Major Aspects for May
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  • May 5 - Sun conjunct Moon - New Moon 15° Taurus
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  • May 9 - Mars enters Leo
  • May 19 - Sun opposition Moon - Full Moon - 29° Taurus/29° Scorpio
  • May 26 - Mercury retrograde - 21° Gemini
  • May 26 - Neptune retrograde 24° Aquarius

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Personal Year Influences 2008

According to the Numerology of your Personal Year for 2008

ALPHA LIFE TRENDS - PERSONAL and BUSINESS SUCCESS for 2008


To find the Personal Year you are in for 2008, add your birth month and day, which becomes your BASIC INSTINCT number. Add this number to the current year of 2008 to determine what personal year 2008 is for you.

Example: May 11 becomes 5 + 11 = 16, 1 + 6 (of the 16) = 7 (SEVEN).

• This person's BASIC INSTINCT (BI) number is a SEVEN (7). The BASIC INSTINCT always stays the same.

• The current year of 2008 becomes a ONE by 2 + 0 + 0 + 8 = 10, 1 + 0 (of the 10) =1

Add the Basic Instinct number to the current year becomes 7 + 10 = 17, 1 + 7 (of the 17) = 8. This person is in an EIGHT personal year for 2008. The expression and purpose of the BASIC INSTINCT changes with each calendar year, and becomes the PERSONAL YEAR.

2008 is a ONE year universally, we are all beginning a whole new cycle setting a new theme and pace to our Life. Regardless of where we begin in our Personal Year, we will experience a surge of energy. Also the qualities of our Personal Influence in 2008 shows the qualities that we need to bring forward in a strong and powerful way as we surge into 2008. Each one of us have qualities that are important to connect and expand as the universe expands into new directions. This becomes another important clue about who we are and the important qualities to focus on as we move into this very important year.

Whatever our Basic Instinct is, these represent the qualities that rejuvenate us and re-energizes our purpose, as our Basic Instinct number becomes the same as our Personal Year during a NINE universal year, which is what occurred in 2007. But once we have re-energized and reconnected with ourself, we are also ready to regain our strength of purpose and direction.

This gets us ready for the ONE universal year, in which we move that revitalized Self into our outer expression during the ONE universal year of 2008. The focus of the year will bring this essence to integrate into the expression that is represented by our Personal Influence that will expand in 2008. Situations, events and themes become our energy field and the opportunity to express our true essence. 2008 signals the surge of energy that is an important phase of our life and the next steps of expressing our Self through a new purpose and beginning a new journey.

Read the Personal Year that becomes the influence and expression of your Basic Instincts that will be intertwined with the surge of new energy to express our new journey.

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Read your Personal Year for 2008

ONE BASIC INSTINCT (Two Personal Year) - Your natural leadership ability is moving into the realm of relating to others. You have a natural capacity to determine your own path and then to add that knowledge to others that have that similarity of pathway. Your desire to blaze your self a new path occurred in 2007, which took you across the world in many respects and traversed through the plains of the past to come into the discovery of who you truly are. It is this discovery that is the requirement of your Basic Instinct as you have to do things yourself, gaining independence and strengthen the Self. The need to trek through the abandonment of others is necessary to find your own companionship. This sounds like a lonely path, but once you begin to realize that you are giving to others the companionship you have learned is of great value, you are able to bring your own sense of self to a higher level than ever before. Now as you move your Basic Instincts into 2008, you will begin to find others that have many similar feelings and are able to connect with others in the same way, granting them the blessing of your growth, strength and knowledge.

