3 Personal Year | April is a 7 Personal Month

đŸ€”Â  Reflection for April: This is the month to take a time out and recalibrate and refresh your direction in life.

 

This is prep time or time out in the midst of your social and creative 3 Personal Year. Think of April is an extended moment for a retreat. This could be an actual retreat or simply time and space you carve out for yourself within your day-to-day responsibilities.

Are you undergoing a total revamp in your life at the moment? Do you feel the need to reconfigure your entire squad? If this is the case, this is a great month to act upon those decisions and determinations with more conviction, yet also know that you’re gathering intel and information right now.

Next month you can implement what you’re evaluating right now. So don’t push it.

 

Let’s also place your month into a larger context.

Don’t forget that we’re all globally experiencing a 9 Universal Year — a collective time of unraveling, letting go of the old to make room for the new.  It’s tumultuous, emotional, and — most often — confusing and somewhat draining emotionally, physically, and spiritually.

Add to that some rather seismic Astrology:  Last month (March) alone, this is the break-down:

Venus and Mercury retrogrades, a total lunar eclipse, and the spring equinox, potentially bringing shifts in relationships, communication, and new beginnings.

  • March 1: Venus began its retrograde in Aries, which could impact relationships, values, and creative expression.
  • March 13-14: A total lunar eclipse, potentially bringing out-of-the-blue shifts in wellness, daily routines, and mental energy.
  • March 14 – April 7: Mercury retrograde in Aries, which could lead to miscommunications and re-evaluations, then moving back into Pisces on March 29th, remaining there until after it goes direct on April 7th.  
  • March 20: Spring equinox, marking the start of a new astrological cycle as the sun enters Aries.
  • March 29: A new moon and a partial solar eclipse.

What’s the point of this review of what you’ve just been through last month? There’s A LOT going on energetically, whether we like it or not or even believe in it or not. I’ve always joked (but not joked) that once you know both your Astrology and your Numerology, you’re out of excuses!

Just know that this is a year for the record-books globally and perhaps it’s the same for you in your own personal life as well.

 

Between April 9th and 27th, you’ll spend some time by yourself, contemplating or studying with minimal interruption. This slow-down fits the bill with the energy of your more contemplative month of April.

See if you can find a way to travel for a fresh jolt of energy, even if it’s a close-by weekend jaunt or day trip.

It’s funny.  I’ll use this story as an example of the energy you’re involved with in April. Author Joyce Carol Oates once observed that people who want to be writers don’t fail because they’re not good at writing.  She says that people fail to be productive or good at writing because they get interrupted by other people!

I’m not sure if you agree with that and yet it’s an interesting train of thought that might guide you in April during your contemplative 7 Personal Month.

Make sure you carve out the time you need to work on those creative projects and don’t let other people’s wants and needs get in your way (within reason, of course!).

Because remember, your 3 Personal Year is all about bringing those creative projects into form, whether it’s a book, on-line course, series of music or songs, a screenplay, your new line of jewelry, ceramics, painting or any other creative or artistic project you might be in the midst of birthing.

And if you’re not working on a creative project per sĂ©, most likely the creative project you’re actually working on is YOU.

Certainly this year has already been an exploration and expansion of yourself in ways that are perhaps surprising—hopefully in a way that causes delight, pleasure, and expansion into who you really are—an alignment with your most authentic nature.

 

You’re dealing with a lot of emotions this year anyway and the energy of this month has the potential to tweak your shadow side a bit more than you might like. You could very well feel alone or hurt by what others do (or don’t do) or say (or don’t say).

Around April 18th, take some time to assess personal problems or issues you’re working on or some new awareness you’ve recently developed. This is most likely focused on expressing yourself and your deeper and messier emotions. Don’t hold it in. This is the time to get it all on the table.

Understand that some spiritual matters may need your attention now, however you personally define that. To me that simply means that there are some higher-level issues taking the front seat right now and these may be somewhat difficult to pin down.

Engage yourself in those mysterious and inexplicable feelings. This is the month to step into some of the more hidden and buried aspects of yourself and shine a little light on them. Those issues might squint and try to shield themselves from view, yet if you tread slowly and mindfully, they will open to you when it’s safe for them to step out of the shadows.

Just be sure that you don’t run away from your feelings and retreat from opening yourself to the vulnerabilities that come into play as you process some of those deeper pain-points this month. The pay off is exponential.

 

Use this time to process and to sit with your feelings and experiences without labeling them. Zach Rehder, a friend and Intuitive Healer and facilitator of conscious breath work, always says this simple statement after facilitating a group through breath work. And it applies to you this month.  He says:

“You’ll experience a lot of weird stuff coming up for the next several weeks. And rather than place a story to it or a meaning around it, I encourage you to stop and ask yourself: ‘What if this doesn’t mean what I think it means?’

And then just sit with that and see what unfolds. Those are wise words for you for the month of April and beyond.

 

>>If you want a reminder about the nuts-and-bolts of the 3 Personal year, watch this short 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:  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.  đŸ’„

 

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 follow the Grand-Dog Update, I have emotional news.  Oliver passed over to the Dog Star ✹ on March 14th. He was my daughter Miranda’s “Ride-or-Die,” as she says. She adopted him in 2011 from the Humane Society, where he had reportedly been found abandoned in a dumpster in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  I’ll share her written “Obituary” for him:

I knew this day would come, and I still wasn’t ready.Â â€ïžđŸ’”Â Yesterday, we said goodbye to the sweetest, derpiest, most vocal, expressive, opinionated, and beautiful soul. Oliver was my ride-or-die for over 13 years, my best boy through every chapter, and he lived a full life of so many adventures and so much love. I will miss you more than I can ever say, my little Ollie-boy, Sweet Potato, Ollie Biyali, Mr. Peebody, Oliver Rowdy. Life will not be the same without you. đŸ„șâ€ïžđŸ’”â€ïžâ€đŸ©č

I just wanted to let all of you know that the update will include Rio and Oscar — yet we’ll always think about Oliver as well!  I know he’s up there with our other beloved family dogs.  So Oliver sends all of us love and a reminder to relish all the minutes and enjoy all the snacks.