Week #1: December 30, 2024 - January 5, 2025
food for thought for your yearly cycle number
Welcome to the first week of 2025, which technically begins in 2024, a perfectly imperfect way to enter the final year of the current collective cycle we’ve been spiraling through since 2017.
Rarely do threshold moments bring magical change. Just because the calendar now says January 1, 2025 doesn’t mean you’ll feel different than you did on December 31, 2024. You’ll likely have the same worries, the same problems, and hopefully similar joys and successes.
And yet, in a 9 collective year, every single daily, weekly, and monthly number is amplified. Due to the fact that 9 can essentially be canceled out in any reduction calculation it appears in (truly, try some out, i.e. 1+9 = 10, 1+0 = 1), every core number this year becomes more of itself. Magnified, and polarized. Embodying both sides of the coin at the same time.
Meaning for this week…
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Week #1
One is the number of the self and the start. It asks us to take stock of who we are right here, right now, at the beginning of a new year. A new cycle.
Pause for a moment to scan from the top of the head, all the way down to the tips of the toes, noticing where you may be holding any tension or extra energy. As you breathe, in through the nose, out through the mouth, let each inhale invite in expansion and each exhale encourage relief and release.
Try and allow the shift into 2025 to be a fresh start. A new chapter, in whatever way you can. Let it be another chance to do what you want to do, say what you want to say, and be who you want to be, even if your circumstances are undesirable. Welcome what shows up. Let what’s done be done. Turn your face to the winter sun, and embrace the possibility of all that’s on its way to you.
Each week this year, I’ll bring you some food for thought based on your yearly cycle number and nine, the collective energy of 2025. Like any decent peddler of goods, the first hit’s free—a new year’s gift from me to you! If you like what you read, please consider becoming a paid pal at a discounted rate (through 12/31).
December 30 - January 5 for Your Yearly Cycle
To find your yearly cycle number, add the digits of your month and day of birth to 2025, and reduce until you reach a single digit. For example, the calculation for my birthday of July 7 looks like: 7+7+2+0+2+5 = 23, 2+3 = 5.
Please note that I reduce doubled digit numbers like 11 and 22 to their root numbers when working with yearly cycles, so please calculate and read accordingly.
1
Hello, you. Today is the first day of a new nine-year cycle of your life. Perhaps you are ready for the next adventure. But maybe you are tired and road-weary from the last one. No matter your state of affairs, you have much to be proud of! You’ve survived trials and tribulations, taken pleasure and joy in both the BIG and small, weathered storms, faced hard questions and truths, and clutched tightly to hard-won rewards. This week, get to know the self who stands here now, at the beginning of the next. What do you know? What do you want? What do you need? Don’t worry, baby. You’ll have time to get to where you want to go. Be here now.
2
Place one hand over your chest and the other over your belly. Feel the beat of your heart and the heat of your gut. Close your eyes and picture your lungs inflating with every inhale, and deflating with every exhale. Breathe in compassion, breathe out judgment. Repeat as many times as you need to, until it feels simple and true. This two year is bound to bring you a buffet of choices: Do you want this or that? You may not always be able to have both, so what’ll it be? Either/or. This week, when faced with early bird, right-off-the-bat decisions, place one hand over your chest and the other over your belly, and connect to the parts of you that breathe with ease. Choose from that place.
3
Ernest Hemingway said, “When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” Hemingway was also a racist, misogynistic asshole, who wouldn’t know an adjective if it punched him in the jaw, but even a broken clock is right twice a day. Here, at the beginning of your three year, consider your habits when it comes to communication. Do you value hearing as much as talking? In conversation, do you often cut people off, or find yourself just waiting for your turn to reply? How often do you speak without thinking? You don’t need to fix or change anything this week, unless you really want to. Just observe and take note of your findings.
4
Support systems come in all shapes and sizes: emotional, physical, psychic, imaginal, financial, communal—the list goes on. The four year you’re about to embark on is sure to highlight the structures that surround and service you. For better or worse, by December, you’re bound to know a bit more about them. You’ll see their strengths and their weakness. The ways they buoy you, but also the ways in which they let you down. It’s all good information, even though it might feel awful to find out the truth. But for now, this week, simply focus on identifying them. May you be pleasantly surprised by just how shored up you really are.
5
According to a 2023 poll by the American Psychiatric Association, “Americans who engage in creative activities at least weekly report better mental health.”1 Reported activities included listening to music, playing an instrument, solving puzzles, singing or dancing, drawing, painting or sculpting, crafting, creative writing, attending concerts, creating online content for fun, playing a musical instrument, visiting an art museum, gardening, and cooking. Do any of those sound fun to you? What do you like to do to let off steam, express yourself, or have a good time? The five year can get bumpy, so this week, start to curate your collection of favorite hobbies, projects, recreation, and creative joys.
6
Some say there’s a direct link between a decluttered space and a clear, sharp and focused mind, and after what was likely a messy or raucous five year, you could probably use some tidy, detangled spaciousness. You also might be so exhausted that the very idea of cleaning house—whether literal or metaphorical—makes you want to burrow under the covers and never come out. This week, do a little bit of both. Rest and recuperate. Dejunk and spruce up. Make some headway, then take a break. You’ve got the whole six year to take responsibility for yourself and your expansion. Slow and steady wins the race. (Not that you even need to be racing…)
7
It’s better that you know up front—the seven year can be a real bitch. On the one hand, it may have you diving deep, venturing down rabbit holes that will stretch the very capacity of your philosophical, spiritual, and psychological consciousness. On the other, it may have you tearing your hair out by August, wondering in agony why you can’t just figure out the missing link between where you are now and the life of your dreams. But before you fall completely into self-loathing over what you must be doing wrong, remember that while curiosity may have killed the cat, it rewards the human.2 This week, take every opportunity to connect to what interests and excites you, and relish in the rad returns.
8
Sheesh, it can hard to be in a body. Especially in a culture that doesn’t make space for, or try to service, bodies that are sick, fat, disabled, aging or otherwise in need of care or support. Still, remember that you are star dust incarnate. A miracle, a marvel! The likes of you have never before been seen, and will never be seen again. Spend some time this week identifying where your true power lies. What are your gifts? Your natural talents? What are you preternaturally skilled at or drawn to? What lights you up and makes you feel damn good? Once you have some ideas, begin to imagine how you could work your magical mastery to your advantage this year. You’re it, baby. Take pleasure in the fullness of your existence.
9
Agathokakological, which combines the Greek agath- (good), kako- (bad), and -logical (the adjectival suffix based on logos, meaning word)3, is a term that makes space for the complexities of the human experience, and the presence of both positives and negatives within the same situation or circumstance. This too shall pass, which perfectly encapsulates the experience of the nine year, is an agathokakological phrase. It promises an ending to that which ails you, but also that which delights you. This week, reflect on your current cycle, tending to your garden of both greens and weeds. What are you ready to let go of, and what would break you to say goodbye to? Take heart, love. Either way, life goes on.
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xx, bee
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