1 Personal Year | October is a 2 Personal Month
🧠Directive for October: This is the month to tap the brakes! Take a moment to breathe and reposition yourself.
This is a month to regroup, recalibrate, and reset your priorities.
Think back to January of this year. What was unfolding for you then? The energy of the month of October is the same as it was for you in January — the softer and relationship-focused 2.
I find when we repeat a cycle within a cycle—meaning you’re revisiting a 2 Personal Month within a full Personal Year—it’s beneficial to look back and see what was happening during that month and to then see how you might be offered a leveling-up of your experience as you walk through it again.
It’s a time where you can elevate and integrate more deeply the lessons and opportunities presented to you at this time.
This is a month to slow down, refuel, and check the coordinates on your map!
Often during a 1 Personal Year, there’s so much work to be done and so much to manage that you’re dashing through on urgent business all year long, leaving little time or emotional bandwidth for taking a breath or giving yourself permission to adjust your course.
This is a month that allows (or even forces) you to suspend yourself for a moment, like Neo in The Matrix, in slow motion, bending in a backwards limbo position as you dodge a bullet (or two).
October’s a month where you’ll be feeling slightly more emotionally sensitive—which may or may not come as a surprise during your hard-driving year that’s been mostly focused on getting things done and moving forward with all your reserves.
The year has been active and ambitious, yet mostly—I daresay— it can feel as though you’ve been herding cats. And possibly most of those cats are running feral in your own mind!
Right now, there can be breaking points, revelations, and downright changes in direction. Remember the old GPS systems? Whenever you missed a turn-off or went a different direction, that passive-aggressive voice from the GPS would spat out: “Recalculating! Recalculating!”
October might have some of that blunt “recalculating” energy to it, so just be calm and center yourself. Don’t let anything knock you off center.
This can be a month where you feel as though your soul and emotions need to catch up to your external world and begin to integrate in order to form a more complete and complimentary whole.
October is a month of slow-downs, delays, and downright stoppages.
The forward surge of the last ten or twelve weeks may well continue into the first week or so of October. Yet the fast pace will subside throughout the rest of the month, allowing a welcome respite from the intensity of the year, particularly what you experienced during your peak month of September, which was a crescendo in the new beginnings energy of your 1 Personal Year.
On or about October 9th, be prepared for some delays with some of your endeavors that have recently begun. You may have anticipated some of the delays and made allowances for them. Others will come as a surprise, probably around October 18th.
And understand that most of these delays won’t be within your control, which is, of course, everyone’s favorite! (I hope you can sense the slight sarcasm here!)
Yet this can be an enjoyable or at least a pivotal month if you allow yourself to embrace hover mode for a moment. Whatever you do, don’t push it. It’ll just offer you a plate of frustration and also interfere with some critical timing.
The 2 energy of your month encourages you to use your time to catch up with friends and engage in some light social life. This can manifest through some restful travel, taking time for more sleep or more exercise, or taking a yoga class with your bestie or your significant other (just a few examples).
If you’ve been putting off finding a therapist, dedicating yourself to a new eating program, or looking into some other personal support system, now’s the time.
Whatever feels nourishing and slower is really beautiful right now.
This is all to say, give yourself permission to stand still for a moment. Yet, if this is the time when decisions demand action, make sure that you enter into these engagements leading with the heart and with diplomacy at the helm.
Even hard decisions can be made less difficult when dealt with directly, yet with understanding for all involved.
Understand that the energy of October is very much at odds with the underlying energy that you’ve been working with during the year, so it won’t feel entirely comfortable. Or perhaps this energy feels more comfortable to you and the whole “new beginnings” and “tap into your independence” vibe of your Personal Year is beginning to take its toll!
Yet this is the time to see others’ points of view, to use gentle persuasion and active listening over force, and emphasis teamwork and cooperation.
It can be a relationship-focused month where you reconfigure your intimate relationship (if you’re currently involved in one!), involve yourself in networking or other collegial relationship-building, or put added energy into business or work relationships or partnerships.
October is a soft landing for you after a potentially hard-driving month in September.
Allow yourself to rest and rejuvenate. Understand emotions might feel a bit raw and vulnerable. And it’s the perfect time to focus on getting taking things at half-speed as you ready yourself to finish out your 1 Personal Year of new starts and new beginnings.
Those of you who’ve followed me for a while know that I’m someone who offers different schools of thought as they show up in numerology—pointing out different modes of calculating the numbers and disparate ways different numerologist’s do things.
I have always pointed out that there are two schools of thought about the Personal Year. I’m hesitant to do constant reminders about it because, let’s be honest, it can be confusing! And let’s be honest again: Many people just want the 25-second TikTok or Reel of info without thinking much about it.
Be that as it may, I am going to remind you that there are two schools of thought about the Personal Year. Most numerologist’s use the January 1 – December 31st mode of thinking. Others proffer that the Personal Year is more like a solar return (for those of you who’re astrology-minded), instead running from birthday-to-birthday.
If you’re born at the first of the year, this doesn’t effect you as much. Yet once you hit mid-year and beyond, this can really make a difference. And how do you know what’s right and what’s not right? BY HOW YOU FEEL! It’s up to each of us to feel it out and see what feels right to us individually.
**The key to avoid as much confusion if you want to explore the birthday-to-birthday scenario: You would calculate your Personal Year based on the year of YOUR LAST BIRTHDAY. So if you’re reading this right now and your birthday is November 11, you would calculate your Personal Year by adding the Month + Day + LAST YEAR (2023).
In this example, it is 11 + 11 + 7 (2 + 0 + 2 + 3 = 7) = 29; and 2+9 = 11. Up until 11/11, you’re in an 11/2 Personal Year and then you CHANGE INTO THE 3 PERSONAL YEAR on your birthday. Then you begin to read the forecast for the 3 Personal Year. Make Sense? I don’t want to rock your numerology world, yet it’s only fair to consider both options and see what works for you.
>>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!
