4 Personal Year | May is a 9 Personal Month
🤔 Reflection for May: This is the month to let go of some things that have outworn their usefulness in your life.
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 4 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 4 or 22/4 Personal Year, the key themes are:Â hard work and focused effort, dealing with limiting circumstances, and the solidification and implementation of longer-term goals. If you’re in a 22/4 Personal Year, add to it the emotional intensity and slow progress of the 2 (and double it!), plus the Master intensity demanding that you look toward spiritual mastery.
If this is a Master 22/4 Personal Year for you, look back to the happenings and energy of the 2 Personal Year (and double it!) and mix that up with the foundations-setting energy of the 4. And add a huge dash of spiritual growth and a focus on kicking up how you want your personal legacy to play out for you in this lifetime. (no pressure! ha ha)
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!
The month of May offers some finalizations and conclusions that may or may not be expected — and certainly may not be under your immediate control.
This feels vastly uncomfortable during your 4 Personal Year because you’re striving toward laying down the gauntlet and getting things under control.
Yet often this means — when we participate in the energy of the 4 — that we’re expecting it all to be linear and predictable. Dare I say, not so.
Yet don’t take this as ominous or bad. In fact, just the opposite. What I’m learning (and feel most of us are being invited to learn in the world right now) is that there is ultimate power in reinvention and in the ability to flow and go with transitions.
Tack on the surreal quality of the global happenings this year and, well, as I’ve said before; it’s not business as usual.
This transitional month is designed to get you closer to what you really want.
It’ll offer opportunities to clear out some of the obstacles and clear out some of the old sticky stuff that could very well be holding up the progress you’re so intent on moving forward with this year.
The month of May is a time of surrender and completions — a month guided by the energy of the number 9. When the 9 shows up in a cycle (as it’s doing for you right now as the number of your Personal Month), its job is to move the needle for closure on certain things that are aching to be finalized.
May is a time for certain things to fall away. Yet the impulse might certainly be to reach out and grab for them as they disintegrate, leaving a strange sense of loss, if not emotional angst.
Your catch phrase for the month: “Every new beginning is another new beginning’s end.”
An enterprise or a phase of work may conclude during the week of May 6th. In addition, you also may reach a parting of the ways with a colleague or friend between May 9th and 15th.Â
Either or both of these endings are likely to give you a good deal of freedom you hadn’t anticipated could even exist in your world. So lean into that aspect of the release as you walk through it.
The exit of these people or projects will remove a good deal of restriction you’ve been feeling for quite some time now. Just remember that as you work through the process it’ll take time to regroup and move forward.
It’s going to test your reserves to keep matters on an even keel, particularly between May 18th and the end of the month. Brace yourself!
Take command while releasing expectations of solid plans and outcomes. You’ll need to rely on a strong sense of flexibility, which will feel even more difficult than usual this year.
You may have been dealing with some health-related matters last month and perhaps some of that “proper care and maintenance” is spilling over into May as a priority.
It’s valuable to see how the month of May offers enormous opportunities to remind yourself to remain open — open to possibilities. Open to letting go of what needs to go. Open to seeing things with fresh and open eyes. Open to exploring a slightly different pathway in order to get where you want and need to go.
This is a pivotal month for purging what is no longer vital or useful to your overall endgame for the year. Yes, for the year. Remember, the 4 Personal Year demands that you step back and consider the long-game.
Do what needs to be done with the full knowledge that it’s mandatory that you clear and organize your plate, so to speak, before you can fully engage with your next steps. Enjoy the release and relief you’ll get as you invite some moments of closure during the weeks of May.
Master 22/4 Personal Year
For those in their 22/4 Personal Year, May marks a “Come to Jesus” time where you’re offered the stark truth or the “cold hard facts.” This can show up as a project or relationship that simply isn’t “the one.”
It can also offer some “Eureka” moments where you’ll suddenly see the light, an epiphany (so to speak) and know in your heart and soul that something vital needs to be repositioned.
>If you want to review the nuts-and-bolts about the 4 or 22/4 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. ❤️
