Personal year 1: beginnings

The theme of a personal year 1

Beginnings. A year for starting things: a new job, project or habit. Traditionally read as the seed year of a nine-year cycle.

• Focus: Beginnings.
• Traditionally favours: new jobs, launches, moves, first steps on long goals.
• Watch for: rushing, or starting too many things at once.

Relationships, work and money

• Relationships: a year to say what you want; new people often arrive with new projects.
• Work: start the job, business or course you've been planning; first steps matter more than polish.
• Money: traditionally a seed year, when effort goes in before returns come out.

Universal 1 years

A universal year is the calendar year's digits added, the same for everyone. The next universal 1 years are 2026, 2035, 2044. In a universal 1 year, people in a personal 1 year feel its theme twice over.

Where it sits in the cycle

In the nine-year cycle it follows a 9 year (completion) and leads into a 2 year (patience and partnership).

Month by month in a 1 year

Each personal month adds the calendar month to the year number:

Month	Personal month	Theme
January	2	Patience and partnership
February	3	Expression
March	4	Foundations
April	5	Change
May	6	Home and responsibility
June	7	Reflection
July	8	Results
August	9	Completion
September	1	Beginnings
October	2	Patience and partnership
November	3	Expression
December	4	Foundations

When are you in a personal year 1?

It depends on your Sun number: your birth month plus birth day, reduced (born 14 March: 3 + 14 = 17, 1 + 7 = 8). Find your row; a dot marks a personal year 1.

Calendar years from 1 January. Find your Sun number · work out your personal year directly.