4/1 Power to effect change
Today’s Mathematics for April 1st (4/1):
Power
Culture/Freedom (4) and Knowledge (1),
which together equal Power (5).
Let's break it down:
4 (Culture/Freedom): Culture represents one's way of life, the practices and principles that guide daily existence. Freedom signifies liberation from mental and physical oppression, achieved through the understanding and application of one's culture.
1 (Knowledge): Knowledge is the foundation of all things, representing awareness, learning, and the acquisition of facts. It is the light that leads to understanding.
4 + 1 = 5 (Power): Power is the ability to influence and effect change. When one lives according to their true culture (4) and possesses knowledge (1), they gain the power (5) to positively impact themselves and their surroundings.
Therefore, today's mathematics teaches us that embracing our culture and continually seeking knowledge empowers us to bring about meaningful change in our lives and communities.
Today's Sagittarius Horoscope from Cafe Astrology
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You can be drawn to activities that involve taking care of problems, micromanaging, tidying, and organizing today, dear Sagittarius.
You feel dedicated, responsible, and willing to set aside personal goals to take care of business.
The chances you’ll stumble upon helpful information as you make your way through this week run high.
This week and as you advance, an influence with you until January is powerful for a general sense of productivity.
While you experience essential life lessons, rules, or restrictions related to your home, family, and personal life, you’re also finding fantastic outlets for releasing related stress or tension or creating a better sense of balance. Compartmentalizing and balancing work and home life can be the key, or your work and home life can combine in magical and practical ways.
Things to remember for this month:
The Sun this Month: Central Focus, Consciousness
Until April 9th:
The Sun continues to put a spotlight on your solar fourth house. This is a period of time when worldly matters are not as important to you.
It's a period of recharge, of getting in touch with your innermost feelings, of connecting with your roots, and of spending more time and energy on home and family.
Home and family matters capture your attention and are a strong source of pride now.During this heart-warming cycle, you would do best to allow yourself to explore your inner needs so that you can nurture yourself and others in a healthy, growth-oriented manner, in preparation for more outgoing times to come.
•From April 9th forward:
The Sun illuminates your solar fifth house now. After a period of "nesting", you are coming out of your shell, ready to perform and to express yourself creatively.
This is a very playful period of the year, when you are inspired creatively and emotionally.
After a period of self-protectiveness, you are now more spontaneous and more willing to take risks.
You take more pride than usual in your creations, your love affairs, your children, and your hobbies.
Daily Journal – 4/1/25
It’s morning.
The sun is technically up, but the clouds have formed a full grey brigade.
It’s cold, windy, and generally unpleasant—the kind of weather that suggests someone forgot to draw the curtains back on the sky.
I have no idea what this day holds. I woke up early, despite going to sleep far too late. Just like old times: poor planning masquerading as nostalgia.
I’d like to reclaim some of my older habits, like waking before the sun. There’s something smugly satisfying about starting the day before everyone else. I’m usually the first one up in our house, not that anyone’s handing out trophies.
There’s a sacred stillness in the early morning—before the animals stir, before the day begins its noisy shuffle. Everything is suspended in that cold hush, like the world hit the snooze button.
Truth be told, night is my favorite time of day. I don’t like going to bed early—or going to bed at all, really. I’ve been hearing that being awake at certain hours increases your chances of heart attacks and strokes. Charming.
And yet, here I am. I often fall asleep early only to wake, for reasons unknown, and remain up until 4 or 5 a.m., then drift off just in time to wake again at 6:30 or 7. It’s a sleep schedule designed by chaos.
Work used to give my days structure—grim, stifling structure. I’d rise hours before my shift just to steal a sliver of time for myself. Time is the currency most easily plundered when you’re caught in the machine.
It’s as if my time was stolen on our wedding night by some greedy king, and only now—after years of abuse—has it been returned to me: battered, stretched out of shape, barely recognizable.
The last few months have been spent trying to reconstitute some semblance of normalcy. What is real, what is true, and what is actually mine? Where is my motivation? What, if anything, do I desire?
It feels like I’ve been absent from myself. As though I’d been away at war, or worse—locked away in prison. Now that I’m “free,” I must reacquaint myself with whoever I once was—the person I abandoned long ago.
Who even is that?
Am I rebellion incarnate? The one who defies rules and laughs at authority? Am I the defender of the underdog, or just a well-dressed troublemaker with a taste for upheaval?
It seems my entire life has been spent fighting the opposition.
My father died.
I quit my job in hopes of carving a new path forward.
Those were the two biggest opponents I could identify. The rest of the resistance? That’s scattered out there in the world.
It’s no wonder I incarnated on this planet when I did. I’ve always wondered why I was born in the ‘70s and not twenty years earlier. I wanted to be at Woodstock, to see the bands and the people who made that era something wild and holy.
Maybe I was there in a previous life. Or maybe I was someone else entirely—on the other side, in a different skin, playing a different role. Perhaps even the aggressor.
It’s all speculative. That knowledge is lost to the aether, and the aether isn’t giving up its secrets today.
What I do know is who I am now, and who I hope to become. I was limited—by my job, by my mindset. And now I’ve been released from those constraints. I can try to live free.
But what is that, really?
And how does one… live free?
