Dark Waters of Descent: Navigating the 9-9-9 Portal and Eclipse Corridor

These past few days have felt like paddling through dark waters — the lunar eclipse stirred the tides, and now we find ourselves in the corridor between eclipses. On September 9th, the triple 9 portal opened, a threshold of endings, completion, and descent. For me, Saturn retrograde in my sixth house is calling me into the simplest but most counterintuitive rituals: lemon water upon waking, grounding each morning, a device detox, even one full day of rest when every part of me wants to keep pushing.

The Perseids spark across the sky like flashes of knowing, reminding us that insight comes when we pause. This is not a season of rising. It is a season of descent — into silence, into sovereignty, into the underworld currents where old structures dissolve and new ones take root.