Taking Time to Pause....Dawning of a New Year

The ONE space is always the starting point and we live the ups and downs of each of the energetic spaces as me move around the symbol ending at EIGHT. Not NINE, but EIGHT. 

You see, on the enneagram, NINE is the short time that we have before we begin something new at ONE. Like a new year for example. Gurdjieff spoke of the NINE space as the “time of transition”. An opportune time to pause and reflect on all we have experienced on our particular journey—time to allow those experiences to affect us.  

He shared how we are invited to receive what has happened to us and allow it to change us.  Some of our life events may have been dramatic and others subtle, but each experience can provide us with some new wisdom if we take the time to slow down, pause and receive it.

Our time at NINE is not long, but if we choose to be affected, and therefore changed, we can begin our journey at ONE in a different way.  

As we step into 2025, I invite you to take time to pause and reflect on the past year. During this pause you may discover you have a choice. 

You can choose to move into the new year with pieces of you life "set aside", leaving them unresolved and unprocessed, or you may choose to enter 2025 carrying a new sense of resilience and an honouring of what you have lived. These insights can only come from a year that has been reflected on, reviewed and fully received. 

No matter how you choose to meet this new year, I wish you all the best. 

I am so grateful to be able to walk with each of you on your journey to living more consciously.

Dale Bially
Inspired Enneagram