Not only is this  Week 45 of 2016, it is also the week in which the United States chooses its 45th president.

4+5 = 9, and Week 45 is the final 9 Week in this turbulent 9 Year of 2016.

9 is the number of drama and deep emotions. The number of spirals and endings. And this week, we get spirals within spirals, and endings within endings.

“The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning.”~Sam Shepard, (born in Week 45, November 5, 1943)

The last time we experienced Week 45 in a 9 year, (which, like 2016, was also a leap year), was in 1980, when Ronald Reagan became the 40th president of the USA. This established the decade of the 80s as a high-energy era in which so many safeguards and regulations were repealed – the banks were given even more power – and greed and materialism were ‘normalized’.

“I been laid off from work, my rent is due  //  My kids all need brand new shoes  //  So I went to the bank to see what they could do  //  They said son – looks like bad luck got a hold on you….  //  Money’s too tight to mention..”  ~Written by The Valentine Brothers in 1982 and recorded by Simply Red in 1985.

8 is the number of POWER in the material world, and it was during the 1980s that the whole concept of ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’ entered mainstream consciousness as “a fact of life”, rather than the great imbalance that it was, and still is. But time has moved forward, and we are now in the decade of the masculine 10s in the millennium of the feminine 2000s – and another major shift is imminent.

4 = system, order, work, how things work, precision, detail, and the LOGICAL MIND.

5 = change, freedom, resourcefulness, adventure, sex, and the PHYSICAL BODY.

9 = conclusions, drama, the end of an era, letting go, and DEEP FEELINGS.

Week 45 runs from November 4th – 10th, and is the 6th week of a 10 week cycle in which all the Week Numbers begin with 4 – the number of both restriction and breakthrough.

The USA is in a 2 National Year and a 4 month. Both 2 and 4 thrive on ACCURATE DETAIL, and have a way of making us look at ourselves, and each other, more honestly. And because the entire world is affected by this election, and many other countries are going through their own Clinton/Trump-like situations, we are all going through the evolutionary process of facing our own reflections and interpreting reality – realistically.

HINDSIGHT IS 20/20

The human journey is reaching a crescendo, not only because Week 45 is the last 9 Week in this 9 Year, but also because 2016 is the last 9 Year before the great numeric turning point of 2020. The 10/1 energy of the current decade gives us alternating glimpses (visions) of what could be if we continue in the same old disproportionate way – or – make a vital shift towards equality, fairness, justice, and BALANCE.

People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. ~James Baldwin

We do not look deeply enough into the details of our present reality. We do not use THE PAST as the learning experience it is meant to be. So, although we can see the end result, we remain unaware of what led to it. Without this understanding, history has no choice but to repeat itself.

Life moves forever forward, and when we do not move with it, we become compressed, stuck, and helpless. 4 is symbolized by the box or square, and the feeling of being ‘boxed in’ and spun around has been prevalent during this long 10 week cycle.

All the ‘positive thinking’ in the world cannot find solutions to problems we deny having. Consequently, denial of reality is the biggest problem we face on Earth today. Resistance to change is also denial. The system of the male driven 1000s is battling the feminine 2000s with every ounce of its remaining power. The war on women is real and dangerous.

And yet, feminine energy (which all men and women possess) is rising regardless. Feminine energy is our ability to feel, empathize, relate, and express ourselves honestly. The honesty that comes with the 2 energy is driving a spear of reality into our current system, which runs on dishonesty. Consequently, blatant lies can no longer go unnoticed. Humanity’s awareness is increasing rapidly as our emotional energy insists on truth.

The circumstances of this DOUBLE 9 WEEK remind us that the age of patriarchy and male dominance is in a downward spiral as time continues its journey into the 2000s. 9 enables us to let go of the past so that we can move forward – and the only way to let go of the past is to FORGIVE. This may turn out to be the hardest lesson of all because to forgive repression while it is still going on, without entering into the classic “Stockholm Syndrome“, seems all but impossible. And yet, the fact remains that forgiveness is the very definition of letting go.

