How do you calculate your Personal Year number?
Add your birth month and birth day to the Universal Year, which is the sum of the digits of the year you are looking at. Reduce each part to a single digit along the way, except the master numbers 11 and 22, then reduce the total. Use the current year, not your birth year; using your birth year gives you your Life Path instead.
Since I like to find out your Personal Year when you call, here's a quick lesson on how to do this calculation yourself. Then, when you call, you can tell me your Personal Year number. I'll double-check, of course.
What do you need to calculate your Personal Year?
You will need your month and day of birth. You add these to the Universal Year vibration. I'll show you how.
How does the calculation work? A worked example
Suppose you were born October 17, 1973, and we want your Personal Year for 2009. Remember to use the year you are analyzing, NOT the year you were born. That's important: if you use your birth year, the number you calculate will be your Life Path.
We add 10 + 17 + 11. The 10 comes from the tenth month (October), the 17 from the day, and the 11 from the Universal Year, found by adding 2 + 0 + 0 + 9. The Universal Year is simply the sum of the digits in the year you are analyzing.
In numerology, you add all the numbers together until you get a single digit, with just two exceptions: 11 and 22. We do not reduce the master numbers 11 and 22 to a single digit.
So for this person, we still have to reduce the 10 and the 17: 10 = 1, and 17 = 8. Now we are ready to find the Personal Year vibration for 2009:
1 + 8 + 11 = 20/2. Yes, we do reduce 20 to 2 (2 + 0 = 2). Just remember not to reduce the 11 from the Universal Year. (In 2010, the Universal Year was 3.)
So someone born on October 17 was in a 20/2 Personal Year in 2009.
Why don't we reduce the master numbers?
Because we get a much more accurate final result. If we had reduced 11 to 2, our final result would have been 11, a master number, but not a true master number in this case. Instead we get 20/2, and trust me, the two digits behind any single digit make a difference. What if we had a 10/1, a 28/1 or a 37/1? Each of these double digits has its own specific meaning. It's like having three different shades of blue. You have to be able to interpret the variations in a particular energy, and the number "behind" the final digit, or even behind a master number, can be very significant. That discussion I'll save for another time.
What should you try next?
Try calculating yours. It's fun! To learn what each Personal Year number means, read Discover Your Personal Year in Numerology. You can also find your Karmic Accumulation with my free Karmic Accumulation Reading.
Can you figure out how to calculate your Life Path? Hint: you'll need your month, day and year of birth. Or use my free Life Path Calculator.
