8 Personal Year | August is a 7 Personal Month
August is a 7 Personal Month:
This is the month to slow down and go inward.
We’re closing in on a peak time for you in your 8 Personal Year. Next month is a crescendo in your year where the energy of the intense and financially-focused number 8 reaches its full richness and intensity.
August brings a bit of a slow down your way. You might want to consider tapping the breaks and slowing down for a moment. Pause and take some contemplative time for yourself in the midst of your hard-driving year.
Your year continues to focus on business and career matters, this is a time where you get take a well-deserved rest if you allow yourself to carve out the downtime.
Knowledge is power and August holds out opportunities for you to gather and digest information for an important project. You’ll want to get to know how every aspect of whatever you’re involved with actually works. What’s really involved? How do you map it out step-by-step?
August offers you a rare respite from the go, go, go you’ve been working with all year, so relinquish to it. You’ll derive a good deal of inspiration from a spiritual or intuitive insight that starts to gel for you this month.
That special insight—and its practical application—will help bring one of your ventures to new heights on or about August 10th. So pay attention to your heart as well as your head right now.
Even though much of the focus of an 8 Personal Year is more about business, it can also be all about the business of love and your sense of power and empowerment in your love relationships.
A brief trip between August 12th and 18th may pop up and it would be great to jump on it. You also may need some solitude in order to meditate on your future plans and goals. Just getting out of a daily routine can jump-start your ability to tap into your creative side.
The combination of the energies of your Personal Year with your Monthly Cycle (the 8 and the 7) offers a convergence of both the left side (intellect and analysis) and the right side (emotion and intuition) that is ready for you to use—if you’re ready and willing.
We all know what it looks and feels like to hit a wall—when the more we push it and try to think something into being the more it crashes and burns or at least the more it just doesn’t happen!
Yet if we step away for a moment and take a break—whether it’s a long walk or a tech-free vacation—we come back revitalized and all the issues that were standing in the way before somehow have disintegrated and you can forge ahead with much more clarity and efficiency.
You’re truly being asked to stop and stand still for moment so that you can determine what’s underneath it all. What’s driving you? What lays underneath the surface that detains you from empowering yourself into the full expression of who you are?
Underneath it all, the energy of the 7 calls in those deeper, more encompassing questions in the midst of this rather performance-based year.
It’s somewhat like bringing heaven to earth in August—heaven meaning the deeper, soulful concerns and earth meaning those real-world practicalities that much also be understood and acted upon.
Don’t be surprised if you’re faced with a battle of Wills this month. The 7 brings in a bit of skepticism and perfectionism mixed with the already dominating energy of your 8 Personal Year, so watch out!
Just remember: You don’t have to show up for every argument you’re invited to. Speak with clarity and dignity. Do what you know you must do. Embrace and exert your authority.
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: 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.
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>> If you want a reminder about the nuts-and-bolts of the 8 Personal Year, watch this short video.
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, and Penny. ❤️
