The Power of 7 & 2023 Glance Ahead
- Shaunie the Sage
- Jan 4, 2023
- 12 min read
2023 is a 7 year and thus we must consider the symbolism that comes with the number 7. The seventh path combines our intellect with faith, passion, and emotion in order to breed intelligence. It is here that we become firm in our boundaries, clear in our assessment, and wise in action. We embrace the lasting endurance of god and learn to embody our faith. 7 brings cleansing, changes, and closure. Here we free ourselves from the cycles no longer serving us and find balance in the stillness. 7 is a process and it comes with rest, but we also have some responsibilities that comes with this energy.
Lets take for example the 7s in tarot first from the major arcana we have the chariot. She is our vehicle of change and forward movement from the heart, she carries us forward with compassion, integrity, and wisdom. Next, the 7 of cups which speaks to illusory success and the need for assessment. The 7 of wands which brings courage ,drive, risk, truth, and challenge along for the ride pushes us towards self assertion and power. The 7 of cups reminds us that we cant run away aimlessly and impulsively for too long and forces us to assess ourselves, recognize our intentions, accept our shadows, and acknowledge the emotional blocks that have prevented action. We move to the 7 of swords and the deception that lives in our fears is revealed. We begin to understand that our fears have little to do with reality and we decide to master all the skills and means necessary to achieve what we long most deeply for. It is here that you observe yourself and how you have limited your path and you move between the observer and the observed. Lastly we move to the 7 of pentacles here we decide what to take seriously, temper our expectations and embrace quality and patience over excess and instant gratification. We understand and embrace the idea that we cannot pray and worry simultaneously. With worry and attachment our prayers are futile. We must simply do the work, align, and rest in truth and connection to the divine.
Seven is a very spiritual number it brings mysticism, wisdom, success, rest, rejuvenation, and balance. God made the world in six days and rested on the seventh. The 7 turns its back on the upcoming numbers, if does not start the heavy work of the 8. It looks back in retrospect on all the lessons it has learned in 1 through 6, or to reflect on work well done, just as God looked at His creation and saw that it was very good. We were told to do likewise. We were told to keep the Sabbath holy, meaning that it has spiritual and moral worth. By resting in 7 we build up our energy for the work we do in 8. The 8 has physical stamina, good health due to proper rest on the seventh. Here in 7 we find faith, we deepen our intuition, we open to love, compassion, dreams, and spiritual solace.
7 Affirmations to Keep
Everything that happens in my life serves me for the best
As I recognize & accept my shadows they lose their power
I express my own reality openly and honesty
I master all the skills and means needed to achieve that which I long for
I am putting my life in order and preparing for new beginnings
I lower my mask and stand in the full expression of my authentic truth. I will not sacrifice myself to make others comfortable
I move forward, even with uncertainty and fear I follow my heart and speak my truth
7 Questions to Consider
What areas of your life worry you the most and what can you do to alleviate some of that stress?
How have you sacrificed or changes yourself because of others?
Is there some disappointment that you have avoided working out?
Are you ready to face the consequences that come along with the liberation and abundance you seek? Why not if the answer is no and how so if the answer is yes
In what areas of your life do you diminish yourself with constricting beliefs and self imposed limitations?
How can you better prepare to detach from the old and welcome or embrace the new?
What truth can you confidently and comfortably rest in as we move into this new year?
*Join the moonchild tribe by subscribing to glow up goddess, moonlit magic, or illuminate inception on my website and let me help guide you and hold you accountable for your growth, awareness, forward movement, and change. This year we will be focused primarily on shadow integration, clarity, maintaining peace and health, building our esoteric and astrological knowledge, and money manifestation. I will be expounding on and the highlighting 7 habits below in order to accomplish this as we move through the year.
7 Habits for 2023
Reading is Fundamental-Reading helps get you out of your head, it is meditative, influential, and enriching. We often times don’t even realize some of the cognitive function that slips away from us when we don’t read. This year we understand that all is mental on a deep level and we commit to reading in order to activate and expand our minds. We will commit to reading 2 books a month. We start the first quarter of the year off with self development and release and the remaining quarters with one book for personal development and one book for pleasure each month. I have created two booklists one of fiction titles and one of nonfiction that I will be choosing books from. Simply access the corresponding blogs to view lists.
Intentional Physical Movement & Eating - Your body is the temple of God and you must honor it as such. This being such a spiritual year we need to focus on cleansing, repentance, endurance, and renewal of the body as we nurture our minds. That being said, regular fitness, clean eating, and fasting will be an integral practice for my tribe and I in 2023. I will be regularly sharing my workouts, fasting during the month while the moon is in my sun sign, and doing quarterly detoxes. I hope you all will join me.
Meditation-Meditation is a key practice in remaining centered, balanced, and clear it doesn’t need to mirror the monks of Tibet, but we do need to be able to invoke the stillness and unity when we need it. In 2021 I became certified as a meditation teacher and began incorporating meditation and reiki into my practice. I have found that it really adds the extra edge needed in order to create lasting transformation and breakthroughs. That said we will be incorporating various forms of meditation, mindfulness practices, breathwork, and the principles of yoga into many of the group challenges, rituals, and one on one work that we do.
