5 Personal Year | July is a 3 Personal Month
🤔 Reflection for July: This is the month to be open to new, spontaneous insights.
This is your month to get up and go! If you’ve been reading your forecast for the year, this isn’t news to you. The 5 Personal Year is all about the adventure and calling into your adventurous spirit, after all.
Yet it can always press on you and exacerbate feelings (or the realities) of where you might feel stuck, stagnant, contained, smothered or tethered.
What does freedom mean to you? More time? Money? A different job? A different marital situation?
Lots of unexpected opportunities are bound to come your way, so be open to trying new things all year long.
Interestingly, in your 5 Personal Year, you only get one month out of twelve that brings you this dynamic, creative energy of the number 3, so make it count!
I’ll put a direct spotlight on the sticky aspect of the 5 Personal Year, which is the creation of freedom through disciplined actions, focus, and follow-through. Ah yes, that.
Change is on the horizon and you’re getting ready for major transitions toward the end of the year. So given that we’re mid-way into it, may I suggest that you begin to rein it in?
Hopefully there’s a little “been there, done that” right about now and you’re beginning to see and feel the real changes that you’ll want to take a hold of, focus on, and follow through with for the rest of the year.
You may have been bouncing around with different opportunities or different ideas about what direction to take in your life.
In the romance department, I hope you’ve been taking advantage of any “swipe right” opportunities that have come across your path this year so far.
Sometimes the 5 Personal Year doesn’t yield the super-sensual experiences you wish it would. While it’s a time where your sex appeal is at all time high, if you’re at a point in your life where hooking up or casual dating just isn’t your jam, this may be an aspect of the year that feels unfulfilled.
Yet never fear! If you’re waiting for a real long-term connection, this year is paving the way for calling in your plus-one. Next year is a 6 Personal Year for you, which is all about relationships and commitment. So, if that’s your desire, hang in there. You might very well collide with someone who has staying power in your life and the relationship will begin to deepen and develop in the coming months.
It’s funny because there’s a chance that you’re already reflecting on some of your “been there, done that” moments from the year. Just remember something Dean Martin once said: “Good judgment comes from experience. And experience? Well that comes from poor judgment.” The perfect mantra for the number 5!
From July 2nd through the 20th, express yourself by participating in unusual, unique or unexpected offerings or experiences that land in your world. These opportunities are aligned with changes that will lead to new openings or will expand some of your ongoing endeavors.
Enjoy your family and make sure to allow time for special activities with children, particularly around July 11th or 18th. Â
If you can carve out some travel in July, please do. Both the energies of the 3 and the 5 offer up some fun and adventure if you’re up for it. The energy of the 3 allows for some creativity, self-expression, and will infuse some heightened emotional sensitivity in the mix.
July offers some moments that are designed to open you up and show you some deeper truths about yourself, about others, and about your life. Be spontaneous. Be open to new directions and new possibilities.
A great quote to keep in front of you for the month: “Freedom lies in bringing nothing with you. Freedom is a fresh moment that does not ask you to believe anything, but rather requires you to remove all beliefs that keep the truth hidden.”  — Alex Mills
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. Â 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 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. ❤️
