3 Personal Year | January is a 4 Personal Month
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🥳
Last year, I focused the Monthly Forecasts by sharing your DIRECTIVE for the month.
I alway intuitively feel out what I feel the key container might be for the year and for 2025, I’m going to focus the monthly forecasts by offering a REFLECTION to frame the energy of the month.
Why? Because 2025 is a 9 Universal Year (find out more about the 9 Universal Year and how it interacts with your Life Path here).
The 9 Universal Year is the end of a global cycle of time. The Universal Year indicates what we’re all experiencing as a global community.
This is a year of emotional and transformational endings, conclusions, and letting go of the old to make room for the new. The 9 is also calls for a spiritual awakening. It’s the number of humanitarianism and of universal wisdom. These are the focal points for 2025.
And it won’t be an easy or comfortable journey!
With that said, I want to avoid any confusion you might have regarding your Personal Year and how it moves from year to year.
First of all, there are two basic 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.
Therefore, if you experienced a 2 Personal Year last year, December was a 5 Personal MONTH.
Then January rolls around and you shift to your 3 Personal Year.
In the 3 Personal Year, January is a 4 Personal Month (we add the 3 Personal Year + the number of the month [January = 1] which is 4).
So you’re experiencing the same vibe that you did two months ago, in November.
The second mode of thought is that the Personal Year runs from birthday to birthday, somewhat like a Solar Return in Astrology.
I acknowledge that there are people who will fiercely assert that the birthday-to-birthday method is the only method.
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.
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.
🤔 Reflection for January: You’re starting out on a serious note. This is a month to set a plan in place and take care of the details. Take time to stabilize yourself as you head into a lighter year.
While the 3 Personal Year is all about expression and creative expression, the 3 Personal Year can feel a bit volatile. It’s set up as a lighter year where fun, optimism, and self-improvement are at the forefront.
Yet, this is also set up as a time where you get to engage your emotional life in a deeper and dare I say, more “up in your grill” way.
The 3 Personal Year is designed as a lighter, social, fun, and expressive year. Sign me up, right? Yet I’ll also give you fair warning: The 3 Personal Year can sometimes move in and out of feeling rather heavy emotionally.
For instance, it’s a time where your relationship partner comes to you seeking couples therapy to work through some long-standing emotional disconnection.
Or perhaps it’s a year where a relationship with a certain family member requires that you speak up for yourself in a different way or see the ways in which you have not been emotionally available. Just two examples, but you get the idea. Emotions. Working through old trauma. Expression on all levels.
Your emotional life and your emotional reactions, responses, traumas, and stories are under the microscope. And not only are they under the microscope, the next step is to then work toward resolving, dissolving, dismantling, and healing these very real, very core issues. Not to sound too dire about it, but, hey. This is where the true treasure is buried for you this year.
This month starts off on a bit of a (uh-um) serious note, though.
While it’s your 3 Personal Year, January is guided by the number 4, which is an odd step-sibling to the number 3. They often just don’t get each other!
The 3 (of your Personal Year) is all about creativity and emotional self-expression while the 4 (the energy you’re immersed in during the month of January) is pragmatic, organized, and places emotions in a holding-tank.
If investing in real estate is something you’ve been considering, check into the possibility of buying or selling property, possibly around January 18th. Get everything in order and take care of any paperwork or legal matters on January 22nd or so.
This is a perfect time to do your research into that self-improvement project that’s suddenly capturing your spirit. Perhaps signing up for that 8-week class on intuitive development, the public speaking group, or sitting down with your accountant and getting real about this year’s budget is calling your name.
January is the time to get things in order so you can afford some playtime as the year unfolds.
One of the other connecting elements with the 3 and the 4 has to do with looking at emotional trauma based in family dynamics. This can be as simple as just finding words to express an experience from your past that continues to plague you. Or better still, to take that experience and use it to express something creatively or artistically — by writing a song, sitting down with paint and a canvas, or by doing a photo essay exploring the feelings or the themes of your past experience.
Or perhaps this comes up in January as an actual hard conversation with someone in the family or an uncomfortable opportunity to express your true feelings.
Either way, January is designed as a solid springboard from which to catapult into your creative and communication-focused year.
CONTEMPLATIVE THOUGHT FOR JANUARY:
It’s time to step away and get some distance. See how your family (your religion, culture, etc) shaped you. Feel into that shape.
Now ask yourself if you like that shape? If not, what shape would you prefer? If you don’t like your shape or want to change or improve upon it in any way, 2025 is the time to remold your shape into what YOU want it to be. The 9 Universal Year supports all shedding, reshaping, endings, conclusions, and spiritual awakenings.
>>If you want a reminder about the nuts-and-bolts of the 3 Personal year, watch this short 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!
