Joy and despair
3 Signs You Are In The Void Stage of Your Spiritual Awakening
Things are happening behind the scenes when nothing is happening on stage
1. Every Door and Window Closes
You felt bliss and ecstasy. Then you felt misery and anguish. You’re now in a void where you alternate between bliss and misery. The void is a place in between worlds. You’ve closed out a chapter of your life, but you haven’t yet begun the next. The old you has been dissolved but the new you isn’t born yet. You’ve healed the past, yet you aren’t quite ready to fly.
The void feels like being in a cocoon. Like a planted seed. All there is for company is darkness, and you’re not sure if the light will ever come. You feel stuck.
The void is one of the six stages in the spiritual awakening journey where nothing seems to happen. You don’t see results. You don’t get opportunities. Wishes and desires don’t manifest, and God seems too far away to notice your despair. It feels as if you're all alone.
You desperately want to start a new chapter and move on to the rest of the story, but the universe closes the book and won’t allow you to flip the page. Every door and every window you try to escape through slams shut in your face.
You feel lost and confused. “What is going on?” you cry.
You see, not always, but the void usually follows the dark night of the soul and that order of things isn’t without reason. When we come out of the dark night, we’re shaken to the core. When we are stuck in a never-ending dark night of the soul, we feel disoriented and beat down.
A person who has just come out of the dark night has been through so much that it wears them out. Their soul has done so much healing and purging that they are usually very tired.
All activities come to a stop so you can rest. But just because the universe makes you and everything stop doesn’t mean life is over. It doesn’t mean nothing is happening.
The universe’s plan is always perfect.
The void happens right after the dark night to provide rest for the tired soul. The purpose of the void is so you can rest, recharge, and get your energy back. This isn’t the time to be doing so much. The void is a time to do very little.
So much happens in the void.
So much happens when you’re doing nothing. The things that are happening can’t be seen from the outside, but growth and transformation are happening inside.
Because you don’t see the growth that’s taking place, the void is an incredibly difficult space to be in. You may feel restless, agitated, and bored with your life. After the dark night comes morning and morning is when we pick ourselves up and get things done. It’s difficult to rest when you’d rather be doing something significant with your life. It’s hard to remain still when you’d rather be making moves, but the void isn’t the time to be making moves. It's a time to be silent.
Silence is built into the void for a reason.
The silence encourages you to go within and fold in on yourself. What you need for the next stage of your journey isn’t outside. It’s all inside of you, and that’s why the universe forces you to remain inside. All activities stop so you can focus on yourself and get to know who you are on a deeper level.
Spiritual awakenings are divinely orchestrated. The void provides rest for the tired soul.
2. All Guidance and Synchronicity Stops
You’ve been receiving guidance from God, angels, and your spirit guides. You feel connected to the universe. You’ve been seeing the signs, the synchronicities, and even the numbers aligned as confirmation that you’re on the right path. Life is good.
Then it all comes to a complete stop.
There’s no more guidance, no more synchronicities and you stop seeing the repeating numbers. The dreams stop guiding you and your vision is blurred, all you see is silence, stillness, and darkness. Everything around you becomes quiet, even the birds stop singing for you.
You can’t understand what’s happening and why. You’ve been doing the work, seen your shadows, and healed your past. So how could this happen? It can be very confusing when you can’t figure out what happened and what’s about to happen. It’s terrifying when you can’t figure out whether to go left or go right.
You look around you and see people who haven’t done half the work you’ve done living their life outside, and you are stuck inside. How could the universe leave you all alone after everything you’ve been through? You may feel hopeless, sad, or angry! You may feel forsaken, abandoned, and rejected.
“It isn’t fair,” you say. “What went wrong?”
Nothing went wrong as a matter of fact, everything is right and going according to plan. Spirit is allowing you time off to rest and recharge to prepare for the next stage of your journey. You’re being trained to go within to identify the sound of your intuition, how it speaks and what it says so that when you go out into the world, you can rely on yourself.
Everything on the outside stops so you can learn to trust and depend on yourself. The void shows you how to stop relying on others and trust your own inner guidance and knowing. You can really only learn to connect to yourself if everything is silent on the outside.
Spirit is allowing you time off to rest and recharge to prepare for the next stage of your journey.
3. The Future is Bleak and Uncertain
You can learn something from the caterpillar and a seed. When the caterpillar is stuck in the chrysalis, from the outside, nothing seems to be happening. To the caterpillar on the inside, all there is is darkness and limitation. When a seed is put in the ground, it isn’t sure when it’ll see the light of day again.
The future looks scary and uncertain for the caterpillar in the cocoon and the seed in the ground, but something transformative is taking place inside the darkness. The caterpillar soon grows wings and flies away. The seed grows into a seedling.
The butterfly wouldn’t be strong enough to take flight if everything came easy. The seed wouldn’t be happy to see the light if it weren’t for the darkness.
The caterpillar understands the natural rhythms of life. It understands that stillness doesn’t mean stagnation. Just because it has to be still doesn't mean it's not growing. Stillness is a phase in the metamorphosis process. If the butterfly doesn’t stay still in the cocoon, it would never turn into a butterfly.
Instead of rebelling against the universe and trying to kick those doors open; instead of fighting the stillness and ignoring the call of silence, release control and let go.
Take a deep breath and acknowledge that you're in a void and darkness where growth is not seen. Understand that you aren't stuck, stagnated, or blocked. You have done nothing to anger God. You are right where you need to be. What comes next is unknown, but it’s always growth, expansion, and ascension.
The void is uncomfortable and darkness is scary, but with time, you’ll discover just how crucial this stage is in preparing you for what comes next.
Final thoughts
Many of us are brought up strong in our masculine energy. We are used to constantly doing and moving that being still can be challenging. The masculine in us dreads being in a state of inaction. It doesn’t like to stop, pause and just be. It wants to do this, do that and do it all over again. It can feel like torture when it's made to sit still when it’d rather be doing.
No, actually it is torture!
But the problem with being too much in our masculinity is that we forget how to just be. We suppress the feminine in us who want to take it nice and easy and slow down now and then.
Focusing too much on the masculine creates an imbalance within us.
The void prompts us to reconnect with our feminine energy and embrace just being. The energies of the feminine are abundant and creative and when you slow down and stop, you can tap into abundant and creative energy.
Don’t let the stillness and the silence fool you. Don’t let the inaction make you feel like nothing is happening. Just because you see nothing happening right now doesn’t mean nothing is happening. Everything is happening when nothing seems to happen.
Just because the darkness is here doesn’t mean the morning will never come. Just because you’re stuck in your cocoon doesn’t mean you won’t soon spread your wings and fly. Just because you’re thrown in the ground doesn’t mean you won't sprout out.
Embrace the void because it’s extremely important for your soul’s growth and evolution.
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