Meanwhile, we are traveling a section of the human journey in which the ‘old school’ are desperately trying to alter our perception of reality. The impunity with which blatant lies are being spewed into the collective psyche is truly staggering. They obviously believe wholeheartedly that the ‘masses’ are stupid and will believe anything you say if you just keep repeating it.

EMERGENCE OR EMERGENCY?

Although 11/11 (November 11) does not occur until the first day of Week 46 (a 10 week in this 10 decade), the first occurrence of 11/11 this month comes on November 9, which is an 11 day in this 11th month. (11+9+9=29=11).

November 9th is formatted as 11/9 in the USA, but for the rest of the world, it is 9 November, or 9/11.

Historically, 9/11 and 11/9 have enormous significance, including the onset of World War 2, the fall of the Berlin Wall and with it, communism, and of course, the 9/11 attacks which destroyed the biggest symbol of 11 in the world – the Twin Towers in New York, (just a few examples).

Keep in mind that 11+11 adds up to 22. The USA is in a 22/4 day on November 9 – the day after the election. The master Number 11 illuminates reality so that we can see what we’re dealing with, and at the same time provides the connection between the 1000s and the 2000s. What appears to be the simplest of equations, 1+1=2, is actually a complex and vital set of numbers – which provides basic understanding. 22 focuses on the conditions in which large groups of people are experiencing life.

Our true INTENT – what is in our hearts – will drive this massive change, and the choice is what it has always been – between LOVE and HATE.

Week 44 of this 9 year produces a strong 5/3 atmosphere which focuses on creativity and ‘new life’. The combination of 5 and 3 is the ultimate pregnancy vibration because 5 denotes sex and the physical body, and 3 represents the child. Both 44 and 53 = 8, the number of manifestation, making this a time to be as creative as you can be, not only in matters of the arts, but in all areas in which IMAGINATION is needed to change what you already have into what you want.

Although both 4 and 8 are numbers of attainment, their approaches are quite different. 4 brings results through hard work, determination, and great attention to detail. 8 brings results through attraction, desire, and feelings of worthiness and even entitlement (“I deserve to succeed”).

This week, as both approaches work in balance, you may find the very formula you are looking for to make something special happen, either immediately or in the near future. This is a week of conception! A week in which IDEAS can come to life! This is a week in which to lay a firm foundation for future results.

44/8 enables great levels of concentration and determination which can be used to accomplish almost anything you put your heart and mind into. 44 just ‘gets on with the work’ and does not have time for airs and graces, self- consciousness, or fear of what others may think of your efforts. (A similar energy occurs in Week 48 which runs from November 25 to December 1 – so you have time in which to discover what those changes entail).

It is said that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ – and we must develop the courage to let our ideas flow beyond our usual ‘cut-off point’, and WILL them into being with the power of our desire. THAT is Free Will. We have been programmed to believe that desire is somehow wrong, but that is not true. It is desire that keeps life alive, starting with the survival instinct. It is the intent behind the desire that brings ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ into it.

This week, the detail-oriented 44 energy, which thrives on logic and the laws of cause and effect, demonstrates that if we do not recognize what the past has to teach, history will simply repeat itself until its lessons are learned. There are so many different issues involved in the world that it is impossible to recognize them all. But no matter where we live, unresolved historic issues are now emerging in present time – and in our own lives. The combination of 9 and 44 prevents forward movement until matters of the past are SETTLED. True settlement means that the realities of all concerned are put in perspective, given acceptance, and concluded fairly. True settlement means that those involved genuinely accept what is agreed upon, so that peace can arise out of the discord.

Unfortunately, the word “settlement” has become warped in the effort to WIN rather than cooperate. Notice how indigenous people – natives – are clearly in view now because fairness was never part of their ‘settlement’. Notice how the “contracts” of capitalism are ironclad, while “treaties” for the wellbeing of people who suffered OCCUPATION are ignored and dismantled.

American history often conjures up images of the “wild, wild, west.” But Hollywood turned those very real colonial days of “cowboys and Indians” into mere entertainment, with the cowboys (white Europeans) as the ‘good guys’, and the Indians as inferior ‘savages’ and ‘red skins’. Now, reflections of what we thought were times-gone-by are re-appearing in the present, but in quite a different light.

