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September 2, 2025
September 2025: Reports From the Field
Welcome to September, the ninth month of our overall nine year. We’ve made it to an ending within another ending—a Matryoshka doll of grief, glory, and goodbyes.
Nine is the Ending and the All. It’s the culmination of what we’ve been working on! It’s the loss of that which we’re not truly ready to give up. It’s the opportunity to compost that which we are. It’s a mental energy that encompasses knowing everything and nothing. It’s experience and evolution. It’s learning, it’s community, and of course, it's the four words I explored at the top of the year: Humanity, Service, Solitude and Completion.
This month is also eclipse season, which can be a cosmic chiropractor, popping things back into alignment and place, as well as the Jewish month of Elul, “which [writer ] ha[s] always found a potent portal for inquiry and transformation, as it marks the beginning of teshuvah season. Often translated as repentance, the concept is really more about (re)turning to oneself.”1
Whatever happens, I wonder who we are now when compared to the beginning of the year, and who we’ll be when September reaches it’s cosmic conclusion.
ICYMI:📝: There are FOUR SPOTS LEFT for September’s Written Reading: Three Months of Magic! — Delivered on the Fall Equinox, this cosmic kit will provide you with personalized practices (magical and mundane) for each remaining month of 2025 (October, November, and December) by weaving your personal Holy Trinity (Life Path, Public Persona, and Yearly Cycle Numbers) with monthly numbers, the sabbats Samhain and Yule/the Winter Solstice, and more! $145, or $155 with audio recording. Book by replying to this email or send me a message at beescolnick@pm.me.
🎥: Snag an Asynch Video Reading from me on Moonlight — These readings have been so fun to do lately, and from what clients have shared, they’ve also been “shockingly accurate” and “just what I needed to hear.” $25 for 15 minutes!
🛞: Call Your Coven is a whole year old! September 2025: Big Wheel Energy — Eclipse season cometh. Cycles end. Focus narrows. Fall arrives here in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it a much-needed cool-down. Conserve your energy and take a nap.
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a photo from my sacred space / my sewing and correspondence cornerSeptember 2025: Reports From the FieldFor a person who’s always watching a true crime documentary, I sure have been mainlining them. Just this last week alone, I watched the entirety of the Homicide: New York and Homicide: Los Angeles series (Netflix; Dick Wolf loves cops), Unknown Number: The High School Catfish (Netflix; A must watch!), the final installment of The Yogurt Shop Murders (HBO; very slow and sad), and Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story (Netflix; Woah, baby!).
What’s stuck with me throughout my latest binge is just how long it takes for some cases to reach a conviction or conclusion, with others remain cold and unsolved to this day. I’ve been struck by the families of the victims—the survivors—who witness the investigation, and in some cases the eventual trial(s), and how they recount feeling after the killer, who changed their life forever, and took away their loved one(s), was put behind bars—it’s over, but it will never truly end. Nothing can bring back their beloveds, and those are wounds that remain.
Reaching an “ending” inside of a larger, ongoing story is a complicated experience, one that I’m going with myself as I have finished my chemotherapy treatments, had my portecather removed, and am now allowing my body to recover as much as possible before my October scans. But even though I’m “done,” I’m still staring down the barrel of a lifetime of being a chronically ill survivor, of watching and waiting, and of hoping my rare cancer (that’s more straightforward to treat, but has a higher rate of reoccurence) doesn’t come back.
These kinds of complicated culminations call for ritual. Acknowledgement and witnessing. They call for mundanity and magic; a weaving of what is sacred with what is senseless. Something to create satisfaction, and then ways to repeatedly touch in with that feeling. Because the truth is, we don’t get breaks. This too shall pass. Life goes on. It’s not over until it’s over… and even then, endings are simply beginnings. Even great things, like vacations or getting your dream job can be stressful. Rarely do we get big, extended blocks of bliss.
It has to be more succint and intentional.
