8 Personal Year | April is a 3 Personal Month
🤔 Reflection for April: This is the month to express yourself with more playfulness and light-heartedness.
Can you set things up to be a bit more playful and light-hearted this month?
This is the time where you must take your foot off the accelerator for a moment. Take some time to recharge your battery and refuel yourself in April.
April is the perfect month for cultivating your artistic impulses. Creativity is the name of the game right now and creativity isn’t relegated just to the canvas or the stage.
Integrate your creative problem-solving into your projects and you’ll be amazed at how finally some connections will come together and launch into something solid. The key element here is about enjoyment. Are you enjoying yourself or are you just slogging along?
Let’s also place your month into a larger context.
Don’t forget that we’re all globally experiencing a 9 Universal Year — a collective time of unraveling, letting go of the old to make room for the new. It’s tumultuous, emotional, and — most often — confusing and somewhat draining emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
Add to that some rather seismic Astrology:Â Last month (March) alone, this is the break-down:
Venus and Mercury retrogrades, a total lunar eclipse, and the spring equinox, potentially bringing shifts in relationships, communication, and new beginnings.
- March 1: Venus began its retrograde in Aries, which could impact relationships, values, and creative expression.
- March 13-14: A total lunar eclipse, potentially bringing out-of-the-blue shifts in wellness, daily routines, and mental energy.
- March 14 – April 7: Mercury retrograde in Aries, which could lead to miscommunications and re-evaluations, then moving back into Pisces on March 29th, remaining there until after it goes direct on April 7th. Â
- March 20: Spring equinox, marking the start of a new astrological cycle as the sun enters Aries.
- March 29: A new moon and a partial solar eclipse.
What’s the point of this review of what you’ve just been through last month? There’s A LOT going on energetically, whether we like it or not or even believe in it or not. I’ve always joked (but not joked) that once you know both your Astrology and your Numerology, you’re out of excuses!
Just know that this is a year for the record-books globally and perhaps it’s the same for you in your own personal life as well.
Take advantage of the opportunities some friends or family may present during the weeks of April 2nd or 20th. The energy of the month can be social and more relaxed than last month.
It’s also a great time to write and attend workshops or seminars. It’s a perfect month for travel, exploration, following your curiosity, and just living a little!
Can you find a way to ease the pressure of the demanding 8 Personal Year right now?
I know it might seem like you’re slacking, yet here’s the thing. In order to be at peak performance, you have to implement some rest, relaxation, and down-time. Honestly. Otherwise, the more you push, the more you push up against what feels like brick walls. Amazingly, when you take that break, you’ll come back inspired, rested, and much much more productive.
Think of it like this: We have to continue to charge the batteries on our phones or the phone will not function! You can think of this month as a time where you are the phone and you need to be plugged into the charger. You need to recharge your battery so that you can function on (let’s face it) the most basic level.
During the 8 Personal Year, the tendency is to push, push, push. Even when the results are underwhelming. Take a much-needed break.
The vibe for April is open for art, music, and other cultural activities, yet you’ll need to get creative and explore either in person or virtually. Why not find a few that interest you and get a big healing dose of culture and creativity?
How can you lighten up? How can you not take things so seriously while also taking them seriously enough? Is there a way that you can infuse some fun and humor into your engagement with life right now?
The 8 Personal Year can often feel quite intense and serious. Things have a more dire quality about them and you can feel as though you’re under a lot of pressure from every angle.
April is your month to deflect possible burn-out. Given that you’re integrating the light, buoyant, communicative number 3 as your Personal Month, you’ll have the most success when you don’t push quite as hard as you’ve been pushing lately.
I always say the mantra for the 3 is “When you’re laughing, you’re learning!” So take that as your cue for all your engagements this month.
And since the 3 brings light into the darker crevices, you can expect to have some challenges here that test you in your ability to speak your truth, to be more expressive emotionally, and to also encourage others to tap into their “better half” when it comes to communication and expressing themselves creatively.
>> If you want a reminder about the nuts-and-bolts of the 8 Personal Year, watch this short video.
Note: There are two schools of thought regarding the Personal Year.
The first is that it runs from January 1 – Dec. 31 of each calendar year.
The Personal Year is derived from adding together your MONTH of birth + the DAY of birth + the CURRENT YEAR.
Therefore, the logical flow is that it takes place for the calendar year for which it is being calculated.
**Remember: If you subscribe to this mode of thought, your Personal Month RESETS and CHANGES on January 1.
The second mode of thought is that the Personal Year runs from birthday to birthday, somewhat like a Solar Return in Astrology.
If you know my work at all, you’ll know that I’m someone who simply attempts to point out the different schools of thought and then the ball is in your court. It’s up to each of us to determine method makes the most sense to us and feels right or correct.
It’s like anything else in life. People can get really adamant about the correct diet (keto? paleo? vegan? gluten-free? vegetarian? and on and on).
You can go to different doctors with the same condition and get different courses of treatment. You can study Pythagorean numerology, or subscribe more to Chaldean numerology, or other modalities.
I don’t mean to belabor it, but it might surprise you how many people contact me and leave comments insisting that their particular methodology is the only right way to do it.
If you subscribe to the birthday-to-birthday way of thinking, you calculate this way:Â Using your birth date, add the MONTH + DAY + YEAR OF YOUR LAST BIRTHDAY
Just know that you’ll change into a new Personal Year on your BIRTHDAY, meaning that you’ll also change which Personal Year you read for your Forecast! This mode of thinking is more confusing until you wrap your brain around it. 💥
So I just want to be clear. It’s up to YOU to determine what school of thought feels right to you. And it’s ends up being just that: HOW IT FEELS. Sit with it. Ponder it. Feel into it.
If you feel the Personal Year runs from birthday-to-birthday, you will still reference the forecast for your Personal Year, yet the flow of it is a bit more wonky. Meaning: On your birthday, it switches gears and might feel as if it’s more of a dramatic or abrupt shift.
Either way, the forecast still applies to you. Just use your own mind, body, and spirit to make the most out of the information.
For those of you who follow the Grand-Dog Update, I have emotional news.  Oliver passed over to the Dog Star ✨ on March 14th. He was my daughter Miranda’s “Ride-or-Die,” as she says. She adopted him in 2011 from the Humane Society, where he had reportedly been found abandoned in a dumpster in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  I’ll share her written “Obituary” for him:
I knew this day would come, and I still wasn’t ready. ❤️💔 Yesterday, we said goodbye to the sweetest, derpiest, most vocal, expressive, opinionated, and beautiful soul. Oliver was my ride-or-die for over 13 years, my best boy through every chapter, and he lived a full life of so many adventures and so much love. I will miss you more than I can ever say, my little Ollie-boy, Sweet Potato, Ollie Biyali, Mr. Peebody, Oliver Rowdy. Life will not be the same without you. 🥺❤️💔❤️‍🩹
I just wanted to let all of you know that the update will include Rio and Oscar — yet we’ll always think about Oliver as well!  I know he’s up there with our other beloved family dogs.  So Oliver sends all of us love and a reminder to relish all the minutes and enjoy all the snacks.
