2021: A NUMEROLOGICAL VIEW

2021:

As 2020 reached its final passage in December, we can reflect on the initiation to the third decade of the 21st century.

Who knew what to expect? At the beginning of the year, numerologists looked at all the “2s” in 2020. This is the number of cooperation, relationships and moving into a more intuitive and trusting place of the divine feminine, rather than the assertive ego and divine masculine. The promise was to meet in the middle and grow together, rather than “what is in it for me”.

Perhaps it was too much to expect and the extreme happened—the shadow of the “2”. We were forced to go inside, wear masks and told not to connect with others.

A Numerological View

by Greer Jonas

Although we cannot predict the future, nor the end of the pandemic, let’s take a look at the promise of 2021 in our world.

The 5 ignites the fire of action, change and a pursuit of freedom. Its energy promotes social interaction. But how can this be in the midst of a pandemic?

Compared with the slow and methodical global 4 of 2020 (2+0+2+0=4), the 5 should help us remove the inertia.

Yes, change is upon us and the new energy should speed up the process. Hopefully, COVID-19 will be eradicated soon, allowing the economy to recover and businesses to revive and flourish. Individuals around the world can return to their jobs and their lives, embracing their loved ones freely.

Once we are in a more stable place, the “5” energy will ignite a social life beyond the computer chats and mobile texts. It will also influence social change, if we do not go back to hiding in our own world of work and love life.

The 4 represents building, security, stability and the home. Instead, the shadow appears—the destruction of normalcy, the breakdown of systems and businesses. The health and sense of security of the people of the world has been compromised.

Perhaps, the lesson of 2020 is karmic. The challenge is to have faith rather than fear. The lesson is not to withdraw, or despair, but to seek creative ways to support and connect with family and friends. In place of hiding, communities from around the world gather online, teaching and participating in courses that feed the hungry spirit. A spiritual path is sought where we acknowledge our earth and look at a higher meaning to life.

2021: What Happens Now?

The shadow of 5 is to go back to the “I”— either panicking or ignoring what is going on around you. Searching for freedom and change, we need to find a happy medium to our viewpoints and take action to collectively shift this global “pandemic”.

We are not just talking about healing physically and mentally—but socially, environmentally, spiritually and politically. This may be a wake-up call toward recovering our humanity.

Personal Year 2021

To find one’s personal year theme, add the month and day of birth to the current year. The formula is to add each number separately and reduce the sum to one digit (except master numbers such as 11 and 22).

So for someone born December 12, we would add 2021 like this: 1+2+1+2+2+0+2+1 = 11 personal year

Using the simple descriptions below, let’s ask ourselves: “How will I welcome freedom and change without feeling restricted? Do I have the willingness and bravery to embrace my life as I include others—or will I choose the same old habit that does not serve me?”

Below is a brief description of the theme and the shadow of each personal year.

1A year of new beginnings, leadership, taking action and inspiring others. Shadow: Retreat or follow others without standing for one’s own beliefs.

2About forming relationships of all kinds, love, business, family and cooperation. Shadow: Being non-communitive and inflexible.

3A year of expressing oneself creatively and uniquely. The key is to take an original, non-judgmental approach to whatever moves us—be it art, music, writing, dancing or speaking. Shadow: Seeking safety and an uninspiring life.

4A year of building something new with the foundation of organization, perseverance and skill. Shadow: Stubborn and controlling, wanting everything to be one way without flexibility.

5The same personal year as the global year. This is a time to embrace change and freedom while sharing oneself with people and seeking opportunities. Shadow: Hiding, feeling anxious, not allowing self to relax. 6All about the heart and birth. It is a time to connect with family, friends and doing service in some way. This could be a year of birthing something new. Shadow: Withdrawal, selfjudgment and caring about what others think.

7A time of bonding with the inner self. It is a spiritual and intuitive period to seek the unknown with fascination. Shadow: Retreating, not sharing one’s voice and unique personality.

8The year of charismatic leadership and empowerment. The opportunity to advance and share goals, rather than being afraid to be out there in the world, is key. Shadow: Being overbearing, insisting that one is right and everyone else is wrong, embracing power rather than empowerment.