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In Pleasure Activisim: The Politics of Feeling Good (which we’re reading through the end of September in The Soup™ Discord server), writer and gatherer adrienne maree brown shares that a core question that shapes her work is: "What would I be doing with my time and energy if I made decisions based on a feeling of deep, erotic, orgasmic yes?" The idea behind it is: If every single moment that can be pleasureable/joyful/full of erotic satisfaction is, then the ones that aren’t fall into a cushioned mass of comfort. The bad is never going to turn good, but we can power through. We can take them both. We can handle it All.
We just have to think small , and we have to move slowly .
Speed can also create and derail pleasure. It can both amplify and subdue pain. Conceptually, speed is also connected to our understanding and experience of time, and both my life and learning the accounts of others have taught me that in addition to “things tak[ing] the time they take” (a wise reminder from my friend and Coven co-host ), everything also takes a hell of a lot longer than we could ever imagine. Life is about survival, yes, but also about sustenance.
However, this unhurried pace can also be relaxing, pleasureable, and downright liberating. It can remind us of progress made in the dark, and the accumulation of day-in-day-out evolutions. Leah Sottile speaks on this in her book Blazing Eye Sees All: Love Has Won, False Prophets, and the Fever Dream of the American New Age (deeply enjoyed, highly recommend, and is quoted!), saying, “When you understand how the Earth operates and get an appreciating for the slow burn of geologic time, everything changes. This place is always moving. We are always moving. All of this is inevitable.”
This month, take things slow and steady. Fill your time with things you want to do. Engage with your own endings. Take notes on your journey. Learn about the lives of others, and glean whatever wisdom strikes your fancy. Finish what you can. Ritualize what you want. Be with what is . Dream for what could be . When in doubt, be of service. When falling into the trap of comparison, keep your eyes on your own paper. Wrap things up. Be courageous. Next month, we start again.
NOTABLE NUMEROLOGY IN SEPTEMBER
Photo by Raphael Schaller on UnsplashFULL MOON LUNAR ECLIPSE IN PISCES
09/07/2025
9+7+2+0+2+5 = 25/7
On the new moon in Virgo in at the end of August, I wrote “This is a moment to breathe, it’s a chance to reflect, and also a time to reset, and a space to relax.” Now, here, at the beginning of eclipse season, if there’s any action to take, it’s around what still feels uneasy, unclear or uncomfortable. We may not solve any big problems—in fact, we’re probably better off giving it up to the gods—but we can start to ask better questions and identify our options. Be aware, sometimes this tension is more frustrating than erotic. Magic is mostly mystery. Lean in.
NINE NINE NINE
09/09/2025
9+9+2+0+2+5 = 27/9
In some ways, we’ve been waiting for this day all year. This is a great day for intentional actions around endings and celebrations. Plan your cord cutting rituals accordingly! Have a dinner party with your nearest and dearest and toast to the future! Volunteer at a community kitchen! Give yourself a pat on the back! This is also a great day for wisdom work, like reflection, learning, integrating and planning. If you’re unsure how to prepare, start by asking what needs wrapping up? Or revisit Welcome to 2025, a Nine Collective Year. And, hey. Let me be the first to say, “Congratulations, honey. You did it.”
NEW MOON SOLAR ECLIPSE IN VIRGO
09/21/2025
9+2+1+2+0+2+5 = 21/3
While new moons typically signal the beginning of a cycle, this solar eclipse in Virgo is helping us to get clear on what’s truly coming to both a climax and a resolution. Spend the day being honest and clear with yourself, and those around you. Write in your journal, record yourself a voice note, have a conversation with a friend—however you want to express yourself and your present moment. Reflect and witness the whole of your life, your decade, your year, your month. Then, do something that feels good and allows you to lay some things to rest. Deep breaths, babe, and know you are always right on time.
I would love to hear from you! Sending you rest, blessings and love in September.
