Relating at the Temple Threshold: Love in Times of Becoming
There are seasons in life when everything softens, cracks, burns, reforms.
When your soul stretches in directions your mind can’t keep up with.
When you are no longer who you were,
but not yet who you are becoming.
And still, love knocks.
Sometimes it's a returning figure from a previous spiral.
Sometimes it's new, magnetic, soul-familiar.
Sometimes it’s not a person at all, but the longing for one.
These are threshold seasons, and they demand a different kind of relating.
What Is the Temple Threshold?
In every true mystery path,
there's a moment when the initiate reaches the liminal space:
The door between past and future.
The hallway between identities.
The space between who I was and who I’m becoming.
In that space, we are most magnetic, most sensitive, and most easily misunderstood.
Our desires are raw.
Our needs are shifting.
And our love if not rooted in clarity can become either a portal of power or a detour into repetition.
The Vulnerability of Being Seen Mid-Shift
Many of us were taught to only offer our love when we’re clear, polished, or fully formed.
But real intimacy happens when we can say:
“I am in the middle of something sacred.
I may not be consistent. I may not be linear.
But I want to meet you from this place with reverence and truth.”
To relate from this in-between space is not a weakness it’s an act of spiritual maturity.
How to Stay in Integrity When You’re Still Becoming
1. Name the Threshold
Be transparent.
You don’t need to over-explain, but say:
“I’m in a season of transformation. I am listening carefully to what’s true for me.”
This gives others a chance to meet you in reality not in projection.
2. Choose Soulful Honesty Over Emotional Performance
It’s okay if your feelings shift day to day.
Don’t perform certainty. Don’t apologize for sacred pause.
Let your “yes” be devotional not trying to appease the other.
3. Use Sacred Timing
Not every connection needs to be acted on immediately.
Sometimes love enters simply to mirror your own evolution.
Wait for the clarity that comes from stillness, not pressure.
4. Stay in Right Relationship with Your Own Becoming
Remember: your primary relationship right now may be with your own soul’s emergence.
An Invitation
What if we related from the temple not from the ego?
What if we allowed love to be a teacher, not just a destination?
What if instead of seeking "the one," we honored the ones who arrive to walk a few steps beside us, during the most tender chapters of self-rebirth?
Let the love that finds you here be a blessing not a bypass.
Let it witness your becoming, not distract you from it.
For You to Reflect
Who am I becoming and can I love from there?
What do I need in this liminal season to feel safe, whole, and in my truth?
What agreements must I make with myself before I make them with anyone else?
The Invitation: The Serpentine Spiral
This is the invitation to step deeper
into the spiral of awakening,
reclamation, & remembrance.
For those called to this path,
the Serpentine Spiral
is a six-month group mentorship of
evolutionary leadership, mystery, & soul embodiment,
where masculine and feminine wisdom flow as one,
where the ancient cycles meet new creation,
and where you remember the temple alive within you.
Participate in the next spiral &