5: freedom
The 5 sits at the crossroads of the cycle. It stands equidistant from the 1 and the 9, and it keeps their pace: you get around, compare, change your point of view. The number of the five senses, it learns through direct experience. A 5 year is often recognized by an overflowing calendar, by plans rewritten along the way, by invitations coming out of nowhere. Three words go with it: freedom, movement, curiosity.