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Empowerment with the 9-9 Gateway Portal
By Allyson O’Hara-Cribdon
Moon Phase: Waxing Crescent v/c ♏ 10:11 pdt / 13:11 edt enters ♐ 10:25 pdt / 13:25 edt
Key Words: Completion, Wisdom, Universal Love, Transformation, Spiritual Awakening
The 9/9 Gateway Portal, a convergence of cosmic energies and spiritual vibrations, invites us to travel through a period of profound personal and collective transformation, completion, and spiritual growth. The Cosmos lovingly creates a sacred space for us to embrace new beginnings and possibilities, encouraging us to reflect over our life, release old patterns, heal emotional wounds, and renew ourselves.
As the veil between dimensions thin, 9 September begins a potent energetic time that will last for nine days, concluding on 18 September. This Portal guides us through the opening of the Eclipse Portal at the Super Full Moon and Lunar Eclipse on 17 September and concludes before the Equinox Portal, creating a triplicate portal of magnificent light-code energies that serve to strengthen our resolve and authenticity, to activate our alignment with our life purpose and soul’s calling, and to support our commitment to coherent heart-led living.
Why is the 9-9 Gateway Portal Energy Empowering?
The simple answer basically boils down to mathematics, or, rather, to numerology, the study of the magical significance of numbers.
From ancient times, numerology has captivated the attention of and guided the curious. The number 9 holds a particular fascination, encompassing immense spiritual importance and power. Amongst its many associations, the number 9 symbolizes completion, fulfillment, and spiritual wisdom as well as the seamless end of a cycle and the genesis of a new phase.
Doubling this number as with the 9/9 Portal Gateway amplifies the number’s alchemical potency and increases this date’s potential for personal transformation and subsequent empowerment. Thus, for centuries, many have regarded 9 September as a time of completion and commencement during which manifestation and personal growth peak and a powerful time for individuals to embody these energies through ritual.
A Closer Look at the Number 9.
As aforementioned, the number 9 holds particular interest because of its powerful symbolism and qualities. A list of a few of the main associations with the number 9 will help us appreciate the intensity of the 9/9 Gateway Portal and the areas that you may experience energetic shifts:
- Completion and Commencement: The number 9 represents the end of a cycle, symbolizing completion and closure, the culmination of efforts, and the final stages of a journey. This end of the cycle heralds the beginning of a new journey and the creation of the intentions for this adventure.
Completion both signifies the achievement of goals, desires, and aspirations and involves a time of compassionate reflection on one’s personal journey so far, acknowledging and celebrating accomplishments and growth. At the conclusion of a cycle, the Cosmos encourages us both to release what no longer serves our highest good and to welcome new opportunities to fill the void left from the release.
- Transformation: Connected with Commencement mentioned above, the number 9 is associated with profound transformation and rebirth.
This transformation results from our ability both to let go of the old such as any lingering negative energies, outdated patterns and beliefs, emotional baggage, and anything that we have outgrown through our previous learning journey and to embrace the new with an optimistic, renewed sense of purpose and clarity.
- Inner and Spiritual Wisdom: The number 9 signifies learning, higher knowledge connected with spiritual and universal truths, and inner wisdom through honest reflection.
As we pause in stillness to reflect and go within, we also recharge our energy and connect deeply with our inner wisdom that is aligned with Source Energy, higher spiritual truths, and higher vibrational guidance. This time of honest reflection creates a powerful opportunity for us to set new intentions aligned with our authentic selves, to envision the life that we wish to manifest, and to take inspired action steps toward manifesting our dreams based on our accrued experience and intuitive knowing.
- Spiritual Awakening: The number 9 represents spiritual enlightenment and awakening. Intimately connected with sacred geometry, the number 9 reflects our connection to the Divine and our desire to seek higher truths and knowledge.
These energies invite us to deepen our connection with Spirit and embrace our journey of spiritual awakening, embodying living as a spark of the Divine experiencing a human adventure. As we pause to connect with our higher selves and the spiritual realms and listen to our soul’s calling, we naturally align with our authentic selves and our purpose, resulting in a greater sense of empowerment and connection with all of life.
- Universal Love and Compassion: The number 9 symbolizes universal love and compassion. The energies naturally invite the essence of humanitarianism and selflessness.
As we reflect on and connect to our inner wisdom and to the Source Energy, we gain a sense of Oneness with all living beings and with the Universe in general. This realization, in turn, leads us to embrace a soul- and heart-led life, knowing that how we interact and treat others is how we are actually interacting and treating ourselves.
How can We Leverage the 9-9 Gateway Portal Energies to Empower Us?
As aforementioned, the 9/9 Gateway Portal ushers in a time when the cosmic energies and spiritual frequencies align to support personal and collective growth, transformation, and spiritual awakening. The nine-day portal presents us with an auspicious opportunity to release outdated beliefs, patterns, and limitations and to embrace a higher vibrational state of consciousness as we manifest the life we desire in co-partnership with the Conscious Universe.
To harness these amplified energies and integrate them in our lives, we can engage in a few easy practices:
Celebrate the Completion
Acknowledgement of our successes from 1 January (1/1) and the celebration of these successes increase the potency of the 9/9 Gateway Portal to welcome more successes and opportunities for abundance into our lives. This acknowledgement and celebration are embodied in a very simple practice.
