7 Personal Year | January is an 8 Personal Month
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🥳
Last year, I focused the Monthly Forecasts by sharing your DIRECTIVE for the month.
I alway intuitively feel out what I feel the key container might be for the year and for 2025, I’m going to focus the monthly forecasts by offering a REFLECTION to frame the energy of the month.
Why? Because 2025 is a 9 Universal Year (find out more about the 9 Universal Year and how it interacts with your Life Path here).
The 9 Universal Year is the end of a global cycle of time. The Universal Year indicates what we’re all experiencing as a global community.
This is a year of emotional and transformational endings, conclusions, and letting go of the old to make room for the new. The 9 is also calls for a spiritual awakening. It’s the number of humanitarianism and of universal wisdom. These are the focal points for 2025.
And it won’t be an easy or comfortable journey!
With that said, I want to avoid any confusion you might have regarding your Personal Year and how it moves from year to year.
First of all, there are two basic 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.
Therefore, if you experienced a 6 Personal Year last year, December was a 9 Personal MONTH.
Then January rolls around and you shift to your 7 Personal Year.
In the 7 Personal Year, January is an 8 Personal Month (we add the 7 Personal Year + the number of the month [January = 1] which is 8).
So you’re experiencing the same vibe that you did two months ago, in November.
The second mode of thought is that the Personal Year runs from birthday to birthday, somewhat like a Solar Return in Astrology.
I acknowledge that there are people who will fiercely assert that the birthday-to-birthday method is the only method.
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.
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.
🤔 Reflection for January: You’re starting out all business in January. Even though it’s a contemplative year that’s not focused on business or financial gain, January brings issues related the your money situation and your personal sense of empowerment to the forefront as a lunching pad for your navel-gazing year ahead.
Life is coming to a strange crescendo for you. Many deep-seated issues and concerns are beginning to percolate and bubble to the surface.
These are showing up as life-altering thoughts, positions, and values that you’ll be working with this year and many of these issues will bridge into an ultimate shift in your life.
The year is designed to support you as you delve deeply and get to “know thyself.”
Numerologist Dr. Juno Jordan says it so well. The 7 Personal Year is designated as a year “to develop the right state of mind.” Sounds so simple, right?
Yet as that thought settles in, it’s a concept that you might hear come from Yoda. Simple, and yet so complex.
It can be a time where you deeply ponder where you are in your relationship life and what the basis is for what you really want and need in relationship.
It can be a time where your work or career is front-and-center and you decide to get training, go back to school, or prepare for a substantial change in this area of your life.
Perhaps you’re struggling with a health concern or some other issue that requires a deep re-set and reinvention.
It can be a time of deeper spiritual awakening and an evaluation of where you stand in your spiritual life, which of course merges with your life as a whole.
In the meantime—oddly enough—business and financial affairs are front and center in January.
The 7 Personal Year, overall, is NOT the time to focus on financial gain.
Yes, life does turn in the way that it must, even during a 7 Personal Year. Yet if your focus is fully on personal gain and financial growth, it’ll blow right back into your face. Trust me. Next year is all about finances. This year is set up for you to ready yourself for it.
Be that as it may, the 8 energy for January is all about stepping up. Empowerment is the theme. Its focus is often financially driven and offers some amazing opportunities for success with business matters and with moving projects forward.
I have come to see the energy of the 8 is much more about power and empowerment. Money comes after that. If there isn’t a solid level of healthy empowerment, money may come in, but it won’t stay long.
The reason I bring this up is that you’re starting out your year of spiritual growth with a mandate to step into your own sense of empowerment. There’s no better way to begin peeling your personal onion this year than by being handed any and all issues related to where you might want to strengthen and galvanize your sense of yourself and your sense of power in your life than at the beginning of this soul-expanding year.
It’s not the time to focus on the material world as much as it is on the higher realms of thought, identity, desire, and personal truth.
Yet this month, you get to engage the more material aspects of life and this will show up with most success when you’re launching or manifesting something that you already have in place. Where it can get wonky is when you think January is your month to start something totally new and get remunerated for it right away. Er, not so much.
Between January 5th and 23rd, tie up loose ends lingering from last year so they don’t come back to haunt you later. Yet also know that this can be a time where you step into your influence or hear the “Ka-Ching!” from the manifestation of something you painstakingly put into place last year.
This is your year to reflect, learn, and engage in personal development and spiritual growth. This also doesn’t imply that you can’t make money this year. You just might not expand your financial well-being right now.
2025 isn’t a particularly favored time to lunch into hyper-drive around money and finances. You’re prepping by gathering ideas and knowledge that will inform you when the time is right to jump back into the fray.
CONTEMPLATIVE THOUGHT FOR JANUARY:
It’s time to step away and get some distance. See how your family (your religion, culture, etc) shaped you. Feel into that shape.
Now ask yourself if you like that shape? If not, what shape would you prefer? If you don’t like your shape or want to change or improve upon it in any way, 2025 is the time to remold your shape into what YOU want it to be. The 9 Universal Year supports all shedding, reshaping, endings, conclusions, and spiritual awakenings.
>>If you want to review the nuts-and-bolts of the 7 Personal Year, watch this short video.
**For those of you who are new to the Monthly Forecast, each month I share pics of my Grand-Dogs! These are my daughters’ dogs: Oliver is the senior gentleman (with one blue eye and one brown eye). Oscar is the Wire-Haired Fox Terrier. Rio is a Pitbull-Mix. They are the Dynamic Trio!
