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Subject: Exhaustion Comes From Pursing the Valueless - A Course in Miracles Insights - Updates 12/27/25

December 26, 2025

Hello, My Mighty Companion,

As we move through the holiday season, I notice something that shows up every year. By the time it’s over, many of us feel tired. Not just physically, but emotionally and mentally as well. And it’s worth pausing for a moment to ask a simple question. What actually exhausted us?

Was it the moments of love, laughter, and connection with family and friends? Or was it the expectations we placed on ourselves? The pressure to make everything look right, buy the right gifts, keep the image together, and meet everyone’s needs. In my experience, love itself rarely drains us. What drains us is everything we think has to happen around it.

At the beginning of this week’s class, I focused on A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 133, “I will not value what is valueless.” This lesson reminds us that exhaustion isn’t a personal failure. It’s a clue. Often, it’s showing us that we’ve been investing our energy in things that can’t truly give back. The Course teaches that peace is the measure of value, and anything that costs us our peace is costing too much.

As we move toward a new year, it’s a natural time to reflect. From a numerology perspective, 2026 is considered a 10 year, a fresh start, and a new beginning at a higher level. The question becomes, how might you step into this new year with greater intention, valuing what brings peace instead of repeating patterns that leave you exhausted? For some, an astrology or numerology session can offer a helpful perspective, not to predict the future, but to bring more clarity to how you want to move forward.

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Why You’re Exhausted: Choosing the Wrong Things Over Peace | Lesson 133 | Earl Purdy

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Give the Gift of Clarity This Season

As we come to the end of the year, this is the moment to pause and see what life has been showing us. Every challenge, every pattern, every moment of growth carries guidance if we are willing to look. When we take time to get clear now, we walk into the new year lighter, stronger, and more open to peace.

2026 is going to be a doozy. Not in a negative way, but in a wake-up way. It will be a year that stirs things up so we can see where we still hold fear, control, or resistance. The more willing we are to release old defenses now, the smoother that transition will be. This is Spirit’s way of getting us ready for a higher level of trust, so we can meet what’s coming with clarity instead of confusion.

The year ahead is inviting greater awareness and a deeper willingness to stay centered in love, not as something to fear, but as something to prepare for. From a numerology perspective, 2026 is a 10 year, which reduces to a 1, but it’s important to understand that a 10 is not the same as a simple new beginning. A 10 represents an elevated start, a new beginning that comes after experience, integration, and learning. It’s starting again, but at a higher level of awareness. I see this as a powerful time to reset direction, simplify priorities, and become more intentional about what you’re choosing to value, so that what you build next comes from clarity and alignment rather than exhaustion.

If you have been thinking about scheduling a personal session, now is the time. And this season, consider giving that same opportunity to someone you love. A clarity session or an astrology and numerology reading can be a meaningful and healing gift — one that brings peace instead of pressure, and understanding instead of more stuff.

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Thank you for walking this journey with me.

Why Exhaustion Is a Spiritual Clue, Not a Personal Failure

If you feel tired, overwhelmed, or worn down, I want to say something to you that might feel relieving rather than motivating.

There is nothing wrong with you.

According to A Course in Miracles, exhaustion is not a sign that you are lazy, unmotivated, broken, or failing at life. It is a spiritual clue. It is information. And in Lesson 133, the Course explains exactly what that information is pointing to.

We are not exhausted because we are doing too much.
We are exhausted because we are valuing the wrong things.

Exhaustion Isn’t About Effort. It’s About Value.

Most people think they are tired because life is demanding. But the Course takes us deeper than that.

Lesson 133 teaches that anything which costs you your peace is costing too much. Not because peace is fragile, but because peace is the measure of value.

When you invest energy in approval, control, outcomes, bodies, possessions, being right, or being special, you are investing in things that cannot sustain you. They require constant maintenance, constant defense, and constant seeking. That is what drains you.

Peace does not drain you. Fear does.

You're Not Being Asked to Fix Yourself

One of the most important reminders in this lesson comes before the lesson even begins.

The Course tells you that you do not have to believe the ideas. You do not have to accept them. You do not even have to welcome them. Some of the ideas you may actively resist, and that resistance does not disqualify you.

What you are not asked to do is analyze them.

✨ Astrological Insight: Trusting the Not-Yet

As we move through the final week of December and into the first days of January, the astrology carries a strong tone of grounding and emotional clarity. A concentration of planets in Capricorn emphasizes structure, responsibility, and building something that can actually last. This is not rushed energy. It supports slowing down, taking stock, and being honest about what is worth carrying forward. At the same time, the Moon moves through Pisces and then into a Cancer Full Moon, bringing heightened sensitivity around home, family, and emotional security. It’s a week that invites both practical reflection and emotional truth.

Another important influence during this window is Chiron, the wounded healer, stationing direct in Aries. This often brings awareness to old wounds around identity, confidence, and self-trust, not so they can be re-lived, but so they can finally be released. There can be a quiet push to stop defining yourself by old pain and to move forward with more self-responsibility and courage. Many people feel this as a subtle but firm nudge to stop hesitating and start standing in their own life more fully.

Numerologically, this transition is just as meaningful. 2025 has been a 9 year, a cycle of completion, release, and emotional clearing. As we enter 2026, we begin a new nine-year cycle marked by a 10 year, which reduces to a 1. This is not just a fresh start, but an elevated one. A 10 represents beginning again with awareness, using what you’ve learned rather than repeating old patterns. It’s a reset that asks for intention, not force.

Taken together, this period functions as a bridge. It’s a chance to let go of what has quietly been draining you and to begin again with more clarity about what truly matters. From a Course perspective, it’s a gentle reminder that peace is a reliable guide. When we value what supports peace, rather than what exhausts us, the next step forward tends to become much clearer.

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