February puts you into a whole new direction as the Solar Eclipse opens new doors of connection with others. You are able to truly understand the value of your experience and of your trek through life. This Solar Eclipse becomes one of the more memorable ones, as you gain the mirror of appreciation from others for the trek that you have experienced. March opens the door for you to communicate more to others than you would have in the past, making the month's events important in this 2008 journey. May contains the last challenges of the past issues, as thorns appear in areas and people where you least expect. But this also helps you to gain greater understanding into the plight of those who do not have understanding. June opens a door to experience the absence of thorns and brings you to a time that becomes a key month of opportunity for your success. Gaining insight and strength in expression will begin to spread and grow into your character and fill in any holes of lack that you have felt in the past, and grant you a sense of inner fulfillment that also fills your heart. October opens the door for your natural talents to roll into a new creative direction, strengthening your natural desires, direction and abilities.

TWO BASIC INSTINCT (Three Personal Year) - Your natural ability to work with others now contains the sensitivity and the ability to create exciting projects that contain your new connection with others. Your creativity is beginning to move into the picture, with the foundation of sensitivity and care that you build during 2007. You regained access to the arenas that bring you information and awareness because of your sensitivity and your ability to relate to others. Negotiations and mediations are really your forte and you can begin to utilize these natural abilities into the creative arenas that are pulling you forward. With the diversity of people that you have had around you in the past, you have learned a great deal and this learning has brought you into a whole new world, one that you would not know about had you not been able to relate to people. You are ready to bring this natural sensitivity into your creative projects and are ready to walk into the doors that take you away from the past environments of challenge and into the creative opportunities of 2008.

January provides a major opening for you as your creativity is exhibiting great sparks and a readiness to get going. You want to move into 2008 with everything you've got. Ready to harness the excitement, creativity, and commitment to bring your projects forward, you jump into the new year with a spark in your eyes and a skip in your step. The Solar Eclipse of February provides you with the to-do list that will get your creative projects ready to launch. March sees you open the door to launch your new projects and adjust your environment in order to get all things ready to roll. May sees the success of key stepping stones in place that open the door for major change and exciting journey that is on the other side of the stepping stones.

THREE BASIC INSTINCT (FOUR Personal Year) - Your natural spark and enthusiasm is very catching and you have a desire to express these qualities to others in your life, in your career and in your home. 2007 prompted you to make important determinations of the arena and environment that is the right one for your expression. It has taken a while for you to make the adjustments. You are ready to move this natural talent and enthusiasm into a whole new work environment. You naturally come you're your best as you express your spark into the career and business arena. Especially in 2008 when the career and business pursuits become Jupiter's expanding environment, you are ready to jump into new directions with all of your heart. Your expression begins to open doors and the enthusiasm opens even more. You will find that 2008 becomes the year of an incredible journey for you.

January brings a great deal of change and excitement with the transitions that seem to happen as we step past the corks from New Years. It seems to be an immediate pull that comes to get you regardless of where you are. January opens the door for the new energies to move you into place, to provide you with many career and business options that are flying your way, regardless of whether or not you are even looking for opportunities. By the time you get to the Solar Eclipse in February, you are off and running in a completely different direction with new contacts, new relationships and a new career path. April contains opportunities to see the reason and purpose for your new career path as you make new commitment to the direction that this year is moving. June hits you over the head with several opportunities that you never would have guessed, but yet contain the very elements that you have been looking for. You will find that these have the positions that you desire and the upward moves you are really looking for underneath all of the situations. August opens important doors that usher you into the world in which you can make a difference. You surge into place and make it to the front of the line and the situations that have emerged excite you. October brings in the light at the end of the tunnel as you are looking for this because of the great amount of effort that 2008 has required. You thrive on this high energy anyway, whether you admit it to yourself or not, so October helps you to get your second wind and you continue to increase the pace as the direction is one that excites you and gives you the opportunities to express your natural energy.

