The Collapse & the Rise. Part one
- Raquel McKenzie

- Nov 22
- 3 min read
The day you reclaimed who you are.
The day another mask slid off your spirit and shattered at your feet.
You didn’t know it yet—because the betrayal cut so deep it stole your breath—but that was the day your destiny cracked open.
The pain.
Their laughter.
The disrespect.
The shock of being blindsided after you poured everything into rebuilding their chapter… it almost destroyed you. You were the one who healed them, poured life into them, helped them rise from their ashes. And yet, they threw you into the fire without blinking.
You didn’t understand it in the moment.
Because how could you?
The betrayal felt personal, intentional, cruel.
But it wasn’t really you they were fighting.
It was their karma.
The karmic partner came back with a mission—an unwritten vow etched in old wounds:
Destroy whatever they built after me.
How dare they move on in a healthy way.
How dare they heal without me.
She didn’t come back for love.
She came back for control.
And your counterpart let her in, blinded by an old attachment, haunted by the ache of losing his child once before. That vulnerability—his deepest wound—became her doorway.
He didn’t go back because she was his future.
He went back because he didn’t know how to set boundaries with his past.
What he didn’t understand was this:
You were the twin flame.
She was the karmic.
And you were the one holding the spiritual foundation of his life.
But when he stepped on his twin flame to hold onto the karmic…
the universe shifted.
The duality snapped.
And the divine feminine—YOU—walked away.
The moment you walked, the energy that sustained him… disappeared.
And everything around him began to crumble, one piece at a time.
The guilt swallowed him whole, but he hid it behind forced smiles, behind silence, behind denial.
Because the truth was too heavy:
The grass was not greener.
It was rotting.
And he knew it the moment he recognized the void where your energy used to be.
You weren’t just loving him.
You were elevating him.
You were teaching him how to grow up.
You were guiding him into the man he was destined to become in this lifetime.
But the karmic came back offering what was easy.
And she did hold something he longed for—his child.
That wound was the chain tying him to a cycle he had been repeating for lifetimes.
Because yes—this isn’t new.
If you look at his chart, at hers, at yours…
you will see the pattern stretching through lifetimes:
the divine feminine rising,
the masculine torn between healing and repeating,
the karmic pulling him back into the shadows of unresolved wounds.
Lifetime after lifetime after lifetime, it played out the same.
Until now.
Because in this lifetime, the divine feminine chose differently.
She rose.
She remembered.
She reclaimed the crown made for her soul.
She untangled herself from the karmic web.
She refused to carry generational wounds that were never hers to hold.
And she cut the cord—not just for this life, but for all future ones.
The masculine counterpart is planning to return, drawn by the gravity of the soul he betrayed, pulled by the regret he hides, the lessons finally burning through him.
But this time…
it won’t happen.
Because this time, the divine feminine learned her part.
She completed her karma.
She closed the book.
She ended the cycle that trapped them for centuries.
And as she walks forward—whole, elevated, untouchable—the universe whispers:
You didn’t lose anything.
You were freed.
And they thought they ate…
but you were the one who truly won.




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