Until next time, just keep swimming!xx, bee1
Archive FeverdreamSelf-Accountability and the Eight of Swords ImpulseI’m highly susceptible to a behavioral pattern or tendency that I call the Eight of Swords impulse. This tendency is named for the particular depiction of the Eight of Swords card in the Goddess Tarot Deck, by Kris Waldherr, which was my first tarot deck at age twelve and is probably still the one that I know best today…Read morea year ago · 12 likes · 3 comments · Elliott Silverstein
August 31, 2025
Week #36: September 1-7, 2025
Welcome to Week Thirty-six. It’s fitting that September, the ninth month of the year, would start on a week with a core value of nine. Sweet synchronicity!
[FYI, I’ll be popping back into your inboxes tomorrow to with a September newsletter.]
Especially in our overall 9 collective year, where every single daily, weekly, and monthly number is amplified. Due to the fact that 9 can essentially be canceled out in any reduction calculation it appears in (truly, try some out, i.e. 1+9 = 10, 1+0 = 1), every core number this year becomes more of itself. Magnified, and polarized. Embodying both sides of the coin at the same time.
Meaning for this week…
ICYMI:📝: There are FOUR SPOTS LEFT for September’s Written Reading: Three Months of Magic! — Delivered on the Fall Equinox, this cosmic kit will provide you with personalized practices (magical and mundane) for each remaining month of 2025 (October, November, and December) by weaving your personal Holy Trinity (Life Path, Public Persona, and Yearly Cycle Numbers) with monthly numbers, the sabbats Samhain and Yule/the Winter Solstice, and more! $145, or $155 with audio recording. Book by replying to this email or send me a message at beescolnick@pm.me.
🎥: Snag an Asynch Video Reading from me on Moonlight — These readings have been so fun to do lately, and from what clients have shared, they’ve also been “shockingly accurate” and “just what I needed to hear.” $25 for 15 minutes!
🛞: Call Your Coven is a whole year old! September 2025: Big Wheel Energy — Eclipse season cometh. Cycles end. Focus narrows. Fall arrives here in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it a much-needed cool-down. Conserve your energy and take a nap.
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Week #36
Photo by Hobi industri on UnsplashThirty-six is a number of crafty wisdom, logical liminality, and meeting endings with familiarity and grace.
August 24, 2025
Week #35: August 25-31, 2025
Welcome to Week Thirty-five, which will see us through to the end of August. Am I the only one who is always surprised August has thirty-one days?
How’s everyone doing? Last week was a doozy. Maybe it was the double fire action of the moon being in Leo on the final day of the sun also being in Leo, but whew, it really felt like we were getting somewhere, just to have the rug pulled out from under us. I suppose August isn’t over until it’s over.
We are certainly dealing with a continued sense of presence in this 9 collective year, where every single daily, weekly, and monthly number is amplified. Due to the fact that 9 can essentially be canceled out in any reduction calculation it appears in (truly, try some out, i.e. 1+9 = 10, 1+0 = 1), every core number this year becomes more of itself. Magnified, and polarized. Embodying both sides of the coin at the same time.
Meaning for this week…
ICYMI:🎨: Catch up on Call Your Coven: Coven Convo: Creative Craft
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Week #35
Thirty-five is a number of the churning cycle, imperfect progress and sustainability through creative change.
August 17, 2025
Week #34: August 18-24, 2025
Welcome to Week Thirty-four, which will see the moon get darker in the sky until it disappears from view on the new moon in Virgo. It’s time to rest.
It’s also time to check in with August 2025: Do What Works For You. How would you say you’re embracing that invitation? Is the month slipping away for you like it is for me? Whatever you choose to partake in with the time you’ve been given, do it with your whole chest, okay? That goes for resting too…
Especially in a 9 collective year, where every single daily, weekly, and monthly number is amplified. Due to the fact that 9 can essentially be canceled out in any reduction calculation it appears in (truly, try some out, i.e. 1+9 = 10, 1+0 = 1), every core number this year becomes more of itself. Magnified, and polarized. Embodying both sides of the coin at the same time.
