7 Personal Year | May is a 3 Personal Month
🤔 Reflection for May: This is the month to bring some creativity, playfulness and social engagement into the mix.
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 7 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 7 Personal Year, the key themes are:Â deep inner work, soul searching, research and learning, spending time in reflection, organization and preparation.
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!
Given that this is a soul-searching year for you, last month must have felt as though life was hovering in front of you in suspended animation.
April might have felt excruciatingly slow and arduous, mixed in with an edgy sense of anxiety. I visualize it as though your life felt like several scenes from The Matrix, where everything is coming at you in slow motion.
Now you’re moving into a space of time that’s designed as a portal for your creative juice to flow and for you to lighten up.
The 7 Personal Year can feel so ponderous that you might forget to just be a human for a moment and let loose, have some fun, and do something just because it feels good and brings you pleasure.
You’re bridging into May, which is a time of self-improvement and fun — a month guided by the playful and social energy of the number 3.
In theory, May should feel lighter and airier.
You may want to initiate a creative project that allows you to express yourself on or about May 11th. This is a perfect month to travel or get yourself out in a different way. The invitation is to just be human for a moment. Eat the gelato. Yes, have a glass of wine. Go bowling. Hit the dance floor. Just participate in life!
Added to all of this will be an urge to express your emotions, potentially through writing, an artistic or creative project or by speaking to a gathering of like-minded people.
Even though May feels lighter, it also can bring up some hidden emotional soft spots or unfinished business. Along with the inward-focus of your year overall, this can be a valuable opportunity for personal healing. I know you’re ready to move this old stuff up and out.
The desire to travel or just have some actual, real-time social engagement can really show up in an undeniable way this month.
The month of May intensifies this want and need. When the number 3 shows up in a cycle, as it is now in your Personal Month, the red carpet is rolled out for all things that feel creative, enjoyable, and expressive.
Think about it as your month to frolic a bi.! In the midst of all of the seeming chaos, change, and uncertainty we all find ourselves in at the present time, can you extract from the heaviness and instead hold on to the lighter, more buoyant aspects of life?
Certainly you’ll be offered opportunities this month to move a creative project forward, engage in expressing yourself more effectively, and find ways to feel inspired rather than despairing — energized rather than drained.
And since this is your year of mental and spiritual “house cleaning,” chances are that you’ll gain some deep insight into yourself this month around where you experience bouts of self-doubt, where you might over-analyze, and where you need to release emotional trauma.
Journaling is a great way to work with this energy — or creative dance, music or getting more social. Anything that activates your creativity is a great and productive outlet this month. Get out there, enjoy yourself, and have some fun. Also know that the energy of the month can highlight some depressive highs and lows, the purpose being to confront whatever issues continue to hold sway and power over you and instead begin to deconstruct those stories and relinquish their hold on you.
>>If you want to review the nuts-and-bolts of the 7 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
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 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. ❤️