FOUR BASIC INSTINCT (FIVE Personal Year) - The qualities of organization, perfection and effort are those that seem to just be a natural expression of who you are. You reconnected to your energy in 2007 and have plugged in and recharged. Now you are ready to move out of the recharge garage and find and exciting direction to explore. You love to be full of vim and vigor as you take your high level of effort and take aim at the new directions you want to pursue. Your capabilities were extended in 2007 and you were pumping iron all year long with a lot of circumstances that seemed to occur one right after the other. With that behind you, you will be ready for some changes. You think you want to sit and rest, but as 2008 appears, you will be ready to jump off the bench and into looking a a whole new year full of exciting new directions. Opportunities abound and you can only stay on the bench for a short time. With the strength and ability that you recharged in 2007, your rest will be very short before you find yourself jumping off the bench and back into the game. This time 2008 provides you will different opportunities that you will be very excited about.

January gets you going as you begin to recognize that the heavy amounts you were lifting will begin to feel a lot easier to life. February's Solar Eclipse gives you a chance to regain your inner direction and inner compass, but March becomes the power month of change. The door opens and you are able to walk into a whole new environment, which a whole different feel to your life inside and out. May opens the door to a whole new life that you would never have anticipated, and provides you with directions that have come out of nowhere. You will jump at this chance and begin to recognize that the opportunities that are now present, you've been hoping would occur for quite some time. You are ready to roll into May with a new level of energy, new level of excitement and can hardly contain your enthusiasm. By the time you get to September, there are so many parts to your life that have changed, it is hard to think of where you were at the beginning of the year and where you are in September. So much has changed and you feel so different. December 2008 has you look in very different directions for events and places to go because you are pulled in so many different directions that you embrace change and embrace all things that are different.

FIVE BASIC INSTINCT (SIX Personal Year) - To use your mental enthusiasm and mental energy, you will be looking at different directions and potential new job opportunities. You are the type of person that uses only a small percentage of your mental capacity. So many interests, so many conversations of diversity, and that's just the conversations you have with yourself; not to mention the type of people you talk with that are yet another layer of diversity. You are ready for change, and you are ready to look to new opportunities that also seem to be coming at you left and right. You have recharged yourself mentally and are now ready to light your burners and fly into many different directions. There can't be enough directions, everything pulls at you, you find interest in all things and all people.

February opens that door with the Solar Eclipse to pull you into direction with many people and the diversity that is vast enough to keep you interested. You gladly toss others the key to the old business in trade for walking into new directions. You can hardly contain yourself with the excitement of the new opportunities that February has in store for you. You had to wade through the month of January with the drudgery of events, but February pops and the Chinese New Year becomes a most exciting celebration. April opens new doors, new opportunities that have moved you further into the exciting road of 2008. Mid-month of April you decide to commit to a new direction that contains a bigger decision than you have made in quite a while. You sign on the dotted line and are ready to make renewed commitment for a whole new life. You are not shy about this process, you actually jump at this chance. During 2008 you are responding to the opportunities to change your home and your job and you are ready to do both. The possibilities seem to come streaming into your life that prompt new and exciting decisions. June finds you with completely new environments that give you all sorts of activities that tweak your mental stimulus and you find yourself "in your element". September gives you the chance to look around to find that all is well and that you have found the inner and outer peace that you have been looking for quite some time. October finds you in the back draft of reaching a certain destination that you never thought you'd reach, and prompts you to find your inner compass to create a new inner map. November provides a good compass and map that gets you moving again to appreciate what you have, where you are, but also gives you your new direction. This puts you back on a track that you can chug along and get into scenery flying by you, which is how you feel most comfortable.

SIX BASIC INSTINCT (SEVEN Personal Year) - Your home and work environments that were resolved in 2007 provided the inner and outer peace that you have sought. With a sense of harmony, you will want to make important inner discoveries and to determine your next pathway that pulls you from your inner world. You have many important decisions to make as 2008 evolves and you want to build your new life, one that is connected to your inner world. You will dig deep into your inner self to find the very essence of who you truly are. From this discovery you will make the important decisions that determine this new and important pathway for 2008. What you have accomplished in 2007 has given you the luxury of moving into a new year with new directions. The SIX qualities are those that search for harmony, health, inner peace, and resolutions. In your way, you have reached the resolutions that are important for you. From this completion point, you will now open the door to looking deep within your own self to determine your next journey.