Alchemical Journaling and Scripting- Alchemical journaling can be described as using your notebook as a magic wand. It is here that you will identify, track, and flow in your word. In order for this to work, you need to make a promise to yourself to keep it consistent. In the morning you need to write down what you can recall from your dreams, you need to note the astrological weather, what are the sun and moon doing, then you need to ask yourself what the day will bring and do some divination or scripting. Once that is done you need to write out your three most important intentions of the day and give yourself a timed deadline to complete them by. Once that is done, you go about your day as normal. At the end of the night, you need to note your progress with your intentions, rhymes you noticed with the astrology of the day, your most profound experience of the day, and what you intend to do better in order to move towards your aims tomorrow. When you fail to keep up with your journaling you need to perform a renewal of your word ritual. This ritual will be detailed within the moonchild tribe content.
Astrological Awareness- As above so below babes. Start paying attention to your personal transits as well as the general activities of the celestial bodies. Know what is in season for you. Are you in a 12th house season or third house season, are you in Saturn return, is it your lunar return, what aspects will influence this year of your solar return. What planets are in retrograde, what are the sun and moon doing. Be aware of the planetary influences and learn to harness the powers necessary to facilitate real growth. In order to help my tribe of supporters with this I will be dropping monthly astrology newsletter with transits and tarot, as well as bringing back my new and full moon offerings on a 1 on 1 basis and also continuing them on a group level. I also do offer several astrological readings to help with the decoding, understanding and breakdown of your natal chart, transits, aspects, and progressions.
Daily/monthly Psalms magic- Psalms is a book of spells that can be used all on its own for initiation, invocation, interference, intercedence, and magic. That said I am getting back deeply into the regular practice of psalms, teaching the art of psalms magic, and breaking down a few psalms I have chosen to work with for this year. I hope you all will join me. I like to just use my bible and a few references, but you could also use psalm specific books. One of my favorites is Power of The Psalms by Anna Riva.
Create more Consume less- As we clear our minds, cleanse our bodies, center ourselves, and enhance our knowledge we need or get out of the loop of consumption. I know more I want more, I buy more, I have more. In this state of more, more, more, we forget to rest. We give away some of our power and this year we are not doing that. We are calling back our power all 2023. What's for us is for us all 2023 and we aren't talking, procrastinating, or overspending our ways out of it. . Everything we want is already ours and we rest in that belief all 2023. That said we re creating more and consuming less. We are creating more flow and alignment, consuming less fluff; we are creating better diets and consuming les junk, we are being the changes we want. To see in our relationships and consuming less productive perspectives about things that are outside of our control. We are creating most of our own spiritual tools, rituals, and invocations, consuming less product because at the end of the day quality and intention matter most. We are learning how to cook, and or grow our own nutritious foods and consuming less of what is killing us. Overall we are making a commitment to ourselves in 2023 to create more and consume less. Some of this may look different for each of us, but e are starting the year off with this pact in tact.
Astrological Transits to Note
3/8 Saturn shifts to Pisces- Saturn in Pisces brings balance, compassion, insight, intimacy, and depth. It is here that we get a bit of a break from the harsh whip and steady grind culture of Saturn. This energy gives us a chance to bring our dreams which have been supported by Neptune in Pisces into a reality with discipline, strategy, and compassion. Although Neptune and Saturn wont be forming a conjunction quite yet, they are getting better acquainted for compromise. With this transit we get clarity, vision, closure, and completion to things we have been working on for a very long time. The most important thing to remember is lead with kindness and compassion, temper your judgements, and avoid thinking you are better than the underdog. Saturn in Pisces is underdog season and you don't want to out yourself into a position to eat your own words. When you catch yourself projecting your insecurities onto others redirect that energy with love, patience, understanding, and devotion and you will find that Saturn rewards you well. Advancement opportunities will arise for Taurus and Capricorns, rewards are likely to be revealed for Cancer and Scorpio, and challenges are likely to come up for mutable signs Sag, Virgo, Pisces, and Gemini.
3/28 Pluto moves to Aquarius -Pluto only changes signs about every 20 years so this is the most important transit of the year. As it changes signs it activates a new part of your chart which shifts the direction or trajectory of your life. In 2023 Pluto will only spend 3 months in Aquarius and this will give you a nice preview into what is to come over this next 20 year cycle. Here we find ourselves fighting for freedom, civil liberty, independence, and authenticity. After the rigidity of Pluto in Capricorn it is time to deconstruct, reinvent, and redirect. This energy forces transformation, and may cause destruction for the sake of detachment and rebuilding. We will see a lot of the negative aspects of technology, AI, and outsourcing will be exposed. Buckle up, the ride will be interesting, but quite bumpy nonetheless. Fixed signs may find profound revelation, and jolting reality checks during this time. Gemini and Libra are likely to feel innovative, empowered, and embolden; Aries and Sags will learn deep lessons and find profound insights under this influence. Take a look at your transits and find out which house Pluto will be illuminating in your chart so you know which area of life will likely be most directly effected. Pluto's greatest strength is shadow integration. You cant run or hide from your shadows so you might as well embrace them.
