Ever feel like you were brave, did the “right” things, and still hit bottom? We dive into the anatomy of a nine year cycle—2016 to 2025—and why so many of us are feeling the urge to complete, cleanly. With author and Akashic Records guide Alee Reina Hoffman, we unpack how to receive a cycle instead of chasing the next milestone: honoring what really happened, metabolizing grief and disappointment, and allowing endings to end so you can start without residue.

Alee shares an unflinching personal story—career peaks, sudden illness from mold exposure, the death of her grandmother, and the shocking loss of her brother—and what decades of inner work are actually for when life doesn't go as planned. Control seeks outcomes; devotion builds capacity. That reframe changes how we meet desire, success, and connection when the world feels unprecedented. We also get practical: reflective writing that helps you “have” your life, touching artifacts and revisiting places to unlock memory, creating art so lessons can leave the body, and even short trips that reset perspective and show you what’s ready to be rearranged.

If you’re wondering where you are in a cycle, start with your body: Are you yearning, resting, or ready? Do trusted mirrors reflect a beginning, a middle, or an end? We talk about clarity before movement, why winter is for downloading the blueprint, and how forced change tends to dissolve while embodied change travels with you. One powerful sign of completion is neutrality—the moment your system no longer spikes, and the story becomes wisdom instead of a wound. From there, desire becomes clean again: the next right home, a partner who fits, a season centered on love.

Listen for grounded tools, honest stories, and a compassionate map for closing loops so you don’t repeat them. 

We explore how to consciously close the 2016–2025 nine‑year cycle by receiving endings, reclaiming wisdom, and letting new desire take the lead. Alee Reina Hoffman shares hard-won insights on loss, timing, and how neutrality signals completion.

Get Alee’s book, Dark Times Catering, and follow her on Instagram.

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