6 Personal Year | August is a 5 Personal Month
August is a 5 Personal Month:
This is the month to try something new! Get out of a rut and shake-up your routine.
We’re closing in on a peak time for you in your 6 Personal Year. Next month is a crescendo in your year where the energy of the responsibility and relationship-centered number 6 reaches full richness and intensity.
Are you ready for “let’s shake it up!” month? Your year has been focused on your home-life. Relationships are also under review for you during this “take it or leave it” energy—meaning, the year is running this song on long-play: “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” Or “Should They Stay Or Should They Go?”
August brings with it a zing of energy and jolt of freedom, hopefully. There’ll be unexpected developments and surprises in August.
Often the 6 Personal Year can feel somewhat arduous as you move through deeper relationship engagements and we often find ourselves faced with higher levels of responsibility that can initially feel thankless, yet necessary.
The energy of the 6 Personal Year is testing you to find your delicate balance in matters related to how you do and don’t take responsibility. You’ll be involved in making decisions where you offer your love and support, yet you’ll need to back off from judging the person or situation and then intervening because you feel you know “what’s best” for them.
Even though you could potentially make their situation easier (or softer or “better”), the tendency to meddle and fix things isn’t helping the situation. Opting out totally and relinquishing responsibility isn’t the answer either.
In fact, the true test for you this month is to allow others to linger in their own “stuff” without you racing in to make it all better. It’s part of their learning and their own journey to take responsibility for their own actions, choices, and reactions.
Yet, if you’re conflict avoidant, this can be a month where that bites you in the rear-end. If you’ve been detouring around the inevitable, the inevitable might actually come up for decision-time this month.
Duty is the call of your 6 Year and yet you must act upon a balanced sense of duty rather than enabling or martyrish employment of duty. Astrologer Henry Seltzer makes an observation that is worthy of chewing on in the midst of your 6 Personal Year when he says: “The savior in you brings out the victim in another.”
This is your time to meditate on your past. What’s the biggest or most repeated “error” you’ve consistently made in your life when it comes to family, love, and responsibility? What is the primary issue that drives the entire bus?
Focus inward and get real about your own relationship issues with deeper clarity. There will be dramatic changes. And do this with some healthy detachment and without self-deprecation. This exercise isn’t to annihilate you. On the contrary. This month opens you to grand opportunities for some deep and permanent changes.
The energy of your 5 month is exciting, because it’s magnetically attracted to your personal expectations and desires. Freedom is the guiding light this month and it’s likely that your freedom will be greatly enhanced when you look your shadows straight in the eye.
It’s also likely that the freedom you seek is intimately connected with an ongoing issue or obstacle related to your home, family or a specific relationship.
Expect the unexpected around August 9th or 18th.
Because of these significant shifts and pivot-points happening in August, you’re likely to feel much freer and more able to do things the way you want to do them. You’ll be presented with some off-the-beaten-track opportunities with people and places that are outside of your normal stomping ground.
Are you able to travel at all? If so, make it happen. More than likely you’re aching for a change of scenery and it would do wonders for you.
This is the month to reach out and connect with others. It’s earmarked for fun, adventure, and for you to step off your beaten path. It’s also encouraging you to reach inside of yourself and see how you feel about the way you’re involved with your family and relationship life. It’s also a great month to reach a realization about yourself that’s more than likely an answer to how you love—how you attract, engage with, and sustain love and relationships.
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 to review the nuts-and-bolts of the 6 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. ❤️
