3 Personal Year | May is an 8 Personal Month
🤔 Reflection for May: This is the month to blow self-doubt across the room and empower yourself on every level!
May is upon us and there’s no better time to circle back and offer a reminder about the key elements or themes you’re working with all year long in your 3 Personal Year.
I like to describe the Personal Year as knowing the theme to your party! It’s so much more fun that way!
And I think it’s valuable to think of it in exactly that way. As if you’re showing up for a party (that you happen to have to attend for an entire twelve months!), so most certainly you’d rather know if it’s a baby shower, birthday party, Bachelor (or Bachelorette) Party, Memorial service, or a drinking party with Charades.
Ah, yes. Don’t show up to the wrong party wearing the wrong outfit!
For you in your 3 Personal Year, the key themes are: self-improvement on every level, up-leveling your communication skills, finding what brings you joy, and engaging your creativity. It also can offer some pretty heavy moments of emotional turmoil.
What I love about numerology is that it offers us the key elements that are always in play, supporting us and offering opportunities. So, if we know the themes and energies that are available to us, then we can focus and intentionally use that supportive energy to our benefit.
Either we can use the energy OR the energy can use us!
A focal point for the year is to uncover what brings you joy and enjoyment. As you do that, you’re bound to uncover some past (or present) trauma that’s begging to be worked through.
Finding your joy is a large order. Brené Brown offers this nice bit of insight into the emotional space that “joy” might constitute.
She says: “People don’t understand that joy is the most vulnerable emotion that we experience. Far more vulnerable than fear or shame. We’re terrified of joy because when we let ourselves feel joy we’re so afraid that we’re going to get sucker-punched by pain. And so what we do when something joyful comes along is we dress rehearse tragedy or we diminish it. I think people are turning towards cynicism and pessimism because it’s safe. To hold on to joy and love and hope in these moments, that’s courage.”
Words of wisdom as you navigate the sometimes strange landscape of the 3 Personal Year.
Yet now you’re bridging into May, which is a more intense and money-oriented month guided by the energy of the number 8.
May can be an exciting month with a good chance of forward movement in your business or creative ventures.
A colleague or a personal contact may present interesting possibilities for your consideration around May 2nd.Â
The energy of the month of May is all about money and tapping into your personal empowerment. It’s a month where you’ll go to bed every night—and wake up every morning—thinking about your finances and your career.
The focus will be on how content you are with your financial well-being or how much you’d like to have more financial abundance.  And usually it’s a little of both, right?
It’s also a month where your sense of personal power will be tested, so understand it’s going to feel rather intense. You can be met with some emotionally explosive incidents, victimy feelings (how could they do that to me?), and demands that you take charge, take full and utter responsibility for yourself, and use your decisive business savvy.
You’ll benefit from putting the emotions on the back burner and getting down to business—which is admittedly difficult since you’re seeped in a year prodding you to step into your emotions and igniting your creative flow.
Just know that close friends (or friends of friends) may unlock new avenues of development and opportunity around May 11th or 18th.
This is your year to tap into your creativity, so remember this as you dive into the opportunities coming your way. An imaginative or off-the-beaten path approach can be very useful.
When you express yourself creatively, it’ll accelerate the progress of your various projects. Remember also that “creative” doesn’t necessarily mean artistic.
In this context, creative problem solving is key.
The key element for your 3 Personal Year resides in how your can bring lightness and humor into situations without bringing either toxic positivity or depressive cynicism to the table. Two of the ultimate extremes, to be sure.
Yet the 3 Personal Year begs you to use optimism in its highest formulation. It’s that delicate balance between not worrying about the small stuff and also not to minimize or avoid issues that need to be addressed.
The Dalai Lama brings up a great point about the value of optimism.
He says: “One very important factor for sustaining hope is to have an optimistic attitude. Optimism doesn’t mean that you are blind to the reality of the situation. It means that you remain motivated to seek a solution to whatever problems arise. Optimism involves looking at a situation not only in relation to problems that arise, but also seeking out some benefit – looking at it in terms of its potential positive outcome.”
The energy of the 3 Personal Year offers so many opportunities to express yourself and often those opportunities show up across the board — offers to lecture, teach, write, present or involve yourself in other creative or artistic pursuits.
Or in the personal realm — love/relationship, travel, and popularity can be a point of emphasis for you as you learn the value of dynamic and healthy creative self-expression.
The energy of the 8 is an amplifier and so whatever you choose to focus on this month will have a tendency to manifest at a rapid pace — so make sure you’re directing yourself into what you want rather than what you don’t want. Tackle your fears to the ground — don’t let them stop you.
May puts the spotlight on your financial and business life, so whistle while you work and buckle down and go after what you want. Get serious about your desires, banish self-doubt and go after it. Don’t expect anything to be handed to you on a silver platter this month. It’s all about taking active and decisive steps toward what you want to create, manifest, and see happen.
>>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:Â 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.
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. ❤️
