Essence Number

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 8 most powerfully after your
1988 birthday. The influence would begin to wane during 1989 and
would finally end at your birthday of 1989.
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.