2015 (2+0+1+5 = 8)
An Eight Universal Year of Power
Action for Manifesting Change
“In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged.”
~ His Holiness the Dalai Lama,
The Path to Tranquility: Daily Wisdom
It’s Harvest time. 2015 marks the eighth year of our current, universal, nine year cycle that began in 2008 (2+0+0+8 = 10, 1+0 = 1), giving this year the energetic signature of the number 8 (2+0+1+5 = 8). The eighth year of any nine year cycle is a rebirth of the first year’s intention. Like the expanded growth of a matured tree, 2015 will yield its fruits from seeds planted eight years ago.
We began our new universal cycle of intention in 2008 and the intention seeded in that first year set the tone and momentum of growth and progress in every year after for the entire cycle. The universal, collective intention with the most energetic strength in 2008 was, undoubtedly, the one for hope and change set by Barack Obama, which deeply stirred the hearts and minds of people on a global level, gaining significant support and allegiance at home and abroad. However, change at the magnitude envisioned has been no easy task and those who oppose it will dig their heels in even deeper this year.
The ambitious 8 is a number of manifesting action on the material plane and it means big business. 8 is the number archetype of power and efficiency for expanding goals and ambitions with position and authority. The 8 archetype is seen in those who organize, manage, supervise, direct and control, whether on a personal level, in business or in the larger arenas of judicial legislation. The mental power of the 8 can be seen in government, law and politics, in intelligence service and information gathering fields, as well as in military strength and strategy and in the executive decisions and actions of large corporations.
This year will see big changes in the rules and regulations of acquisition in the world of money, enterprise and global financing due in large part to greater awareness and the cooperative efforts of the larger populations. In June, transformational fires will be lit in the spine of the world for change, though the direction will be debated, exposing hidden agendas. The existing power structures and the way power is used will be under greater scrutiny. With an increase in the demand for accountability in government and law enforcement and a general coming to terms with those in authority, we will see an upsurge of controversy in publications, events and media coverage for social justice and equality. Military might and reach will expand in July, most noticeably from the US, against popular demand, though August can bring enlightened conclusions. September brings broad awareness of a new power with new decisions for new beginnings. New available energy resources, new environmental protection mandates and advances in science, health and education will emerge with new strength. October sees breaks in association from the US with the completion of an established order regarding worldwide corporate structures. Long held dreams and visions will have power to manifest with the implementation of better ways and means for efficiently improving the workings of our world, following the intentions set in the year 2008.
The strength and influence of the 8 archetype has gained a dominant foothold, contributing to the entrenched power corruption for another reason. We can here consider the larger, major directive cycle involved, influencing corporate elites, big banks and politicians in secret government deals, who resist exposure and fight change and progress and who are currently being judged in this cycle.
While 2015 carries the energetic force of the number 8, as the eighth year of the current nine year cycle, it is also useful to understand that the entire nine year cycle begun in 2008 is the 224th nine year cycle, a the major directive cycle that began in the first year of our Julian/Gregorian calendar. This major directive cycle is also represented by the energetic force of 8 (2+2+4= 8), meaning everything having to do with expanding and manifesting power, position and authority on the material plane has been the consistent direction and focus since 2008. That materialistic direction, increasing in intensity on a global scale, amplifies the strength and power of 8 this year, on both sides of the question, reminding us, in no uncertain terms, about what the world in 2008 was intent on changing, as well as what is likely to manifest in 2015.
The Challenge
The mental power awakened by the 8 archetype is intense, direct and efficient in its natural inclination to manifest material goals. If the goal is the acquisition of power, wealth, property or status, or any other item of necessary material achievement, you can be sure that under the influence of 8 no time will be wasted with trivialities or obstacles to act directly to accomplish it. However, misinterpreted, misused and abused, 8 is the stuff of wars and dictatorships, at most, with everything in the least between ruthless, unethical large scale business practices to mindless and heartless domination and manipulation of others on personal levels.
