Having a 4 Essence in a 1 Personal Year can be quite demanding, ~first~, but it is equally promising. While reading about your 1 Personal year, you probably recognized its potential to deliver motivation, ambition, new beginnings, and progress. This is a year for setting goals and making the effort to reach them.

Reading your 4 Essence chapter, you can see how the two cycles dovetail nicely. The 1 and 4 are almost always a fortunate combination for career, business, and other project related endeavors. The 1 provides leadership and ambition, and the 4 adds organization, discipline, and efficiency.

There is, however, an area that can bring conflict. A 4 as your Essence number suggests you are at a time in your life when you find value in building a solid foundation. You will probably be more careful and deliberate this year, perhaps even seek a more predictable lifestyle. The practical 4 prefers guarantees to risks, even if a risk carries more promise. Therein lies the conflict.

Although a cautious approach is often the best course of action, your 1 Yearly Cycle requires a different approach. The 1 delivers events and circumstances that (generally) require a quick response rather than careful analysis. The 4's inclination may be to carefully consider the consequences before acting, while the1 is ready to go, impatient for change. In some instances, such hesitation could cause you to miss opportunities. In chess, for example, there is probably less risk in making the wrong move than in allowing the clock to run out due to indecision.

That being said, in order to materialize a fruitful year, you will need to allow the efficient, pragmatic, conservative 4 to control (to some extent) your dynamic, unconventional, independent 1 - but not so much that you miss opportunities or get lost in the details. Hold on to the things that are valuable but stay open to progress.

As for romance, if you are in a relationship it will probably grow stronger - the 4 is a trustworthy, dependable partner (although it can be somewhat rigid). The combination is less favorable for new romance, because this year's focus is largely centered on business, projects, and advancement in other non-personal areas.