1 Personal Year | January is a 2 Personal Month
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🥳
Last year, I focused the Monthly Forecasts by sharing your DIRECTIVE for the month.
I alway intuitively feel out what I feel the key container might be for the year and for 2025, I’m going to focus the monthly forecasts by offering a REFLECTION to frame the energy of the month.
Why? Because 2025 is a 9 Universal Year (find out more about the 9 Universal Year and how it interacts with your Life Path here).
The 9 Universal Year is the end of a global cycle of time. The Universal Year indicates what we’re all experiencing as a global community.
This is a year of emotional and transformational endings, conclusions, and letting go of the old to make room for the new. The 9 is also calls for a spiritual awakening. It’s the number of humanitarianism and of universal wisdom. These are the focal points for 2025.
And it won’t be an easy or comfortable journey!
With that said, I want to avoid any confusion you might have regarding your Personal Year and how it moves from year to year.
First of all, there are two basic 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.
Therefore, if you experienced a 9 Personal Year last year, December was a 3 Personal MONTH.
Then January rolls around and you shift to your 1 Personal Year.
In the 1 Personal Year, January is a 2 Personal Month (we add the 1 Personal Year + the number of the month [January = 1] which is 2).
So you’re experiencing the same vibe that you did two months ago, in November.
The second mode of thought is that the Personal Year runs from birthday to birthday, somewhat like a Solar Return in Astrology.
I acknowledge that there are people who will fiercely assert that the birthday-to-birthday method is the only method.
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.
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.
🤔 Reflection for January: Take a deep breath. Rest. Recharge. Digest. Time for a focus on relationships, networking, and collaborations.
Here you are. Are you ready to dive in with a clean slate or are you still ruminating on or shifting through some unfinished business from your transformational 9 Personal Year?
Luckily, January’s set up as a time for rest, regeneration, and perhaps licking a few (well-won) wounds.
You get a somewhat soft landing into the first of the year, because you begin with the slower, more relationship-driven energy of the number 2.
January is set up more as a percolating time rather than a jumping-right-to-it time. Just step back and appreciate the delays and the “hurry up and wait” that will accompany your heart and mind (and your actual day-to-day activities) during these four-weeks of January.
Instead, focus energy and attention on nurturing relationships, partnerships, and serving some sort of group effort or dynamic.
Emotions are coming up to be felt and expressed in healthier, more mature ways. Relationships are calling to you and need to be priority right now.
Even though you might feel a sense of urgency to get things moving, January is the month to restore, recover, and re-evaluate. All the “re” words.
There may be leftover issues or unresolved stuff from your transitional 9 Personal Year that needs to be wrapped up and put to bed as you bridge into your New Year. If so, January is the perfect time to allow yourself time and room to finish it up. This can be anything from finalizing paperwork, a physical move, or an emotional recalibration.
Patience is the key concept here. I honestly don’t know anyone who loves for plans or desires to be thwarted or delayed. Yet the timing needs to be stretched and integrated differently than you might envision in January.
The cruel joke here is that you’re feeling the intensity of the initiating energy of your 1 Personal Year and yet the energy of the 2 Personal Month has you on a short leash.
Business possibilities potentially come into play toward the end of the month, around January 26th. The key to anything business-related is going to reside in teamwork and following through with details.
Take your time this month. Write down intentions for the year. Get a plan in front of you. You’re in the final year of this vital three-year transition cycle. New beginnings are beaconing.
Right now, take a deep breath. Rest. Recharge. Digest. January is set up as a slower, more relationship-focused month and a time that feels more emotionally raw and sensitive. Yet it’s the perfect time to settle in and take some time to process and digest as you get situated for the dynamic year ahead.
CONTEMPLATIVE THOUGHT FOR JANUARY:
It’s time to step away and get some distance. See how your family (your religion, culture, etc) shaped you. Feel into that shape.
Now ask yourself if you like that shape? If not, what shape would you prefer? If you don’t like your shape or want to change or improve upon it in any way, 2025 is the time to remold your shape into what YOU want it to be. The 9 Universal Year supports all shedding, reshaping, endings, conclusions, and spiritual awakenings.
>>If you need a reminder about the nuts-and-bolts about the characteristics of the 1 Personal Year, check out this video.
**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!