Meaning for this week…
ICYMI:📝: Last call for August Written Readings! Email me for more info!
🎨: Call Your Coven is all new! Coven Convo: Creative Craft
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Week #34
Photo by David Kovalenko on UnsplashThirty-four is a number of mundane mystery, qabalistic questioning, and feral fascination.
August 10, 2025
Week #33: August 11-17, 2025
Welcome to Week Thirty-three. What a week, what a number, what a world we live in right now. Take a breath, hold your heart, be still.
This week, I have my final chemotherapy treatment—my sixth, which is also the root number of thirty-three—and my wife has a major surgery to remove her cancerous tumor. Thank you for all of the love, energy and support you’ve sent us already, and if you have any extra, please toss it towards us on Wednesday. We are so grateful to all of our caretakers, far and wide.
Nevertheless, we continue to crawl through this 9 collective year, where every single daily, weekly, and monthly number is amplified. Due to the fact that 9 can essentially be canceled out in any reduction calculation it appears in (truly, try some out, i.e. 1+9 = 10, 1+0 = 1), every core number this year becomes more of itself. Magnified, and polarized. Embodying both sides of the coin at the same time.
Meaning for this week…
ICYMI:🍒: August 2025: Do What Works For You
🔥: Come read PLEASURE ACTIVISM with us! Week 1 was deliciously nuanced!
💦: Catch up on Call Your Coven! August 2025: Wet, Hot, Juicy, Commitment Summer!
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Week #33
Photo by Mick Haupt on UnsplashThirty-three is a number of creative flourishing, deep wisdom and insight, and global impact.
August 3, 2025
Week #32: August 4-10, 2025
Welcome to Week Thirty-two. It’s August now. Let’s all take a deep breath in and roar as we exhale!
I’m so happy to be into August, even if it has proven to be a messy month for me in years past. I’ve been spending tons of time reading and writing, and sending pages to my friends for cheer-reading. They’ve been giving really generative notes too. And I’ve been getting organized, taking care of business, ticking things off the to do list, and enjoying the art of my office coming together again, again, and again.
Maybe it’s the permeating Hermit vibes of our 9 collective year, where every single daily, weekly, and monthly number is amplified. Due to the fact that 9 can essentially be canceled out in any reduction calculation it appears in (truly, try some out, i.e. 1+9 = 10, 1+0 = 1), every core number this year becomes more of itself. Magnified, and polarized. Embodying both sides of the coin at the same time.
Meaning for this week…
ICYMI:🍒: August 2025: Do What Works For You
🔥: Come read PLEASURE ACTIVISM with me!
💦: Call Your Coven is new! August 2025: Wet, Hot, Juicy, Commitment Summer!
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Week #32
Thirty-two is a number of synapses firing, wires connecting, and things coming together to be tested.
July 31, 2025
August 2025: Do What Works For You
What’s up, swimmers?! July was filled to the brim and over in an instant!
I’m taking my own advice this week and sharing some personal reflections to slip us into August, but I’ve also included plenty of collective insights, as well as the notable numerology for those who like to observe special dates. August obviously has a zeitgeisty one—08/08—but sorry, you won’t find any mention of lions, gates, or portals here. Still, it’s a great day for connecting with chaos!
And don’t forget to go through the archive to see if you may have missed a post or two! July saw one monthly overview, four weekly forecasts, an article on 7/7, a Friday Five on 7/11, and an invitation for our upcoming paid pals group read and of course, August’s SM*T CL*B!
I also had the honor of being a guest on Mal Hasty’s prolific podcast, Witch Church . You can listen or watch to my return episode now—my first since 2021!
ICYMI:🔥: Come read PLEASURE ACTIVISM with me!
🍯: Contribute to the Cancer Wives’s Birthday Honeyfund!
