8 Personal Year | May is a 4 Personal Month
🤔 Reflection for May: This is the month to empower yourself in ways you could never have imagined in the past.
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 8 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 8 Personal Year, the key themes are:Â financial gain (and potential loss or fluctuation), personal empowerment on every level, endurance, and proper management and organization.
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!
May is the time to get your organization and management skills down to a fine art.
You’ll know what I mean when there’s a break down in organization this month that requires that you work extra hours to reorganize so that things can run smoothly and effectively.
Between May 15th and 27th, it’s time to firm up the foundations in several places so that further building of your projects can continue with success. You’ll be required to take care of the ongoing work — yet keep a clear picture of the benefits that will accrue so that you don’t get discouraged.
The energy here isn’t linear — it’s intensely pressurized and highly resilient. Yet you can have a financial windfall one week and a financial disaster the next. It’s all in the cards. The test is in how you handle it.
If the amount of work makes you feel restricted, know that it’s a temporary but necessary step along the road you’re traveling. Especially during this financially weird and unstable period of time, there is certainly added emphasis here that is no joke. This is push-time.
Get ready to tackle many details that will crop up from May 9th to the end of the month.
Know also that you can have a lot of ups and downs this year and this month highlights the very-real practicalities it’ll take to hammer out a plan and have the resolve and guts to follow-through with it.
The month May is grounded in the Personal Month number 4. The number 4 is what I might say is the lower octave of the 8. When they “play together,” there can be a powerful harmony.
Yet this month, if you thought it was all about fun and loosening up, think again. The lighter elements come into play for you next month, in June. If there’s ever a month designed to test your moxie and resolve, this is it.
When the 4 shows up (as it does for you this month), it’s all about the slow and steady process of defining and meeting a goal. It’s mandatory that you get the right information, formulate a plan, and get down to business.
Of course, most likely this is all about business — your career, finances, investments, that sort of thing — yet this can be in your personal life as well. I would daresay that there will be a few family-related issues that raise their voice this month and you’ll need to face them head-on in a different way that you are accustomed to dealing with them.
It’s your 8 Personal Year after all, which means that your task at hand is all about empowering yourself in areas that you could really benefit from it. And who couldn’t use a dose of tough love when it comes to certain ways that we might be drawn into dysfunctional family dynamics?
This can be a month that’s less about hammering away at your business ventures and instead the focus is on establishing your sense of stability. This can show up as a physical move, relocation or exploratory mission to see where you might want to set down roots. Still, though, it demands systematic thinking and getting your ducks in a row.
So now’s the time. Have at it. Step up and stand up for yourself.
I do love what numerologist Juno Jordan observes about the 8 Personal Year when she says: “Do not be too materially minded now, for while money is power, you may find more power in being free of something than in trying to hang on.”
So while, yes, the 8 Personal Year is money-focused, consider also that the 8 invites you to rise to the highest octave of the energy of the 8, which is about mastering yourself, mastering your finances, and mastering your spiritual wealth as well.
No one ever said it would be an easy one-way street, did they?
The month of May pressures you to take command of yourself, instill clear-headed goals, and act with precision and with a longer-range goal in mind. Those bright and shiny objects will fly at you, hoping to distract you from your more vital and important task at hand.
Again, next month you can free things up a bit, yet this month, get tenacious about what you want and then go after it with diligence and dedication.
>> If you want a reminder about the nuts-and-bolts of the 8 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 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: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. ❤️
