5 Personal Year | May is a 1 Personal Month
🤔 Reflection for May: This is the month to remain open to spontaneous opportunities and happy surprises!
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 5 Personal Year.
I like to describe the Personal Year as knowing the theme to your party! It’s so much more fun!
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 5 Personal Year, the key themes are:Â exploring and embracing a sense of freedom on every realm, facing your fears, working with feelings of confinement and restriction, and being open to substantial changes in your life.
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!
You’re coming down from a month where your cage may have been rattled a bit with unexpected transitions.
You might feel as though the rug has been pulled out from under you in April.
Hopefully you’ve had the wherewithal to land on your feet.
You’re bridging into May, which is a time of new beginnings and initiation — a month guided by the energy of the number 1.
May brings a sense of release — an opening of the gate.
In fact, this is a time where you can see things in a way you haven’t seen them before.
Meaning, you’ll really expand your thoughts concerning things you hadn’t even imagined before and not only that — you’ll actually be receptive and open to very different possibilities now. After clearing out some space in your life last month, now’s the time to focus on a new trajectory.
Do you ever have that experience where you can’t even wrap your brain around something — having twins, moving, getting a divorce, changing jobs — and then suddenly your mental/physical/emotional bodies finally converge and you’re then able to embrace the change in a very profound way?
This might be something you’ll experience this month.
Your renewed energy carries you along for the ride during May, combined with some unusual support from an unexpected source. Don’t second-guess — go with your intuition and yet also do your research.
Even though it’s tempting to just jump into the fray, take the time to focus so that you can move ahead constructively — after doing some practical investigation and study.
Impulsive action will only result in a longer, more arduous detour.
This is the time to bank on your individual vision and act with an independent flare.
Of course, this element just adds fuel to the fire of uncertainty and unpredictability that is already the cornerstone to your ever-changing 5 Personal Year.
A reminder that even though the 5 Personal Year is full of changing conditions and lots of drama, impatience and impulsiveness can be your Achilles Heel. As my 7th Grade art teacher used to bellow: “Haste makes waste, people!” Yes, she used to call her students “people.” Even though I still find that saying rather annoying, certainly it could be your momentary mantra in May.
The highest and best of the energy of the 5 is “freedom through self-discipline.”Â
The freedoms and changes you seek this year will come to fruition when a certain level of commitment and follow-through is also a major part of the mix.
I would also predict that there will be some beautiful surprises when you’re prepped and ready for the opportunities when they surface.
Think of it this way. You know people who are waiting for their big break? They’ll tell you again and again that they’re an exquisite artist, award-winning writer or Grammy-worthy singer. Yet when you ask to hear their demo, see their portfolio or read their manuscript, they don’t have anything that they’ve actually produced. It’s all in their head or in their fantasy life.
Think about all those videos of people somehow getting called up on stage to sing with Michael Bublé, crush a guitar solo with Dave Grohl, or sing a duet with Kristin Chenoweth. All of these people (many of them younger kids!) were ready for the opportunity and grabbed it with everything they had! They knew the lyrics to the songs, knew the music, and blazed through any nerves they may have had to get up there and risk humiliation or something going wrong.
Why do I mention this here, oh-traverser of the 5 Personal Year? Because the moral of the story that you can very much benefit from this year — and particularly in the month of May — is this: Don’t just dream it. Be it. Do it. And most importantly, BE PREPARED!
Would’t it have been a sad kick in the shins for these folks to finally get a chance to be on stage with their idols and yet when they got there, they didn’t know all the lyrics to the song or they folded under the pressure?
Make sure that you’re prepped and ready to go if you’re offered a spontaneous opportunity this month.
Your task this entire year resides in responsible freedom — and that means doing the work, being prepared, and also allowing for happy surprises along the way.
>If you want a reminder about the nuts-and-bolts of the 5 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.
r 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. ❤️