🌀: 7/7: Taylor Swift and Elon Musk–Modern Day Seeker-Prophets
💦: Call Your Coven is new! August 2025: Wet, Hot, Juicy, Commitment Summer!
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Photo by Carolina on UnsplashAugust 2025: Do What Works For YouLast week, while still firmly planted in July, I asked those listening to Call Your Coven to commit to an August of emotional processing, and then wrote the following directive to those enduring a five personal year (aka me):
This week, focus on what has changed, what is changing, and what will change. Set a period of time in the past upon which to reflect, and a period of time in the future upon which to project, and really be with the whole of how your life circumstances, your perspectives, your physical body, and your being has changed, is changing, and will change. In the swirly, twirly middle, it matters to stand your ground and get your bearings. You deserve to be acknowledged and assured as you grow. Then, now, always.
Two years ago, on the New Moon in Leo 2023, my pain arrived, present and accounted for, like a house guest without an invitation, who’d settled into the primary bedroom before you even realized they were inside. Two years from now, on the New Moon in Leo 2027, I’ll be about to graduate with my Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology. Here, in the messy middle, I am between my fifth and final cycles of chemotherapy treatment for a hard-won diagnosis of Nodular Lymphocyte-Predominant Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, and am in medical remission.
Suffice it to say, everything has changed, and will continue to change.
Before I got sick, or rather before my symptoms became so severe they surfaced, I thought I’d already changed everything. I’d just uprooted my entire life in New York, and plopped myself down in Los Angeles, ready to start anew. Fresh city, new opportunities, desired proximity to friends and family. I knew that leaving would be a starting over of epic proportions, but in actuality, it was just the churning of the cancerous butter I’d already started cultivating years earlier.
Being sick has taught me that life is truly an improvisation. When you lose the ability to perform basic functions, you must get tricky with it. Creative. Imaginative. Gross. Animal. “If I can’t make it to the bathroom, which cup is the best for peeing while lying down?” I’m currently bald but fuzzy, my eyebrows are thinning, and I’ve acquired at least seven major scars in the last year. I am in transition. I am, like the caterpillar, liquefying from the inside in order to piece myself back together anew.
While I was hospitalized for thirty-six days at the turning over of the Gregorian calendar years 2024-2025, I started joking about being out in the desert, lost in the Biblical wilderness. Others said I was on the God’s Strongest Warrior Path, and it’s true, I am on a Strength Life Path of the number eight. August’s ruling number. A number that ushers me into the next waterlogged cycle of new aches and new relief. At least, that’s what I’m hoping for here, in the swirly, twirly middle, where I feel more myself, more in my beautifully broken body, and more possible than ever.
I’m grateful to be alive, to be writing, and to be connected throughout time, space, and place. I am changed and ever-changing. Then, now, always.
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August wants you to do what works for you. Without shame, without apology, without justification, even to yourself. You do not have to explain yourself. Sometimes you will, that’s what allows us to live with others gracefully. But you do not owe anything or anyone an explanation for doing things the way you want. Be who you want to be. Pray how you want to pray. Survive. Thrive!
Eight energy, which rules August, takes another look at the systems and structures that are actually supportive. The ones that make you feel safe and secure. Those concepts are largely feelings. They’re somewhat individual; they’re personal needs. Life Hack: Engaging with what you want and don’t want is a unique reckoning of epic proportions, but after you figure out what coalesces to form that feeling, then it becomes a practice of implementation. Doing that thing to feel that feeling.
This month will offer you your power back. It will offer you a deeper perspective. One that lives underneath everything we spend so much time trying not to look at. Because it’s that raw, unhinged mess that hands us the keys to our process of turning our obsessions into something tangible. then, offering those freaky little creations to others. That’s fucking bravery. To share your most cringe art with others and find out they actually love it .
(Ain’t no bond stronger than the one between two writers swapping AO3 handles, IYKWIM…)
But that personal power is an affront to the collective illusion that we can all be housed under systems and structures. The truth is that we are ungovernable. The collective illusion is how hard we try to be something different. Tides are changing, slowly but surely. What’s that saying about the moral arc of Justice? Keep the faith, stay the course. Get into your own muck and hook in. And remember: It’s never too late to learn a lesson.
