Week #25: June 16-22, 2025
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Welcome to Week Twenty-five, which feels like we’ve arrived somewhere numerically, and perhaps the seasonal wheel confirms it’s true—by the week’s end, it’ll be summer in the Northern Hemisphere.
The Summer Solstice—which got a numerological write-up and will get a tarot reading for paid pals with a spread divined from said write-up—occurs when the sun hits its northernmost point in the sky, creating a balance between day and night, and the year’s longest day. This energy can be invigorating, or exhausting, or somewhere in between. It reminds me of the endless days of Scandinavian summers, where I once rode a bicycle home under the midnight sun. I had to whip out an eye-mask to help trick my body into sleep.
When living in conditions that are different from the ones we’re used to, we must create the conditions in which we can survive and thrive.
This is especially true in a 9 collective year, where 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…
ICYMI:
📅: June 2025: Hate to Find Out This Way, Love to Know
✍🏻: Catch up on my entries for the Tarot & Tropes Challenge
💚: Sign up for the next SMUT CLUB - Thursday 6/19 from 5-7pm PST
🎧: Call Your Coven is new! Coven Convo: Gods, Ancestors, & Spirits, Oh My!
Week #25
Twenty-five is a number of the Cosmic Drama. Of lights, camera, and illusion! It’s a cathartic experience of connection and change, of wrestling both internally and externally, and of needing to see through metaphor and into the heart of truth.
Just as Nicole Kidman supposes in the infamous AMC ad, twenty-five also says, “We come to [this place, Earth, the theatre] for magic. We come to…laugh, to cry, to care. Because we need that, all of us, that indescribable feeling we get when the lights begin to dim. And we go somewhere we've never been before; not just entertained, but somehow reborn. Together.” But of course, who could forget the most root-seven-energy line in the world—“heartbreak feels good in a place like this???”—a reminder that pain and pleasure are beginning to bleed together…
This week, consider where you are holding onto old wounds and old wins. Be present with any physical feelings come up when you focus in on them. Do you have the urge to speak? To cry? To throw something? Take a deep breath and hold the pose. Find the place, deep within you, below the chaos. It’s okay if it’s not perfect and you can’t stay calm for very long. This is a life-long practice. Experience every part of the process in the here and now.
Keep reading for some food for thought based on your yearly cycle number!
June 16-22 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.
Read for your Yearly Cycle, but also check out your prominent chart placements, like Life Path and Public Persona, as well for the collective 9-year.
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