4/20 Solar Eclipse in Aries breaking free from the past and starting anew
5/5 Lunar Eclipse in Scorpio Clarity is key, choose your battles wisely and decide what is truly important for you
5/16 Jupiter enters Taurus- This energy will bring focus to financial solutions, economic growth, a push into change and completion, and a pull into the unknown. Our overall urge to grow, explore, find meaning, and security will be awakened. We need to remember under this influence to remain open minded, teachable, and open to change. This is a great time to expand your knowledge , start practicing on your green thumb, spend time in nature, and confront the urge to change and grow on a material level. Check your chart and see which house is Taurus ruled, this area will likely be the most effected since at the start of this transit Uranus and the North node will also align in Taurus. Profound opportunities will arise for Cancer an d Pisces. Leo, Scorpio, and Aquarius need to be open to taking risks and leaning into big changes. Large reward in business, finance, or education is likely for earth signs Virgo, Taurus, and Capricorn.
7/12 Aries- Libra Eclipse Cycle begins The axis connecting the 1st and 7th houses ( Aries and Libra) is about learning life’s lessons through interpersonal relationships. The main theme here is finding balance in learning through your own experiences and learning and evolving through your interpersonal relationships. As north node moves to Aries and south node moves to libra we are asked to find balance and flow between who we are without attachment and as individuals and who we are in relationships and socially. We will see that long standing relationships that are lacking balance will finally come to an end. The lunar nodes are about direction, resolution, and rebalancing. The south node carries a karmic, past life style energy. It is the energy that we feel comfortable, confident, and familiar with however, we may have lost our way. So, instead of leading with these tendencies they become shadow traits. The transiting south node reveals the shadow work we must do as a collective in order to transcend and resolve our current issues. The North node gives us new direction, lessons, and changes to come. Here we find purpose, insight, and awareness that bridge the gap between the opposites and create the balance we need. When we think about the energy of Libra cardinal air and Aries cardinal fire they are indeed opposite. Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, it is the head, here to think for itself, declare independence, indulge in experience, lead, command, and conquer. Aries is mars ruled, ready to defend, prideful, fiery, and really is here more to explore, express, and create than to connect. Libra is sort of the middle child of the zodiac, she brings heart, balance, love, honor, righteousness, compassion, love, intimacy, and connection. Libras Venusian influence brings a softness, a need for peace, a connectivity, community, and comfort that Aries starting out does not know. As we move through this season of south node in Libra, north node in Aries we are asked to balance these opposites and understand that we need each of them in our own ways.
10/14 Solar Eclipse in Libra Resolve, revise, and restructure your relationships
10/28 Lunar Eclipse in Taurus You are in charge of your own financial future, grab the reins and take the lead
Retrogrades to Remember
Mercury Retrogrades:
12/29-18 Mercury rx in Capricorn expect setbacks and delays when it comes to work, you may find yourself clashing with authority figures, and you need to be mindful of you words and actions because its easy to cook up a blow to your reputation under this influence.
4/21-5/14 Mercury rx in Taurus likely to bring some financial upheaval and struggle
8/23-9/15 Mercury rx in Virgo lead with integrity, keep your health a top priority, and review day to day systems, routines, and technologies, make changes where necessary
12/13-12/23 Mercury rx in Cap This energy gives us the opportunity to bring some order, structure, and dominion to our thinking patterns.
12/23-1/1 Mercury rx in Sag Be careful traveling or try to stay home, expect delays embrace patience and keep your boundaries firm with your loved ones.
5/1-10/10 Pluto Retrograde in Aquarius/Cap adaptability, transformation, community, and action will be the main themes here
6/17-11/4 Saturn Retrograde in Pisces lessons surrounding time management, authority, healing past traumas, exploring your faith and getting your inner world in order will arise with this retrograde
6/30-12/6 Neptune Retrograde in Pisces introspection, escapism, and a thirst for spiritual depth will arise from this transit, be sure to give yourself a firm reality check if you need it and avoid the tendency to put on rose colored lenses and avoid conflict
7/23-9/4 Venus Retrograde in Leo the first line of defense is to check where Leo lives in your birth chart so you know where you will be most affected. This retrograde ultimately invites us to listen to our hearts openly and lean into the happiness, pride, joy, and self expression we might be avoiding or running away from. Venus retrograde in Leo forces us to ask the question am I truly happy and without compromise, guilt, or self imposed restrictions/ distractions do what needs to be done to reignite our hearts, restore our passion and inspire our vitality.
8/28-1/27 Uranus Retrograde in Taurus mindfulness, intentionality, physical self care, and a technological detox will help as we move through this energy
9/4-12/30 Jupiter Retrograde in Taurus go back to the drawing board, review your resources, create a concrete strategy and take this opportunity to slow down
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