Sacred Spirals

Welcome to Sacred Spirals.

Join me as I follow threads of curiosity through the winding world of wellness, Chinese medicine, and the quiet magic that hums beneath it all. If you’ve found your way here, chances are you already sense it: healing isn’t linear. The path toward wholeness curves, loops, and sometimes doubles back before unfolding into something new. You’re not lost — you’re spiraling. And you’re right on time.

Spirals are everywhere and they have been for as long as humans have looked for meaning in the natural world. Ferns unfurl in spirals. Galaxies spin in spirals. Your fingerprints, your hairline, the chambers of your heart, all spirals. They are the shape of emergence, of becoming.

In Indigenous Mexican cosmology, spirals are linked to wind, breath, and the sacred duality of life. Across cultures, the spiral is a symbol of the soul’s journey inward to know the self, outward to share its light. In Celtic mythology, spirals represent the path of growth and transformation - birth, death, rebirth. In Hindu and Buddhist traditions, it mirrors the coiled kundalini rising through the chakras.

In Chinese medicine, while not always drawn as spirals, the cycles of nature are just that: looping, evolving, returning. The spiral shows up in the rhythmic cycles of qi, the ebb and flow of yin and yang, and the ever-shifting nature of the Five Elements that govern everything from organ health to emotional wellbeing, they dance in circles, each one giving birth to the next, dying into the other.

My path to study Chinese medicine was far from linear, but along the way every lesson, every treatment, every personal breakthrough showed me healing doesn’t rush. It spirals. You might revisit the same grief five times before it moves, but each time, you meet it from a slightly different place. You’ve gone deeper. Wider. You’re meeting yourself from a new perspective.

Sometimes we spiral inward to rest, to remember. Other times we spiral out to express, and expand. Neither is better. Both are sacred.

xx. e