7 Personal Year | April is an 11/2 Personal Month

🤔  Reflection for April: This is the month to quiet down, slow down, and open to your deepest inner feelings and intuitive guidance.

 

Can you feel the palpitations already??

This is a Master 11/2 month tucked into your already internally gyrating 7 Personal Year. The focus this month is on all things that open you to your intuition and also to your deepest inner being.

**Did I mention that it gets kinda’ lofty and esoteric in the 7 Personal Year and my forecasts for you all year long might push that envelope.  [Sorry, not sorry]

In April you get an additional kick with the spiritually activated energy of the Master 11/2—the number of spiritual illumination and the spiritual messenger. Take every sign as a message to your soul and perk up your senses and see what comes into your world.

 

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:  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.  
  • 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.

 

This is a month where the energy of the 2 is the foundational vibe—which is all about slow-downs, delays, and offers some deeply emotions-based experiences. It’s primarily a moment to practice patience, to network, and to gain mastery over emotions-based reactions.

It’s a great time to dive into all kinds of study, whether it’s directly spiritually related or whether it’s some additional career training or just something that piques your curiosity.

This is a sort of sabbatical year for you. Which is to say that your sabbatical year is all about etching out isolated time to spend on whatever is pressing on you.

And talk about hurry up and wait!

Most likely, some of those more ponderous thoughts feel like you’re looking through a windshield that is fogged up. You can see the outline of something in front of you (or to the periphery of you) and yet it’s not clearly defined.

 

This can be a high-octane and spiritually expansive month, no matter how you slice it.

I love Brené Brown’s definition of spirituality.  She asserts that:

“…spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to one another by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and belonging. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning, and purpose to our lives.” (Rising Strong, 10).

This is what I mean about this being a spiritually based year for you.

 

And the month of April amps up the spiritual juice substantially.  The 7 (the energy of your Personal Year) and the Master 11/2 (the energy for April) offers a cacophony of opportunities for spiritual advancement.

Yet the 7 is all about the slower, deeper, soul-based exploration and expression that happens incrementally, gradually, with study and reflection.

The 11 offers a lightning bolt of illumination—its energy is highly charged and evokes sudden strokes of insight. These can show up as inventive ideas that come out of nowhere, moments of “knowing” that come into your world and become embedded in your new reality as it is unfolding and revealing itself to you all year long.

It’s a great time to process, process, and process.  Trust the impulses and yet ground yourself into some kind of practical reality this month with healthy and consistent routines—walks in nature, hydrating your body appropriately, eating clean foods. That sort of thing.

The highest octave for you this month is to be open to the etheric information you receive while also having the control and discipline to shut that door when you need to manage and focus on daily life.

It’s almost like the idea of being a psychic or a medium. You decide when you’re “open for business” and when you’re closed for the day (but come back tomorrow during regular business hours, thank-you-very-much!).

Find ways to keep your feet on the ground, because the tendency might be to fly off into your head and into the ethers and resist coming back down to terra firma.

 

>>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:  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.  đź’Ą

 

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.