Look at the history of the corporate takeover of Standing Rock, North Dakota in 2016, and the massacre at Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1890. Both are 9 Years, which indicates that nothing was learned from the Wounded Knee atrocity which took place 126 years ago, (1+2+6=9).

9 takes us back so that we can learn what we were unable to learn.

The protective protests of Standing Rock cover many issues, including the human rights of Native Americans, the impact of OIL on climate change and the environment, the collaboration of oil/mining companies with the police, and the corporate control of WATER. Back in Week 39 (North Dakota is the 39th State) pepper spray and dogs were used as weapons by private security companies against those taking a stand to PROTECT their land, water, sacred grounds, and their very dignity.

Like the air we breathe, water is essential to all life and is not something to be ‘owned”. But the CEO of Nestle, Peter Brabeck, believes this to be an “extreme” point of view. He has stated, quite famously, that water is the same as any other ‘food product’ and must therefore have a market value. This is extreme denial of reality!

The focus on water is deeply connected to the rise of feminine energy across the globe because feminine energy is emotional energy, which is fluid. Emotion is intrinsically associated with water and the respiratory system within the body. It is through the power of the feminine moon – LUNA – that the oceanic tides find their rhythm, as well as the cyclical movement of a woman’s menstrual cycle. WATER, like blood, is the flow of LIFE. But water is being poisoned, and blood is being shed, for industrial profit and domination.

The poisoning of the water supply in FLINT, Michigan, is another prime example. Water shortages in the Middle East and Africa are adding to the refugee problem as people are forced to move to areas where water is less scarce.

Both North and South Dakota turn 127 years old this week – week 44 – on November 2. Both Dakotas are in the 4 Year in 2016, producing another set of two 4s. Perhaps this will bring a climax of events. Or perhaps all this 44 energy will bring a much needed intervention by the 44th President of the USA, Barack Obama.

This is an urgent situation. This week, Amnesty International USA sent human rights observers to monitor the North Dakota protests.

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Also this week, 141 unarmed Native American protesters at Standing Rock, were maced, assaulted, and arrested for trying to protect the land and water-supply that was bestowed to them by TREATY with the US government. The connection here between mining and oil industries – and a militarized police force – is undeniable.

ON THE SAME DAY, a group of armed white men, headed by brothers Amman and Ryan Bundy, who earlier this year, seized a public wildlife refuge in Oregon, were cleared of all charges, including ‘firearms charges and conspiracy to impede federal workers’. The situation involved unpaid grazing fees for their cattle on government land, and their story played out day after day on national TV last January and February. Their astonishing acquittal has been attributed to the incompetence and over-confidence of the prosecutors, but one must wonder how any legal team could be SO remiss. White privilege works in mysterious ways.

The Bureau of Land Management(BLM) was involved, which at the time caused some confusion because the Black Lives Matter movement (also BLM) was simultaneously making news of its own with protests against police brutality, and a police presence in black neighborhoods which is becoming more and more militarized. BLM also adds up to 9.

Blatant racism runs through the Bundy case, too. It was Amman and Ryan’s father, Cliven Bundy who, after his own ‘land rights’ standoff in 2014, made this highly racial statement which, at the time, seemed completely out of context. In retrospect, it is all connected.

“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro… in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids – and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch – they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do. And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do? They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

There is even a symbolic connection this week between the massacre at Wounded Knee and the recent practice of ‘taking a knee’, instead of standing for the national anthem at sports events to protest police brutality against black people in America. We kneel in prayer. We also kneel before our oppressors. In this case, athletes kneel to take a stand.

Black Lives Matter  is no longer a solely American movement. Its principles have also taken root in the UK, Australia, Canada, and other nations around the world — along with other movements to recognize and protect the rights of indigenous people. Australia is also looking inward now at the treatment of aboriginal people there. Canada has it’s own indigenous situation going on as a hydro-electrical corporation intends to build on sacred Indian ground.

