Week #4: January 20-26, 2025
food for thought for your yearly cycle number
It’s the fourth week of 2025, and on the face of it, it may be the year’s most straightforward week yet.
This is, in part, thanks to the banning of TikTok in the United States, which is a clear example of the Empire (4) shutting down a wide-reaching community space (9), a case of government regulations (4) on a foreign entity (9), and also the use of safety and security fears (4) as a means to make decisions for, and control, a population (9). We’re also sure to see the next steps of a tenuous ceasefire and hostage release deal (4) between the violent, ideologically-opposed factions of Israel and Hamas (9), and the first day of the week, Monday, January 20th, will witness the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, who is on a 4 life path.
Again, 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 #4
Four is the number of steadfast support and sustenance. It rules the foundations, the roots, traditions and beliefs, systems and structures, and the spaces that house, contain, hold, or cocoon us.
Ruling the bones and the lungs, four is what keeps us upright and breathing, ready to harness all of the creative energy of the number three, and build it into something long-lasting. Four gets organized, pays attention to the details, and as long as there’s a practical plan, isn’t afraid to get in there and earn some sweat equity. It’s also the pregnant pause. A time-out, a safe space, a brief respite, a minute in time to plant your feet in the soft dirt of freshly tilled Earth, or breathe in the damp-sweet smell of the floor of the redwood forest, or surrender to the relentless rhythm of ocean waves, “beat[ing] on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”1
The combination of four’s archetype of The Salt of the Earth and nine’s The Humanitarian feels capable, yet restrictive, especially in light of current events already unfolding. Watch out for continued conversations and actions around censorship and surveillance, truths coming to light, and swift endings that seem almost impossible to comprehend. This week, protect your peace, but know that sometimes you are a participant in the planetary play whether you like it or not.
January 20-26, 2025 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.
This week’s forecast includes tarot pulls from the Internet Lore Tarot, made by the creators of Moonlight, a new online social space for tarot, where you can start your own virtual room with (or without) friends, as well as book me for a live or recorded reading.
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