5 Personal Year | April is a 9 Personal Month
🤔 Reflection for April: This is the month to be open to a radical shift in your reality.
April is set up as a moment to reflect, reorganize, and let go of anything that’s outstayed its welcome or that’s just simply run its course. Are ya’ feeling it!? Like, really!?!?
I find that these first several months of the 5 Personal Year are an interesting engagement, because the real energy of the 5 is in some ways superseded for the first four months of the year.
You may have the feeling that despite the shifts you feel coming—or that you’ve already experienced in the short three months of the year—that you’re still being held back or tethered in some way. It’s literally like having one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake. Or one foot inside the door and another outside the door.
Let’s also place your month into a larger context.
Don’t forget that we’re all globally experiencing a 9 Universal Year — a collective time of unraveling, letting go of the old to make room for the new. It’s tumultuous, emotional, and — most often — confusing and somewhat draining emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
Add to that some rather seismic Astrology:Â Last month (March) alone, this is the break-down:
Venus and Mercury retrogrades, a total lunar eclipse, and the spring equinox, potentially bringing shifts in relationships, communication, and new beginnings.
- March 1: Venus began its retrograde in Aries, which could impact relationships, values, and creative expression.
- March 13-14: A total lunar eclipse, potentially bringing out-of-the-blue shifts in wellness, daily routines, and mental energy.
- March 14 – April 7: Mercury retrograde in Aries, which could lead to miscommunications and re-evaluations, then moving back into Pisces on March 29th, remaining there until after it goes direct on April 7th. Â
- March 20: Spring equinox, marking the start of a new astrological cycle as the sun enters Aries.
- March 29: A new moon and a partial solar eclipse.
What’s the point of this review of what you’ve just been through last month? There’s A LOT going on energetically, whether we like it or not or even believe in it or not. I’ve always joked (but not joked) that once you know both your Astrology and your Numerology, you’re out of excuses!
Just know that this is a year for the record-books globally and perhaps it’s the same for you in your own personal life as well.
In April, be prepared for a significant relationship, association or experience to have a blip, most likely between April 2nd and 18th. Although you may be surprised at how it comes down the pike, that parting of the ways may allow you a great deal more personal sovereignty than you ever imagined.
This can come to pass in many different ways, from the most dramatic to the more subliminal. Is it a business or personal relationship that might take a turn? Or is it an internal shift you’ve been digesting?
The energy of the year is one that’s ultimately chock-full of changing conditions, unexpected twists, and an underlying need to stretch your personal and professional boundaries.
April is a time to let go of what you no longer need in order to make space for change to make an entrance.
The energy of the number 9 brings conclusions and completions. It brings you to certain exit ramps and when you get to the ramp, you have to decide to take it or to continue on the current road.
The energy of the 9 this month also brings a deep sense of purpose and accomplishment when you turn your focus outward to help and support others.
If you can direct some of your energy into something that’s a passion or service-related project, you’ll feel more of a flow and ease if something falls away or there is a change or transition in your life.
Since this month carries the energy of change, it’s interesting to see how you personally engage with change in your life. Are you the rebellious radical, always pushing and thrashing just for the sake of it? If so, how’s that working for you? Have you gotten the desired results out of that or has it landed you with a perpetual sense of dissatisfaction and restlessness?
Or have you been the one to shun anything you might consider radical and hold on to expired experiences, values, and beliefs that perhaps have kept you somewhat “safe” and yet without that spark of life and curiosity and vibrance that you might long for underneath it all?
April is your month to make a radical shift in your life, whether it’s a way of thinking or reacting or whether it’s a more external shift—like departing from a relationship, moving house or anything else that alters your day-to-day routine in a somewhat more dramatic fashion. This can also be the month where that decision is made and next month (May) is when that change is initiated.
This month is all about letting go of a few things that need to make an exit. Next month opens with more forward momentum.
>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.
For those of you who follow the Grand-Dog Update, I have emotional news.  Oliver passed over to the Dog Star ✨ on March 14th. He was my daughter Miranda’s “Ride-or-Die,” as she says. She adopted him in 2011 from the Humane Society, where he had reportedly been found abandoned in a dumpster in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  I’ll share her written “Obituary” for him:
I knew this day would come, and I still wasn’t ready. ❤️💔 Yesterday, we said goodbye to the sweetest, derpiest, most vocal, expressive, opinionated, and beautiful soul. Oliver was my ride-or-die for over 13 years, my best boy through every chapter, and he lived a full life of so many adventures and so much love. I will miss you more than I can ever say, my little Ollie-boy, Sweet Potato, Ollie Biyali, Mr. Peebody, Oliver Rowdy. Life will not be the same without you. 🥺❤️💔❤️‍🩹
I just wanted to let all of you know that the update will include Rio and Oscar — yet we’ll always think about Oliver as well!  I know he’s up there with our other beloved family dogs.  So Oliver sends all of us love and a reminder to relish all the minutes and enjoy all the snacks.
