1 Personal Year | April is a 5 Personal Month
April is a 5 Personal Month:
This is the month not to be derailed by uncertainty—and use curiosity and flexibility to your ultimate advantage.
The 1 Personal Year demands that you choose to walk through some new doors. Okay, fine. Sound good. Sounds easy enough. Yet wait—what doors? Where are they? Have I missed the door? Am I even on the right street—or the right city or country or…? What if I’m not anywhere close to THE door I’m meant to open? AAAAhhhhhhrrggghhh.
Existential crisis, anyone?
Then place the energy of the frenetic and adventurous 5 (which is the vibe for April for you) into the mix, and you’re bound to experience a month of changing circumstances and a few white-knuckle moments!
I trust you’re ready for some plot twists that are ripe and prepped for take-off.
On April 14th or 23rd you can expect more of a punch or crescendo in your pursuits. Can you single-task enough to bring about the results you’d like to experience?
Key concept for April: PURSUIT
A key concept for the month is the idea of pursuit. What is it that you’re pursuing? What’s tugging at your mind, heart, and soul right now? And if you were to actually get it, would you know what to do with it!?!
The 5 month within a 1 Personal Year forces your hand and requires a shake-up. The key is not to throw up your hands and feel that you have no efficacy right now—meaning, this is a time to take action rather than hang around and wait for someone to tell you what to do or to give you a stamp of approval.
When the 5 makes an appearance, there will be changes. And it guides you toward taking a risk and facing your fears. The 5 is a catalyst for change and growth with a focus on seeing the world as your oyster, not your prison. I knew a person who used to repeat this quote: “In life, there’s more to be endured than enjoyed.” The 5 would laugh in my friend’s face and say that’s a matter of opinion and call him out on his negativity and narrow-mindedness.
Use the vivacious energy of the 5 to your advantage this month and really get out there and stretch yourself. When you identify what you are pursuing with the utmost specificity (and with some focus and commitment), the pursuit of it is the point of this month for you.
Get up, get out, and get going! Be unabashed about going after what you want—no apologizing, no justifications, none of that. Get clear and go for it.
Both the energies of the 1 and 5 relate to sudden change, adventure, freedom, achievement, and forward momentum. So lean into it all with a sense of adventure and open curiosity. What could possibly go wrong! 😉#carpe-diem
Given that this is a year devoted to asserting your sense of independence, April will have a bit of built-in pressure around this element of life. The scary part can be that something rather big in your world is ready to turn a corner.
Are you ready to move the needle and embody the very real shifts that you’re being asked to make? Or more succinctly, are you ready to take action and allow the very real shifts to occur that you’ve been working toward?
Isn’t it funny how we can really want something (a new relationship, new job, new opportunity of any kind…) and then it presents itself to us and then we have to choose to make the changes necessary in order to actually do it! That’s when the proverbial rubber meets the road.
A complete change in your reality is taking place right now and it can feel both exhilarating—and potentially weird and anxiety-producing. It’s time to open up to new experiences, new people—new everything.
Flexibility and resourcefulness can pay big dividends in April. The energy of the 5 can bring you fears to face, acknowledge, and tame. How can you gain some level of freedom even within confining situations?
The overall energy of the 5 is about freedom. April brings opportunities to act upon whatever you want to do in order to gain higher levels of freedom in your life.
April promises to serve as a turning-point month for you in your 1 Personal Year if you’re ready to pursue a new trajectory with commitment and curiosity. Be ready for some doors to open and then even more ready to walk through them!
**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: 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.
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>>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 just starting to follow the monthly forecasts, I always share a photo of my Grand Dogs. Both of my daughter’s are proud dog Mom’s. Rio is a Pitbull mix and Oscar is a Wire-Haired Fox Terrier, and Penny the puppy. ❤️
