Rewriting the Nine Year Contracts

By Dr. Ruth Anderson

My life started falling apart almost 9 years ago. My best friend, Sylvia was a month shy of having a massive stroke at the Thanksgiving table. This event started a four month trial of paralysis, hospital stays, rehab confinement, and death from undiagnosed stomach cancer.

My life started falling apart almost 9 years ago. Or, as spirit whispered to me, “Maybe your life started coming together almost nine years ago.” It was Sylvia’s illness and passing that started my journey of learning about my sense of intuition. I saw Sylvia’s husband, Cliff, walking down the hall of the hospital toward her room. This might not have been so unusual had he not died three years earlier.

The morning after Sylvia passed, I was driving the streets of Los Angeles, sobbing uncontrollably, trying to get to the airport to make my way back home. I heard a rustling in the backseat and immediately thought that someone was in the car with me. Surely, I was in danger. When I gathered the courage to look in the rearview mirror, I saw my beautiful Sylvia and her husband in spirit. Sylvia looked exhausted and Cliff looked absolutely delighted to be together again with his wife. My tears turned to laughter and I understood that there was indeed life after life as we know it. I had no ability to comprehend what I was witnessing or why, but somehow I knew it would be life-changing.

Over the next nine years, I explored intuition and spirit with a fervor. I had the profound honor and privilege of working closely with Archangel Michael, Archangel Raphael, Divine Mother and the Christ Consciousness. I authored three books and chapters in numerous anthologies all having to do with spirituality and life lessons learned through channeling. Under Archangel Michael’s tutelage, I created Enlightened World Network, a platform for light workers to share their life’s work, provide daily live meditations, and a safe place for all to grow spiritually. I have met soul sisters whom I adore, worked with hundreds of light workers and currently host thousands of videos on YouTube. From a spiritual perspective, it has been an amazing run.

Even incredible spiritual growth can come at the expense of life’s balance. I am after all, a spiritual being having a physical experience. That means there needs to be time in the day, not only for the spiritual work, but also for really living in the physical realm. It is very easy for me to stay connected with spirit all day long.

As a result I have missed out on some one-on-one time with family members and friends that I will not be able to get back. I chose a sedentary lifestyle of meditating and creating from my laptop, for which my body has suffered. Prolific writing and podcast creation takes a great deal of time. That time was a trade off for other things left undone. The end of this nine year cycle is now demanding that I create balance in my life.

Why nine years? Enlightened World’s resident numerologist, Michele Landers, talks about the number nine as a time of completion. It is not unusual for relationships to falter and jobs to feel stale at the nine year mark. Being consciously aware of the natural cycle of nine year increments has brought peace and perspective through an otherwise uncomfortable mid-life crisis.

In other words, I am trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I am choosing to take this opportunity at the end of a nine year cycle to reflect and determine what is worth keeping and what is worth letting go. As a result, I have committed to “rewriting” many unwritten contracts with myself to symbolize a change. I am rewriting the contract with my body to take better care of it and nurture it so it will hold me as I age. I am rewriting my contract with time. While the spirit realm does not deal with the constructs of time, I need to. I am rewriting my contracts with my family members to be more present for them. I am even rewriting my contract with my home and my community.

So, did my life start falling apart nine years ago? No, it truly evolved into something so amazing I never could have dreamt it. And now my next nine years will be equally amazing if not more. But moving forward, it will be in balance and alignment between body, mind, and spirit.

Where are you in your nine-year cycle? Just starting out with new projects and ideas? Are you going strong with no end in sight? Or are you in a space of evaluation and possible endings? Embrace the cycles and remember, this ebb and flow doesn’t mean anything is wrong with you. It means you are human.