Twelve Months
Your Year Ahead
Numerology divides a life into nine-year cycles and each year into nine-month movements. This is the next twelve months of yours, in order.
In short
A month-by-month forecast for the next twelve months built from your personal year and personal month numbers, with love, work and energy ratings.
- Write the forecast down in month order and check it quarterly. Unchecked forecasts teach nothing.
- The strongest months are rarely the easiest ones; note where effort is being asked for.
- A quiet month in the forecast is a resource, not a failure. Schedule the difficult work elsewhere.
- Compare this year's profected house to the same house seven and twelve years ago.
The solar return — a chart cast for the moment the Sun comes back to its natal degree — is a Persian technique, elaborated by Abu Ma'shar in the ninth century and transmitted into Latin Europe as the revolutio annorum. It treats each birthday as the opening of a self-contained year with its own weather.
Alongside it sit profections, an annual advance of one house per year of life, which tell you plainly which department of the chart is under the spotlight and which planet is running the year.
Questions Readers Ask
How accurate can a yearly forecast be?
It is reliable about theme and timing pressure, unreliable about specific events. Treat it as a climate map.
What is a profection year?
An annual advance of one whole house from the ascendant, activating that house and its ruler for twelve months.
Should I plan around difficult months?
Plan through them rather than around them — put the demanding, unglamorous work there and the launches elsewhere.