Between Takeoff and Landing: Honoring the In-Between
There are moments in life when we feel like we’re hovering in midair…wings stretched wide, engines humming, but no clear runway in sight. We’ve taken off. We’ve climbed. We’ve soared through turbulence and found patches of peace. But instead of landing in that beautiful future we’ve imagined, we’re circling. Over and over. Waiting.
From the outside, it might look like nothing is happening. But ask any seasoned pilot, and they’ll tell you: a holding pattern isn’t failure. It’s strategy. It’s wisdom. It’s the dance between destiny and divine timing.
Just like planes sometimes can’t land due to stormy conditions, unseen debris, or congestion on the ground, our own manifestations can experience delays. Not because they’re not real. Not because we’re doing something wrong. But because the circumstances haven’t aligned yet for a safe, stable arrival.
You may be flying high with a dream so vivid you can taste it. A relationship, a career, a home, a new version of yourself. You’ve mapped it out. Felt it in your body. You’ve followed the signs. And still…you’re circling.
I know this pattern intimately. There was a season in my life where I felt so close to everything I’d been manifesting. I had the vision board, the scripting, the aligned action. I’d recorded the hypnosis tracks, meditated with candlelight, and said "yes" to becoming the woman I saw in my dreams.
And yet, everything felt suspended. I wasn’t moving backward, but I wasn’t landing either. It was maddening at times, like being able to see the city lights from the sky, but never getting clearance to descend.
But then I started to soften into the wait. I began to treat the circling as sacred. I stopped asking “Why am I not there yet?” and started whispering, “What’s still aligning for my highest good?”
And in that surrender, I noticed things I couldn’t have seen while rushing: red flags I would’ve missed, skills I needed to refine, energies I still needed to release. And eventually, like clockwork, the moment came. I was invited to land. Not chaotically. Not in desperation. But gently, with divine readiness.
What if your holding pattern is holy?
What if this is where your wings strengthen and your senses sharpen? Where your intuition gets louder and your faith roots deeper? What if the tower hasn’t called you in yet because your landing strip is still being paved with gold?
When the timing is right, you’ll descend effortlessly. The fog will lift. The lights will line the path. You’ll hear the voice in your soul say, Now. It’s time. And the wheels will touch the ground with the quiet thunder of destiny fulfilled.
Until then, let the clouds hold you. Let the sky school you. And trust the process.
Because circling doesn’t mean you’re lost.
It means you’re important enough to wait for the right arrival.
How Hypnosis Helps
Hypnosis can be your co-pilot in the clouds, helping calm the nervous system, reframe the “waiting” into wisdom, and connect you with the inner guidance that always knows you are still in flight, not in failure. Through subconscious alignment, you don’t just wait, you expand into who you're becoming on this sacred runway we call life.
Reflection Questions:
What am I learning while I circle?
In what ways might life be preparing a softer, more aligned landing than I originally imagined?
How can I find peace in the pause, trusting that my desires are not denied but only divinely delayed?
