9 Personal Year | February is an 11/2 Personal Month

🤔  Reflection for February:  How can you invite right timing (thinly disguised as delays) and extract the deeper meaning out of everything you experience?

 

The month of February might bring some fitful movement back and forth.  Don’t pressure yourself this month. Take your time. It’s as though you’re folding a beautiful and intricate Origami creation this year.

Some ventures may be subject to temporary delays, particularly during the week of February 9th. Because of this slowed-down pace and forward momentum, you’re likely to either want to bang your head against the wall or you can shift and instead focus you efforts on other people and on giving yourself some well-deserved nurturing.

Between February 16th and 25th, don’t be surprised if you begin to see signs of recalibration in relationships. Don’t let this feel ominous or scary! This can be a certain friend moving and making your involvement with them more distant.

Or that person you’ve had a few dates with that ends up not being the one that you feel has the staying power you would like. These are incremental changes that are good and help to clear your plate.

Or alternately—which is more often the case—we’ll struggle with a relationship that isn’t right for us and put things off until the final hour—either in denial or simply with procrastination.  It’s never easy to let things go, particularly when we have no clue what the next “thing” will be.

 

FEBRUARY IS THE TIME TO PONDER & WORK WITH THE IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIPS IN YOUR LIFE

 

February’s the month to ponder and work with the important relationships in your life. And the energy of the 2 requires diplomacy, patience, and love. Mostly, February holds out opportunities for you to come to terms with certain issues that have been percolating for a while now.

It’s all about change and transformation this year and you’ll come face-to-face opportunities to dig in and figure out what your highest-and-best might be—and holds the potential to become.

I’ll harp on this all year long—and that is the idea that this is an opulent time for you and your personal evolution. You’ve been heading this way for eight years now and it’s a wonderful stopping off point for evaluation, adjustment, and reinvention.

You might think of it this way. Whatever you’re letting go of is actually garbage. You might have been keeping that old banana peel, an empty water bottle, the gym shorts that have a hole in them, and your expired Passport in the backpack you’ve been carrying around on your back. Yet now, wherever you go, something stinks. You just can’t escape the smell of rotten bananas and old stinky gym clothes. You can’t travel anywhere because you forgot to renew your passport.

The 9 Personal Year comes in as your new Personal Assistant and is here to help you to clear out that old backpack and get rid of all that stuff you’ve been carrying around.

 

February’s guided by the Master number 11 for you—so special spiritual awareness or awakenings are bound to come into your radar.

How does it show up? As nervous tension. As delays and frustrations requiring your patience—and that can test you in the smallest ways, like being calm and Zen-like in traffic. How else can it show up? As amazing leaps in spiritual connection. As openings and opportunities to expand in your business or creative life.

During the 9 Personal Year, it’s about inviting life in with intention, but not about hammering it out and trying to make it happen with specific outcomes. What shows up is meant to show up. What departs is meant to exit. Enjoy a month of spiritual insights, golden opportunities, and take the time to feed your relationships.

 

CONTEMPLATIVE THOUGHT FOR FEBRUARY:

I listened to a brief podcast featuring relationship expert Esther Perel (a powerful 8 Life Path).

Here’s a quote from her that I’m grabbing as a mantra or affirmation for 2025 (and beyond…).

 

“CERTAINTY IS THE ENEMY OF CHANGE.”

 

>>If you want to review the nuts-and-bolts of the 9 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:  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.  đź’Ą

 

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 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!