There is an enormous attempt right now to force those under occupation to comply with the system that overpowered them, and remove whatever ‘rights’ they had. Colonialism is fighting to remain relevant in a world that is evolving into FREE WILL. Position is what gives structure to the class system – which is why titles are so important to it. The ultimate position is #1 – the number we are evolving from = as we continue our journey into the 2000s. 2 is the number of EQUALITY.

All this is happening at a time when human consciousness is expanding beyond the old illusions of reality and tactics of deceit. It was Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, who wrote:

“Always accuse the other side of that which you are guilty….”

…and this almost unbelievable tactic is being played out – invading and draining our senses – every day – by power-hungry individuals around the world.

Meanwhile, with the American election just a week away (week 45), the announcement by FBI director James Comey that he is ‘reopening’ the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails – without giving any details whatsoever – threw the mainstream media into a speculative frenzy. The timing of this announcement is extremely dubious since the activation of early voting means that the election is already underway. Such vagueness in this week’s 44 energy suggests it will not hold up. 4 thrives on the study of specifics. Perhaps one of the reasons the Wikileaks ‘revelations’ have had little impact is that since September 30, we have been traveling through a ten week cycle in which all the week numbers begin with 4. DETAIL is paramount to 4.

There is always an upsurge of tension when master numbers are present – and ALL the master numbers are represented this week, and throughout November. No one is immune to the nervous tension that master numbers generate, and we must remember this when things get rough or confusing.

As we move closer to the turning point of 2020, every effort will be made to knock us backwards, so that feminine 2 does not get a chance to take root. It may even seem that everything that has been blocked is surging forward at the same time… but TIME is the moving framework on which life evolves, and its power and meaning extend way beyond the clocks and calendars around which we currently ‘design’ our lives. Time has far more depth and dimension than we realize, although the study of numbers does bring some understanding if we are prepared to go deep enough.

In the 2000s, we will learn that 2 is a gentle, peaceful, and slow-moving feminine energy which activates our sensitivity and feelings. But if you try to push against it or speed it up, it pushes back hard and slows you down even more! 2 is the number of PATIENCE AND RIGHT TIMING.

2 provides added depth and the wider view that comes with patient attention to detail. 2 brings INCREASED INTELLIGENCE – which is why the surge of anti-intellectualism is so strong right now. 2 brings caring and fairness which are essential aspects of humanity’s survival.

We ALL have a role to play. 44 is the most balanced form of 8, and 8 is the number of POWER in the material world, including the personal power that each of us holds as individuals – power that we have never been able to utilize fully in this system of control. But the purpose of power is not to overpower or control the population. Its purpose is to empower and enlighten the people so that energy can run smoothly without one energy overpowering another. The freeing of the human will is happening, and there is much reason to be optimistic about it provided we understand the timing involved. (Again, 2 is the number of patience and right timing).

8 governs economic matters, the procedures of the corporate world, and what we call the ‘establishment’. It is possible that a major change in these areas could occur in this 44/8 energy – but because so much secrecy is involved in such matters, we may not know about it for some time to come. This does not have to be a traumatic event (although it could be). When 44 is active, situations often arise which are beneficial to the people.

4 is the number of ORDER, SYSTEM, and DESIGN, and 44 shines its light directly on the order of preference (prejudice) in which this “class” system operates. All Master Numbers are made up of multiples of 11, the number of illumination, enlightenment, inspiration, and transformation from within. 2016 is a 9 year – and November is the 11th month. Therefore the urgency of the 9/11 vibration is working here, too. Both 9/11 and 11/9 have a tendency to produce REVERSAL.

Not only is 11 the most balanced form of 2 – it is the ONLY way that 2 can form.

Humanity is moving so fast, that we cannot see how one thing is connected to another. The pressure that comes from speeding things up against 2’s deliberately slow current can make you physically, emotionally, or mentally ill. So whenever you feel intolerable pressure, you are probably pushing too hard or are allowing yourself to be pushed beyond your endurance level. You may have a lot going on in your life, but you will deal with it more efficiently (and enjoyably) if you do it at a slower pace and observe the details and nuances as you go. 2 gives us the ability to RECOGNIZE, RELATE, and ASSOCIATE (connect the dots).

