When the Light Crosses
Tonight, at 8:05 Eastern time, the sun will cross the plane of the equator.
For one precise moment, neither hemisphere will lean more fully toward the light. Here in the Northern Hemisphere, autumn begins. The days grow shorter from here.
We often associate the equinox with balance. Yet the astronomical event itself lasts only a moment. The Earth continues along its path, and the relationship between light and dark keeps changing.
There is something honest in that image.
Balance does not require life to stay still. Sometimes it appears in the middle of movement, when we are fully present to what is ending and attentive to what is beginning.
I have been thinking about this because our community is also crossing into a new season.
Earlier this month, I introduced Cathy Gabrielsen as my chosen spiritual successor and the incoming spiritual leader of this tradition. I remain actively involved in the Program and our community, as we work together in the field of energy.
For our Soul Family, succession is a period of direct relationship and shared work. It gives me and Cathy time to teach together. It also gives students the opportunity to experience how the tradition continues through practice, presence, and service.
How something living continues
When we care deeply about something, we naturally want to protect it.
We may try to preserve the structures that have held it, even after those structures have begun to change or even break down. Familiar forms can feel inseparable from the thing itself.
A living body of work has a deeper source.
Its continuity depends on the principles at its center and on the people who have developed the capacity to embody them. Those principles remain recognizable even as new relationships form around them.
This kind of transition requires care. It cannot be reduced to a title or an announcement. Trust develops through what people experience over time.
That is part of why I am continuing to work closely with Cathy. The future of the Soul Family and our LifeForce Energy Healing Program will be shaped through teaching, practice, and the many ordinary moments in which spiritual responsibility becomes visible.
The crossings in our own lives
Most of us eventually encounter a season when a familiar role begins to change.
You may still care deeply about the work, relationship, or responsibility in front of you. At the same time, the way you have carried it may no longer be sustainable or complete.
The mind often responds by asking for certainty. It wants to see the whole path before taking the next step.
A crossing rarely gives us that view.
What it can give us is a clearer sense of what matters enough to carry forward. We begin to recognize which responsibilities are still ours, which ones are ready to be shared, and which habits belong to an earlier version of our lives.
This discernment takes time. It also asks for honesty about the difference between devotion and control.
Devotion serves what is alive. Control tries to keep change from happening.
I have learned that spiritual work continues through our willingness to participate in its unfolding. We listen for the deeper current, tend it carefully, and allow others to meet it with their own gifts.
Remaining present to the transition
The equinox passes quickly, but we live inside its consequences for months. Light shifts gradually. The air changes. Trees begin their release according to rhythms older than our plans.
Human transitions have their own pace.
Some parts become clear at once. Others reveal themselves through continued relationship. We learn what the next season requires by living into it.
For me, this is a time of gratitude and close attention. I am grateful for the years of teaching that brought us here, for the students who have made this work part of their lives, and for the opportunity to guide its next chapter consciously.
I am also grateful that Cathy and I can enter this chapter together.
If you were unable to join our live successor call, the replay is now available here. In it, I share more about Cathy, this transition, and what it means for the future of our school and our community.
