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Friday, November 12, 2021

A day for starting: universal day 1

Universal day 1 opens a cycle, so first moves carry more weight than usual.

1

Universal day

7

Universal month

5

Universal year

How the number is worked out

Add the digits of the year, the month and the day, then reduce the total to a single digit or a master number: 5 + 11 + 12 = 28, reduced to 1.

The energy of the day

One begins things. The whole nine day cycle takes its tone from what you set in motion now, which is why a small deliberate start today tends to outrun a large reactive push later in the week.

What the day favours

  • Sending the message you have been drafting in your head
  • Naming one goal for the next nine days and writing it where you can see it
  • Working alone for the first hour of the day

What to watch

  • Impatience dressed up as decisiveness
  • Starting five things instead of one

One practice for today

Write a single sentence beginning with the words I am starting. Keep it to one line and revisit it on the ninth day.

The card that pairs with it

Major Arcana

The Empress

Major Arcana · Reversed

Over giving, creative block, or neglecting your own needs while tending everyone else.

abundancenurturecreation

The Empress, reversed

Over giving, creative block, or neglecting your own needs while tending everyone else.

Read the full card meaning

Practise the same theme

Today's keyword is initiative. These two sessions work the same ground, and both are open to play straight away.

The sky on this date

The sun sits in Scorpio on Fri, Nov 12, with the moon first quarter at 51 percent lit. Cardinal fire matches a 1 day: it starts things and asks forgiveness later.

Sun sign today

Scorpio

Water · Fixed · 23 October to 21 November

Numbers to watch: 9, 11, 12, 41, 43. Colour maroon, strongest hour Midday.

Sign that matches the number

Aries

I am

A universal day 1 runs the way Aries runs, so borrow the approach even if it is not your sign.

The spread to lay out today

A 1 day rewards a decision, so the spread puts the action card in the middle.

Decisions · 3 cards

Situation, action, outcome

What should I actually do here?

  1. 1. Situation The honest shape of the problem.
  2. 2. Action The move that changes it.
  3. 3. Outcome Where that move leads.

The sign that matches the number

Signs of first movement, height and the courage to open a cycle.

Animals

A lion crossing your path

The lion is the solar animal of courage from Judah to Leo. A crossing is a timing omen. The tradition reads it as the message arriving for the exact decision you were turning over as it happened.

Read the full sign

The dream symbol for tonight

A initiative day often carries into sleep. If this symbol turns up tonight, read it against the number rather than on its own.

Places

Dreaming of being lost in door

Direction gone in a place you thought you knew. The door is the detail that dates the dream.

Read the dream meaning

Go deeper

Read the number as a weather report, not an instruction. It describes the conditions you are working in, and you still choose the route.