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FIVE FIVE (ONE)

The number 5 is sometimes called The Writer, and no one knows better than a writer that projects are never truly done. We just decide when to stop working on that, whether it’s prompted by a deadline or an inner knowing. What are you resisting putting the finishing touches on right now? Why? It takes guts to call something good enough, and even more courage to share it with others. It’s time.

Tarot Correspondences: Judgment, The High Priestess

The eighteenth week of a ten/one year (18+10 = 28, 2+8 = 10, 1+0 = 1) is weaving a web with the energies of 1, 2, 8, 9, 10, 18 and 28.

→ One is the number of the self and the start. It asks us to take stock of who we are right here, right now, at the beginning of a new year. A new cycle.

→ Two is the number of the next and the other. It wants us to connect the dots between what we’ve started and where we want to go.

→ Eight is the number of effort and strife. It’s as impactful as it is slippery, dancing with the sometimes-seedy underbelly of power and influence, karma and soul growth, and what’s possible when the line between desire and proficiency blurs.

→ 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.

→ Ten is the number of rolling the dice, or spinning the wheel! It’s also the number of completion and aftermath, and what it takes to actually move on, start over, begin again, keep living.

→ Eighteen is a number of courage in the face of continued darkness, seeing things in a different light, and beginning to embody the changes we’ve been brave enough to make.

→ Twenty-eight is a number of hurt deep feelings and the road to hell and back. It’s an emotional combo pack that wants to confront as much as it wants to shy away from.

[Read more in 52 WEEKS: Numerological Food for Thought for the Whole Year]

Which number energy feels the most present in your life right now? Which feels the furthest away? Are there any that you’d like to focus on or cultivate in your life this week? Is there one that you’re currently avoiding or attempting to face? Which one could be your touchstone this week should the road get bumpy?

A look at some patterns and how they pertain to the week ahead:

To find your yearly cycle number, add the digits of your month and day of birth to 2026, 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+6 = 24, 2+4 = 6.

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 1-year.

This week, it’s time to assess your own archives. In what ways are you a pack-rat? How do you store things? Physically? Emotionally? Spiritually? Are you holding onto too much? Do you need a different method of organizing what’s important to you? Assess this work from the position of wanting to keep all of your hard-won life lessons accessible to you for when you need to call upon them.

This week, consider what Maya Angelou meant when she said, “Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.” Where have you gotten comfortable in the act and art of feeling bad for yourself? Could you succumb a little less to the wallow? There are always reasons to throw a pity-party, but maybe you could also pay more attention to all the ways you’re currently crushing it?

This week, think of the ways in which you let yourself have more fun at the beginnings of things then you do in the middle or the end. What does being a newbie offer you in terms of freedom? How do you indulge in your own imaginations in ways that could carry you through all parts of the process? You’re the one holding the magic wand. Wield it well.

This week, don’t let the bastards keep you from seeing how fucking beautiful, full and totally unexplainable your life is. Life is far from perfect, that’s promised, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t magic in the mystery. If you need reminders, might I point you to the stars in the sky, the leaves on the trees, and the bees pollinating spring flowers. Or you could just look at your own hands, your heart, and your home.

This week, look for the secret passageways and portals to whisk you away from your day-to-day and into your next chapter. While true that things take the time they take, there are also ways of bending things to your will. Slip through the cracks, disappear from view, perform the secret knock on the secret door… This is a cycle that promises adventure, but first you have to cross the threshold.

This week, you might have to disappear for a while. Your health and well-being are not things to trifle with, and this year has been more turbulent than is good for you. So many aspects of life may be out of your control, but there’s always room to reclaim your time, energy, and efforts. It’s like Billy Joel sings, “Vienna waits for you.”

This week, cherish the people you can be your weirdest, wildest self around. These are important relationships. Not only do they offer you tangible support, but also creative and soul-led liberation! If your spoons are lower, find a low-lift way to show your appreciation, like a thank you text or a dessert delivery. If you have more at your disposal, plan a special lunch or get them a gift they’ll like.

This week, have the audacity to do what you want, regardless of what anybody thinks. When you look at the entire constellation of your life, are you at the helm, charting the path forward? Or does someone else hold your compass? It’s helpful to get advice from those who have gone before, or may know tips and tricks to help you along your way. But don’t hand over your sense of self-trust and self-knowledge!

This week, make peace with the fact that you’re still learning as you go. Hopefully this hint helps: Everyone is. Even the world’s most capable, smart, with-it people are just figuring things out as they live. It doesn’t make you less than, it makes you human! Hopefully, this thought can be freeing instead of infantilizing. Take the pressure off of yourself, if only for now.