2024 Spiritual Insights: Completing a Nine-Year Love Cycle

In late December, as the calendar prepares to turn, Gladys Ellen, an interfaith minister and gifted medium, sat down to reflect on what unfolded across 2023 and what awaits in 2024. Her insight doesn't come from prediction—she is careful to avoid that trap—but from the observable patterns woven through her own spiritual journey, her clients' experiences, and the cyclical nature of planetary energy itself.

The frame she offers is both grounded and expansive: Mother Earth, according to her understanding, has been on a nine-year cycle of reintegrating the energy of true love back onto the planet since 2017, and that cycle will conclude in 2025. We are, in other words, in the penultimate year of something large.

What Earth Angels Have Been Learning Since 2017

To understand 2024, Ellen suggests, we need to understand the journey that began seven years ago. Many of those drawn to spiritual work—Earth Angels, caregivers, healers, lightworkers, highly sensitive persons, empaths—share a particular wound: they have often encountered conditional love in their families and communities. Do for me and I'll do for you. Withhold my love if you don't comply.

This history, Ellen observes, activates a desire to please, to take care of others, to make them feel better. It's born from genuine generosity—Earth Angels, she notes, "embody a beautiful natural ability to love unconditionally" and offer their wide-open hearts generously. But without boundaries, this gift becomes a liability. Prior to 2017, she found that many Earth Angels struggled with overgiving and oversharing, pouring their energy into others at the expense of their own wellbeing.

Then 2017 hit. A collective "enough is enough" emerged, activated through challenge, adversity, and discomfort. People began making adjustments—not all painless—in how they gave and shared, how much energy they poured into others' lives. This wasn't a sudden enlightenment. It was a slow, sometimes agonizing recalibration forced by circumstances.

The Year Before Everything Changed

2018 and 2019 offered a different texture. These were years, in numerological terms, meant for laughter, play, singing, and dancing. Ellen remembers them as a reprieve—a moment when the focus on inner work could soften slightly. Then 2020 arrived, and the entire world was forced to stop.

Ellen describes her own experience that year with touching honesty: alone in her apartment with her dog, she slept deeply and wept often. The enforced isolation activated inner work that might otherwise have stayed buried. For many, Covid squeezed people's belief systems, forcing those living alone or in strained family situations to finally address what had been deferred or ignored.

2021 brought a year of change—people emerging from lockdown, discovering what the world looked like on the other side, making adjustments both beautiful and difficult. 2022 focused on family, friends, and home, requiring people to redefine what these foundational elements actually meant to them.

2023: The Inner Year and the Dark Night

Which brings us to 2023—a seven year in numerology, and what Ellen calls "the inner year." This was challenging terrain. Many people experienced what spiritual traditions call the Dark Night of the Soul: a period of profound inner work, shadow work, where unconscious patterns and suppressed emotions rise to the surface.

Ellen speaks from personal experience. Though she is confident in her work as a spiritual guide and has built a solid professional foundation, her personal life forced a reckoning. She entered 2023 in a relationship she values deeply—with a partner she has been with for about two and a half years—and the year demanded she learn what a truly healthy partnership looks like. This required her to navigate emotions and feelings tied to less healthy relationships from her past, to dig into places she hadn't previously examined. "The relationship I have is worth it," she explains, and that worthiness demanded honesty.

On a practical level, she moved three times in 2023: first downstairs to a temporary office, then into a new office space, and finally, as fall approached, out of her apartment altogether. By year's end, she and her partner had officially moved in together. The logistics of moving—packing, sorting, deciding what to keep—inevitably "brings up a lot of stuff," she says. The accumulation of change forced presence and communication.

What Ellen observed across her broader community was that many Earth Angels moved through 2023 with conscious awareness of this inner work. They felt it, named it, and understood how their own emotional turbulence was connected to what their loved ones, family, and friends were experiencing. This consciousness, while painful, offered a kind of grace—awareness itself can be a tool for transformation.

A Note on Men, Grief, and Purpose

Ellen also notes something she has observed working with clients: men are struggling. This isn't a judgment but an observation. "We so desperately need healthy male leaders that can encourage," she says. Yet she recognizes that men often find it difficult to ask for support or guidance—a dynamic as old as time. In her work, she has seen many men—whether husbands, sons, fathers, bosses, or coworkers—wrestling primarily with questions of purpose and power, and with massive change. Grief, she finds, has been significant for many men in 2023.

Entering 2024: The Year of Harvest

As we cross into 2024, Ellen's guidance centers on presence and self-care. The new year isn't a moment for grand predictions but for planting seeds—metaphorical and literal acts of intention. The work of the past years has prepared the ground. Now comes the harvest.

Her advice to those stepping into 2024 is practical and rooted in self-knowledge: be self-confident. Be honest and fair. Take care of your physical health—whether that means recognizing what your body can and cannot process (Ellen notes that her own body cannot process sugar the way it once did), or simply honoring your physical limits. Tend to your household. Water the seeds you planted. Before anything else, feel love overflowing from within.

The larger context remains: 2024 is still within Mother Earth's nine-year cycle of reintegrating true love. But the approach is shifting from the inner excavation of 2023 toward a more generative phase. The shadow work done—the confrontation with patterns, emotions, and truths that had been hidden—creates the fertile ground for what's possible now.

Where to go from here

For those resonating with this framework, the invitation is to reflect on your own nine-year journey since 2017. What patterns have you released? What boundaries have you learned to hold? What does true, unconditional love look like when it includes loving yourself? Ellen's work, available through her website, offers intuitive coaching and one-on-one readings for those seeking deeper personal guidance. Her podcast, "Heavenly Hugs," and presence on platforms like Insight Timer provide ongoing resources for those walking this path of inner work and conscious living.