4 Personal Year | January is a 5 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 3 Personal Year last year, December was a 6 Personal MONTH.
Then January rolls around and you shift to your 4 Personal Year.
In the 4 Personal Year, January is a 5 Personal Month (we add the 4 Personal Year + the number of the month [January = 1] which is 5).
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: This is a month asking you to be open to new opportunities and experiences. You get to start out your hardworking year with a lighter and adventurous month.
This is a year devoted to getting your house in order.
The 4 Personal Year is a year that’s set up for you to take a step back and see where there might be fissures in your personal “foundation,” however that might show up for you. It’s also time to build upon the strength of the structure you have in place if you feel that the foundation from which you are building is the right one for you.
This is the time to set up some systems that serve to make your life easier and more productive for the longer haul.
Also understand that just because the 4 Personal Year is all about long-term goals setting, implementation, and the concerted effort it takes to do it, it’s not as though that’s going to feel all “rah-rah” to you — at least not all the time.
What I mean is: Since the 4 is all about limitation, effort, and taking pragmatic steps, the pull to do the opposite is rather intense.
If you’re a procrastinator, this trait won’t magically disappear during a 4 Personal Year. On the contrary, it’ll be called to the front of the line to be mastered. The 4 calls for organization, so tendencies for disorganization will also be called forward. See how this might play out?
January might offer you a bit of diversion as you slide into this hard-working year. Often, the 4 Personal Year is the time to begin to implement some of those creative projects you put into form last year.
This month is a 5 Personal Month for you and the 5 and the 4 have extremely different personalities! The 4 of your entire year demands effort and a rather sober review of where you are and what direction you want to go. And then it’s all about actually planning it, strategizing the best pathway, and then showing up for the daily effort in order to go from point A to point Z.
Yet the personality of the 5 is like the rogue best friend whose always encouraging you to skip class, to sleep in, or daring you to have one more drink (which always turns into four . . .) even when you know you have important meetings in the morning.
So, just understand that this month might feel a bit strange. Do you play or do you put in the hours to finish the third draft of your new mission statement?
During the week of January 7th, expect some new information or opportunities to arise that will assist you in moving your projects forward in a positive direction. Between January 17th and 26th, some additional opportunities are likely to come to your attention that have staying-power.
This is your opportunity to infuse some new ideas into your mission statement. Open yourself to possibility. You might end up running into a new person who offers some amazingly new ideas that you’ve been struggling to uncover. It’s like that feeling that something is missing, yet you have no idea what it is. Then someone comes into your world and offers different information, an alternative perspective, or an infusion of perspective that suddenly completes your pie (so to speak).
After your creative 3 Personal Year, usually this is the time to implement something that you set into creation last year. Did you write your book, get your new business clarified, or do some major healing work on yourself? This is the year that offers you a platform to implement and manifest what you created last year. What can you set in motion this month that will — ultimately — allow you more levels of freedom than you can imagine?
Dream big and yet know that the 4 Personal Year can feel rather arduous. It makes sure you’re serious about what you want and demands that you take the actions and make the pragmatic decisions that are necessary to bring your next “thing” into reality.
No magical fairy dust in the 4 Personal Year, sorry to break it to you.
It’s all about formulating an educated plan and doing what it takes to make it happen. January offers a blast of new and invigorating energy to propel you forward.
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 to review the nuts-and-bolts about the 4 or 22/4 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!
