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2007 was the year of completion. All changes and all restrictions that have taken place should have had as main objective to finish the unfinished business. Now the 9 is substituted by the 10. A new cycle is starting in 2008. In the new millennium, it’s the first year the added numbers correspond to the number 1, although it’s not a genuine number 1, but a 10. Needless to remind you that in this millennium of the 2, this is as close as we’ll ever get to a final number 1. In a 10, The Magician will always be accompanied by The Fool, this meaning that no matter how much we want to control things, the unexpected will have a say on the outcome of the events. Therefore, our beginnings should be more spontaneous than before, as The Fool is the number zero: the genuine all or nothing.
In fact, this interpretation is very close to the meaning of The Wheel of Fortune, the tarot card of the number 10. No one controls the Goddess Fortuna. Humans can only pray that her Wheel of will and whims will favour them. Yet, the Wheel is in itself the symbol of the cycle: construction, glory, fall and destruction, attached to every stance of power, no matter how insignificant. As its motion never stops, after a cycle comes the next. In a year of the 10, we should be prepared to ride the Wheel with a true heart and start a new cycle in our lives.
Finally, there’s the last number of the year, the 8. A very feminine number, connected with magic, money, passion and infinity. Again the same meaning of endless cycle, crowning the Magician and moving the Wheel, as the 8 is also the number of power. In the Tarot, its card is Justice, connected to the signs of Libra and Scorpio and to the belief that justice will be done to all in the end. Those who are looking for justice, have a very good chance of getting it this year, if they have finished their unfinished business in 2007.
Mind you that Justice and Fortune are implacable and connected. There's no chance of escaping them. This will be a cardinal year, very needed for our evolution, which must be faced with authenticity, humility and courage.
Dare to be yourselves in 2008 !