There are wonderful things happening in our world against this cruel and violent backdrop, and it is important to recognize the balance that is forming between the pain and unfairness of the past, and the potential of the future, without denying our true feelings about either. For all the dire circumstances and atrocities, progress is being made in all areas of life by people who are dedicated to transforming our world into a more loving, fair, unbiased, and livable place. Even on the streets of Aleppo, and other areas that have been torn to shreds by war, there are beautiful precious people there who try each day to make a positive difference. Even under conditions that most of us could not even begin to imagine, people try to balance their despair with hope. Even where Free Will is most deprived, the Will pushes forward nonetheless – the will to LIVE. But so much Will energy remains to be freed in terms of human trafficking (slavery), and so many other crimes against humanity.

Denial of reality is what gives the power-hungry the power to continue their control.  Denial of reality is the biggest obstacle that Free Will faces. Awareness of reality has always been our most effective safety net – which is why we are always kept so distracted. Once we stop denying the truth of our situation, as precarious as it may be, we take back the power that was extracted from us, leaving the ‘controllers’ weakened and less able to manipulate. But it is not just people who need to regain their will. The whole planet has been rendered will-less, including the animals who are under constant relentless and heartless attack. Mother nature is feminine energy in material form – and she must be protected. She is our home and our sustenance.

This does not mean that you have to get involved in protests or engage in radical action. Free Will means not having to do anything you don’t want to do. All you have to do is express your feelings about what’s happening – to yourself – or to someone you trust. The capture of the Will is the capture of the very thing that drives us forward – our ability to express outwardly what we are feeling inside.

On a personal level, this is an ideal week for establishing something important by giving it foundation and form. Laying down roots. Helping something to take shape. Looking for ongoing and long lasting results, rather than a quick fix. 44/8 is fundamental life-changing energy, the results of which often surpass the original vision.

For instance, the INTERNET dates back to October 29th in week 44 of 1969: It was called ARPANET back then, and was the first-ever computer-to-computer link. While the internet of today certainly has its drawbacks, it has helped form the transparency that is so essential to understanding our world – and ourselves.

In the other extreme, it was in Week 44 in 1911, on 1 November, (1 11 1911), that the first combat aerial bombing mission took place in Libya during the Italian/Turkish war. Several small bombs were dropped on that day, and the tactic was obviously successful. The practice has escalated to the most terrifying levels. But only by making peace within ourselves between our masculine and our feminine within the love that’s in our hearts can we ever stop the wars in the outer world. Emotional healing – the freeing of the will – is a huge responsibility for us all.

44/8 represents STRANGERS and the MEETING OF OPPOSITES. In order to keep this aggressive system in place, people are set against each other. Having enemies (and often for the most ridiculous reasons) ensures that wars are endless. This is why war – and post-war rebuilding – are the most profitable industries of all. Divide and conquer is an evil tactic – and it works. But as we move forward towards 2020, our increasing awareness gives us a much better chance to change things than we have ever had before.

NEXT WEEK: Week 45 is the last 9 week in this 9 year – the week in which the 45th President of the USA will be elected.

Week 43 is a 7 Week. It runs from October 21 to 27. This is the 4th week in a 10 week cycle in which all the Week Numbers begin with 4 – the number of both obstruction and breakthrough.

7 is the deeply spiritual number of contemplation, intuition, learning, and self-examination. 7 is the mirror that reflects ourselves back to us, and plays a vital part in our individual and collective evolution.

When 7 is derived from 43, its natural ‘need to know’ is enhanced by 4’s strong need for detail, and 3’s need to communicate.

This is a week of soul searching and delving more deeply into who we really are inside – in order to understand more clearly how the system has shaped us – and who we have it in us to become. This is a week in which to feel and appreciate our greater potential in these serious evolutionary times.

7 is the number of FAITH, and although this can refer to religious or spiritual beliefs, it also highlights ‘what we believe’ in all areas of our lives. 7 also refers to belief in yourself. This, in turn, is connected to pride and shame – and we need to understand these emotional energies more deeply. The perception of “self” is behind the enormous superiority complex which has arisen throughout the world, and which is based on egos that are over-inflated – or deflated. We have much to learn about the vital role that ego plays when it has an accurate appreciation of itself.

