A Karam Kriya Applied Numerology perspective on the year to come..

Sat naam.

From the sheer qualities of the numbers in the year 2019 we can pick up on some themes that may be on our minds and plates for this new year.

Each new year brings with it the sense of a chance for a fresh start .. and if we know what to keep an eye out for we can already position our sails to make the best of the prevailing winds of the year… and perhaps avoid a shipwreck or two!

The Gift of the year is contained in the last 2 digits, with the units digit being the most pointed of these. So from the place of the seed of the plant, the potential of the year, we have 1+9 = 10. Wherever there is 10 consider it to be all or nothing. The zero will either illuminate or eclipse the qualities it contains. 

The 9 speaks of the inherent qualities of peacefulness, the descent of blessings from above and a sense of magic. Patience is the virtue which can't actually be possessed but can be gathered and this we have to do on a daily basis, to stay peaceful and patient with all that is going on. Mastery comes to the one whose heart is at peace, not war, even where necessary in the midst of battle. So the first step is to establish peace in our minds and in our hearts. 

As it is all or nothing, if there is not his peace then there can be madness, tyranny and irrationality. Impatience, fanaticism and extreme dispersion. 

So it's a year to actively cultivate your peace and patience. And use the year to learn what makes you unpeaceful and be patient with yourself right there. Life is full of provocations. Each moment invites us to attend the school of learning to master our minds and impulses through bringing consciousness to what rattles us and compels us to act out - as Yogi Bhajan said, Kundalini Yoga trains us to act not react. So many moments of the day offer this particular lesson! The pressing question is - is your mind your servant or your master? What actually drives you to act? Get free of enslavement to compulsions and auto pilot modes of being so as to exist consciously and peacefully. Easier said than done, but as humans we have this potential, even if we'd like to sometimes pretend we don't. As Shiv Charan Singh says, let's "go viral with the virtues" this year! Virally spread the virtue of patience. Let our news feeds be full of that. Wouldn't that be incredible?

To allow these human treasures or virtues - patience being the virtue of 9, royal courage that of 10, as two examples - to descend on us and to live from a place of hearing what our soul and higher self want, we need to employ our ability to truly listen. Listen with the whole body, with all parts of ourselves, down to the hairs on our bodies, to the subtle. Listening belongs to 10 and the radiant body and is an expression and instrument of the interconnectedness of all life. Our aim is to move into action from an authentic place that is attuned to the larger motions of the cosmos. But first we need to stop interpreting and speaking and start deeply listening. 

The flower of the year and its destiny comes with the numbers 2+0+1+9 = 21 = 3.

The quality of 3 vibrates through the flower and the flower contains the seeds - in this year the seeds of patience and peace in a virtues sense and madness and impatience in a viral sense. 3 is the positive mind and positive action. The number 3 virtue with which to go viral is that of equality. True enthusiastic, positive action extends in all directions equally. The sun shines on all equally. A smile shines on all who see it. So it is a year to embrace all the great aspects of action and doing what you can. Also to affirm your own existence and your own goodness. To be very positive equally about aspects of your being and then to let that acceptance shine from you onto others. To be truly patient with your self or another requires seeing the good in all manifestations, beings and experiences and not putting one higher or lower. Also a tall order and also one that a human is born with the potential to do. As Yogi Bhajan's sutra goes, "If you can't see God in all you can't see God at all." "Take all experiences, all possessions and events and treat them with equal value. Wealth or poverty, pain or pleasure, slander or praise, to have or not to have, all are equally the same. Dry bread is equal to the juiciest of all delicacies. Find that which is equal in every case. … Every manifestation is God saying "I exist". The positive mind is given to affirm the One in all." (Shiv Charan Singh)

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3 is the positive mind, action and work. We want our work to go in the right direction rather than just eat up our time and energy. A viral 3 can express of doing to prove something, a sense of unworthiness, victim stories and habits that build up karma and that become a trap. Also the sense of societal "shoulds" and "musts" serve as a kind of substitute for the true, authentic motivation and life can become lacking in joy. What opportunities do we have to do the labour that liberates us? We are householders. We have homes, families and work. We don't live in nunneries and monasteries. We spend so much time in relationships so, as the teacher Ram Dass suggests, "why not turn them into a yoga for getting free?.. Use every situation you have with other people as a vehicle to work on yourself. See where you get stuck, where you push, where you grab, where you judge, where you do all the other stuff. Use your life experiences as your curriculum." We are all in truth one family. I am you and you are me. Our relationships can reinforce the illusion of separateness and not having what we want or they can be grist for the mill of awakening. Do your practices to stay clear, to cultivate your peace, to exhaust and bring to an end all the stories and gripes. Work on yourself in this way, through your sadhana - your daily practice - whatever form that may take. So that you can be in your relationships, in your life, as an instrument of peace and an agent of wholeness. 

Number 3 is joy and there will be plenty of that to be had when we do the right sort of work. The work of peace. "The joy of this year rests on the state of peace. First in our mind. Then letting it descend in the heart and through the whole body and finally into action." Shiv Charan Singh  

With an enthusiastic prayer that we all spend many quality moments cultivating peace and doing what we can. Because that's all we can do and it is more than enough.
Jai Ram Kaur

Click HERE to read Shiv Charan Singh's reflections on 2019. Shiv Charan is director and founder of Karam Kriya school. Karam Kriya is the study of life through numbers and numbers through life. Jai Ram is a long time student of his and an ongoing student and practitioner of Karam Kriya. She offers individual numerological consultations. FIND OUT MORE HERE.