Understanding Your Personal Year Number

Isla Morven
Sep 1
2 min read

Updated: 3 days ago

Just like the seasons shift, we move through our own cycles. Numerology describes these natural rhythms through your Personal Year Number - a number that changes every year, highlighting the themes, lessons, and opportunities unfolding for you.

It's a simple way to understand the energy you're working with, rather than feeling like you're walking into a year blind.

How to Calculate Your Personal Year Number

You only need two things: your birth day and month, and the current year.

Add your birth day and month to the digits of the current year.
- Example: Born on July 12, in the year 2025→ 1 + 2 + 7 + 2 + 0 + 2 + 5 = 19
Reduce the total to a single digit.
- 19 → 1 + 9 = 10
- 10 → 1 + 0 = 1→ This person is in a Personal Year 1.

That’s it. Once you know your number, you can understand the overarching theme of your year.

What the Numbers Mean

1 — New Beginnings

A fresh start, new opportunities, independence, and planting seeds for the next nine-year cycle.

2 — Connection & Cooperation

Relationships, intuition, patience, partnership, and learning to work with others.

3 — Creativity & Expression

Self-expression, inspiration, communication, and bringing more joy into your life.

4 — Hard Work & Foundations

Discipline, structure, focus, and building long-term stability.

5 — Change & Freedom

Movement, adventure, flexibility, and breaking old patterns.

6 — Responsibility & Harmony

Family, commitment, healing, and creating balance in your home and relationships.

7 — Reflection & Inner Growth

Introspection, study, slowing down, and understanding yourself on a deeper level.

8 — Success & Achievement

Career focus, confidence, finances, leadership, and stepping into your power.

9 — Completion & Release

Endings, emotional cleansing, transformation, and preparing for a new cycle.

How to Use This in Your Life

Your Personal Year Number gives you a sense of the energetic weather you’re stepping into - not to predict your future, but to help you work with the flow rather than against it.

For example:

In a Personal Year 1, you may feel motivated to start something new - a project, job, or lifestyle shift.
A Personal Year 6 can highlight family, commitment, or tending to the relationships that matter most.
A Personal Year 9 often brings closure or completion, helping you release what no longer fits before you start fresh again.

When you understand the theme of your year, you can make decisions with more clarity, better timing, and a deeper sense of ease.