Themes of Addiction That Show Up in the Soul Contract

Today I’m taking about the themes of addiction that show up in the Soul Contract.

A big, massive caveat before we begin: I’m notspeaking from any medical or professional viewpoint around addiction. I’m not an expert in the biochemical or clinical side of it. What I’m sharing here is simply how I understand addiction on a Soul Contract level (and a little bit on the emotional level as well).

Because the truth is, all of us are a little bit addicted to something.

When we talk about addiction, we often jump straight to the really big, dramatic examples of alcohol or drug addiction, but addiction can be much more subtle. We can be addicted in small, almost invisible ways to the smaller coping mechanisms in our lives, whether it’s chocolate, work, social media or something else.

So, I feel this is relevant for everyone on some level, but I hope it’s helpful for those of us who may have struggled, or still are struggling, with addiction.

Addiction in the Soul Contract

A lot of the work I do is about understanding yourself through the lens of your Soul Contract, and bringing awareness, healing, and release to the deep emotional programming that’s connected to those patterns.

I’ve explored quite a few themes recently - things like intensity, boundaries, love, shame (that’s a really big one) and all the different energies around these, but today is all about addiction.

Before I filmed the original video for this, I actually decided to double-check a few Soul Contract charts of people who have passed away but who were famously known for addiction struggles - I looked at Amy Winehouse, Kurt Cobain, and Ernest Hemingway.

I do this very lightly, because I would never look at someone’s Soul Contract without their explicit permission while they’re alive. But for someone who has died, their Soul Contract is complete. And if bringing this in can help someone who’s battling their own issues, then it feels in integrity.

What I found is that three numbers show up again and again around the energy of addiction in the soul contract. These are the 12-3 energy, the 6-6 (or 15-6) energy and the 9-9, or maybe it shows up as an 18-9, energy.

Having these numbers does not mean you’re an addict or that you’re going to become one. Everyone’s human experience is different - two people can have the exact same Soul Contract and their lives will still look completely different, because the themes play out in such personal ways.

9s: disempowerment, trauma, and numbing

The 9 energy is all about coming into this lifetime to empower yourself.

If you have 9s in a karmic position - physical karma, spiritual karma, the goals, the soul destiny - you may have experienced some form of disempowerment in your life. It can range from severe physical or emotional abuse to things that might look “less severe” on the surface, but still leave you feeling powerless inside.

And that journey back into your own power is painful and takes a lot of courage. When you’ve experienced disempowerment, it can feel overwhelming to go back as an adult and begin unpicking it and allowing that wound to heal.

And often, addiction becomes a way of numbing, hiding, or running away from that deeper feeling you don’t want to touch. We get into this loop of doing something that gives us escape, relief, peace, or numbness, and then it becomes the default.

There’s a whole world of biochemistry behind addiction that I can’t pretend to fully understand, but on the emotional level, if the trauma is too painful to face, we look for ways to not feel it, and addiction becomes one of those ways.

Now, if you also have 8s or 3s in your chart, this journey can feel even more challenging. 8s want to stay in the head and analyse rather than feel, and the 3s want to hide. And this is why the 12-3s sit in this little cluster of addiction energies too.

12–3s: slowing down and feeling worthy

The 12–3s are such a big one, and honestly, the more I work with them in readings and in myself, the more I see just how intense and wide-reaching this energy can be.

At their core, the 12-3s are here to learn their worth. They’re here to recognise it, embody it, and actually live from it. But the thing is, the journey to get there can feel really exhausting and messy. One of those reasons is that the 12-3 energy itself is so expansive.

It wants to do everything. It wants to explore, create, think, dream, take on three projects at once, and then add two more just for fun. If you’ve got this energy, slowing down can feel almost impossible. I know with my own two 12-3s (and I have two of them!), the hardest thing in the world is finding balance between all the parts of my life - work and rest, spiritual and physical, mind and body.

It’s like there’s a constant forward motion, and if it tips out of balance, it can become a galloping runaway horse. And this is where the self-worth piece comes in.

If underneath all that movement there’s a feeling of unworthiness, or a fear of slowing down because you might have to sit with that feeling, the 12-3 energy can tip into overdoing, overworking, overthinking, … just over-everything. And that’s where it can link into addiction.

Not always in the big dramatic way, but more in the let me not feel this thing… let me outrun it way.

The 12-3s can use busyness or distraction or intensity as a way to avoid the deeper emotional undercurrent asking to be seen. And when you’re already wired to push and expand, it’s easy to see how that can slip into addictive loops - even the subtle ones. Scrolling. Working. Planning. Eating. Buying. Anything that keeps you from slowing down enough to feel your own worth.

6-6s: creativity, focus and isolation

In the Soul Contract, the 6s relate to creativity, connection to Source, and the ability to bring something from the spiritual or intuitive realm into the physical. They’re the builders, the architects, the ones who can take an idea and actually make it happen. But the shadow of the 6 can be just as strong as the gift.

The 6 energy can often swings between the two extremes of hyper-focused, tunnel-vision, completely absorbed in something versus scattered, overwhelmed, and pulled in a hundred directions at once.

There’s not much middle ground, and that intensity can feed addictive patterns.

Sixes can also feel isolated. When the connection to their intuition or creativity feels blocked, it’s incredibly frustrating for them. That’s when anger can build. Not always outward anger, sometimes it’s internal, simmering, pushed down, misunderstood even by themselves.

And if that anger hasn’t been fully felt, especially if there’s unprocessed disempowerment sitting underneath from the 9 energy, the 6s can look for something to latch onto, which is where the addictive tendencies can come in.

The 6 energy can get hooked very quickly into things - throwing everything into something because they’re naturally wired to focus deeply. And if they’re in the scattered version of the 6, they may bounce around trying to find something that sticks, which can also pull on those addictive loops.

Working with these energies

This is just a brief summary of energies relating to addiction that can show up in the Soul Contract.

Having these numbers in your Soul Contract does not mean you will experience addiction - it just can show up within a combination of these numbers. There’s always such a deep tapestry woven through each person’s Soul Contract. It’s never simple, never formulaic, never “you have that number so you’ll have that experience”. Your life is far more intricate than that, and it is ultimately, what you make of it.

Ultimately, the healing for the 12-3s is always the same: we need to slow down, feel the unworthiness patterns driving our busyness, and step into balance.

With the 6s the healing is all about coming into healthy focus, allowing creativity to channel through, feeling connected, and making something manifest from that creative energy. And for those powerful 9s, we are here to reclaim our power through facing into the trauma of disempowerment, and coming into empowered healing.

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