Numbers by Design - August

To find your personal number for the entire year of 2002, take the number of the month of your birth. Add it to the day of your birth. Then add the number 4 (representing 2002). If your birthday is August 11, add 8 + 11 + 4 = 23. Take the total (if it is a double digit number) and add it together until you have a number between 1 and 9 as the final total. 23 would be 2+3= 5. Your number for 2002 is 5, and you will look at that number in each month's column to determine the focus of your journey. If you have problems figuring out your number, e-mail: KathleenEJacoby@aol.com.

1 - It's the end of summer, but also the end of things that have been holding you back. It's time to release what no longer works, to clear out closets, finish up paperwork that has been scattered on your desk, and to look at outworn attitudes and positions that are energy drains. As you clear space physically and psychologically, you are opening the way for new possibilities that are waiting to come your way next month. If you have been contemplating new ventures, make sure that you give dignified closure to the old ones first. And remember to include gratitude for all you have and all that is being released.. Stand on top of the mountain to see the bigger picture, for it is then that you will recognize how truly blessed you are.

2 - Stand up and be counted. This month requires initiative, courage, stamina, and willingness to express your beliefs.. You have an opportunity to make a statement or start something new. Planting seeds for the future is beneficial, and recognizing your ability to handle what comes with strength of character is also part of the mix. You are a unique human being with a vantage point that is valuable to others. Share it. Even though this year requires a lot of team effort, this month asks you to step forward and stand out from the crowd––graciously.

3 - Partnerships come up for review in August. The requirement is to be aware of the caliber of all your choices. Where do your thoughts support and uplift you, and where do they drain and deplete you? How about the food you eat––is it nourishing or junk? And what about relationships in your life? Choose only those elements that are encouraging, mutually supportive, and uplifting. Weed out everything that makes your life anything less than good. You may have an unexpected encounter this month leading to a new relationship, or have a sudden break from a situation that is restrictive. Translate visions, inventive ideas, or impressions into something understandable to share with others, and remember that your greatest partnership in life is with the Divine. Let it be of assistance.

4 - It's time to be more detached from other people's dramas, and allow yourself to get on center stage this month where opportunities abound for your creative self-expression. As you release the urge to create, you are able to bring something wonderful to birth, be it a child or a project. People are drawn to you, and you can enjoy wonderful social events and interchanges with those who make you laugh and who enhance your own sense of humor. The key to August is play and light heartedness. Be a child and enjoy yourself. Let the sad sacks take care of their own problems for a change. You go bask in the light of the sun and become that light yourself!

5 - There are practical considerations to be taken care of. Where have you constructed life on a solid foundation, and where is it in need of attention? Projects require effort, and bills must be paid. However, look at patterns that lock you into rigid reaction modes that are stifling to you, and find ways of expanding your comfort zone so you can reach beyond old boundaries. You have a rare opportunity to pop myths that do not really serve you. By pushing harder or looking deeper, you confront a major hurdle and leap over, transforming the way you have done something all your life. This may be major or minor, but is an opportunity to restructure consciousness. As a result, you are freed of an outworn constraint and born anew.

6 - Suddenly you may want to be a little more adolescent and do something out of the ordinary. It's a month for travel, expanding horizons, or unexpected changes.The key is to be flexible and adaptable, while making sure you channel your energy into focused effort so that something is accomplished by month's end. A lot may be going on, and the temptation is to try to do it all. But, if you do that, you'll have a nagging feeling that you didn't get anything done, and then the tendency is to criticize everyone else for your own frustration. So–– give yourself fun times, but channel energy judiciously so that you are being discerning when it comes to choices. All of them have consequences. Be aware of that as you get ready to leap.

7 - This month involves more responsibility for others or the need to take better care of yourself. Eat properly, get adequate rest, and participate in an energy balancing discipline like Yoga or T'ai Chi for greater well-being. Relationships are significant, and celebrations bring you into closer contact with family and friends that are meaningful. Your belief system may be perfect for you, but remember to accord others the dignity of theirs. When you let people be who they are, you make a statement about your own desire to be respected and accepted for who and what you are as well. Then you open the door of appreciation, and may be quite surprised at just how much of it there is for you!

8 - You might need to take a break, a sabbatical, a fortnight, or just have some sacred time and space for yourself. It's a fast paced year with many expectations, so August is a "time out" month. If you are a researcher, you might want to close the door and pour over books or the internet to find answers to clues you've been following. If you are exhausted from over-activity, you may want to put a big DO NOT DISTURB sign on your door and hibernate until September. Otherwise, it's a month of lower energy, but also opportunity to meet significant others from the past with whom you have unfinished business or someone new who feels like you've known them forever. Truth is revealed this month, so pay attention to all the signposts along the way.

9 - Some things may come together as this is a time of harvest. There are powerful influences that can be beneficial as long as you are willing to work towards your goals with diligence and responsibility. You can organize a project, an idea, or clearing of outmoded ways of doing things. There are opportunities to enlist the help of influential individuals, or receive rewards or recognition for what you have previously done. Harmony and equilibrium are important. Make sure that you are taking care of all aspects of yourself. Waking, sleeping, working, playing––all part of the dance of opposites that keep things flowing. As you are aware of the delicate balance, your hand is on the pulse beat, and you become the director extraordinaire of this amazing script called your life.