Story & Lesson Highlights with Jacquii Leveine of Brooklyn

Jacquii Leveine shared their story and experiences with us recently and you can find our conversation below.

Good morning Jacquii, we’re so happy to have you here with us and we’d love to explore your story and how you think about life and legacy and so much more. So let’s start with a question we often ask: What do the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is give thanks and say affirmations to my Ori, God-head. My mind is my compass that steers me toward my destiny. I pray to God, my spiritual society of peers, and my ancestors for carrying me every day. I meditate to align my chakras and hold a two-minute plank to strengthen my core.

Numbers and cards are my career, so I pull a few oracle cards to see what I’m contending with for the week. I look at my numbers and cards of the day to align with their energies and obtain a better understanding of potential obstacles that I must overcome. This practice takes 30 minutes if I stay focused.

After that, if time permits, I cycle around Prospect Park three times and ground myself in the earth, weather permitting. This takes forty-five minutes. I come back home to juice ginger, oranges, and mangoes with sea moss and find something good to eat that won’t undo everything I did prior to my meal.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I am a New York-based numerology, astrology, and cardology expert. I provide personalized insights that help to unblock obstacles and maximize people’s full worth. Whether it’s understanding their life’s purpose or planning their professional year in advance, I offer divine guidance that aligns with their cosmic timelines. I am a master teacher. I am a podcaster. I am an author. I am a jeweler. I am the Empress of Numerology. I am a Jazz Singer. I am an all-encompassing healer.

I was a professional educator, grant writer, and executive director within the New York City Department of Education for seventeen years. I left my government post in 2018 in pursuit of my entrepreneurial dream: To heal generations with the numerical wisdom and purpose found in numerology. As the Empress of Numerology, I combine numerology, astrology, and cardology with my intuitive gifts to provide personalized coaching to people who want to maximize their life cycles for lifelong achievement.

I have a successful record of transforming professionals and entrepreneurs into spiritually masterful and compassionate bosses. I’m the author of three books, my memoir, Knocking from the Inside: A Memoir Veiled in Numbers, and two numerology/cardology books: Numbers Decoded, Cards Unfolded and Numbers Spelt, Cards Dealt.

I have expanded my brand to provide healing through my jewelry line: Kith & Kin Gemstones. I call my line Kith & Kin because the word Kith is an Old English word which originally meant knowledge, one’s native land, and friends and neighbors. The phrase “kith and kin” primarily denotes one’s country and relatives. Kith & Kin Gemstones is the jewelry line of your soul’s home, tribe, and language. It activates your ancestral DNA–Divine Numerological Argot (dialect).

Using precious metals such as silver, 18k gold, and platinum I created by first collection, Birth Power Chains, which is based on the birthday number. Your birthday number is key. Numbers are the language of the soul; so, it only made sense to pair your birthday number with genuine .925 silver and gemstones to balance your body, mind, and spirit while maximizing your numerical power. Your birthday number also denotes your natural abilities, talents, and super powers. It’s the number you use to manifest all things. I pair it with genuine 18K gold or platinum to alchemize your mindset into one of prosperity.

I believe in these uncertain financial times, where people are still leery of cryptocurrency, we should wear our wealth. Precious metals realign us with real currency, coming from the earth. They’re tangible, value appreciates over time, and they’re highly programmable. The same way we program crystals and stones, we can program precious metal to manifest the destiny we’re here to realize. If someone told me I’d be a jewelry designer and maker five years ago, I would’ve scoffed in disbelief; but I launched my jewelry line in October 2024, and I love every minute of it. I’m currently working on my second collection, The HexaGod. It’s designed to bring balance to wearers while bridging the spiritual and material realms.

I infuse my spiritual practice into my music as a Jazz singer. I’ve been singing for fourteen years and do it professionally now. My debut album is titled, Womban of Words. It adds a new lyrical perspective to great Jazz instrumentals. Many of the songs feature original lyrics that take the listener through an auditory examination of my thought process about love and the human condition. My focus and mission, in everything I do, is cosmic healing.

Thanks for sharing that. Would love to go back in time and hear about how your past might have impacted who you are today. What’s a moment that really shaped how you see the world?
I worked in the New York City Department of Education for seventeen years. I started as a technology teacher and progressively worked my way up to becoming the Deputy Executive Director of an office called District School Design. My office’s work involved designing and opening new schools, consolidating under-enrolled schools, closing under-performing schools, and working with district schools to give them flexibility in the union contract to have extended school days, four-day work weeks, and online learning opportunities among other things.

The work was high-profile and grueling. I became disillusioned with the school closures first because it was work I inherited and didn’t sign on to do. It also looked at school communities as data on a piece of paper and lines of demarcation on a citywide map. Much of my time was spent after work at community board hearings listening to the cries and laments of students and families being ripped apart. Many of my colleagues treated these hearings as a necessary formality–a check mark on a list of to-dos along their way up the administrative ladder.

