2010, A Universal Three Year
A Numerology Perspective
Don’t Worry, Be Happy… It’s the Integration of Dark to Light
The movement of cycles. A New millennium, a new decade, a new year. It’s a different world we find ourselves in since crossing the threshold into a new thousand year cycle intended for peace and integration. There have been seminal events that have rocked our world in shocking and inspiring ways. The journey so far has been frightening and polarizing, as well as hopeful and mobilizing. We have seen what’s been perceived as extreme darkness in recent times that seemed destined to overshadow the brightest light, but we are reminded this year that the darker the shadow the greater the light; that though the darkness may seem great, it is merely the absence of light and has no real substance of it’s own. In other words, if we are more aware of the darkness around us, it is because the light has increased, and continues to increase in keeping with the millennial shift.
2010 in a New Cycle of Change
We live in a world of cyclical movement and growth. There are seasonal cycles, ecological and biological, astronomical and calendrical cycles etc., as well as personal and universal cycles of human development. On a universal level, in numerology terms, the human cycle is a cycle of Nine, as in the nine month cycle in the womb from creation to full term, and human life moves in nine year cycles that define our experiences in the world. Whatever begins or initiates the new cycle in the first year is carried through the entire cycle to completion in the Nine (ninth) year, after which a new cycle begins again with a One (first) year.
Though 2010 marks the beginning of a new decade based on the calendar cycle of ten, 2008 marked a new, universal nine year cycle, based on the human cycle of nine, with the beginning vibration of the number One (2+0+0+8 = 10, 1+0 = 1). This was followed by 2009, the second in the cycle and therefore a Two year (2+0+0+9 = 11, 1+1 = 2) of relational development.
2010 is a universal Three year (2+0+1+0 = 3), and three represents self improvement in every way, on individual and collective levels. It is an open invitation to play, to indulge in our dreams and our imagination, to strive for achievement on a grand scale that reflects our personal and universal best self-image. As the child of that which was seeded in the One year, 2008, and nurtured and cultivated in the Two year, 2009, Three can be the best of both worlds. The child metaphor speaks to us about authentic, creative self-expression; of spontaneity, enthusiasm, optimism and joy. However, Three naturally includes the opposite qualities of deceitful, contracted self-centeredness, scattered energy and extravagance; impulsive anxiety, pessimism and worry, which also have room to manifest.
Looking back, just through the 1900’s in America, every universal Three year in each decade of that century brought either changes intended to improve, or awareness to the need for improvement, some more terrific than others. These included the formation of the League of Women Voters in 1920, the stock market crash in 1929, the formation of Departments of the Army, Air Force, CIA, and the Department of Defense in 1947, the signing of the voting rights act by LBJ, in answer to Martin Luther King’s drive to register Black voters in 1965, and Reagan introduced the Star Wars Missile Defense Plan in the same Three year that light flashes were seen on Jupiter’s moon, IO in 1983. There were many artistic high points in these and other Three years in that century as well, in keeping with the creative self-expression theme. After the turn of the century, however, our world became more complicated in new ways, calling for new attitudes and understanding.
The Shift to the New World of Integration
In the year 2000, we shifted from a millennium in which every year date began with the number One, which is the masculine number of independence and individuality, of assertive forward movement with self-determination and force, to a new millennium in which every year date now begins with the number Two, which is feminine. This means that while the masculine number One has been the dominant energy for the past thousand year reign, now the feminine number Two, which is the number of receptivity, cooperation, relationship and peace through integration, has begun its millennial ascent as the energy that reigns supreme.
Two, in the positive, represents the integration of opposites for a peaceful union through cooperative relationship with spiritual awareness. It is the light of reflection for the mirror, integrating the spiritual with the material, as in heaven on earth. In the negative, Two is the opposite of all the above, bringing division, inertia, polarity, indecisiveness, insecurity and fear.
However, because Two is now the dominant energy, we can better see our choices in a clearer light, if we are willing to look, as compared to the more often tunnel vision of the past paradigm.
