Fat years/lean years...biorhythym type stuff...

[Faery-Wings]

Has anyone ever heard of the terminology fat years and lean years? Over 7 years ago, I went to a psychic reader who told me about fat years, where things came easier to you and lean years, where things would be more of a struggle. These periods of time lasted approximately 7 years. At that time she figured out that both me and my hubby were in the middle of our fat years. At that time we bought a house, I had my son, things really did seem to come easy.

Fast foward to today- 7 years later, we would be in the middle of our lean years and everything is a struggle. Things are breaking left and right, money is tight, emotions are raw. Nothing is easy right now. Again, I wonder, coincidence? Is there any basis to this type of biorhythym. I have never heard of anyone else refer to fat/lean years except for that woman.

Anyone else?

[Myst]

I have heard the 7 year thing but not so much in terms of biorythms as natural common denominator. For instance that children's development is most important at 0, 7, and 14 for example. Also that whether a couple makes it to the 7 year mark is telling, and so on.

[Old Witch]

You have to watch out for that 7 year itch, but yeah, I believe life works in cycles.....the earth has cycles, moon has them, sun too........so why can't....for the want of a better word...... relationships have them?........I don't know about the7 yr. length tho....

[SnowStar]

I vaguely remember reading something to that tune in a book about numerology once upon a time. I wish I could remember exactly what it was, but when I was reading it, I recall counting backwards to see how long my parents had been married when they started having problems and I'd found a letter my mum had written my dad but had never given him that had the "D" word in it. ("D" word being divorce) At the time, they'd been married for 14 years.

The funny thing is, that depending on what aspect you're looking at, the first seven years of my life could be considered "fat" years (I was learning a lot, I was spoiled rotten by my grandparents, and I was generally a happy kid, etc.) but then in other senses they were "lean" years as well (we didn't have a lot of money, my dad was unemployed for a length of time, and toward the end of the first 7 years I started developing some still-undiagnosed psychological issues). However from 7-14 those fat and lean aspects almost entirely reversed. Granted I was still learning, I wasn't learning as much, I was bored in school A LOT, I started to distance from the grandparents that spoiled me so much when I was younger, and I wasn't exactly a happy kid anymore. I guess I started to become a little happier when I was 12 and by the time I hit 14 I was pretty happy again. Further on the "fat" side, my family was better off financially, my dad wasn't having as many problems with his job, and we stopped moving around so much. I think I'm definitely in my psychological "fat" years again, but lately we've been feeling the financial pinch again as well as a few family problems and my dad being gone a lot. Come the end of college I think I'll be hitting my psychological "lean" years again, but I'll be in my financial and familial "fat" years, so that actually might work out.

So, maybe there's something to the theory, or maybe its coinsidence. I'll have to see if I can dig that book up again.

[Myst]

Incidentally, I can't say what the significance of 7 is for sure, though I do know it is an important number in terms of cycles and life, at least from what I've been reading about Kemeticism. Even the Ancient Egyptians found that number very significant.

[Faery-Wings]

Hmmm, interesting thoughts. I tried searching and all I came up with was financial fat years and economic trends.

I do remember that your body chemistry supposedly changes every seven years- like I never had bad allergies until I turned 21. :)

Like I had said in a thread in Magic and Rituals, i think I am trying to grasp at a reason for the insanity and struggles I am dealing with; like if I can name it, I could somehow control it, or see an end to it.

I appreciate your thoughts.

Chris

[Lucidia]

it seems to make such odd sense... since my life has been rather strange since i turned 21 in may. hmmm... now i must ponder!

[Faery-Wings]

Hey Lucidia. :)

Makes you wonder doesn't it?

Hope things are getting better for you.

Blessings, Chris