NUMBER MEANINGS
The personal year: an example (excerpt).
Year 5 can often be one which brings strong challenges to face, and sometimes conflicts. This is the 'year of the unknown', and the key phrase for year 5 is 'expect the unexpected'. Roll with the changes, or be run over by them. Nothing turns out as it seemed it would at first. This applies to both good and bad; we may get unexpected 'lucky breaks', but also outcomes may fail to live up to hopes, or plans may suddenly change. The way to deal with this is to avoid set a expectations, and not allow ourselves to feel disappointed. Otherwise we may waste some or all of the valuable and necessary opportunities for growth which this year sets for us.
This will inevitably bring some difficult choices into life anyway; but even under-achievement invites conflict in Year 5 as the soul struggles to bring to human attention that part of its purpose which is being ignored or left aside. Only those highly attuned to their own path in life experience year 5 as continuing success which is in any way straightforward. For those few, it can be a major year: the central one of the cycle, in which body is most closely aligned with spirit. As by this time we are attempting to look ahead, it might be useful at this point to refer back to your previous, completed cycle, where 1995 was Year 5
It is useful to look back and question whether anything of major importance was abandoned during the previous year 5, ie. exactly nine years ago, as if you are currently in a year five this is also a time of being given 'second chances'. Because of the opportunity for re-alignment with the soul's higher purpose, we also often have the opportunity during this year to 'pick up where we left off' in year 5 of the previous cycle. In this case we must look at the reasons why we did not continue to follow the path we were on at that time, and make certain we have assimilated any lessons from that experience so the same mistakes or unhelpful patterns are not repeated. Never forget that year 5 is all about resuming the path toward the soul's higher purpose.