By Sue Frederick
Do you wish you
could see into the future and know what 2008 holds for you? Would you like to understand the upcoming challenges
and potentials, so you can create your best year yet? Have you ever wondered why certain years in your life seem to focus
on relationships, while others focus on career? Do you ever have a “whammy” year - where nothing seems to go the
way you want it to?
What if the potentials and pitfalls of each approaching year could be revealed
by studying the numbers in your birthday? That’s what ancient mystic and philosopher, Pythagoras, father of our modern
number system, believed in 580 B.C.. Pythagoras saw that everything in the universe operated in predictable cycles, and his
basic units of measuring each cycle were the digits 1 through 9.
According to Pythagoras,
each number has a meaning or vibration, and by adding the numbers within your birthday and reducing them to single digits,
you reveal your life’s road map - as well as the energetic influences affecting you every year. Since all
of our learning takes place within the vibrational range of these single-digit numbers, we’re focusing on a different
challenge and potential each year – within a repeating nine-year cycle. After each 9-year-cycle is complete, a
new one begins - bringing the benefits or burdens of the last cycle into the new one.
This is all on purpose, of course. It’s part of your plan. As you look back at your life, tracing the nine-year cycles,
you’ll see the repeating patterns in your life. You’ll realize how you’ve gotten better at mastering certain
challenges over time.
We’re going to determine, now, where you are in that nine-year cycle
and what that means to your career in 2008. Your current personal year is determined by the single digit numbers of your birth
month and day added to the current calendar year and reduced to a single digit (or a master number 11 or 22).
For example, someone with a birthday of Sept 15 - during the year of 2007 - would be experiencing a 6 Personal Year.
Birth Month: September = 9
Birth Date: 15 = 6 (1 + 5 = 6)
Current Year: 2007 = 9 (2 + 0 + 0 + 7 = 9)
Add 9 (birth month) + 6 (birth date) + 9 (current year) to get Personal Year =
9 + 6 + 9 = 24 = 6 (2 + 4 = 6)
Personal
Year = 6
Let’s compute your personal year here:
Your birth month:
Your
birth day:
Current year:
Total:
Reduced to a single digit:
This is your personal year:
What does this mean to your career?
Here’s a broad overview of the energetic influences
affecting your life each year:
Personal Year 1:
This is an important new beginning:
launch your business, get a new job or title, start a graduate program, or move to a new location. Everything you do this
year will influence the events of your life for the next nine years. There’s lots of new energy helping you change directions.
There’s never been a better time for reinvention. This is also a year of intense self-focus, personal development, and
cultivation of talents. You are like the sun, a self-sustaining center of your universe. Everything evolves around you and
is dependent upon you. Have courage to make important decisions and move forward bravely – like a pioneer. At times
you may feel alone, but this year demands that you work mostly alone. Avoid starting trivial relationships now, because they
will linger with you for the rest of your 9 year cycle.
Personal Year 2:
This is the
year for cooperating with others to develop the vision you started last year. This is a slower, more gestative year –
nurturing what you’ve already started rather than launching new things. Collect and assimilate data, and organize details.
Your success hinges on working with and cooperating with others. Be receptive. Soften the forceful energy you thrived on last
year. You might feel highly sensitive this year and develop warm friendships – even romances.
Personal
Year 11/2:
In this highly charged year of personal illumination, your intellect is capable of achieving
its greatest capacity – as well as intense psychic perception and artistic creation. Inspiration and revelation are
yours to create with. The spiritual, psychic and artistic are your focus, and meditation or prayer will enhance all of your
gifts. Refine your tastes, collect art, associate with creative people. This is not your best year for commercial success,
but rather for inner evolution of your spiritual, intuitive and artistic gifts.
Personal Year 3:
This is a joyful, playful year, full of social contacts and new interests. Express yourself, get into the center of things,
entertain socially. Forget long-term planning and just enjoy life; don’t make important decisions about your future.
The performing arts will call you, and it’s time to look your best. Develop your skills with words – written or
spoken. Life is your stage – enjoy it! Whatever you started in your one year is now reaping enjoyment for you. It’s
your year to blossom.