At the same time, it took a decade of being introduced to the concept of change for peace, which began with the larger millennial cycle shift from the masculine 1 to the feminine 2 and included the beginnings of the destruction of the old paradigm, to gain a better understanding of what we were up against.
The Wake-up Call for Americans
1999 was the year of Y2K and global fear around the potential chaos resulting from the crash of our computer networks, which enlisted some the best computer brains in the world in a race against time to prevent. When the date turned on New Year’s Eve, the dreaded event did not occur, but with the most prevalent collective intention for safety, security and survival already set in that beginning year, through a fear of the unknown, every year after in that 1999 cycle offered the opportunity to fulfill that intention, based in the same fear. Earlier in the old paradigm, we would have had our wars and gone on to other cycles of that ilk as we have done for centuries. However, as 1999 was at the very end of the millennium, the second year in that cycle was not just a Two year, but the year of the larger cycle of a millennial shift, which added a second, more significant new beginning in the year 2000 that also continued through the decade on top of that nine year cycle.
This universal Three year, 2010, is the second Three year since the beginning of the millennium. The first Three year of the new millennium, 2001 (2+0+0+1 = 3), was the third year in the nine year cycle that began in 1999, and happened so soon after the millennial shift that we were not prepared to so soon step into the light that 2000 initiated. The events of 2001 therefore served as a wake-up call that shook us out of our deep sleep toward a new way of being.
Like hornets, whose nest has been disturbed, people in America were sent scurrying about, hyper alert to the potential ‘danger’ of… change. Of course, numerology, and history, show that America’s name is change with a destiny number of 5, which brings freedom and progress through change. The aftermath of the events in 2001 showed a combination of the desire for improvement, along the lines of our 1999 cycle intent for security, and the shift to 2000, which began to shine a light on the irrational fear going on underneath.
As an example of how this has played out, politically, for the United States, 2008 started the current nine year cycle with a new democratic administration, ushered in by the election of a new, and first ever African American President, Barack Obama. His campaign ran in 2008 on an ideology of hope and change that promised a new era for the US and the world, and his election by a majority of the people that year established the intent of the same for the new cycle.
With the intention for a new, inclusive freedom through more responsible changes set, the die was cast for the rest of the cycle, and as for every nine year cycle, each year would be instrumental in fulfilling that intention. We were inspired with the voice of hope in 2008 to make the changes that would benefit the lives of all people, rather than the wealthy few whose positions and status had been acquired by dark means. We initiated the call to change in 2008, and in 2009 we began the process of ferreting out that which needed changing.
We are being asked this year to summon and sustain our ‘Jedi’ warrior awareness with the ‘force’ of impeccable goodness as our source of power for self improvement at home and in the world. We are being asked again to ready our inner lightsabers against the darkness in ourselves, but this time with a compassion and understanding through self-acceptance that allows us to integrate and move on, rather than staying in the old paradigm of defensive self-judgment that keeps us in the struggle with little, if any, real progress.
The outpouring of the majority millions in support and enthusiasm for the message of hope and change that Obama brought in 2008 was an unmistakable statement, a testimony to a world weary, yet optimistic call for the emergence of light deep in the heart of Americans too long overshadowed by darkness. However, as Obama repeatedly said he could not achieve his goal of new freedom for our country by himself, this year we are being called to bring more than discontent and dissent, on any level, to the effort.
The intention for hope and change gets a chance for moving forward in 2010 through everything having to do with self-improvement, creative self expression and our ability to see aspects of ourselves that we’ve judged in others and have a good laugh at our foolishness. With a sincere desire for constructive change, the use of our imagination and positive effort to acknowledge our urge and ability to stand in authentic joy for our highest expression, Americans, as well as all people, can make this a better year by facing full on that which needs improvement in themselves, as much as in their country, and putting the focus on what is good in the world.
