3 Personal Year | July is a 1 Personal Month

🤔  Reflection for July: This is the month to take bold steps forward and believe that everything is possible.

 

This is your month to express yourself and take the lead. You’re really working with all things having to do with creative self-expression and emotional sensitivity this year. There’s a lot of emphasis in connecting with your truth and working with improving communication on every level.

If there are blocks in these areas—and let’s face it, you’d have to be in a coma not to have a few issues in these areas—it’s coming up to be dealt with and won’t be ignored.

This is a year for anything and everything self-improvement related. It’s focused on fun, creativity, and tapping into your expressive emotional landscape.

Yet, understand that this can also be a year where you’ll be challenged to work on expressing your emotions clearly and effectively, so you’ll be offered plenty of opportunities to practice this feat.

So, for example, you’re having a few relationship issues crop up, pressing you to communicate more clearly or bring some harder conversations to the table—that’s what I mean. The 3 Personal Year throws out the status quo and pushes you to ask for more from yourself and of others in the realm of communication and emotional connection.

Interestingly, in your 3 Personal Year, you only get one month out of twelve that brings you this initiating, leadership energy of the number 1, so make it count!

One of the things that I find happens in the 3 Personal Year is that we experience periodic intensity and a heaviness with our emotional life, however that might play out at the moment.

Although this is year where lightness is encouraged, the opposing forces can’t be underestimated. It’s a time where a bit of depression or emotional ups and downs might seep into the mix.

A wave of new direction is coming into play this month for you and it can feel oh-so good. New opportunities open up around July 7th. They’ll continue or expand the progress with some of the activities you’ve been developing for the last six months.

Yet also understand that—while you’re finding yourself faced with some fantastic opportunities—the way in which you want to work with them or incorporate them into your life may feel somewhat indefinite and downright uncertain.

You also might be feeling a bit fatigued energetically. So make sure to devote some time and effort to self-care this month. Take that hike, avoid refined sugar, go to bed early. Whatever it takes to revive and rejuvenate your mind, body, and spirit.

 

This can also be a turn-around relationship month where you begin to reap the benefits of all that practice you’ve been having with expressing and communicating yourself emotionally.

And speaking of emotions—were we speaking of emotions?—July offers a few hum-dingers to you on a platter. So the solution for you is not to chew on these high-intensity emotions all by your lonesome.

Instead, funnel your feelings into your creative projects. It’s the time to bring your emotions to the surface and turn toward contributing something to others rather than stewing in your own juice. Don’t bottle it up.

July offers some moments that are designed to jolt you out of complacency and serve as a catalyst for you to stand up and take the lead in your life. The jolt can either feel unsettling or invigorating—your choice. It’s a time where the more you lean into your unique viewpoints about yourself and about life, the better off you’ll be.

 

CONTEMPLATIVE THOUGHT

I’m moved to share a quote (rather lengthy) from an interview with actor Will Smith.  He’s a Master 22/4 Life Path, BTW. Anyone who knows anything about his life — the ups and downs, trials and tribulations, massive successes and failures — can attest to this hard-won wisdom.  I feel it expresses so many of the issues we’re facing collectively — placed, for example, in the context of the media attention on the recent Bezos-Sanchez wedding extravaganza, Diddy’s trial (he’s a Master 22/4 also, BTW), and there are so many other examples. These are just a few of the obvious and extreme examples that we’re seeing play out right here and right now.

I saw this interview on @realryanblair on IG.

People talk about Rock Bottom, that when you hit rock bottom is when you’ll make a change. But there’s a corresponding place that I call Cliff Top, where you get so high that you realize literally none of this stuff can make you happy.

After you get to the end of the material world–you get to the end of money, you get to the end of sex, you get to the end of fame, you have so much. And then you go off a cliff into the same kind of abyss that you’d be scared of slipping into at rock bottom, where life loses all of its ability to sustain and please you. Then the only thing that’s left is the same thing at Rock Bottom.

The only thing that’s left at Cliff Top is you have to find what you’re actually looking for. And what you’re actually looking for is you.  When you have money it’s cool to buy things, but it’s not the money you like.

What you like is how you feel inside. It’s unleashing a feeling inside. And at Rock Bottom and at Cliff Top, you have to learn how to generate that feeling without anything external.

You have to learn how to like you so much, that you like being alive so much, that you bring positive energy that’s not generated by stuff. Because stuff is coming and going, like people coming and going. Everything you have and everybody you love is going to rise and fall in your life.

The place that we have to find is a spiritual place where we are good with us. We trust us. I trust myself. I trust God and I trust life. That whatever happens, I’m going to make happy out of it. I don’t need specific things to happen.

—Will Smith

 

>>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.  đź’Ą

 

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.  ❤️