A Year of Reckoning and Higher Principles
7—The Truth Seeker, Thinker, Destroyer of the False Self
The number 7 energy cycling in place this year offers the opportunity for discerning truth from prevailing information, yet it is the very nature of truth itself that will be under the spotlight.
Truth: Facts, Lies, Deceit, Fear, Untruths, Relative Truth, Beliefs, Ultimate Truth
How do we navigate our way to understanding the nature of Reality in a world of illusion, delusion and disinformation? What is Truth? In this modern era of media content, ChatGPT, deep fakes, alternative facts and media companies creating Special Factual products all blur the lines between fact and fiction, often with a purpose to expressly influence beliefs and world views. Discrimination, critical thinking and a healthy level of discernment ability have always been essential requirements for navigating our way in the world, yet in the age of the internet and the, so far, largely unregulated rapid advance of AI, many have all but lost or fail to recognize the importance of these abilities.
The Difference Between Information, Knowledge and Experience
Information is ubiquitous. It is not necessarily factual, true or trustworthy. In a time of disinformation, when many people get their news from social media, research has become subsumed and traded for the convenience of sound bytes and bots that channel select information into previously confirmed feeds. However, decisions based on the same bits of limited or superficial information inevitably results in errors. Information can also be an escape, consumed as a time and energy wasting distraction.
Knowledge is stronger, evidence based information that is the most probable to be true. Information must be refined to become knowledge. Once you have multiple pieces of vetted information that validate and confirm something is true, you have knowledge.
Knowledge becomes first hand through corroborating experience. In an age of information, knowledge is power. Knowledge is intelligence that becomes wisdom when gained through experience.
7 energy stimulates in us the desire to understand life on a deeper level, to somehow get to the truth of being, yet the latter quest requires no small amount of courage and willingness to discriminate between true and false, to look squarely within, face and ferret out what does not serve our ideal of higher truth. In a universal transition to higher consciousness, 7 stimulates a kind of spiritual housecleaning, whether it be of ideas, systems, beliefs, or a millennium of patriarchy.
2017 began the 225th Universal nine year cycle since the beginning of our calendar in year 1 AD and it will end in 2025. Noting this is the 225th cycle, it is referred to as a Major Directive (MD) cycle. This one carries the number 9 quality of energy (2+2+5 = 9) as the directive energy for the whole cycle.
This means from 2017—2025 the completion energy of the number 9 will direct people and events in the world and the US toward endings, letting go and completions. 9 offers energy for developing universal, unconditional love and compassion toward a sense of unity and brother/sisterhood.
At the same time, 2023, as the 7th year in the 2017 Universal cycle, is a year of reckoning, of asking the harder questions and coming to terms for deeper understanding. 2023 is not only a year of reckoning in the world, it is a year of coming to terms for each of us regarding our true stance in our personal world view, prompted by our collective shadow coming sharply into view.
2023 is a year for taking a step back to examine and assess our current condition as humans, society members, country and world citizens. In this 7 year of reflection and introspection about where we have been and where we are going, we are taking stock in how things have been playing out since the beginning of this Universal 2017 cycle.
The Personal Year cycle for the US began in 2015 and will complete this December in its 9th year. So, while the world is still in a completion phase with the 9 MD cycle until 2025 and with the spiritual housecleaning aspects of this 7 Universal Year, 2023 is perfectly aligned for some major clearings and endings. Suffice it to say, with the US in double 9 energy this year, much will be coming to a head for Americans.
In 2023, all kinds of truth telling will seem to go on and the fear of exposure will instigate attempts to weaponize the truth with accusations and counter punches, yet these, too, will be scrutinized. Those who try to deny, distort or otherwise embellish what is evidentially true will find their deceptive efforts backfiring as these tactics will no longer hold sway for them as in the past.
Conspiracy theories that fail to produce knowledgeable evidence will become more transparent with public exposure. Things long hidden are revealed and that which is false will not escape the scrutiny of 7 inquiry and analysis. Truth will prevail in this climate, even in the midst of shadow elements, as the essence of deeper truth coming to bear will make it increasingly difficult for those who perpetuate the false to persist.
On the sociopolitical front, there will be a laser focus on what needs closer scrutiny as we engage in assessing, refining or perfecting existing conditions. 7 demands logic, reason, intuition and a discriminating discernment in the discovery process of what is real and true and this will become evident on all fronts.
7 stands out alone as the individualist, the expert, the one that is different, the one that doesn’t run with the crowd. This year we are interested in different, specialized things, rather than the usual fare. Business as usual will be taking a back seat to exposing the untruths that have permeated sociopolitical arenas since, at least, 2017. Economic and financial concerns will get greater attention with reforms in mind.
Out With the Old, In With the Better
The 9 completion energy in the world and the United States in this 7 Universal Year all signal a cleansing or purification process. We can see this in the urgency of our current political on-goings to let go of what is no longer needed and embrace higher principles or an order of being that resonates at a higher frequency in this transition to greater consciousness awareness.
Such clearings in 2023 will reveal many surprising things under the surface that can aid societal, planetary and evolutionary goals. On the material plane, the 7 archetype is expressed in all areas that rely on discernment, precision, distinction, and discrimination. In this year, past ways and means will be analyzed, leading to new, innovative discoveries in technology, science and medicine with advancement in the areas of research, education and specialized training.
The Hidden, the Veiled, the Mystery of Life
The number 7 is first and foremost spiritual in nature and stands to uphold the qualities of excellence, purity and truth in love and life. 7 represents mystery, the hidden, unseen realms, and we can expect the unexpected, as well as some surprise endings in this year. Exploration into metaphysics, parapsychology and consciousness, especially in the fields of UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence, will lead to greater public exposure and demands for answers, as well as gain wider acceptance through increasing experience and knowledge. Revealing vs normalizing will be in high demand.
7 enhances perceptive abilities to see beneath the surface of things. Through an increased sensitivity to higher principles, the ability to discern between true and false increases as the truth becomes more available. Deception, therefore, becomes more transparent in a 7 year and we want to know the truth because we sense we are closer to it. We want to understand because we can see more clearly and feel it brings us closer to what is real and at essence in humanity.
7 Seeks knowledge above all else, yet its mystical nature finds something of the soul in all things. It is a lucky number when drawing upon its inner force of wisdom and intuitive guidance that leads to knowledge and skill.
7 is the educator of world. May its luck shine upon us. May we gain a greater understanding of the higher principles of being in this 7 year and endeavor to live by them.
We are most assuredly in a period of reform in both the world and the US. This is good news in this spiritual housecleaning year for what is to come. In the still moments of our deepest thoughts, in times of inner and outer conflict, what we value most in life comes into sharper view. We may be touched by the sacredness of life as we ponder what we are learning from experience and secretly vow to do better, to be better.
Candice Powers, Numerologist
2023