January opens the door to a sense of accomplishment that gives you the chance to move the past behind you and to move into an important new direction. February with the Solar Eclipse gives you the opportunity to let go of the past and to free yourself to make new discoveries about your inner self, new decisions about your new direction. March requires you to begin the new journey, one that entails you have a new connection of self, inner and outer. New decisions, new directions and new connection with yourself makes for new opportunities to create your new life. May opens an important door that allows you to see into the future and to see how the decisions you have made of the past will impact the events of the future. May provides the portal of vision that grants you an incredible viewpoint of your future years during this very important ONE universal year. You are setting a new pace, one that will be with you for the next NINE-year cycle. August you will have changes in your home and work environment that reflect the many decisions you have made inside and out. October's events become very powerful indeed and become the moving sidewalk that quicken the pace of changes rolling into your life. You are moving into a whole new direction and the pace is quicker than you thought, but you are moving forward none-the-less and events are happening, integrating your inner and outer world. Ready or not, you are moving forward with the speed of light.

SEVEN BASIC INSTINCT (EIGHT Personal Year) - Your inner abilities, intelligence, analytical ability is honed and focused, bringing your energies together to accomplish your goals. You will find that the pace of 2008 starts of with a bang. You will be active and participating in many different events, circumstances that are taking you into many different directions, many of which are aligned with your inner desires. You have moved over the hump that keep your energy in a strengthening mode. Now that you have passed that point of using your energy, your desires and all of your capabilities, you are surging ahead into a whole new direction. You will find that through the constant activity, you are at your best. Not having a chair to sit, or a place to stop and rest, will actually do you well during 2008. Just slowing the pace down is the best rest for you as you'll soon speed up the pace with the next goal coming into view. You have brought all of the inner attributes forward and now the circumstances will open up for you to utilize them all. There just won't be enough hours in the day to express all the talent you have inside, but during 2008 circumstances will sure give you a run at the attempt.

The month of February starts with being shot out of a cannon and moving into the Solar Eclipse on February 6th will be just the beginning of the marathon year that will take you around the world in 365 days. You have a lot to accomplish in February that you'll be creating more than 24 hours in the day just to make the accomplishments you desire. April opens up your creative energy and again shoots you from a cannon as if this is the only approach to get you airborne and into the speed needed to accomplish the projects and keep up with the events. Mid month of April provides the light-bulb that turns on and becomes a constant flow of energy that reaches nuclear capacity as you push the limits of what is possible. June takes you into a whole new direction as you veer into directions you wouldn't have dared a year ago, and you are ready to jump into the leadership position to drive circumstances into the right direction. August presents you with circumstances that resemble the climb of K2 and you will push the limits of possibility and continue to ignore the limits that others tell you are present. You are on a mission, you know what is possible and you continue your way to the summit. As you plant your flag on September 1st, you find jaws agape and yet you look to the next task. Ready to move forward you jump at the opportunities that seem to swirl around you and you pick and choose the ones you want with a great ease. October's Mercury retrograde opens the door for new choices, new directions that occur as November opens the door. You don't hesitate and by the time anyone looks to what you have decided, your dust is all that is visible. You have found your pace, you have created your world of possibilities and you are well on your way. December gives you a chance to slow down, or at least look like it on the outside, but you are lining up with your cannon again, ready for the year of 2009 when you'll aim your cannon even higher. Choosing to quicken your pace being shot out of a cannon again grants you a continued incredible journey as 2009 heralds in another unbelievable year.

