The Rhythm of the Universe: From Duality to Dynamic Harmony

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We are often taught that life is made of opposites—light vs. dark, rise vs. fall, success vs. failure—but the deeper truth is: we don’t live in a world of opposites, we live in a world of rhythms.

In my Energetic Tide Framework, I speak about Descent Energy—the energy of transformation and how it runs counter to Rising Energy, which is the force of manifestation. Rather than standing in conflict, they are part of the same cycle, ebbing and flowing like the tides.

Some seasons in our lives call us to accumulate, to build, and to move upward (Rising Energy), while others ask us to release, to shed, and to soften into surrender (Descent Energy). We often fixate on the Rising Energy and what I call Pinnacle Energy—that moment of peak radiance we long to hold onto, but our lives are much more complex and more dynamic to be in a static state for too long.

When we begin to see this pattern as an active force within our lives, the illusion of birth and death as endpoints begins to fade. This is because everything around us is energy and energy is never truly created or destroyed—it moves, it loops, and it transforms.

And as this awareness deepens, so too does our understanding of time and reality. The frameworks we were taught begin to unravel, revealing something older, wiser, and far more complex:

Our reality is made of cycles, gradients, and energetic relationships.

Beyond Duality: Understanding Rhythmic Reality

While Rising and Descent Energy move in contrast, they are not true opposites—they are rhythmically linked. In the Energetic Tide Framework, energy flows through a cyclical movement of eight distinct phases. These tides mirror the solar and lunar cycles, echoing the natural patterns we live through every day. We are not moving along a linear spectrum or locked in a tug-of-war between extremes—we are rotating within a living loop.

Duality is a seductive illusion—it tells us that light and dark, success and failure, right and wrong are in conflict—that only one side can win. We’re taught to choose: pick a side, define yourself, eliminate the “other,” but this thinking oversimplifies what is, in truth, deeply relational.

These forces aren’t opponents as we were taught—instead they are collaborators.

Darkness is not the enemy of light—just as silence is not the opposite of sound. Silence is what gives music its shape. Shadow gives form to brightness. Grief teaches us what it really means to feel gratitude.

When we let go of the idea that life is a battle between polarities, something powerful emerges: we begin to see that energy moves in relationship, not rivalry. It co-creates, responds, reflects. It moves like a symphony, not a battleground.

We aren’t designed to live in static polarity—rather to be in relationship to all things in dynamic harmony. Harmony, after all, is not about sameness—it is about difference moving together—intelligently, intuitively, in time.

Not A battleground—A Harmony

Despite how we frame life based on our own experiences, the universe is not part of this epic cosmic battle between light and dark, where forces are destined to defeat one another. If you want to understand the rhythm of the universe, listen closely to music.

Music reveals the deeper pattern at play. In a well-composed song, the crescendo does not overwhelm the diminuendo—it relies on it. The rising swell of sound only has meaning because of the gentle fall that comes before or after. The silence between notes isn’t emptiness; it’s intentional space—it’s what gives the melody its form and gives the song its shape.

This is how the universe moves: like a symphony. It breathes in cycles—expansion and contraction, growth and rest, and death and renewal. Just like a song, its wisdom is not found in constant climax, but in the way it carries us through the arc.

Our breakthroughs are often born of pressure—when tensions are forced into conflict. But we can also gain epiphanies when we align to the rhythm of the universe—by not requiring the tensions to resolve in triumph, but in harmony with the flow of energy.

How The Rhythm of the Universe Impacts Your Life

Anyone who has walked a healing path—through therapy, self-discovery, or spiritual work—knows this truth: growth isn’t linear. It doesn't march forward like a soldier—it spirals, turning and returning, each movement deeper than the last. We often return to the things that have had energetic impact on us—it acts like a gravitational force, pulling our energy back in its orbit—often revealing new and deeper truths. The universe moves in cycles of harmony— creating gravitational pull of concentrated energy. Some lessons are so energetically heavy that we can easily be pulled into the orbit of new situations, same lesson. Often this is unconscious, but the lesson is still valuable— we discover that wisdom often requires repetition for the learning to integrate fully.

Personal growth and healing is cyclical, layered, and spiraled. The universe moves in cycles because wisdom requires repetition. This often appears like we a stuck or “spiraling,” but when we often get the chance to refine and uncover new knowledge that we weren’t always ready to receive before.

What we often call a setback may be the soul circling back to pick up a lesson that didn’t quite land the first time. The patterns that repeat in your life may be signs that you're being initiated in the sense that you are called to meet yourself again—with more honesty, more courage, more grace. What feels like a regression is often a return— but from a more awakened vantage point.

Healing and wisdom is an art of integration

If we live only in black and white, we miss the full spectrum—the wild array of color and nuance that life is always offering. If we chase only the light and deny the dark, we get burned by the light and blinded by brilliance. We often live our lives chasing an illusion in the fast lane, and we miss the scenic route.

Healing does not ask us to conquer “our darkness” in favor of the light— it asks us to integrate. Our story is not about denying parts of ourselves to build this happy, idyllic falsehood. When we bury parts of ourselves that we don’t like or parts of our stories that hurt, it’s like we are listening to music at crescendo. We keep hitting Mariah Carey high tones without feeling the bass move us into rhythm.

Because in the greater scheme of things, our world and the universe is not static—it is a living, breathing weave of complex energy. We are already tuned in—more than we know. We sometimes need to slightly adjust a dial on a beloved radio and the static clears.
And if we listen—really listen—we begin to hear it again:

The Universe is singing—and healing is the art of learning how to harmonize.