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May 2025 | The 9 Year, 5 Month

May 01, 2025

Wondering what this numerology stuff is all about? Read about it here.

I don’t need to be a numerologist to identify that many of us are experiencing a lot of frustrations right now.

After a month of chopping wood, it can be easy to lose patience and struggle with maintaining the status quo. This brings us to May, a 5 month, which I have good news and bad news about.

The good news: Five always means change. Expect a shake up.

The bad news: The change might give us whiplash.

Some corporate humor to get you through your work day.

In this 9 year of endings, the 5 arrives, and with it the desire to burn everything to the ground. This is a fiery month. Ideally, we see corrupt institutions fail, a new paradigm born in the ashes of what was. As a 5 Life Path myself, I’ve come to witness the rule of thumb on the marketplace planet regarding change, which is that whatever needs to change remains the same, and whatever should remain the same is altered. I would like to see this flip, to see real metamorphosis, but I understand this is a lot to ask for in the loony bin of this planet. Unfortunately, it’s looking more and more like the chaos will be inflicted on the working class and regular people with confidence in our access to every day goods dwindling, when the receiving end of this corruption should be turned the other way around.

All things aside, the 9 year is strange, it’s potent, and with the transformative power of the 5 vibration, I am expecting some kind of shift.

The shift, whether this happens as a result of external events or our internal state (these are intertwined, no?), will have something to do with the past. This is old patterns surfacing to be dealt with, ghosts that challenge the choices we’ve made and the world we’ve created for ourselves.

Fire is cleansing, and although it can be hard to navigate, I prefer the chaos than to being stuck.

Some friendly general reminders:

Humor is an essential coping mechanism.
Giving up on things that are doing more harm than good is not a failure.
Wake up every day and repeat after me- “fuck it.”

We can’t change anything until we let go of the paradigm that created our current circumstance. This is met with resistance, as many are still very much asleep, unwilling to accept that learning is unlearning.

To accompany this month’s fiery push for change, I’ve made Stick Up by grandson the theme song for May.

I confess, I have not been to a recent protest yet. This is largely because at this point, there is not a peaceful cell left in my body, and that is not the energy you bring to a peaceful protest. This is where I have some more bad news (sorry) speaking on the past.

Historically, fascism has never been overcome peacefully. Fascism was never conquered by people coming together and saying “Pretty please, can I have my basic human rights? Pretty please, don’t send me to the Salvadoran concentration camp Mr. Policeman sir.”

HELL no.

Fascism has only ever been handled with forceful removal, refusal to cooperate with corruption, with global unification for human rights, and unfortunately it has never been completely purged. If it were, we would not be dealing with this today. The transformation first begins internally, at the source, and is followed by a collective reckoning that sees to the forceful removal of tyranny. My biggest fear is in fact not tyranny, it’s in passive Americans, passive humans, unwilling to acknowledge their responsibility to one another and the actions they will need to take to fight for our lives.

If any of this resonates with you and you find yourself weighed down by the lack of change in our society, I recommend working with the Hindu goddess Kali. She is the destroyer of illusions, goddess of time, destruction and creation (why I associate her with fire). She appears menacing, but is ultimately compassionate in her power to clear the way for our highest good. Kali is only inflammatory to those who are unwilling to let go of their illusions, of their egoic pursuits. Kali is scary to those who are unwilling to wake up to the reality we are facing, who are going against change. Simultaneously, she serves as an empowering and healing salve for the rest of us who recognize the profound fundamental reconstruction that needs to happen.