EIGHT BASIC INSTINCT (NINE Personal Year) - The accomplishments that you have made in 2007 will begin to reveal a new path for 2008. You have become stronger, more capable and ready to take on the world. You have crossed an invisible finish line at the end of 2007 and as 2008 evolves, you will begin to move into your new environment. Your accomplishments are complete and now you can march forward to gain access to the world that you have worked so hard to have. Many of the situations that occurred all through 2007 required that you push forward up the hill, and gain strength on the road. This may not have felt very comfortable, but you will have created your abilities in response to the many varied situations that you were pushed into experiencing. As you move into 2008, you will reach the summit, and begin to feel that you have gained a great deal of personal success. You are actually on the threshold to entering a new and wonderful world, more than you could ever think possible. The more that you walk across the summit of January the closer you will get to see the new world that is on the other side of the mountain, one that contains a most fabulous world and makes the trek worth all the heartache and tears that you experienced.

January becomes the summit that is level after the hard inclines that felt challenging at every step. February opens a door that gives you access and comfort to many important people, especially as the Solar Eclipse moves into place and provides the opportunities that you have wanted for many years. This becomes a very important and key time frame for you. You begin to move down the mountain, leaving the past behind and begin to embrace the new life that draws you near. You will have the comfort of people who are those that truly support you. Coming from a time of challenge and aloneness your heart begins to be filled. March brings in the optimism that you have dreamed of. May opens the door to completely depart from the past and to move your life into new and wonderful directions. You jump from the shore of the past into the boat that will take you to your new life. You are ready and can hardly contain the excitement. By the time you get to August, you are ready to speak up, stand up and align your words with the messages that you are ready to say that contain many of the atrocities that you have experienced. Ready to bring forward resolutions, you are first in line, your passion is lit which leads you forward in the open doors of October.

NINE BASIC INSTINCT (ONE Personal Year) - The New Year of 2008 becomes a very important and key year for you as you are bringing your global perspective into focus to decide on your new direction and your new purpose. The ONE year is all about creating your new life, your new image and your new purpose. The qualities that you integrate have a great deal to do with the circumstances that you move toward and gravitate into your life. You want to be of great benefit to others, you want to lead, but for the purpose of improving the lot of life, the environment of mankind in some way or another. As you move into 2008, you have your goals conceptualized and your outline of the puzzle of the new picture of your life you want to create. Now it is allowing 2008 to evolve to fill in the missing pieces. You are creating as you go through 2008, but you are ready to make important decisions and take action with key goals in mind.

The month of February brings forward a creative month in which the Solar Eclipse will solidify your direction as you have more global concepts pushing you. You will revise your goals as February's adjustments tweak the coordinates and details of your quest and your map adjusts as well. April opens the door for major changes to come into the picture because of the decisions you make mid month. You will be ready to hammer into place the cornerstones and yet expand your sites as well. This sets the pace for the year's work in which you will solidify these decisions and make them into reality. July brings in a level of success that gives you a chance to breathe a bit, especially after your decisions in June were ones to compel you to continue through the challenges and to keep in mind the creative energy that you bring forward to turn into success. Not stopping, you will see the rewards of July. September brings in a greater surge of situations that point to your incredible success. You have created the foundation of your new life and the month of September sees much of the accomplishment that gives you a solid feeling of success, one that is more visible that you would have thought would occur. November opens a door that you did not expect and provides you with even more opportunities to continue the path that you have created and built upon for the year. Your new direction is now a strong commitment and you are propelled to follow your passion and open major doors by taking the risk in the opportunities that you are given. Look past the risk, look to your goals, and make decisions from what IS possible, not from what IF's that keep you from taking action. You are ready to jump into your new world, jump in, it is time!!


To read more about the other influences for 2008:

Universal Influences for 2008

Sun Sign Connection for 2008

Written by Karyl Jackson
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The month of May is universally a SIX month (in numerology), bringing us into a time of resolution. Many changes occured in April that must now be integrated into May's events. There are a great amount of issues that will increase in emerging. Mercury Retrograde in Gemini occurs May 26th, whaich opens the door for additional information to come streaming into the picture. Many pieces of information will be the missing elements that need to be found to complete the Pluto in Sagittarius phase. This will be a key point to aim for resolution during May's events.