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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 when 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 is what ancient mystic and philosopher Pythagoras, father of our modern number system, believed in 580 B.C. Pythagoras observed 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. 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 focus on a different challenge and potential each year, within a repeating nine-year cycle. After each nine-year cycle is complete, a new one begins, bringing the benefits or burdens of the last cycle into the new one.
This is all part of your plan. As you look back at your life and trace the nine-year cycles, you will see repeating patterns and will realize how you have improved at mastering certain challenges.

Now we are going to determine where you are in that 9-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, 2008, would be experiencing a number seven personal year.

Birth Month: September = 9
Birth Date: 15 = 6 (1 + 5 = 6)
Current Year: 2008 = 1 (2 + 0 + 0 + 8 = 10) (1 + 0 = 1)

Add 9 (birth month) + 6 (birth date)
+ 1 (current year) to get personal year =
9 + 6 + 1 = 16 = 7 (1 + 6 = 7)
personal year = 7

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 for your career? Broad overviews of the energetic influences affecting your life each year are as follows:

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 is abundant new energy helping you change directions. There has 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 revolves around you and is dependent upon you. Have courage to make important decisions, be a pioneer and move forward bravely. 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 nine-year cycle.

Personal Year #2
This is a time to develop and nurture what you have already started instead of launching new things, a year for cooperating with others to develop the vision you started last year. Collect and assimilate data and organize details. Be receptive. Soften the forceful energy you thrived on last year. You might feel highly sensitive this year and may develop warm friendships and 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. Your focus is on the spiritual, psychic and artistic. Meditation or prayer will enhance all of your gifts. Refine your tastes, collect art and 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 and entertain socially. Forget long-term planning and just enjoy life. Avoid making important decisions about your future. The performing arts will call you, and it is time to look your best. Develop your skills with words, either written or spoken. Life is your stage, so enjoy it! Whatever you started in your number one year is now reaping enjoyment for you. It is your year to blossom.

Personal Year #4
It is time to get to work and get practical in this serious and responsible year. Establish organization and efficiency systems, build the foundation for future growth, set a budget and do the physical work. Whether it means moving, remodeling or cleaning, focus on the physical details of getting your home in order. 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 will 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 is 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 will have the opportunity to ascend to your greatest career achievements and acquire abundant financial rewards. You will 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 will 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 will be super-charged, attractive, and sexual. Revive your stagnant relationships or work circumstances with new energy.

Personal Year #6
During this more responsible year, you will focus on social order and balance and develop conscientiousness toward the important people in your life and career. To be successful this year, you will 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 number five 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 do not take on more than you can carry, or you will fall into depression and be overwhelmed. 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 nine-year cycle by analyzing and perfecting projects, relationships and goals. In this quiet, introspective year, you will 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 number seven 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 during this powerful year as you reap the seeds of success that you planted eight years ago. Claim recognition and take command to get concrete results. Think big, manage and direct others, and move forward. Yet beware of abusing your power or becoming greedy. Be patient and generous to others, even if it 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 has had for the past nine years, even though you will not 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 have worked on for years. Relationships will fall away or be transformed, and you will 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. 303-939-8574, www.BrilliantWork.com, Sue@BrilliantWork.com