Personal Year 4:
It’s time to get to work in this serious
and responsible year. Get practical, establish organization and efficiency systems, build the foundation for future growth,
set a budget, and do the physical work. Focus on the physical details of getting your home in order – whether that means
moving, remodeling or cleaning. Engage in fitness and sports activities. Dependability and responsibility are your keys to
success.
Personal Year 22/4:
This year your greatest aspirations and inspirations
will be put into practical reality. You’ll be bringing your most advanced ideas to a realistic and workable form. Humanity
and society as a whole will benefit from your work if you choose to step up to the plate. It’s a year of putting petty
personal concerns aside and doing your best for the world at large. Make big plans and introduce enormous changes. By focusing
on the positive vibrations of this number, you’ll have the opportunity to ascend to your greatest career achievements
and acquire abundant financial rewards. You’ll also feel the sting of criticism that greatness attracts. Focus on your
work and keep moving forward.
Personal Year 5:
Get ready for change, adventure, and
the unexpected in this turning-point year. During this fast-moving, action-packed time, you’ll be happiest and doing
your best work when everything is changing around you. Take trips, investigate opportunities, and get rid of anything that
is monotonous or has outlived its usefulness. Eliminate conditions and people that are holding you back. Make room for the
new. Focus on freedom and adapting to change. Do promotion and advertising. Enjoy this sensual year with many opportunities
for physical indulgences. You’ll be super-charged, attractive, and sexual. Revive your stagnant relationships or work
circumstances with new energy.
Personal Year 6:
In this more responsible year, you’ll
develop conscientiousness toward the important people in your life and career - focusing on social order and balance. To be
successful this year, you’ll adjust to the needs of others and enjoy group activities at home and at work. Team efforts
will be your focus as you shift away from the sensual and passionate excesses of the 5 year. Marriage and close friendships
will blossom due to your efforts to understand the people in your life. Let go of superficiality and take responsibility for
yourself and others. Yet don’t take on more than you can carry, or you’ll fall into depression and overwhelm.
This is one year, though, when general harmony is more important than your own needs.
Personal Year
7:
Enjoy this sabbatical from the physical aspects of life and focus your attention on the study of abstract
ideas, science, mysticism, spirituality and artistic endeavors. Withdraw from the center of things and write books, go to
school, meditate, and do research. Refine what you began in this 9 year cycle by analyzing and perfecting projects, relationships,
and goals. In this quiet, introspective year, you’ll do best spending lots of time alone and allowing change to occur
naturally rather than forcing it. Your intuition will be at its most powerful – rely on it for all decisions. Pursue
nothing; you will naturally attract what is meant to be in your life.
Personal Year 8:
The serenity and reflection of the 7 year is over as you jump head-first into the world of career, power and money. If you
wrote a book last year, this is the year to promote it. If you researched and developed your new business last year, now is
the time to get it funded. Physical accomplishment and material success are your focus, as you reap the seeds of success that
you planted eight years ago. During this powerful year, claim recognition and take command to get concrete results. Think
big, manage and direct others, move forward. Yet beware of abusing your power or becoming greedy. Be patient and generous
to others even if that feels tedious.
Personal Year 9:
This year you will wrap up
what you started nine years ago. Lingering relationships will surface to be examined - then kept or discarded for the next
cycle. Your career will conclude the focus that it’s had for the past nine years, even though you won’t see the
new just yet. Open your hands and let go, with faith, that something new and better will arrive next year. You may be fired
or laid off, or simply come to the end of a project you’ve worked on for years. Relationships will fall away or be transformed;
and you’ll grieve for all of your losses over the past nine years. Peace comes from finding your wisdom and a greater
connection to spirituality. The larger lessons of life will call to you, and your insights will be heightened. Use this awareness
to benefit the people around you. Give back to the universe, focus on artistic and spiritual disciplines, and wait for
the new inspiration that begins soon in your approaching one-year.
Career Intuitive Sue Frederick’s work,
described as a “breath of fresh air” and “an enlightened new perspective,” has been featured in Yoga
Journal, Natural Health, Nexus Journal, and Fit Yoga. She’s the author of Dancing at Your Desk: A Metaphysical Guide
to Job Happiness; and Top Ten Reasons to Stop Facing Reality. For more information visit: www.BrilliantWork.com; email
Sue@BrilliantWork.com or call 303-939-8574.