7 also represents fear, dread, panic, and paranoia, along with secrets, lies, scandal, and downfall. This week’s 4/3/7 vibrations, each in their own way, have a tendency to criticize, spread rumor, and generally find fault. If we find ourselves facing a situation where it is impossible to know what to believe, this could be the trigger that pushes us inward to search for what we truly feel.

NOTE: Wednesday, October 26 is the 300th day of this Leap Year, and nothing is ever quite as it seems when 3 is so concentrated. This energy amplifies communication and sets a scene. We must be careful not to react impulsively. 3 contains the power of all the arts, including illusion. At the same time, the spiraling 9 energy of 2016 is bringing events to their inevitable conclusions. Life is an ongoing story, and we have to determine, from moment to moment, whether we are reading fact or fiction – which is not always an easy task!

This is a week in which to notice what our beliefs and priorities actually are, and weigh them up against what we are hearing. 3 exposes the dangers of hearsay, gossip, and over-simplification. 4 sorts and identifies the details and puts them in order. 3 communicates data from the feelings to the mind. 7 analyzes it all and produces a theory – which is why 7 is so strongly connected to science, research, and wisdom. And yet, in the words of physicist, Max Planck:

“Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.”

And so, although scientific knowledge is essential to our survival and our ability to understand and thrive, we must constantly go within to learn more about who and what we are. 7 studies and analyzes the details and exposes not only the inaccuracies, but also important truths that have been kept hidden. It was physicist, Nikola Tesla who said:

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

There is always a ‘strangeness’ in the air when 7 is active. Weird and wonderful – or weird and frightening. Situations arise which are perplexing and hard to explain. This is the energy of the ‘unknown’, all things alien and foreign. 7 is the number of MYSTERY.

7 is also the ultimate conspiracy theory energy, and we must remember that ‘conspiracy’ and ‘conspiracy theory’ are not the same thing. Conspiracy theory often claims to offer proof of wrong-doing, but is almost always speculative and filled with hidden agendas. A lie is easier to swallow when sandwiched between layers of truth.

7 represents the INTELLECT, but we are currently traveling through an era in which anti-intellectualism (the dumbing-down process) has taken hold to a large degree. We are in the process of finding balance between our masculine minds (electricity) and our feminine feelings (magnetism).

We must remember that to allow our emotions to control us is as one-sided as living only in the mind, or only in the physical. BALANCE is needed between those 3 parts of ourselves, (mind/emotion/body) and this can only be achieved by the 4th dimension – the heart – the 4th chakra – balance itself.

The 3, 4, and 7 personal forecasts can be very helpful to us this 43 / 7 week.

4: Let your heart soften where it has been hurt and hardened. Don’t be pushed into moving at an unnatural pace. In this cycle, Free Will means being able to operate in a way that feels appropriate to the situation, and slowly enough to notice the details that will help you make sense of it all. By focusing on what really matters at this time,  you will gain insight that can improve many areas of your life.

3: Do not take anything for granted. Look for truth in opposing points of view. Appearances can be deceiving, so independently check the facts and take a more self-reliant stance in general. If you are confronted with facts you would rather not hear, or a reality you would rather not accept, do not create unnecessary problems for yourself by spinning the truth and denying the obvious. There is a fine line between ‘positive thinking’ and denial.

7:  As you dig deeper for answers, you are seeing things in a new light which can increase your power. However, accepting reality could be a test of your self-respect: a test of whether you are willing to receive, with dignity, the gift of wisdom – or, for the sake of pride or convenience, you will choose to remain ‘safely’ in the dark. Be prepared to change your mind about something of which you were once so sure.

NEXT WEEK, as we travel through this 10-week cycle in which all the Week Numbers begin with 4, we arrive at WEEK 44 – a master number which gives BALANCE to the number 8 (the number of POWER in the material world).

Week 42 runs from October 14 to 20. This is a 6 week in the world, the number of love, responsibility, and balance. Both 4 and 2 gather information through patient attention to detail. This enables us  to see a  bigger picture and gain a much fuller awareness.