NOTABLE NUMEROLOGY IN AUGUST
Photo by Mick Haupt on UnsplashEIGHT EIGHT (NINE)
08/08/2025
8+8+2+0+2+5 = 25/7
It’s no suprise that a day with curious and cunning seven energy has turned into a hot button topic of spiritual controversy. Why wouldn’t it? It loves the attention. After all, attention is the gateway to power, and also to control. But when it falls into the wrong hands is when one must remember the wisdom of their own life experience. Today, the best thing you could do to celebrate a day of mysterious magnitude is to practice discernment. To learn more before you commit. To wonder what things could mean, to peek behind certain curtains. You’re not new to this planet, so stop acting like it.
FULL MOON IN AQUARIUS
08/09/2025
8+9+2+0+2+5 = 26/8
Earlier this year, we had three full moons in a row with 17/8 energy. Now, we’ve graduated to 26/8. This is a leveling up, make no mistake. Eight energy asks for your devotion. Are you devoted? What does that mean? Does devotion ask for consistency, as in a daily practice? Or intensity, as in long periods of deep focus before languid play sessions to refill the tank. Eight energy will definitely ask you for totality, but you are free to set your own boundaries as you see fit. Too much of a good thing is still too much. Stay grounded through your heart and mind.
NEW MOON IN VIRGO
08/23/2025
8+2+3+2+0+2+5 = 22/4
Happy fifth and final new moon in a row with 22/4 energy. It’s been quite a ride. Next month, it’s eclipse season. So let’s recap: On the new moon in Taurus, we romanticized the quiet sit spot. The new moon in Gemini told us, If you build it, they will come. On the new moon in Cancer, we prepared the feast. And on the new moon in Leo, we enjoyed the party! Now, we clean house. We put things back where they belong. We feel the tender pains of exertion and exhaustion, but we know when we awake from our rest, we’ll be happy we tidied the place up. This is a moment to breathe, it’s a chance to reflect, and also a time to reset, and a space to relax.
I would love to hear from you! Sending you pleasure, ease and juice in August.
Until next time, just keep swimming!xx, beeJuly 27, 2025
Week #31: July 28-August 3, 2025
Welcome to Week Thirty-one, which will see us into the eighth month of this nine-ruled year. We’re cooking with gas now, baby.
There is a rigidity to this moment, a stubbornness with which systems and structures are holding, despite collective uproar and outcry. Gaza is being starved before our very eyes, costs keep rising while job markets shift and shrink, and invitations into apathy and why doesn’t anything matter anymore? are more enticing than ever.
But it does matter. Our efforts matter. So that’s where we’ll choose to place our focus this, and every, week.
Especially in a 9 collective year, where every single daily, weekly, and monthly number is amplified. Due to the fact that 9 can essentially be canceled out in any reduction calculation it appears in (truly, try some out, i.e. 1+9 = 10, 1+0 = 1), every core number this year becomes more of itself. Magnified, and polarized. Embodying both sides of the coin at the same time.
Meaning for this week…
ICYMI:🔥: Come read PLEASURE ACTIVISM with me!
🗳️: Vote for us for America’s Favorite Couple! (We’re currently in 1st place!)
💦: Call Your Coven is new! August 2025: Wet, Hot, Juicy, Commitment Summer!
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Week #31
Photo by Jose M on UnsplashThirty-one is a number of scorched earth, of ruin and rumination, and that which remains, long after the fire is extinguished.
It’s a harsh reckoning, to blink yourself back into your body, and take in the scene. To head back to the battlefield, and assess the damage, and the damaged. It’s not always the easiest energy to traverse. It’s full of grief and woe. It asks a certain type of repression, so as to be able to finish the job that needs to be done. Still, it plays vital roles: sorting through the rubble, saving what can be rescued, planning the funerals and next steps for that which cannot, and holding sacred space in the cycle of all things.
