1 Personal Year | February is a 3 Personal Month
🤔 Reflection for February: How can you open into your creative flow and express yourself more directly and authentically?
This is an active, work-related Personal Year. Getting your career on the front burner is a priority—all year long. Yet it’s also a year where you could very well swipe the slate clean and literally start anew. Imagine that! Depending on where you are in your life (are you heading toward retirement or are you just entering the work-force, for example), the demand that you start fresh and begin a cycle that’s reflective of your personal evolution is the key directive, right here and right now.
The 1 Personal Year favors the bold. If in doubt, take a risk and test the limits of your comfort zone.
Right up front, I want to highlight this point: This is a year of new beginnings and yet that doesn’t mean you actually know what those beginnings are going to be yet!
It’s a year-long process of choice, experience, and intention.
Let’s be honest. There’s usually a bit of fatigue at this point. All things considered, a bit of exhaustion would be in order given that this is the final twelve-month push of a rather monumental three-year transition cycle that started in your 8 Personal Year (in 2023).
At this point, you’re continuing to work through some delays offered up last month and with those delays, some feelings of frustration or just this lingering or sizzling sense of uncertainty. If you’re generally a somewhat low-key person, January could have felt glorious in its slowness. If you weren’t pressuring yourself to seize the day and conquer the world, you could be feeling rather rested and at peace right now.
Yet most of the time, we (in all our humanness) get caught up in the anxiety produced when we think we should be achieving, accomplishing, or producing something RIGHT NOW when in reality, everything has a natural flow and rhythm and some of that demands rest, recovery, and taking a pause. Last month allowed you to warm up your engine.
The energy of the 1 offers amazing supportive energy for all things forward-moving, innovative, and outside-of-the-box. Part of the lesson here is to pace yourself and understand that none of the important work you’re doing this year happens overnight.
FEBRUARY IS ALL ABOUT COMMUNICATION & INFUSING SOME PLEASURE INTO YOUR LIFE!
As for the month of February—communication is your calling-card. The energy of the number 3 (the vibe for the month) supports everything creative, emotionally expressive, and thrives on optimism. The focus this month is on creating inner (and outer) confidence and on stepping up your communication effectiveness on every level.
When you tap into what lights you up, you’ll bring whatever you’re doing into the next level of expansion. It steps it up a notch as you bring a reforming energy of optimism into the darker crevices, however that’s showing up for you in the present moment.
Life coach and spiritual guide Martha Beck maintains that the opposite of anxiety isn’t calm. She claims that the opposite of anxiety is CREATIVITY. When we’re anxious, we’re looping and over-thinking within the crevices of our logical, rational, comfort-seeking hemisphere of our left brain. Therefore thinking our way into calm or peace just isn’t possible!
That’s where meditation, quieting the mind, and/or involving ourselves in creative activities (anything from cooking to dancing to artwork to writing to you-name-your-creative-activity of choice) is when anxiety can’t maintain its grip. Anxiety can’t co-exist when we focus on our breath. Nor can it exist when we’re truly engaged with a creative act.
With that said, February supports you to dip into your social and/or creative side. You may even find a new creative direction you’re interested in pursuing sometime around February 11th.
You’ll benefit by approaching a business situation on February 28th with care. It may develop very differently than you expect. Not bad, per se. Just differently than you’re counting on.
Do you feel that new job or career opportunities are slowly opening up or gaining steam or momentum? Sometime around February 16th, you may see some possibilities worth pursuing for further growth and development.
February invites you to bring your creative juice to the mix with your work and in your relationship world. Have some fun. Get some enjoyment and lighten up this month.
CONTEMPLATIVE THOUGHT FOR FEBRUARY:
I listened to a brief podcast featuring relationship expert Esther Perel (who is a powerful 8 Life Path).
Here is a quote from her that I’m grabbing as a mantra or affirmation for 2025 (and beyond…).
“CERTAINTY IS THE ENEMY OF CHANGE.”
>>If you need a reminder about the nuts-and-bolts about the characteristics of the 1 Personal Year, check out this 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 are new to the Monthly Forecast, each month I share pics of my Grand-Dogs! These are my daughters’ dogs: Oliver is the senior gentleman (with one blue eye and one brown eye). Oscar is the Wire-Haired Fox Terrier. Rio is a Pitbull-Mix. They are the Dynamic Trio!