9A year that will present transformation and change, as well as completion. It may feel like a whirlwind of seeing the truth in all aspects of life. The lesson is acceptance. Shadow: Being fearful, not respecting oneself and one’s changes, fear of judgment, feeling lost. 11In the master 11 year, one’s inspired ideas can be momentous in life and the life of others. Here is a choice to lead without apprehension and self-judgment. Shadow: Forgetting one’s humanness and vulnerability, resulting in challenging oneself and becoming fearful or frustrated. 22The master year of building relationships of all kinds. It may be a powerful time to achieve love or to build a business. Shadow: Retreating, being disappointed, not believing in self.

Greer Jonas is an intuitive numerologist who conducts online readings. She is also a teacher and an artist. Connect at GreerDJonas@ gmail.com, Numerology4YourSoul.com and GreerJonas.com.

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For the next several months, we’ll hear from Ann C. Reeves about aspects of Positive Psychology. This month, she starts with the “P” of the Positive Psychology acronym, PERMA-V.

Positivity—the P in Positive Psychology

by Ann C. Reeves

Positive Psychology (PP) is the scientific study of optimal human functioning and its research encompassing neurobehavioral, cognitive behavioral and physiological science. The acronym used in PP is PERMA-V.

P stands for Positivity, which may not include happiness, but more a deep sense of well-being, and it is also related to the quality of one’s engagement with life, sense of meaning, resilience, relationships and feelings of personal achievement. Any one of these can be a gateway to feelings of increased well-being. Seeking positivity is a choice we can choose to make.

The brain has an inborn negativity bias related to ensuring survival over danger. The part of our brain that mediates feelings and emotional memories is not as smart as we think. Often bypassing the help of the smart forebrain, it responds most readily to and believes what it has been told—a feeling memory bank. If we grew up in critical families, the message of “you’re not good enough” is reinforced and, over time, the brain believes it. It then affects everything, reaching into all parts of our life.

Barbara Fredrickson, of the University of North Carolina, developed the Broaden and Build Theory of Positive Emotions. She discovered that increasing positive emotions opens our hearts and minds to encourage more creativity and receptiveness, and broadens our ideas about possible actions. In contrast, negative emotions tend to close those aspects.

Fredrickson found that only one positive event could lead to a greater likelihood of finding another positive experience, and that is what broadens and builds. She also realized that this is impossible all the time and recommends we try to construct a 3:1 ratio. She proposes that for every negative feeling or experience we haves, we try to construct three positive reactions or experiences as a way to undo the negativity bias.

We can achieve more voluntary control over negative thinking by looking at our past, present and future. In a notebook, create three columns for PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE. Starting with the past, even in the presence of negative memories, write down what was good: a grandparent, neighbor, teacher, private adventures in nature, creating pictures or stories. For the present, write down what currently gives pleasure, meaning or satisfaction, without focusing on the challenges that are present. Lastly, look beyond the current situation to something that might be hopeful or optimistic: a dream, a creative project, a trip, a commitment to something larger than oneself. Just by doing this exercise, we take attention off the negative and prime our brain toward more positivity.

Another concept in PP is savoring. As with food, it means stretching out the moment, an opportunity to increase the intensity and duration of positive emotions, as explained by PP founder Martin Seligman. One strategy is to plan something each day that we know will bring pleasure: going to a certain restaurant, listening to a favorite kind of music, going to a museum, reading a book that captures our interest, volunteering for an important cause or making art.

Then, when we undertake that activity, we should practice savoring it, becoming aware of the specific ways that this activity pleases us—intellectually, through the senses, or through a feeling of competence and ease. Spend a little more time going deeper into that enjoyment, into appreciation and even gratitude. Savoring is another way to influence the negativity bias that we often carry, and another way to practice mindfulness.

A fourth approach is to keep a “What Went Well” Journal. Each night, write down three things that went well that day. It could be the kindness of the postal worker that waited on us, or that we were in a roughly made parking lot and found a yellow flower coming out of the crack in a rock. Or, we had been meaning for weeks to declutter a certain area and this was the day it got done. After each of the three, we should write down what we did to contribute to it being something that went well. Maybe we were more attentive and took the time to look at and appreciate that flower, or we did not allow ourselves to become distracted from a household task, or we established eye contact with the postal worker and gazed for a bit before turning away.

This one strategy, when researched, has had very positive results in terms of reducing anxiety and depression. It primes the brain for the positive. There are now many excellent books written about PP and positivity to discover additional strategies.

Ann C. Reeves, Psy.D is a Licensed Psychologist in Wilton. Connect at 203-451-6208, AnnReevesPsych@optonline.net or AnnReevesPsychology.com. See ad, page 23.

See the next article in this PERMA-V series, focusing on the E for Engagement, in the March issue.