The personal year comes only from the date of birth and the current year. The Essence numbers are more personal (more personal than the personal year?

), combining vibrations from specific letters in your name (transits) and the year. The Essence tells specifically what issues you will need to address during a given year.
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The Transits are derived from the letters of your first, middle, and last names. Each name provides information on a particular level of your consciousness: the physical, mental, and spiritual. The Physical Transit is derived from your first name; the Mental Transit from your middle name; and the Spiritual Transit from your last name. For those who do not have a middle name, the last name provides the Transit information for both the Mental and the Spiritual. For those who have more than one middle name, the middle names should be strung together into one long name. If you received more than one last name, string the last names together into one long last name.
Each letter of the name lasts for as long as the value of that letter. |
This can be charted out into the future, as far as you want to go, but it is time consuming. You can get a ready-made worksheet for this here:
http://www.astrology-numerology.com/num-esswrkst.html
So, if your name was
Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla, the vibrations in play the first year of your life would be the R(9), the X(6) and the S(1), giving you an Essence number of 7 from the age 0 to 1. The next year, the R and X are still vibrating, but the S is replaced with the next letter A, which is also a 1 vibration, so the Essence is still 7. In the third year, the A is replaced by an R, so the Essence is a 6. I could go on, but maybe you get the point?
