9 Personal Year | May is a 5 Personal Month
🤔 Reflection for May: This is the month to step into new levels of freedom and shake off any unwanted restrictions.
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 9 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 9 Personal Year, the key themes are: wrapping things up and prepping for a new chapter to begin, surrendering to the inevitable, letting go of all that needs to exit in order to make room for new beginnings to take place, and experiencing stronger-than-usual emotions across the board. This is a year where dreams can come true when you’re really open to life-altering changes.
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!
So what can this freedom-craving 5 Personal Month bring to you to your 9 Personal Year?
Change. That’s what it can bring to you. The 5 (the energy of the month) is a catalyst. It blows in with frenetic, freedom-seeking energy that can blow your socks off.
Yet also know that it also brings in an equal quota of fear and feelings of being stuck and restricted. Ugh. Sorry. Yet the beauty here, oh-sojourner of the 9 Personal Year, is worth the price of admission. Are you ready to blow a hole through something that’s been lingering around and needs to move right or left of center?
It’s rather like when you were five years-old and starting to lose your baby teeth. Remember that front tooth that wiggled and waggled for days, weeks even? You pushed it with your tongue until it was just hanging there by a tiny thread. It was so sore. It was bleeding. Yet it still wouldn’t come out, that is, until your Mom or Dad tied a string around it and snapped it out or in some other way, calmed you down — or distracted you — enough to finally pull it out. Or, when you’d finally given up all hope, it just fell out all on its own.
Just saying, you might have another such “thing” in your life that finally gets extracted this month. And oh, what a relief!!! (AND you get a visit from the Tooth Fairy! Score!)
Around May 13th particularly, take advantage of any situations that can help with some releasing you’re working on. Know that May can feel like you have a lot coming at you all at once.
Be careful that matters don’t get out of hand. Even if it’s not the time to start new ventures, May is a perfect time to explore new interests or take your time to process new experiences and thoughts about your present self and your future self — particularly during the weeks of May 9th and 18th.
Things coming into play during this time might be planting seeds that you’ll come back to and develop later next year. Consider it exploratory research time to be logged and saved for later.
Understand that you’ll come across many interesting opportunities this month, yet it’s likely to take some concerted effort and analysis in order to figure out which ones are the best to pursue.
Remember: This is the year to wrap things up, not necessarily to start them.
So with that in mind, you’ll need to ignore or say “no thanks” to any new possibilities with short-term or ill defined potential. While it might be tempting in terms of “what if,” trust your gut when it comes to taking the reins on anything you’d consider an absolutely new venture right now.
It’s time to bring any projects to conclusion (complete with a champagne toast!) that were already in the works.
Just remember that this is a glorious and intense year of transition.
And transition is exactly what it sounds like – a process, not an event.
The dictionary (yes, I still look at the dictionary, weirdo that I am!) defines “transition” as: movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change.
And during this year of culmination, we often need every minute the year brings us in order to process and walk through the steps that allow us to move from here to there.
Alan Watts makes a beautiful observation that will serve you well as you traverse your 9 Personal Year. He says that “Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.”
A sidebar here: For those of you familiar with Alan Watts (and those who aren’t!), I have to admit that I was quite taken aback when I read about him and his life. He was a powerful spiritual teacher, wrote books, and lectured about living a spiritual life, ands brought Zen teachings into the United States. So many quotes of his are extremely profound.
Then I read that he died in his mid-60s of alcohol (and smoking) related issues.
Ah, the paradox.Â
One could dismiss his teachings, given that apparently they didn’t do him much good. Or at least didn’t bring him into a state of peace that didn’t require reliance on alcohol and cigarettes to the level that it would be the direct cause of his demise.
One could be discouraged or judgmental about the whole “spiritual” thing, right?
The reason I’m taking a moment to mention this is because the lesson of the 9 — and in extension your 9 Personal Year — is, on the deepest level, about forgiveness. Forgiving people for being human. Forgiving ourselves for our missteps. Forgiveness when others don’t measure up to our ideals or expectations.
Easier said than done, right?
You’re learning to follow your internal compass rather than relying on an external GPS that may or may not be updated to the current OS! It’s about garnering the strength and resolve to release into your next phase.
If your life suddenly fell apart, what is your biggest fear?
Or is it falling apart and you’re knee-deep into your biggest fears? Or are you holding on for dear life to something that you know is expired and needs to be transmuted?
Remember also that part of the crux of the 9 Personal Year has to do with reaching your mind, body, and spirit out to help and support others. The 9 is the number of universal wisdom and offers great rewards to those who extend themselves selflessly (yet with boundaries) to others.
The fusion of the energy of the 5 for your month of May can be a wonderful wild ride. Travel if you can. Get off your beaten path. Get your sexy back. The 5 loves to feel good and loves to play. Get out there and live a little!
What’s transpiring right now is inevitable. The events and happenings this month can be a magical mixture of changing circumstances that are designed to bring you ever closer to the fulfillment of some of your fondest dreams and heart-felt desires. Be open to possibility and welcome the inevitable.
>>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: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. ❤️
