8 Personal Year | April is a 3 Personal Month
April is a 3 Personal Month:
This is the month to express yourself with more playfulness and light-heartedness.
Can you set things up to be a bit more playful and light-hearted this month?
This is the time where you must take your foot off the accelerator for a moment. Take some time to recharge your battery and refuel yourself in April.
April is the perfect month for cultivating your artistic impulses. Creativity is the name of the game right now and creativity isn’t relegated just to the canvas or the stage.
Integrate your creative problem-solving into your projects and you’ll be amazed at how finally some connections will come together and launch into something solid. The key element here is about enjoyment. Are you enjoying yourself or are you just slogging along?
Key concept for April: PLEASURE
Take advantage of the opportunities some friends or family may present during the weeks of April 2nd or 20th. The energy of the month can be social and more relaxed than last month. I know that many of us feel the heaviness and the intensity of what’s happening in the world right now and it feels wrong or disrespectful to give ourselves permission to feel good or have fun when the world is collapsing around us. Yet deriving pleasure and retaining an innate sense of optimism can be an ultimate form of resistance.
It’s a great time to write and attend workshops or seminars. It’s a perfect month for travel, exploration, following your curiosity, and just living a little!
Can you find a way to ease the pressure of the demanding 8 Personal Year right now?
I know it might seem like you’re slacking, yet here’s the thing. In order to be at peak performance, you have to implement some rest, relaxation, and down-time. Honestly. Otherwise, the more you push, the more you push up against what feels like brick walls. Amazingly, when you take that break, you’ll come back inspired, rested, and much much more productive.
Think of it like this: We have to continue to charge the batteries on our phones or the phone will not function! You can think of this month as a time where you are the phone and you need to be plugged into the charger. You need to recharge your battery so that you can function on (let’s face it) the most basic level.
During the 8 Personal Year, the tendency is to push, push, push. Even when the results are underwhelming. Take a much-needed break.
The vibe for April is open for art, music, and other cultural activities, yet you’ll need to get creative and explore either in person or virtually. Why not find a few that interest you and get a big healing dose of culture and creativity?
How can you lighten up? How can you not take things so seriously while also taking them seriously enough? Is there a way that you can infuse some fun and humor into your engagement with life right now?
The 8 Personal Year can often feel quite intense and serious. Things have a more dire quality about them and you can feel as though you’re under a lot of pressure from every angle.
April is your month to deflect possible burn-out. Given that you’re integrating the light, buoyant, communicative number 3 as your Personal Month, you’ll have the most success when you don’t push quite as hard as you’ve been pushing lately.
I always say the mantra for the 3 is “When you’re laughing, you’re learning!” So take that as your cue for all your engagements this month.
And since the 3 brings light into the darker crevices, you can expect to have some challenges here that test you in your ability to speak your truth, to be more expressive emotionally, and to also encourage others to tap into their “better half” when it comes to communication and expressing themselves creatively.
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 the puppy. ❤️
