9 Personal Year | January is a 1 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 an 8 Personal Year last year, December was a 2 Personal MONTH.
Then January rolls around and you shift to your 9 Personal Year.
In the 9 Personal Year, January is a 1 Personal Month (we add the 9 Personal Year + the number of the month [January = 1] which is 10; 1 + 0 = 1).
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: You’re starting out with strong, independent energy that’s in many ways at odds with the overall theme of your 9 Personal Year. Involve yourself in new projects, invite new experiences, and tap into your independent spirit.
Are you stoked and feeling a revised and reinvented sense of yourself? Have you managed to get your financial life organized and moving in the right direction? Have you established yourself as a valued authority in your field, enjoyed the fruits of your ongoing labor, and have stepped into yourself in a newly revised and empowered way as never before?
Chances are you’re riding on fumes right about now after your butt-kicking and simultaneously empowering and enlivening 8 Personal Year.
Last year you worked with some core issues related to your sense of personal power on all levels—spiritually, emotionally, physically, and/or financially.
And now you’re readying to clear the table and decide what stays and what goes—what you want to build upon and what needs to dissolve and fall away.
Part of the beauty and difficulty of the 9 Personal Year is to have the ability to evaluate memory and the story you have about certain things, certain expectations, and certain behaviors—and determine what is real for you and what isn’t. What serves you and what stifles you. What allows you to evolve and what holds you hostage.
It’s truly a “re” year: remembering, reconsidering, revamping, recharging, renegotiating, and reinventing.
I often consider the energy of the 9 Personal Year to be a kind of “Back to the Future” energy. It’s reflective, emotional, and tests your ability to flow with the movement designed to bring you to certain off-ramps and exit points.
Remember that this is an entire year where the tide is out rather than in.
Metaphorically speaking, many things are moving away from you rather than toward you this year. There will be the core aspects of you and your life that withstand the pull. And then, just like the ocean tides, the water will tumble and lap, drawing sediment and other objects out to sea with it.
January is the month to take charge and take some leaps forward. Emphasize your independence and individuality as the year gets underway.
Given this is a 1 Personal Month, you’ll be heading right out of the chute with an energy that is just the opposite in many ways of the overarching energy of the year.
It’s a month for action, taking the lead, and acting upon your independent spirit. The energy that you’re moving into for the entire year is very different. It’s about conclusions, letting go, and surrender.
So, it’s a rather interesting way to jump into the year. Yet you might also think about it as a collision—if not a cacophony—of intersections of all that you are and all that you’re becoming.
In January, you’ll be asked to stand on your own two feet in a way that is perhaps a bit foreign or new. You’ll be offered opportunities to see where you might have some unproductive co-dependencies or where you might want to new and more empowered yet vulnerable ways of relating.
And these issues might continue as one of the important threads for your unfolding as the year progresses. This month is all about opening to your creative energies and stepping into a new level of self-confidence.
Between January 8th and 25th, examine your ongoing commitments and begin planning the most constructive and profitable way to bring projects that have run their course to a conclusion.
Some new opportunities may look intriguing during the week of January 18th, yet use caution. There’s not likely to be much potential here, no matter how good these possibilities look at first glance.
You might experience opportunities around January 27th that will assist you in phasing out of some of your “expired” longer-term endeavors. This can be a redirect on a project, a time where you call it quits, or where it simply wraps up and reaches its final point—complete with a champagne toast to celebrate!
This can happen across the board this year. Work. Relationships. Health. And just self-awareness generally. This is a 12-month period of time where you get to have absolute input on the development of You2.0. January supports you in galvanizing your sense of independence and taking the lead in your life.
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 to review the nuts-and-bolts of the 9 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!