- On 9/9 or on any day throughout the nine-day portal journey, in a notebook, write down as many of the intentions and goals that you had initially created at the beginning of 2024 that you can remember.
This step can be completed multiple times throughout the nine days as goals come to mind.
- After writing these goals and intentions, make note of all that you have completed over the course of the past nine months.
Writing a simple positive, affirmative statement welcomes in the power of your completion. Simply write, “I joyfully completed…” Then, complete the statement with your success. You can also add when you had completed the goal if you wish.
For example, your statement may be “I joyfully completed painting my bedroom lavender blue in July,” “I joyfully completed learning how to cook a vegetarian lasagna,” or “I joyfully completed releasing my worry about my youngest entering kindergarten in September.” OK, maybe, you are still working on the last example <smile>.
- Give thanks to the Higher Powers who helped you achieve your intentions (the Divine, Spirit, All that Is, The Conscious Universe… whatever name to apply to Source Energy). You are always co-creating with other vibrational frequencies, and showing gratitude demonstrations your appreciation.
Give thanks to your yourself! Remember “You Did It!” This is something to celebrate.
Give thanks to other people, animals, plants, crystals, guides, or other powers that also helped you achieved these goals.
Your thanks can be written in your notebook for only yourself to see. However, saying your thanks aloud creates another powerful energetic vibration to your gratitude, increasing your own energy field in the process.
- Now, focus on what is yet to be fulfilled and write these goals on another page in your notebook.
- Take some quiet time over the next nine days to mediate and journal on these goals asking “What do I need to be aware of to help me toward completion of [enter goal]?” and “What inspired action steps to I need to take to manifest [enter goal]?”
If so guided, here, for added clarity from the invisible realms, you can draw a series of oracle cards on these two questions for each of the yet-to-be-fulfilled goals, As you observe your cards, pay attention to the feelings that you receive from the image and the written word and note anything that arises in addition to the answers to the questions.
Light a Candle
The daily ritual of lighting a candle for the 9/9 Gateway Portal with a clear intention adds another layer of energy to increase the portal’s potency.
- Dedicate a candle that you will light on 9 September and for the following eight days, ending on 18 September.
Choosing a long-burning candle is best as you will be lighting it over a course of nine days. You can also select whichever colour you wish that will match your intention, or you can simply choose a white candle which embodies all the colours and universal intentions.
- Before you light the candle, connect with Nature – Mother Nature – and express gratitude for all the forces that sustain and embrace us during our human adventure.
- Then, set a clear intention either for the 9/9 Gateway Portal journey or for what you wish for the day.
- Light your candle, speaking your intention into the flame.
- Repeat over the next eight days until 18 September.
Self-Reflection and Release
Calling in the energies of 9/9, take some time over the next nine days to engage in self-reflection, asking yourself what old beliefs and patterns are holding you back from progressing on your goals and what aspects of your life are ready for transformation. Journal or draw cards on these themes for added clarity then release what no longer serves you and welcome in new opportunities and growth.
Meditate with your Heart
The 9/9 Gateway Portal energies favour focusing on your higher knowing, on self-reflection, and on visualizing your desires manifesting through a simple 5- to 20-minute meditation. As you close your eyes, ground yourself into the warmth of Mother Earth. Then, focus on the magnificent crystal that is your Heart Centre. As you continue to focus, allow yourself to be taken deeper within, relaxing into the emotions and images that appear with each slow and steady breath. Allow yourself to expand and enjoy this space, reminding yourself to make note of your experience after your meditation. After meditating, use the amplified energies of the 9/9 Gateway Portal to set powerful intentions for your personal, professional, and spiritual expansion.
To enhance your meditation experience, you can hold a crystal associated with the number 9 such as Clear Quartz to amplify energy and intention as you welcome in new opportunities or Lepidolite to provide calming energy as you release what no longer serves you.
Closing Remarks
Now that you have some information about the 9/9 Gateway Portal and a few simple activities to practise over the next nine days, you have an amazing opportunity for personal and spiritual growth as you align with these current potent universal energies. As you embrace the power of 9, discovering more about your authentic self in the process, you may indeed feel more empowered to co-create and enjoy the magical journey unfolding before you. How exciting this is, yes?
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Allyson O’Hara-Cribdon is the Founder of Alchemist’s Magic Ink (editing with a magical twist), The Oracle’s Magi, The Angels of the Zodiac (astrology), and Crystal Moon Magic Circle (crystal therapy).
She is a creative imagination and empowerment mentor, sacred magic author and editor, mage, channel, crystal-practitioner, and astro-oracle card intuitive, guiding and inspiring all generations toward living and expressing their passions using ancient wisdom and intuitive magic.At Alchemist’s Magic, Allyson assists emerging and seasoned authors with their creative projects by collaborating not only with the authors but also with their Spiritual Community (guides et al). Ancient Wisdom meets Intuitive Magic at The Oracle’s Magi and its branches, The Angels of the Zodiac and Crystal Moon Magic Circle. Through The Oracle’s Magi, Allyson channels personal messages from The Magi (a collective), Metatron, & other interdimensionals. She also offers services, play-dates, and courses including Angels of the Zodiac Astrological Reports, Crystal Chakra Re-Harmonizing Sessions, New and Full Moon Lucid Meditations, and Intuitive Readings.
Allyson currently lives with her husband, two children, and three cats in Vancouver, Canada.