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Week #6: February 3-9, 2025

Week #6: February 3-9, 2025

food for thought for your yearly cycle number

Feb 02, 2025
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Week #6: February 3-9, 2025
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The sixth week of 2025—the first full week of February—better bring some tenderness because holy shit, January had teeth!

Here’s a simple, somatic practice to try during today’s notable numerology:

TWO TWO (NINE)

  • 02/02/2025

  • 2+2+2+0+2+5 = 13/4

Open a window. If it’s too cold outside, just the blinds will do fine. Strike a match. Light a candle. Release any tension you can part with. Feel into the boundaries of self, home, community, and beyond. Plant your feet on the floor and really let the Earth hold you upright. Consider all of the structures that keep you standing tall: bones, blood, breath, brethren, biosphere. Hold yourself in this moment of connection for as long as you need, letting any and all feelings swell and crash within and without. With one hand on your heart, and the other on your belly, take a deep breath. Hold tight to safety and serenity. So be it, so it is.

So be it, so it is—a perfect mantra for a week that desires a slower pace, despite the swirling cycles of the world at-large.

Especially 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…


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Week #6

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Six is the number of growth and responsibility. It’s a nourishing, gentle energy. It hands you a tissue, it cleans up your skinned knee, it pours you a glass of water.

In the face of chaos, change and crisis, one can harden or soften. Either choice is understandable, and in truth, six holds the very tangible dance between these polarities. A transmutation of opposites. Transformation, of body and mind. A widening of spirit. The scattered seeds of what could grow into resentment. A new sense of self, of circumstance, of relating and recuperating. Steel and silk.

That’s the poetry of sex; six.

In plain English, it sounds a bit like:

Crying at the pharmacy when a bout of frustration triggers a wave of grief. Making an pact with the inner circle: everyone comes as they are, and all feelings and processing needs are valid and okay. Setting boundaries as a practice of both radical honesty and fierce protection. Understanding the pitfalls of perfection.

The Nurturer and The Humanitarian are birds of a feather, flocking together, finding paths forward that take into account everything that’s been learned along the way. This week, engender self-trust through gently tending to your most basic needs, show self-compassion through any flops or fails, and cultivate self-love through acknowledgment of stressors and traumas.


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red and white UNKs building during nighttime

February 3-February 9 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 is part bibliomancy from the stack of books instructing and informing a book project I’m learning to write. I’ve included links with each entry—support an independent bookstore while kicking some back my way—but encourage you to try the Libby app to check out eBooks from your local library!

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