8 Personal Year | January is a 9 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 7 Personal Year last year, December was a 1 Personal MONTH.
Then January rolls around and you shift to your 8 Personal Year.
In the 8 Personal Year, January is a 9 Personal Month (we add the 8 Personal Year + the number of the month [January = 1] which is 9).
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: It’s the month for a closing some things out and tying up loose ends. This is an important way to start your empowering year. Yet the year starts out incongruently with some endings and wrapping up of something before you can move forward cleanly and clearly next month.
Get ready for a year focused on your financial health and expansive levels of personal empowerment that could very well blow you out of the water and surpass all expectations you could possibly have about what you’re capable of achieving.
Yet whoa-Nelly, not so fast! You start the year with some clearing of the slate.
Given this is a number 9 Personal Month for you, this isn’t the optimal time to start anything new (how ironic, right?!). It’s the month for a closing some things out and tying up loose ends.
Expect some transitions between January 9th and 18th.
During the week of January 20th, your children, romantic interest, or other important relationships your life may need special attention, so make sure you carve out some time and energy to concentrate on those people and elements of life.
Between January 28th and the end of the month, you’ll begin to sense that the time to make a rather hefty transition will arrive beginning in February.
You’ll need this time during this first month of the year to get your sea-legs back, so to speak, so don’t rush it in January. Allow yourself this time to clear out whatever is proving to be an obstacle or a sticking-point for you.
This can show up as a relationship that has been teetering on being phased out over these last several months. It might be something having to do with a family member, a situation with your job, or a friendship. This is the month where it can shake out and begin to make an exit.
Be pragmatic. Invest in yourself. The 8 Personal Year is the year to err on doing rather than to linger in over-thinking or procrastination.
The 8 Personal Year is the beginning of an amazing three-year transition cycle. It’s demanding. It’s asking you in a not-so-delicate way to step up and become the master or mistress of your own universe.
Yet January is a time of surrender rather than control.
The 9 energy of the month encourages a commencement on some level. Something vital needs to fall away before you can focus distinctly and make the most out of your empowering 8 Personal Year.
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 a reminder about the nuts-and-bolts of the 8 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!
