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Life Path or Numerology: Tired of Failed New Year's Resolutions? Try This! (Originally Published 12/23/2020)
- Catherine Bott
- Dec 31, 2025
- 7 min read
Unless your birthday is in January, most likely, you have not had much success with any New Year resolutions you made to bring about some desired change. Don’t blame yourself. The reason may lie in the concept of life cycles.
Every person has their own personalized life cycle. A life cycle begins with the day of one’s birth. Making a “New Year” resolution in the middle of one’s life cycle, i.e., January 1, only confuses one’s biorhythmic patterns. There is quite possibly a biorhythmic reason for your January 1 resolutions falling flat!
Biorhythms are defined as a cyclical pattern that governs physical, emotional, mental and even spiritual activity. Think, for example, about your sleeping or eating biorhythms. I for one can tell you within a five-minute spread of when 12 noon rolls around because my stomach sends the rhythmic blaring message of FEED ME. It takes a couple of weeks while shifting back and forth from daylight savings time for my “lunch alarm” to adjust, but it does.
Tides are a terrific example of one of our planet’s biorhythms. Earth’s tides are a result of a rhythmic gravitational pull between the Moon and Sun. Although the tides’ highs and lows are predictable and forecasted into the future, factors such as barometric pressure and seawater temperature can have an altering effect on the water’s highs and lows. But, not the times of the tides – they are right on.
Almost all plants and mammals have “set in stone” biorhythmic movements based on the biorhythmic (and totally predictable) movement of night into day (light and darkness). The natural process that governs the 24-hour sleep cycle, known as circadian rhythms, can cause havoc to the moods and mental acuity of people who work the midnight shift or live in Alaska, where some Alaskans can experience up to 80 days with no “night” or darkness.
Just like nature’s built-in biorhythmic “urges,” there is also a nine-year “life” cycle that oversees the development of the growth stages the human spirit is designed to master. The animus behind each cycle is renewed each year on one’s own birthday. Where you are in your life cycle dictates where your next opportunity or challenge lies. If you didn’t meet the “challenge or opportunity” of the previous nine year life cycle head-on, don’t worry. The “challenge or opportunity cycle” will repeat itself from the beginning when the nine year cycle your in is finished. The challenge or opportunity will look different, set on a different stage, and will star a different cast of characters. The good news is if you didn’t “get it” the first time around, you will be presented with new opportunities to conquer the same challenge or lean into the same opportunity when the next nine-year life cycle presents itself. Again and again and again, hopefully.
Here are the nine-year life cycle encapsulated into several descriptive words.
Year
1) New Beginnings
2) Partnership/cooperation
3) Creativity, communication
4) Foundation, planning
5) Change
6) Family, friends, and gatherings
7) Philosophy, wisdom
8) Success, power
9) Completion
10) The cycle starts over.
To better understand the nine year life cycle, let’s look at the nine year life cycle from birth to nine years old.
Year
1) New beginnings (birth)
2) By year two, an infant is beginning to create partnerships with others besides Mom.
3) By year three, the infant finds creative ways to communicate to achieve his or her needs and desires.
4) By age four, the now toddler seeks to express themselves, developing an individualized foundation, which expresses as personality.
5) By age five, change reveals itself. Independence is the key word as five year olds set off for school.
6) Six-year-olds begin to make new friends, get a gist of the difference between family and friends.
7) The seven-year-old in year seven of their life has an opportunity to develop their own ideas about things. Which ultimately will result in their personalized philosophy.
8) Eight-year-old children start to see the power or success that is possible to them. To some, they take this power into bullying others. Most eight-year-olds begin to formulate skills and talents that will fuel their next nine life-year life cycle.
9) Nine is a completion number. Ask any third-grade teacher about their students, and they will tell you that third graders are mini-beings who are strongly working to finally free themselves and seek independence; babyhood is over. The next nine years gets students to 18 years of age, where new beginnings start the student’s third life cycle.
The life cycle of nine isn’t just for the human experience. It also applies to the achievement of any intention or goal. The following list closely echoes the steps to the successful production of any item, work of art, book, etc.
1) Idea
2) Educate self about the idea
3) Meet others who can support the idea
4) Channel energy into the focused idea
5) Prototype Idea
6) Refine idea
7) Mass produce idea
8) Market idea
9) Achieve reward from the completed idea
Although the result from idea to completion does not necessarily take nine years, the nine steps are necessary to get to a result. In fact, if you’re wondering why success has not occurred for you on any level, you may wish to review the nine basic steps to the completion of any project and see what step you might be missing. Each step is Soul designed by the way to also produce and hone the spiritual skills every human being needs for happiness. All desires start first with a clearly defined intention. Let’s apply the life cycle concept to an adult.
If you are 47, for example, you are in year two of your fifth life cycle. (47 ÷ 9 = 5.2) Don’t let the math lose you here.
Let’s say the 47-year-old somewhere along the way in year one of the fifth life cycle created an intention to quit smoking. A well-made intention fuels Soul who arranges people, songs, commercials, etc., to intel the “urge” to quit smoking. Now in year two of the life cycle, the 47-year-old will be provided opportunities to enlist others’ help in the quest to quit smoking. Year two of the life cycle includes friends, partnerships, etc. For those of you that never smoked, I can tell you, quitting smoking (like any addiction) can sometimes be a lifelong challenge. Friends, family etc., can certainly be helpful in any quest to quit smoking.
At 48 years of age, the third year of the fifth cycle of our subject, Soul will provide creative ways for the 48-year-old to quit smoking. Chew gum. Stop buying cigarettes. Drink more water. By 49 years of age, the fourth year of the smoker’s fifth cycle, because of a clearly defined intention, Soul will have provided a concrete foundation for the desired outcome: smoking cessation. Soul provides opportunities, we must provide the willpower.
At 50 years old (the fifth year of the fifth life cycle), the non-smoker wannabee is given the opportunity to pull up his bootstraps and make the change. The prototype needed to quit smoking will be designed and provided by Soul in accordance with the idea or intention made at the beginning of the first year of the fifth cycle. . . Quit smoking. If the 50-year-old actually quits, the blessings pour in. Family and friends embrace his success (sixth year). The final three years are the upside of his success with wisdom to help others quit; the feeling of success at the achievement of the goal and completion – case closed. No longer a smoker.
On January 1, 2021, figure out where you are in your life cycle. Take your age and divide it by nine to get where you are in the life cycle rhythm. If your age divided by nine equals 6.4, it means you are in the sixth cycle of your life, the fourth stage. A new life cycle begins every nine years, where a new opportunity or challenge is offered or birthed. Opportunity and challenge are usually coupled together. Set your phone’s calendar to remind you on your birthday to reinforce the idea or new beginning that was birthed in year one of your most recent life cycle. Until the life pattern one is seeking to change (quit smoking, have compassion, develop your intuition, expand love, write a book, paint a picture, commit in a relationship, develop your spiritual nature, clean up your finances, develop creativity, reconnect with friends and family, get centered, use your talents, to name a few) actually takes place, the same opportunity will present itself with different circumstances over and over. You cannot hide from your life path. We are all born with a life mission(s). There are no shortcuts.
Listen to your heart’s yearning and make a resolution to apply the energy of your life cycle patterns to get the desired result. Nine years might seem like a long time for an idea to fully manifest, but that is the biorhythm of life – it can’t be altered.
Happy Birth Day!
Affirmation: I fully adapt to my individualized life cycle.
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