This experience shaped the way I viewed the world because I witnessed the progressive damage every NYC mayor inflicted on a school system too large to grasp and too unwieldy to maintain. Every new leadership cabinet failed to understand the nuance of the city–it’s culture, it’s history, it’s underlying connective thread, the work that was done before to add correction. Instead, new administrations came in every four years to tear down what was there like it had no previous belonging or standing in the world. They had no consideration for the fact that the natural cycle of completion is nine. It takes nine years to build, realize, and complete any undertaking. They expected to see gains in two years–three years maximum. It was impossible. That’s when I realized there was no place for me in that world. It was all a farce. I went to work every day, feeling important, adding to a broken system. The spiritual essence of the work was missing.

Now, my work is with people; and when working with people, I’m working with the total being: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. I view the world through a spiritual, third-eye, lens, first. I don’t believe anything I see with my bare two eyes, and I question everything I hear–judging the source from whence it came and the momentum of his/her agenda.

What did suffering teach you that success never could?
I’ve had very few bouts with suffering because any suffering I did endure was self-inflicted. I’ve learned that suffering results from a lack of faith. My practice teaches me that there are ebbs and flows to life–peaks and valleys. Moments spent in the valley are not meant to punish, but to provide a reprieve, a change in perspective, recalibration. I’ve had to reevaluate the systems and doctrines that I held dear to me in my previous, corporate life. Social status meant a lot to me then. Credit scores governed my purchasing power and labels defined my style. I’m in a thirteen-four pinnacle lesson, meaning that I must rebuild my life from the bottom up by myself. It’s karmic debt. Thirteen is a karmic debt number that indicates my lack of effort in my previous life. So, for the next three and a half years, I must toil to build a solid foundation. I would’ve crumbled under the enormity of this feat without faith in the unknown and unseeable. Moments that appeared to be the hardest were steeped in doubt and negativity. I had to learn to relinquish control of the situation, working toward the goal, believing that it would all work itself out. And it did.

Building my business, I’ve endured what many of my previous peers would deem to be failures. I welcome failure, though. That’s where the lesson resides. What makes me a master teacher are the failures I’ve experienced and the solutions I created to overcome them. I tell my students all the time, “I teach to my failures, not my successes.” It’s that simple. Success breads complacency. I get too comfortable in a successful space. And if I’m always successful, for what do I have to strive? I make it may business to “fail” or “break things” in many ways; thus, giving me an opportunity to produce multiple solutions. As a teacher, I’ve learned that my students will make mistakes of all kinds. I like to be in a position where I’m prepared to provide multiple strategies.

Another thing I tell my students is, “Stop trying to live a life devoid of pain. Pain is a necessary part of growth; but when pain becomes one’s permanent playground, that’s a breeding ground for suffering.” When life is smooth, I get comfortable. Pain wakes me up. It keeps me alert. It makes me feel. As an entrepreneur whose life is about building systems, I sometimes forget to feel. I become detached from my heart space and get too much in the mind. The pain associated with the loss of love, money, or trust gives me the opportunity to reexamine my ideals. I already have the keys and blueprint with numerology and cardology. Did I heed the guidance? Did I purposely avoid these tools’ counsel to experience life unwittingly? I take all of this qualitative data into consideration as I continue to evolve and find the right balance. That’s what we should always strive to be–balanced.

Alright, so if you are open to it, let’s explore some philosophical questions that touch on your values and worldview. What’s a belief or project you’re committed to, no matter how long it takes?
I am committed to making numerology, astrology, and cardology metaphysical sciences that are studied and learned by all. I live to ensure that they become a part of the school curricula, infused in learning at all grade levels from early childhood to graduate studies. I also want to see them integrated into the workforce as measures of professional growth and relating as is Myers Briggs. Ancient ancestors relied on these sciences to make important life decisions and contributions to civilization. Over time, humanity has become cosmically dumbed down and afraid to utilize this knowledge because it’s been propagandized as being religiously conflicting. These are sciences that have no bearing on the various Gods we serve. It’s time to remove the fear and ignorance. That’s my life’s work. That’s my life’s mission. I spent seventeen years designing forward-thinking systems and school environments for the Department of Education. I’ll dedicate that much time and more to develop schools of higher consciousness and metaphysics.

Thank you so much for all of your openness so far. Maybe we can close with a future oriented question. If you laid down your name, role, and possessions—what would remain?
If I laid down my name, role, and possessions, my healing and insightful energy would remain to regenerate and restore the masses who are enlightened enough to access my frequency.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://jazafrodite.com/
• Instagram: @jaz.afrodite
• Twitter: @JazAfrodite