The truth-seeking combination of 42 sparks new ideas and visions of future possibility. 42 adds up to 6 – the number of reinvention, and despite the often terrifying spiral we are traveling in 2016, and from which we really cannot escape, we are also in the process of reinventing ourselves.

6 makes us responsible for our own decisions, and helps us find balance in common-ground. 6 represents all MATTERS OF THE HEART and is strongly associated with love, marriage, children, family, devotion, education, entertainment, health, healing, justice, and peace.

This energy can also be judgmental, ‘superior’, territorial, and ruthless towards opposition. And yet, even in this extreme position, 6 provides the experience from which to find BALANCE. The physical heart is where everything MEETS within our own bodies, as well as in the wider world.

9 is the number of endings, outcomes and eventualities, while 10 reminds us that an ending is often the start of something new, and that life does indeed go on. We are propelled forward in the course of time, but are held back by our inability to learn as we go. And so, here we are, in the 10th month of this 9 year, where so many different things are coming to a head at the same time.

That’s the spiral effect that the 9 energy emits. When 9 is active, we either change what needs to be changed, or we have to start all over again – until the lesson is learned. We are certainly at a major turning point in the human journey, and the principle choices include:

love or hate

hope or despair

caring or cruelty

stability or chaos

confidence or fear

And notice how we are having to experience hate in order to fully appreciate love; how we must experience despair in order to understand the power of hope; how we have to be caring to counteract cruelty; how the terrors of chaos help us seek true and lasting stability; and how courage develops out of fear.

This week, spiraling 6 joins spiraling 9 to help us recognize what we need to learn. We are holding on to the past because we are afraid of what the future may bring – forgetting that we create the future as we go, but never reach it. Our only way forward is in present time, which is why we must learn from the past so that it can move to its natural place behind us – and stop dragging us backwards.

9 IS A POINT OF EXIT, and we are likely to find that there is a LOT for us to let go and leave behind this week – willingly.

Emotion is our response to experience – our inner truth – our honesty. To evolve emotionally does not mean resisting our feelings. It means being able to feel everything we are feeling more easily and acceptingly. Only then can we truly understand what the experience actually is. Emotion is feminine energy, and the chaos surrounding us now is bringing our feelings to life. We are evolving both emotionally and mentally as a result.

Much of what is happening on Earth right now is the shock produced by leaving denial and facing reality. When the numbers shift at thousand year increments, the change of frequency is so immense that we are forced to look at what we have avoided and what has been hidden from us. This increase of awareness helps us find our footing in present time, which in turn builds evolutionary bridges between the past and present. This enables us to transform what we have, rather than have to start all over again – from nothing.

The decade of the 10s is a cycle of systemic change – and introduces a whole different way of doing things. One of the major lessons we are currently learning from 1 is that if we are to make any progress at all, humanity has to love itself as a species – to unite in a spirit of caring, inclusion, and peace… which is what 2 symbolizes. This does not take the joy and excitement out of life – it takes the utter misery and drudgery out of life. What the world needs now really is love sweet love.

There is never a time at which love does not love unconditionally. Love is love, no matter how we channel it in and out of us. Love is the central theme of this week, and with all that is going on in the world, and in our own lives, we must try to take some time to simply BE, to breathe, and to find balance and peace within.

People everywhere are demanding change where there is atrocity, injustice, inequality, unfairness, and bigotry – all of which describe IMBALANCE. 6 is the number of BALANCE and EXTREMES – and there are likely to be vivid reflections of both this week. 6 provides us with reflective insight. What we see started somewhere else. Every story has a beginning – followed by the steps it took from there.

6 represents FAMILY, and we are likely to feel this strongly this week, both personally and on the world stage. We must never lose sight of the fact that we are all part of one big family called humanity.

As we leave the 1000s, 1 teaches us about the SELF, and right now we are on the very rocky road towards SELF ACCEPTANCE. We cannot have or even understand the concepts of unity and equality until we know who we are as individuals. Perhaps the events of this week will bring us a little closer to that understanding.