This week, keep a keen eye and a practical pace. Do not suppress to the point of suffering, but do not get wedged in the wreckage either. Focus on what you can do, what you can control. Solve problems in imaginative ways. As old, Jewish wisdom teaches, “Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.”
Keep reading for some food for thought based on your yearly cycle number!
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July 28-August 3 for Your Yearly CycleTo find your yearly cycle number, add the digits of your month and day of birth to 2025, and reduce until you reach a single digit. For example, the calculation for my birthday of July 7 looks like: 7+7+2+0+2+5 = 23, 2+3 = 5.
Please note that I reduce doubled digit numbers like 11 and 22 to their root numbers when working with yearly cycles, so please calculate and read accordingly.
Read for your Yearly Cycle, but also check out your prominent chart placements, like Life Path and Public Persona, as well for the collective 9-year.
1This week, focus on your relationship with your past, present and future selves. Get clear on your timelines, your character arcs, and the patterns that lead to both challenges and growth. Where were you? Where are you now? Where do you want to go? It may feel silly to focus on dreaming and scheming when the world is a dumpster fire, but this week, what matters is slipping far enough away from the noise as to give your divine spark a chance to catch into a burning flame. You deserve to shine. Then, now, always.
2This week, focus on your connections. Who are the people you talk to every day? Who are the flora and fauna you come into contact with regularly? What do you touch, taste, smell, see, and hear on a daily basis? Our capacity for connection is much smaller than our current consumption. This is not a weakness, just a limitation. This week, what matters is what’s right in front of you. What matters is what makes up the moments, big and small, of the life you actually live. You deserve to take up space. Then, now, always.
3This week, focus on your tongue. How often do you check in with that thick slab of muscle that lives in your mouth? Does your tongue like to move? What does it want to say or do? When’s the last time you brushed it? What does it tell you about your teeth, the roof of your mouth, and the insides of your lips and cheeks? This is a funny exercise of presence, but it matters, this act of being in your body, connected to your sense of expression and the instrument of that energy. You deserve this depth. Then, now, always.
4This week, focus on that which is in your bubble, or your fortress. What’s inside the mighty moat you’ve worked hard to build. How are things? Do they feel solid? That’s the real litmus test, seeing as safety and stability are largely unattainable concepts. But you know the foundations are sturdy when you come to trust the ebbs and flows of timing. This week, it matters to try and see things from that angle. You deserve to feel secure in your life. Then, now, always.
5This week, focus on what has changed, what is changing, and what will change. Set a period of time in the past upon which to reflect, and a period of time in the future upon which to project, and really be with the whole of how your life circumstances, your perspectives, your physical body, and your being has changed, is changing, and will change. In the swirly, twirly middle, it matters to stand your ground and get your bearings. You deserve to be acknowledged and assured as you grow. Then, now, always.
6This week, focus on what’s working with ease. Consider the soil you’ve been tending to all year, the one that’s almost synonymous with your hands, your heart, and that’s growing into a garden worth tending too. This may feel treacherous, to narrow things down to what feels easy when the world is so hard, but it matters that you feel grace, softness and blooming growth in spite of it all. You deserve to let your hair down and relax. Then, now, always.
7This week, focus on what’s making you the most curious right now. Is it a new line of study, thought, belief, or philosophy? Is it good gossip in your circle or friends, or parasocial circle of social media influences, reality television stars, or celebrities? Maybe it’s simply a question of how can you get more sleep per night while the world burns around you. Excitement and energy matter! Sleep matters! Satisfaction matters! You deserve to be delightfully engaged. Then, now, always.
8This week, focus on your investments. What have you been pouring yourself into? What have you been taking consistent and concerted effort towards? This could be physical, emotional, financial—survey the whole scene. When the economy is running on upset and attention, your investments matter more than ever. It’s how you’re saying with your very being just who you are, what you stand for, and what you won’t put up with, ever. You deserve to be that sure about yourself. Then, now, always.
