So, I tend to keep my own numerology chart as a bookmark in whatever book I’m studying on Numerology just to have it handy and to have something nearby to look over as I read new information. Boy, was I surprised to realize that in the last year I transitioned from my formative cycle into my productive cycle! That certainly explains a lot that’s been going on in my life in the last couple years. SO many things have changed that at first I felt like my life had been completely derailed – blown up in my face, as it were. After all the uncomfortable transformative parts happened, I now feel like my life wasn’t derailed so much as re-railed, that before things changed I had wandered off my path into who-knows-where and was dramatically realigned with where I was supposed to be. After glancing at my chart, I realize that really, it was my moving from a 9 formative year into a 1 productive year – quite the difference and no wonder it was so jarring!
Just like it sounds, your formative years start at birth and continue to somewhere around age 27 and describe a lot of what your experience with the world will be like. For my formative years, I was in a 9 cycle, which includes a lot of humanitarian aspects – carrying those around me, doing for others without expectation of reward or recognition, and learning some hard knocks of life. A 9 cycle is focused on giving and fulfilling your place in the world. In addition, nearly all lessons are learned the hard way – a 9 cycle is a fast one, covering most the major lessons in life, and as such the lessons are typically pretty dramatic.
My productive year, which should last until I’m in my 50s (just like the productive cycle, this varies from person to person), is all about independence and leadership – with emphasis on the independence. It’s about making your own way and striking your own path, and really concentrating on your own drummer. This is exactly what I’m trying to do now – follow my inner guidance and strike my own path, regardless of whether there’s one leading in the direction I want to go. I’m now in a place and time where I’m thinking about where I want to go and doing the things that I love.
If I’d reviewed my chart more thoroughly just a little while ago, I could have made the transition more smoothly, knowing what I was in for and not questioning my instincts. But one of the great ironies in life (and, indeed, both traits common for 1 and 9 cycles) is that I should notice these things only in hindsight, doing things, as always, ‘the hard way’.
