It's been 7 years since I last posted! This goes to show that the '7 year itch' is not a myth......
Serendipitously, it's my 'Lover's Year' (VI) again in tarot numerology, as I've been fortuitously led to post again on one of the most significant numerology years of my life cycle. In my last Lover's Year 9 years ago in 2013, I was making important relationship choices, exploring unconventional routes, and making huge career breakthroughs. Will my Lover's Year of 2022 be the same?
Nine years later, I've since been happily married with an adorable son. Suffice it to say that I don't have the same type of relationship choices to make as in my dating years. I've also retired from teaching, so there are no more boundaries to cross and stuffy, insidious balls to break 😝. However, I have embarked on a brand-new endeavour: novel writing! As I've grown tired of academic writing that hardly escapes the ivory tower and never reaches the readership of which it studies - a sad and ironical fact. I'm therefore determined to take my work unto a completely different level where it can reach mass, unprecedented audiences and make a profound difference in society. It's high time I pay homage to my writer heroes Jane Austen and J.K. Rowling, and hopefully follow in the footsteps of John Grisham and Dan Brown who have successfully fused professional knowledge with entertainment value and literary pizazz!
Lover's Year is also about relating to people in every sense. Ever since the year began, I have been feeling nostalgic about memories with family members, which resulted in my compulsive construction of family albums that documented weddings, family trips, graduations and births and what not, in hopes to preserve these cherished memories. I even found myself tearing up while watching The Sound of Music with my son, as I reminisced about my own childhood days watching it with my own parents. To be able to share one's beloved childhood songs, books and movies with one's own offspring is a most divine blessing. 🙏
The formidable and inexorable Covid-19 pandemic also served to heighten one's sense of family and relationality. What with the social distancing rules and threats of lockdown to occur at any time, families in the same city can rarely see each other for fear of cross-contamination. This makes us seriously question our commitment to family; whether we are doing enough for aged parents. What happens if we don't get to see them again during these turbulent times? It's sad enough that thousands of old people have died an earlier than expected death after contracting the deadly virus......shouldn't we cherish what we have before it's too late?
I sincerely hope that in my last Lover's Year of my life cycle - ( yes, there comes a time for each numerological year to end after several occurrences, eg: it was my last Hierophant Year (V) in 2012 - hence marks the end of my era of teaching and conventional constraints after 2021.) - I can come away with the lessons I'm supposed to learn about love and commitment, and achieve my own great personal breakthrough.
It's also worth mentioning that with the disappearance of one numerology year comes a brand new one at the end of one's 9-year cycle. In my case, last year I experienced for the first time the Temperance Year (XIV) which was all about healing and purging of bodily ailments. Sure enough, my whole last year was spent visiting doctors, going for both alternative and conventional treatments, and trying to balance mind, body and spirit. I hope I did achieve what was meant to and that I have come out of it a healthier and more wholesome person. So this year, I hope I can achieve all of my family goals and to go where no academic has gone before: the magical world of fiction.