9This week, focus on your growing ecosystem. Consider the who, what, where, when, and why of your every day life. Think about those who have tangible impacts on your world, despite geography or physical proximity. There’s a delicate balance between being present with your feet on the ground, and being a person in a global community of gorgeous souls. This week, every little bit matters. It all counts. You deserve to love and be loved from every corner of the universe. Then, now, always.
How do you feel about your area of focus this week? What do you think could be challenging about narrowing things down to just that? What might feel like a relief?
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July 25, 2025
Come read PLEASURE ACTIVISM with me!
I’m offering a written numerology reading called “The Pythagorean Arrows” in August just for paid pals! If interested, please join The Soup™ Discord for details!
August is shaping up to be quite the slick and slippery month—in a good way!—and I hope that you’ll join me in at least one of the ways I’m celebrating!
Come read PLEASURE ACTIVISM written and gathered by adrienne maree brown with me in August and September! — This is a go-at-your-own-pace group read, meaning that there are no deadlines or goals you must adhere to! Still, I'll be popping into a thread in The Soup™ Discord server on Fridays with discussion questions and food for thought. However, if you'd like some structure, I'm proposing the below "schedule." It's page heavy at the top of the month, when our enthusiasm and stamina may be the greatest, and then tapers down from there, so there's plenty of time for catch-up:
August 1-7: Introduction & Section 1 (approx. 100 pgs.)
August 8-14: Section 2 & Section 3 (approx. 87 pgs.)
August 15-21: Sub-Section 3 (approx. 45 pgs.)
August 22-29: Section 4 (approx. 32 pgs.)
September 1-30, the whole month: Sections 5 & 6 (approx. 176 pgs.) - Read at your own pace with Friday food for thought!
Come to SMUT CLUB, my monthly, virtual, donation-based hang, where we read and/or create filth in creative community! — This month, we’re meeting a little early on August 7th from 5-7pm PST / 8-10pm EST. It’ll be our fifth (?!?!) gathering, and it’s grown into the best, most feral space! We also have a Discord server, but our one rule is you have to come to the club to get the link! Is this your month? We meet on Zoom, but you can stay anon as long as you’re cool about it!
Call Your Coven is new with August 2025: Wet, Hot, Juicy, Commitment Summer! — The intrusive thoughts won with the title, but we’re so glad they did because while August might have some tricky spots, it’s serving up some mischievous magic too! Listen wherever you podcast or watch on YouTube. If you like what you hear, please don’t forget to leave a rating, review, or comment!
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Until next time, just keep swimming!xx, beeJuly 20, 2025
Week #30: July 21-27, 2025
Welcome to Week Thirty, another threshold in the longest and fastest year of all time. Can you believe this is our last full week in July?
Speaking of August (and September), we’re gearing up for a group read of PLEASURE ACTIVISM by ADRIENNE MAREE BROWN in The Soup™ Discord server! We’re breaking the book up into two months, but you can read-at-your-own-pace, and take notes for our group chats. Become a paid pal and join us!
It also feels right to spend 8-ruled August and 9-ruled September learning and integrating ideas around eros and humanity, especially in a 9 collective year, where every single daily, weekly, and monthly number is amplified. Due to the fact that 9 can essentially be canceled out in any reduction calculation it appears in (truly, try some out, i.e. 1+9 = 10, 1+0 = 1), every core number this year becomes more of itself. Magnified, and polarized. Embodying both sides of the coin at the same time.
Meaning for this week…
ICYMI:🖐️: 7/11: The Friday Five
🌀: 7/7: Taylor Swift and Elon Musk–Modern Day Seeker-Prophets
👻: July 2025: The Monster and The Maker
🎧: Catch up on Call Your Coven with Coven Convo: City Witchery
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Week #30
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