1 Personal Year | October is a 2 Personal Month
October is a 2 Personal Month:
This is the month to tap the brakes! Take a moment to breathe and reposition yourself. Regroup, recalibrate, and reset your priorities.
October offers opportunities 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).
This is a time 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. Taking a different tact or deciding on a slightly different way to achieve a positive outcome isn’t to be avoided, but rather it’s to be embraced.
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 potential 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 most likely 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.
Yet that doesn’t mean everything is all direct, clear, and tied in a bow. On the contrary. Remember the number 1 in numerology is all about taking independent action and stepping off the beaten path. And it takes a revised sense of courage to do just that.
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 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. Think of it less as “waiting” (which can feel so stagnant and stuck) and instead think of it as being in the process of receiving. It’s like the time it takes between a download being initiated and a download arriving to its point of destination. The wheels are turning. 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 added 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 (or important) 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), initiate 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 for the final months of the 1 Universal Year of 2026.
**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. ❤️
