Between
The third phase - the Space Between - is the sacred pause (or the cocoon phase) where we find ourselves existing in a liminal space, floating between an old life and a new life, where we are no longer sure of who we are or where we are meant to go. This phase can be the most difficult as we grapple with our fear of surrendering control and simply being with an unknown “nothingness.” In this phase, it’s common to feel depressed, defeated, identityless, purposeless, unmotivated, stagnant and stuck, apathetic, deeply frustrated, lost, and even experience suicidal ideation. Once we learn how to work with these energies, it can also become one of the most beautiful and profound phases to be in.
The fourth phase - the Threshold - is the transition phase that shifts us from an energy of descent to ascent. Akin to being in the birth canal, in this phase, we go from descending in and down to ascending up and out. Here we start to feel the subtle invitation to begin to move. To stretch our legs and open our eyes as glimmers of new life, or hope, start to peak through the fog. It is here that we begin our process of emergence. Where we begin to break through the rich and fertile soil of our undoing with the promise and faint hope of new growth. In this phase, we still won’t see or feel connected to our full vision/dream, but we will see the next aligned step. Which is all we need.
04. threshold
05. Creation & Expansion
The fifth phase - Creation & Expansion - is where we are in a space of full upward and expressive ascent. Where the energy has fully shifted from a yin feminine state (the moon) to a yang masculine state (the sun). In this phase, we will begin to feel overcome by the natural urge to create. To move. To act. To lean into what is aligned yet uncomfortable. Here we will be invited to grow past the edges of who we once were and live in deeper accordance with our true essence. Here we will be challenged to be seen, to take up space, and to move from a place of self-trust, self-governance, and internally sourced safety. This is where our true Self comes online. This is where we bloom! Offering our gifts to the greater collective.
06. harvest
The sixth and final phase - the Harvest - is where we are invited to open up fully. To increase our capacity to both give and receive. To be nourished by the fruits born of our courage to die and be reborn. A place where we are confronted with our beliefs around abundance, deservingness, and the potential for life to also be good and pleasurable. Where the question now becomes, “How good can I handle it? And, “Do I trust it is safe to soften into life?”
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“You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while.” - Eckhart Tolle
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How The Human Cycle™ came to be...
When an idea is ready to be born, it will find someone to be born through. A feeling I have always had as the framework for what I now call The Human Cycle™ slowly started to introduce itself to me over the span of almost a decade.
As I spiralled through death and rebirth after death and rebirth, I started to notice a pattern - six phases of descension and ascension. An ongoing spiral I was noticing both myself and others move through. A process that, the more I grew to understand and integrate the nuance of, the more peace, relief, and ultimately freedom I felt.
We often receive the message that there is this ascended place we are meant to arrive at - that we are on a journey of ascension - and anything that is not that, is wrong. This further adds layers of shame to what is already a deeply challenging and confronting journey. Sending us the message that was is only a natural and inherent part of our soul moving through this human experience, is wrong.
My sense, is that we are all in a process of descension. A deep dive into this human experience. Both collectively and individually. And that this is the medicine we came here to take. To learn how to navigate and be with the density of this human plain so we can learn how to manifest our light through it. And the more we resist this descent, the more we deny ourselves of this potent and necessary medicine, the more we will deny ourselves and each other of that light.
The more we find harmony within, the more we will find harmony without. My hope is that in bringing this work forward, I can contribute to us finding our way to that harmony - to find wholeness within both ourselves and this human experience. To finding home here.
I hope this framework provides you with as much relief as it did me. That you use it as something to lean on while you navigate your way through this human experience. But above all, I hope that in learning how to work with this cycle, you continue to shed the layers of who you are not and let that beautiful essence of yours find its way to the surface. Shining through fully and completely for all of us to enjoy.
Because we need you in all of your vibrancy - just as much as you do.
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