Barack Obama’s birthday (8-4-1961) adds up to 11-2 (8+4+1+9+6+1 = 29, 2+9 = 11, 1+1 = 2) a visionary, master number of the integration of spiritual and material qualities. Obama tried to integrate the country in the White House to bring about change, during 2009, which was an 11-2 year (2+0+0+9 = 11, 1+1 = 2), but mostly succeeded in creating distrust on one side and more greed on the other and polarizing the country. As a result, perhaps because too many of us were not individually integrated, we became fearful, angry and resistant to the changes that were trying to happen, but of course you cannot change the dark with more darkness!
However, because 2009 was an 11-2 year, the shadow side of integration that was the division we experienced in 2009 did serve to illuminate our differences more clearly and bring to light that which we do, and do not, want in our society and in our lives. It exposed the darkness in our country, bringing greater awareness of the inequities and the resulting injustices we disdain.
Because Two is about relationship, it is also reflective, seeing itself as, or opposed to, the other. In the past decade, since entering the 2000 millennium, we have been made more aware of our relationship with the rest of the world, in part as a result of the events on 9-11 in 2001. With adequate self-awareness, that which needs improving is more obvious, but when the conscious self, individually and collectively, is more or less asleep, the sub and/or uber consciousness, most specifically in the Three year of a cycle, commensurate with the level of denial, will devise undeniable, if tragic ways to bring what needs improving to light. Though it served as America’s wake-up call, judging from the aftermath, it would seem that the uber/super conscious 2001 push for improvement was global in origin.
This new cycle and this new decade represent the opportunity for the integration of our spiritual and material selves in which we can make clearer, conscious, life changing choices, individually, through the challenge of improving our ability to express ourselves authentically in responsible, co-creative ways collectively with the rest of the world.
Gandhi said be the change you wish to see. Do you want to see change in the world? This year, after a decade of seeing what no longer works in our external world, all people on the planet have the opportunity to now bring the tremendous power of light and joy, deeply inherent in each of us, to the world in a conscious, embodied way, to bring our light to bear on everything we do and say, for real change from within that, as co-creators, we can see manifest in our external experiences.
The difference between this and attempting to “think positive,” as in the old paradigm, is that this 2000 millennium also means integration between our head and heart. In this new paradigm, we are learning to embody our intentions through inspired action that resonates in the body with those intentions. Unlike the separation of body and mind in the old paradigm, this integration is the unmistakable connection between body and mind.
The new opportunity for all in the world is for greater awareness and actualization of the light beings that we are, not by rejecting the parts in us that we perceive as dark, but by accepting what is present in us without judgment as an aid for continuous awakening and integrated, embodied action in the world. What we perceive as our previous mistakes can be seen as messages from the past that now serve a more aware present and an enlightened future.
If we own the negativity and fear within us in our fight for a better life, and consciously choose to focus our energy in the direction we wish to go by embracing the power of goodness, light and joy we know also exists within each of us, and in the world around us, the struggle becomes less of a fight and more of a transitional balancing as we integrate the dark into light.
Closing Thoughts
In other Three years, we went to self-improvement seminars to have questions like “What is it that inspires you?” “What is it that gets you fired up with enthusiasm?” “What makes your heart sing?” answered by solutions like “Follow your bliss,” “find your joy,” and “live your dream,” as these are the personal dictates of a typical Three year in your typical nine year cycle.
However, this nine year cycle and this Three year, because they exist within a new millennium, call us to integrate the personal with the universal or collective, to transcend the personal choices made in past cycles, to catch up with the higher frequencies of these accelerated times. The stakes are now higher in that regard, with the need for better, more refined, self-responsible choices based on impeccable self-awareness and impeccable self-love, with self acceptance for and integration of the dark and light within us. These are the strengths of our humanity and our way to the joy of authentic, creative self-expression that sees and recognizes the same as the humanity in others.
In this year of the child, as we become more aware of the light in and around us by opening ourselves to be inspired, and inspiring others, we reflect the emerging light of this planet for constructive change by being co-creative with the needs of the planet toward a healthy, co-creative freedom for all on the earth. We are reminded this year, in this new millennium of light, that our light, like the sun, is a true source of power and inspiration, and that it is within and available to one and all.
Yours in the Service of Joy,
Candice Powers
December 1, 2009