9 Personal Year | April is a 4 Personal Month
April is a 4 Personal Month:
This is the month to batten down the hatches and examine your personal “root system.”
April is a more serious month and will push you to be even more practical than usual. It might feel like a “Come to Jesus” time right now where you’re feeling pressured to come to terms with your economic situation in a down-to-earth and practical way.
This can also show up not so much in your financial life, but perhaps in your relationship world or emotional life. It can even present as a spiritual/emotional crisis or “dark night of the soul.”
You are in your 9 Personal Year, after all! Why not throw it all on the table!?
Even though this is rarely a “fun” experience, it’s a wonderful opportunity to rearrange and recalibrate your business and emotional affairs that have needed to be adjusted for quite some time now.
Key concept for April: LIMITATION
When you experience any cycle guided by the number 4 (which is the number of your personal month right now), you’ll be presented with a few curve-balls in terms of weird detours or limitations.
While it sounds obvious—and we all know that change is the only constant (oh, those clichés!)—it really is true.
And also, often this can be a time where others in your life have outgrown you on some level and then that unraveling can begin to take shape. And please don’t understand this as a defeat or as a judgment. By “outgrown,” this can simply mean that you’re moving in one direction and the other person (or people or circumstances) are moving in another.
To offer an example: This can show up when you’ve been in your 20s and your friend group loves to party and most live paycheck to paycheck. Now you’ve crested into your 30s and suddenly, you’re in that “been there, done that” frame of mind. You want to have some stability, a career rather than a job, and you aren’t very fond of waking up with a massive hangover anymore.
So you’re in the midst of pursuing a new trajectory. You’ve limited your consumption of alcohol, you’re getting serious about a new training program that will get you into an entry-level job that has some longer-term potential, and you’re simply starting to look more seriously at your life and forecast some longer-range plans.
Yet most of your current group are still living in the moment with the focus of conversation on how many shots they did last night and what the aftermath of their crazy behaviors were and the intensity of their hangover (and they still think it’s cool and funny and it’s so much drama!).
So now what? You need a new group of friends who will support the up-leveling of your life. That’s where the reality of outgrowing comes into play. It seems obvious, yet it’s always a rather cataclysmic alteration in life.
And this is often, on some level, what takes place during your transformational and transformative 9 Personal Year. You’re moving on and into something that’s more fitting for your personal evolution and—in practical terms—you’re continuing to grow up and grow into yourself, no matter what your actual age might be.
Yet when we’re right in the middle of it, it’s not so easy nor painless.
Around April 4th, you’re likely to have some organizational work to handle in regard to something that’s moving toward being tied up.
This is a month where you’re examining your overall sense of security, stability, and investigating some longer-range goals. Yet during the 9 Personal Year, this most likely shows up in the form of experiences that reveal what isn’t working rather than what is working.
Why? Because the whole focus of the year is to bring up to the surface those things that have run their course and are ready to make their exit. The 9 is about releasing, not initiation nor staying put.
Just know that you’re already in a highly transformational time with your 9 Personal Year. The energy of the 4 demands that you feel into your future self and take some serious efforts to stabilize yourself in whatever way is appropriate for you right now.
Chances are you’ll be taking a look at some of your deeper wounding or should we say programming from your family of origin and your childhood this month. It might be time for hypnotherapy, breath work, energy work or any other modality that can support this process for you.
Take it step by step and make sure to remember to give yourself breaks and to watch your inner dialogue. Treat yourself like you would treat your best friend or your child.
In April, take some breaks and be even kinder to yourself than you could ever imagine.
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 to review the nuts-and-bolts of the 9 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. ❤️
