The most significant year is seperate from the essence and personal year we've been talking about.

The Essence Number and the Personal Year Number are the two essential indicators of the forces that will influence your life during the course of any year. While the Personal Year runs from January to January, the Essence is most strongly felt from birthday to birthday. For example, if your essence number is 8 for the year 1988, you would begin to feel the influence of that
The Essence number indicates the lessons you will be dealing with during that year. It says a great deal about how you will perceive your environment. It also gives clear advice on how you can be most successful during the year, that is, which types of behavior will be supported by your milieu, and which ones will be less effective.

The essence numbers are the sum of the transit cyles for a given year. Right now, I'm in a 20/2 for this year only. Then I'll go to the 19/1 essence for 4 years.Ohhhnooo lol  (1+9=10=1) so like drrnwynbchnbrgr pointed out the 19 reduced to a single digit (1) also comes into play. The length of these depends on the letters of the name. I understand the 8 to be an underlying vibration of the subtraction of these.
If you have a numerology chart you can look et the cycles to see how long the they last. Hope this has helped

i dont mean to confuse you .the eight shows what it takes to work out the imbalance in the 19/1   the 1 being about self/ego... the 9 compassion for others ,sending your love out into the world .. like the six the nine is a very loving number . the 8 vibration can show  giving and also greed  .in some charting there is a factor know is a balance number the eight is the balance number for the 19. the 2 being the opposite of the 1 can help do the same thing   .so on a inner level if we look at these hidden vibrations within the 19 or outside of it  helps us in understanding /changing its vibrational pattern   from negative to positive .

now as for as this 5 .......its very strong vibration within my personal chart . the letters of my name has 9/5s out of 23 total letters thats a imbalance  4or 5 is common in the western world  i also have 4/9s so between the 5 and the 9 thats 14 out of 23 again a imbalance both are worldly and numbers relating  to man  and being that i have no 6s in my name  .the six is my only  karmic lesson , but i have six among my core numbers in my shorten name  and my first name adds up to 33/6 .
i also have a 14/5 life path .   sorry i got off the subject a little bit     im going to go make me some coffee  lol    


have a wonderful day everyone ...

thank you jld very well put

Would the 5's in your name also intensify the 5 persoanl year?

That is interesting that 8 is my balance number in my chart and one of my karmic lessons. My other karmic lesson is a 2. And both are counteractive forces at play. Is the term counteractive appropriate? So my challenge is incorporating these into these next few years? hmmm

Jamie ,yes yes and yes  lol  On a personal note  the seven in your core numbers shines bright  .showing a very positive vibration  my friend .The 2 and 8 in your chart will be very important for you in the up coming years, as I stated before karmic lessons are energies that we must work on strengthening  and we will be forced to do so . I hope that the all the fives present in my chart will in the same way intensify things on a positive note .I dont need any more negative 5 vibrations  I assure you.  The 5 on a positive side can be very fulfilling and rewarding .and I welcome and affirm it into my very core on a daily basis. I also have only two 1 vibrations in my chart ,  That being the As in my first and middle name ,The first vowel in both ,none among the core numbers  my second third and fourth challenges are all ones. Its has been causing me lots of negative energy in many areas of my life for a very long time .