5 Personal Year | August is a 4 Personal Month
August is a 4 Personal Month:
This is the month to take yourself seriously and take focused action.
We’re closing in on a peak time for you in your 5 Personal Year. Next month is a crescendo in your year where the energy of the freedom-loving and change-oriented number 5 reaches its full richness and intensity.
This is a year devoted to change. You’re beginning to make some determinations about the dead-end or undesirable opportunities that have been gyrating around you for a while.
In August, concerted effort ultimately leads to some long-term positive changes. The mandate for the month is on effort, focus, and attending to details. It’s going to feel like a more serious four-weeks for you, and so it is.
Your tasks for the month include eliminating chaos and indecision—and focusing on organization, constructive solutions, and clearly defined goals.
Here’s the great news. Metamorphosis is what the 5 Personal Year holds for you. This is the month designed to support you and push you to blaze forward and get your life on the track you desire.
While the 5 Personal Year can be a very sensuous time, its purpose is also about transitioning and transforming through some dramatic and lasting changes—and this means a permanent change in your way of living, feeling, doing, and being. It’s time to alter your approach and your attitude about the more foundational aspects that your life needs to solidify before you can move forward with a firm foundation.
Remember that the energy of the 4 is all about engaging with—and overcoming—limitations. This is the energy you’re working with this month. It’s rather like the uninvited cousin showing up unexpectedly to the party and this cousin is the “fun police.” Any limitation you’re feeling strongly this month is your engraved invitation to change not the limitation itself—but to alter your point of view and see how you might actually create the limiting circumstances yourself.
The 4 brings similar experiences over and over again until they are changed, discarded, transmuted or mastered.
If there’s any way to side step some of the more mundane home-related tasks during the weeks of August 2nd and 20th, that would be a good idea.
Just know that when you feel annoyed, keep your good humor at hand. Delays and postponements are to be expected in a 4 month. This can certainly be a time where you being to center and ground yourself in a way you haven’t quite been able to manage this year.
As you traverse this wild-and-wooly 5 Personal Year, August is a month that can feel either really restricting or it can feel like such a wonderful relief. The highest-and-best expression of the roller coaster energy of the 5 is freedom through self-discipline. The 4 of your month is all about the “self-discipline” part!
August offers you supportive energy to lower the volume on any static or distractions that might be standing in your way and allow you to move into some productive and positive results. Can you contain and direct all of that energy into something useful?
You’ll experience a real win when you contain some of that focused energy and make it count. You’ll also benefit when you can be a container for others and be that great friend or lover who can hold space for those you care about the most.
The 4 can bring in some opportunities to heal trauma or to deal with family or relationship dynamics from a different vantage point. Interestingly, this month can be a turning-point time where a few things start shaking out and dispersing.
In your 5 Personal Year, you might be shocked when you reflect back a year from now and see what dramatic changes you’ve embraced and embodied. The up-leveled approach is to savor and enjoy every step along the way.
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: 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.
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>If you want a reminder about the nuts-and-bolts of the 5 Personal Year, watch this short video.
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, and Penny. ❤️
