Week #9: February 24-March 2, 2025
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The ninth week of the year, which will take us from February to March, is the first exit on the highway of 2025. It’s an opportunity to further commit to the paths we’re traveling on, or change course completely. The choice is yours.
Writing these weekly forecasts has been such a neat process of trusting and taking action. Since most of them will never apply to me, I literally never know how it’s going to land for someone it does apply to. (Your feedback is truly a gift!)
This week, your food for thought may also look familiar! Because we’re in a 9 collective year, and every single daily, weekly, and monthly number is amplified, magnified, polarized, and embodying both sides of the coin at the same time, I’ve pulled the weekly forecast for each of the building block number’s unique week, meaning the 1 forecast is from week one, the 2 forecast is from week two, etc.
The only new forecast this week is for folks in a 9-ruled personal year, but as we’re all hanging out under that numeric umbrella this year, it applies to everyone! And that goes for this, and every, week, meaning paid pals get two bits of magic for the days ahead, delivered straight to their inbox every Sunday.
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Week #9
Nine is the number of introspection and guidance. It’s as slow and steady as it is swift and striking, and as moody and mysterious as it is warm and welcoming. You can read more about the final of the building block numbers in my write-up from January: Welcome to 2025, a Nine Collective Year.
The last of the mental numbers, nine rules the brain, the body’s center of control and command. It encapsulates the learning process, how we internalize and integrate knowledge, the ways in which we wield our wit, and how we come to mature conclusions through reason and receipt. And while at this stage of things, nine most closely aligns itself with reason, it’s no stranger to grief, heartbreak and other emotions, nor methods of practical application and sustainability. In fact, it’s due to these experiences that nine can even access a larger picture, and the wisdom to create better conditions for all.
The Humanitarian archetype can easily corrupt into The Egoist, The Martyr, The Facist, The Authoritarian, and The Mad Scientist, all archetypes that blur the lines between nine and one, and position the needs of the individual over the needs of the whole community. This week, remember that you are a small part of a larger ecosystem, remember that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, flirt with the idea that rejection is protection, and in every situation, pause first, consider all of the angles, and always act accordingly.
Keep reading for some food for thought based on your yearly cycle number!
February 24-March 2 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 begins another new chapter in the book 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.
Try a simple spell for the number one, Divining Your Spark, which only requires a quiet space and a candle. (Spells for the Spiral is pay-what-you-can!)
2
The number of love and relationships, two craves affection. But this week may require a different kind of K.I.S.S. Keep it simple, stupid is a design principle that encourages creators to make products as user-friendly as possible. Beyond engineering, it’s a helpful motto for when things get too intense, involved or intricate. Practice breaking things down to their most basic components, and see how that helps you to further grasp, comprehend, and understand. Complicated doesn’t always mean sophisticated. Sometimes it just makes things confusing.
Sharing a similar sentiment is Diana Rose’s hard mode is not more virtuous mug.
3
This year, the number three offers you the gifts of being CONFIDENT, CREATIVE, and COLORFUL. But it could also leave you with horrible artist’s block, heighten tendencies towards all work, and no play, and living each day with no boundaries. If artist’s block sets in, write morning pages. This practice of filling three pages with stream of consciousness writing was popularized by Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, and can be a great method of getting out of your head and onto the paper. If you’re struggling to find balance between work and play, schedule free time! It may seem counterintuitive, but it’ll give you permission to protect that block of time and however you may want to spend it. And if setting boundaries becomes an issue, try creating daily routines. Building repetition and commitment into your every day can help you to be firmer in other areas as well.
Speaking of Cameron,
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4
Justice: Mending things until balance returns — Proverbs 16:27 says, “idle hands are the devil’s workshop,” which is a fancy way of saying a lazy, good-for-nothing scoundrel makes mischief, so you better keep busy in order to remain godly and out of trouble.2 This week, it may behoove you to pay attention to the thoughts, ideas, and urges that fester in quieter, more spacious moments. But not in a way that berates you, or brandishes the belief that you are in moral danger. Instead, invite your darker desires to the table and offer them the chance to aid you in your efforts. Maybe you’ll find that they aren’t as evil as they initially appear, but regardless, building with both hands will get you farther in the long run.
Pre-order Meg Jones Wall’s latest book, Tarot Spreads, out July 7, 2025!
5
In The Witch’s Book of Numbers, I talk about five being the number of both preparedness and flying by the seat of one’s pants. This week, preparedness may be the better of the two options. And this doesn’t mean open up the bunker and get to doomsday prepping, but it does mean that it might be time to get your ducks in a row. File those legal papers you’ve been putting off. Pack the go back. Buy a new light bulb for that lamp that went out six months ago, and while you’re at it, grab a few flashlights and batteries too. The truth is, it’s hard to know what’s fear-mongering these days. But the tectonic plates, both literal, societal and metaphorical, are shifting. We’ve already been fooled once before. Look alive!
Snag a copy of The Witch’s Book of Numbers from your favorite indie bookstore!
6
“The only predictable lesson I’ve gleaned is that when people are upset by what you’ve written about them, or even about yourself, they will respond as usual.” (Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos) — This week, notice your knee-jerk reactions, watch out for your pity patterns, and pay attention to the habits and behaviors of those closest to you. Relationships require honesty. (What are you hiding?) Intimacy isn’t for the feint of heart. (What would you say if you knew there were no consequences?)
Pre-order Melissa Febos’s upcoming memoir, The Dry Season, out June 3, 2025.
7
This week might feel confusing. The good news? You don’t have to make any decisions right this second. You can pause, take a breath, do something to take your mind off things, or simply hang out until things appear clearer. The better news? Next week looks promising for the certainty you seek. It might also have you leaving behind what’s familiar, and venturing down a new path. Let the fog of the next seven days grant you the gift of time with what is present right here, right now. You might miss it when you’re elsewhere, even if the future is brighter.
If you’re looking for additional guidance in the fog, try a post-Valentine’s Day tarot reading by Sam Valentine!
8
You know what really blows? When you get vulnerable, and show up as your most authentic self, and share your softest underbelly with someone, and it’s not received, relished, or reciprocated. How heartbreaking; how cringe! This week, instead of running into your dark, lonely cave, never to be seen again, try taking a time-out and a breath, and then getting back out there. I know, I know, it sounds awful and self-sacrificing, but that’s why there are so many cliches about falling down and striking out, but getting back in the game. You got this. Be brave.
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9
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series is an incredible example of fantastical storytelling, complex world-building, symbolic myth-making, and a hero’s journey within a larger tale of communion and community. It also has many mentor figures to choose from, whether you want to learn from Gandalf the Gray, or a walking, talking tree-creature, the Ents. This week, consider the kind of silence and solitude you would need to create something as intricately crafted, who you might turn to to help you sharpen your skills and hone your voice, and what kinds of messages you’d want to amplify to the masses.
wrote an incredible piece about what Tolkien’s famous series could tell us about our phones, which you can read on .
What do you like about the forecasts? What would you like to see more of? So far, we’ve dabbled in bibliomancy and tarot. What other tools could we use?
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Until next time, just keep swimming!
xx, bee
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