While stirring my coffee yesterday morning, I pondered the events of 81 years prior. My brain just never shuts off. This led me to research three 81-year cycles, building on a previous article I wrote for Arythmancy Magazine on Patreon. In that piece, I explored the 27-year breakdown of 81-year life cycles, drawing a comparison to the astrological Saturn Return. I also looked at 27-year cycles for the USA here.
In all the modern books I have on numerology, I’ve only read one author who specifically discusses 81-year cycles: Dusty Bunker, but she discusses them in relation to people’s charts. The only other numerologist I’ve seen mention anything similar is Ariel Yvon Taylor, and again, she only discusses people’s charts. In the early 1900s, mathematicians like W.D. Gann and numerologists like Aso-Neith were using numerology to make predictions. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, William John Warner used his talents in numerology and astrology to predict the rebirth of Israel and the Prince of Wales abdicating his throne in 1936 in favor of Wallis Simpson.
Worldly prediction has fallen out of favor in the realm of numbers. I’m not surprised. As we became more technical and digital, “old world” prognostication was set aside. With renewed interest in all of this, I believe it’s time to start looking beyond birth charts and learn to track the influence of numbers on the world.
The 84 Year Uranian Cycle
The 81-year cycle, much like the 27-year cycle’s alignment with the Saturn Return, corresponds with the Uranus Return. This cycle has gained contemporary recognition, largely due to social media astrologers who delve into the mundane aspects of astrology. Additionally, it has been likened to the 80-year cycle explored by historians William Strauss and Neil Howe in their 1997 book, “The Fourth Turning,” which has seen a resurgence in popularity as individuals contemplate the current societal upheaval and their collective decisions. We’re all just standing here watching the dumpster fire burn while we contemplate our life choices.
Why the crisis of 2025 seems familiar
For those who observe the patterns of cosmic and historical cycles, the year 2025 doesn’t seem like a random moment in history; it feels like an echo in time. Our current energy—marked by intense political division, institutional upheaval, and revolutionary technological change—resonates strongly with the atmosphere of two earlier national crises, 1863 and 1944. But when you consider the full triple-cycle of 81 × 3, you arrive at 1782, revealing a 243-year pattern in the American experience that is quite uncanny. This sequence of years—1782, 1863, 1944, and 2025—shows that America doesn’t just evolve; it undergoes a process of violent, recurring reinvention roughly every 81 years, aligning with the Uranus 84-year cycle of revolution and the numerological ‘9’ representing completion and renewal beginnings.
The Triple-Cycle Blueprint: Four Periods of American Destiny
Each of these four dates marks a moment of crisis and forced transformation when the very identity of the United States was shattered and immediately rebuilt.
The Genesis Crisis: 1782 (243 Years Ago)
The triple-cycle begins at National Genesis. By 1782, the Revolutionary War was over, but the country was not yet a functional nation. The energy was defined by:
- Completion of Chaos (9 Energy): The fight for independence was won, ending a turbulent era.
- Structural Urgency (Uranus): The government under the Articles of Confederation was failing. The true Uranian revolution wasn’t the war itself, but the radical invention of a self-governing republic—a form of government the world had never successfully sustained. The future, though full of potential, remained incredibly delicate.
The Structural Crisis: 1863 (162 Years Ago)
The first 81-year cycle culminated in a test of the nation’s Form and Morality.
- Violent Reckoning: The Civil War was at its most decisive point with the Battle of Gettysburg and the Fall of Vicksburg.
- Forced Redefinition: The Emancipation Proclamation was the ultimate act of Uranian upheaval, forcing the nation to radically redefine its core contract to align with the ideal that “all men are created equal.” The system could not continue as founded; it had to be rebuilt from the ashes.
The Global Crisis: 1944 (81 Years Ago)
The second cycle focused on the nation’s Survival and Global Power.
- External Mobilization: World War II was reaching its climax with D-Day.
- Global Ascendance: The nation’s economy and military were fully mobilized to confront an external, existential threat, forcing the U.S. to break from isolationism and assume the mantle of global dominance—a massive, unprecedented shift in global structure.
The Systemic Crisis: 2025 (Now)
The final cycle of this 243-year era finds us in a crisis of Identity and Future.
- Internal Breakdown: Our challenge mirrors 1863 in its internal division and systemic instability, but the violence is primarily political, informational, and social.
- Technological Crisis: We face a Uranian revolution driven by Artificial Intelligence, climate change, and hyper-connectivity. The old systems of governance, finance, and information are proving structurally inadequate to manage this new reality.
- The Triple-Cycle Completion: Just as 1782 completed the war and demanded a new system, 2025 completes the third 81-year cycle and demands a radical systemic re-engineering to survive the future—a final, necessary purification before the next 243-year era begins.
The Power of the Energetic Mirror
The energy of the American experience is not linear; it is cyclical. Each of these periods is a mandatory Crisis of Rebirth. During this period, the U.S. must shed its old skin (the 9 energy) and embrace a terrifying, revolutionary future (the Uranus energy).
We are currently living through the most profound internal crisis since the Civil War, but with an echo of the fragility and potential of the nation’s birth. This chaos is a prelude to creation.
Notes:
Bunker, D., & Javane, F. (1979). Numerology and The Divine Triangle (pp. 43-67). Whitford Press.
Taylor, A. (1926). Numerology Made Plain: The Science of Names and Numbers and the Law of Vibration. Chicago: Laird & Lee.
W.D. Gann wrote several books, including works of fiction. He did not refer to himself as an astrologer or numerologist and was notoriously secretive about how he used numbers to make financial predictions. In the 1920s to 1940s, he made himself and his clients over $300,000,000—about $5.8 billion today. He wouldn’t even teach his students everything, believing that if they were meant to know it, they would figure out the missing pieces. He hid clues in his fiction books.
Aso-Neith was a mystic from Missouri who reinvented herself in NYC after divorcing her husband. She had many celebrity clients in the USA and Europe in the early 1900s and was almost imprisoned for “fortune telling.” Her work focused mainly on financial prediction, though she also did birth charts. She never published a book, but did write articles and would teach publicly. It is believed that W.D. Gann used some of her work as a springboard for his.
William John Warner was a young man from Ireland who traveled to India (one story says he was a traveling tradesman — a plumber’s apprentice) and met his guru in Bombay, where he studied the Vedic sciences while living there. Upon returning to Europe, he created a two-layered identity: Count Louis Harmon and the stage name Cheiro. This allowed him access to circles that he would have been shut out of. He had several royals and celebrities as clients and successfully predicted several world events using both numerology and astrology. Time Magazine wrote an article about him when he died in 1936. He wrote several books, many of which can be sourced as free PDFs.
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