What do Repeating Numbers have to do with the Northern Lights?
on sun cycles and shifting plans
What’s up, swimmers?! Sending major love as we continue to ride the waves.
Last fall, I shared about a major, and largely unexplained, health issue I was going through, and how I wasn’t always able to write through it like I wanted to. Welp, wouldn’t you know it? Life has been life-ing still in our household and I have to switch gears again.
I had the best intentions for The Year of Yearning—a twelve month deep dive into topics divined by tarot pulls—but unfortunately, I’m putting it on pause.
It’s a (cringe-worthy) decision that I’ve been delaying for two months, but it’s the right thing to do. The truth is, it was a lot of time and energy to put together , but wasn’t bringing me a ton of joy, and with continued changes to our physical and material lives, I need to shift my energy to other projects.
And believe me, there WILL be other projects. They are already in the works!
I am a maker. I literally cannot stop making things. And that includes meaning. I am a meaning-maker. I deeply desire to make meaning out of this life experience. It’s how I engage with the cycles and creatures of this planet we call home. Making meaning is how I follow Mary Oliver’s instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
When I talk to clients and friends alike about meaning-making, a topic that always seems to come up is repeating numbers. Some call them “angel” numbers, some “master” numbers, and soon, you’ll be able to call yourself an expert!
Announcing a FREE Workshop Event:
What’s the Deal With Repeating Numbers?
— a FREE numerological workshop | June 6, 2024 (6/6) from 4-5pm PST —
While repeating numbers absolutely have roots in Pythagorean numerology, did you know that the woman who coined the term “angel numbers” has since denounced all of her spiritual and New Age work and joined the evangelical church?
Beyond just the terminology used, repeating numbers — sequences like 111, 222, 333, 1212, 1234, etc. — are a fascinating and polarizing topic. What exactly do they represent? Can we receive messages through them? And what can their history offer us about their future uses as a tool for personal meaning-making?
In this free, hour-long, virtual workshop, we’ll cover:
the who, what, where, when & why of angel numbers
modern theories on repeating numbers & their meanings
how to ask for & spot repeating numbers as signs
how to decipher personal messages
frank thoughts on intuition and meaning making
TO MY PAID PALS: I’m so grateful for your support in the first couple of months of The YOY—thank you for reading! I know changes happen all of the time, but I still feel funky about it. If you need to pull your monetary support from this publication, I completely understand! I will still be recording the audio forecasts on the solstices and equinoxes, so if you do choose to stick around, you’ll still get some additional & practical resources. I love you! xx
Repeating Numbers in the News:
On May 10th and 11th, our social media feeds and nightly news broadcasts were flooded with images of the Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights, which were visible in northern parts of the United States. People flocked to see them! I’m always endeared and made to feel hopeful by the ways in which people still yearn to see natural phenomena. I also fully missed the whole event, opting to go to bed early the night they might have been visible in Los Angeles.
As I punished myself the next morning for my complete ignorance of celestial happenings, I researched why exactly the Northern Lights were so vibrant in the sky. Turns out, it has to do with geomagnetic storms—solar events that are part of larger energetic sun cycles, during which the sun’s magnetic field flips every 11 years!
ICYMI: The sun’s magnetic field FLIPS every 11 years. North becomes South and South becomes North. Which technically means a full cycle of North to North takes 22 years!
Similar to the lunar cycle, which sees the moon shapeshift from its newest and darkest phase to its fullest and brightest phase and back again, the solar cycle sees the sun’s spots, storms, and magnetic field grow from a solar minimum to a solar maximum and back.
Here, in May of 2024, we’re in the solar maximum phase of the twenty-fifth cycle to be observed and recorded, and while early predictions theorized this cycle would be milder than others, scientists have now reversed course. NASA is calling the current geomagnetic activity “the strongest solar storm to reach Earth in two decades — and possibly one of the strongest displays of auroras on record in the past 500 years.”1
So what does this mean for us on Earth?
“The sun’s magnetic field is responsible for everything from the solar explosions that cause space weather on Earth – such as auroras – to the interplanetary magnetic field and radiation through which our spacecraft journeying around the solar system must travel,” says NASA.2 It also has direct effects on our electrical grids, radio signals, satellites and GPS, and other systems that aid in modern communication.
In case you want to track the sun cycles, the current cycle started in 2019 and will last until about 2030. This means that the twenty-fourth cycle ran from about 2008-2019, the twenty-third from 1996-2007, the twenty-second from 1984-1995, the twenty-first from 1972-1983, and so on and so forth.
I’m still sitting with the potential implications of this current cycle, but it is fun to see these repeating numbers at work in nature. Come to class on 6/6 for even more sequential sustenance!
What do you make of all of this?
NASA: Understanding the Magnetic Sun (NASA.gov)