For some 2025 has felt heavy. It has been a year of resistance rather than flow, discomfort instead of ease. Spiritually, years like this often come not to punish us, but to refine us. They strip away illusions, expose what no longer aligns. A difficult year is often a clearing, an uncomfortable but necessary pause where the soul recalibrates. When life tightens its grip, it is often because something new is trying to emerge. Seeds don’t grow in sunlight; they grow in darknes