On the darker side of the 8, power struggles, increased violence and unjust attempts by financial institutions and corporations to manipulate the law have strengthened their grip since 2008. Fear, greed and ambition continue to manifest resistance to change in the creation of programs and laws that tighten control and increase power and profit through furthering division and separation. 2015 will see increased evidence of these behaviors. Due to the over-intensification of 8 energy, evidence of power imbalance and extremism around the world is maximizing. Furthermore, while we and the world are cycling through this universal 8 energy, the additional, personal year number for the United States is 1, which means the beginning of a new cycle. This is a critical time for the US as the intention set and action taken in this year will take the next eight years to complete. The magnitude of the implications loomed so large in importance, I have written a separate paper about it.
However, because we have crossed a new millennial threshold, these factions, though fierce in their efforts, represent stubborn opposition to change. The intensified movements for control, contrary to appearances, are in fact desperate acts in the death throes of the lingering old paradigm, still casting long shadows, but whose strength and effect will inevitably diminish over time. The out of hiding evidence of corruption in the material world of money and power in the past seven years, beginning with the bailing out of the banks, collapse of the subprime mortgage market and the resulting global financial crisis, along with increased terrorism and war have been prompting and guiding the social agents of change empowered in 2008 with that intention.
Since 2000, we have not only been waking up more to the shadow side of our manifesting power, building in evidence since the 80s (another decade with consistent 8 energy) to now unbearable levels, but the parallel impact of our increasing awareness will finally begin to show its strength in this year. The intention of this 2008 cycle for hope and change is now manifesting through wisdom gained and prepared actions that will bring a course correction for balance through co-creation and integration. An example is the fruition of efforts to end the use of fossil fuels, aided by increasing awareness and evidence of climate change. However, balance is a fine line we walk in these days.
Manifesting the Vision
The good news is, in truth, 8 represents a balance of masculine and feminine and acts as a bridge between the spiritual and material worlds. It is the balancing frequency of 8 energy that makes us capable of expressing the celestial in material form, while separating the two can bring sorrow and destruction, heaven and hell.
Crossing the millennial threshold in the year 2000 established the consistency of feminine, co-creative, collaborative and integrative energy in the world, represented by the number 2, as it has been written every day in every year date printed since that year and will continue to be until the end of this millennium. The 8 energy of 2015 is therefore assisted by the energy of 2 to bring the expression of its full manifesting power through connection and cooperation. The pendulum of time is swinging back toward a balance between opposites and therefore heralding a new age of spiritual and material integration in all aspects of being.
All the citizens of the Earth and the Earth itself, are undergoing a major transformation, promised by the cyclical precessions of the ages as understood and described by the sages, oracles, scribes and experiencers of the times. If “All the world is a stage,” they have revealed countless times that a higher consciousness is directing the play, but that the success of the performance depends upon the actors and the decisions they make.
The mental 8 represents the higher aspects of psychology, philosophy and wisdom in the possibilities of its expression, however, it is not a number for dreaming. 8 is designed for action, with intelligence drawn from the intuition of higher mind, to guide humanity through responsible authority by providing knowledge, supervision and stability to empower and manifest the visions of all so that growth and progress may be even greater than before.
What we decide now, individually, as well as how, where and when we each choose to act in 2015, will determine the collective strength of our ability to manifest long held dreams for positive change and transformation in the name of achieving the highest goals for a peaceful, self-sustaining humanity. Right relationship with power is key to our successful transformation all year and the latter half of the year will show a potent turn of events. The connection of many in cooperative efforts will show universal results in October and November will show a new trend of events for governing in the world.
The 8 energy in 2015 for rebirthing the original intention set in 2008 will assist the world by further highlighting and manifesting the details of what needs to be changed as it empowers those with a higher vision for humanity that favors the many along with the few and community over strictly self-serving individualism. Things may look bleaker than ever as more injustices and atrocities come to visible light, but like all things of darkness, they will not withstand it. If we stay with the original feeling of excitement generated in 2008 that intended the positive change we envisioned, how much better our ability to complete the task now that we more clearly see what needs to be done?
Candice Powers
Numerologist